# List of LGBTQ-related films of 1972

This is a list of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer-related films released in 1972. It contains theatrically released films that deal with important gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer characters or issues and may have same-sex romance or relationships as a plot device.

## Films

| Title | Director | Country | Genre | Cast | Notes |
| Amuck! | Silvio Amadio | Italy | Thriller | Barbara Bouchet, Farley Granger, Rosalba Neri, Umberto Raho and Patrizia Viotti | a.k.a. Alla ricerca del piacere |
| The Beguines | Guy Casaril | France | Drama | Anicée Alvina, Nicole Courcel, Venantino Venantini, Jean Martin, Ginette Leclerc and Harry-Max | a.k.a. Le Rempart des béguines |
| The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany | Drama | Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla, Gisela Fackeldey, Eva Mattes and Katrin Schaake | a.k.a. Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant; based on Fassbinder's play of the same name |
| The Blood Spattered Bride | Vicente Aranda | Spain | Horror | Simón Andreu, Maribel Martín, Alexandra Bastedo | a.k.a. La novia ensangrentada, Till Death Do Us Part; based on the novel Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu |
| Cabaret | Bob Fosse | United States | Musical, drama | Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Joel Grey, Fritz Wepper, Marisa Berenson, Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel, Helen Vita, Sigrid von Richthofen, Gerd Vespermann, Ralf Wolter, Georg Hartmann, Ricky Renee and Oliver Collignon | |
| The Canterbury Tales | Pier Paolo Passolini | Italy | Comedy, drama | Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Josephine Chaplin, Alan Webb, Jenny Runacre, John Francis Lane, Tom Baker, Robin Askwith, Michael Balfour, Vernon Dobtcheff, Derek Deadman, Adrian Street, Nicholas Smith, Willoughby Goddard and Peter Stephens | a.k.a. I racconti di Canterbury, based on the stories of the same name by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| The Case of the Bloody Iris | Anthony Ascott | Italy | Thriller | Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Paola Quattrini, Annabella Incontrera, George Rigaud and Giampiero Albertini | a.k.a. Perché quelle strane gocce di sangue sul corpo di Jennifer? |
| Daughter of Dracula | Jesus Franco | Spain, France, Portugal | Horror | Britt Nichols, Anne Libert, Alberto Dalbés, Howard Vernon and Daniel White | a.k.a. La hija de Drácula, La fille de Dracula |
| The Death of Maria Malibran | Werner Schroeter | West Germany | Experimental, drama | Magdalena Montezuma, Christine Kaufmann, Candy Darling, Manuela Riva, Ingrid Caven | a.k.a. Der Tod der Maria Malibran; fictional, experimental film influenced by the life of opera singer Maria Malibran |
| Deliverance | John Boorman | United States | Adventure, drama, thriller | Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, Ed Ramey, Billy Redden, Bill McKinney, Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward, James Dickey, Macon McCalman, Belinda Beatty and Charley Boorman | Screenplay by James Dickey, based on his novel of the same name |
| Georgia, Georgia | Stig Björkman | Sweden, United States | Drama | Diana Sands, Dirk Benedict, Minnie Gentry, Terry Whitmore, Diana Kjær, Lars-Erik Berenett, Stig Engström, James Thomas Finley Jr. and Roger Furman | Screenplay by Maya Angelou, considered the first theatrically-released film to have been written by a Black woman |
| Heat | Paul Morrissey | United States | Drama | Joe Dallesandro, Sylvia Miles, Andrea Feldman, Pat Ast, Ray Vestal, Lester Persky, Eric Emerson, Gary Kaznocha, Harold Stevenson, John Hallowell, Pat Parlemon and Bonnie Walder | |
| Her Third | Egon Günther | East Germany | Romance, drama | Jutta Hoffmann, Barbara Dittus, Rolf Ludwig, Peter Köhncke and Armin Mueller-Stahl | Based on the short story Unter den Bäumen regnet es zweimal by Eberhard Panitz |
| I Want What I Want | John Dexter | United Kingdom | Drama | Anne Heywood, Harry Andrews and Jill Bennett | Based on the novel of the same name by Geoff Brown |
| Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan | Chor Yuen | Hong Kong | Action, drama | Lily Ho, Betty Pei Ti and Yueh Hua | a.k.a. Ai Nu |
| My Dearest Senorita | Jaime de Armiñán | Spain | Romance, drama | José Luis López Vázquez, Julieta Serrano, Antonio Ferrandis, Enrique Ávila, Lola Gaos, Chus Lampreave, Mónica Randall and José Luis Borau | a.k.a. Mi querida señorita |
| Os Machões | Reginaldo Faria | Brazil | Comedy | Erasmo Carlos, Reginaldo Faria, Flávio Migliaccio, Mário Benvenutti and Neuza Amaral | |
| Pete 'n' Tillie | Martin Ritt | United States | Comedy, drama | Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett | Adapted from the novella Witch's Mlik by Peter De Vries |
| Pink Flamingos | John Waters | United States | Comedy, crime | John Waters, David Lochary, Mink Stole, Mary Vivian Pearce, Danny Mills, Edith Massey, Cookie Mueller, Channing Wilroy, Paul Swift, Susan Walsh, Linda Olgierson, Pat Moran, Steve Yeager, George Figgs and Elizabeth Coffey | |
| Play It as It Lays | Frank Perry | United States | Drama | Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins, Tammy Grimes, Adam Roarke, Ruth Ford, Eddie Firestone, Diana Ewing and Paul Lambert | Based on the novel of the same name by Joan Didion |
| The Pollen of Flowers | Ha Gil-jong | South Korea | Drama | Choi Ji-hee, Namkoong Won and Hah Myung-joong | a.k.a. Hwabun, based on the novel of the same name by Yi Hyoseok |
| Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers | Robert J. Kaplan | United States | Musical drama | Holly Woodlawn | |
| The Sensuous Three | Robert van Ackeren | West Germany | Drama, comedy | Mascha Rabben, Gabriele Lafari, Ulli Lommel, Rolf Zacher and Heidy Bohlen | a.k.a. Harlis |
| Sins of Rachel | Dick Fontaine | United States | Mystery, drama | Ann Noble, Jerome Scott, Brett Mariott and Bruce Campbell | |
| That Certain Summer | Lamont Johnson | United States | Drama | Hal Holbrook, Martin Sheen | TV movie that was recognized as being the first network drama to depict a stable, same-gender couple |
| Tombs of the Blind Dead | Amando de Ossorio | Spain | Horror | Lone Fleming, César Burner, María Elena Arpón, José Thelman and Rufino Inglés | a.k.a. La noche del terror ciego |
| Vanessa | René Cardona Jr. | Mexico | Drama | Laila Novak, Arthur Hansel, Jacqueline Voltaire, Carmen Serral, Hedi Blue and Maria Bardahl | |
| Zee and Co. | Brian G. Hutton | United Kingdom | Drama | Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Caine, Susannah York, Margaret Leighton, John Standing, Mary Larkin and Michael Cashman | Screenplay by Edna O'Brien, who later adapted it into a novel; a.k.a. X Y and Zee, Zee and Company |