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Best Movies of 1973, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
77 films from 1973 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Sting ('1973), at 8.2 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.5. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Mean Streets, 7.1 on IMDb against 96 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Sting '1973 | Comedy / Crime / Drama | 8.2 | 93% | 83 | 8.0 | George Roy Hill |
| 2 | The Exorcist '1973 | Horror | 8.1 | 78% | 83 | 7.7 | William Friedkin |
| 3 | Papillon '1973 | Crime / Drama | 8.0 | 74% | 58 | 7.8 | Franklin J. Schaffner |
| 4 | Paper Moon '1973 | Comedy / Crime / Drama | 8.1 | 91% | 77 | 7.9 | Peter Bogdanovich |
| 5 | Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession '1973 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 8.2 | - | - | 7.9 | Leonid Gaidai |
| 6 | Day for Night '1973 | Comedy / Drama | 8.0 | 98% | - | 7.8 | François Truffaut |
| 7 | Serpico '1973 | Crime / Drama | 7.7 | 93% | 83 | 7.5 | Sidney Lumet |
| 8 | The Day of the Jackal '1973 | Action / Thriller | 7.8 | 91% | 80 | 7.5 | Fred Zinnemann |
| 9 | Amarcord '1973 | Comedy / Drama | 7.8 | 88% | - | 7.9 | Federico Fellini |
| 10 | Badlands '1973 | Drama / Romance / Crime | 7.7 | 97% | 94 | 7.5 | Terrence Malick |
| 11 | The Holy Mountain '1973 | Drama | 7.7 | 85% | 76 | 7.5 | Alejandro Jodorowsky |
| 12 | Enter the Dragon '1973 | Action | 7.6 | 88% | 83 | 7.4 | Robert Clouse |
| 13 | Fantastic Planet '1973 | Animation / Sci-Fi | 7.6 | 91% | 73 | 7.6 | René Laloux |
| 14 | Robin Hood '1973 | Animation | 7.5 | 56% | 57 | 7.3 | Wolfgang Reitherman |
| 15 | The Spirit of the Beehive '1973 | Drama / Fantasy | 7.7 | 93% | 87 | 7.6 | Víctor Erice |
| 16 | The Wicker Man '1973 | Horror | 7.5 | 92% | 87 | 7.3 | Robin Hardy |
| 17 | F for Fake '1973 | Documentary | 7.7 | 88% | 87 | 7.4 | Orson Welles |
| 18 | The Long Goodbye '1973 | Mystery / Crime | 7.5 | 93% | 87 | 7.4 | Robert Altman |
| 19 | A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving '1973 | Animation / Comedy | 7.7 | 67% | - | 7.3 | Bill Melendez |
| 20 | The Last Detail '1973 | Drama / Comedy | 7.5 | 87% | 86 | 7.0 | Hal Ashby |
| 21 | Lady Snowblood '1973 | Action / Crime / Drama | 7.6 | 100% | 80 | 7.5 | Toshiya Fujita |
| 22 | American Graffiti '1973 | Comedy / Drama | 7.4 | 95% | 97 | 7.1 | George Lucas |
| 23 | High Plains Drifter '1973 | Western / Drama / Mystery | 7.4 | 91% | 69 | 7.3 | Clint Eastwood |
| 24 | Three Wishes for Cinderella '1973 | Fantasy / Romance | 7.6 | - | - | 7.5 | Václav Vorlíček |
| 25 | Charley Varrick '1973 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 7.5 | 82% | 76 | 7.4 | Don Siegel |
| 26 | The Mother and the Whore '1973 | Drama / Romance | 7.7 | 94% | 89 | 7.3 | Jean Eustache |
| 27 | Jesus Christ Superstar '1973 | Drama | 7.4 | 52% | 64 | 7.1 | Norman Jewison |
| 28 | The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob '1973 | Comedy | 7.4 | - | - | 7.4 | Gérard Oury |
| 29 | The Friends of Eddie Coyle '1973 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.4 | 98% | 84 | 7.2 | Peter Yates |
| 30 | My Name Is Nobody '1973 | Comedy / Western | 7.3 | 100% | 68 | 7.3 | Tonino Valerii |
| 31 | Ludwig '1973 | Drama | 7.5 | 33% | - | 7.5 | Luchino Visconti |
| 32 | Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons '1973 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 7.5 | - | - | 7.2 | Kenji Misumi |
| 33 | The Hourglass Sanatorium '1973 | Drama / Fantasy / Horror | 7.4 | - | - | 7.5 | Wojciech Has |
| 34 | Belladonna of Sadness '1973 | Animation / Drama / Fantasy | 7.3 | 90% | 70 | 7.4 | Eiichi Yamamoto |
| 35 | Magnum Force '1973 | Drama / Crime / Action | 7.2 | 69% | 58 | 7.1 | Ted Post |
| 36 | Two Men in Town '1973 | Crime / Drama | 7.3 | - | - | 7.1 | José Giovanni |
| 37 | Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid '1973 | Western / Drama | 7.2 | 60% | 53 | 7.2 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 38 | Scarecrow '1973 | Drama | 7.2 | 77% | 72 | 7.0 | Jerry Schatzberg |
| 39 | The Last of Sheila '1973 | Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.2 | 90% | - | 7.0 | Herbert Ross |
| 40 | Emperor of the North '1973 | Drama / Action / Thriller | 7.2 | 67% | - | 6.9 | Robert Aldrich |
| 41 | A Pain in the Ass '1973 | Comedy / Drama | 7.1 | - | - | 7.0 | Édouard Molinaro |
| 42 | The Magnificent One '1973 | Comedy / Romance / Action | 7.1 | - | - | 7.0 | Philippe de Broca |
| 43 | Turkish Delight '1973 | Drama / Romance | 7.1 | 86% | - | 6.9 | Paul Verhoeven |
| 44 | Theatre of Blood '1973 | Comedy / Horror | 7.1 | 88% | 81 | 6.7 | Douglas Hickox |
| 45 | The Three Musketeers '1973 | Action / Romance | 7.1 | 90% | 77 | 6.7 | Richard Lester |
| 46 | Sleeper '1973 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 100% | 77 | 6.8 | Woody Allen |
| 47 | Don't Look Now '1973 | Thriller / Drama / Horror | 7.1 | 93% | 95 | 6.9 | Nicolas Roeg |
| 48 | Mean Streets '1973 | Drama / Crime | 7.1 | 92% | 96 | 7.0 | Martin Scorsese |
| 49 | Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to? '1973 | Comedy / War | 6.9 | - | - | 7.3 | Robert Lamoureux |
| 50 | Breezy '1973 | Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 63% | 68 | 6.8 | Clint Eastwood |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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