Best movies of 1974

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 : 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 : Vittorio De Sica, Joe Dallesandro, Maxime McKendry, Udo Kier,
Directors : Paul Morrissey,

An ailing vampire count travels to Italy with his servant to find a bride.

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 : Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Michel Piccoli, Adolfo Celi,
Directors : Luis Buñuel,

This surrealist film consists of a series of only vaguely related episodes, most famously the dinner party scene in which people sit on lavatories round a dinner table, occasionally ...

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 : John McIntire, Helen Hayes, Ken Berry, Stefanie Powers,
Directors : Robert Stevenson,

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

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 : Patty Shepard, Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Deogratias Huerta,
Directors : Marcello Fondato,

After a tied 1st place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide who of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.

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 : Kevin Miles, Terry Camilleri, John Meillon, Rick Scully,
Directors : Peter Weir,

The small town of Paris, Australia deliberately causes car accidents, then sells/salvages all valuables from the wrecks as a means of economy.

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 : 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 : John Marley, Henderson Forsythe, Lynn Carlin, Richard Backus,
Directors : Bob Clark,

A young man killed in Vietnam inexplicably returns home as a zombie.

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 : 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 : 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.