8.4

Chinatown

1974, USA

• Actors: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman, Darrell Zwerling, Diane Ladd, Roy Jenson, Roman Polanski, Richard Bakalyan, Joe Mantell, Bruce Glover, Nandu Hinds, James O'Rear, James Hong, Beulah Quo, Jerry Fujikawa, Belinda Palmer, Roy Roberts, Noble Willingham, Elliott Montgomery, Rance Howard, George Justin, C.O. Erickson, Fritzi Burr, Charles Knapp, Claudio Martínez, Federico Roberto, Allan Warnick, John Holland
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Roman Polanski
• Available languages:
  • English English.

JJ 'Jake' Gittes is a private detective who seems to specialize in matrimonial cases. He is hired by Evelyn Mulwray when she suspects her husband Hollis, builder of the city's water supply system, of having an affair. Gittes does what he does best and photographs him with a young girl but in the ensuing scandal, it seems he was hired by an impersonator and not the real Mrs. Mulwray. When Mr. Mulwray is found dead, Jake is plunged into a complex web of deceit involving murder, incest and municipal corruption all related to the city's water supply.

  8.2

Jaws

1974, USA

• Actors: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Carl Gottlieb, Jeffrey Kramer, Susan Backlinie, Jonathan Filley, Ted Grossman, Chris Rebello, Jay Mello, Lee Fierro, Jeffrey Voorhees, Craig Kingsbury, Dr. Robert Nevin, Peter Benchley, Chris Anastasio, John Bahr, Allison Caine, Robert Carroll, Edward Chalmers Jr., Robert Chambers, Denise Cheshire, Fritzi Jane Courtney, Cyprian R. Dube, Paul Goulart, Mike Haydn, Duncan Inches, Belle McDonald
• Genre: Thriller
• Director(s): Steven Spielberg
• Available languages:
  • English English.

It's a hot summer on Amity Island, a small community whose main business is its beaches. When new Sheriff Martin Brody discovers the remains of a shark attack victim, his first inclination is to close the beaches to swimmers. This doesn't sit well with Mayor Larry Vaughn and several of the local businessmen. Brody backs down to his regret as that weekend a young boy is killed by the predator. The dead boy's mother puts out a bounty on the shark and Amity is soon swamped with amateur hunters and fisherman hoping to cash in on the reward. A local fisherman with much experience hunting sharks, Quint, offers to hunt down the creature down for a hefty fee. Soon Quint, Brodie and Matt Hooper from the Oceanographic Institute are at sea hunting the Great White shark. As Brodie succinctly surmises after their first encounter with the creature, they're going to need a bigger boat.

  8.1

Barry Lyndon

1974, UK

• Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Steven Berkoff, Gay Hamilton, Marie Kean, Diana Körner, Murray Melvin, Frank Middlemass, André Morell, Arthur O'Sullivan, Godfrey Quigley, Leonard Rossiter, Philip Stone, Leon Vitali, John Bindon, Roger Booth, Billy Boyle, Jonathan Cecil, Peter Cellier, Geoffrey Chater, Anthony Dawes, Patrick Dawson, Bernard Hepton, Anthony Herrick, Barry Jackson, Wolf Kahler, Pat Laffan, Hans Meyer
• Genre: Drama, Romance, War
• Director(s): Stanley Kubrick
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love of his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora engages to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him for a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin, but is robbed on the road. Without any other alternative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years War. He deserts and is forced to join the Prussian Army, saving the life of his captain and becoming his protégé and spy of the Irish gambler Chevalier de Balibari. He helps Chevalier and becomes his associate until he decides to marry the wealthy Lady Lyndon. They move to England and Barry, in his obsession of nobility, dilapidates her fortune and makes a dangerous and revengeful enemy.

  8.0

Young Frankenstein

1974, USA

• Actors: Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr, Kenneth Mars, Richard Haydn, Liam Dunn, Danny Goldman, Oscar Beregi Jr., Arthur Malet, Anne Beesley, Monte Landis, Rusty Blitz, John Madison, John Dennis, Rick Norman, Rolfe Sedan, Terence Pushman, Randolph Dobbs, Norbert Schiller, Pat O'Hara, Michael Fox, Lidia Kristen, Madeline Kahn, Richard A. Roth, Gene Hackman, Leon Askin, John Carradine, Ian Abercrombie
• Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Mel Brooks
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A young neurosurgeon (Gene Wilder) inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback called Igor, a pretty lab assistant named Inga and the old housekeeper, frau Blucher -iiiiihhh!-. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather is only crap, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind...

