The Best Movies of 1974   (87) Most Notable
Sorted by Rank
 RATING   TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
# 1 for 1974, # 15 Overall Chinatown 1974 Polanski, Roman USA BDS
# 2 for 1974, # 28 Overall The Godfather Part II 1974 Coppola, Francis Ford USA BDS
# 3 for 1974, # 93 Overall The Conversation 1974 Coppola, Francis Ford USA BD
# 4 for 1974, # 371 Overall Celine and Julie Go Boating 1974 Rivette, Jacques France BD
# 5 for 1974, # 446 Overall The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser 1974 Herzog, Werner West Germany Y
# 6 for 1974, # 490 Overall Young Frankenstein 1974 Brooks, Mel USA BDS
# 7 for 1974, # 507 Overall Lacombe Lucien 1974 Malle, Louis France / West Germany / Italy D
# 8 for 1974, # 589 Overall A Woman Under the Influence 1974 Cassavetes, John USA D
# 9 for 1974, # 624 Overall Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner West Germany BD
# 10 for 1974, # 655 Overall Blazing Saddles 1974 Brooks, Mel USA BD
# 11 for 1974, # 752 Overall The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974 Hooper, Tobe USA BD
# 12 for 1974, # 759 Overall Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 1974 Scorsese, Martin USA Y
# 13 for 1974, # 773 Overall The Parallax View 1974 Pakula, Alan J. USA BD
# 14 for 1974, # 794 Overall The Sugarland Express 1974 Spielberg, Steven USA DS
# 15 for 1974, # 821 Overall The Phantom of Liberty 1974 Buñuel, Luis Italy / France BY
# 16 for 1974, # 878 Overall The Clockmaker 1974 Tavernier, Bertrand France D
# 17 for 1974, # 911 Overall Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 Peckinpah, Sam Mexico / USA BD
# 18 for 1974, # 989 Overall Swept Away 1974 Wertmüller, Lina Italy D
# 19 for 1974, # 1016 Overall Lenny 1974 Fosse, Bob USA D
# 20 for 1974, # 1258 Overall Dark Star 1974 Carpenter, John USA D
# 21 for 1974, # 1418 Overall The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 Sargent, Joseph USA BD
# 22 for 1974, # 1458 Overall Stavisky... 1974 Resnais, Alain France / Italy Y
# 23 for 1974, # 1467 Overall Hearts and Minds 1974 Davis, Peter USA BD
# 24 for 1974, # 1536 Overall Harry & Tonto 1974 Mazursky, Paul USA Y
# 25 for 1974, # 1615 Overall The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz 1974 Kotcheff, Ted Canada Y
# 26 for 1974, # 1620 Overall Lancelot of the Lake 1974 Bresson, Robert France / Italy Y
# 27 for 1974, # 1655 Overall Effi Briest 1974 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner West Germany Y
# 28 for 1974, # 1709 Overall F for Fake 1974 Welles, Orson France / Iran / West Germany BD
# 29 for 1974, # 1767 Overall The Towering Inferno 1974 Allen, Irwin / Guillermin, John USA BDS
# 30 for 1974, # 1768 Overall Nada 1974 Chabrol, Claude France / Italy D
# 31 for 1974, # 1867 Overall That's Entertainment! 1974 Haley, Jack Jr. USA BDS
# 32 for 1974, # 1895 Overall The Longest Yard 1974 Aldrich, Robert USA BD
# 33 for 1974, # 1908 Overall And Now My Love 1974 Lelouch, Claude France / Italy Y
# 34 for 1974, # 1946 Overall Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Lumet, Sidney UK D
# 35 for 1974, # 2073 Overall Thieves Like Us 1974 Altman, Robert USA D
# 36 for 1974, # 2131 Overall Benji 1974 Camp, Joe USA D
# 36 for 1974, # 2131 Overall We All Loved Each Other So Much 1974 Scola, Ettore Italy D
# 37 for 1974, # 2214 Overall Butley 1974 Pinter, Harold UK / Canada D
# 37 for 1974, # 2214 Overall Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others 1974 Sautet, Claude France / Italy
# 38 for 1974, # 2216 Overall Going Places 1974 Blier, Bertrand France BDS
# 39 for 1974, # 2301 Overall Alice in the Cities 1974 Wenders, Wim West Germany BD
# 40 for 1974, # 2310 Overall Stardust 1974 Apted, Michael UK
# 41 for 1974, # 2319 Overall Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer 1974 Andersen, Thom / Fisher, Morgan / Anderson, Fay USA D
# 42 for 1974, # 2370 Overall California Split 1974 Altman, Robert USA D
# 43 for 1974, # 2383 Overall Earthquake 1974 Robson, Mark USA BDS
# 43 for 1974, # 2383 Overall The Front Page 1974 Wilder, Billy USA BD
# 44 for 1974, # 2410 Overall The Yakuza 1974 Pollack, Sydney USA / Japan BDS
# 45 for 1974, # 2499 Overall The Super Cops 1974 Parks, Gordon USA V
# 46 for 1974, # 2589 Overall The Cars That Ate Paris 1974 Weir, Peter Australia D
# 47 for 1974, # 2590 Overall Death Wish 1974 Winner, Michael USA BDS
# 47 for 1974, # 2590 Overall Dirty Mary Crazy Larry 1974 Hough, John USA D
# 47 for 1974, # 2590 Overall The Golden Voyage of Sinbad 1974 Hessler, Gordon UK / USA BDS
# 47 for 1974, # 2590 Overall The Great Gatsby 1974 Clayton, Jack USA BD
# 47 for 1974, # 2590 Overall Juggernaut 1974 Lester, Richard UK D
# 47 for 1974, # 2590 Overall The Lords of Flatbush 1974 Davidson, Martin / Verona, Stephen USA D
# 47 for 1974, # 2590 Overall The Man with the Golden Gun 1974 Hamilton, Guy UK / USA BDS
# 47 for 1974, # 2590 Overall The Odessa File 1974 Neame, Ronald UK / West Germany BDS
# 47 for 1974, # 2590 Overall Phantom of the Paradise 1974 De Palma, Brian USA BDS
# 47 for 1974, # 2590 Overall Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 1974 Cimino, Michael USA BD
# 48 for 1974, # 2648 Overall Edvard Munch 1974 Watkins, Peter Sweden / Norway D
# 49 for 1974, # 2650 Overall The Deluge 1974 Hoffman, Jerzy Poland / Soviet Union Y
# 49 for 1974, # 2650 Overall Sandakan No. 8 1974 Kumai, Kei Japan
# 49 for 1974, # 2650 Overall Scent of a Woman 1974 Risi, Dino Italy Y
# 49 for 1974, # 2650 Overall The Truce 1974 Renán, Sergio Argentina
# 50 for 1974, # 2654 Overall Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman 1974 Godmilow, Jill / Collins, Judy USA Y
# 50 for 1974, # 2654 Overall Attica 1974 Firestone, Cinda USA
# 50 for 1974, # 2654 Overall Fuji 1974 Breer, Robert USA
# 51 for 1974, # 2666 Overall Reason, Debate and a Story 1974 Ghatak, Ritwik India
# 52 for 1974, # 2672 Overall Arabian Nights 1974 Pasolini, Pier Paolo Italy / France BD
# 53 for 1974, # 2675 Overall Parade 1974 Tati, Jacques France / Sweden BD
# 54 for 1974, # 2679 Overall Daisy Miller 1974 Bogdanovich, Peter USA D
# 55 for 1974, # 2681 Overall The Gambler 1974 Reisz, Karel USA D
# 56 for 1974, # 2688 Overall The Little Prince 1974 Donen, Stanley UK / USA Y
# 56 for 1974, # 2688 Overall Till Marriage Do Us Part 1974 Comencini, Luigi Italy Y
# 57 for 1974, # 2691 Overall Cockfighter 1974 Hellman, Monte USA Y
# 57 for 1974, # 2691 Overall La Gueule ouverte 1974 Pialat, Maurice France
# 57 for 1974, # 2691 Overall Martha 1974 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner West Germany Y
# 57 for 1974, # 2691 Overall The Traveller 1974 Kiarostami, Abbas Iran
# 58 for 1974, # 2699 Overall Cousin Angelica 1974 Saura, Carlos Spain
# 59 for 1974, # 2700 Overall The Middle of the World 1974 Tanner, Alain France / Switzerland
# 60 for 1974, # 2707 Overall Phase IV 1974 Bass, Saul USA
# 61 for 1974, # 2746 Overall The Text of Light 1974 Brakhage, Stan USA
# 62 for 1974, # 2748 Overall Still Life 1974 Saless, Sohrab Shahid Iran
# 63 for 1974, # 2749 Overall The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner 1974 Herzog, Werner West Germany
# 63 for 1974, # 2749 Overall Je, tu, il, elle 1974 Akerman, Chantal France / Belgium D
# 63 for 1974, # 2749 Overall You Are Weighed in the Balance But Are Found Wanting 1974 Brocka, Lino Philippines
NR The Questor Tapes 1974 Colla, Richard A. USA D
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Media Availability Codes (Amazon.com)
T   Theaters (US)
B   Blu-ray Disc
D   DVD
V   VHS
Y   Yes (DVD or VHS, unspecified)
S   Soundtrack