Movies Set in 1972

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Annabelle Comes Home(2019)

3.2/5 (with 1,514 votes)

Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target—the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.

Directed by Gary Dauberman - With Mckenna Grace, Madison Iseman, Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Katie Sarife, Steve Coulter, ...

Planet of the Apes(1968)

| 1h 52min | Science Fiction, Adventure, Drama, Action

3.8/5 (with 1,451 votes)

Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.

Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner - With Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Maurice Evans, Kim Hunter, James Whitmore, James Daly, ...

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Society of the Snow(2023)

| 2h 24min | Drama, History

On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.

Directed by J. A. Bayona - With Enzo Vogrincic, Matías Recalt, Agustín Pardella, Rafael Federman, Agustín Della Corte, Carlos Páez Rodríguez, ...

Dark Shadows(2012)

PG-13

| 1h 53min | Comedy, Fantasy

3.0/5 (with 3,407 votes)

Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.

Directed by Tim Burton - With Eva Green, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jonny Lee Miller, Chloë Grace Moretz, Gulliver McGrath, Helena Bonham Carter, ...

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The Post(2017)

PG-13

| 1h 56min | Drama, History

3.5/5 (with 2,074 votes)

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.

Directed by Steven Spielberg - With Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, ...

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Life of Pi(2012)

| 2h 7min | Adventure, Drama

3.7/5 (with 6,246 votes)

The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

Directed by Ang Lee - With Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Gérard Depardieu, Tabu, Adil Hussain, ...

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Death Whisperer(2023)

2h | Horror, Thriller

2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.

With Nadech Kugimiya

Life(1999)

| 1h 48min | Comedy, Crime

3.3/5 (with 330 votes)

Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.

Directed by Ted Demme - With Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, Nick Cassavetes, Ned Beatty, Anthony Anderson, Bernie Mac, ...

Munich(2005)

| 2h 44min | Drama, Action, History, Thriller

3.6/5 (with 1,153 votes)

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.

Directed by Steven Spielberg - With Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ayelet Zurer, Geoffrey Rush, ...

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Magnum Force(1973)

| 2h 4min | Drama, Crime, Action

3.6/5 (with 438 votes)

"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop them.

Directed by Ted Post - With Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan, David Soul, Felton Perry, Robert Urich, ...

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BlacKkKlansman(2018)

| 2h 15min | Comedy, Crime, Drama, History

3.8/5 (with 3,391 votes)

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

Directed by Spike Lee - With John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace, Corey Hawkins, Jasper Pääkkönen, ...

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Alive(1993)

| 2h 7min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

3.4/5 (with 622 votes)

The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.

Directed by Frank Marshall - With Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton, John Haymes Newton, Illeana Douglas, Josh Lucas, ...

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Born on the Fourth of July(1989)

| 2h 25min | Drama, War

3.5/5 (with 734 votes)

Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

Directed by Oliver Stone - With Tom Cruise, Kyra Sedgwick, Raymond J. Barry, Jerry Levine, Frank Whaley, Willem Dafoe, ...

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Dog Day Afternoon(1975)

| 2h 5min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

3.9/5 (with 1,262 votes)

Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturale. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.

Directed by Sidney Lumet - With Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, Carol Kane, Chris Sarandon, Lance Henriksen, ...

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My Girl(1991)

| 1h 43min | Comedy, Drama

3.7/5 (with 958 votes)

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...

Directed by Howard Zieff - With Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin, Anna Chlumsky, Peter Michael Goetz, Richard Masur, ...

The Devil's Own(1997)

| 1h 47min | Crime, Thriller, Drama

3.1/5 (with 508 votes)

Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O'Meara, a New York cop who knows nothing about Frankie's real identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom's growing suspicions, forces Frankie to choose between the promise of peace or a lifetime of murder.

Directed by Alan J. Pakula - With Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Margaret Colin, Rubén Blades, Treat Williams, George Hearn, ...

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The Many Saints of Newark(2021)

| 2h | Crime

3.2/5 (with 254 votes)

Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, whose influence over his nephew will help shape the impressionable teenager into the all-powerful mob boss, Tony Soprano.

Directed by Alan Taylor - With Alessandro Nivola, Jon Bernthal, Vera Farmiga, Corey Stoll, Billy Magnussen, Ray Liotta, ...

All the President's Men(1976)

| 2h 18min | Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller

3.9/5 (with 775 votes)

During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.

Directed by Alan J. Pakula - With Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Jack Warden, Hal Holbrook, Jane Alexander, ...

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The Last King of Scotland(2006)

2h 3min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 902 votes)

Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.

Directed by Kevin Macdonald - With Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Simon McBurney, Gillian Anderson, David Oyelowo, ...

