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8 Best Movies of 1974
By Vlad Zakh · June 27, 2026
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A look back at 1974, one of cinema’s most memorable years, ranking the films that have best stood the test of time. In The Godfather Part II (1974): The Corleone family’s power expands even as it reveals the corrosive cost of the empire’s founding. Another standout is Chinatown (1974): A private detective investigating a case of adultery uncovers a vast conspiracy involving Los Angeles’s water supply.
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02 A famed detective investigates a murder among the diverse passengers trapped aboard a snowbound train.
03 A Black railroad worker is appointed sheriff of a racist frontier town as part of a corrupt scheme.
04 A young couple embarks on a killing spree across the Dakota badlands in the late 1950s.
05 A paranoid surveillance expert becomes consumed by guilt after suspecting his latest recording will lead to murder.
06 The grandson of the infamous scientist inherits his estate and inevitably follows in his monster-making footsteps.
07 A private detective investigating a case of adultery uncovers a vast conspiracy involving Los Angeles's water supply.
08 The Corleone family's power expands even as it reveals the corrosive cost of the empire's founding.
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