British TV & Films 1974 Not Yet Released On DVD Region 2

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1. A Private Enterprise (1974)

78 min | Drama

An ambitious Indian university graduate has to struggle to live his entrepreneurial dreams against both the British social structure and his own family's stubborn traditional values.

Director: Peter Smith | Stars: Salmaan Peerzada, Marc Zuber, Ramon Sinha, Diana Quick

Votes: 30

2. Affairs of the Heart (1974–1975)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

A series of TV plays based on stories or novels by Henry James.

Stars: Georgina Hale, Anton Rodgers, Diana Rigg, Sinéad Cusack

Votes: 63

3. Ain't Misbehavin' (1974)

83 min | Drama

An artful assemblage of jazz and blue movie archive footage, from the first 40 years of the century; a wealth of extravagant behaviour, often in the least extravagant of settings.

Directors: Peter Neal, Anthony Stern | Stars: Lou Abelardo, Elsie Carlisle, Nat 'King' Cole, George Formby

Votes: 12

4. Akenfield (1974)

98 min | Drama

As the young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family's past crowd in on his mind, weaving a poetic tapestry of the love of home and the longing to get away from it.

Director: Peter Hall | Stars: Garrow Shand, Peggy Cole, Barbara Tilney, Lyn Brooks

Votes: 141

5. All I Want Is You... and You... and You... (1974)

92 min | Comedy

An American advertising tycoon chooses a weekend therapy clinic as the ideal place in which to assess the various candidates for the vice-presidency of his firm.

Director: Bob Kellett | Stars: Freddie Earlle, David Griffin, Ian Trigger, Sheila Steafel

Votes: 13

7. BBC2 Playhouse (1973–1983)

60 min | Drama

BBC2 Playhouse was a British one-hour episode anthology television series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Stars: Ralph G. Morse, Gawn Grainger, John Bluthal, Trevor Laird

Votes: 138

8. Bedtime Stories (1974)

50 min | Mystery

Modern-day interpretation of fairy tales, with a contemporary, darker twist.

Stars: Lesley-Anne Down, Diana Quick, Liz Smith, Jeff Rawle

9. Big Zapper (1973)

R | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A female private detective, Harriet Zapper, is hired by a rich old man to find his missing children, and becomes involved in counterfeiting and murder

Director: Lindsay Shonteff | Stars: Linda Marlowe, Gary Hope, Sean Hewitt, Michael O'Malley

Votes: 156

10. Caravan to Vaccares (1974)

PG | 98 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller

American Neil Bowman is traveling through France when he meets British photographer Lila. They are hired by French land owner Duc de Croyter to escort a Hungarian scientist to New York. But... See full summary »

Director: Geoffrey Reeve | Stars: David Birney, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Lonsdale, Marcel Bozzuffi

Votes: 443

11. Carrie's War (1974)

25 min | Family

Carrie and Nick Willow have been sent to the countryside and are taken in by the Evanses with their Auntie Lou and the scary Mr. Evans. The Willows are quite happy there. They like to go to... See full summary »

Stars: Juliet Waley, Andrew Tinney, Tim Coward, Aubrey Richards

Votes: 58

13. Catch My Soul (1974)

PG | 97 min | Drama, Musical

Set in the American Southwest, Othello is a wandering evangelist who happens onto Iago's remote commune.

Director: Patrick McGoohan | Stars: Richie Havens, Lance LeGault, Season Hubley, Tony Joe White

Votes: 94

16. Childhood (1974– )

60 min | Drama

Anthology of plays showing the world as children see it.

Stars: Alan Luxton, Rhoda Lewis, Joe Lynch, Max Harris

Votes: 15

17. Chilling (1974)

Horror

A man who was abused as a child by his community returns there to take revenge.

Stars: Kevin O'Neill, David Bunt, Guy Doleman

18. Churchill's People (1974–1975)

50 min | Drama, History, War

A historical anthology series based on "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples", Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies.

Stars: Alfred Lynch, Bernard Hepton, Geoffrey Matthews, Mark Donaldson

Votes: 36

19. Commuter Husbands (1972)

R | 85 min | Comedy

Six stories that document the awkward sex lives of Englishmen.

