1974
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1. We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)
124 min | Comedy, Drama
Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta Flores
Votes: 7,295
2. The Front Page (1974)
PG | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A ruthless editor tries to get his top reporter to cover one more crime story before retirement.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia
Votes: 15,312 | Gross: $17.30M
3. Swept Away (1974)
R | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A trip into the Mediterranean sea becomes a trip into the discovery of how society's frameworks of the rich and poor are delicate and temporary.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Riccardo Salvino, Isa Danieli
Votes: 6,785
4. The Godfather Part II (1974)
R | 202 min | Crime, Drama
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.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Votes: 1,365,110 | Gross: $57.30M
5. Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
PG | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In December 1935, when his transcontinental luxury train is stranded by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before, with a multitude of suspects.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery
Votes: 69,180 | Gross: $0.07M
6. Come Home and Meet My Wife (1974)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
50 year old Giulio (Tognazzi) and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina (Muti) fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Giulio's jealousy gets in the way of their happiness ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Muti, Michele Placido, Pippo Starnazza
Votes: 849
7. Scent of a Woman (1974)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
A young private is assigned to accompany a blind captain. It soon becomes clear that they are both complex personalities.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Alessandro Momo, Agostina Belli, Moira Orfei
Votes: 5,169
8. The Parallax View (1974)
R | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, William Daniels, Walter McGinn
Votes: 21,789 | Gross: $2.15M
9. California Split (1974)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
When a casual gambler (George Segal as Bill) befriends a professional one (Elliott Gould as Charlie), he begins to mirror his life, sending both deeper into the sleazy gambling world where the stakes keep getting bigger.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: George Segal, Elliott Gould, Ann Prentiss, Gwen Welles
Votes: 8,421 | Gross: $10.90M
10. Young Frankenstein (1974)
PG | 106 min | Comedy
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.
Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle
Votes: 168,970 | Gross: $86.30M
11. Watch Out, We're Mad (1974)
G | 102 min | Action, Comedy
After a tied first place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide which of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.
Director: Marcello Fondato | Stars: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, John Sharp, Patty Shepard
Votes: 13,937
12. Blazing Saddles (1974)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Western
In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.
Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman
Votes: 152,585 | Gross: $119.50M
13. The Conversation (1974)
PG | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 121,940 | Gross: $4.42M
14. The Towering Inferno (1974)
PG | 165 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
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.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway
Votes: 48,301 | Gross: $116.00M
15. Thieves Like Us (1974)
R | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
When two men break out of prison, they join up with another and restart their criminal ways, robbing banks across the South.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Bert Remsen
Votes: 5,145
16. The Longest Yard (1974)
R | 121 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
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.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad
Votes: 21,437 | Gross: $7.13M
17. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
R | 115 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist.
Director: Michael Cimino | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis
Votes: 28,742 | Gross: $25.00M
18. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
Not Rated | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge
Votes: 18,918
19. Bambina (1974)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An older man plans to marry a mentally-challenged, sex-crazed, adolescent girl.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Gigi Proietti, Irene Papas, Teresa Ann Savoy, Bruno Cirino
Votes: 413
20. Sexual Counselor (1974)
102 min | Comedy
Neapolitan Vincenzo LoRusso lives of expedients in Rome, as he tries to sell at an intersection a faux suede jacket, accidentally meets Laura, a beautiful woman who invites him to her house.
Director: Bruno Corbucci | Stars: Carlo Giuffrè, Marilù Tolo, Tina Aumont, Lino Banfi
Votes: 89
21. Playing the Field (1974)
108 min | Comedy
A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity and suddenly finds himself having to choose between his future ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Filippo D'Amico | Stars: Lando Buzzanca, Joan Collins, Gabriella Pallotta, Ignazio Leone
Votes: 184
22. Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno (1974)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
The young noble Didino is a big baby and an introverted man who has trouble socializing because of his possessive mother. He is still treated at thirty years old as a kid and does not know what to do to overcome his shyness.
