Best Movies of 1974 by Rank
27
1
Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Post-Noir / Detective / Period Film
USA
English
34
2
Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, John Cazale
Crime / Drama / Gangster / Epic
USA
English
105
3
Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Mystery
USA
English
293
4
Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental
France
French
437
6
Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Irm Hermann, Elma Karlowa
Drama / Romance
West Germany
German
520
7
Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge
Drama / Crime / Biography / Period Film
West Germany
German
536
8
Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément
Drama / War / Romance
France / West Germany / Italy
French
582
9
Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, Teri McMinn
Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
587
10
Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Horror
USA
English
747
11
Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens
Comedy / Western
USA
English
781
12
Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Billy Green Bush, Diane Ladd
Drama / Romance
USA
English
852
13
Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jacques Denis, Yves Afonso, Julien Bertheau
Crime / Drama
France
French
915
14
Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi
Comedy / Drama / Experimental
Italy / France
French
930
15
Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, William Atherton
Drama / Crime
USA
English
931
16
Warren Beatty, William Daniels, Hume Cronyn, Kenneth Mars, Walter McGinn
Thriller
USA
English
1027
17
Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Action / Comedy / Cult
Mexico / USA
English
1048
18
Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner, Stanley Beck
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1100
19
Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Riccardo Salvino, Isa Danieli
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Italy
Italian
1400
20
Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dre Pahich, Dan O'Bannon, Adam Beckenbaugh
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
1507
21
Art Carney, René Enríquez, Herbert Berghof
Drama / Adventure / Comedy
USA
English
1553
22
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, François Périer
Drama / Biography / Period Film
France / Italy
French
1559
23
Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lanctôt, Jack Warden, Randy Quaid
Comedy / Drama
Canada
English
1577
24
Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Action
USA
English
1627
25
Peter Davis
Georges Bidault, Clark Clifford, George Coker, Kay Dvorshock, Daniel Ellsberg
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
1660
26
Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Joseph Cotten
Documentary / Experimental / Biography
France / Iran / West Germany
English
1745
27
Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway
Action / Thriller / Drama / Family
USA
English
1752
28
Luc Simon, Laura Duke Condominas, Humbert Balsan
Drama / War / Period Film
France / Italy
French
1795
29
Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Lilo Pempeit
Drama / Period Film
West Germany
German
1836
30
Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery
Crime / Mystery / Drama / Thriller / Detective
UK
English
1873
31
Fabio Testi, Lou Castel, Mariangela Melato, Michel Aumont, Michel Duchaussoy
Thriller
France / Italy
French
1968
32
Marthe Keller, André Dussollier
Drama / Period Film / Romance / War
France / Italy
French
1982
33
Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Peter Lawford, Liza Minnelli
Documentary / Family / Musical / Biography
USA
English
2011
34
Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad
Comedy / Drama / Sports
USA
English
2077
35
Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Bert Remsen
Crime / Drama
USA
English
2269
36
Joe Camp
Patsy Garrett, Allen Fiuzat, Cynthia Smith, Peter Breck, Frances Bavier
Family / Adventure
USA
English
2269
36
Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta Flores
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Italy
Italian
2271
37
Rüdiger Vogler, Yella Rottländer, Lisa Kreuzer,
Drama
West Germany
German
2312
38
Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O'Callaghan, Susan Engel, Michael Byrne
Drama
UK / Canada
English
2312
38
Yves Montand, Michel Piccoli, Serge Reggiani, Gérard Depardieu
Drama / Comedy
France / Italy
French
2363
39
Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Miou-Miou, Jeanne Moreau, Brigitte Fossey
Comedy / Crime / Drama
France
French
2399
40
David Essex, Adam Faith, Larry Hagman, Ines Des Longchamps, Rosalind Ayres
Drama / Music
UK
English
2423
41
George Segal, Elliott Gould, Ann Prentiss, Gwen Welles, Edward Walsh
Comedy / Drama / Cult
USA
English
2423
41
Chantal Akerman, Niels Arestrup, Claire Wauthion
Drama
France / Belgium
French
2424
42
Thom Andersen, Morgan Fisher, Fay Anderson
Eadweard Muybridge, Dean Stockwell
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2437
43
Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene
Action / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2437
43
Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia
Comedy
USA
English
2459
44
Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith, Herb Edelman, Richard Jordan
Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA / Japan
