Best Drama movies of 1974

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Alain Cuny, Daniel Sarky, Marika Green,
Directors : Just Jaeckin,

The wife of a French diplomat in Bangkok, Emmanuelle embarks on a voyage of sexual discovery.

Actors : Elliott Gould, Ann Prentiss, George Segal, Gwen Welles,
Directors : Robert Altman,

A down on his luck gambler links up with free spirit Elliot Gould at first to have some fun on, but then gets into debt when Gould takes an unscheduled trip to Tijuana. As a final act of ...

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 : 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 : 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 : Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Barbara Valentin, Irm Hermann,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

An almost accidental romance is kindled between a German woman in her mid-sixties and a Moroccan migrant worker around twenty-five years younger. They abruptly decide to marry, appalling everyone around them.

Actors : Pierre Clémenti, Sami Frey, Anna Prucnal, Carole Laure,
Directors : Dusan Makavejev,

The intercut story of two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen who descends into withdrawal and madness, and another who captains a ship laden with candy and sugar, luring men and boys aboard ...

Actors : Willy Semmelrogge, Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Bruno S.,
Directors : Werner Herzog,

Herzog's film is based upon the true and mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.

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 : Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Billy Wilder,

As a tabloid newspaper editor tries to prevent his top reporter from retiring, an escaped death row convict shows up at the office trying to convey his innocence.

Actors : Gabriele Ferzetti, Charlotte Rampling, Dirk Bogarde, Philippe Leroy,
Directors : Liliana Cavani,

After a chance meeting at a hotel in 1957, a Holocaust survivor and the Nazi officer who tortured her resume their sadomasochistic relationship.

Actors : Pierre Blaise, Therese Giehse, Aurore Clément, Holger Löwenadler,
Directors : Louis Malle,

In 1944, an 18-year old boy from small-town France, collaborates with the Nazi-regime and subsequently falls in love with a Jewish girl.

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 : 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 : Perry King, Sylvester Stallone, Henry Winkler, Paul Mace,

A group of kids in Brooklyn form a gang. From this moment on they do everything together. This makes things easier but at the same time they have to face new problems.

Actors : Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer, Edda Köchl,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

A German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Jeanne Moreau, Miou-Miou, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Bertrand Blier,

Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: ...

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Metin Akpinar, Meral Zeren, Zeki Alasya,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

The sequel of The Stupid Millionaire (1974), the fun continues this time in Ankara, after the 4 brothers find the heritage from their father which is a box-ful of gold.

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 : 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.