Best movies of 1974

Actors : Hattie Jacques, Barbara Windsor, Sidney James, Kenneth Williams,
Directors : Gerald Thomas,

Dick Turpin is terrorising the countryside around Upper Dencher. Captain Fancey and Sergeant Jock Strapp plan to put an end to his escapades, and enlist the help of the Reverend Flasher. ...

Actors : Jacques Spiesser, Ludmila Mikaël,
Directors : Bernard Queysanne,

A 25-year-old male student in Paris becomes indifferent to the world around him, and subsequently feels a strong sense of alienation and hopelessness.

Actors : Jim Kelly, Sheila Frazier, Fred Williamson, Jim Brown,
Directors : Gordon Parks Jr.,

The story involves a white supremist plot to taint the United States water supply with a toxin that is harmless to whites but lethal to blacks. The only obstacles that stand in the way of ...

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Max Baer Jr., Alan Vint, Cheryl Waters,
Directors : Richard Compton,

A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1953 and based on fact.

Actors : Gloria Hendry, Jim Kelly, Eric Laneuville, Scatman Crothers,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

A Mafia buy out of Papa Byrd's karate school downtown ends in his death. Byrd's daughter, Sydney, refuses to sell, and wants revenge. Byrd's students call the Black Belt Jones for help. Jones reluctantly teams with Sydney in many battles.

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Kazimierz Wichniarz, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Malgorzata Braunek,
Directors : Jerzy Hoffman,

During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles X Gustav while others side with the Polish king Jan Kazimierz.

Actors : Yves Afonso, Philippe Noiret, Jacques Denis, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

A Watchmaker finds out one day that his son has become a murderer. He tries to understand for whom and why.

Actors : Riccardo Cucciolla, Daniel Ivernel, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."

Actors : Anant Nag, Shabana Azmi, Priya Tendulkar, Sadhu Meher,
Directors : Shyam Benegal,

Laxmi lives a poor lifestyle in a small village in India along with her husband, Kishtaya, who is a deaf-mute. Both husband and wife work for the wealthy landlord. The landlord's son, Surya...

Actors : Antonio Fargas, Robert Blake, Elliott Gould, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

LA cops Gould and Blake get in over their heads when they don't heed orders from above and go after a big crime boss. While higher ups in the police department want the cop duo to just ...

Actors : Catrin Westerlund, Lars Söderdahl, Mats Wikström, Stig Ossian Ericson,
Directors : Olle Hellbom,

Karlsson is a very short, very portly and overconfident man who lives in a small house hidden behind a chimney on the roof of a very ordinary apartment building, on a very ordinary street ...

Actors : Raymond Johnson, Erika Leder, Barbara Deloney, Sun Ra,
Directors : John Coney,

Sun Ra--space-age prophet, Pharaonic jester, shaman-philosopher and avant-jazz keyboardist/bandleader--land his spaceship in Oakland, having been presumed lost in space for a few years. ...

Actors : Gino Santercole, Tomas Milian, Laura Belli, Henry Silva,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A small-time homicidal maniac kidnaps the daughter of a rich man, prompting a hardened detective to work outside the law to pursue him.

Actors : Roger Moore, Bradford Dillman, Ray Milland, Susannah York,
Directors : Peter R. Hunt,

Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drilling into an underground lake, so the ...

Actors : Michel Piccoli, Gérard Depardieu, Serge Reggiani, Yves Montand,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who's blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. The charming ...

Actors : Jens Wolgers, Beppe Wolgers, Håkan Serner, Halvar Björk,
Directors : Per Åhlin,

On an evening in northern Sweden, during one night when the sun only partially sets, the animated character Dunderklumpen comes from the woods to seek some friends to keep him company. In ...

Actors : Haradhan Bannerjee, Ajoy Banerjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Santanu Bagchi,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

A young boy becomes a target for crooks, after he claims to remember his past life and mentions precious jewels in a golden fortress.

Actors : Deborah Fairfax, Rupert Davies, Paul Greenwood, Sheila Keith,
Directors : Pete Walker,

Edmund and Dorothy Yates are freed after fifteen years in an asylum. Edmund covers up for his wife who is a murderer and a cannibal and Dorothy's daughter Debbie and stepdaughter Jackie, ...

Actors : Mario Scaccia, Mimsy Farmer, Jho Jhenkins, Maurizio Bonuglia,
Directors : Francesco Barilli,

Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.

Actors : Claude Gagnon, Masafumi Suzuki, Shin'ichi Chiba, Yôko Ichiji,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

Takuma "Terry" Tsurugi returns. In this sequel, he sets out to bust up a phony charity put together by the Yakuza.