Best Movies of 1973 by Rank
82
1
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent
Drama
Spain
Spanish
139
2
François Truffaut, Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Drama / Comedy
France / Italy
French
187
3
Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams
Comedy / Drama / Period Film / Cult
USA
English
199
4
Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Magali Noël, Ciccio Ingrassia, Nando Orfei
Drama / Comedy
Italy / France
Italian
208
5
Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Religion / Cult
USA
English
224
6
Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato
Mystery / Thriller / Horror / Cult
Italy / UK
English
239
8
Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel
Crime / Drama / Gangster / Post-Noir
USA
English
396
9
Paul Newman, Robert Redford
Drama / Crime / Comedy / Period Film / Gangster / Family / Cult
USA
English
502
10
Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Drama
France
French
518
11
Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir / Mystery
USA
English
689
12
Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire
Crime / Drama / Detective / Biography
Italy / USA
English
758
13
Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair
Thriller
UK / France
English
784
14
Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Anita Wall, Jan Malmsjo
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
787
15
Robin Hardy
Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt
Horror / Musical / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Cult
UK
English
788
16
Mar me Niang, Magaye Niang, Ousseynou Diop
Drama / Family / Romance
Senegal
Wolof
798
17
Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Kien Shih, Ahna Capri
Action / Crime / Thriller / Cult
Hong Kong / USA
English
1118
18
Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts
Drama / Musical / Comedy
UK / USA
English
1191
19
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Mary Gregory, Don Keefer
Comedy / Sci-Fi
USA
English
1207
20
Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Otis Young, Clifton James
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1272
21
James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado
History / Western / Biography / Cult
USA
English
1294
22
Soumitra Chatterjee, Babita, Chitra Banerjee, Govinda Chakravarti
Drama
India
Bengali
1318
23
Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Andrew Robinson
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Action
USA
English
1322
24
Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York
Action / Adventure / Family
USA / UK
English
1342
25
Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer, Tonny Huurdeman
Romance / Drama
Netherlands
Dutch
1350
26
Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman
Comedy / Drama / Family
USA
English
1399
27
Michael Moriarty, Robert De Niro, Vincent Gardenia, Phil Foster
Drama / Sports
USA
English
1610
28
Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1634
29
Peter Hall
Ian Holm, Cyril Cusack, Michael Jayston, Vivien Merchant
Drama
UK / USA
English
1671
30
Jean-Luc Bideau, François Simon, Jean Champion
Comedy
Switzerland / France
French
1699
31
Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe
Adventure / Biography / Drama
France / USA
English
1699
31
Peggy Ashcroft, Elisabeth Bergner, Lil Dagover
Drama
Switzerland / West Germany / Israel
German
1749
32
René Laloux
Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin, Sylvie Lenoir, Jean Topart, Jean Valmont
Animation / Sci-Fi
Czechoslovakia / France
French
1771
33
George Segal, Glenda Jackson, Paul Sorvino, K Callan
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
1842
34
Nino Manfredi, Anna Karina, Johnny Dorelli, Paolo Turco
Comedy / Drama
Italy
Italian
1859
35
Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges
Drama
USA
English
1894
36
Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Robert Coote
Comedy / Mystery / Horror
UK
English
1984
37
Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitch Ryan, Jack Ging
Western / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1997
38
Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Norman Burton
Drama
USA
English
2015
39
Lyndon Brook, Peter Egan, Christine Hargreaves
Drama / Romance
UK
English
2040
40
Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman, Graham Beckel, James Naughton
Drama
USA
English
2049
41
James Caan, Marsha Mason, Kirk Calloway, Eli Wallach
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2063
42
Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn, Joan Hackett, James Mason
Crime / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2127
43
Joseph Kaufmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank DeKova
Animation / Comedy / Drama / Action / Adventure
USA
English
2187
44
Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Bernard McKenna
Biography / Drama
UK
English
2198
45
Lamont Johnson
Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ned Beatty
Drama / Action / Biography / Sports
USA
English
2200
46
Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir / Gangster
USA
English
2208
47
Bill Gunn, Fima Noveck
Marlene Clark, Duane Jones, Enrico Fales, Tara Fields, Sam Waymon, Betsy Thurman
Horror / Cult
USA
English
2253
48
Renato Salvatori, Florinda Bolkan, Daniel Quenaud
Drama
Spain / Italy
Italian
2269
49
Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine, Charles Tyner, Malcolm Atterbury
Drama / Action / Thriller / Adventure
USA
English
2304
50
Peter Duffell
Peter Finch, Michael York, Hildegarde Neil, Joss Ackland, Michael Hordern
Drama
Yugoslavia / UK
English
2312
51
Max Liebman
Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Louis Nye
Comedy
USA
English
2312
51
The Staple Singers, Richard Pryor, Rufus Thomas, Kim Weston, Johnnie Taylor
Documentary / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2335
52
Charles A. Nichols, Iwao Takamoto
Debbie Reynolds, Paul Lynde, Henry Gibson, Rex Allen, Danny Bonaduce
Family / Animation / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
2363
53
Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi
Comedy / Drama / Cult
France / Italy
French
2363
53
Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters
Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Tech-Noir / Detective
USA
English
2437
54
Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson, Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen
Musical / Drama / Religion
USA
English
2459
55
Alan Myerson
Mel Stewart, Donald Sutherland, Howard Hesseman, Morgan Upton, Peter Boyle
Comedy / Crime / Caper
USA
English
2459
55
Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, Norman Bartold, Alan Oppenheimer
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Western
USA
English
2510
56
Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan, Ann Wedgeworth
Drama
USA
English
2546
57
Gian Maria Volontè, Vincent Gardenia, Silverio Blasi, Charles Cioffi
Biography / Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA / France / Italy
English
2553
58
George Segal, Susan Anspach, Kris Kristofferson, Marsha Mason
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2553
58
Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse, Jacques Weber
Drama / Thriller
France / West Germany / Italy
French
2558
59
Eva Mattes, Harry Baer, Jörg von Liebenfels, Ruth Drexel
Drama / Crime
West Germany
German
2599
60
Harvey Hart
Karen Black, Christopher Plummer, Donald Pilon, Jean-Louis Roux
Horror / Thriller / Crime
Canada
English
2599
60
Stan Lathan
Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Bill Withers, Roberta Flack, Sammy Davis Jr.
