Best Thriller movies of 1974

Actors : Perry Lopez, Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson, John Huston,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.

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 : Roger Moore, Britt Ekland, Christopher Lee, Maud Adams,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

James Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder.

Actors : William Holden, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Newman,
Directors : John Guillermin,

At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

Actors : Paula Prentiss, William Daniels, Walter McGinn, Warren Beatty,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

An ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.

Actors : Ava Gardner, Lorne Greene, George Kennedy, Charlton Heston,
Directors : Mark Robson,

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles.

Actors : Margot Kidder, John Saxon, Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea,
Directors : Bob Clark,

During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.

Actors : Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Terry Carter, Pam Grier,
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 : George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Charlton Heston, Karen Black,
Directors : Jack Smight,

A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.

Actors : Nigel Davenport, Alan Gifford, Lynne Frederick, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Saul Bass,

Desert ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on the desert inhabitants. It is up to two scientists and a stray girl they rescue from the ants to destroy them. ...

Actors : Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Jon Voight, Mary Tamm,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former SS captain, who allegedly commanded a concentration camp during WWII.

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 : 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 : 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 : Clive Revill, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig, Michael Caine,
Directors : Don Siegel,

A British Agent's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Leslie Carlson, Cosette Lee, Robert Warner,

Based on the Ed Gein case, a deranged rural farmer becomes a grave robber and murderer after the death of his possessive mother, whose corpse he keeps (among others) as his companion in a decaying farmhouse.

Actors : Riccardo Cucciolla, Lea Lander, George Eastman, Don Backy,

Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean escape.

Actors : Alan Weeks, Annazette Chase, Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

Truck is a bounty hunter who gets a job to track down a guy named Gator. When he and his partner find him, a chase ensues and Gator is killed. This makes Gator's woman, Dorinda, very angry ...

Actors : Richard Burton, Cameron Mitchell, O.J. Simpson, Lee Marvin,
Directors : Terence Young,

A local Sheriff tries to keep the peace as racial strife hits his small Alabama town as tensions boil over when a black man is accused of raping a white woman.