1973 Top Ten List

  • The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates)
  • Badlands (Terrence Malick)
  • Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich)
  • Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg)
  • Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)
  • Touki-Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambety)
  • Hard Labour (Mike Leigh)
  • Juvenile Court (Frederick Wiseman)
  • Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (Sam Peckinpah)
  • Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)

    • Additional 1973 Films By Rating

  • Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
  • F For Fake (Orson Welles)
  • The Spirit of the Beehive (Víctor Erice)
  • Fantastic Planet (René Laloux)
  • Ladies & Gentlemen (Rollin Binzer)
  • The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann)
  • The Last of Sheila (Herbert Ross)
  • American Graffiti (George Lucas)
  • World on a Wire (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
  • The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
  • The Last Detail (Hal Ashby)
  • Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (Kenji Misumi)
  • The Sting (George Roy Hill)
  • Day for Night (François Truffaut)
  • The Last American Hero (Lamont Johnson)
  • Westworld (Michael Crichton)
  • Breezy (Clint Eastwood)
  • Hot Pepper (Les Blank)
  • High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood)
  • The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy)
  • Lady Snowblood (Toshiya Fujita)
  • Bang the Drum Slowly (John Hancock)
  • Sleeper (Woody Allen)
  • Walking Tall (Phil Karlson)
  • O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson)
  • Papillon (Franklin J. Schaffner)
  • The Way We Were (Sydney Pollack)
  • Jesus Christ Superstar (Norman Jewison)
  • The Three Musketeers (Richard Lester)
  • Wedding in Blood (Claude Chabrol)
  • Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer)
  • Ganja & Hess (Bill Gunn)
  • Magnum Force (Ted Post)
  • Flesh for Frankenstein (Paul Morrissey)
  • The Exorcist (William Friedkin)
  • Scenes From a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
  • Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
  • The Holy Mountain (Alexandro Jodorowsky)
  • La Grande Bouffe (Marco Ferreri)
  • The Asphyx (Peter Newbrook)
  • A River Called Titas (Ritwik Kumar Ghatak)