| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1972 |
| 1931: Once Upon a Time in New York | Luigi Vanzi | Tony Anthony, Adolfo Celi, Richard Conte | Crime | |
| Alfredo, Alfredo | Pietro Germi | Dustin Hoffman, Carla Gravina, Stefania Sandrelli | Comedy | |
| All the Colors of the Dark | Sergio Martino | George Hilton, Edwige Fenech | Giallo | |
| Un apprezzato professionista di sicuro avvenire | Giuseppe De Santis | Lino Capolicchio, Riccardo Cucciolla, Femi Benussi, Robert Hoffmann | drama | |
| Arcana | Giulio Questi | Lucia Bosé, Tina Aumont | Horror | |
| The Assassin of Rome | Damiano Damiani | Nino Manfredi, Gabriele Lavia | historical drama | |
| Beati i ricchi | Salvatore Samperi | Paolo Villaggio, Sylva Koscina | Comedy | |
| Beau Masque | Bernard Paul | Luigi Diberti | Drama | |
| La bella Antonia, prima monica e poi dimonia | Mariano Laurenti | Edwige Fenech, Piero Focaccia | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| Ben and Charlie | Michele Lupo | Giuliano Gemma, George Eastman, Marisa Mell | Spaghetti Western | |
| Bianco, rosso e... | Alberto Lattuada | Sophia Loren, Adriano Celentano | Comedy | |
| The Black Decameron | Piero Vivarelli | Beryl Cunningham | Comedy | |
| Black Turin | Carlo Lizzani | Bud Spencer, Françoise Fabian | Crime | |
| Boccaccio | Bruno Corbucci | Alighiero Noschese, Enrico Montesano, Sylva Koscina | Comedy | |
| Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Fratello Sole, Sorella Luna) | Franco Zeffirelli | Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker | Drama | |
| La calandria | Pasquale Festa Campanile | Lando Buzzanca, Barbara Bouchet, Agostina Belli | Comedy | |
| Caliber 9 | Fernando Di Leo | Gastone Moschin, Barbara Bouchet, Mario Adorf | Poliziottesco | |
| Casa d'appuntamento | Ferdinando Merighi | Anita Ekberg, Barbara Bouchet | Giallo | |
| Il caso Pisciotta | Eriprando Visconti | Tony Musante, Carla Gravina | historical drama | |
| The Canterbury Tales | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti | Erotic | Golden Bear winner at Berlin. Second film in Pasolini's 'Trilogy of Life'. Spoken in English |
| The Case of the Bloody Iris | Giuliano Carnimeo | Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Paola Quattrini | Giallo | |
| Una cavalla tutta nuda | Franco Rossetti | Don Backy, Barbara Bouchet, Renzo Montagnani | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| Chronicle of a Homicide | Mauro Bolognini | Massimo Ranieri, Martin Balsam, Turi Ferro | Crime | |
| Il coltello di ghiaccio | Umberto Lenzi | Carroll Baker, Evelyn Stewart | Giallo | |
| The Dead Are Alive | Armando Crispino | Alex Cord, Samantha Eggar, John Marley | horror | |
| Devil in the Brain | Sergio Sollima | Keir Dullea, Stefania Sandrelli | Giallo | |
| Don't Torture a Duckling (Non si sevizia un paperino) | Lucio Fulci | Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian, Irene Papas, Florinda Bolkan | Giallo | Acclaimed giallo noted for its dark subject matter on child killings. |
| Doppia coppia con Regina | Julio Buchs | Marisa Mell, Gabriele Ferzetti | thriller | |
| I due gattoni a nove code... e mezza ad Amsterdam | Osvaldo Civirani | Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia | Comedy | |
| The Eroticist | Lucio Fulci | Lando Buzzanca, Lionel Stander, Laura Antonelli | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| Execution Squad (La polizia ringrazia) | Mario Caiano | Enrico Maria Salerno, Mariangela Melato, Cyril Cusack | Poliziottesco | |
| Eye in the Labyrinth | Mario Caiano | Rosemary Dexter, Adolfo Celi, Alida Valli | horror | |
| Fasthand | Mario Bianchi | Alan Steel, William Berger | spaghetti western | |
| Fiorina la vacca | Vittorio De Sisti | Janet Agren, Gastone Moschin, Ornella Muti | Comedy | |
| Frankenstein 80 | Mario Mancini | John Richardson, Gordon Mitchell, Dalila Di Lazzaro | horror | |
| Gang War in Naples | Pasquale Squitieri | Fabio Testi, Jean Seberg | Crime | |
| Il generale dorme in piedi | Francesco Massaro | Ugo Tognazzi, Mariangela Melato | Commedia all'italiana | |
| The Hassled Hooker | Eriprando Visconti | Terence Hill, Paola Pitagora, Martin Balsam | Crime | |
