The Great Films: 1974, 1975

It's getting to be that time of year again when I begin to compile my list of the 25 best movies of the year. As a prelude I revisit the Top 25 from past years. Click on the titles to learn more about the films.

1974
1. Chinatown
2. The Godfather, Part II
3. Young Frankenstein
4. The Conversation
5. Every Man for Himself and God Against All
6. A Woman Under the Influence
7. The Phantom of Liberty
8. Lacombe, Lucien
9.  Blazing Saddles
10. Murder on the Orient Express
11. Lenny
12. Butley
13. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
14. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
15. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
16. Celine and Julie Go Boating
17. The Parallax View
18. Thieves Like Us
19. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
20. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
21. Conrack
22. Mahler
23. The Longest Yard
24. Black Christmas
25. The Yakuza

1975
1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
2. Jaws
3. Dersu Uzala
4. Nashville
5. The Man Who Would Be King
6. Seven Beauties
7. Fox and His Friends
8. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
9. Love and Death
10. Three Days of the Condor
11. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
12. Barry Lyndon
13. The Day of the Locust
14. Overlord
15. The Sunshine Boys
16. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
17. Night Moves
18. Bite the Bullet
19. Hester Street
20. The Four Musketeers
21. Hard Times
22. Cooley High
23. Operation Daybreak
24. Farewell My Lovely
25. Smile