Movies released in 1974| 'Gator Bait | Beverly Sebastian, Ferd Sebastian |
| 'Twas the Night Before Christmas | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. |
| 99 and 44/100% Dead | John Frankenheimer |
| Act of Vengeance | Bob Kelljan |
| Airport 1975 | Jack Smight |
| Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Martin Scorsese |
| All the Kind Strangers | Burt Kennedy |
| Amputee, The | David Lynch |
| And Then There Were None | Peter Collinson |
| Arena, The | Steve Carver |
| Bad Ronald | Buzz Kulik |
| Badlands | Terrence Malick |
| Bamboo Gods and Iron Men | Cesar Gallardo |
| Barn of the Naked Dead | Alan Rudolph |
| Bat People, The | Jerry Jameson |
| Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Beast Must Die, The | Paul Annett |
| Beastie | Dusty Nelson |
| Bell from Hell | Claudio Guerín |
| Beyond the Door | Ovidio G. Assonitis, Robert Barrett |
| Big Bad Mama | Steve Carver |
| Big Showdown, The | Wong Tin-Lam |
| Black Belt Jones | Robert Clouse |
| Black Christmas | Bob Clark |
| Black Eye | Jack Arnold |
| Black Windmill, The | Don Siegel |
| Blazing Saddles | Mel Brooks |
| Blood for Dracula | Paul Morrissey |
| Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll | Carlos Aured |
| Bod Squad, The | Ernst Hofbauer, Kuei Chih-Hung |
| Bohachi Bushido: The Villain | Takashi Harada |
| Borsalino and Co. | Jacques Deray |
| Bottoms Up | Franz Josef Gottlieb |
| Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia | Sam Peckinpah |
| Burning Hell, The | Ron Ormond |
| Busting | Peter Hyams |
| Caged Heat | Jonathan Demme |
| California Split | Robert Altman |
| Call Me Dragon | Ng See-Yuen |
| Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter | Brian Clemens |
| Capulina vs. the Monsters | Miguel Morayta |
| Cars That Ate Paris, The | Peter Weir |
| Céline and Julie Go Boating | Jacques Rivette |
| Chinatown | Roman Polanski |
| Chosen Survivors | Sutton Roley |
| Closed Mondays | Will Vinton, Bob Gardiner |
| Cockfighter | Monte Hellman |
| Columbo: Swan Song | Nicholas Colasanto |
| Conversation, The | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Corpse Eaters | Donald R. Passmore, Klaus Vetter |
| Craze | Freddie Francis |
| Crazy Bunch, The | Giuliano Carnimeo |
| Cry of a Prostitute | Andrea Bianchi |
| Dead of Night | Bob Clark |
| Death Wish | Michael Winner |
| Demon Spies | Takashi Tsuboshima |
| Demoniacs, The | Jean Rollin |
| Deranged | Jeff Gillen, Alan Ormsby |
| Devil Times Five | Sean MacGregor |
| Devil's Possessed, The | León Klimovsky |
| Dion Brothers, The | Jack Starrett |
| Dirty Mary Crazy Larry | John Hough |
| Double Agent 73 | Doris Wishman |
| Dracula | Dan Curtis |
| Earthquake | Mark Robson |
| Emmanuelle | Just Jaeckin |
| Enemy, The | Jim Grant |
| ESPY | Jun Fukuda |
| Evil of Dracula | Michio Yamamoto |
| Executioner, The | Teruo Ishii |
| Executioner II: Karate Inferno, The | Teruo Ishii |
| Fangs | Art Names |
| Female Trouble | John Waters |
| Fish with the Eyes of Gold, The | Pedro Luis Ramírez |
| Five Riders vs. King Dark | Itaru Orita |
| Five Shaolin Masters | Chang Cheh |
| Five Women for the Killer | Stelvio Massi |
| Flesh Gordon | Michael Benveniste, Howard Ziehm |
| Four Musketeers, The | Richard Lester |
| Foxy Brown | Jack Hill |
| Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell | Terence Fisher |