Director: Derek Ford | Stars: Gabrielle Drake, Robin Bailey, Heather Chasen, Jane Cardew

Votes: 64

20. Craze (1974)

R | 96 min | Thriller

A nutty antiques dealer starts to sacrifice women to an African idol.

Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Jack Palance, Diana Dors, Julie Ege, Edith Evans

Votes: 696

21. Dead Cert (1974)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Thriller

As a surprise, two horse owners decide to ride their animals in a steeplechase. But Bill Davidson's (Ian Hogg's) horse "Admiral" behaves weirdly, and falls hard after an obstacle. Bill dies... See full summary »

Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Scott Antony, Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Nina Thomas

Votes: 234

22. Death or Glory Boy (1974– )

60 min | Drama

Trilogy of plays following the military fortunes of David Parker as he progresses in the army, trying to survive and beat the system.

Stars: Christopher Blake, David Dixon, Graham Seed, Jon Glover

24. Dial M for Murder (1974)

50 min | Thriller

Anthology of crime stories in which the telephone plays a key role.

Stars: Jay Neill, Robert Lister, Gemma Jones, Patrick Macnee

Votes: 13

25. Swedish Wildcats (1972)

R | 85 min | Drama

The sadistic Madam Margareta is a talking side of beef that serves as the hostess and ring leader for a live sex tease show and whorehouse.

Director: Joseph W. Sarno | Stars: Diana Dors, Cia Löwgren, Peder Kinberg, Solveig Andersson

Votes: 295

26. Funny Ha-Ha (1974– )

30 min | Comedy, Drama

This Friday afternoon series from Thames Television presented six standalone half-hour situation comedies for children, with each episode considered as the pilot for a possible new comedy series.

Stars: Aubrey Woods, Bob Todd, Jack Haig, Barbara Mitchell

27. Good Girl (1974– )

60 min | Drama

Angie's main aim in life is to make other people happy. Her attempts at good deeds lead to entertaining chaos.

Stars: Julia Foster, Peter Barkworth, Joan Hickson, Peter Bowles

28. Got It Made (1974)

86 min | Drama

Drama set in Norfolk, England. An aristocratic girl whose world falls apart three days before her wedding. She discovers the hideous truths about the people closest to her - and her upbringing and background leave her unable to cope.

Director: James Kenelm Clarke | Stars: Lalla Ward, Michael Latimer, Douglas Lambert, Katya Wyeth

29. Hændeligt uheld (1971)

88 min | Drama

A successful auto executive Vinther(Roy Dotrice) becomes entwined with a young nubile girl, Susanne played by Judy Geeson, following an avoidable car accident, that results in the death of ... See full summary »

Director: Erik Balling | Stars: Judy Geeson, Roy Dotrice, Frederick Jaeger, Geoffrey Chater

Votes: 74

30. Happy Ever After (1974–1979)

30 min | Comedy

Terry and June Fletcher are a middle-aged, middle-class couple who find themselves alone when their adult daughters Susan and Debbie leave home. But they're not along for long before Aunt ... See full summary »

Stars: Terry Scott, June Whitfield, Beryl Cooke, Caroline Whitaker

Votes: 90

32. How's Your Father? (1974–1975)

30 min | Comedy

Comedy about the generation gap. Featuring three generations of Edwards. The rascally grandfather Ted, father Eddie (Michael Robbins, the star of the series,and his drop out son Edward. ... See full summary »

Stars: Michael Robbins, Arthur English, Nicholas Hoye, Georgina Moon

33. Inserts (1975)

NC-17 | 117 min | Comedy, Drama

A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confines himself to his decaying mansion to make silent porn flicks.

Director: John Byrum | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper, Bob Hoskins, Veronica Cartwright

Votes: 2,440

34. Intimate Reflections (1975)

86 min

The film shows the parallel lives of two middle-class couples - one pair middle-aged and the other younger.

Director: Don Boyd | Stars: Anton Rodgers, Lillias Walker, Sally Anne Newton, Jonathan David

Votes: 19

35. Intimate Strangers (1974– )

60 min | Drama

Drama series about a man who suffers a heart attack, which creates many changes in his career and in his relationships with his family. His marriage in particular undergoes many transformations.

Stars: Anthony Bate, Patricia Lawrence, Tim Meats, Isabelle Amyes

Votes: 10

36. Invasion: UFO (1974)

Not Rated | 97 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

An organization called SHADO fights off aliens who are infiltrating Earth by disguising themselves as humans.