| Hector the Mighty | Enzo G. Castellari | Vittorio Caprioli, Giancarlo Giannini | Comedy | |
| His Name Was Holy Ghost | Giuliano Carnimeo | Gianni Garko, Pilar Velázquez | Spaghetti western | |
| The Infamous Column | Nelo Risi | Helmut Berger, Vittorio Caprioli, Francisco Rabal | historical drama | |
| The Italian Connection (La mala ordina) | Fernando Di Leo | Henry Silva, Mario Adorf, Woody Strode | Crime | |
| It Can Be Done Amigo | Maurizio Lucidi | Bud Spencer, Jack Palance | Spaghetti western | |
| Jus primae noctis | Pasquale Festa Campanile | Lando Buzzanca, Renzo Montagnani, Marilù Tolo | comedy | |
| The Killer is on the Phone | Alberto De Martino | Telly Savalas, Anne Heywood, Rossella Falk | giallo | |
| Last Tango in Paris (Ultimo Tango a Parigi) | Bernardo Bertolucci | Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider | Romantic Drama | |
| Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? | Giulio Petroni | Tomas Milian, Gregg Palmer, Janet Agren | Spaghetti Western | |
| Liza (La cagna) | Marco Ferreri | Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni | drama | |
| Lo chiameremo Andrea | Vittorio De Sica | Nino Manfredi, Mariangela Melato | Commedia all'italiana | |
| Long Arm of the Godfather (La mano lunga del padrino) | Nardo Bonomi | Adolfo Celi, Peter Lee Lawrence | Crime | |
| Ludwig | Luchino Visconti | Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, Silvana Mangano, Trevor Howard, Helmut Griem, Umberto Orsini | Historical drama | David di Donatello winner. There's a restored long version. It's about Ludwig II of Bavaria |
| The Master and Margaret | Aleksandar Petrović | Ugo Tognazzi, Mimsy Farmer | fantasy | |
| The Master Touch | Michele Lupo | Kirk Douglas, Giuliano Gemma, Florinda Bolkan | crime | |
| The Mattei Affair (Il caso Mattei) | Francesco Rosi | Gian Maria Volontè, Luigi Squarzina, Franco Graziosi | Political drama | Palme d'Or winner at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Based on the death of Enrico Mattei |
| La Mortadella (Lady Liberty) | Mario Monicelli | Sophia Loren, William Devane, Gigi Proietti, Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito | Comedy | |
| Lucifera Demon Lover | Paolo Lombardo | Edmund Purdom, Rosalba Neri | Horror | |
| Man Called Amen | Alfio Caltabiano | Luc Merenda, Sydne Rome | Spaghetti Western | |
| Man from the Deep River | Umberto Lenzi | Ivan Rassimov, Me Me Lai | horror | |
| The Mighty Anselmo and His Squire | Bruno Corbucci | Alighiero Noschese, Enrico Montesano, Erminio Macario | Comedy | |
| La morte accarezza a mezzanotte | Luciano Ercoli | Susan Scott, Peter Martell | Giallo | |
| The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life | Ettore Scola | Alberto Sordi, Michel Simon, Pierre Brasseur | Commedia all'italiana | |
| My Dear Killer | Tonino Valerii | George Hilton, Marilù Tolo | Giallo | |
| My Name Is Shanghai Joe | Mario Caiano | Klaus Kinski, Gordon Mitchell | Spaghetti Western | |
| Naked Girl Killed in the Park | Alfonso Brescia | Robert Hoffmann, Adolfo Celi | Giallo | |
| The Night of the Devils | Giorgio Ferroni | Gianni Garko, Agostina Belli | horror | |
| Pinocchio | Giuliano Cenci | Renato Rascel, Lauro Gazzolo | animated film | |
| Il provinciale | Luciano Salce | Gianni Morandi, Maria Grazia Buccella | Comedy | |
| La ragazza dalla pelle di luna | Luigi Scattini | Zeudi Araya, Ugo Pagliai, Beba Lončar | erotic | |
| A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die | Tonino Valerii | James Coburn, Bud Spencer, Telly Savalas | Spaghetti western | |
| The Red Headed Corpse | Renzo Russo | Farley Granger, Erika Blanc, Krista Nell | Giallo | |
| The Red Queen Kills Seven Times | Emilio Miraglia | Barbara Bouchet, Ugo Pagliai, Sybil Danning | Giallo | |
| The Return of Clint the Stranger | Alfonso Balcázar | George Martin, Klaus Kinski | Spaghetti western | |
| Return of Halleluja | Giuliano Carnimeo | George Hilton, Lincoln Tate | Spaghetti western | |
| The Ribald Decameron | Giuseppe Vari | Malisa Longo, Orchidea De Santis | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| Ripped Off ( Un uomo dalla pelle dura) | Franco Prosperi | Robert Blake, Catherine Spaak, Ernest Borgnine, Tomás Milián | crime | |
