Top Movies of 1973


The top movies of 1973 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

81. Scream, Blacula, Scream

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Bob Kelljan
Actors: William Marshall, Don Mitchell, Pam Grier, Michael Conrad, Richard Lawson, Lynne Moody
Plot: Blacula is reincarnated by the son of a voodoo priestess. The two then invade a voodoo cult, making them vampires, and battle the LA police department.

82. Save the Tiger

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John G. Avildsen
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Jack Gilford, Laurie Heineman, Norman Burton, Patricia Smith, Thayer David

83. The Emperor of the North

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Robert Aldrich
Actors: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine, Charles Tyner, Malcolm Atterbury, Simon Oakland
Plot: In 1933 Oregon, a seasoned train-riding hobo, and his younger would-be protege, are harassed and brutalized by a vicious conductor who threatens to kill anyone who tries to ride his boxcars.

84. Massacre in Rome ( Rappresaglia )

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Actors: Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, Leo McKern, John Steiner, Anthony Steel, Robert Harris

85. The Last American Hero

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sport
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Lamont Johnson
Actors: Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ned Beatty, Gary Busey, Art Lund
Plot: A North Carolina moonshiner becomes a professional stock-car racer to raise money to free his jailed father.

86. Tenderness of the Wolves ( Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe, Die )

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Horror/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ulli Lommel
Actors: Kurt Raab, Jeff Roden, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven, Wolfgang Schenck, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Plot: Fritz Haarmann is known homosexual, thief and sneak, but the German police offer him license to operate as he provides valuable meat on the black market. But Haarmaan's meat isn't from animals, but rather the young boys he stalks and murders and eats with a circle of friends.

87. Belladonna of Sadness ( Kanashimi no Beradonna )

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Eiichi Yamamoto
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Masaya Takahashi, Natsuka Yashiro, Aiko Nagayama, Katsuyuki Itô, Shigako Shimegi

88. The Homecoming

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Hall
Actors: Cyril Cusack, Ian Holm, Jonathan Sachar, Vivien Merchant, Paul Rogers, Michael Jayston

89. Battle of Okinawa, The ( Gekido no showashi: Okinawa kessen )

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Actors: Keiju Kobayashi, Yûzô Kayama, Tetsurô Tanba, Tatsuya Nakadai, Mayumi Ozora, Katsuhiko Sasaki
Plot: Told from the Japanese perspective.

90. The Candy Snatchers

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guerdon Trueblood
Actors: Tiffany Bolling, Ben Piazza, Susan Sennett, Brad David, Vince Martorano, Bonnie Boland

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