| Freebie and the Bean | Richard Rush |
| Frightmare | Pete Walker |
| From Beyond the Grave | Kevin Connor |
| Gambler, The | Karel Reisz |
| Gardener, The | James H. Kay |
| Ghost Eyes | Kuei Chih-Hung |
| Ghost Galleon, The | Amando de Ossorio |
| Girl in Room 2A, The | William Rose |
| Godfather Part II, The | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla | Jun Fukuda |
| Golden Needles | Robert Clouse |
| Great Masquerade, The | Alan Ormsby |
| Groove Tube, The | Ken Shapiro |
| Hangup | Henry Hathaway |
| Hanuman and the Seven Ultramen | Shohei Tôjô, Sompote Sands |
| Harry and Tonto | Paul Mazursky |
| Help Me... I'm Possessed | Charles Nizet |
| Heroes Two | Chang Cheh |
| Home for the Holidays | John Llewellyn Moxey |
| Homebodies | Larry Yust |
| Hot Times | Jim McBride |
| House of Seven Corpses, The | Paul Harrison |
| House of the Living Dead | Ray Austin |
| House on Skull Mountain, The | Ron Honthaner |
| Internecine Project, The | Ken Hughes |
| Island at the Top of the World, The | Robert Stevenson |
| It's Alive | Larry Cohen |
| It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown | Phil Roman |
| Killdozer | Jerry London |
| Killer Reserved Nine Seats, The | Giuseppe Bennati |
| Knife for the Ladies, A | Larry G. Spangler |
| Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance | Toshiya Fujita |
| Land That Time Forgot, The | Kevin Connor |
| Legacy of Satan | Gerard Damiano |
| Legend of Hillbilly John, The | John Newland |
| Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires, The | Roy Ward Baker, Chang Cheh |
| Lisa, Lisa | Frederick R. Friedel |
| Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, The | Jorge Grau |
| Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell | Yoshiyuki Kuroda |
| Longest Yard, The | Robert Aldrich |
| Lords of Flatbush, The | Martin Davidson, Stephen Verona |
| Lucifer Rising | Kenneth Anger |
| Lucifer's Women | Paul Aratow |
| Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy | Takashi Tsuboshima |
| Macon County Line | Richard Compton |
| Madeline, Study of a Nightmare | Roberto Mauri |
| Madhouse | Jim Clark |
| Mahler | Ken Russell |
| Man with the Golden Gun, The | Guy Hamilton |
| Mark of Zorro, The | Don McDougall |
| Marseille Contract, The | Robert Parrish |
| Massacre Mafia Style | Duke Mitchell |
| Mazinger Z vs The Great Dark General | Nobutaka Nishizawa |
| McQ | John Sturges |
| Men from the Monastery | Chang Cheh |
| Moments | Peter Crane |
| Moscow-Cassiopeia | Richard Viktorov |
| Mr. Majestyk | Richard Fleischer |
| Murder on the Orient Express | Sidney Lumet |
| Mutations, The | Jack Cardiff |
| New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 | Kinji Fukasaku |
| Night of the Skull | Jesús Franco |
| Night of the Sorcerers, The | Amando de Ossorio |
| Night Porter, The | Liliana Cavani |
| Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat, The | Robert Taylor |
| Nude for Satan | Luigi Batzella |
| Odessa File, The | Ronald Neame |
| Our Time | Peter Hyams |
| Parallax View, The | Alan J. Pakula |
| Penda's Fen | Alan Clarke |
| Perfume of the Lady in Black, The | Francesco Barilli |
| Phantom of the Paradise | Brian De Palma |
| Phase IV | Saul Bass |
| Pinocchio’s Birthday Party | Ron Merk |
| Poet's Life, A | Kihachiro Kawamoto |
| Policewomen | Lee Frost |