| Roma | Federico Fellini | Peter Gonzales Falcon, Pia De Doses, Alvaro Vitali | Felliniesque | Cannes Award |
| The Scientific Cardplayer (Lo scopone scientifico) | Luigi Comencini | Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano, Joseph Cotten, Bette Davis, Mario Carotenuto | Commedia all'italiana | 2 David di Donatello |
| The Seduction of Mimi (Mimí metallurgico ferito nell'onore) | Lina Wertmüller | Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato | Commedia all'italiana | Entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival |
| La schiava io ce l'ho e tu no | Giorgio Capitani | Lando Buzzanca, Catherine Spaak | Comedy | |
| Seven Blood-Stained Orchids | Umberto Lenzi | Rossella Falk, Antonio Sabàto | Giallo | |
| Shadows Unseen | Camillo Bazzoni | Frederick Stafford, Marilù Tolo | Crime | |
| The Sicilian Checkmate | Florestano Vancini | Enrico Maria Salerno, Gastone Moschin Mario Adorf | crime-drama | |
| The Sicilian Connection | Ferdinando Baldi | Ben Gazzara, Silvia Monti | Crime | |
| Il sindacalista | Luciano Salce | Lando Buzzanca, Paola Pitagora | Comedy | |
| Slap the Monster on Page One | Marco Bellocchio | Gian Maria Volontè, Laura Betti | Drama | |
| Smile Before Death | Silvio Amadio | Jenny Tamburi, Rosalba Neri | Giallo | |
| Sonny and Jed | Sergio Corbucci | Tomas Milian, Susan George, Telly Savalas | Comedy-western | |
| So Sweet, So Dead | Roberto Bianchi Montero | Farley Granger, Sylva Koscina | Giallo | |
| Sting of the West (Tedeum) | Enzo G. Castellari | Jack Palance, Lionel Stander | Spaghetti western | |
| Storm Rider (Il Grande duello) | Giancarlo Santi | Lee Van Cleef, Jess Hahn | Spaghetti western | |
| Tarzan and the Brown Prince | Manuel Caño | Steve Hawkes | Jungle adventure |
| This Kind of Love | Alberto Bevilacqua | Jean Seberg, Ugo Tognazzi | drama | |
| Tragic Ceremony | Riccardo Freda | Camille Keaton, Luciana Paluzzi | thriller-horror |
| Trinity Is STILL My Name! (Continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità) | Enzo Barboni | Terence Hill, Bud Spencer | Spaghetti western | Sequel of My Name is Trinity |
| The Two Faces of Fear | Tulio Demicheli | George Hilton, Luciana Paluzzi | giallo | Spanish-Italian co-production |
| Ubalda, All Naked and Warm | Mariano Laurenti | Edwige Fenech, Pippo Franco | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| L'uccello migratore | Steno | Lando Buzzanca, Rossana Podestà | Comedy | |
| L'udienza | Marco Ferreri | Enzo Jannacci, Claudia Cardinale, Vittorio Gassman | comedy-drama | Entered into the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival |
| The Valachi Papers | Terence Young | Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura | Crime | |
| Valerie Inside Outside | Brunello Rondi | Barbara Bouchet, Pier Paolo Capponi, Erna Schürer | drama | |
| Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key | Sergio Martino | Edwige Fenech, Beba Loncar, Anita Strindberg | Giallo | |
| The Weapon, the Hour & the Motive | Francesco Mazzei | Renzo Montagnani, Eva Czemerys | Giallo | |
| What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? | Sergio Corbucci | Vittorio Gassman, Paolo Villaggio | Spaghetti western | |
| What Have You Done to Solange? | Massimo Dallamano | Fabio Testi, Cristina Galbó | Giallo | |
| When Women Lost Their Tails | Pasquale Festa Campanile | Senta Berger, Lando Buzzanca, Frank Wolff | Comedy | |
| When Women Were Called Virgins | Aldo Grimaldi | Edwige Fenech, Vittorio Caprioli | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| Winged Devils | Duccio Tessari | Riccardo Salvino, Barbara Bouchet | Adventure | |
| Without Family | Vittorio Gassman | Vittorio Gassman, Paolo Villaggio | Commedia all'italiana | |
| Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why? | Giuseppe Vari | Lou Castel, Beba Loncar, Adolfo Celi | Crime | |
| Who Saw Her Die? (Chi l'ha vista morire? ) | Aldo Lado | George Lazenby, Anita Strindberg, Adolfo Celi | Crime | |
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