A sadistic killer cult kidnaps and sacrifices beautiful women. A young girl, just paroled from prison, moves into a strange house and appears to be the cult's next victim.

Madeleine: Anatomy of a Nightmare

1974

Italian

5.5

♡ 1

Roberto Mauri Director

Lorenzo Piani as (credit only)

Alessandro Perrella as (credit only)

Camille Keaton as Madeleine

Pier Maria Rossi as Thomas

A young woman is tormented by nightmares of her miscarriage. She becomes unfaithful to her husband and meets various lovers. Eventually, reality begins to unfurl around her.

Dirty O'Neil

1974

English

5.0

♡ 4

Lewis Teague Director

Billy Beck as Craddock

Art Metrano as Lassiter

Leonard P. Geer as Lester Jones

Raymond O'Keefe as Lou

A police officer has very little work as there is virtually no crime in his small California town...until three hoodlums appear and rape a young woman.

Film About a Woman Who...

1974

English

6.4

♡ 1

Action

Drama

woman director

Yvonne Rainer Director

Valda Setterfield as

Yvonne Rainer as

Shirley Soffer as

Dempster Leech as

Rainer’s landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger.

Stone

1974

English

6.3

♡ 10

63%

Sandy Harbutt Director

Bill Hunter as Barman

Vincent Gil as Doctor Death

Roger Ward as Hooks

Rebecca Gilling as Vanessa

After one of its members witnesses a political assassination, an outlaw motorbike gang becomes the target of a string of murders, prompting a cop to join their ranks to determine who is responsible.

Thomasine & Bushrod

1974

English

6.0

♡ 3

62%

Action

blaxploitation

blaxploitation cinema

Gordon Parks Jr. Director

Glynn Turman as Jomo J. Anderson

Juanita Moore as Pecolia

Vonetta McGee as Thomasine

George Murdock as U.S. Marshal Bogardie

A pair of thieves operate in the American South between 1911 and 1915, stealing from rich, white capitalists, and giving to Mexicans, Native Americans and poor whites.

The Lords of Flatbush

1974

English

5.6

♡ 8

63%

Martin Davidson Director

Henry Winkler as Butchey Weinstein

Susan Blakely as Jane Bradshaw

Sylvester Stallone as Stanley Rosiello

Caren Kaye as Student

Set in 1958, the coming of age story follows four lower middle-class Brooklyn teenagers known as The Lords of Flatbush. The Lords chase girls, steal cars, shoot pool, get into street fights, and hang out at a local malt shop.

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

1974

English

7.8

♡ 6

90%

86%

Action

based on novel or book

Drama

History

interracial relationship

John Korty Director

Bill Walker as Elder Banks

Roy Poole as Mister Robert

Thalmus Rasulala as Ned Age 42

Harold Sylvester as Young Man

In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.

Flossie

1974

Swedish

5.2

♡ 9

Mac Ahlberg Director

Gösta Bergqvist as Catholic Confessor

Irene Lindholm as Eva's Girlfriend

Karl Göransson as Farmhand

Rune Hallberg as Robert

The young girl Flossie comes straight from a Swiss boarding school to Stockholm where she meets a young embassy clerk, Jack Archer. Together with her friend Eva each tell the other two of previous sexual encounters as well as creating new memories.

How to Seduce a Woman

1974

English

4.7

♡ 3

Charles Martin Director

Eve Brent as Dr. Sister's Sister

Heidi Brühl as Dr. Winifred Sisters

Hope Holiday as Mary

Judith McConnell as Ramona

Employees of well-off conman and lady's man Luther Lucas talk about the 5 women he'd most like to bed. To make this happen he'll spare no expense, pretend to be gay, pretend to be a friend of Garbo's--anything.

The Internecine Project

1974

English

6.2

♡ 1

52%

Action

based on novel or book

poison

spy

Thriller

Ken Hughes Director

Julian Glover as Arnold Pryce-Jones

Michael Jayston as David Baker

Keenan Wynn as E. J. Farnsworth

Lee Grant as Jean Robertson

Offered a job as a presidential adviser, a professor is forced to dispose of those who knew him when he was a spy.

Lancelot of the Lake

1974

French

6.9

♡ 5

96%

knights of the round table

medieval

Romance

sword fight

Robert Bresson Director

Marie-Gabrielle Cartron as

Jean-Marie Becar as

Marie-Louise Buffet as

Laura Duke Condominas as La Reine

Having failed in their quest for the Holy Grail, the knights of the Round Table return to Camelot, their number reduced to a mere handful. Seeing a rift developing between Lancelot and Mordred, Arthur urges his knights to bury their differences and become friends. However, the king is unaware that Lancelot is having an affair with his queen, Guinevere. Lancelot is torn between his duty to his king and his love for the queen, whilst Mordred is determined to use his infidelity to destroy him.

The Sugarland Express

1974

English

6.7

♡ 29

87%

66%

Action

Adventure

based on a true story

Steven Spielberg Director

Charles Gunn as D.P.S. Officer

Gregory Walcott as Mashburn

Louise Latham as Mrs. Looby

Dean Smith as Russ Berry

Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.

Moments

1974

English

6.8

♡ 2

Action

Drama

Romance

Peter Crane Director

Angharad Rees as Chrissy Hunter

Donald Hewlett as Mr. Samuelson

Keith Michell as Peter Samuelson

Valerie Minifie as Samuelson's wife

A depressed middle-aged man, revisiting the seaside resort he often vacationed at as a child, encounters a highly optimistic and carefree young woman who attempts to reason him out of following through on his suicidal thoughts.

The Spikes Gang

1974

English

6.3

♡ 8

43%

Richard Fleischer Director

Don Fellows as Cowboy

Lee Marvin as Harry Spikes

Ron Howard as Les

Charles Martin Smith as Tod

Three teenage farm boys stumble upon Harry Spikes, a local bandit wounded in a gun battle. While Harry is recuperating, he regales the young men with stories of his exciting past. The adventurous tales inspire them to start a gang of their own. Failing at their first attempt to rob a bank, the boys convince the gruff Spikes to teach them the ways of the desperado.

The Infernal Trio

1974

French

6.2

♡ 5

Francis Girod Director

Luigi Zerbinati as

Michel Piccoli as Georges Sarret

Romy Schneider as Philomena Schmidt

Jean Rigaux as Villette

Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt, a young German woman, who has just lost her job and home. To enable Philomène to remain in France, Georges finds her a husband – who dies conveniently of natural causes a month after the wedding. Georges repeats the trick with Philomène's sister, Catherine – marrying her off to an old man who dies suddenly so that the scheming trio can profit from his life insurance. When an accomplice in the scheme, Marcel Chambon, threatens to blackmail them, Georges and his two lovers have no option but to kill him and his mistress...

House of Cruel Dolls

1974

French

3.8

♡ 8

Pierre Chevalier Director

Mario Santini as Calvet

Sandra Barry as Magda

Antonia Lotito as Mimie

Remo De Angelis as Thug

A luxurious house stands in a deserted region, contrasting with its surroundings. It is a house of prostitution and its inmates are brought there against their will. One of them, Yvette, is helped to escape by Mr Gaston, a regular customer and she tells the story of her ordeal to the police.

Savage Sisters

1974

English

4.9

♡ 3

Action

blaxploitation

blaxploitation cinema

Eddie Romero Director

Cheri Caffaro as Jo Turner

Sid Haig as Malavasi

Rosanna Ortiz as Mei Ling

Romeo Rivera as Raul

A corrupt General plans on smuggling one million US dollars out of the Banana Republic he dominates. Local revolutionaries plan on stealing the cash but are thwarted when a bandit leader they are working with double crosses them. A tough cop and her boyfriend help two of the female revolutionaries escape from prison hoping that they will lead them to the cash, which they plan on keeping for themselves.

Dark Places

1974

English

5.8

♡ 6

40%

Don Sharp Director

Barry Linehan as Asylum Gatekeeper

Christopher Lee as Dr. Ian Mandeville

Robert Hardy as Edward Foster / Andrew Marr

Joan Collins as Sarah Mandeville

A scheming couple plot to conceal a hidden cache of stolen money from its rightful owner. The only problem is that the house they plan to hide it in is haunted.