Thriller Movies of 1974
The Parallax View
While the Watergate scandal filled the headlines, Alan J. Pakula's 1974 thriller took its inspiration from the conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy ... [ Thriller movie - 1974 ]
The Conversation
Made between The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974), and in part an homage ... [ Thriller movie - 1974 ]
All the Kind Strangers
This made-for-TV rural horror film from director Burt Kennedy benefits from a fine cast and a tense Clyde Ware screenplay. Samantha Eggar and Stacy Keach play motorists held ... [ Thriller movie - 1974 ]
Mr. Majestyk
Elmore Leonard's script for Mr. Majestyk was, like his novel, supposed to have concentrated on the plight of Chicano migrant workers; but what emerged on screen was extensively reshaped into a ... [ Thriller movie - 1974 ]
The California Kid
Martin Sheen is at his most "James Dean-ish" and Vic Morrow at his most sadistic in the made-for-TV The California Kid. Sheen plays a hot rodder whose brother dies at the hands of sheriff Morrow. It is Morrow's habit to punish ... [ Thriller movie - 1974 ]
Antichrist
Alberto De Martino's imitative occult horror film, photographed by Aristide Massaccesi (aka Joe D'Amato), is probably the best of numerous Italian copies of The Exorcist which flooded ... [ Thriller movie - 1974 ]
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
On a quiet midday in New York, along the Lexington Avenue ... [ Thriller movie - 1974 ]
Ransom
Sean Connery stars in Caspar Wrede's hostage melodrama, featuring lustrous cinematography by Sven Nykvist. A group of terrorists hijack an airplane and hold the passengers at bay ... [ Thriller movie - 1974 ]
Terror on the 40th Floor
In this made-for-television disaster film, seven officer workers find themselves trapped in a towering inferno after a drunken janitor accidently torches the high-rise in which they work. Believing that they will surely die, the seven begin ... [ Thriller movie - 1974 ]
Foxy Brown
Blaxploitation icon Pam Grier stars as Foxy Brown, a sexy but streetwise woman whose ne'er-do-well brother Link (Antonio Fargas) is a drug dealer who owes ... [ Thriller movie - 1974 ]
Impulse
Impulse, is a tawdry, low-budget exploitation film about a maniacal murderer possessed by evil demons. Matt Stone (William Shatner) is a ... [ Thriller movie - 1974 ]
It's Alive!
Horror journeyman Larry Cohen, writer and director of numerous quirky horror projects, made his first foray into the genre with this low-budget cult ... [ Thriller movie - 1974 ]
Nada
Also known as Nada, The Nada Gang is a lesser effort from director Claude Chabrol. A group of European terrorists calling themselves the Nada kidnaps an American ambassador. Their hideout is besieged by a sadistic police ... [ Thriller movie - 1974 ]
Autopsy
A young med student is doing his grad work at the local morgue when a series of mysterious and unexplained deaths (ascribed to suicide) surround her. The sudden influx of ... [ Thriller movie - 1974 ]
Die Sister, Die!
Amanda Price (Edith Atwater) is an aging spinster with suicidal tendencies who keeps herself ensconced in the sprawling house she grew up ... [ Thriller movie - 1974 ]
Don't Open the Door
Amanda (Susan Bracken) receives a strange phone message beckoning her to the side of her ailing, elderly grandmother (Rhea MacAdams). She hasn't been to her hometown for 13 years, not since the ... [ Thriller movie - 1974 ]
Get Christie Love!
The Dorothy Uhnak novel The Ledger was the basis of Get Christie Love! The title character, played by former Laugh-In regular Teresa Graves, is the first black woman to be ... [ Thriller movie - 1974 ]
Scream and Die
When she is hassled by a murdering madman, a beautiful model realizes that she will have to elude the crazy fiend, or lose her life. ~ All Movie Guide [ Thriller movie - 1974 ]
The Teacher
Jay North (Dennis the Menace of television fame) stars as a student who learns more about the birds and bees than the basic schoolroom ... [ Thriller movie - 1974 ]
Mean Mother
Directed by Al Adamson, Mean Mother follows a pair U.S. soldiers as they attempt to avoid serving in Vietnam. Beauregard ... [ Thriller movie - 1974 ]
Spasmo
Directed by Umberto Lenzi, Spasmo centers on a discovery made by Christian (Robert Hoffman) and his girlfriend on what ... [ Thriller 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 sent to serve time in the horrific prison and are confronted with some ... [ Thriller movie - 1974 ]
