Best Movies of 1973 by Rank
92
1
Víctor Erice
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent
Drama
Spain
Spanish
138
2
François Truffaut
François Truffaut, Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Drama / Comedy
France / Italy
French
177
3
George Lucas
Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams
Comedy / Drama / Period Film / Cult
USA
English
206
4
Federico Fellini
Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Magali Noël, Ciccio Ingrassia, Nando Orfei
Drama / Comedy
Italy / France
Italian
207
5
William Friedkin
Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Religion / Cult
USA
English
225
7
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel
Crime / Drama / Gangster / Post-Noir
USA
English
237
8
Nicolas Roeg
Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato
Mystery / Thriller / Horror / Cult
Italy / UK
English
386
9
George Roy Hill
Paul Newman, Robert Redford
Drama / Crime / Comedy / Period Film / Gangster / Family / Cult
USA
English
494
10
Robert Altman
Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir / Mystery
USA
English
498
11
Jean Eustache
Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Drama
France
French
681
12
Sidney Lumet
Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire
Crime / Drama / Detective / Biography
Italy / USA
English
733
13
Robert Clouse
Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Kien Shih, Ahna Capri
Action / Crime / Thriller / Cult
Hong Kong / USA
English
742
14
Robin Hardy
Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt
Horror / Musical / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Cult
UK
English
749
15
Fred Zinnemann
Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair
Thriller
UK / France
English
812
16
Ingmar Bergman
Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Anita Wall, Jan Malmsjo
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
841
17
Djibril Diop Mambéty
Mar me Niang, Magaye Niang, Ousseynou Diop
Drama / Family / Romance
Senegal
Wolof
1098
18
Lindsay Anderson
Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts
Drama / Musical / Comedy
UK / USA
English
1115
19
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Mary Gregory, Don Keefer
Comedy / Sci-Fi
USA
English
1193
20
Sam Peckinpah
James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado
History / Western / Biography / Cult
USA
English
1217
21
Hal Ashby
Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Otis Young, Clifton James
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1283
22
Richard Lester
Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain, Michael York
Action / Adventure / Family
USA / UK
English
1304
23
Don Siegel
Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Andrew Robinson
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Action
USA
English
1373
24
Paul Verhoeven
Monique van de Ven, Rutger Hauer, Tonny Huurdeman
Romance / Drama
Netherlands
Dutch
1376
25
Peter Bogdanovich
Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman
Comedy / Drama / Family
USA
English
1435
26
John D. Hancock
Michael Moriarty, Robert De Niro, Vincent Gardenia, Phil Foster
Drama / Sports
USA
English
1447
27
Satyajit Ray
Soumitra Chatterjee, Babita, Chitra Banerjee, Govinda Chakravarti
Drama
India
Bengali
1587
28
Sydney Pollack
Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Lois Chiles
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
1636
29
Peter Hall
Ian Holm, Cyril Cusack, Michael Jayston, Vivien Merchant
Drama
UK / USA
English
1666
30
Franklin J. Schaffner
Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe
Adventure / Biography / Drama
France / USA
English
1781
31
Maximilian Schell
Peggy Ashcroft, Elisabeth Bergner, Lil Dagover
Drama
Switzerland / West Germany / Israel
German
1799
32
René Laloux
Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin, Sylvie Lenoir, Jean Topart, Jean Valmont
Animation / Sci-Fi
Czechoslovakia / France
French
1817
33
Claude Goretta
Jean-Luc Bideau, François Simon, Jean Champion
Comedy
Switzerland / France
French
1823
34
Melvin Frank
George Segal, Glenda Jackson, Paul Sorvino, K Callan
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
1876
35
John Frankenheimer
Lee Marvin, Fredric March, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges
Drama
USA
English
1927
36
Douglas Hickox
Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Robert Coote
Comedy / Mystery / Horror
UK
English
1959
37
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitch Ryan, Jack Ging
Western / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1989
38
John G. Avildsen
Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Norman Burton
Drama
USA
English
2026
39
James Bridges
Timothy Bottoms, Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman, Graham Beckel, James Naughton
Drama
USA
English
2038
40
Mark Rydell
James Caan, Marsha Mason, Kirk Calloway, Eli Wallach
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2053
41
Herbert Ross
Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn, Joan Hackett, James Mason
Crime / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2081
42
Franco Brusati
Nino Manfredi, Anna Karina, Johnny Dorelli, Paolo Turco
Comedy / Drama
Italy
Italian
2084
43
Alan Bridges
Lyndon Brook, Peter Egan, Christine Hargreaves
Drama / Romance
UK
English
2128
44
Ralph Bakshi
Joseph Kaufmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank DeKova
Animation / Comedy / Drama / Action / Adventure
USA
English
2226
45
Peter Yates
Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir / Gangster
USA
English
2234
46
Robert Aldrich
Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine, Charles Tyner, Malcolm Atterbury
Drama / Action / Thriller / Adventure
USA
English
2239
47
Bill Douglas
Stephen Archibald, Hughie Restorick, Jean Taylor Smith, Bernard McKenna
Biography / Drama
UK
English
2267
48
Bill Gunn, Fima Noveck
Marlene Clark, Duane Jones, Enrico Fales, Tara Fields, Sam Waymon, Betsy Thurman
Horror / Cult
USA
English
2284
49
Lamont Johnson
Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ned Beatty
Drama / Action / Biography / Sports
USA
English
2321
50
Max Liebman
Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Louis Nye
Comedy
USA
English
2323
51
Marco Ferreri
Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi
Comedy / Drama / Cult
France / Italy
French
2323
51
Richard Fleischer
Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters
Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Tech-Noir / Detective
USA
English
2327
52
Charles A. Nichols, Iwao Takamoto
Debbie Reynolds, Paul Lynde, Henry Gibson, Rex Allen, Danny Bonaduce
Family / Animation / Fantasy / Musical
USA
English
2337
53
Mel Stuart
The Staple Singers, Richard Pryor, Rufus Thomas, Kim Weston, Johnnie Taylor
Documentary / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2354
54
Peter Duffell
Peter Finch, Michael York, Hildegarde Neil, Joss Ackland, Michael Hordern
Drama
Yugoslavia / UK
English
2379
55
Vittorio De Sica
Renato Salvatori, Florinda Bolkan, Daniel Quenaud
Drama
Spain / Italy
Italian
2490
56
Norman Jewison
Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson, Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen
Musical / Drama / Religion
USA
English
2519
57
Alan Myerson
Mel Stewart, Donald Sutherland, Howard Hesseman, Morgan Upton, Peter Boyle
Comedy / Crime / Caper
USA
English
2560
58
Francesco Rosi
Gian Maria Volontè, Vincent Gardenia, Silverio Blasi, Charles Cioffi
Biography / Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA / France / Italy
English
2612
59
Harvey Hart
Karen Black, Christopher Plummer, Donald Pilon, Jean-Louis Roux
Horror / Thriller / Crime
Canada
English
2612
59
Stan Lathan
Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Bill Withers, Roberta Flack, Sammy Davis Jr.
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2612
59
Douglas Schwartz
Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Janet Margolin, Kathleen Freeman, David Ketchum
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2648
60
Jerry Schatzberg
Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan, Ann Wedgeworth
Drama
USA
English
2660
61
Paul Mazursky
George Segal, Susan Anspach, Kris Kristofferson, Marsha Mason
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2660
61
Costa-Gavras
Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse, Jacques Weber
Drama / Thriller
France / West Germany / Italy
French
2665
62
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Eva Mattes, Harry Baer, Jörg von Liebenfels, Ruth Drexel
Drama / Crime
West Germany
German
2696
63
James William Guercio
Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush, Mitch Ryan, Jeannine Riley, Elisha Cook Jr.
