Best Drama movies of 1974

Actors : Ryouko Ima, Yayoi Watanabe, Yumi Takigawa, Emiko Yamauchi,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

In order to investigate her mother's strange death, a woman enters a sacred convent run by hypocritical, perverse nuns.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jane Birkin,
Directors : Michel Deville,

A cynical tragicomedy focusing on the different ways of love in the times of the sexual revolution. Nicholas Mallet, an inconspicuous and shy bank employee, one day successfully invites ...

Actors : Kerim Afsar, Azra Balkan, Melike Demirag, Civan Canova,
Directors : Yilmaz Güney,

After betraying his social class, denying his peasant roots and fleeing his native village, Ahmed has become a successful businessman and has found a place in the sun among the bourgeoisie....

Actors : David Chiang, Sheng Fu, Lung Ti, Kuan-Chun Chi,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Five students escape from the destruction of their beloved Shaolin Temple...now each must take revenge and train in their own seperate fighting styles...they will become The Five Shaolin Masters!!

Actors : Ron Howard, Gary Grimes, Lee Marvin, Charles Martin Smith,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

Three farm boys in the Old West help a wounded bank robber, who teaches him the trade.

Actors : Kaoru Yachigusa, Masumi Harukawa, Keiko Niitaka, Kan Mikami,
Directors : Shûji Terayama,

A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.

Actors : Claude Gauthier, Jean Lapointe, Hélène Loiselle, Guy Provost,
Directors : Michel Brault,

A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.

Actors : Blanche Kommerell, Vlastimil Brodský, Erwin Geschonneck, Henry Hübchen,
Directors : Frank Beyer,

A Jewish ghetto in central Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central ...

Actors : Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina, Vasiliy Shukshin, Ivan Ryzhov, Mariya Skvortsova,
Directors : Vasiliy Shukshin,

A former thief is released from a prison. He tries to start a new life with his penfriend - a good village woman, but his past doesn't let him go.

Actors : Lino Ventura, Isabelle Adjani, Nicole Courcel, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Claude Pinoteau,

Geography professor Jean has divorced his wife. His mistress has also left him. He has to do everything he can to be able to win his young daughter Isabelle's love and affection.

Actors : Yutaka Nakamura, Shin'ichi Chiba, Reiko Ike, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double crossed. So he wants the tape back.

Actors : Sandy Harbutt, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Deryck Barnes, Lex Mitchell,
Directors : Sandy Harbutt,

Members of the Grave Diggers Motorcycle Club are being knocked off one by one, and someone needs to find out why! Sandy Harbutt's timeless Australian cult film about a bunch of renegades riding Kawasaki 900s.

Actors : James Mason, Maurice Ronet, Anthony Quinn, Michael Caine,
Directors : Robert Parrish,

When a US intelligence agent is unable to bring a ruthless drug baron to justice, he resorts to hiring a contract killer. But the man he is put in contact with turns out to be an old friend.

Actors : Hassan Darabi, Masud Zandbegleh, Mostafa Tari,
Directors : Abbas Kiarostami,

A grade-school-age boy, neglected by his parents, lies, cheats, and steals to accumulate enough money to afford a bus ride to a large city and a ticket to see his favorite soccer team play.

Actors : Pierre Clémenti, Dominique Sanda, Max von Sydow, Carla Romanelli,
Directors : Fred Haines,

In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and ...

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Zerrin Arbas, Bilal Inci, Yavuz Selekman,
Directors : Natuk Baytan,

When, now senior, Battal Gazi is killed by Byzantine Prince, his son swears to take revenge.

Actors : Adam Faith, Larry Hagman, Ines Des Longchamps, David Essex,
Directors : Michael Apted,

The rise and fall of the rock singer Jim Maclaine, in the mid 60s, with his manager, Mike, and his group, "The Stray Cats."

Actors : Florinda Bolkan, Claudio Cassinelli, María Casares, Anthony Higgins,
Directors : Gianfranco Mingozzi,

After a cult besieges her convent, a young nun goes with an army of Muslims to destroy the convent and kill who wronged her.

Actors : Amza Pellea, Jean Constantin, Gheorghe Dinica, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose to power, it supported Nazi Germany and...

Actors : Thalmus Rasulala, Diana Sands, Roscoe Orman, Joyce Walker,
Directors : Gilbert Moses,

A social worker tries to get a pimp to change his ways.