Top Movies from 1974
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The Phantom of Hollywood (1974)
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The internationally famous Worldwide Studios has hit hard times and is forced to sell its Hollywood backlot to property developers. The trouble is someone keeps killing off the site surveyors. The studio chiefs then learn of the legend of a masked man who lives on the lot and is sworn to protect it from harm.
Fangs (1974)
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A snake lover sends out poisonous snakes and reptiles to kill his enemies.
S*P*Y*S (1974)
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Two CIA bunglers botch a Soviet defection, then both sides mark them for termination.
Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (1974)
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Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman in myth. It asks, among other questions, is the Amazonian woman a rare strong female image or is she a figure derived from male phantasy? The film explores the complexities of such questions, but does not seek any concrete answers.
The Brutalization of Franz Blum (1974)
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Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. For, involved by a gang of bad boys, the young man had taken part in a bank robbery. A "heroic deed" which earned him six years in prison. Once behind bars, he was treated with ruthless inhumanity by the guards. And little by little - but inexorably - Franz turned into an insurgent...
Electra, My Love (1974)
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It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra's mother to kill him.
Julia (1974)
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German boarding school student Pauli hopes to lose his virginity while visiting his father in Italy.
Visit to a Chief's Son (1974)
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An American anthropologist and his son benefit from their experiences with an East African tribe.
Nightmare Honeymoon (1974)
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Sadistic low-budget thriller about newlyweds Dack Rambo and Rebecca Danna Smith who are pursued and terrorized by a pair of rural killer rapists.
The Secret (1974)
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A stranger enters into and forever alters the life of a couple. He claims to be pursued by certain authorities who intend to prevent him from disclosing a secret that only he holds, whence the title. Is he lying, or insane - or is he telling the truth? Who, if anyone, is after him? And what *is* - the secret?
Madeline, Study of a Nightmare (1974)
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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.
There's a Bone in the Mill (1974)
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Two unemployed actors accept what they believe to be an acting job from a wealthy man without realizing that he needs two real private detectives.
Dirty O'Neil (1974)
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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.
Help Me... I'm Possessed (1974)
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A mad doctor runs a sanitarium in the desert, where his hunchbacked servant whips women who are chained in the basement and cuts the legs off bodies so they'll fit in the caskets.
Flower & Snake (1974)
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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.
Impulse (1974)
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A paranoid, leisure-suit-wearing conman/gigolo named Matt Stone seduces lonely women, bilks them of their savings via an investment scam, then kills them. When he begins seeing an attractive widow, her daughter Tina becomes suspicious of his motives.
Sisyphus (1974)
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The film is an artistically spare depiction of the Greek myth of Sisyphus, sentenced to eternally roll a stone up a mountain. The story is presented in a single, unbroken shot, consisting of a dynamic line drawing of Sisyphus, the stone, and the mountainside.