1974 Movies
Take a nostalgic look back at the top movies of 1974, celebrating the films, directors and actors that defined the year and left a lasting legacy in the world of entertainment.
Papillon
Directed by: Michael Noer
Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek, Tommy Flanagan, Roland Møller, Nina Senicar
Country: United States of America
The Great Gatsby
Directed by: Baz Luhrmann
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire
Country: Australia
Outline: A writer and wall street trader, Nick, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby.
Murder on the Orient Express
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp, Daisy Ridley, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penelope Cruz, Josh Gad, Willem Dafoe, Michael Pena, Judi Dench, Olivia Colman, Derek Jacobi
Country: United States of America
Death Wish
Directed by: Eli Roth
Starring: Bruce Willis, Elisabeth Shue, Vincent D'onofrio, Dean Norris, Kimberly Elise
Country: United States of America
Robin Hood
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Starring: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Matthew Macfadyen, Max von Sydow
Country: United States of America
Outline: In 12th century England, Robin and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Directed by: Marcus Nispel
Starring: Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Andrew Bryniarski, Erica Leerhsen
Country: United States of America
Outline: After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a deformed chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
Appassionata
Directed by: Gianluigi Calderone
Starring: Ornella Muti, Ninetto Davoli, Eleonora Giorgi, Gabriele Ferzetti, Valentina Cortese, Carla Mancini, Renata Zamengo, Luigi Antonio Guerra, Jeanine Martinovic, Isabella Bruno
Country: Italy
Black Christmas
Directed by: Glen Morgan
Starring: Michelle Trachtenberg, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Lacey Chabert, Katie Cassidy
Country: United States of America
Outline: An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.
Paper Moon
Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman
Country: United States of America
Outline: During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
Young Frankenstein
Directed by: Mel Brooks
Starring: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle
Country: United States of America
Outline: An American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.
Blazing Saddles
Directed by: Mel Brooks
Starring: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman
Country: United States of America
Outline: In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
The Longest Yard
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad
Country: United States of America
Outline: 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.
Death Wish
Directed by: Michael Winner
Starring: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats
Country: United States of America
Outline: A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks in which he randomly goes out and kills would-be muggers on the mean streets after dark.
The Towering Inferno
Directed by: John Guillermin
Starring: Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway
Country: United States of America
Outline: At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Willie Dynamite
Directed by: Gilbert Moses
Starring: Roscoe Orman, Diana Sands, Thalmus Rasulala, Joyce Walker
Outline: A social worker tries to get a pimp to change his ways.
Earthquake
Directed by: Mark Robson
Starring: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene
Country: United States of America
Outline: Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
Airport 1975
Directed by: Jack Smight
Starring: Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Country: United States of America
Outline: A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.
The Godfather Part II
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
The Godfather: Part II
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Country: United States of America
Outline: The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
Dial M for Murder
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams
Country: United States of America
Outline: An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.
Chinatown
Directed by: Roman Polanski
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez
Country: United States of America
Outline: A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
A Woman Under the Influence
Directed by: John Cassavetes
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands
Country: United States of America
Outline: Mabel, a wife and mother, is loved by her husband Nick but her mental illness proves to be a problem in the marriage.
The Mirror
Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev, Oleg Yankovskiy
Country: United States of America
Outline: A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.
The Phantom of Liberty
Directed by: Luis Buñuel
Starring: Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Michel Piccoli, Monica Vitti
Country: United States of America
Outline: 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 ...
The Conversation
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest
Country: United States of America
Outline: A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple, on whom he is spying, will be murdered.
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