1974 on 4K UHD

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

StudioCanal · 4K + Blu-ray (United Kingdom)

The Demoniacs(1974)

5.8/10

dir. Jean Rollin

Jean Rollin's seaside horror getting a new 4K scan from Powerhouse Films on May 19. Rollin is a niche taste but collectors who are in tend to be all the way in, and his stuff rarely stays in print long.

Indicator · 4K + Blu-ray

The Godfather Part II(1974)

8.6/10

dir. Francis Ford Coppola

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre(1974)

7.4/10

dir. Tobe Hooper

Second Sight's 4K arrived to the kind of reaction you'd expect for a film shot on 16mm getting a premium scan. The package sits alongside their Dawn of the Dead release as a showcase for what the label can do with horror catalog titles.

Second Sight Films · 4K + Blu-ray (United Kingdom)

Black Christmas(1974)

dir. Bob Clark

S-Tier Scream Factory 4K. The original slasher film before Halloween. Scream Factory announced this and the response was basically 'take my money'. A holiday horror staple that finally has a proper 4K disc.

Scream Factory · Collector's Edition

Blazing Saddles(1974)

7.2/10

dir. Mel Brooks

S-Tier Warner Bros. 4K. Mel Brooks in HDR. The Warner Bros. catalog comedies on 4K have been quietly good across the board.

Warner Bros. · 4K + Blu-ray

Blood for Dracula(1974)

5.7/10

dir. Paul Morrissey

S-Tier Severin Films 4K. Paul Morrissey and Andy Warhol's vampire film with Udo Kier. 'The blood of these whores is killing me' is the line everyone quotes. Severin did a good job with this one.

Severin Films · 4K + Blu-ray

Murder on the Orient Express(1974)

7.1/10

dir. Sidney Lumet

S-Tier StudioCanal 4K. Lumet's 1974 Agatha Christie all-star mystery, with Kino Lorber handling the US release. The 4K scores a 4.5 overall, and people were excited about more Lumet on the format. The US version was out of print and going for inflated prices before the new release.

StudioCanal · 4K + Blu-ray (United Kingdom)

Phase IV(1974)

6.3/10

dir. Saul Bass

Vinegar Syndrome's March 2024 release with a new 4K restoration of Saul Bass's only feature. The big find here is the Preview Version that's been unseen since 1974, with extended sequences and an alternate ending, alongside the 84-minute theatrical cut. Limited Adam Maida slipcover at 8000 units sold out.

Vinegar Syndrome · 4K + Blu-ray

The Perfume of the Lady in Black(1974)

6.4/10

dir. Francesco Barilli

Barilli's giallo is a slow-burn psychological trip that plays more like Polanski than Argento. Indicator's restoration from the original negative is the first time this has looked proper on home video.

Indicator · Limited Edition

Thieves Like Us(1974)

6.5/10

dir. Robert Altman

Three criminals escape from prison and embark on a robbery spree across USA. Along the way, one of them falls in love while they plan a final heist before going their separate ways.

Cinématographe · 4K + Blu-ray

The Longest Yard(1974)

7.1/10

dir. Robert Aldrich

A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned about the inmates' lack of self-esteem.

Airport 1975(1974)

5.7/10

dir. Jack Smight

When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.

Dead of Night(1974)

6.6/10

dir. Bob Clark

A young soldier who was thought to be killed in Vietnam returns home and exhibits disturbing behavior, much to the confusion of his family.

Blue Underground · 4K + Blu-ray

Earthquake(1974)

5.9/10

dir. Mark Robson

Universal's 2025 4K is Charlton Heston's disaster spectacle in native 4K with the original Sensurround low-frequency rumble preserved. Solid A-Tier video and audio but the disc ships barebones with zero extras. The John Williams score finally has the dynamic range to register. A US Steelbook variant is also out. The Towering Inferno and Poseidon Adventure are still missing in 4K.

Universal Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

Chinatown(1974)

7.9/10

dir. Roman Polanski

Paramount Presents #45 is the canonical 4K, and it pairs the upgrade with The Two Jakes on Blu-ray as a bonus disc that most collectors didn't expect to get at all. It went OOP within weeks and has been a back-in-print scavenger hunt ever since. The UK Limited Edition from Paramount UK is region-free, and Orbit DVD still has it with the poster and slipcase if you're chasing the matched set.

Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

Death Wish(1974)

dir. Michael Winner

Kino Lorber's 4K UHD dropped January 2023 with a new 2022 HDR/Dolby Vision master from a 4K scan of the 35mm original camera negative. The disc is UHD100, which is rare for a catalog title and shows in the bitrate. The rest of the Death Wish series is still Blu-ray only, so this is the only entry collectors can get on 4K for now.

Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray

Shatter(1974)

5.1/10

dir. Michael Carreras, Monte Hellman

Rare Hammer and Shaw Brothers co-production from 1974, filmed in Hong Kong with Stuart Whitman and Ti Lung. Peter Cushing guest-stars, and Monte Hellman directed most of it before Michael Carreras took over. The 4K carries the new uncensored restoration plus the censored master that circulated for decades. A-Tier on avforums.

Hammer Films · Limited Edition

Supermarket(1974)

6.8/10

dir. Roland Klick

Subkultur A-Tier 4K. Zero collector signal on this Serbian/German film. Deep niche territory from a specialty European label.

Subkultur Entertainment · 4K + Blu-ray

The Night Porter(1974)

6.7/10

dir. Liliana Cavani

A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.

