Movies: Popular Movies of 1973

Movies in chronological context: 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1973rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 973rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1970s decade. ()

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The Exorcist(1973)

| 2h 2min | Horror

3.9/5 (with 3,444 votes)

12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to her last hope: Father Damien Karras, a troubled priest who is struggling with his own faith.

Directed by William Friedkin - With Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, Linda Blair, ...

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Robin Hood(1973)

| 1h 23min | Animation, Kids & Family

3.7/5 (with 1,941 votes)

With King Richard off to the Crusades, Prince John and his slithering minion, Sir Hiss, set about taxing Nottingham's citizens with support from the corrupt sheriff - and staunch opposition by the wily Robin Hood and his band of merry men.

Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman

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The Sting(1973)

| 2h 9min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

4.0/5 (with 1,136 votes)

A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.

Directed by George Roy Hill - With Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan, ...

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Mean Streets(1973)

| 1h 52min | Drama, Crime

3.5/5 (with 922 votes)

A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

Directed by Martin Scorsese - With Robert De Niro, Richard Romanus, Harvey Keitel, Cesare Danova, David Proval, Amy Robinson, ...

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Live and Let Die(1973)

| 2h 1min | Adventure, Action, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 890 votes)

James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.

Directed by Guy Hamilton - With Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, David Hedison, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, ...

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Enter the Dragon(1973)

| 1h 42min | Action

3.7/5 (with 858 votes)

A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.

Directed by Robert Clouse - With John Saxon, Jim Kelly, Ahna Capri, Shih Kien, Robert Wall, Bruce Lee, ...

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Serpico(1973)

2h 10min | Crime, History, Drama

3.8/5 (with 838 votes)

Frank Serpico is an idealistic New York City cop who refuses to take bribes, unlike the rest of the force. His actions get Frank shunned by the other officers, and often placed in dangerous situations by his partners. When his superiors ignore Frank's accusations of corruption, he decides to go public with the allegations. Although this causes the Knapp Commission to investigate his claims, Frank has also placed a target on himself.

Directed by Sidney Lumet - With Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Tony Roberts, M. Emmet Walsh, James Tolkan, ...

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Papillon(1973)

| 2h 31min | Crime, Drama

3.9/5 (with 807 votes)

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner - With Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Bill Mumy, George Coulouris, ...

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Soylent Green(1973)

| 1h 37min | Science Fiction, Thriller, Crime, Mystery

3.5/5 (with 641 votes)

In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer is Soylent Green.

Directed by Richard Fleischer - With Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Whit Bissell, ...

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American Graffiti(1973)

| 1h 50min | Comedy, Drama

3.5/5 (with 621 votes)

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.

Directed by George Lucas - With Candy Clark, Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Cindy Williams, Mackenzie Phillips, Charles Martin Smith, ...

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The Wicker Man(1973)

1h 34min | Horror

3.7/5 (with 612 votes)

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.

Directed by Robin Hardy - With Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, Edward Woodward, Lindsay Kemp, ...

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Westworld(1973)

PG-13

| 1h 25min | Adventure, Science Fiction, Western

3.4/5 (with 541 votes)

A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.

Directed by Michael Crichton - With Yul Brynner, James Brolin, Alan Oppenheimer, Victoria Shaw, Dick Van Patten, ...

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Magnum Force(1973)

| 2h 4min | Drama, Crime, Action

3.6/5 (with 537 votes)

"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop them.

Directed by Ted Post - With Clint Eastwood, Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan, David Soul, Felton Perry, Robert Urich, ...

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Badlands(1973)

| 1h 34min | Crime, Drama, Thriller, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 500 votes)

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.

Directed by Terrence Malick - With Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Terrence Malick, Charles Fitzpatrick, ...

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High Plains Drifter(1973)

| 1h 45min | Western, Drama, Mystery

3.7/5 (with 485 votes)

A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.

Directed by Clint Eastwood - With Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitchell Ryan, Jack Ging, Geoffrey Lewis, ...

