21. Charlotte's Web
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Charles A. Nichols
Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Paul Lynde, Henry Gibson, Rex Allen
22. Days and Nights in the Forest ( Aranyer Din Ratri )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Bengali
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Satyajit Ray
Actors: Sharmila Tagore, Kaberi Bose, Simi Garewal, Soumitra Chatterjee, Subhendu Chatterjee, Robi Ghosh
Plot: Follows four middle-class workers as leave their jobs behind for a week and visit the forest. Meeting up with another group, they begin flirting with women.
23. Playtime
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jacques Tati
Actors: Jacques Tati, Yves Barsacq, Georges Montant, Billy Kearns, John Abbey, Rita Maiden
24. Lady Snowblood ( Shurayukihime )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Toshiya Fujita
Actors: Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon, Miyoko Akaza, Shinichi Uchida, Takeo Chii
Plot: A family is brutalized by a group of criminals who wipe nearly everyone out. Yuki is the only survivor after her mother dies in childbirth - her dying wish to maker sure her daughter is raised as the perfect assassin. Knowing no family or love, Yuki is molded as such and becomes the perfect instrument for revenge.
25. Fist of Fury aka Chinese Connection, The ( Jing wu men )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wei Lo
Actors: Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, James Tien, Maria Yi, Robert Baker, Fu Ching Chen
Plot: Bruce Lee stars as a man sworn to do no harm. As he help his cousins in an ice factory, he discovers something that draws him to violence and his only choice is it act out against evil.
26. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Historical/Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Richard Jaeckel, Jason Robards, Jack Elam
Plot: Lawman Pat Garrett pursues his friend, Billy the Kid, whose life has diverged from the former's after years of camaraderie.
27. The Holy Mountain
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Actors: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horácio Salinas, Zamira Saunders, Juan Ferrara, Adriana Page, Burt Kleiner
Plot: A Christlike figure wanders through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with religious and sacrilegious imagery. He meets a mystical guide who introduces him to seven wealthy and powerful individuals, each representing a planet in the solar system. These seven, along with the protagonist, the guide and the guide's assistant, divest themselves of their worldly goods and form a group of nine who will seek out the Holy Mountain, in order to displace the gods who live there and become immortal.
28. Fantastic Planet ( planète sauvage, La )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Animation/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: René Laloux
Actors: Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin, Jean Topart, Jean Valmont
Plot: On the faraway world of Ygam, the minute human-like Om are pets and slaves to the blue giants known as Draag. But when the Om, Ter, finds a device that enhances intellect, he uses it to help his fellow Om and plan an uprising against their harsh masters.
29. Sleeper
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Don Keefer, John Beck, Mary Gregory, John McLiam
Plot: A man from 1973 wakes from suspended animation 200 years in the future
where everything is nothing as he remembers.
30. State of Siege ( État de siège )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Costa-Gavras
Actors: Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse, Jacques Weber, Jean-Luc Bideau, Maurice Teynac
Plot: Uruguay in the early 70s - the government fights a group of leftist Tupamaro guerrillas. Against this backdrop an American agent working for a group that is a front for counterinsurgency is kidnapped by the guerrillas and interrogated.
