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Best Movies of 1974 by Rank

Rating
Rank
No
Title
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
5 Stars, Top 100
22
1
Chinatown
Roman Polanski
Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Post-Noir / Detective / Period Film
USA
English
5 Stars, Top 100
33
2
The Godfather Part II
Francis Ford Coppola
Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, John Cazale
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
5 Stars
104
3
The Conversation
Francis Ford Coppola
Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Mystery
USA
English
5 Stars
296
4
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Jacques Rivette
Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental
France
French
5 Stars
434
5
A Woman Under the Influence
John Cassavetes
Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands
Drama
USA
English
5 Stars
460
6
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Irm Hermann, Elma Karlowa
Drama / Romance
West Germany
German
4.5 Stars
513
7
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Werner Herzog
Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge
Drama / Crime / Biography / Period Film
West Germany
German
4.5 Stars
535
8
Young Frankenstein
Mel Brooks
Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Horror
USA
English
4.5 Stars
537
9
Lacombe Lucien
Louis Malle
Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément
Drama / War / Romance
France / West Germany / Italy
French
4.5 Stars
659
10
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Tobe Hooper
Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, Teri McMinn
Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
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Rating
Rank
No
Title
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
4.5 Stars
709
11
Blazing Saddles
Mel Brooks
Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens
Comedy / Western
USA
English
4.5 Stars
794
12
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Martin Scorsese
Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Billy Green Bush, Diane Ladd
Drama / Romance
USA
English
4.5 Stars
858
13
The Parallax View
Alan J. Pakula
Warren Beatty, William Daniels, Hume Cronyn, Kenneth Mars, Walter McGinn
Thriller
USA
English
4.5 Stars
887
14
The Phantom of Liberty
Luis Buñuel
Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi
Comedy / Drama / Experimental
Italy / France
French
4.5 Stars
915
15
The Sugarland Express
Steven Spielberg
Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, William Atherton
Drama / Crime
USA
English
4.5 Stars
944
16
The Clockmaker
Bertrand Tavernier
Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis, Yves Afonso, Julien Bertheau
Crime / Drama
France
French
4.5 Stars
945
17
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Sam Peckinpah
Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Action / Comedy / Cult
Mexico / USA
English
4 Stars
1050
18
Lenny
Bob Fosse
Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner, Stanley Beck
Drama / Biography
USA
English
4 Stars
1072
19
Swept Away
Lina Wertmüller
Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Riccardo Salvino, Isa Danieli
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Italy
Italian
4 Stars
1413
20
Dark Star
John Carpenter
Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dre Pahich, Dan O'Bannon, Adam Beckenbaugh
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1511
21
Stavisky...
Alain Resnais
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, François Périer
Drama / Biography / Period Film
France / Italy
French
3.5 Stars
1519
22
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Joseph Sargent
Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Action
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1591
23
Harry & Tonto
Paul Mazursky
Art Carney, René Enríquez, Herbert Berghof
Drama / Adventure / Comedy
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1620
24
F for Fake
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Joseph Cotten
Documentary / Experimental / Biography
France / Iran / West Germany
English
3.5 Stars
1632
25
Hearts and Minds
Peter Davis
Georges Bidault, Clark Clifford, George Coker, Kay Dvorshock, Daniel Ellsberg
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1726
26
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Ted Kotcheff
Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lanctôt, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid
Comedy / Drama
Canada
English
3.5 Stars
1734
27
Lancelot of the Lake
Robert Bresson
Luc Simon, Laura Duke Condominas, Humbert Balsan
Drama / War / Period Film
France / Italy
French
3.5 Stars
1772
28
Effi Briest
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Lilo Pempeit
Drama / Period Film
West Germany
German
3.5 Stars
1818
29
The Towering Inferno
Irwin Allen, John Guillermin
Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway
Action / Thriller / Drama / Family
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1867
30
Nada
Claude Chabrol
Fabio Testi, Lou Castel, Mariangela Melato, Michel Aumont, Michel Duchaussoy
Thriller
France / Italy
French
3.5 Stars
1927
31
Murder on the Orient Express
Sidney Lumet
Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery
Crime / Mystery / Drama / Thriller / Detective
UK
English
3.5 Stars
1965
32
That's Entertainment!
Jack Haley Jr.
Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Peter Lawford, Liza Minnelli
Documentary / Family / Musical / Biography
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1998
33
The Longest Yard
Robert Aldrich
Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad
Comedy / Drama / Sports
USA
English
3 Stars
2012
34
And Now My Love
Claude Lelouch
Marthe Keller, André Dussollier
Drama / Period Film / Romance / War
France / Italy
French
3 Stars
2110
35
Thieves Like Us
Robert Altman
Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Bert Remsen
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2227
36
Benji
Joe Camp
Patsy Garrett, Allen Fiuzat, Cynthia Smith, Peter Breck, Frances Bavier
Family / Adventure
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2227
36
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Ettore Scola
Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta Flores
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Italy
Italian
2.5 Stars
2314
37
Butley
Harold Pinter
Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O'Callaghan, Susan Engel, Michael Byrne
Drama
UK / Canada
English
2.5 Stars
2314
37
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
Claude Sautet
Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli, Serge Reggiani, Gérard Depardieu
Drama / Comedy
France / Italy
French
2.5 Stars
2316
38
Going Places
Bertrand Blier
Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Miou-Miou, Jeanne Moreau, Brigitte Fossey
Comedy / Crime / Drama
France
French
2.5 Stars
2324
39
Alice in the Cities
Wim Wenders
Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer,
Drama
West Germany
German
2.5 Stars
2411
40
Stardust
Michael Apted
David Essex, Adam Faith, Larry Hagman, Ines Des Longchamps, Rosalind Ayres
Drama / Music
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2469
41
California Split
Robert Altman
George Segal, Elliott Gould, Ann Prentiss, Gwen Welles, Edward Walsh
Comedy / Drama / Cult
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2482
42
Earthquake
Mark Robson
Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene
Action / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2482
42
The Front Page
Billy Wilder
Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia
Comedy
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2503
43
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
Thom Andersen, Morgan Fisher, Fay Anderson
Eadweard Muybridge, Dean Stockwell
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2511
44
The Yakuza
Sydney Pollack
Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith, Herb Edelman, Richard Jordan
Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA / Japan
English
2.5 Stars
2552
45
Je, tu, il, elle
Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman, Niels Arestrup, Claire Wauthion
Drama
France / Belgium
French
2.5 Stars
2566
46
Phantom of the Paradise
Brian De Palma
Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper, George Memmoli, Gerrit Graham
Comedy / Horror / Musical / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2605
47
The Super Cops
Gordon Parks
Ron Leibman, David Selby, Sheila Frazier, Pat Hingle, Dan Frazer, Joseph Sirola
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Action / Detective
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2607
48
Edvard Munch
Peter Watkins
Geir Westby, Gro Fraas, Eric Allum, Amund Berge, Kerstii Allum
Biography / Drama
Sweden / Norway
Norwegian
2.5 Stars
2688
49
The Cars That Ate Paris
Peter Weir
Judy Morris, Ivar Kants, Terry Camilleri, John Meillon, Robert Coleby, Kevin Miles
Comedy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Australia
English
2.5 Stars
2689
50
Death Wish
Michael Winner
Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats, William Redfield
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Cult
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2689
50
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
John Hough
Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke, Kenneth Tobey, Eugene Daniels
Action / Drama / Romance / Adventure / Crime / Cult
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2689
50
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Gordon Hessler
John Phillip Law, Caroline Munro, Tom Baker, Douglas Wilmer, Martin Shaw
Family / Adventure / Fantasy / Action
UK / USA
English
2.5 Stars
2689
50
The Great Gatsby
Jack Clayton
Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Scott Wilson, Sam Waterston
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2689
50
Juggernaut
Richard Lester
Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins, Shirley Knight
Action / Thriller
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2689
50
The Lords of Flatbush
Martin Davidson, Stephen Verona
Perry King, Sylvester Stallone, Henry Winkler, Paul Mace, Susan Blakely