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My Name Is Nobody(1973)

| 1h 57min | Comedy, Western

3.7/5 (with 474 votes)

Jack Beauregard, an ageing gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe. But a young gunfighter, known as "Nobody", who idolizes Beauregard, wants him to go out in a blaze of glory. So he arranges for Jack to face the 150-man gang known as The Wild Bunch and earn his place in history.

Directed by Tonino Valerii - With Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin, Geoffrey Lewis, Mario Brega, Benito Stefanelli, ...

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Amarcord(1973)

| 2h 3min | Comedy, Drama

4.0/5 (with 470 votes)

In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.

Directed by Federico Fellini - With Bruno Zanin, Armando Brancia, Pupella Maggio, Giuseppe Ianigro, Nando Orfei, Ciccio Ingrassia, ...

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The Holy Mountain(1973)

| 1h 54min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 456 votes)

The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.

Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky - With Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Richard Rutowski, David Silva, Juan Ferrara, Blanca Sánchez, ...

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Don't Look Now(1973)

| 1h 50min | Thriller, Drama, Horror

3.5/5 (with 428 votes)

Laura and John, grieved by a terrible loss, meet in Venice, where John is in charge of the restoration of a church, two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.

Directed by Nicolas Roeg - With Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato, Renato Scarpa, Giorgio Trestini, ...

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The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob(1973)

| 1h 40min | Comedy

3.7/5 (with 427 votes)

In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.

Directed by Gérard Oury - With Louis de Funès, Marcel Dalio, Renzo Montagnani, Miou-Miou, Suzy Delair, Claude Giraud, ...

Fantastic Planet(1973)

| 1h 12min | Animation, Science Fiction

3.8/5 (with 390 votes)

On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.

Directed by René Laloux

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Battle for the Planet of the Apes(1973)

| 1h 33min | Action, Science Fiction

2.9/5 (with 375 votes)

The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar lives in harmony with a group of humans. Gorilla General Aldo tries to cause an ape civil war and a community of human mutants who live beneath a destroyed city try to conquer those whom they perceive as enemies. All leading to the finale.

Directed by J. Lee Thompson - With Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden, Lew Ayres, Paul Williams, ...

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Sleeper(1973)

| 1h 27min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Science Fiction

3.5/5 (with 330 votes)

Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.

Directed by Woody Allen - With Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Mews Small, Peter Hobbs, Don Keefer, ...

Paper Moon(1973)

| 1h 42min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

3.9/5 (with 303 votes)

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl—who may or may not be his daughter—and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

Directed by Peter Bogdanovich - With Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman, Randy Quaid, Noble Willingham, ...

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Jesus Christ Superstar(1973)

| 1h 48min | Music, Drama

3.5/5 (with 278 votes)

As played out by a theatre troupe, the last days of Jesus Christ are depicted from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, his betrayer. As Jesus' following increases, Judas begins to worry that Jesus is falling for his own hype, forgetting the principles of his teachings and growing too close to the prostitute Mary Magdalene.

Directed by Norman Jewison - With Carl Anderson, Yvonne Elliman, Ted Neeley, Barry Dennen, Bob Bingham, Josh Mostel, ...

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Day for Night(1973)

1h 56min | Comedy, Drama

3.9/5 (with 260 votes)

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

Directed by François Truffaut - With Niké Arrighi, Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Valentina Cortese, François Truffaut, ...

The Long Goodbye(1973)

| 1h 52min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Comedy

3.7/5 (with 240 votes)

In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

Directed by Robert Altman - With Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson, David Arkin, Nina van Pallandt, ...

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The Day of the Jackal(1973)

| 2h 23min | Action, Thriller

3.8/5 (with 220 votes)

An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.

Directed by Fred Zinnemann - With Edward Fox, Michael Lonsdale, Michel Auclair, Derek Jacobi, Jean Martin, Olga Georges-Picot, ...

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