Chinese Hercules ( Ma tou da jue dou )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/02/1974
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ta Huang
Actors: Bolo Yeung, Fan Chiang, Yeh Fang, Di Chin, Wang Chung Tsung, Chen Wei Min
1974, une partie de campagne
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raymond Depardon
Actors: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Charles Aznavour, Jacques Chirac, François Mitterrand, Alain Duhamel, Jean Lecanuet
Ain't Misbehavin'
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Peter Neal, Anthony Stern
Actors: Lou Abelardo, Elsie Carlisle, Nat 'King' Cole, Sophie Tucker, Betty Underwood, George Formby
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Mystery
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Lionel Jeffries
Actors: Laurence Naismith, Lynne Frederick, Garry Miller, Rosalyn Landor, Marc Granger, Diana Dors
The Arena
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steve Carver
Actors: Margaret Markov, Pam Grier, Lucretia Love, Paul Muller, Daniele Vargas, Marie Louise Sinclair
Around the World with Fanny Hill ( Jorden runt med Fanny Hill )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mac Ahlberg
Actors: Shirley Corrigan, Peter Bonke, Gaby Fuchs, Bo Brundin, Walter Buschhoff, Peter Kuiper
Bamboo Gods and Iron Men
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Cesar Gallardo
Actors: James Iglehart, Shirley Washington, Chiquito, Marissa Delgado, Eddie Garcia, Ken Metcalfe
The Bat People
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jerry Jameson
Actors: Stewart Moss, Marianne McAndrew, Michael Pataki, Paul Carr, Arthur Space, Robert Berk
Blazing Saddles
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mel Brooks
Actors: Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, David Huddleston
Plot: A small town of Rock Ridge stands in the way of a railroad and nefarious
businessman Hedley Lemarr is willing to do anything to make them leave.
The Blockhouse
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clive Rees
Actors: Peter Sellers, Charles Aznavour, Jeremy Kemp, Per Oscarsson, Peter Vaughan, Nicholas Jones
Can You Keep It Up for a Week?
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jim Atkinson
Actors: Jeremy Bulloch, Neil Hallett, Jill Damas, Joy Harington, Maria Coyne, Valerie Phillips
Confessions of a Window Cleaner
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Devil's Plaything, The aka Vampire Ecstasy ( Fluch der schwarzen Schwestern, Der )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: Joseph W. Sarno
Actors: Nadia Henkowa, Anke Syring, Ulrike Butz, Nico Wolferstetter, Flavia Keyt, Alon D'Armand
Plot: A castle in the mountains of Germany where young women worship Wanda an
ancient aristocrat vampire. The sapphic vampire uses her powers to make
her worshippers do all sorts of unspeakable acts with the end goal to
reincarnate into one of their supple bodies.
Devil's Possessed ( Mariscal del infierno, El )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Adventure/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: León Klimovsky
Actors: Paul Naschy, Norma Sebre, Guillermo Bredeston, Mariano Vidal Molina, Graciela Nilson, Eduardo Calvo
Double Agent 73
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 1.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Doris Wishman
Actors: Chesty Morgan, Frank Silvano, Saul Meth, Jill Harris, Louis Burdi, Peter Savage
Drifter
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pat Rocco
Actors: Joe Adair, David Russell, Joe Caruso, Dean Shah-Kee, Bambi Allen, Inga Maria
Dyketactics
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Barbara Hammer
Actors: Barbara Hammer
Plot: Naked women frolic and become intimate in this dreamlike, classic lesbian short.
Fly a Flag for Poplar
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ron Orders, Tony Wickert
Plot: A documentary that follows the day-to-day lives of the citizens of Poplar in London's East End. It also looks to the past and the importance the labour movement had on the current state of the people who call the district their home.
Hearts and Minds
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Davis
Actors: George Coker, J. William Fulbright, Robert Muller, Daniel Ellsberg, Walt Rostow, Georges Bidault
Plot: Using a series of archival news footage, as well as their own footage and interviews, Hearts and Minds explores the opposing sides of the Vietnam War and how the racism and militarism prolonged the conflict and gives voice the Vietnamese who chose to fight back.
Horror Express
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Eugenio Martín
Actors: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alberto de Mendoza, Silvia Tortosa, Telly Savalas, Julio Peña
Plot: An English anthropologist believes his has found the Missing Link in the frozen wastes of Manchuria. As he transports his find on a trans-Siberian express, the creature thaws, awakens and begins the slaughter.