Directors: Gerry Anderson, Cyril Frankel, Jeremy Summers, David Tomblin | Stars: Ed Bishop, Michael Billington, Gabrielle Drake, Wanda Ventham

Votes: 473

37. The Over-Amorous Artist (1974)

46 min | Comedy

Horny artist Alan Street (John Hamill) has to fend off amorous female neighbours whilst his beautiful girlfriend (Sue Longhurst) is out at work.

Director: Maurice Hamblin | Stars: John Hamill, Sue Longhurst, Claire Russell, Marianne Morris

Votes: 38

38. King Lear (1974– )

120 min | Drama

When King Lear decides to step down from his throne, he decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters with tragic results.

Stars: Patrick Mower, Ann Lynn, Philip Brack, Beth Harris

Votes: 84

40. Malachi's Cove (1973)

75 min | Drama

A tough young girl lives with her aging grandfather near a cove on the coast of Cornwall. She supports herself and him by gathering seaweed to sell as fertilizer. A cocky young neighboring boy decides to help her with the work.

Director: Henry Herbert | Stars: Donald Pleasence, David Bradley, Veronica Quilligan, Peter Vaughan

Votes: 186

42. Masquerade (1974– )

30 min | Drama

A television series consisting of five original plays, all set at parties.

Stars: Stephen MacKenna, Ian Holm, Leonard Rossiter, Julia Foster

43. Mistress Pamela (1973)

R | 91 min | Drama

Loosely bases on Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela or Virtue Rewarded, this is the story of Pamela who goes to work in the kitchen of Lord Devenish who is determined to rape her.

Director: Jim O'Connolly | Stars: Ann Michelle, Julian Barnes, Dudley Foster, Anna Quayle

Votes: 54

44. Moments (1974)

102 min | Drama, Romance

A depressed middle-aged man contemplates suicide while visiting the hotel resort where he spent happy moments with his parents in his youth. He meets a woman by chance and falls for her. Or does he?

Director: Peter Crane | Stars: Keith Michell, Angharad Rees, Bill Fraser, Keith Bell

Votes: 93

45. Mr. Big (1974– )

30 min | Crime

Eddie likes to see himself as a mastermind of the criminal world but one thing holds him back - his family.

Stars: Peter Jones, Prunella Scales, Ian Lavender, Carol Hawkins

Votes: 10

46. No Strings (1974– )

30 min | Comedy

Derek wants a flatmate; Leonora wants a flat. She is definitely not what Derek had in mind, but the least he can do is invite her in for coffee .

Stars: Rita Tushingham, Keith Barron, Gilly McIver, David Simeon

47. Open Season (1974)

R | 104 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Three young men take a young woman and a middleaged man to an isolated cabin, where they are terrorized in different ways.

Director: Peter Collinson | Stars: Peter Fonda, Cornelia Sharpe, John Phillip Law, Richard Lynch

Votes: 685 | Gross: $0.27M

48. Paul and Michelle (1974)

R | 103 min | Drama, Romance

The continuation of Friends (1971). The story begins three years after Paul Harrison is forced to leave Michelle Latour and their baby, Sylvie, alone in the Camargue after the police ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Anicée Alvina, Sean Bury, Keir Dullea, Georges Beller

Votes: 211

49. Professor Popper's Problem (1974)

91 min | Comedy, Family

Professor Popper develops a shrinking formula which he and a group of school kids take by accident, ending up trapped in his laboratory. But that's not the only problem that faces the professor and his friends.

Director: Gerry O'Hara | Stars: Charlie Drake, Adam Richens, Debra Collins, Philip DaCosta

Votes: 30

50. Remember Me This Way (1974)

57 min | Documentary, Music

Remember Me This Way is an hour long documentary on 70's British Glam Rock star - Gary Glitter. Filmed at the height of his fame, the film builds to its finale of Glitter's concert at the ... See full summary »

Directors: Bob Foster, Ron Inkpen | Star: Gary Glitter

Votes: 49

51. Rooms (1974– )

49 min | Drama

Two-part weekly dramas concerning the various drifters who rent rooms in a lodging-house.

Stars: Anne Dyson, Ian Redford, Jenny Twigge, William Marlowe

Votes: 89

52. Rush (1974–1976)

50 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Stories of the lives of people living in and around the goldfields in the Australian bush during the 1850's.

