Best Fantasy movies of 1974

Zardoz(1974)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 20

In the distant future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.



Phantom of the Paradise(1974)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise.



Herbie Rides Again(1974)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 4

The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.



Il fiore delle mille e una notte(1974)

Combined Rating:
15
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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 ...



The Land That Time Forgot(1974)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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 ...



The Island at the Top of the World(1974)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 8

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



Gojira tai Mekagojira(1974)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Apelike aliens build a robotic Godzilla to destroy Japan, and the true Godzilla may not be powerful enough to destroy it.



Céline et Julie vont en bateau: Phantom Ladies Over Paris(1974)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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.



The Little Prince(1974)

Combined Rating:
10
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A pilot, stranded in the desert, meets a little boy who is a prince on a planet.



From Beyond the Grave(1974)

Combined Rating:
9
Combined Critics Rating: 0

An anthology of four short horror stories revolving around a British antique shop and its mysterious owner.



Den-en ni shisu(1974)

Combined Rating:
4
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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.



Rhinoceros(1974)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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.



Glissements progressifs du plaisir(1974)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through ...



Las garras de Lorelei(1974)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The legendary Loreley has been living for centuries in a grotto beneath the river Rhein in Germany. Every night when the moon is full, she turns into a reptile-like creature craving for ...



Les Chinois à Paris(1974)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese people... It's the Nazi occupation all over again, with modern - funny - twists.



Shanks(1974)

Combined Rating:
2
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A mute puppeteer uses a deceased scientist's invention to control dead bodies like puppets.



Cheap(1974)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Willard, a mild mannered insurance adjuster, teams up with a foul-mouthed fowl who takes Willard on a surreal quest to become less uptight - and possibly get laid in the process.



La femme aux bottes rouges(1974)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

After a chance meeting with avant garde writer Francoise, an elderly millionaire starts to manipulate her life, drawing in equally unsuspecting and happily married Mark. Francoise however ...



Grandeur nature(1974)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Michel is a middle aged man with a troubled marriage. He feels lonely, has been unfaithful to his wife Isabelle in various occasions, and despite she seems to accept this situation, they ...