  7.7

Professione: reporter

1974, Italy, Spain, France

• Actors: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry, Steven Berkoff, Ambroise Bia, José María Caffarel, James Campbell, Manfred Spies, Jean-Baptiste Tiemele, Ángel del Pozo, Charles Mulvehill, Narciso Pula, Miquel Bordoy, Jaime Doria, Joan Gaspart, Gustavo Re
• Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Michelangelo Antonioni
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A journalist researching a documentary in the Sahara Desert meets a gunrunner who dies suddenly. When the journalist notices that they have a similar appearance, he assumes the recently deceased's identity and accepts the consequences that it brings.

  7.6

Profondo rosso

1974, Italy

• Actors: David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia, Macha Méril, Eros Pagni, Giuliana Calandra, Piero Mazzinghi, Glauco Mauri, Clara Calamai, Aldo Bonamano, Liana Del Balzo, Vittorio Fanfoni, Dante Fioretti, Geraldine Hooper, Jacopo Mariani, Furio Meniconi, Fulvio Mingozzi, Lorenzo Piani, Salvatore Puntillo, Piero Vida, Nicoletta Elmi, Dario Argento, Salvatore Baccaro, Bruno Di Luia, Attilio Dottesio, Tom Felleghy, Glauco Onorato, Franco Vaccaro
• Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Dario Argento
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A psychic who can read minds picks up the thoughts of a murderer in the audience and soon becomes a victim. An English pianist gets involved in solving the murders, but finds many of his avenues of inquiry cut off by new murders, and he begins to wonder how the murderer can track his movements so closely.

  7.1

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

1974, UK, USA

• Actors: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Nell Campbell, Jonathan Adams, Peter Hinwood, Meat Loaf, Charles Gray, Jeremy Newson, Hilary Labow, Perry Bedden, Christopher Biggins, Gaye Brown, Ishaq Bux, Stephen Calcutt, Hugh Cecil, Imogen Claire, Tony Cowan, Sadie Corre, Fran Fullenwider, Lindsay Ingram, Peggy Ledger, Annabel Leventon, Anthony Milner, Pamela Obermeyer, Tony Then, Kimi Wong, Gina Barrie
• Genre: Comedy, Musical
• Director(s): Jim Sharman
• Available languages:
  • English English.

It's the weird and wonderful as newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter a problem when they car halts in the rain. They both look for contact only to find themselves at the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter a transvestite. A place to stay is offered, but will Brad and Janet want to remain there? Especially when a large group of Transylvanians dance to the 'Time Warp', Dr. Frank-N-Furter builds his own man and a whole host of participation for the audience to enjoy.

  7.1

Fontane - Effi Briest

1974, West Germany

• Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel, Lilo Pempeit, Herbert Steinmetz, Ursula Strätz, Irm Hermann, Karlheinz Böhm, Karl Scheydt, Barbara Lass, Rudolf Lenz, Andrea Schober, Eva Mattes, Theo Tecklenburg, An Dorthe Braker, Peter Gauhe, Barbara Valentin, Hark Bohm, Margit Carstensen, Wolfgang Hess, Renate Küster, Fred Maire, Arnold Marquis, Kurt Raab
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Available languages:
  • German German.

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hires the lapsed Catholic Roswitha to look after her. Effi is lonely when her husband is away on business, so she spends time riding and walking along the shore with Major Crampas. Instetten is promoted to Ministerial Councillor and the family moves to Berlin, where Effi enjoys the social life. Six years later, the Baron is given letters from Crampas to Effi that convince him that they had an affair. He feels obliged to challenge Crampas to a duel and banish Effi from the house.

  7.0

The Return of the Pink Panther

1974, UK

• Actors: Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom, Peter Arne, Peter Jeffrey, Grégoire Aslan, David Lodge, Graham Stark, Eric Pohlmann, André Maranne, Burt Kwouk, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal, Mike Grady, Peter Jones, Herb Tanney, Mollie Maureen, Nadim Sawalha, Andre Charisse, Michael Nightingale, Pamela Abbott, Francis Mortimer, Yashaw Adem, Hugo De Vernier, Claire Davenport, Carol Cleveland, Jeremy Hawk, Tony Adams, Peter Samuelson
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
• Director(s): Blake Edwards
• Available languages:
  • English English.

That famous jewel, The Pink Panther, has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The Phantom' has returned and utilises all of his resources - himself and his oriental manservant - to reveal the true identity of 'The Phantom'.