English
2511
45
Paul Williams, William Finley, Jessica Harper, George Memmoli, Gerrit Graham
Comedy / Horror / Musical / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
2558
46
Geir Westby, Gro Fraas, Eric Allum, Amund Berge, Kerstii Allum
Biography / Drama
Sweden / Norway
Norwegian
2599
47
Ron Leibman, David Selby, Sheila Frazier, Pat Hingle, Dan Frazer, Joseph Sirola
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Action / Detective
USA
English
2615
48
Jerzy Hoffman
Daniel Olbrychski, Malgorzata Braunek, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Adventure / War / History / Epic / Romance
Poland / Soviet Union
Polish
2615
48
Komaki Kurihara, Yôko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka
Drama / War
Japan
Japanese
2615
48
Vittorio Gassman, Agostina Belli, Alessandro Momo, Moira Orfei
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Italy
Italian
2615
48
Sergio Renán
Héctor Alterio, Luis Brandoni, Ana María Picchio
Drama / Romance
Argentina
Spanish
2638
49
Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats, William Redfield
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Cult
USA
English
2638
49
Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke, Kenneth Tobey, Eugene Daniels
Action / Drama / Romance / Adventure / Crime / Cult
USA
English
2638
49
Gordon Hessler
John Phillip Law, Caroline Munro, Tom Baker, Douglas Wilmer, Martin Shaw
Family / Adventure / Fantasy / Action
UK / USA
English
2638
49
Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Scott Wilson, Sam Waterston
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2638
49
Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins, Shirley Knight
Action / Thriller
UK
English
2638
49
Martin Davidson, Stephen Verona
Perry King, Sylvester Stallone, Henry Winkler, Paul Mace, Susan Blakely
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2638
49
Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams, Hervé Villechaize
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
2638
49
Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm, Derek Jacobi, Peter Jeffrey
Thriller / Drama / War / Crime
UK / West Germany
English
2638
49
Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, Geoffrey Lewis, George Kennedy, Catherine Bach
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Caper
USA
English
2655
50
Cybill Shepherd, Barry Brown, Cloris Leachman, Mildred Natwick
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2667
51
Judy Morris, Ivar Kants, Terry Camilleri, John Meillon, Robert Coleby, Kevin Miles
Comedy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Australia
English
2671
52
Jill Godmilow, Judy Collins
Dr. Antonia Brico, Judy Collins
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2671
52
Cinda Firestone
John Andrini, Herman Badillo, L.D. Barkley, Roger Champen, Flip Crawley
Documentary / Crime / History
USA
English
2671
52
Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor
Action / Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2678
53
Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Tessa Bouché
Fantasy / Adventure / Romance
Italy / France
Italian
2691
54
Antonio Canal, Lina Canalejas, Lola Cardona, Fernando Delgado
Drama
Spain
Spanish
2705
55
James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Morris Carnovsky, Jacqueline Brookes
Crime / Drama / Post-Noir
USA
English
2710
56
Sohrab Shahid Saless
Zadour Bonyadi, Mohammed Kani, Hibibollah Safarian
Drama
Iran
Persian
2712
57
Richard Kiley, Steven Warner, Bob Fosse, Gene Wilder
Musical / Sci-Fi / Family / Fantasy
UK / USA
English
2712
57
Laura Antonelli, Alberto Lionello, Michele Placido, Jean Rochefort
Comedy
Italy
Italian
2718
58
Ottokar Runze
Gerd Siekmann, Heinz-Dietrich Stark, Hajo Wandschneider
Documentary
West Germany
German
2718
58
John Hurt, John McEnery, David Warner, Rosalind Ayres, Raymond Platt
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
2718
58
Pedro Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Luis Brandoni, Franklin Caicedo
Drama / History / Western / Thriller
Argentina
Spanish
2726
59
Olimpia Carlisi, Philippe Léotard, Juliet Berto, Denise Péron
Romance / Drama / Comedy
France / Switzerland
French
2733
60
Michael Murphy, Nigel Davenport, Lynne Frederick, Alan Gifford, Robert Henderson
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2752
61
Gyanesh Mukherjee, Bijon Bhattacharya, Utpal Dutt
Drama / Experimental
India
Bengali
2755
62
Jacques Tati, Karl Kossmayer, Pierre Bramma, Pia Colombo
Documentary / Family
France / Sweden
French
2766
63
Warren Oates, Richard B. Shull, Harry Dean Stanton, Ed Begley Jr.
Drama / Sports
USA
English
2766
63
Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm, Barbara Valentin
Drama / Thriller
West Germany
German
2780
64
Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Cookie Mueller
Comedy / Crime / Drama
USA
English
2780
64
Paul Vecchiali
Hélène Surgère, Sonia Saviange, Huguette Forge
Comedy / Drama
France
French
2780
64
Martin Loeb, Jacqueline Dufranne, Jacques Romain, Ingrid Caven
Drama
France
French
2791
66
Walter Steiner
Documentary / Biography / Sports
West Germany
German
2791
66
Lolita Rodriguez, Christopher De Leon, Eddie Garcia
Romance / Drama
Philippines
English
NR
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Richard A. Colla
Robert Foxworth, Mike Farrell, John Vernon, Lew Ayres, James Shigeta
Sci-Fi
USA
English