Best Hindi movies of 1974

Actors : Anant Nag, Shabana Azmi, Priya Tendulkar, Sadhu Meher,
Directors : Shyam Benegal,

Laxmi lives a poor lifestyle in a small village in India along with her husband, Kishtaya, who is a deaf-mute. Both husband and wife work for the wealthy landlord. The landlord's son, Surya...

Actors : Farida Jalal, Parveen Babi, Pran, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Ravi Tandon,

A terminally ill man frames himself for murder to allow his family to collect the reward money. After a successful operation, he escapes police custody and searches for the real killer.

Actors : Amol Palekar, Vidya Sinha, Dinesh Thakur, Ranjita Thakur,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

A Delhi-based woman in a steady relationship with her boyfriend is forced to come to terms with her true feelings when a job interview in Mumbai brings an old flame back in her life.

Actors : Shammi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, Sanjeev Kumar, Dev Kumar,
Directors : Shammi Kapoor,

An upright beat cop, working the most notorious area of the city - the 'red light district' - desperately tries to hang on to his values in such an amoral environment. He falls for a hooker...

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Shivraj, Sunder, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : A. Bhimsingh,

Sushma believes that she is too young to get married, but her father, Lalla Banarsilal insists, and she runs away. Her adventures take her to a lonely wealthy widower with a cute daughter ...

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Zeenat Aman, Prem Chopra, Asrani,
Directors : Shakti Samanta,

Middle-classed young and dashing Rohit Kumar Saxena falls in love with wealthy and lovely Reshmi, and both decide to get married. Reshmi's dad, the wealthy Diwan Sardarilal is strongly ...

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Mumtaz, Nirupa Roy, Sujit Kumar,
Directors : Manmohan Desai,

Mangal Singh (Rajesh Khanna) has been a career criminal, whose criminal career began to steal food and to keep from starving, and thence got him in deeper and deeper in the criminal world. ...

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Achala Sachdev, A.K. Hangal, Vijay Anand,
Directors : Anil Ganguly,

By the time we learn to live, life is gone.

Actors : Moushumi Chatterjee, Madan Puri, Satyendra Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Narendra Bedi,

After helping a stabbing victim to the hospital, a man begins to receive anonymous threats. The only way to save his wife and child is to unravel the mystery of the killer's identity.

Actors : Aachi Manorama, Bharathi, Bhushan Tiwari, Mehmood,
Directors : Mehmood,

Born without any knowledge of his parentage, Mahesh drives a bicycle rickshaw for a living in a town in India, prays to Bhagwan Shri Kishan, and lives in an unhealthy shanty hut. He is ...

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Dina Pathak, Sharmila Tagore, Dennis Clement,
Directors : Basu Bhattacharya,

Amar and Mansi are in love, and decide to get married. They do so, and still continue to be in love. They get to their first wedding anniversary, and decide to hire a taxi-cab for a day, ...

Actors : Hema Malini, Ravindra Kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha, Dharmendra,
Directors : Dulal Guha,

Maanav is an orphan who was brought up by a Catholic Priest, Father Francis. After completing his M.A. he returns home to Taran Devi and finds out that his mentor his dead. He re-locates to...

Actors : Hema Malini, Sonia Sahni, Pran, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Aravind Sen,

Kasauti literally means "norm". The key players are Sapna (Hema Malini), Amit (Amitabh Bachan), Pyarelal (Pran), Neeta (Sonia Sahni) and Heera (Ramesh Deo). The theme is urban poverty and ...

Actors : Padma Khanna, Jayshree Gadkar, Dara Singh, Shahu Modak,
Directors : Chandrakant,

The complete Shivpuran on celluloid.

Actors : Durga Khote, Leena Chandavarkar, Madan Puri, Jeetendra,
Directors : L.V. Prasad,

After his business partner embezzles money and leaves him penniless, Parvati's husband passes away, leaving behind two sons, Prabhakar and Sudhakar, & a dumb daughter, Gauri, virtually on ...

Actors : Baldev Khosa, Sunder, Alka, Tun Tun,
Directors : Dilip Bose,

After being released from jail, Shyamu returns home to his village and his home to his mom, and blind sister, Radha. Shyamu and his mom try to get Radha married, but in vain, as no one ...

Actors : Mumtaz, Shashi Kapoor, Tarun Ghosh, Asrani,
Directors : Ashok Roy,

Vijay is a happy go lucky engineer in love with Rekha, the charming daughter of Seth Jagdish Prasad a multimillionaire who is not so happy with his daughter's love affair. But before Vijay ...

Actors : Vinod Mehra, Rakesh Pandey, Mehmood, Yogeeta Bali,
Directors : S.M. Sagar,

Anuradha lost her mother at a very young age, and her father re-married a much younger woman named Anita, who wanted Anuradha out of their lives, and forced her to drink alcohol at a very ...

Actors : Hema Malini, Vinod Khanna, Dharmendra, Ajit,
Directors : Harmesh Malhotra,

Ajit Singh is a leader of gang of bandits. He has his younger brother, Ranjeet, also in the gang. Ranjeet meets with a beautiful young woman named Aasha, and decides he does not want to be ...

Actors : Aruna Irani, Vinod Mehra, Ashok Kumar, Mehmood,
Directors : S. Ramanathan,

A wealthy man attempts to deal with his unruly sons.