Greatest 19 Drama Movies Picks from 1974

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. Find out about Chinatown / IMDB / YouTube

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered. Info on The Conversation / IMDB / YouTube

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands. Look into Badlands / IMDB / YouTube

In December 1935, when his transcontinental luxury train is stranded by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before, with a multitude of suspects. Find out about Murder on the Orient Express / IMDB / YouTube

A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town. Explore Amarcord / IMDB / YouTube

At the opening party of a colossal San Francisco skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out due to careless building practices by the contractor, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it. Learn about The Towering Inferno / IMDB / YouTube

A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks. In self-defense, the vengeful man kills muggers on the mean streets after dark. Get info on Death Wish / IMDB / YouTube

Although wife and mother Mabel is loved by her husband Nick, her mental illness places a strain on the marriage. Info on A Woman Under the Influence / IMDB / YouTube

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist. Details on Thunderbolt and Lightfoot / IMDB / YouTube

Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way. Details on The Last Detail / IMDB / YouTube

A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love. Look into The Great Gatsby / IMDB / YouTube

A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies. Find out about Ali: Fear Eats the Soul / IMDB / YouTube

A disfigured composer sells his soul for the woman he loves so that she will perform his music. However, an evil record tycoon betrays him and steals his music to open his rock palace, The Paradise. See more about Phantom of the Paradise / IMDB / YouTube

An ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines. Look into The Parallax View / IMDB / YouTube

An American barroom pianist and his prostitute girlfriend go on a trip through the Mexican underworld to collect the bounty on the head of a dead gigolo. Details on Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia / IMDB / YouTube

A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled by) the guards. Info on The Longest Yard / IMDB / YouTube

A woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. But things don't go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road. Info on The Sugarland Express / IMDB / YouTube

A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note. Info on The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser / IMDB / YouTube

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California. Get info on Earthquake / IMDB / YouTube