# List of British films of 1974

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1974 (see 1974 in film):

## 1974

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1974 |||||
| 11 Harrowhouse | Aram Avakian | Charles Grodin, Candice Bergen, James Mason | Thriller | |
| The Abdication | Anthony Harvey | Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann | Historical | |
| Akenfield | Peter Hall | Stanley Baxter, Ronald Blythe, Ethel Branton | Drama | |
| The Beast Must Die | Paul Annett | Peter Cushing, Anton Diffring, Calvin Lockhart | Horror | |
| The Best of Benny Hill | John Robins | Benny Hill | Comedy | Skits from his television show |
| The Best Pair of Legs in the Business | Christopher Hodson | Reg Varney, Diana Coupland | Comedy/drama | |
| The Black Windmill | Don Siegel | Michael Caine, Donald Pleasence | Spy/thriller | |
| Brief Encounter | Alan Bridges | Richard Burton, Sophia Loren | Romance/drama/remake | |
| Butley | Harold Pinter | Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy | Drama | Film of play by Simon Gray |
| Callan | Don Sharp | Edward Woodward, Eric Porter | Thriller | TV spin-off |
| Can You Keep It Up for a Week? | Jim Atkinson | Jeremy Bulloch, Neil Hallett | Sex comedy | |
| Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter | Brian Clemens | Horst Janson, John Carson, Caroline Munro | Horror | |
| Carry On Dick | Gerald Thomas | Sid James, Barbara Windsor | Comedy | |
| The Cherry Picker | Peter Curran (director) | Lulu, Bob Sherman, Wilfrid Hyde-White | Drama | |
| Confessions of a Window Cleaner | Val Guest | Robin Askwith, Antony Booth | Sex comedy | |
| Craze | Freddie Francis | Jack Palance, Diana Dors | Comedy/horror | |
| Dead Cert | Tony Richardson | Scott Antony, Judi Dench | Crime Thriller | |
| Deadly Strangers | Sidney Hayers | Hayley Mills, Simon Ward | Thriller | |
| Diamonds on Wheels | Jerome Courtland | Patrick Allen, George Sewell, Barry Jackson | Comedy | |
| Feelings | Gerry O'Hara | Kate O'Mara, Paul Freeman, Edward Judd | Drama | |
| The Four Musketeers | Richard Lester | Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay, Michael York | Adventure | |
| Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell | Terence Fisher | Peter Cushing, David Prowse | Horror | |
| Frightmare | Pete Walker | Rupert Davies, Sheila Keith | Horror | |
| From Beyond the Grave | Kevin Connor | Peter Cushing, Ian Bannen | Portmanteau horror | |
| Ghost Story | Stephen Weeks | Marianne Faithfull, Leigh Lawson | Mystery | |
| The God King | Lester James Peries | Leigh Lawson, Oliver Tobias | Historical | Co-production with Sri Lanka |
| Gold | Peter R. Hunt | Roger Moore, Susannah York | Adventure | |
| The Golden Voyage of Sinbad | Gordon Hessler | John Phillip Law, Caroline Munro, Tom Baker | Fantasy | |
| Got It Made | James Kenelm Clarke | Lalla Ward, Michael Latimer | Drama | |
| Great Expectations | Joseph Hardy | Michael York, Sarah Miles, James Mason | | Entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival |
| House of Whipcord | Pete Walker | Patrick Barr, Ray Brooks, Ann Michelle | Horror | |
| The Internecine Project | Ken Hughes | James Coburn, Lee Grant | Spy/thriller | |
| Juggernaut | Richard Lester | Richard Harris, Omar Sharif | Drama | |
| Just One More Time | Maurice Hamblin | John Hamill, Sue Longhurst | Sex comedy | |
| The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires | Roy Ward Baker | Peter Cushing, Julie Ege | Horror/action | Co-production with Hong Kong |
| Little Malcolm | Stuart Cooper | Rosalind Ayres, John Hurt | Comedy/drama | Won the Silver Bear at Berlin |
| The Little Prince | Stanley Donen | Steven Warner, Richard Kiley | Musical | |
| Madhouse | Jim Clark | Vincent Price, Natasha Pyne | Horror | |
| Mahler | Ken Russell | Robert Powell, Georgina Hale | Biopic | |
| The Maids | Christopher Miles | Glenda Jackson, Susannah York | Drama | Adaptation of the Jean Genet play |
| Man About the House | John Robins | Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox, Sally Thomsett | Comedy | |
| The Man with the Golden Gun | Guy Hamilton | Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Maud Adams, Britt Ekland, Richard Loo | Spy/action | |
| The Marseille Contract | Robert Parrish | Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, James Mason | Thriller | |
| Mistress Pamela | Jim O'Connolly | Ann Michelle, Julian Barnes | Drama | |
| Moments | Peter Crane | Keith Michell, Angharad Rees, Bill Fraser | Drama | |
| Murder on the Orient Express | Sidney Lumet | Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman | Mystery | Based on Agatha Christie's novel. Ingrid Bergman won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. |
| The Mutations | Jack Cardiff | Tom Baker, Brad Harris, Donald Pleasence | Horror | |
| The ODESSA File | Ronald Neame | Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Mary Tamm | Spy/thriller | |
| Open Season | Peter Collinson | Peter Fonda, Cornelia Sharpe | Action | |
| The Optimists of Nine Elms | Anthony Simmons | Peter Sellers, John Chaffey | Comedy | |
| Paul and Michelle | Lewis Gilbert | Anicée Alvina, Sean Bury | Drama | Co-production with France |
| Penda's Fen | Alan Clarke | Spencer Banks | Comedy drama | Made for television |
| Percy's Progress | Ralph Thomas | Leigh Lawson, Elke Sommer | Comedy | |
| Persecution | Don Chaffey | Lana Turner, Trevor Howard | Horror thriller | |
| Phase IV | Saul Bass | Michael Murphy, Nigel Davenport | Sci-fi | |
| The Rehearsal | Jules Dassin | Jules Dassin, Olympia Dukakis, Melina Mercouri, Laurence Olivier | Drama | British/Greek co-production |
| The Satanic Rites of Dracula | Alan Gibson | Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Joanna Lumley | Horror | |
| Soft Beds, Hard Battles | Roy Boulting | Peter Sellers | World War II comedy | |
| Stardust | Michael Apted | David Essex, Adam Faith | Drama | |
| Swallows and Amazons | Claude Whatham | Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser | Family | |
| The Swordsman | Lindsay Shonteff | Linda Marlowe | Action | |
| Symptoms | José Ramón Larraz | Angela Pleasence, Raymond Huntley | Horror thriller | Entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival |
| The Tamarind Seed | Blake Edwards | Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle | Romance/spy/drama | |
| The Tempter | Damiano Damiani | Glenda Jackson, Claudio Cassinelli | Drama | Co-production with Italy |
| Vampira | Clive Donner | David Niven, Teresa Graves | Horror comedy | |
| Vampyres | José Ramón Larraz | Anulka, Murray Brown | Horror | |
| What Changed Charley Farthing? | Sidney Hayers | Hayley Mills, Lionel Jeffries | Comedy | |
| Zardoz | John Boorman | Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling | Sci-fi | |

## Top Films at the British Box Office in 1974

Source:
* The Sting
* The Exorcist
* Enter the Dragon
* The Three Musketeers
* Papillon
* Herbie Rides Again
* Robin Hood
* The Great Gatsby
* Mary Poppins
* The Way We Were
* The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
* Blazing Saddles
* Confessions of a Window Cleaner
* Stardust
* Gold
* Last Tango in Paris
* American Graffiti