Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1974

The 6 Ultra Brothers vs. the Monster Army (Urutora Roku Kyōdai tai Kaijū Gundan) - Sompote Sands / Shohei Tôjô

11 Harrowhouse - Aram Avakian

36 Ghante - Raj Tilak

99 and 44/100% Dead - John Frankenheimer

Aap Ki Kasam - J. Om Prakash

Abby - William Girdler

The Abdication - Anthony Harvey

Acting Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja (Predstava Hamleta u Mrduši Donjoj) - Krsto Papić

Aina (The Mirror) - Nazr-ul-Islam

Akenfield - Peter Hall

Alien Thunder (Dan Candy's Law) - Claude Fournier

All the Kind Strangers - Burt Kennedy

Allonsanfàn - Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

Almost Human (Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare / The Death Dealer / The Kidnap of Mary Lou and The Executioner) - Umberto Lenzi

And Now My Love (Toute une vie) - Claude Lelouch

Antonia: Portrait of a Woman - Judy Collins / Jill Godmilow –

And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians) - Peter Collinson

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Ted Kotcheff

Animals Are Beautiful People (Beautiful People) - Jamie Uys

Ankur – Shyam Benegal

At Home Among Strangers (Svoy sredi chuzhikh, chuzhoy sredi svoikh) - Nikita Mikhalkov

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own – Bruce Beresford

The Beast Must Die - Paul Annett

Benji - Joe Camp

Big Bad Mama - Steve Carver

Billy Two Hats - Ted Kotcheff

Black Belt Jones - Robert Clouse

The Black Windmill – Don Siegel

Blood for Dracula (Dracula cerca sangue di vergine e...mori di sete!!!) - Paul Morrissey

Borsalino & Co. - Jacques Deray

Bread and Chocolate (Pane e cioccolata) - Franco Brusati

Brief Encounter - Alan Bridges

Buster and Billie - Daniel Petrie

Butley - Harold Pinter

Callan - Don Sharp

Carry On Dick - Gerald Thomas

Claudine – John Berry

The Clockmaker (L' Horloger de Saint-Paul) - Bertrand Tavernier

Conrack - Martin Ritt

Confessions of a Window Cleaner - Val Guest

Conversation Piece (Gruppo di famiglia in un interno) - Luchino Visconti

Craze - Freddie Francis

Crazy Joe - Carlo Lizzani

The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder - Arthur Hiller

Daisy Miller - Peter Bogdanovich

The Deluge (Potop) - Jerzy Hoffman

The Devil Is a Woman (Il sorriso del grande tentatore / The Tempter) - Damiano Damiani

Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry - John Hough

Dost (Friend) - Dulal Guha

Down and Dirty Duck - Charles Swenson

Drama of the Rich (Fatti di gente perbene) - Mauro Bolognini

Edvard Munch - Peter Watkins

Effi Briest - Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Electra, My Love (Szerelmem, Elektra) - Miklós Jancsó

La Fantome de la liberte – Luis Bunuel

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires - Roy Ward Baker / Chang Cheh

Five Shaolin Masters (Shao Lin wu zu) - Chang Cheh

For Pete's Sake - Peter Yates

The Four Musketeers – Richard Lester

The Front Page – Billy Wilder

Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell - Terence Fisher

Galileo - Joseph Losey

The Gambler – Karel Reisz

Gavaznha (The Deer) - Masoud Kimiai

General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait – Berbet Schroeder

