Best movies of 1974

Actors : Monique Mélinand, Hubert Deschamps, Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

Monique is dying. Around her gather her unfaithful husband, her son, who is like his father, and her daughter-in-law. We observe them playing with life as she dies.

Actors : James Mason, Candice Bergen, Charles Grodin, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Aram Avakian,

Independent diamond broker and his girlfriend attempt a heist at a major Diamond Exchange house in London.

Actors : Miki Sugimoto, Eiji Gô, Hideo Murota, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Yukio Noda,

After a politician's daughter is kidnapped by a ruthless gang, a brutal policewoman is released from jail and sent after them.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Philippe Noiret, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.

Actors : Pat Hingle, Ron Leibman, Sheila Frazier, David Selby,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".

Actors : Franklin Caicedo, Luis Brandoni, Pedro Aleandro, Héctor Alterio,
Directors : Héctor Olivera,

In 1920, some workers of Patagonia, grouped in anarchist and socialist societies, decide to make a strike demanding better working conditions. The situation becomes unsustainable and the government sends the order is restored.

Actors : Duke Mitchell, Louis Zito, Vic Caesar, Lorenzo Dodo,
Directors : Duke Mitchell,

Mimi Miceli Jr. is, the son of a Mafia don who was exiled back to Sicily. He wants to get back into the family business and transplant it from New York to Hollywood. After the kidnapping ...

Actors : Michael Dunn, Rossano Brazzi, Gordon Mitchell, Edmund Purdom,
Directors : Dick Randall,

Brazzi plays mad Dr. Frankenstein, Dunn is an evil dwarf and Lugosi (no relation to Bela) is a Neanderthal man. Add a monster named Hulk, and some nude women for sexploitation value.

Actors : Patty Shepard, Lee Van Cleef, Lieh Lo, Femi Benussi,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

A martial artist joins a hard-hitting gunfighter in the search for treasure while bandits step into their way.

Actors : Marthe Keller, André Dussollier, Carla Gravina, Charles Denner,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.

Actors : Yôko Shimada, Kensaku Morita, Gô Katô, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Yoshitarô Nomura,

Detectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.

Actors : Fabio Testi, Mariangela Melato, Maurice Garrel, Lou Castel,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

A group of anarchist leftist called "Nada" and led by the terrorist Buenaventura Diaz abducts the American ambassador Richard Poindexter in a brothel in Paris and brings him to a farm in ...

Actors : Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Georgina Hale, Richard O'Callaghan,
Directors : Harold Pinter,

An English professor finds his life crumbling around him.

Actors : Benny Hill, Henry McGee, Eira Heath, Patricia Hayes,
Directors : John Robins,

A collection of sketches and musical numbers from his long running comedy/variety series, culled from shows produced and originally aired between 1969 and 1972; this film's production is ...

Actors : Bunta Sugawara, Toshio Kurosawa, Tatsuo Umemiya, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Conflicts between Hirono's family and Yamamori's family (and their allies) are made more tense by the ambitious underlings and the police's efforts to impose a crackdown on the gangs.

Actors : Jennifer Stock, Tawm Ellis, Alan Brock, Michael Harris,
Directors : Michael Findlay,

A group of college students are led by their professor into the mountains in search of the Yeti. The students start to be killed off one by one.

Actors : Fernando Delgado, María Clara Fernández de Loaysa, José Luis López Vázquez, Lina Canalejas,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he ...

Actors : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Amza Pellea, Ilarion Ciobanu, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "romanian dream".

Actors : Seizô Fukumoto, Gorô Ibuki, Nobuo Kaneko, Hiroko Fuji,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.

Actors : Vasili Chkhaidze, Boris Tsipuria, Ariadna Shengelaia, Demno Jgenti,
Directors : Eldar Shengelaia,

In the pursuit of happiness orphan Ertaoz left for city, where he fell in love with pretty Margalita and went to jail to save her. There he met his future teacher Qristepore who dreamed of building flying machine and they broke the prison.