Top 10 movies from 1974:

Roman Polanski's Chinatown
Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter
Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein
John Carpenter's Dark Star
Alan Pakula's The Parallax View
Tobe Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation and The Godfather, Part II
Sam Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia