Izu no odoriko

1974

Japanese

7.2

♡ 3

Katsumi Nishikawa Director

Tomokazu Miura as

Ken Mizoguchi as

Tomomi Satô as

Jûkichi Uno as Narrator

While vacationing in the Izu peninsula, a high school student Kawashima becomes intrigued by Kaoru, a pretty young dancer in a troupe of travelling performers, and he tags along with them on their journeys.

The Valiant Ones

1974

Chinese

7.1

♡ 1

77%

King Hu Director Mars

Mars as Japanese swordsman pirate

Biao Yuen as Kameda

Corey Yuen as Pirate

Roy Chiao as Yu Da-you

A righteous husband-and-wife swordfighting duo struggle to protect China from the machinations of Japanese pirates and corrupt officials.

Five Women for the Killer

1974

Italian

5.6

♡ 2

Stelvio Massi Director

Lorenzo Piani as

Francis Matthews as Giorgio Pisani

Tom Felleghy as Newspaper Editor-in-Chief

Giorgio Albertazzi as Professor Aldo Betti

Thriller about a reporter who comes home from an overseas assignment to find his baby in the hospital and his wife dead...

The Longest Yard

1974

English

7.1

♡ 25

76%

Robert Aldrich Director

Joe Dorsey as Bartender

Malcolm Atterbury as Bit Part

Burt Reynolds as Paul Crewe

Chuck Hayward as Trooper I

A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.

House of Whipcord

1974

English

5.8

♡ 5

43%

parent child relationship

prison

sadism

women's prison

Pete Walker Director

Celia Imrie as Barbara

Rose Hill as Henry's Wife

Patrick Barr as Justice Bailey

Ron Smerczak as Ted

Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warders, including his lover, run their own prison for young women who have not been held properly to account for their crimes. Here they mete out their own form of justice and ensure that the girls never return to their old ways.

Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974

1974

Japanese

7.1

91%

Biography

Documentary

Kazuo Hara Director

Kazuo Hara as Self

Sachiko Kobayashi as Self

Miyuki Takeda as Self / former lover of Hara

When his wife, the outspoken feminist Miyuki Takeda, announced that she was leaving him in order to find herself, Kazuo Hara began this raw, intensely personal documentary as a way to both maintain a connection to the woman he still cared for and to make sense of their complex relationship. Granted at times shockingly intimate access to Miyuki’s personal life, Hara follows her wayward journey toward liberation as she explores her sexuality with both men and women, becomes pregnant and raises a family as a single mother, and grows increasingly disenchanted with the constraints of traditional social structures.

Impossible... pas français

1974

French

5.0

♡ 1

Comedy

Robert Lamoureux Director

Philippe Forquet as

Bernard Musson as

Serge Nubret as

Jacques Marin as Dussautoy

Antoine, an accountant by trade, becomes a private detective to support his family. His wanderings lead him to transport a cargo of malachite to Le Havre, in the hope of a large bonus. With the help of his family, and despite a few mishaps, Antoine achieves his goal.

Buster and Billie

1974

English

6.9

♡ 1

90%

Daniel Petrie Director

Jan-Michael Vincent as Buster Lane

Pamela Sue Martin as Margie Hooks

David Little as Smitty

Robert Englund as Whitey

Dimwitted but sweet high school girl of easy virtue and the most popular boy in the school share an improbable romance.

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

1974

German

8.0

♡ 17

100%

husband wife relationship

parent child relationship

Romance

unsociability

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

El Hedi ben Salem as Ali

Kurt Raab as Car Mechanic

Rainer Werner Fassbinder as Eugen, Krista's husband

Irm Hermann as Krista

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.

Dynamite Brothers

1974

English

3.7

♡ 4

15%

Action

blaxploitation

blaxploitation cinema

Drama

drugs

grindhouse

Al Adamson Director

Aldo Ray as Burke Mars

Mars as Tuen's henchman

Tony Liu as Tuen's henchman

James Hong as Wei Chin

Young black man teams up with a Chinese kung-fu expert to fight a drug ring.