  6.9

Death Wish

1974, USA

• Actors: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats, William Redfield, Stuart Margolin, Stephen Elliott, Kathleen Tolan, Jack Wallace, Fred J. Scollay, Chris Gampel, Robert Kya-Hill, Edward Grover, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Logan, Gregory Rozakis, Floyd Levine, Helen Martin, Hank Garrett, Christopher Guest, Olympia Dukakis, Ken Ackles, John C. Becher, Robyn Blythe, William Bogert, Bruce Brown, Robert Dahdah, Paul Dooley, Hector Freeman, Beverly Goodman
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Michael Winner
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Open-minded architect Paul Kersey returns to New York City from vacationing with his wife, feeling on top of the world. At the office, his cynical coworker gives him the welcome-back with a warning on the rising crime rate. But Paul, a bleeding-heart liberal, thinks of crime as being caused by poverty. However his coworker's ranting proves to be more than true when Paul's wife is killed and his daughter is raped in his own apartment. The police have no reliable leads and his overly sensitive son-in-law only exacerbates Paul's feeling of hopelessness. He is now facing the reality that the police can't be everywhere at once. Out of sympathy his boss gives him an assignment in sunny Arizona where Paul gets a taste of the Old West ideals. He returns to New York with a compromised view on muggers...

  6.9

Bad Ronald

1974, USA

• Actors: Scott Jacoby, Pippa Scott, John Larch, Dabney Coleman, Kim Hunter, John Fiedler, Linda Watkins, Cindy Fisher, Cindy Eilbacher, Lisa Eilbacher, Ted Eccles, Roger Aaron Brown, Aneta Corsaut, Angela Hoffman, Karen Purcill, Shelley Spurlock, Lesley Woods
• Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
• Director(s): Buzz Kulik
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A shy teenager accidentally kills a mocking peer, and his mother helps him hide in a spare room in their house. Problems arise when the mother goes for an operation and dies, and the house is sold to a new family, with the teen still living inside.

  6.8

Bite the Bullet

1974, USA

• Actors: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn, Ben Johnson, Ian Bannen, Jan-Michael Vincent, Robert Donner, Jean Willes, Mario Arteaga, Dabney Coleman, John McLiam, Robert F. Hoy, Jerry Gatlin, Sally Kirkland, Walter Scott Jr., William H. Burton, Buddy Van Horn, Joe Brooks, Lucia Canales, Darwin Lamb, Paul Stewart
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
• Director(s): Richard Brooks
• Available languages:
  • English English.

At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy, an old one and two friends, Sam Clayton and Luke Matthews. All those individualists will learn to respect each other.

  6.8

Dead of Night

1974, USA, Canada, UK

• Actors: John Marley, Lynn Carlin, Richard Backus, Henderson Forsythe, Anya Ormsby, Jane Daly, Michael Mazes, Arthur Anderson, Arthur Bradley, David Gawlikowski, Virginia Cortez, Bud Hoey, Robert R. Cannon, Raymond Michel, Jeff Becker, Scott Becker, Greg Wells, Kevin Schweizer, Jeff Gillen, Alan Ormsby, Mal Jones, Edward Anderson, George De Vries, Bob Noble, John Bonney, Bob Clark
• Genre: Horror, War
• Director(s): Bob Clark
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A young Soldier is killed in the line of duty in Vietnam. That same night, the soldier returns home, brought back by his Mother's wishes that he "Don't Die"! Upon his Return, Andy sits in his room, refusing to see his friends or family, venturing out only at night. The Vampiric horror is secondary to the terror that comes from the disintegration of a typical American family.

  6.6

Deranged

1974, Canada, USA

• Actors: Roberts Blossom, Cosette Lee, Leslie Carlson, Robert Warner, Marcia Diamond, Brian Smeagle, Arlene Gillen, Robert McHeady, Marian Waldman, Jack Mather, Micki Moore, Pat Orr
• Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
• Director(s): Jeff Gillen
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies he misses her, so a year later he digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher sources of materials. Based closely on the true story of Ed Gein.

  6.6

Stone

1974, Australia

• Actors: Ken Shorter, Sandy Harbutt, Deryck Barnes, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Roger Ward, Vincent Gil, Dewey Hungerford, James Bowles, Bindi Williams, John Ifkovitch, Lex Mitchell, Rhod Walker, Owen Weingott, Slim DeGrey, Ray Bennett, Bill Hunter, Helen Morse, Rebecca Gilling, Susan Lloyd, Rosalind Talamini, Victoria Anoux, Jane Gilling, Eva Ifkovitch, Tony Allyn, Terry Bader, George Beddows, David Bracks, Barry Butler, Roy Corbett, Leonora Cornall
• Genre: Action, Drama, Adventure, Crime, Mystery
• Director(s): Sandy Harbutt
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Members of the Grave Diggers Motorcycle Club are being knocked off one by one, and someone needs to find out why! Sandy Harbutts timeless Australian cult film about a bunch of regegades riding Kawasaki 900s.

