Best movies of 1974

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Claudia Marsani, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Berger,
Directors : Luchino Visconti,

A reclusive, retired professor is faced with confronting modernity when a group of vulgar youths, led by an obnoxious marchesa, take up residence in his unused upper residence.

Actors : Franco Merli, Tessa Bouché, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

In this film inspired by the ancient erotic and mysterious tales of Mid-West Asia, the main story concerns an innocent young man who comes to fall in love with a slave who selected him as ...

Actors : Deborah Walley, Peter Breck, Allen Fiuzat, Patsy Garrett,
Directors : Joe Camp,

A stray dog saves two kidnapped children.

Actors : Richard Harris, Anthony Hopkins, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings,
Directors : Richard Lester,

A blackmailer demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he placed aboard the transatlantic liner Britannic.

Actors : Metin Akpinar, Emel Sayin, Zeki Alasya, Tarik Akan,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

4 friends who are mistreated in a casino want to revenge by kidnapping the singer of the casino.

Actors : Ella Reid, Erica Gavin, Roberta Collins, Juanita Brown,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

In a women's prison, a group of inmates band together to combat the repressive and abusive policies of the warden.

Actors : Joseph Hudgins, William Dennis Hunt, Suzanne Fields, Jason Williams,

Emperor Wang (the Perverted) is leader of the planet Porno and sends his mighty "Sex Ray" towards Earth, turning everyone into sex-mad fiends. Only one man can save the Earth, football ...

Actors : Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Susan Sennett,
Directors : Steve Carver,

Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Meral Zeren, Zeki Alasya, Münir Özkul,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

The funny treasure hunt of 4 rural brothers in Istanbul, after the recent death of their father who left them a treasure map as heritage.

Actors : Richard Dysart, Donald Moffat, Joan Hackett, George Segal,
Directors : Mike Hodges,

Hoping to cure his violent seizures, a man agrees to a series of experimental microcomputers inserted into his brain but inadvertently discovers that violence now triggers a pleasurable response his brain.

Actors : Robert Preston, Bea Arthur, Bruce Davison, Lucille Ball,
Directors : Gene Saks,

It's the late 1920s. Upon the death of wealthy Chicagoan Edward Dennis, his nine-year old son Patrick Dennis becomes the ward of their only living relative, Edward's equally wealthy New ...

Actors : Micheline Lanctôt, Richard Dreyfuss, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well ...

Actors : Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, Keith Barron,
Directors : Kevin Connor,

During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they ...

Actors : Skip Hinnant, Reva Rose, Bob Holt, Robert Ridgely,
Directors : Robert Taylor,

Fritz the Cat may have lost one of his lives in the comics, but in his new movie, he has eight more lives left to go! While his wife screams at him, Fritz lights up a joint and reminiscences about what could have been.

Actors : Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Isa Danieli, Riccardo Salvino,
Directors : Lina Wertmüller,

A trip into the Mediterranean sea becomes a trip into the discovery of how society's frameworks of the rich and poor are delicate and temporary.

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Meral Zeren, Talat Gözbak, Oktar Durukan,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

A naive and simpleton villager is trying to marry the landlord's doughter, who is in love with a vigilante outlaw

Actors : Goichi Yamada, Shin'ichi Chiba, Fumio Watanabe, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

Tough karate master Terry Tsurugi takes it upon himself to protect a late businessman's daughter from the Yakuza.

Actors : Donald Sinden, Mako, Jacques Marin, David Hartman,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

In 1907, four explorers discover a lost colony of Vikings in the Arctic.

Actors : Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.

Actors : Ninetto Davoli, Alighiero Noschese, Andrey Mironov, Antonia Santilli,

In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. Other people (who were around when she died) also learn about ...