How to Kill a Judge ( Perché si uccide un magistrato )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Damiano Damiani
Actors: Franco Nero, Marco Guglielmi, Françoise Fabian, Mico Cundari, Renzo Palmer, Ennio Balbo
In the Shadow of the Sun ( la sombra del sol, A )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Silvio Caiozzi, Pablo Perelman
Actors: Carmen Bueno, Felisa González, Luis Alarcón, Marcelo Gaete, Teresa Ramos, Alejandro Cohen
Je, tu, il, elle
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Chantal Akerman
Actors: Chantal Akerman, Niels Arestrup, Claire Wauthion
Jean's Blues: No Future ( Jînzu burûsu: Asu naki buraiha )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sadao Nakajima
Actors: Tsunehiko Watase, Meiko Kaji, Ryôhei Uchida, Hideo Murota, Takuzô Kawatani, Eriko Kano
Karl May
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
Actors: Helmut Käutner, Kristina Söderbaum, Käthe Gold, Attila Hörbiger, Leon Askin, Rainer von Artenfels
Kidnapped ( Cani arrabbiati )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mario Bava
Actors: Riccardo Cucciolla, Don Backy, Lea Lander, Maurice Poli, George Eastman, Maria Fabbri
Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Rollin Binzer
Actors: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Mick Taylor, Nicky Hopkins
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance ( Shura-yuki-hime: Urami Renga )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Toshiya Fujita
Actors: Meiko Kaji, Juzo Itami, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Yoshio Harada, Shin Kishida, Tôru Abe
Plot: Following the events of Lady Snowblood - our heroine is tried and sentenced to death for her crimes. But on the way to the gallows she is recruited into the secret police and given the task of assassinating certain revolutionaries in exchange for saving her life.
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell ( Kozure Ôkami: Jigoku e ikuzo! Daigoro )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yoshiyuki Kuroda
Actors: Tomisaburo Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Junko Hitomi, Goro Mutsumi, Minoru Ohki, Tokio Oki
Mistress Pamela
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jim O'Connolly
Actors: Ann Michelle, Julian Barnes, Dudley Foster, Anna Quayle, Anthony Sharp, Rosemarie Dunham
Mr. Shepard & Mr. Milne
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrew Holmes
Actors: Ernest Shepard, C.R. Milne, Richard Kay, David Horovitch, Barbara Beaton, Margaret Heery
Plot: Christopher Robin Milne narrates the story of how his father, A.A. Milne collaborated with
Ernest Shepherd to create a series of children's' books between 1923 and 1928 following
the adventures of Winnie the Pooh and his friends.
The Parallax View
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Actors: Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Paula Prentiss, Kenneth Mars, Kelly Thordsen
Penny Gold
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jack Cardiff
Actors: James Booth, Francesca Annis, Nicky Henson, Joss Ackland, Richard Heffer, Sue Lloyd
Penthesilea
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 1.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen
Actors: Debra Dolnansky, Peter Wollen
permis de conduire, Le
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean Girault
Actors: Louis Velle, Pascale Roberts, Robert Castel, Paul Préboist, Pierre Tornade, Jacques Jouanneau
Perverse Countess, The ( comtesse perverse, La )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jesus Franco
Actors: Alice Arno, Howard Vernon, Kali Hansa, Lina Romay, Tania Busselier, Robert Woods
A Poem is a Naked Person
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Les Blank
Actors: Leon Russell, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Mary Egan, Ambrose Campbell, Charlie McCoy
Plot: The first feature documentary from Les Blank was originally only shown in non-profit institutions with Blank in person up through 2012. The film follows Blank at Leon Russell's Oklahoma recording studio during a three year period from 1972-74
Psychomania
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Don Sharp
Actors: Nicky Henson, Mary Larkin, Ann Michelle, Roy Holder, Denis Gilmore, Miles Greenwood
Plot: Parents make a pact with a mysterious frog-worshiping cult to resurrect their dead biker son. Once the leather-clad zombie rides his bike out of his grave, he urges his old gang to kill themselves so they can join him in "immortality."
rempart des Béguines, Le
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Guy Casaril
Actors: Anicée Alvina, Nicole Courcel, Venantino Venantini , Jean Martin, Ginette Leclerc, Harry-Max
Romance with a Double Bass
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Young
Actors: John Cleese, Connie Booth, Graham Crowden, Desmond Jones, Freddie Jones, Jonathan Lynn
Seizure
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: Jonathan Frid, Martine Beswick, Joseph Sirola, Christina Pickles, Hervé Villechaize, Troy Donahue
Swamp of the Ravens ( pantano de los cuervos, El )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Manuel Caño
Actors: Gaspar Bacigallipi, Marcia Bichette, César Carmigniani, Melba Centeno, Bill Harrison, Ramiro Oliveros
Tidikawa and Friends
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jef Doring, Su Doring
Traveller, The ( Mossafer )
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Actors: Hassan Darabi, Masud Zandbegleh
When the North Wind Blows
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Stewart Raffill
Actors: Henry Brandon, Fernando Celis, Dan Haggerty, Rex Holman, Dale Ishimoto, Sander Johnson
Winter Solstice
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hollis Frampton
