Best Drama movies of 1974

Actors : Victor French, Linda Haynes, Jason Miller, John Hillerman,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

Small-time criminal Cooper manages several warehouses in Los Angeles that the mob use to stash their stolen goods. Known as "the key man" for the key chain he always keeps on his person ...

Actors : Hidetoshi Kageyama, Nagatoshi Sakamoto, Terumi Azuma, Naomi Tani,
Directors : Masaru Konuma,

A woman must endure an extreme ritual when her ex-husband, who has recently escaped from jail, kidnaps her.

Actors : Claude Rich, Jeanne Moreau, Sydne Rome, Alain Delon,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

Julien Dandieu, leader of the socialist political party PRU is asked to be part of the new conservative government as minister of foreign affairs. However his reputation is somewhat ...

Actors : Matthew Burrill, Helen Harmon, Julie Gholson, Jan Smithers,
Directors : William A. Graham,

A family of Appalachian children live together in the backwoods so that they can stay together after the death of their widower father.

Actors : John Phillip Law, Peter Fonda, Richard Lynch, Cornelia Sharpe,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Three young men take a young woman and a middleaged man to an isolated cabin, where they are terrorized in different ways.

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 : Joëlle Coeur, Marie-France Morel, Brigitte Borghese, Annie Belle,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

Valerie, a beautiful young girl, watches over her cousin's place while he is away for six months. Not one to take advantage of her new "digs", she spends her first night there reading, ...

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 : Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Georgina Hale, Richard O'Callaghan,
Directors : Harold Pinter,

An English professor finds his life crumbling around him.

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

A gifted young man is caught up in gang life.

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 : Nick Holt, Karl Wallace, Paul Bentzen, Debbi Pick,
Directors : Bill Rebane,

A group of young pilots in a remote region of the Canadian wilderness begin to hear strange reports over their radios about planes crashing, cars stalling and a deadly plague which has ...

Actors : Sofiko Chiaureli, Ia Ninidze, Vakhtang Kikabidze, Maia Kankava,
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 : Bradford Dillman, Alex Cord, Jackie Cooper, Richard Jaeckel,
Directors : Sutton Roley,

A group of diverse individuals are suddenly taken from their homes and flown via helicopter to a futuristic bomb shelter in the desert, one-third of a mile below the surface of the Earth. ...

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 ...

Actors : Richard Burton, Sophia Loren, Ian Bannen, Barbara Pilavin,
Directors : Vittorio De Sica,

Adriana De Mauro loves Cesar Braggi, but Cesar, honoring his father's dying wish, allows his brother, Antonio, to marry Adriana. As fate wills, Antonio dies in an automobile accident. ...

Actors : Mohammed Kani, Hibibollah Safarian, Zadour Bonyadi, Habib Safaryan,
Directors : Sohrab Shahid Saless,

For more than three decades, aging Iranian Mohamad Sardari (Zadour Bonyadi) has worked as a crossing guard at a desolate train station. Through the years, Mohamad has done little to stifle ...

Actors : Farida Jalal, Parveen Babi, Pran, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Ravi Tandon,

A terminally ill man frames himself for murder to allow his family to collect the reward money. After a successful operation, he escapes police custody and searches for the real killer.

Actors : Chuck Boyd, Sylvia Chang, Don Wong, Chuck Norris,
Directors : Wei Lo,

A Chinese-American cop, skilled in martial arts, battles the most powerful criminal gang in San Francisco that is responsible for the death of his partner.

Actors : Komaki Kurihara, Takiko Mizunoe, Yôko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka,
Directors : Kei Kumai,

A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century. She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandakan 8.