Best Thriller movies of 1974

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 : John Phillip Law, Peter Fonda, Richard Lynch, Cornelia Sharpe,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Three young men take a young woman and a middleaged man to an isolated cabin, where they are terrorized in different ways.

Actors : Jean-François Adam, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, Marlène Jobert,
Directors : Robert Enrico,

A stranger enters into and forever alters the life of a couple. He claims to be pursued by certain authorities who intend to prevent him from disclosing a secret that only he holds, whence ...

Actors : Joseph Bova, Elliott Gould, Edward Grover, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Jack Gold,

After an American scientist is severely injured and scarred in a car crash along the border with East Germany, he is captured by East German military. The scientists use metal implants to save him. Once he's back in the States, no one can tell if it's really him, so an intelligence specialist must determine who is under the "mask".

Actors : Clyde Ventura, Douglas Dirkson, Sam Gilman, Claudia Jennings,

Desiree lives deep in the swamp and supports herself and her siblings by poaching. Ben and deputy Billy hope to get a little sexual comfort from the "Cajun swamp rat" when they catch ...

Actors : Luc Merenda, Senta Berger, Anita Strindberg, Umberto Orsini,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

An amnesiac man begins to think he may have lived a double life.

Actors : Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, James Coburn, Lee Grant,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

A retired agent devises a cunning plan to eliminate those who know too much about his past.

Actors : Howard Vernon, Alice Arno, Robert Woods, Tania Busselier,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Two wealthy aristocrats lure a virginal girl to a Spanish island for a night of sex, death and cannibalism.

Actors : Delia Boccardo, Luc Merenda, Richard Conte, Raymond Pellegrin,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

A police lieutenant suddenly faces the consequences of his choice to part for the local mobs.

Actors : Kim Nicholas, Ruth Roman, Jennifer Bishop, William Shatner,
Directors : William Grefé,

A paranoid, leisure-suit-wearing conman/gigolo named Matt Stone seduces lonely women, bilks them of their savings via an investment scam, then kills them. When he begins seeing an ...

Actors : Diana Lorys, Paul Naschy, Eduardo Calvo, Eva León,
Directors : Carlos Aured,

An ex-convict, troubled by dreams that he strangles women, is hired as the caretaker on an estate owned by three very strange sisters. Soon after his arrival, a serial killer begins ...

Actors : Frances E. Williams, Reginald Farmer, Frank DeKova, Paul Harris,
Directors : Bill Brame,

A numbers king pin tries to stay in business as the mafia and police close in around him.

Actors : Lana Turner, Ralph Bates, Trevor Howard, Olga Georges-Picot,
Directors : Don Chaffey,

Young David Masters drowns his mothers cat Sheba in its milk, claiming she loves it more than he, one of many such Shebas he has killed... See full synopsis »

Actors : Betty Ting Pei, George Lazenby, Ing-Sik Whang, Angela Mao,
Directors : Feng Huang,

Stoner, an Australian cop, has been investigating the spread of a mysterious addictive drug that acts like an aphrodisiac and a hallucenogen on anyone who takes it. When his own sister ...

Actors : Darren McGavin, Burgess Meredith, Patricia Neal, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : José Luis Borau,

In a fictitious South American country there's lots of political tension, the labor-unions have all their members on strike. The public demands the return of politician B. from exile. ...

Actors : Mario Carotenuto, Gastone Moschin, Tomas Milian, Ray Lovelock,
Directors : Stelvio Massi,

A cop is consumed with the desire to get revenge on the crook who shot his wife to death during a robbery. The crook in question is Marseilles who is trying to assemble funds for his own retirement.

Actors : Scott Antony, Michael Williams, Nina Thomas, Judi Dench,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

As a surprise, two horse owners decide to ride their animals themselves in a steeplechase. But Bill Davidson's horse "Admiral" behaves weirdly, and falls hard after an obstacle. Bill dies ...

Actors : John Scanlon, Angelo Infanti, Daniela Giordano, Rosalba Neri,
Directors : William Rose,

A sadistic killer cult kidnaps and sacrifices beautiful women. A young girl, just paroled from prison, moves into a strange house and appears to be the cult's next victim.

Actors : Klaus Schwarzkopf, Elke Sommer, Ulla Jacobsson, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

What started as a simple blackmail quickly devolves into a downward spiral of psychological and physical violence.

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.