The Gambler

1974

English

7.1

♡ 21

82%

Karel Reisz Director

James Caan as Axel Freed

James Woods as Bank Officer

Carmine Caridi as Jimmy

Melanie Mayron as Student

New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.

Parade

1974

French

5.9

♡ 6

64%

Jacques Tati Director

Jacques Tati as Circus performer Bertilo

Bertilo as Circus performer

Bertil Berglund as Circus performer

Dominique Lavanant as (uncredited)

For his final film, Jacques Tati takes his camera to the circus, where the director himself serves as master of ceremonies. Though it features many spectacles, including clowns, jugglers, acrobats, contortionists, and more, Parade also focuses on the spectators, making this stripped-down work a testament to the communion between audience and entertainment.

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

1974

German

7.7

♡ 18

91%

Werner Herzog Director

Henry van Lyck as Cavalry Captain

Brigitte Mira as Kathe, Servant

Walter Ladengast as Professor Daumer

Clemens Scheitz as Scribe

The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.

The Bod Squad

1974

Chinese

5.5

♡ 12

Chih-Hung Kuei Director

Han Chiang as Chao's guard

Sonja Jeannine as Donna / Dawn

Biao Yuen as Extra Mars

Mars as Pirate killed on ship

Five Western girls are kidnapped by Chinese pirates and sold to a brothel. While they are being trained to become prostitutes, a couple of local citizens take mercy on them and plots their escape by teaching them kung-fu. The five scantily-clad girls, using their newfound martial arts skills then fight their way to freedom.

ITV Playhouse Mr. Axelford's Angel

8.3

John Frankau Director

Julia Foster as Angel Roper

Michael Bryant as Boris J. Axelford

Donald Sumpter as David

Jacqueline Stanbury as Pinkie Watkins

A romantic tale of a scatty secretary and a stuffy boss.

Violent Streets

1974

Japanese

6.9

♡ 10

Hideo Gosha Director

Rikiya Yasuoka as

Kôji Fujiyama as

Ryôji Hayama as Futahashi

Sei Hiraizumi as Haruo

With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.

Flower and Snake

1974

Japanese

5.6

♡ 16

Masaru Konuma Director

Akira Takahashi as

Toshihiko Oda as

Hiroko Fuji as Miyo Katagiri

Naomi Tani as Shizuko Tôyama

Shizuka is the aristocratic wife of the president of a large company. When she wants to divorce her domineering husband, he orders his employee Yoshi, the son of an adult toy store owner, to train his wife to become sexually submissive.

Borsalino and Co.

1974

French

6.3

♡ 6

Jacques Deray Director

Günter Meisner as Le médecin

Alain Delon as Roch Siffredi

Claudine Auger as Une passagère sur le paquebot

Mireille Darc as Une prostituée dans la rue / Prostitute

Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."

Harry and Tonto

1974

English

7.3

♡ 5

88%

Paul Mazursky Director

Louis Guss as Dominic

Melanie Mayron as Ginger

Geraldine Fitzgerald as Jessie

Ellen Burstyn as Shirley

Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s who has lived in the Upper West Side of New York City all his life. When his building is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the United States — visiting his children, seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends.

The Land That Time Forgot

1974

English

5.6

♡ 11

Adventure

based on novel or book

Kevin Connor Director

Doug McClure as Bowen Tyler

Ron Pember as Jones

Roy Holder as Plesser

Colin Farrell as Whiteley

During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British passenger ship and takes the survivors aboard. After getting lost in fog, the submarine surfaces near the unknown island of Caprona, a lost world where they find dinosaurs and Neanderthals.

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Izu no odoriko

The Valiant Ones

Five Women for the Killer

The Longest Yard

House of Whipcord

Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974

Impossible... pas français

Buster and Billie

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Dynamite Brothers

The Gambler

Parade

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

The Bod Squad

ITV Playhouse Mr. Axelford's Angel

Violent Streets

Flower and Snake

Borsalino and Co.

Harry and Tonto

The Land That Time Forgot