Ginger in the Morning - Gordon Wiles

The Girl from Petrovka - Robert Ellis Miller

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla - Jun Fukuda

Going Places (Les Valseuses) - Bertrand Blier

Gold – Peter Hunt

Golden Needles (The Chase for the Golden Needles) - Robert Clouse

Great Expectations - Joseph Hardy

Harry and Tonto – Paul Mazurski

Hearts and Minds - Peter Davis

Herbie Rides Again - Robert Stevenson

Himiko - Masahiro Shinoda

Heroes Two (Fang Shiyu yu Hong Xiguan) - Chang Cheh

The Holy Office (El santo oficio) - Arturo Ripstein

The Homeless (Yadonashi) - Kōichi Saitō

Hotel Angel (Theptida rong ram) - Chatrichalerm Yukol

The Internecine Project - Ken Hughes

The Island at the Top of the World - Robert Stevenson

It's Alive - Larry Cohen

Jáchyme, hoď ho do stroje! (Joachim, Put It in the Machine) - Oldřich Lipský

Journey Back to Oz - Hal Sutherland

Juggernaut - Richard Lester

A Jungle Book of Regulations (Nie ma rózy bez ognia) - Stanisław Bareja

Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no Mon - Mitsuo Murayama

The Klansman - Terence Young

Kunwara Baap – Mehmood

Lacombe Lucien – Louis Malle

Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones - Rollin Binzer

Lancelot du Lac – Robert Bresson

Lisa and the Devil (Lisa e il diavolo) - Mario Bava

The Longest Yard (The Mean Machine) - Robert Aldrich

The Lords of Flatbush - Martin Davidson / Stephen Verona

Lost in the Stars - Daniel Mann

Lovin' Molly - Sidney Lumet

Macon County Line - Richard Compton

Madhouse - Jim Clark

Mahler - Ken Russell

The Maids (Les Bonnes) - Christopher Miles

Majboor (Compulsed) - Ravi Tandon

Mame - Gene Saks

The Marseille Contract - Robert Parrish

McQ - John Sturges

The Middle of the World (Le Milieu du monde) - Alain Tanner

Mr. Majestyk – Richard Fleischer

The Mouth Agape (La Gueule ouverte) - Maurice Pialat

The Mutations - Jack Cardiff

Newman's Law - Richard T. Heffron

The Night of the Scarecrow (A Noite do Espantalho) - Sérgio Ricardo

The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat - Robert Taylor

The ODESSA File – Ronald Neame

One or the Other of Us - Wolfgang Petersen

The Optimists of Nine Elms (The Optimists) - Anthony Simmons

Les Ordres (Orders) - Michel Brault

Parade – Jacques Tati

Pastoral: To Die in the Country (Den-en ni shisu) - Shūji Terayama

A Peasant on a Bicycle (Selyaninat s Koleloto) - Lyudmil Kirkov

The Phantom of Liberty (Le Fantôme de la liberté) - Luis Buñuel

Phantom of the Paradise - Brian De Palma

Petersen (Jock Peterson) - Tim Burstall

La prima Angélica (Cousin Angelica) - Carlos Saura

The Red Snowball Tree (Kalina krasnaya) - Vasily Shukshin

The Rehearsal (I Dokimi) - Jules Dassin

Report to the Commissioner - Milton Katselas

Return of the Street Fighter (Satsujin ken 2) - Shigehiro Ozawa

Rhinoceros - Tom O'Horgan

S*P*Y*S – Irvin Kershner

Sandakan No. 8 (Brothel 8) - Kei Kumai

The Sannikov Land (Zemlya Sannikova) - Albert Mkrtchyan / Leonid Popov

The Satanic Rites of Dracula - Alan Gibson

Scent of a Woman (Profumo di donna) - Dino Risi

Sister Street Fighter (Onna Hissatsu Ken) - Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread (Onna hissatsu ken: kiki ippatsu) - Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

The Spikes Gang - Richard Fleischer

Stardust - Michael Apted

Stavisky... - Alain Resnais

Still Life (Tabiate bijan) - Sohrab Shahid-Saless

Stone - Sandy Harbutt

The Street Fighter (Gekitotsu! Satsujin Ken) - Shigehiro Ozawa

The Street Fighter's Last Revenge - Shigehiro Ozawa

Sweet Movie - Dušan Makavejev

Symptoms - José Ramón Larraz

Tender Dracula (Confessions of a Blood Drinker / Tendre Dracula) - Pierre Grunstein

The Terminal Man - Mike Hodges

That’s Entertainment – Jack Haley, Jr.

Three Tough Guys (Tough Guys) - Duccio Tessari

Truck Turner - Jonathan Kaplan

Vampyres - José Ramón

Verdict - André Cayatte

We All Loved Each Other So Much (C'eravamo tanto amati) - Ettore Scola

Weighed But Found Wanting (Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang) - Lino Brocka

Where the Lilies Bloom - William A. Graham

The White Dawn is a Canadian film - Philip Kaufman

Zandy's Bride - Jan Troell