  6.5

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry

1974, USA

• Actors: Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke, Kenneth Tobey, Eugene Daniels, Lynn Borden, Janear Hines, Elizabeth James, Adrianne Herman, T.J. Castronova, James W. Gavin, Al Rossi, Ben Niems, George Westcott, Tom O'Neill, Edna MacAfee, Don Coughlin, Sonny Dukes, Beau Gentry, Robert Hirschfeld, Bill Catching, Jody Carlson, Tom Howard Jr., Craig Kelly, Larry Luttrell, Gary McLarty, Bob Minor, Jerry Summers, Dick Warlock, Ted White
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): John Hough
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Mary and Larry are two lovers who, with Larry's ace mechanic, rob a grocery store and flee the police with hopes of making the professional racing circuit. They are chased over hill, over vale by the cops, who deploy everything from a 426 Hemi to a helicopter to stop Larry's Dodge Charger culminating in a memorable ending.

  6.2

The Great Gatsby

1974, USA

• Actors: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Scott Wilson, Sam Waterston, Lois Chiles, Howard Da Silva, Roberts Blossom, Edward Herrmann, Elliott Sullivan, Arthur Hughes, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Beth Porter, Paul Tamarin, John Devlin, Patsy Kensit, Marjorie Wildes, Blain Fairman, Bob Sherman, Norman Chancer, Regina Baff, Janet Arters, Louise Arters, Sammy Smith, Brooke Adams, James Berwick, Tom Ewell, Linda Hamil, Duncan Inches
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Jack Clayton
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.

  5.9

Madhouse

1974, UK

• Actors: Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, Adrienne Corri, Natasha Pyne, Michael Parkinson, Linda Hayden, Barry Dennen, Ellis Dayle, Catherine Willmer, John Garrie, Ian Thompson, Jenny Lee Wright, Julie Crosthwaite, Peter Halliday, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, George Blackler, Robert Cawdron, Michael Craze, Earl Rhodes, Christopher Sandford
• Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Jim Clark
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Horror movie actor Paul Toombes, famous for playing "Dr. Death," suffers a nervous breakdown before going to England to do a TV series. Cast and crew members start dying the way characters did in Toombes' old movies.

  5.9

Three the Hard Way

1974, USA

• Actors: Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Sheila Frazier, Jay Robinson, Charles McGregor, Howard Platt, Richard Angarola, David Chow, Marian Collier, Junero Jennings, Alex Rocco, Corbin Bernsen, Renie Radich, Janice Carroll, Angelyn Chester, Norman Evans, Pamela Serpe, Marie O'Henry, Irene Tsu, Robert Cleaves, Roberta Collins, Lance Taylor Sr., Jeannie Bell, Victor Brandt, Mario Roccuzzo, Don Gazzaniga, Fred Cash, Sam Gooden, Ralph Johnson
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
• Director(s): Gordon Parks Jr.
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The story involves a white supremist plot to taint the United States water supply with a toxin that is harmless to whites but lethal to blacks. The only obstacles that stand in the way of this dastardly plan are Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly, who shoot, kick and karate chop their way to final victory.

  5.8

Benji

1974, USA

• Actors: Patsy Garrett, Allen Fiuzat, Cynthia Smith, Peter Breck, Frances Bavier, Terry Carter, Edgar Buchanan, Tom Lester, Christopher Connelly, Deborah Walley, Mark Slade, Herb Vigran, Larry Swartz, J.D. Young, Erwin Hearne, Katie Hearne, Don Puckett, Ed DeLatte, Victor Raider-Wexler, Charles Starkey, Ben Vaughn, Joe Camp III, Vicki Vanston, Jacqueline Ann Smith, Bill King, Robert Thomas, Rene Marrou, Biff Painter, Higgins the Dog
• Genre: Adventure, Family, Romance
• Director(s): Joe Camp
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The first movie about the famous golden mutt. Benji is a stray who has nonetheless worked his way into the hearts of a number of the townspeople, who give him food and attention whenever he stops by. His particular favorites are a pair of children who feed and play with him against the wishes of their parents. When the children are kidnapped, however, the parents and the police are at a loss to find them. Only Benji can track them down, but will he be in time? If he can save the day, he may just find the permanent home he's been longing for.