Wicked Vision · Limited Edition

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three(1974)

7.4/10

dir. Joseph Sargent

In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?

Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray (United Kingdom)

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot(1974)

6.8/10

dir. Michael Cimino

Capelight A-Tier 4K. Eastwood and Bridges in a Cimino road movie that got lost in the shuffle of 70s Americana. The Montana location photography is the visual draw, and the film is a hidden gem for anyone who likes the era.

Capelight Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

The Four Musketeers(1974)

dir. Richard Lester

The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.

Dark Star(1974)

6.1/10

dir. John Carpenter

Fabulous Films restored Carpenter's 1974 student debut from the 35mm OCN for a UK-only 2025 4K. The transfer is way better than the previous disc and online masters, but the source is a low-budget USC project and looks like one. The Online Exclusive is a 500-copy variant with different cover artwork and doesn't ship to the US. Carpenter completists need it for the box. In the Mouth of Madness is still the conspicuous gap in his 4K filmography.

Fabulous Films · 4K + Blu-ray

Terror Circus(1974)

4.1/10

dir. Alan Rudolph

Dark Force shipped Terror Circus on Black Friday 2024. Alan Rudolph's 1974 desert-horror under the Gerald Cormier pseudonym, also known as Nightmare Circus and Barn of the Naked Dead. 4K UHD plus Blu-ray combo with an embossed limited edition slipcover, restored from the 35mm interpositive.

Dark Force Entertainment · 4K Ultra HD

The House of Seven Corpses(1974)

4.3/10

dir. Paul Harrison

Dark Force #9 from June 2024 with an embossed glow-in-the-dark slipcover. Paul Harrison's 1974 horror-within-a-horror about a film crew shooting at a haunted house. The 4K is from a fresh scan of the 35mm camera negative with HDR10, paired with a Blu-ray bonus disc.

Dark Force Entertainment · 4K Ultra HD

'Gator Bait(1974)

5.4/10

dir. Ferd Sebastian, Beverly Sebastian

Desirée lives deep in the swamp and supports herself and her siblings by poaching. After an accident involving Deputy Billy and a friend, the Sheriff, Deputy and a family of locals go after Desirée. Soon the hunters become the hunted as she exacts her revenge for their violence against her family.

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore(1974)

7.0/10

dir. Martin Scorsese

Jul 14, 2026

Criterion's 4K UHD + Blu-ray drops July 14 as spine #1318, built on a new Dolby Vision restoration supervised by Scorsese. The disc carries a full-cast commentary with Scorsese, Burstyn, Foster, Kristofferson, and Ladd, which puts the 2021 Warner Archive Blu-ray back on the shelf.

Criterion · 4K + Blu-ray

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia(1974)

7.4/10

dir. Sam Peckinpah

An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

Deranged(1974)

6.4/10

dir. Jeff Gillen, Alan Ormsby

A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies, he misses her, and a year later digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher sources of materials. Based loosely on the true story of Ed Gein.

Devil Times Five(1974)

5.0/10

dir. Sean MacGregor

Five extremely disturbed, sociopathic children escape from their psychiatric transport and are taken in unwittingly by a group of adult villagers on winter vacation.

Emmanuelle(1974)

5.2/10

dir. Just Jaeckin

An employee at the French Embassy in Bangkok invites his wife to join him – and enjoy the benefits of their open marriage.

Fly Me the French Way(1974)

4.6/10

dir. Jean Rollin

Valérie, who has just begun housesitting for her cousin, enjoys a debaucherous night with her girlfriend Sophie, who is later mistakenly abducted overnight by members of a sex cult searching for a traitor amongst their ranks.

Foxy Brown(1974)

6.5/10

dir. Jack Hill

A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell(1974)

6.1/10

dir. Terence Fisher

Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.

Lenny(1974)

7.3/10

dir. Bob Fosse

May 26, 2026

Criterion 4K. Dustin Hoffman as Lenny Bruce in Bob Fosse's black-and-white biography. Long overdue for this kind of treatment.

Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray Special Edition

Shanks(1974)

5.5/10

dir. William Castle

Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.

Vinegar Syndrome · 4K Ultra HD

Sins of the Flesh(1974)

5.4/10

dir. Claude Mulot

Benoit has been driven to voyeurism and impotence due to having a cold, treacherous industrialist as a father and an exhibitionist aunt who constantly parades around nude. Jean-Pierre is a thief. Isabelle is a runaway whose stepfather tried to rape her. When the three cross paths, criminal activity, rape, madness and murder follow in this psycho-drama filled with soft-core sex.

Swept Away(1974)

7.5/10

dir. Lina Wertmüller

A spoiled rich woman and a brutish Communist deckhand become stranded alone on a desert island after venturing away from their cruise.

The Antichrist(1974)

5.8/10

dir. Alberto De Martino

An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress.

The Cars That Ate Paris(1974)

5.5/10

dir. Peter Weir

May 25, 2026

The small town of Paris, Australia deliberately causes car accidents, then sells/salvages all valuables from the wrecks as a means of economy.

BFI · 4K + Blu-ray

The Ghost Galleon(1974)

4.8/10

dir. Amando de Ossorio

Third entry in the Blind Dead series gets a new 4K restoration from the original camera negative via Vinegar Syndrome. The slipcover edition sold out fast, and completists who picked up Tombs and Return will want the set unified.

Vinegar Syndrome · 4K Ultra HD

The Sugarland Express(1974)

6.7/10

dir. Steven Spielberg

Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.

Truck Turner(1974)