Director Roman Polanski’s finest two hours take the Chandleresque mystery into bizarre byways and deep psychological territory, with Jack Nicholson’s jaded private eye Jake Gittes…
Browsing: Movies 1974
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A group of people who have unknowingly been handpicked by the government to restart the human race are kidnapped, drugged and stashed deep inside an…
This made-for-TV movie featured Clifford Swimmer (Peter Haskell), an angry and abusive man who is cruel to his wife Janet (Sheree North) and 13-year-old stepson…
The first of four saucy comedies adapted from the best-selling novels of Timothy Lea – the pen name of Christopher Wood, a Cambridge law graduate…
Francis Ford Coppola directed this 1974 film starring Gene Hackman as lonely, paranoid surveillance expert Harry Caul – a wiretapper, master eavesdropper, and industrial spy…
This combination of live-action and animation from director and legendary animator Ralph Bakshi begins with a prison break in Oklahoma (shot in live-action), from which…
Julius Vrooder, played powerfully by Timothy Bottoms, was a US Marine in Vietnam. Out on patrol one day, he stopped to help a woman with…
Based on a Henry James short story set in the 1890s, Daisy Miller is hauntingly beautiful to look at even though its content is rather slight.…
This implausible but rather enjoyable yarn has a man (Carleton Hobbs) dying at the St. Columba Mental Institute and willing his haunted house – “Marr’s…
Eighteen parsecs from Earth in Sector EB-90, the spaceship Dark Star continues its apparently unending mission: to destroy unstable planets in order to pave the…
Two racketeers involved in a blackmail scheme murder the boyfriend of advertising executive Crystal Davies (Chesty Morgan, born Ilana Wajc). Crystal manages to follow the…
This sleazy and highly controversial crime thriller finally made Charles Bronson a star in America and set a regrettable trend for trashy and ultra-violent vigilante…
This schlocky French tale – originally released as Les Démoniaques – opens in the 19th century with two young blonde women (Lieva Lone and Patricia…
This action-adventure stars Peter Fonda as Larry, who steals $150,000 from a supermarket to buy a car and get into stock car racing. With his…
British Government Minister Sir William Mainwaring-Brown (Leslie Phillips) puts forward a controversial bill to battle filth in the UK – but that doesn’t stop him…
Chinese man Larry Chin (former 70’s Golden Harvest matinee kung-fu star Alan Tang) sneaks into America to locate his missing brother and ends up meeting Stud…
This blockbuster disaster film had a dumb script and lacklustre acting, but great visual and aural effects. There are disasters galore as a massive earthquake strikes…
Inspired by Emmanuelle Arsan’s controversial novel, Emmanuelle starred 22-year-old Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel in the title role. The phenomenal success of this softcore porn movie can be…
It is Christmas Eve in London and the streets are aglow with festive lights. But behind closed doors, the city’s loneliness is louder than the…
Written by Thomas Keneally, Essington told the story of a motley group of Royal Marines and their interchangeable wives in a malarial stretch of Australia…