Best Drama movies of 1974

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

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

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 : 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 : Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr., Joanasie Salamonie, Warren Oates,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

In 1896, three whalers are stranded in the Arctic North Canada and seek refuge with an Eskimo tribe. Gradually they gain control with the Eskimo village and introduce gambling, booze, theft...

Actors : Curt Gareth, Anthony McKay, Robert McLane, Bo White,
Directors : Christopher Larkin,

A poignant romantic drama examines the life of gay 26 year old, ex-monk, school teacher living in Manhattan. When he meets a man at a gay bar, they connect and are soon living together. Unfortunately their views on monogamy don't match.

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 : Cheryl Smith, Colleen Camp, Jo Johnston, Rosanne Katon,
Directors : Jack Hill,

In order to write an expose on how cheerleading demeans women, a reporter for a college newspaper infiltrates the cheerleading squad.

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 : Florinda Bolkan, Claudio Cassinelli, Anthony Higgins, María Casares,
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 : 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 : Marcello Mastroianni, Lea Massari, Mimsy Farmer, Laura Betti,

A anarchist leader (Fulvio) wishes to retire, as he is old and tired. He tries to hide himself, but his friends find him and insist he carries on helping them.

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 : Zero Mostel, Joe Silver, Gene Wilder, Karen Black,
Directors : Tom O'Horgan,

A boozing young man in love with his co-worker finds that everyone around him, even his pompous and condescending best friend, is changing into a rhinoceros.

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 : Paula Prentiss, Peter Boyle, Rip Torn, Fred Williamson,
Directors : Carlo Lizzani,

The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.

Actors : Michele Placido, Ornella Muti, Ugo Tognazzi, Pippo Starnazza,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

50 year old Giulio (Tognazzi) and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina (Muti) fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Unfortunately for Giulio he walks in on his friend and ...

Actors : Lisa Moore, Peter Brown, Jennifer Lee Pryor, Jo Ann Harris,
Directors : Bob Kelljan,

Linda gets raped by a man in a hockey mask. She finds that a few other women have had the same treatment. Together they form a squad that starts looking for the man and also changes the ...

Actors : Luis Brandoni, Marilina Ross, Héctor Alterio, Ana María Picchio,
Directors : Sergio Renán,

A man has to come to terms with his wasted youth, estranged family and grim prospects for the future.

Actors : Claude Brasseur, Mireille Darc, Fiore Altoviti, Alain Delon,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl. Marc tells François that Peggy is a drug addict: she kills men who approach her.

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 ...