Drama Movies of 1974
QB VII
This made-for-TV adaptation of the Leon Uris epic stars Anthony Hopkins as a Polish doctor accused by an American ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
The Great Gatsby
This third film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel was one of the most hyped movies of the summer of 1974. Robert Redford stars as ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
A Cry in the Wilderness
Gilbert Wright's novel Madman's Chain had already been adapted to television by Alcoa/Goodyear Theatre by the ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Airport 1975
In the wake of the 45-million-dollar gross of the original ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
King Lear
James Earl Jones gave one of his finest performances in the title role of Joseph Papp's acclaimed New York Shakespeare Festival production of the Bard's tragedy, putting a new spin on this classic story of one ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Creezy
This French political melodrama deals with the conflict between the political ambitions of Julien (Alain Delon) and ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
The Odessa File
The Odessa File is set in Hamburg in the winter of 1963. Jon ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
The Night Porter
Max (Dirk Bogarde) is a discreet, unassuming night porter working in a posh hotel in Vienna in 1957, tending to the guests' needs, from cold water to a bed-warming gigolo. Then Lucia (Charlotte Rampling) arrives at the ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Mussolini: Ultimo Atto
Rod Steiger portrays Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in this internationally produced "how the mighty have fallen" biopic. In the waning days of the war, the once-strutting Il Duce hides from his pursuers ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
The Woman with Red Boots
Perrot (Fernando Rey) is a rich man. He is also a meddling, busybody art-hating wacko. It may be that he is a woman-hater as well, for he certainly causes enough ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
The Second Coming of Suzanne
Based on a song by Leonard Cohen, this peculiar experimental film set in late-'60s San Francisco was executive-produced by game-show mogul Gene ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Martin Scorsese's first Hollywood studio production also marked his first (and only) foray into a woman-centered story. Alice Hyatt (Ellen Burstyn), a resigned Southwest ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
The Rimers of Eldritch
Davey Marlin-Jones directed this 1972 made-for-television performance of Lanford Wilson's small-town drama The Rimers of Eldritch. Starring Rue ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
The Lords of Flatbush
This low-budget independent film by novice directors Stephen F. Verona and ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Daisy Miller
Continuing his 1970s recreations of classical Hollywood genres and styles, Peter ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Luther
Adapted for the screen by Edward Anhalt from the play by John Osborne, Luther stars Stacy Keach as religious leader and "heretic" Martin Luther. In minimalist fashion, the film traces ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
The Missiles of October
The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis is the subject of this made-for-TV effort. Starring William Devane as President John Kennedy, the movie explores the events of the 13-day ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
The Picture of Dorian Gray
This Dan Curtis made-for-TV effort was the seventh screen version of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. This time, newcomer Shane Bryant plays the debauched 19th-century nobleman who makes an unholy pact permitting him eternal youth and ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Fatti Di Gente Perbene
Based on a true story, this political thriller/drama explores the ordeal of Linda Murri (Catherine Deneuve), a 19th-century upper-class Italian woman who was caught in an unhappy marriage and who broke the code of behavior for ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Butley
The American Film Theatre has made movies of a number of significant theatrical performances, including Laurence Olivier's Othello. Another of these filmed theatricals is Simon Gray's Butley, which was brought to the ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Lost in the Stars
Lost in the Stars was an American Film Theatre adaptation of the musical play by Maxwell ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
A Touch of the Poet
A Touch of the Poet is the only completed play in Eugene O'Neill's planned 11-part "American History" cycle. Set in a rundown tavern in 1820s Boston, Poet focuses on the relationships between tavern owner Cornelius Melody, his ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
The Rockford Files: Season 01
Introduced as a 90-minute TV movie in March of 1974, The Rockford Files began its weekly, hour-long series run in September of that year. The opening episode, "The Kirkoff ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Cockfighter
Frank Mansfield (Warren Oates) is a game cock trainer who has taken a vow of silence; he once bragged too loudly about his cockfighting ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
The Gambler
James Toback made his screenwriting debut with this taut drama, loosely adapted ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Scenes from a Marriage
Originally created as a six-part series for television, this film -- widely regarded as one of Ingmar Bergman's most powerful later works -- offers a ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
The Story of Jacob and Joseph
The made-for-television movie The Story of Jacob and Joseph tells the Biblical tale of Jacob (Keith Michell) and ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Toute une Vie
Claude Lelouch's romantic drama Toute une Vie chronicles three different love ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Cicely Tyson ages from 19 to 110 in the role of Jane Pittman, a fictional African-American woman whose life began in slavery ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
The Wild Party
Director James Ivory has disowned this Hollywood drama, inspired by the Fatty Arbuckle/Virginia Rappe case and based on a satirical poem by Joseph Moncure March, which was heavily cut by American International Pictures ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
The Clockmaker
French film critic Bertrand Tavernier made his directorial debut in The Clockmaker. The title character, played by Tavernier's ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Lenny
Adapted by Julian Barry from his own Broadway play, Lenny manages to be both brutally frank and highly romanticized in detailing the short life and career of influential, controversial stand-up comedian ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Dead Cert
