1974 was fairly a 12 months for films. A number of of probably the most well-known movies of all time have been launched; footage that stay extensively considered even to today, a full half a century later.
It was additionally a transitional 12 months for movie; it was the time when the younger administrators of the so-called “New Hollywood” motion started to endure their first flops, and one other crop of extra commercially-minded filmmakers started to discover their first footing on the studios. Inside a 12 months, Steven Spielberg would launch Jaws. American movies would by no means be the identical once more.
Wanting on the box-office chart for 1974, theaters have been dominated by catastrophe films, a style that is still massively common to today (particularly on streaming), and by spoofs, that are sadly in determined want of a revival. (After we do get a spoof nowadays, it’s virtually at all times horrible.) The Oscars have been extra into honoring gangster and detective movies, of which 1974 had a number of iconic masterpieces — together with one which trendy audiences nonetheless take into account one of many biggest sequels in all the historical past of cinema.
However in between these well-known hits there have been all types of different lesser-known films too; musicals and romances and science-fiction oddities and women-in-prison-pictures and drive-in fare and blaxploitation favorites. All these films deserve recognition, so listed here are 50 of probably the most notable movies launched 50 years in the past, in 1974…
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1974 was an amazing 12 months for films — 50 years in the past.
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These films embody among the greatest of the last decade — a number of even received Academy Awards. However all of them would have bother getting made in the present day.
