Finding box office information for movies made before 1980 is not an easy task. For somebody looking for box office information on 1972 it is very very frustrating. Over the years, we have researched and collected information on over 36,000 movies. So we figured we would show all the 1972 movies in our database.
To make this list a movie had to be made in 1972. This page will looks at 136 1972 Movies. The movies are listed in a massive table that lets you rank the movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. This only represents about 33% of the movies made in 1972….but should cover the top box office movies.
Our UMR Top 50 of 1972
1972 Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort 1972 Movies by movie titles and movie trailers
- Sort 1972 Movies by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
- Sort 1972 Movies by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort 1972 Movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each 1972 Movies received and how many Oscar® wins each 1972 Movies received.
- Sort 1972 Movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking Score (UMR). Our UMR score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
Top earners in 1972 for Adjusted USA Box Office:
My Main Sources
Source 1: Variety – January 3rd 1973, January 9th, 1974
Source 2: Twentieth Century-Fox A Corporate and Financial History by Aubrey Solomon
Source 3: Wikipedia
Source 4: IMDb.com
Source 5: BoxOfficeMojo.com
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068361
Oscar Winner
2/1
BAFTA
2/1
State of Siege
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070959/
BAFTA 2/1
Hey Sidney….State of Seige has been added. UMR Score = 66.83. Projected ranking when the database is updated later today….54th. Good suggestion.
Hey Sidney….I will get Aquirre into the database. So far finding a good box office number has been challenging….it was an art house hit….but the only numbers I have seen are about $12,000. That does not seem like a hit to me. But I will get it added to the 1972 page in the near future.
Any chance to include “Aquirre, The Wrath of God”
Either for 1972 (Germany) or 1977 (USA)?
To be fair I’m not sure what to do with this, it went from box office abroad to domestic(USA) TV movie. Anyway it was very highly acclaimed internationally in its day.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068182
Now in the database….got a 75.85 UMR Score.