Stars: John Waters, Max Meldrum, Alain Doutey, Vincent Ball

Votes: 87

53. The House That Vanished (1973)

R | 96 min | Crime, Horror

A young model and her petty thief boyfriend find their way through the English fog to a backwoods manor in hopes of looting it. What they find instead is murder.

Director: José Ramón Larraz | Stars: Andrea Allan, Karl Lanchbury, Maggie Walker, Peter Forbes-Robertson

Votes: 654

54. Second Time Around (1974–1975)

30 min | Comedy

Comedy about an older man in a relationship with a younger woman.

Stars: Michael Craig, Patricia Brake, Gerald Flood, Jacqueline Clarke

Votes: 6

55. Seven Faces of Woman (1974–1977)

60 min | Drama

Series of plays examining various aspects of contemporary woman at different ages. The theme song, sung by Charles Aznavour, was a big hit in the summer of 1974.

Stars: Maria Charles, Julie Peasgood, Judy Geeson, Liz Fraser

Votes: 12

56. The Bunny Caper (1974)

R | 90 min | Comedy

Young daughter of High ranking political figure gets into trouble when she and her friends compete at bedding the foreign diplomats.

Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Christina Hart, Oliver Gilbert, Harry Towb, Glenn Beck

Votes: 159

58. Son of Dracula (1973)

PG | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Due to be crowned King of the Netherworld by his mentor Merlin the Magician (Sir Ringo Starr) at a monster's convention, Count Downe (Harry Nilsson), the son of Count Dracula, falls in love... See full summary »

Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Harry Nilsson, Ringo Starr, Freddie Jones, Suzanna Leigh

Votes: 442

59. Sommerfuglene (1974)

89 min | Drama

A young speech therapist is asked to come to a farm to make a girl speak after several years in silence. A strange family makes out for a strange summer.

Director: Chris Boger | Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Sally Newton, Jonas Bergström, Marit Halset

Votes: 10

60. Split (1974)

55 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A young boy with behavioral problems claims to have been possessed by an alien life-force.

Director: Roger Lambert | Stars: Mark Draisey, Steve Reader, Madeline Aitken, Peter Bridges

Votes: 28

61. Steppenwolf (1974)

R | 107 min | Drama

In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life feared his dual nature of being human and ... See full summary »

Director: Fred Haines | Stars: Max von Sydow, Dominique Sanda, Pierre Clémenti, Carla Romanelli

Votes: 1,310 | Gross: $0.05M

62. Symptoms (1974)

R | 92 min | Horror

A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. The estate, however, isn't quite what it seems--and neither is the friend who issued the invitation.

Director: José Ramón Larraz | Stars: Angela Pleasence, Peter Vaughan, Lorna Heilbron, Nancy Nevinson

Votes: 1,746

63. Take Me High (1973)

90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Merchant banker Tim, excited to hear he's to go to New York, is sent to Birmingham instead to pressure a small struggling restaurant. But he turns this into a positive by falling in love ... See full summary »

Director: David Askey | Stars: Cliff Richard, Deborah Watling, Hugh Griffith, George Cole

Votes: 283

64. The Abdication (1974)

PG | 103 min | Biography, Drama, History

Queen Christina of Sweden abdicates and travels to Rome to embrace the Catholic Church.

Director: Anthony Harvey | Stars: Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Cyril Cusack, Paul Rogers

Votes: 363 | Gross: $0.18M

65. The Aweful Mr. Goodall (1974)

60 min | Drama

A retired MI5 colonel is drawn back into working for the intelligence services.

Stars: Robert Urquhart, Isabel Dean, Donald Burton, Peter Jeffrey

66. The Camerons (1976)

60 min | Adventure, Family

The Camerons

Director: Frederick Wilson | Stars: Jake D'Arcy, Bill Denniston, Michael Elder, Joan Fitzpatrick

Votes: 15

67. The Carnforth Practice (1974– )

50 min | Drama

Drama series dealing with a solicitor based in a small village community in the Lake District.