Director: Luciano Salce | Stars: Paolo Villaggio, Lila Kedrova, Eleonora Giorgi, Antonino Faà di Bruno
Votes: 271
23. Sistemo l'America e torno (1974)
X | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
an italian shy employee is sent to the US to hire a very talented basket player whom should help the local company team to win.
Director: Nanni Loy | Stars: Paolo Villaggio, Sterling St. Jacques, Alfredo Rizzo, Fernando Cerulli
Votes: 152
24. The Great Gatsby (1974)
PG | 144 min | Drama, Romance
A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.
Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black
Votes: 26,869 | Gross: $6.74M
25. Chinatown (1974)
R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez
Votes: 350,067
26. Turn the Other Cheek (1974)
PG | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two unusual missionaries in NW Venezuela help their flock sell their crop and are never afraid of a fight to protect their flock from an evil, corrupt governor.
Director: Franco Rossi | Stars: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Robert Loggia
Votes: 4,952
27. Herbie Rides Again (1974)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
The living Volkswagen Beetle helps an old lady protect her home from a corrupt developer.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Helen Hayes, Ken Berry, Stefanie Powers, John McIntire
Votes: 8,846 | Gross: $38.23M
28. The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
PG | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin, while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams
Votes: 113,126 | Gross: $20.97M
29. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
PG | 112 min | Drama, Romance
A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Mia Bendixsen, Alfred Lutter III
Votes: 27,489 | Gross: $18.60M
30. The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974)
R | 77 min | Animation, Comedy
Fritz the Cat may have lost one of his lives in the comics, but in his new movie, he has eight more lives left to go! While his wife screams at him, Fritz lights up a joint and reminiscences about what could have been.
Director: Robert Taylor | Stars: Skip Hinnant, Reva Rose, Bob Holt, Robert Ridgely
Votes: 3,007 | Gross: $1.09M
31. Phase IV (1974)
PG | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Suddenly, desert ants form a group intelligence and wage war on the humans. It's up to a couple of scientists and a girl to stop them
Director: Saul Bass | Stars: Nigel Davenport, Michael Murphy, Lynne Frederick, Alan Gifford
Votes: 9,585
32. Earthquake (1974)
PG | 122 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene
Votes: 17,900 | Gross: $79.70M
33. Policewoman (1974)
104 min | Comedy
A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.
Director: Steno | Stars: Mariangela Melato, Orazio Orlando, Mario Carotenuto, Armando Brancia
Votes: 302
34. Il brigadiere Pasquale Zagaria ama la mamma e la polizia (1973)
85 min | Comedy
Director: Mario Forges Davanzati | Stars: Lino Banfi, Francesca Romana Coluzzi, Aldo Giuffrè, Francesco Ager
Votes: 182
35. Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974)
108 min | Comedy, Western
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret
Votes: 954
36. To Love Ophelia (1974)
105 min | Comedy
Although he is in his thirties, Orlando still feels like a child. He is terrified of the outside world and is stuck in an obsessive relationship with his mother.
Director: Flavio Mogherini | Stars: Renato Pozzetto, Giovanna Ralli, Françoise Fabian, Maurizio Arena
Votes: 148
37. Smell of Flesh (1974)
95 min | Comedy
Salvadore returns home from and falls under the spell of his niece, who enjoys teasing her uncle as much as he enjoys it. Then he sets his sights on her mom. Salvadore proves to be irresistible to his brother's women.
Directors: Alfredo Malfatti, Salvatore Samperi | Stars: Domenico Modugno, Eleonora Giorgi, Pippo Franco, Luciana Paluzzi
Votes: 152
38. 4 Crazy Draftees at the Army (1974)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy
From acclaimed director Marino Girolami, this Crazy sexy satire of the Italian army and it's workings is a must for any true movie collector. Our four incompetent types thrown into the ... See full summary »
Director: Marino Girolami | Stars: Gianfranco D'Angelo, Sergio Leonardi, Raf Luca, Angelo Pellegrino
Votes: 112
39. Il colonnello Buttiglione diventa generale (1974)
100 min | Comedy
Director: Mino Guerrini | Stars: Aldo Maccione, Jacques Dufilho, Franco Diogene, Vincenzo Crocitti
Votes: 74
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