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Chaplin(1992)

PG-13

| 2h 23min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 450 votes)

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.

Directed by Richard Attenborough - With Robert Downey Jr., Geraldine Chaplin, Moira Kelly, Dan Aykroyd, Penelope Ann Miller, Kevin Kline, ...

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Jeruzalem(2016)

| 1h 27min | Horror, Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

2.8/5 (with 264 votes)

When a couple of American young adults fly to Israel to visit the city of Jerusalem, a biblical nightmare falls upon the city.

Directed by Doron Paz, Yoav Ptaz - With Yael Grobglas, Yon Tumarkin, Danielle Jadelyn

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Somewhere in Time(1980)

| 1h 43min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 232 votes)

Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, by self-hypnosis he manages to travel back in time—where he meets her.

Directed by Jeannot Szwarc - With Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright, Bill Erwin, George Voskovec, ...

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Deep Cover(1992)

| 1h 47min | Action, Thriller, Crime

3.4/5 (with 80 votes)

Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches the boss.

Directed by Bill Duke - With Jeff Goldblum, Laurence Fishburne, Victoria Dillard, Charles Martin Smith, Clarence Williams III, Roger Guenveur Smith, ...

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Midnight Express(1978)

| 2h 1min | Drama, Crime

3.8/5 (with 726 votes)

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".

Directed by Alan Parker - With Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt, Paul L. Smith, Irene Miracle, Paolo Bonacelli, ...

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Finding Steve McQueen(2019)

| 1h 31min | Crime, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 45 votes)

In 1972, a gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio attempt to steal $30 million in illegal contributions. Based on the true story of the biggest bank heist in US history.

Directed by Mark Steven Johnson - With Travis Fimmel

Missing in Action 2: The Beginning(1985)

| 1h 40min | Action, War

2.9/5 (with 115 votes)

Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.

Directed by Lance Hool - With Chuck Norris, Soon-Tek Oh, Steven Williams, John Wesley

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If These Walls Could Talk 2(2000)

| 1h 36min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.4/5 (with 40 votes)

The stories of three lesbian couples -- who live in the same house at different periods of time -- who are at a crossroads in their lives. In 1961, Edith loses her lover, Abby, to a stroke. Linda and Amy struggle with feminist issues in 1972. And, in 2000, Kal and Fran try to have a baby with the help of sperm donor.

Directed by Anne Heche - With Vanessa Redgrave

Where the Truth Lies(2005)

| 1h 47min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

3.1/5 (with 114 votes)

An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.

Directed by Atom Egoyan - With Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman, Rachel Blanchard, Sonja Bennett, David Hayman, ...

Bad Ass(2012)

| 1h 30min | Action, Drama

2.9/5 (with 171 votes)

Decorated Vietnam hero, Frank Vega returns home only to get shunned by society leaving him without a job or his high school sweetheart. It's not until forty years later when an incident on a commuter bus makes him a local hero where he's suddenly celebrated once again. But his good fortune suddenly turns for the worse when his best friend is murdered and the police aren't doing anything about it.

Directed by Craig Moss - With Danny Trejo, Charles S. Dutton, Ron Perlman, Shalim Ortiz, Jillian Murray, Winter Ave Zoli, ...

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Charlie Says(2019)

| 1h 44min | Drama, Crime

3.0/5 (with 88 votes)

Three young women were sentenced to death in the infamous Manson murder case, but when the death penalty was lifted, their sentence became life imprisonment. One young graduate student was sent in to teach them - and through her we witness their transformations as they face the reality of their horrific crimes.

Directed by Mary Harron - With Matt Smith, Hannah Murray, Marianne Rendón, Suki Waterhouse, Carla Gugino, Merritt Wever, ...

Movies Set in 1972

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Annabelle Comes Home(2019)

Planet of the Apes(1968)

Society of the Snow(2023)

Dark Shadows(2012)

The Post(2017)

Life of Pi(2012)

Death Whisperer(2023)

Life(1999)

Munich(2005)

Magnum Force(1973)

BlacKkKlansman(2018)

Alive(1993)

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Born on the Fourth of July(1989)

Dog Day Afternoon(1975)

My Girl(1991)

The Devil's Own(1997)

The Many Saints of Newark(2021)

All the President's Men(1976)

The Last King of Scotland(2006)

Chaplin(1992)

Jeruzalem(2016)

Somewhere in Time(1980)

Deep Cover(1992)

Midnight Express(1978)

Finding Steve McQueen(2019)

Missing in Action 2: The Beginning(1985)

If These Walls Could Talk 2(2000)

Where the Truth Lies(2005)

Bad Ass(2012)

Charlie Says(2019)

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