Best 26 Sci-Fi Movies Highly Rated Released in 1972

Alex DeLarge and his droogs barbarize a decaying near-future. Check out A Clockwork Orange / IMDB / YouTube

A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane. Explore Solaris / IMDB / YouTube

In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity. More about Conquest of the Planet of the Apes / IMDB / YouTube

In a future where all flora are extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's plant samples, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft. More about Silent Running / IMDB / YouTube

Billy Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. He goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden. Find out about Slaughterhouse-Five / IMDB / YouTube

A group of helpless victims celebrate a birthday on an island estate crawling with killer amphibians, birds, insects, and reptiles. See more about Frogs / IMDB / YouTube

A toxic, ever-evolving alien life-form from the Dark Gaseous Nebula arrives to consume rampant pollution, and neither Humanity nor Godzilla may be able to stop it. Look into Godzilla vs. Hedorah / IMDB / YouTube

After a manga artist and his friends uncover a plot by his employers at an amusement park to lure Ghidorah and Gigan to Earth, Godzilla and Anguirus set out to aid in defeating the alien invaders. See more about Godzilla vs. Gigan / IMDB / YouTube

Giant mutant rabbits terrorize the south-west. Look into Night of the Lepus / IMDB / YouTube

English country squire Sir Hugo Cunningham searches for immortality by literally 'bottling up' the Spirit of the Dead, or Asphyx. Read about The Asphyx / IMDB / YouTube

Doctors are forced to transplant the head of terminally ill, arthritic racist surgeon Maxwell Kirshner onto the body of African American Death Row inmate Jack Moss because there is no other donor. Details on The Thing with Two Heads / IMDB / YouTube

A technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace, including the local hippies, kittens, and bowlers. Info on Beware! The Blob / IMDB / YouTube

A chemistry student invents a spray that makes its wearer invisible. A crook finds out about it, and plans to steal it for himself. Explore Now You See Him, Now You Don't / IMDB / YouTube

A research team from an electronics company moves into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a stone tape), but also to exorcise it--with ter. Details on The Stone Tape / IMDB / YouTube

A biker gets a job at a turkey farm and agrees to act as guinea pig for some chemicals that need tested, failing to anticipate the murderous side effects. See more about Blood Freak / IMDB / YouTube

Concerned with population over-growth, the Earth government bans, under the penalty of death, all pregnancies but one couple decides to risk having a real baby rather than legally adopt a cyborg child. Check out Dead Planet / IMDB / YouTube

The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent. Explore Doomwatch / IMDB / YouTube

A government investigator tries to find out the truth behind the break-in at a top secret research facility. Info on The Groundstar Conspiracy / IMDB / YouTube

To decipher a scheme plotted by enemy aliens, three agents from the future travel to Cleopatra's time, where they witness her romances with Caesar and Mark Antony. Details on Cleopatra / IMDB / YouTube

A kidnapped diver is taken to an island inhabited by a mad scientist and his half-animal, half-human creations. Check out The Twilight People / IMDB / YouTube

A teacher takes a job in a small remote community and finds the inhabitants to be strange with unsettling rules imposed on even her young students. On learning more about the people she finds that things are not at all what they seemed. Look into The People / IMDB / YouTube

A German scientist works on a way of quelling overly aggressive soldiers by developing implants that directly stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain. Get info on The Mind Snatchers / IMDB / YouTube

Four individuals, seeking freedom, embark on an isolated island journey. When their boat drifts and supplies dwindle, primal instincts emerge, culminating in a catastrophic conclusion as they descend into survival mode. See more about An American Hippie in Israel / IMDB / YouTube

Convicts on a chain gang sniff experimental formaldehyde fumes to get high. They attempt a prison break, are shot down by the guards and buried in the prison garden. Soon, they rise from the dead, using shovels and hoes to kill all who get in their way on their quest to get high once more. Get info on Garden of the Dead / IMDB / YouTube

Several people volunteer for a scientific experiment about mind-reading and memory, but the experiment goes horribly wrong. Find out about The Brain Machine / IMDB / YouTube

Don Brandon, a plastic surgeon and mad scientist, loses his wife Anitra in a tragic accident. He and his assistant Igor experiment with re-animation, using hypnosis to create a new Anitra. More about The Body Shop / IMDB / YouTube