Action / Crime / Detective / Cult
USA
English
2696
63
John Hough
Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill, Gayle Hunnicutt, Roland Culver
Horror / Mystery
UK
English
2696
63
Guy Hamilton
Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James, Julius Harris
Action / Adventure / Crime / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
2696
63
Ted Post
Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitch Ryan, David Soul, Tim Matheson, Robert Urich
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2696
63
Brian De Palma
Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, William Finley, Lisle Wilson
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2696
63
Phil Karlson
Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman, Gene Evans, Noah Beery Jr., Brenda Benet
Crime / Drama / Action / Thriller / Biography
USA
English
2696
63
Michael Crichton
Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, Norman Bartold, Alan Oppenheimer
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Western
USA
English
2716
64
Moshé Mizrahi
Gila Almagor, Yosef Shiloah, Michael Bat-Adam, Shai Ophir
Drama / History
Israel
Hebrew
2746
65
Mike Nichols
George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino, Fritz Weaver
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2762
66
Caroline Mouris, Frank Mouris
Frank Mouris
Animation / Short / Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2762
66
Mitchell Block
Shelby Leverington, Alec Hirschfeld
Drama / Short / Experimental
USA
English
2762
66
Ivan Dixon
Lawrence Cook, Janet League, Paula Kelly, J.A. Preston, Paul Butler
Action / Drama / Crime / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
2789
67
Tony Richardson
Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Kate Reid, Joseph Cotten
Drama
USA / Canada / UK
English
2789
67
David Greene
Victor Garber, Katie Hanley, David Haskell, Merrell Jackson, Joanne Jonas
Musical / Drama / Religion
USA
English
2795
68
Menahem Golan
Yehoram Gaon, Efrat Lavi, Arieh Elias, Etti Grotes, Yehuda Efroni
Musical / Drama
Israel
Hebrew
2795
68
Gérard Oury
Louis de Funès, Miou-Miou, Suzy Delair, Marcel Dalio
Comedy
France / Italy
French
2795
68
Don Taylor
Johnny Whitaker, Celeste Holm, Warren Oates, Jeff East
Adventure / Musical / Family
USA
English
2798
69
Parviz Kimiavi
Parviz Kimiavi, Aqa Seyyed, Ali Mirza, Edris Chamani, Darvish Abbas
Adventure / History
Iran
Persian
2798
69
Alexander Kluge
Alexandra Kluge, Bion Steinborn, Sylvia Gartmann
Drama
West Germany
German
2798
69
James B. Harris
Zalman King, Carol White, Tisa Farrow, Richard Pryor
Drama
USA
English
2806
70
Wojciech Has
Gustaw Holoubek, Tadeusz Kondrat, Halina Kowalska
Drama / Fantasy
Poland
Polish
2807
71
John Flynn
Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan, Timothy Carey
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir / Gangster
USA
English
2813
72
Dwight Hemion
Barbra Streisand, Ray Charles, Martin Erlichman
Music
USA
English
2813
72
Jack Starrett
Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Brenda Sykes, Antonio Fargas, Dan Frazer
Action / Crime / Thriller / Adventure / Spy / Comedy
USA
English
2813
72
unknown
Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Marlon Brando, Orson Welles, Groucho Marx
Documentary / Biography / Comedy
USA
English
2829
73
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Zamira Saunders, Juan Ferrara, Adriana Page
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Experimental
Mexico / USA
Spanish
2848
74
Mani Kaul
Kana Ram, Raisa Padamsee, Hardan, Shambhudan, Ravi Menon, Manohar Lalas
Drama / Fantasy / Romance
India
Hindi
2866
76
Jack Hill
Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui, William Elliott
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
2866
76
Chang-hwa Jeong
Lieh Lo, Wang Ping, Wang Ching-Feng, Tien Feng
Action / Drama / Adventure
Hong Kong
Cantonese
