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Best Movies of 1974, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
78 films from 1974 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Godfather Part II ('1974), at 9.0 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.4. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Céline and Julie Go Boating, 7.2 on IMDb against 100 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Godfather Part II '1974 | Drama / Crime | 9.0 | 96% | 90 | 8.6 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 2 | Chinatown '1974 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 8.1 | 98% | 92 | 7.9 | Roman Polanski |
| 3 | Young Frankenstein '1974 | Comedy | 8.0 | 95% | 83 | 7.9 | Mel Brooks |
| 4 | A Woman Under the Influence '1974 | Drama / Romance | 8.0 | 88% | 88 | 7.7 | John Cassavetes |
| 5 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul '1974 | Romance / Drama | 8.0 | 100% | - | 7.7 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| 6 | Blazing Saddles '1974 | Western / Comedy | 7.7 | 89% | 73 | 7.2 | Mel Brooks |
| 7 | The Conversation '1974 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.7 | 94% | 88 | 7.5 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 8 | Scenes from a Marriage '1974 | Drama / Romance | 8.3 | - | - | 8.1 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 9 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three '1974 | Crime / Thriller / Action / Comedy | 7.6 | 98% | 68 | 7.5 | Joseph Sargent |
| 10 | The Phantom of Liberty '1974 | Comedy | 7.8 | 85% | - | 7.4 | Luis Buñuel |
| 11 | Alice in the Cities '1974 | Drama | 7.8 | 100% | 78 | 7.7 | Wim Wenders |
| 12 | We All Loved Each Other So Much '1974 | Drama / Comedy | 8.0 | - | - | 8.3 | Ettore Scola |
| 13 | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre '1974 | Horror | 7.4 | 85% | 92 | 7.3 | Tobe Hooper |
| 14 | The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser '1974 | Drama | 7.6 | 91% | - | 7.3 | Werner Herzog |
| 15 | Only Old Men Are Going to Battle '1974 | War / Drama / Comedy / Romance | 8.2 | - | - | 7.9 | Leonid Bykov |
| 16 | The Year Without a Santa Claus '1974 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.7 | 90% | - | 7.1 | Jules Bass |
| 17 | Lenny '1974 | Drama | 7.5 | 88% | 61 | 7.3 | Bob Fosse |
| 18 | Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia '1974 | Action / Crime / Drama | 7.4 | 77% | 80 | 7.1 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 19 | The Man Who Sleeps '1974 | Drama | 7.8 | - | - | 7.8 | Bernard Queysanne |
| 20 | Lacombe, Lucien '1974 | Drama / War | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Louis Malle |
| 21 | Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore '1974 | Romance / Drama | 7.3 | 92% | 78 | 7.0 | Martin Scorsese |
| 22 | Phantom of the Paradise '1974 | Drama / Horror / Musical | 7.3 | 83% | 67 | 7.5 | Brian De Palma |
| 23 | Murder on the Orient Express '1974 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.2 | 89% | 62 | 7.1 | Sidney Lumet |
| 24 | Swept Away '1974 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 62% | 68 | 7.4 | Lina Wertmüller |
| 25 | The Front Page '1974 | Comedy | 7.3 | 57% | 62 | 7.3 | Billy Wilder |
| 26 | Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia '1974 | Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 7.2 | Eldar Ryazanov |
| 27 | Watch Out, We're Mad '1974 | Action / Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.5 | Marcello Fondato |
| 28 | Scent of a Woman '1974 | Comedy / Drama | 7.5 | - | - | 7.4 | Dino Risi |
| 29 | Black Christmas '1974 | Horror / Mystery / Crime | 7.1 | 73% | 65 | 6.9 | Bob Clark |
| 30 | The Yakuza '1974 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.2 | 51% | - | 7.1 | Sydney Pollack |
| 31 | Conversation Piece '1974 | Drama / Romance | 7.3 | 83% | 64 | 7.3 | Luchino Visconti |
| 32 | The Parallax View '1974 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.1 | 87% | 65 | 6.8 | Alan J. Pakula |
| 33 | The Longest Yard '1974 | Comedy / Drama / Crime | 7.1 | 74% | 61 | 6.7 | Robert Aldrich |
| 34 | Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell '1974 | Action / Fantasy / Drama / Thriller | 7.3 | - | - | 7.1 | Yoshiyuki Kuroda |
| 35 | Céline and Julie Go Boating '1974 | Comedy / Drama / Fantasy | 7.2 | 80% | 100 | 6.8 | Jacques Rivette |
| 36 | Going Places '1974 | Comedy / Drama | 7.1 | 71% | - | 6.7 | Bertrand Blier |
| 37 | California Split '1974 | Comedy / Drama | 7.1 | 87% | 85 | 6.5 | Robert Altman |
| 38 | Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others '1974 | Drama | 7.3 | 88% | - | 7.0 | Claude Sautet |
| 39 | The Gambler '1974 | Drama / Crime | 7.1 | 83% | 65 | 6.7 | Karel Reisz |
| 40 | The Towering Inferno '1974 | Action / Drama / Thriller | 7.0 | 69% | 69 | 7.0 | John Guillermin |
| 41 | Thunderbolt and Lightfoot '1974 | Comedy / Crime | 7.0 | 89% | 62 | 6.8 | Michael Cimino |
| 42 | The Odessa File '1974 | Thriller | 7.0 | 69% | - | 6.6 | Ronald Neame |
| 43 | The Four Musketeers '1974 | Action / Comedy / Drama | 6.9 | 75% | 70 | 6.5 | Richard Lester |
| 44 | Death Wish '1974 | Crime / Drama / Action | 6.9 | 66% | 51 | 6.9 | Michael Winner |
| 45 | The Sugarland Express '1974 | Crime / Drama | 6.8 | 87% | 65 | 6.6 | Steven Spielberg |
| 46 | The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe '1974 | Comedy | 6.6 | - | - | 6.6 | Yves Robert |
| 47 | The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue '1974 | Horror / Sci-Fi / Drama | 6.7 | 86% | - | 6.4 | Jorge Grau |
| 48 | From Beyond the Grave '1974 | Fantasy / Horror / Drama | 6.6 | - | - | 6.6 | Kevin Connor |
| 49 | Mr. Majestyk '1974 | Action / Crime | 6.7 | 84% | 55 | 6.8 | Richard Fleischer |
| 50 | Dead of Night '1974 | Horror | 6.6 | 79% | - | 6.3 | Bob Clark |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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