1974: My favorite movies
Top 5 of 81 in 1974 - "Pastoral: To Die in the Country" by S.Terayama, "The Godfather Part II" by F.F.Coppola, "The Night Porter" by L.Cavani, "Conversation Piece" by L.Visconti and "The Phantom of Liberty" by L.Buñuel. Best Adventure - "The Deluge", Best Comedy - "Scent of a Woman" and "We All Loved Each Other So Much", Best Crime - "Murder on the Orient Express", Best Thriller - "The Conversation", Best Action - "Stranger Among His Own", Best Horror - "Young Frankenstein". In the list of 6 films from USA, 5 films from Italy, 4 films from USSR, on 3 films from France and Germany, one movie from UK, Sweden, Japan und Poland.
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- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsJean-Claude BrialyAdolfo CeliMichel PiccoliA series of surreal sequences that critique morality and society in a stream of consciousness style.
- DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsKaoru YachigusaKeiko NiitakaMasumi HarukawaA young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsAl PacinoRobert De NiroRobert DuvallThe early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
- DirectorLiliana CavaniStarsDirk BogardeCharlotte RamplingPhilippe LeroyA concentration camp survivor rekindles her sadomasochistic relationship with an ex-SS officer working as a night porter at a Vienna hotel, but his former associates begin stalking them.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsBurt LancasterHelmut BergerSilvana ManganoA reclusive retired professor is faced with confronting modernity when a group of vulgar youths led by an obnoxious marchesa take up residence in his unused upper residence.
- DirectorVasiliy ShukshinStarsLidiya Fedoseeva-ShukshinaVasiliy ShukshinIvan RyzhovA former thief is released from a prison. He tries to start a new life with his penfriend - a good village woman, but his past doesn't let him go.
- DirectorBertrand BlierStarsGérard DepardieuMiou-MiouPatrick DewaereTwo thugs harass assault, steal, murder, Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor, on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsJack NicholsonFaye DunawayJohn HustonA private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsNinetto DavoliFranco CittiFranco MerliIn ancient Arabia, a beautiful slave girl chooses a youth to be her new master, then she is kidnapped and they must search for each other. Stories are told within stories: love, travel and the whims of destiny.
- DirectorRainer Werner FassbinderStarsBrigitte MiraEl Hedi ben SalemBarbara ValentinA lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.
- DirectorAndrey SmirnovStarsNatalya RudnayaLeonid KulaginNatalya GundarevaA man and a woman were in love with each other in their youth, then broke up and started new families, but did not become happy.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsBruno S.Walter LadengastBrigitte MiraA young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsLiv UllmannErland JosephsonBibi AnderssonScenes from a Marriage chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsEllen BurstynKris KristoffersonMia BendixsenA recently-widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.
- DirectorJohn CassavetesStarsGena RowlandsPeter FalkFred DraperAlthough wife and mother Mabel is loved by her husband Nick, her mental illness places a strain on the marriage.
- DirectorWim WendersStarsYella RottländerRüdiger VoglerLisa KreuzerA German journalist is saddled with a nine-year-old girl after encountering her mother at a New York airport.
- DirectorDusan MakavejevStarsCarole LaurePierre ClémentiAnna PrucnalAfter winning the "most virgin" contest, Miss Canada is married to a rich milk tycoon. But she quickly flees the marriage to experience the world around her, full of sweetness and anarchy.
- DirectorLeonid BykovStarsLeonid BykovSergey PodgornyySergei IvanovDuring World War II, a Soviet veteran pilot teaches newcomers that war is transient, and music is eternal.
- DirectorJerzy HoffmanStarsDaniel OlbrychskiMalgorzata BraunekTadeusz LomnickiDuring the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles X Gustav while others side with the Polish king Jan Kazimierz.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsVittorio GassmanAlessandro MomoAgostina BelliA young private is assigned to accompany a blind captain. It soon becomes clear that they are both complex personalities.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsNino ManfrediVittorio GassmanStefania SandrelliThree partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsAlbert FinneyLauren BacallIngrid BergmanIn December 1935, when his transcontinental luxury train is stranded by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before, with a multitude of suspects.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsGene HackmanJohn CazaleAllen GarfieldA paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
- DirectorNikita MikhalkovStarsYuriy BogatyryovAnatoliy SolonitsynSergey ShakurovSet during the Civil War between the Reds and the Whites that followed the 1917 revolution in Russia
- DirectorMel BrooksStarsGene WilderMadeline KahnMarty FeldmanAn American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.