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2689
50
The Man with the Golden Gun
Guy Hamilton
Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams, Hervé Villechaize
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
2.5 Stars
2689
50
The Odessa File
Ronald Neame
Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm, Derek Jacobi, Peter Jeffrey
Thriller / Drama / War / Crime
UK / West Germany
English
2.5 Stars
2689
50
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Michael Cimino
Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, Geoffrey Lewis, George Kennedy, Catherine Bach
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Caper
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2709
51
The Deluge
Jerzy Hoffman
Daniel Olbrychski, Malgorzata Braunek, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Adventure / War / History / Epic / Romance
Poland / Soviet Union
Polish
2.5 Stars
2709
51
Sandakan No. 8
Kei Kumai
Komaki Kurihara, Yôko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka
Drama / War
Japan
Japanese
2.5 Stars
2709
51
Scent of a Woman
Dino Risi
Vittorio Gassman, Agostina Belli, Alessandro Momo, Moira Orfei
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Italy
Italian
2.5 Stars
2709
51
The Truce
Sergio Renán
Héctor Alterio, Luis Brandoni, Ana María Picchio
Drama / Romance
Argentina
Spanish
2.5 Stars
2740
52
Daisy Miller
Peter Bogdanovich
Cybill Shepherd, Barry Brown, Cloris Leachman, Mildred Natwick
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2756
53
Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman
Jill Godmilow, Judy Collins
Dr. Antonia Brico, Judy Collins
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2756
53
Attica
Cinda Firestone
John Andrini, Herman Badillo, L.D. Barkley, Roger Champen, Flip Crawley
Documentary / Crime / History
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2756
53
Fuji
Robert Breer
Short / Animation / Experimental
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2756
53
We're Alive
Michie Gleason, Christine Lesiak, Kathy Levitt
Documentary / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2777
54
Arabian Nights
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Tessa Bouché
Fantasy / Adventure / Romance
Italy / France
Italian
2.5 Stars
2778
55
Reason, Debate and a Story
Ritwik Ghatak
Gyanesh Mukherjee, Bijon Bhattacharya, Utpal Dutt
Drama / Experimental
India
Bengali
2.5 Stars
2779
56
Parade
Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati, Karl Kossmayer, Pierre Bramma, Pia Colombo
Documentary / Family
France / Sweden
French
2.5 Stars
2783
57
The Gambler
Karel Reisz
James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Morris Carnovsky, Jacqueline Brookes
Crime / Drama / Post-Noir
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2789
58
The Little Prince
Stanley Donen
Richard Kiley, Steven Warner, Bob Fosse, Gene Wilder
Musical / Sci-Fi / Family / Fantasy
UK / USA
English
2.5 Stars
2789
58
Till Marriage Do Us Part
Luigi Comencini
Laura Antonelli, Alberto Lionello, Michele Placido, Jean Rochefort
Comedy
Italy
Italian
2.5 Stars
2792
59
Cockfighter
Monte Hellman
Warren Oates, Richard B. Shull, Harry Dean Stanton, Ed Begley Jr.
Drama / Sports
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2792
59
La Gueule ouverte
Maurice Pialat
Hubert Deschamps, Monique Mélinand
Drama
France
French
2.5 Stars
2792
59
Martha
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm, Barbara Valentin
Drama / Thriller
West Germany
German
2.5 Stars
2792
59
The Traveller
Abbas Kiarostami
Hassan Darabi, Masud Zandbegleh
Drama
Iran
Persian
2.5 Stars
2800
60
Cousin Angelica
Carlos Saura
Antonio Canal, Lina Canalejas, Lola Cardona, Fernando Delgado
Drama
Spain
Spanish
2.5 Stars
2801
61
The Middle of the World
Alain Tanner
Olimpia Carlisi, Philippe Léotard, Juliet Berto, Denise Péron
Romance / Drama / Comedy
France / Switzerland
French
2.5 Stars
2807
62
Phase IV
Saul Bass
Michael Murphy, Nigel Davenport, Lynne Frederick, Alan Gifford, Robert Henderson
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2858
63
The Text of Light
Stan Brakhage
Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2859
64
Still Life
Sohrab Shahid Saless
Zadour Bonyadi, Mohammed Kani, Hibibollah Safarian
Drama
Iran
Persian
2.5 Stars
2860
65
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
Werner Herzog
Walter Steiner
Documentary / Biography / Sports
West Germany
German
2.5 Stars
2860
65
You Are Weighed in the Balance But Are Found Wanting
Lino Brocka
Lolita Rodriguez, Christopher De Leon, Eddie Garcia
Romance / Drama
Philippines
English
NR
-
The Questor Tapes
Richard A. Colla
Robert Foxworth, Mike Farrell, John Vernon, Lew Ayres, James Shigeta
Sci-Fi
USA
English
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Title
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
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