1974 Top Ten List

  • Céline and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
  • Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)
  • Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
  • The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
  • California Split (Robert Altman)
  • The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
  • Dead of Night (Bob Clark)
  • Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders)
  • The Sugarland Express (Steven Spielberg)
  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)

    • Additional 1974 Films By Rating

  • Black Christmas (Bob Clark)
  • The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent)
  • Truck Turner (Jonathan Kaplan)
  • The Godfather, Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
  • The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula)
  • Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese)
  • Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis)
  • That's Entertainment! (Jack Haley, Jr.)
  • Edvard Munch (Peter Watkins)
  • Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah)
  • The Phantom of Liberty (Luis Buñuel)
  • Lenny (Bob Fosse)
  • Italianamerican (Martin Scorsese)
  • Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks)
  • Dark Star (John Carpenter)
  • A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
  • A Man in a Dream (Bernard Queysanne)
  • Stavisky... (Alain Resnais)
  • A Poem Is a Naked Person (Les Blank)
  • Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma)
  • Messiah of Evil (Willard Huyck)
  • Parade (Jacques Tati)
  • The Traveller (Abbas Kiarostami)
  • Zardoz (John Boorman)
  • Blood for Dracula (Paul Morrissey)
  • The Great Gatsby (Jack Clayton)
  • Gone in 60 Seconds (H.B. Halicki)
  • The Front Page (Billy Wilder)
  • Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (John Hough)
  • Lacombe Lucien (Louis Malle)
  • The Man With the Golden Gun (Guy Hamilton)
  • General Idi Amin Dada: A Self-Portrait (Barbet Schroeder)
  • The Mouth Agape (Maurice Pialat)
  • Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (Jorge Grau)
  • Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (Yoshiyuki Kuroda)
  • Female Trouble (John Waters)
  • The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani)
  • Sweet Movie (Dušan Makajevev)
  • Going Places (Bertrand Blier)