Based on a book by National Hunt jockey Dick Francis, the horseracing thriller Dead Cert was filmed in the village of Findon, West ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Claudine
Claudine (Diahann Carroll) is an impoverished African-American Harlem resident. Unmarried, Claudine supports ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Where the Red Fern Grows
Based on the novel by Wilson Rawls, this film follows the events that befall a young Oklahoma farm boy as he, with the help of his two beloved hounds, struggles to help his family get by in the hard times of the 1930s. ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
The Sty of the Blind Pig
An uprooted African-American family is forced to confront their traditional values and ponder the effect that the emerging civil ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Steppenwolf
Abstract images produced with an electronic video mix -- as well as the surrealist paintings of artist Mati Klarwein -- highlight this adaptation of the literary classic by Herman Hesse. Max von Sydow stars as Harry Haller, a self-absorbed, ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Upstairs, Downstairs: Series 04
The fourth season of the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs takes place during the war years of 1914 through 1918, a time of great ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Swept Away... By an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August
The Mediterranean sea is the backdrop for this social drama from director Lina Wertmuller. While vacationing on a yacht, the wealthy capitalist Raffaella (Mariangela Melato) shouts out orders in between ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Feasting with Panthers
A non-linear stage production tracing writer Oscar Wilde's five-year tenure in England's Reading Goal prison, Adrian Hall and Richard Cumming's acclaimed stage production finally finds its way to home video. Starring ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
The Promised Land
Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda adapted his 1975 effort Land of Promise (Ziemia Obiecana) from an 1897 novel by Wladyslaw Stanislaw ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
The Long Arm of the Godfather
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School of the Holy Beast
A young Japanese woman in search of her missing mother discovers a sinister secret deep within the Sacred Heart Convent in director Noribumi Suzuki's notorious nun-exploitation classic. After taking religious vows to ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Rainer Werner Fassbinder not only directed Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf), but also scripted the film, designed the sets, and produced. Brigitte Mira heads ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Devil's Possessed
When the campesinos of a medieval overlord can stand his tyrannical rule no longer, they revolt with terrible vengeance. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Effi Briest
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's adaptation of a late 19th-century novel by Theodor Fontane is an austere period piece that may be the least ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Gone in 60 Seconds
Maindrian Pace (H.B. Halicki) is a master car thief who heads an elaborate organization of professionals. Using an ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
It's Good to Be Alive
For his TV-movie directorial debut, Michael Landon selected the autobiography of ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
La Ley Del Monte
As violence and chaos sweeps across the Mexican landscape no ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
El Hijo del Pueblo
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A Bigger Splash
A true oddity that cannot escape its dated origins, A Bigger Splash is a fictional film in which all the actors play ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Lancelot of the Lake
As with his earlier Trial of Joan of Arc, French-filmmaker Robert Bresson effectively casts unknowns in his interpretation of the Knights of the Round Table saga. ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Road Movie
Two truckers struggle to stay financially afloat in economic hard ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
A Very Natural Thing
This drama takes a frank look at the ways in which a homosexual teen deals with his life after his lover abandons him. One of the young man's teachers, himself a gay man, understands his situation, but ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Ankur
When a married man seduces his serving girl, it's just for fun. As a spoiled and raw young man of India's upper classes, he is unprepared to face reality when the girl shows up ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Secrets of a Call Girl
A beautiful salesgirl falls victim to a brutal gangster, and after being forced into a life of depravity, her escape is only the ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Presagio
During the birth of a child, an old soothsayer breaks a ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
The Pallisers [TV Series]
This historical dramatic series, produced by the BBC, explores political and social intrigue among England's ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Antony and Cleopatra
Like other productions of Antony and Cleopatra, this 1974 version assumes that the audience is familiar with events that took place before Mark Antony's ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Paradise Lost
Produced and directed by Glenn Jordan, this 1971 made-for-television movie features a performance of Clifford Odets' depression-era drama, Paradise Lost. Starring Eli Wallach, the play is a character study focusing on the lives of Leo ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
David Copperfield
The 1974 BBC adaptation of David Copperfield -Charles Dickens's 1850 ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Little House on the Prairie: Pilot Episode
Travel back to the prairie and follow one family on as they strive to start life anew in Kansas in this television ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
My Fall From the Cloud
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Little House on the Prairie: Season 01
Its premise established by a two-hour TV movie in March of 1974, Little House on the Prairie begins its first season with Wisconsin farmer Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon), his wife, Caroline (Karen Grassle), and ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Devil's Island Lovers
Exploitation master Jess Franco directs Devil's Island Lovers, a film set in a South American prison. The story concerns a pair of innocents who are ... [ Drama movie - 1974 ]
Aadmi Aur Insaan
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