| Pray for the Wildcats | Robert Michael Lewis |
| Prophecies of Nostradamus | Toshio Masuda |
| Puzzle | Duccio Tessari |
| Return of the Street Fighter | Shigehiro Ozawa |
| S*P*Y*S | Irvin Kershner |
| Santo and Blue Demon vs. Dr. Frankenstein | Miguel M. Delgado |
| Savage Five, The | Chang Cheh |
| Savage Sisters | Eddie Romero |
| Scum of the Earth | S.F. Brownrigg |
| Seizure | Oliver Stone |
| Shadow Boxer, The | Pao Hsueh-Li |
| Shadowman | Georges Franju |
| Shanks | William Castle |
| Shaolin Kung Fu | Joseph Kuo, Lau Sau-Wa |
| Shaolin Martial Arts | Chang Cheh |
| Shoot First, Die Later | Fernando Di Leo |
| Shootout in a One-Dog Town | Burt Kennedy |
| Shriek of the Mutilated | Michael Findlay |
| Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine, The | Sergio Grieco |
| Sister Street Fighter | Kazuhiko Yamaguchi |
| Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread | Kazuhiko Yamaguchi |
| Skyhawk, The | Jeong Chang-hwa |
| Spasmo | Umberto Lenzi |
| Stepsisters | Perry Tong |
| Stone | Sandy Harbutt |
| Stoner | Wong Fung |
| Stranger and the Gunfighter, The | Antonio Margheriti |
| Street Fighter, The | Shigehiro Ozawa |
| Street Fighter's Last Revenge, The | Shigehiro Ozawa |
| Street Law | Enzo G. Castellari |
| Sugar Hill | Paul Maslansky |
| Sugarland Express, The | Steven Spielberg |
| Summer School Teachers | Barbara Peeters |
| Super Cops, The | Gordon Parks |
| Supermarket | Roland Klick |
| Swing Shift | Mike Jittlov |
| Symptoms | José Ramón Larraz |
| Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The | Joseph Sargent |
| Tamarind Seed, The | Blake Edwards |
| Teens in the Universe | Richard Viktorov |
| Terminal Man, The | Mike Hodges |
| Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The | Tobe Hooper |
| Thirsty Dead, The | Terry Becker |
| Thomasine & Bushrod | Gordon Parks Jr. |
| Three the Hard Way | Gordon Parks Jr. |
| Thunderbolt and Lightfoot | Michael Cimino |
| TNT Jackson | Cirio H. Santiago |
| Tournament, The | Wong Fung |
| Towering Inferno, The | John Guillermin |
| Transgressor, The | Norifumi Suzuki |
| Treasure of Abbot Thomas, The | Lawrence Gordon Clark |
| Truck Turner | Jonathan Kaplan |
| Two Graves To Kung Fu | Chen Hung-Lieh |
| UFO: Target Earth | Alessandro De Gaetano, Michael A. DeGaetano |
| Vampyres | José Ramón Larraz |
| Vengeance of the Crying Woman, The | Miguel M. Delgado |
| Venom | Peter Sykes |
| Village of Tigers | Griffin Yueh Feng, Wang Ping |
| Violent Blood Bath | Jorge Grau |
| Violent Streets | Hideo Gosha |
| Welcome to Arrow Beach | Laurence Harvey |
| What Have They Done to Your Daughters? | Massimo Dallamano |
| Where Have All the People Gone | John Llewellyn Moxey |
| Whiplash | Ting Shan-Hsi |
| Wife to Be Sacrificed | Masaru Konuma |
| Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too | John Lounsbery |
| Winnie Wright, Age 11 | Gordon Quinn, Teena Webb, Suzanne Davenport, Greg Grieco, Betsy Martens |
| Winter Kill | Jud Taylor |
| Woman Under the Influence, A | John Cassavetes |
| Working Girls, The | Stephanie Rothman |
| Yakuza, The | Sydney Pollack |
| Year Without a Santa Claus, The | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. |
| Young Frankenstein | Mel Brooks |
| Zardoz | John Boorman |
| Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs | Yukio Noda |