Best Crime movies of 1974

Actors : Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.

Actors : Hector Elizondo, Martin Balsam, Robert Shaw, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

Actors : Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, William Atherton, Goldie Hawn,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. But things don't go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road.

Actors : Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Lauren Bacall, Albert Finney,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

In December 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Al Lettieri, Lee Purcell, Linda Cristal,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.

Actors : Hope Lange, Charles Bronson, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats,
Directors : Michael Winner,

A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks in which he randomly goes out and kills would-be muggers on the mean streets after dark.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist.

Actors : Robert Webber, Isela Vega, Gig Young, Warren Oates,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

Actors : Mink Stole, Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary,
Directors : John Waters,

A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitch-hiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes.

Actors : Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Pam Grier, Terry Carter,
Directors : Jack Hill,

A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.

Actors : Michael Conrad, Eddie Albert, Burt Reynolds, Ed Lauter,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards.

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Herb Edelman, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious Japanese mafia...

Actors : Peter Fonda, Kenneth Tobey, Adam Roarke, Susan George,
Directors : John Hough,

Larry Rayder is an aspiring NASCAR driver, Deke Sommers is mechanic. As they feel they collectively are the best, the only thing that is holding them back is money to build the best vehicle...

Actors : Keith Carradine, Bert Remsen, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck,
Directors : Robert Altman,

Two convicts break out of Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1936 to join a third on a long spree of bank robbing, their special talent and claim to fame. The youngest of the three falls in ...

Actors : Alan Arkin, Jack Kruschen, Loretta Swit, James Caan,
Directors : Richard Rush,

San Francisco police detectives Freebie and Bean are determined to bust local crime boss Red Meyers at any cost, even if this means destroying the whole city in the process.

Actors : Jerry Daugirda, James McIntyre, H.B. Halicki, Marion Busia,
Directors : H.B. Halicki,

Insurance investigator Maindrian Pace and his team lead double-lives as unstoppable car thieves. When a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one, a 1973 Ford...

Actors : Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur, Colleen Dewhurst, John Wayne,
Directors : John Sturges,

Seattle cop Lon McQ investigates the murder of his best friend and the corruption within the police department.

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 : Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Susan Sennett, Tom Skerritt,
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 : Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Adrienne Corri, Peter Cushing,
Directors : Jim Clark,

A horror movie star returns to his famous role after years in a mental institution. But the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will.