1. The Exorcist
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: William Friedkin
Actors: Ellen Burtyn, Linda Blair, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn
Plot: A little girl is possessed by a demon. Can the Catholic church save her?
2. The Sting
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Roy Hill
Actors: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan
Plot: A man seeks revenge on his murdered partner while he joins forces with a con man to pull off the ultimate sting.
3. Enter the Dragon
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Clouse
Actors: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly, Kien Shih, Ahna Capri, Angela Mao
Plot: A martial arts expert is recruited by the government to infiltrate the island of criminal mastermind lord Han during a brutal tournament.
4. Badlands
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Terrence Malick
Actors: Sissy Spacek, Martin Sheen, Alan Vint, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Gary Littlejohn
Plot: Loosely based on the Starkweather serial killer, a young girl and her much older boy friend kill several people including her family and run from the law in South Dakota during the 1950's.
5. Papillon
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Actors: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe, Robert Deman
Plot: The true story of a man trying to escape from prison.
6. Paper Moon
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman, P.J. Johnson, Jessie Lee Fulton
Plot: A Depression-era con man, who hustles widows by selling them Bibles, picks
up an orphaned girl who may or may not be his daughter. Their colorful
trip to deliver her to her aunt is chronicled in this wistful comedy-
drama.
7. Serpico
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sidney Lumet
Actors: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire, Cornelia Sharpe, Tony Roberts
Plot: Frank Serpico is an honest cop in a corrupt force. How long can he stay clean? And will other cops trust him or want him out of the way? Al Pacino is... Frank Serpico.
8. American Graffiti
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Lucas
Actors: Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Harrison Ford
Plot: A group of graduating high school students enjoy their last time together as they eat at the drive in, drive around, and woo the local girls.
9. The Long Goodbye
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Altman
Actors: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson, David Arkin
Plot: Detective Phillip Marlowe investigates the murder of a friend's wife.
10. Mean Streets
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Robert De Niro, David Proval, Harvey Keitel, David Carradine, Richard Romanus, Amy Robinson
Plot: A young crook uses his anger to survive in NYC stealing and busting jaws.