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2599
60
Douglas Schwartz
Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Janet Margolin, Kathleen Freeman, David Ketchum
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2615
61
Gila Almagor, Yosef Shiloah, Michael Bat-Adam, Shai Ophir
Drama / History
Israel
Hebrew
2638
62
James William Guercio
Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush, Mitch Ryan, Jeannine Riley, Elisha Cook Jr.
Action / Crime / Detective / Cult
USA
English
2638
62
Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill, Gayle Hunnicutt, Roland Culver
Horror / Mystery
UK
English
2638
62
Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James, Julius Harris
Action / Adventure / Crime / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
2638
62
Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitch Ryan, David Soul, Tim Matheson, Robert Urich
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2638
62
Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, William Finley, Lisle Wilson
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2638
62
Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman, Gene Evans, Noah Beery Jr., Brenda Benet
Crime / Drama / Action / Thriller / Biography
USA
English
2655
63
George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino, Fritz Weaver
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2671
64
Caroline Mouris, Frank Mouris
Frank Mouris
Animation / Short / Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2671
64
Mitchell Block
Shelby Leverington, Alec Hirschfeld
Drama / Short / Experimental
USA
English
2671
64
Ivan Dixon
Lawrence Cook, Janet League, Paula Kelly, J.A. Preston, Paul Butler
Action / Drama / Crime / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
2691
65
Gustaw Holoubek, Tadeusz Kondrat, Halina Kowalska
Drama / Fantasy
Poland
Polish
2705
66
Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Kate Reid, Joseph Cotten
Drama
USA / Canada / UK
English
2705
66
Victor Garber, Katie Hanley, David Haskell, Merrell Jackson, Joanne Jonas
Musical / Drama / Religion
USA
English
2708
67
Annie Girardot, Mireille Darc, Bernard Fresson, Michel Bouquet, André Falcon
Drama / Thriller / Crime
France / Italy
French
2712
68
Yehoram Gaon, Efrat Lavi, Arieh Elias, Etti Grotes, Yehuda Efroni
Musical / Drama
Israel
Hebrew
2712
68
Gérard Oury
Louis de Funès, Miou-Miou, Suzy Delair, Marcel Dalio
Comedy
France / Italy
French
2712
68
Johnny Whitaker, Celeste Holm, Warren Oates, Jeff East
Adventure / Musical / Family
USA
English
2718
69
Arnaldo Jabor
Paulo Porto, Darlene Glória, Elza Gomes, Paulo César Peréio
Drama
Brazil
Portuguese
2718
69
Norbert Kückelmann
Mathias Eysen, Gisela Fischer, Roland Wiegenstein, Miriam Mahler, Hans Brenner
Comedy / Drama
West Germany
German
2718
69
Alfredo Alcón, Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Thelma Biral
Drama
Argentina
Spanish
2718
69
David Hemmings
Jack Wild, June Brown, Liz Edmiston, John Bailey, Diana Beevers
Drama
UK
English
2726
70
Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan, Timothy Carey
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir / Gangster
USA
English
2733
71
Barbra Streisand, Ray Charles, Martin Erlichman
Music
USA
English
2733
71
Jack Starrett
Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Brenda Sykes, Antonio Fargas, Dan Frazer
Action / Crime / Thriller / Adventure / Spy / Comedy
USA
English
2733
71
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Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Marlon Brando, Orson Welles, Groucho Marx
Documentary / Biography / Comedy
USA
English
2751
72
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Zamira Saunders, Juan Ferrara, Adriana Page
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Experimental
Mexico / USA
Spanish
2766
73
Parviz Kimiavi
Parviz Kimiavi, Aqa Seyyed, Ali Mirza, Edris Chamani, Darvish Abbas
Adventure / History
Iran
Persian
2766
73
Alexandra Kluge, Bion Steinborn, Sylvia Gartmann
Drama
West Germany
German
2766
73
Zalman King, Carol White, Tisa Farrow, Richard Pryor
Drama
USA
English
2771
74
Mani Kaul
Kana Ram, Raisa Padamsee, Hardan, Shambhudan, Ravi Menon, Manohar Lalas
Drama / Fantasy / Romance
India
Hindi
2791
76
Jack Hill
Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui, William Elliott
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
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2791
76
Chang-hwa Jeong
Lieh Lo, Wang Ping, Wang Ching-Feng, Tien Feng
Action / Drama / Adventure
Hong Kong
Cantonese