1974 Movies

A roaming hillbilly, on a quest to defy the Devil, encounters several supernatural characters and does battle with his silver-stringed guitar.

In this film, Wolf and scriptwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase explore the role of art and the artist in socialist society. A sculptor questions the reception and value of his work, in…

As a surprise, two horse owners decide to ride their animals themselves in a steeplechase. But Bill Davidson’s horse “Admiral” behaves weirdly, and falls hard after an obstacle. Bill dies…

The friends who attended the same boarding school meet and take turns telling their recent romantic experiences. These turn out to be as varied as they are crisp, from the…

A depressed middle-aged man contemplates suicide while visiting the hotel resort where he spent happy moments with his parents in his youth. He meets a woman by chance and falls…

A trio of naive, but eager young Midwestern women go to California to teach summer school classes at Regency High School: Perky and willful Conklin T. starts up and coaches…

A married couple – the man a closeted homosexual, the woman bed-ridden – struggle with their relationship.

Les seins de glace On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer…

In this comedy of manners, the American Winterbourne tries to figure out the bright and bubbly Daisy Miller, only to be helped and hindered by false judgments from their fellow…

A corrupt General plans on smuggling one million US dollars out of the Banana Republic he dominates. Local revolutionaries plan on stealing the cash but are thwarted when a bandit…

Failed music hall performer Jack James (Mark Jones) inherits a brothel when his ancient Aunt dies. He takes over the running of the business and falls in love with its…

The young girl Flossie comes straight from a Swiss boarding school to Stockholm where she meets a young embassy clerk, Jack Archer. Together with her friend Eva each tell the…

A man attempts to sleep with five different women.

A pair of thieves operate in the American South between 1911 and 1915, stealing from rich, white capitalists, and giving to Mexicans, Native Americans and poor whites.

Rainer’s landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an…

A police officer has very little work as there is virtually no crime in his small California town…until three hoodlums appear and rape a young woman.

The film is an artistically spare depiction of the Greek myth of Sisyphus, sentenced to eternally roll a stone up a mountain. The story is presented in a single, unbroken…

In his off hours, a creepy security guard masquerades as a police officer, hassles prostitutes who think he’s a real cop and lets them go in return for free sex….

A young woman discovers that there’s more to do than ski when in the Swiss Alps.

A young woman is tormented by nightmares of her miscarriage. She becomes unfaithful to her husband and meets various lovers. Eventually, reality begins to unfurl around her.

La casa della paura A sadistic killer cult kidnaps and sacrifices beautiful women. A young girl, just paroled from prison, moves into a strange house and appears to be the…

Smooth operator Arlo is setting up an erotic musical in New York. Lialeh, a talented girl who wants a singing career and doesn’t mind doing nudity or having sex, joins…

Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman in myth. It asks,…

A snake lover sends out poisonous snakes and reptiles to kill his enemies.

Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez’s best-selling novel, which relates the author’s 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man…

This feature-length documentary from 1974 takes viewers inside Fidel Castro’s Cuba. A movie-making threesome hope that Fidel himself will star in their film. The unusual crew consists of former Newfoundland…

Three Vietnam vets have become so conditioned to violence that they have developed psychotic tendencies. They kidnap people, brutalize them, then turn them loose and hunt them like animals. However…

The true story of a 16 year old (Robin Lee Graham, played by Joseph Bottoms) who aims to become the youngest person to sail around the world in a 23…

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese interviews his mother and father about their life in New York and family history back in Sicily.

Zandy Allan purchases a mail-order bride, Hannah Lund. He treats her as a possession, without respect or humanity, until their shared ordeal as they struggle to survive develops in him…

Sequel to Lucio Fulci’s first ‘White Fang’ has the wolf-dog once again trying to stop the villainous Beauty Smith from claiming a recently discovered gold mine in 1899 Yukon, Canada.

This Lupin the Third movie is set before he meets Daisuke Jigen, Goemon Ishikawa, or Fujiko Mine. It starts out with Lupin meeting a cute girl, who’s on her way…

A super-hero uses her powers to thwart an international spy ring.

Scaramanga is a hit-man who charges a million dollars per job. He becomes linked to the death of a scientist working on a powerful solar cell, and James Bond is…

Aliens intend to take over the planet and, just in case Godzilla tries to interfere, have built a mechanical version of him to put an end to his interference. The…

The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in…

Uganda’s dictator, General Idi Amin Dada, accepts a foreign crew’s request to interview and film him. He talks to the camera about his outreach to Arab nations, his goal of…

A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives preempted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.

What happens when a bus with mostly female passengers strands in a small Bavarian village? Funny stuff, that’s what! There are the ski instructors who only want to be seduced…

It’s the late 1920s. Upon the death of wealthy Chicagoan Edward Dennis, his nine-year old son Patrick Dennis becomes the ward of their only living relative, Edward’s equally wealthy New…