Akenfield
Theatrical Release Date: 11/01/1974
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Peter Hall
Actors: Ronald Blythe, Ethel Branton, Lyn Brooks, Peggy Cole, Robin Buckingham, Charlie Cornish
Animals Are Beautiful People
Theatrical Release Date: 11/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Documentary
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Jamie Uys
Actors: Paddy O'Byrne
Black Dragon, The ( Xia nan yang )
Theatrical Release Date: 11/01/1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Chin-Ku Lu
Actors: Jason Pai Piao, Jorge Estraga, Ron Van Clief, Nancy Veronica, Thompson Kao Kang, Ruel Vernal
It Can Be Done Amigo ( Si può fare... amigo )
Theatrical Release Date: 11/01/1974
Overall Rating: 1.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Western/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Maurizio Lucidi
Actors: Bud Spencer, Jack Palance, Renato Cestiè, Francisco Rabal, Dany Saval, Luciano Catenacci
Lucky Luciano
Theatrical Release Date: 11/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Francesco Rosi
Actors: Gian Maria Volonté, Vincent Gardenia, Silverio Blasi, Charles Cioffi, Rod Steiger, Larry Gates
Night of 1000 Cats ( noche de los mil gatos, La )
Theatrical Release Date: 11/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: René Cardona Jr.
Actors: Anjanette Comer, Zulma Faiad, Hugo Stiglitz, Christa Linder, Teresa Velázquez, Barbara Angely
Shock Treatment ( Traitement de choc )
Theatrical Release Date: 11/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alain Jessua
Actors: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Robert Hirsch, Michel Duchaussoy, Gabriel Cattand, Jeanne Colletin
Space is the Place ( Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Arkestra: Space is the Place )
Theatrical Release Date: 11/01/1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Coney
Actors: Sun Ra, Barbara Deloney, Raymond Johnson, Erika Leder, Christopher Brooks, Sinthia Ayala
Plot: Sun Ra, a mystical musician and prophet believed lost in outer space, returns to earth with a message of uplift and black power.
Street Fighter, The ( Gekitotsu! Satsujin ken )
Theatrical Release Date: 11/01/1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: Shigehiro Ozawa
Actors: Sonny Chiba, Goichi Yamada, Yutaka Nakajima, Tony Cetera, Masafumi Suzuki, Masashi Ishibashi
Plot: Terry a tough mercenary and karate master is hired by the Mafia and Yakuza to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy oil magnate. When they refuse to meet his exorbitant price, he survives the attempt on his life and sells his service to protect the daughter instead.
Phantom of the Paradise
Theatrical Release Date: 10/31/1974
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper, Gerrit Graham, George Memmoli, Archie Hahn
Plot: Brian de Palma's wild "rock opera" (with songs by Paul Williams) combining elements of "The Phantom of the Opera" with "Faust" and satirical attacks on the glam rock era. Struggling songwriter Winslow Leach (William Finley) is plagiarized by producer-tycoon Swann (Williams), and survives an attempted murder in order to seek revenge as a phantom stalking Swann's rock palace -- the Paradise.
Invasion from Inner Earth
Theatrical Release Date: 10/30/1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bill Rebane
Actors: Paul Bentzen, Debbi Pick, Nick Holt, Karl Wallace, Robert Arkens, Arnold Didrickson
Phantom of Liberty, The ( fantôme de la liberté, Le )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/27/1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Paul Frankeur, Michael Lonsdale
Plot: Bunuel's enchanting surrealist film casts his usual jaundiced eye on the players and institutions of Western society through a series of loosely interconnected episodes.
Wife to Be Sacrificed ( Ikenie fujin )
Theatrical Release Date: 10/26/1974
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Masaru Konuma
Actors: Naomi Tani, Nagatoshi Sakamoto, Terumi Azuma, Hidetoshi Kageyama, Tessen Nakahira, Chigusa Takayama
