Best movies of 1974

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 : William Marshall, Carol Speed, Terry Carter, Austin Stoker,
Directors : William Girdler,

A possession film about a marriage counselor who becomes possessed by a Demon of Sexuality, when her father in law, an Exorcist, freed it while in Africa. He returns home, along with his ...

Actors : Candice Bergen, James Mason, Charles Grodin, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Aram Avakian,

Independent diamond broker and his girlfriend attempt a heist at a major Diamond Exchange house in London.

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

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

Actors : Joanna Cassidy, G. Wood, George C. Scott, Sorrell Booke,
Directors : Gower Champion,

A bank, temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target. On the other hand, why not steal the whole bank and rob it in a safer location?

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Brad Harris, Tom Baker, Julie Ege,
Directors : Jack Cardiff,

Scientist experiments with crossing humans and plants, for which he uses his students.

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 : Richard Harris, Bradford Dillman, Ann Turkel, Edmond O'Brien,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's enemy, Big Eddie.

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 : Billie Lou Watt, Ray Owens, Jack Grimes, Corinne Orr,
Directors : Gisaburô Sugii,

A young boy named, Jack, climbs a giant beanstalk and stumbles upon a city in the clouds ruled by an evil queen.

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 : Ken Metcalfe, Jeannie Bell, Pat Anderson, Stan Shaw,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

A young karate expert searches for her brother's killer in Hong Kong.

Actors : Lisa Jones, Don Shanks, Dan Haggerty, Marjorie Harper,
Directors : Richard Friedenberg,

After fleeing into the mountains after he is wrongly accused of murder, woodsman "Grizzly Adams" discovers an uncanny bond to the indigenous wildlife of the region after rescuing an orphaned grizzly bear cub whom he adopts and calls "Ben".

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 : Marcello Mastroianni, Philippe Noiret, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Gene Hackman, Eileen Heckart, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : Jan Troell,

An American settler marries an European mail-order bride and together they learn how to thrive in the harsh wilderness while working on their relationship too.

Actors : Zouzou, Elliott Gould, Joss Ackland, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Irvin Kershner,

In 1974, flanked by such filmic monuments to paranoia and corruption as Chinatown and The Parallax View, Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland tried to re-create the screwball nonchalance of ...

Actors : Monique Mélinand, Hubert Deschamps, Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard,
Directors : Maurice Pialat,

Monique is dying. Around her gather her unfaithful husband, her son, who is like his father, and her daughter-in-law. We observe them playing with life as she dies.