1972

1. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola) - 10
2. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog) - 9.0
3. China (Michelangelo Antonioni)
4. Deliverance (John Boorman) - 8.5
5. Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (Kinji Fukasaku)
6. The Creation of Birds (Frédéric Back)
   
7. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel)
8. Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
9. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky) - 8.0
10. The Inner Scar (Philippe Garrel)
11. Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock)
    
12. Slaughterhouse-Five (George Roy Hill) - 7.5
    
13. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (Kenji Misumi)
14. Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer)
    
15. Sleuth (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
16. Ave Maria (Ivan Ivanov-Vano)
    
17. Boxer from Shantung (Chang Cheh, Pao Hsueh Li) - 7.0
18. Breaktime (Abbas Kiarostami)
19. The Other (Robert Mulligan)
20. Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (Kenji Misumi) - 6.5
21. Un Flic (Jean-Pierre Melville)
22. Avanti! (Billy Wilder) - 6.0
    
23. What's Up, Doc? (Peter Bogdanovich)
24. Refrain (Krzysztof Kieslowski) - 5.0
    
25. Inon or the Conquest of Fire (Frédéric Back) - 4.0
    
26. Boxcar Bertha (Martin Scorsese) - 3.5
    
27. The Poseidon Adventure (Ronald Neame) - 2.5
28. The Last House on the Left (Wes Craven) - 2.0