Best Drama movies of 1974

Actors : Seizô Fukumoto, Gorô Ibuki, Nobuo Kaneko, Hiroko Fuji,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.

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 : Duke Mitchell, Louis Zito, Vic Caesar, Lorenzo Dodo,
Directors : Duke Mitchell,

Mimi Miceli Jr. is, the son of a Mafia don who was exiled back to Sicily. He wants to get back into the family business and transplant it from New York to Hollywood. After the kidnapping ...

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 : Cheryl Smith, Colleen Camp, Jo Johnston, Rosanne Katon,
Directors : Jack Hill,

In order to write an expose on how cheerleading demeans women, a reporter for a college newspaper infiltrates the cheerleading squad.

Actors : Marthe Keller, André Dussollier, Carla Gravina, Charles Denner,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.

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 : Franklin Caicedo, Luis Brandoni, Pedro Aleandro, Héctor Alterio,
Directors : Héctor Olivera,

In 1920, some workers of Patagonia, grouped in anarchist and socialist societies, decide to make a strike demanding better working conditions. The situation becomes unsustainable and the government sends the order is restored.

Actors : Fernando Delgado, María Clara Fernández de Loaysa, José Luis López Vázquez, Lina Canalejas,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he ...

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 : Timothy Bottoms, Joanasie Salamonie, Louis Gossett Jr., 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 : 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.

Actors : Bunta Sugawara, Toshio Kurosawa, Tatsuo Umemiya, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Conflicts between Hirono's family and Yamamori's family (and their allies) are made more tense by the ambitious underlings and the police's efforts to impose a crackdown on the gangs.

Actors : Jay North, Angel Tompkins, Anthony James, Marlene Schmidt,
Directors : Howard Avedis,

18-year-old Sean's first summer after completing high school is much spent with 28-year-old teacher Diane, whose husband is too often motorcycle-racing instead of with her. Wacko Ralph also...

Actors : Rony Clanton, Paul Benjamin, Don Gordon, Joyce Walker,
Directors : Michael Campus,

A gifted young man is caught up in gang life.

Actors : Hal Holbrook, Anthony Hopkins, Goldie Hawn, Grégoire Aslan,
Directors : Robert Ellis Miller,

A beautiful Russian ballerina falls in love with an American news correspondent. The K.G.B. is most displeased, and does everything it can to break them up.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-François Adam, Philippe Noiret, Marlène Jobert,
Directors : Robert Enrico,

A stranger enters into and forever alters the life of a couple. He claims to be pursued by certain authorities who intend to prevent him from disclosing a secret that only he holds, whence ...

Actors : Jenny Tamburi, Franco Ressel, Françoise Prévost, Paolo Malco,
Directors : Sergio Grieco,

Lucita has been locked away in a convent by her family in order to keep her away from her lover, Esteban. The pair make plans to elope, but Esteban is accused of heresy before Lucita can ...

Actors : Sofiko Chiaureli, Ia Ninidze, Maia Kankava, Vakhtang Kikabidze,
Directors : Giorgi Shengelaia,

Pavle, who is a poor cart-driver has two girls, Maro and Tamro. The girls have a dream to take classes at a ballet school, but Pavle cannot afford such a luxury. Vardo, a laundress, decides to help the little girls.

Actors : Clifton James, Pamela Sue Martin, Joan Goodfellow, Jan-Michael Vincent,

In a rural 1940s southern town, a socially awkward high school girl is taken advantage of by the boys because it's the only way she knows to relate to boys. But one, Buster, falls in love ...