21. The Towering Inferno
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Guillermin, Irwin Allen
Actors: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely
Plot: At the gala premiere opening of the world's tallest skyscraper, architect Doug Roberts discovers builders have installed shoddy wiring. Sure enough, a fire breaks out during the celebration and the world's tallest building becomes the world's tallest death trap.
22. Phantom of Liberty, The ( fantôme de la liberté, Le )
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Paul Frankeur, Michael Lonsdale
Plot: Bunuel's enchanting surrealist film casts his usual jaundiced eye on the players and institutions of Western society through a series of loosely interconnected episodes.
23. California Split
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Altman
Actors: George Segal, Elliott Gould, Ann Prentiss, Gwen Welles, Edward Walsh, Jeff Goldblum
Plot: Two gamblers who have run into a string of bad luck decide to head to Reno
and change their fortune there.
24. The Parallax View
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Actors: Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Paula Prentiss, Kenneth Mars, Kelly Thordsen
25. Céline and Julie Go Boating ( Céline et Julie vont en bateau )
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques Rivette
Actors: Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier, Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Barbet Schroeder, Nathalie Asnar
Plot: Celine and Julie are two friends that do random things including finding lovers and eating magic candy.
26. Planet Earth
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Marc Daniels
Actors: John Saxon, Janet Margolin, Ted Cassidy, Christopher Cary, Diana Muldaur, Sally Kemp
27. That's Entertainment
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Jack Haley Jr.
Actors: Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Peter Lawford, Liza Minnelli, Frank Sinatra
28. Lenny
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bob Fosse
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner , Stanley Beck, Frankie Man, Rashel Novikoff
29. Marketa Lazarová
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Czech
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frantisek Vlácil
Actors: Josef Kemr, Magda Vásáryová, Nada Hejna, Jaroslav Moucka, Frantisek Velecký, Karel Vasicek
Plot: A minor Czech family survives by robbing travelers. When one such job goes south - the clan fears the wrath of the king. Calling on his neighbor to help - his persuasion fails and in anger and desperation, kidnaps his daughter as she leaves for the convent. Meanwhile the king gathers an army to take on the clan - a Medieval tale against the backdrop of Paganism shifting to Christianity.
30. Female Trouble
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: John Waters
Actors: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Cookie Mueller