Stars: Michael Elwyn, Pamela Salem, Caroline Whitaker, Brian Gilbert

68. The Cherry Picker (1974)

92 min | Drama

Millionaire's son James Burn III (Bob Sherman) just wants to live a life free from responsibility (and work) and the film opens with him taking part in a mass sleep-in outside Windsor ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Curran | Stars: Lulu, Bob Sherman, Terry-Thomas, Wilfrid Hyde-White

Votes: 64

70. The Destructors (1974)

PG | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When a U.S. Intelligence Agent is unable to bring a ruthless drug baron to justice, he resorts to hiring a contract killer. But the man with whom he is put in contact turns out to be an old friend.

Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Maurice Ronet

Votes: 1,612

71. The Devil Is a Woman (1974)

R | 105 min | Drama

The Mother Superior of a convent wields power in its most vicious forms. And as she as she destroys the people in her care, she herself becomes her own victim as she draws on all her spiritual powers to drive out the tempter.

Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Glenda Jackson, Claudio Cassinelli, Lisa Harrow, Adolfo Celi

Votes: 153

72. The Double Dealers (1974– )

50 min | Drama

Four stand-alone stories about the world of industrial espionage.

Stars: Ray Barrett, Prunella Ransome, Paul Seed, Carmen Silvera

74. The Inheritors (1974– )

60 min | Drama

Family saga about the owners of a Welsh country estate and their various ideas about preserving, exploiting or disposing of it.

Stars: Peter Egan, Robert Urquhart, Bill Maynard, Philip Madoc

75. The Mutations (1974)

R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A scientist experiments with crossing humans and plants, for which he uses his students.

Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Tom Baker, Brad Harris, Julie Ege

Votes: 2,131

76. The Nearly Man (1975– )

60 min | Drama

The Nearly Man is a UK TV play and series from the mid-1970s, about a middle-class Labour MP.[1] Both play and series were written by Arthur Hopcraft; actors in the cast of both include ... See full summary »

Stars: Tony Britton, Wilfred Pickles, Ann Firbank, Michael Elphick

Votes: 9

78. The Prince of Denmark (1974)

30 min | Comedy

Ronnie Corbett finds himself a publican when screen wife Rosemary Leach inherits "The Prince of Denmark".

Stars: Ronnie Corbett, Rosemary Leach, David Warwick, Michael Nightingale

Votes: 22

79. The Ragman's Daughter (1972)

94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A cheese warehouse worker with wife and two kids hates his dull life. He reminisces about the time he met the late love of his life and the days they spent riding around on his motorbike and her horse committing petty thievery.

Director: Harold Becker | Stars: Simon Rouse, Victoria Tennant, Patrick O'Connell, Jane Wood

Votes: 134

80. The Rehearsal (1974)

92 min | Drama

A recreation of how the Greek military junta that started in 1967 tragically affected university students.

Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Melina Mercouri, Mikis Theodorakis, Rénos Mandis, Stathis Giallelis

Votes: 180

82. The Swordsman (1975)

90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When Harriet Zapper is hired to find the identity of Karel Duval, and the true heir to the Duval family fortune, a bloody trail of murders leads the Big Zapper to the South of France and into a hornet's nest of betrayal and death.

Director: Lindsay Shonteff | Stars: Linda Marlowe, Alan Lake, Jason Kemp, Tony Then

Votes: 50

83. The Take (1974)

PG | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Crime fighter Terry Sneed arrives in New Mexico to help out a local police chief - but he's already taking money from the underworld.

Director: Robert Hartford-Davis | Stars: Billy Dee Williams, Eddie Albert, Frankie Avalon, Sorrell Booke

Votes: 315

84. Tom's Midnight Garden (1974– )

25 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Forced to stay with his aunt and uncle for the summer holidays, Tom Long is lonely and bored, until one night he hears the clock strike 13. He suddenly finds himself transported to a magical Victorian garden of the 1880s and meets a girl.

Stars: Nicholas Bridge, Charles West, Anne Ridler, Myvanwy Jenn

Votes: 35

85. The Hunted (1972)

PG | 82 min | Thriller

A sadistic killer pursues a beautiful woman in a twisted "hunt" so he can have her as his trophy.

Director: Karl Heinz Zeitler | Stars: Lee Remick, Michael Hinz, Ivan Desny, Ingrid Garbo

Votes: 73

86. Where's Johnny? (1974)

59 min | Sci-Fi, Family, Adventure

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Director: David Eady | Stars: Raymond Boal, Kim Clifford, Perry Benson, Graham Stark

Votes: 20



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