1973 Movies
Take a nostalgic look back at the top movies of 1973, celebrating the films, directors and actors that defined the year and left a lasting legacy in the world of entertainment.
Amarcord
Directed by: Federico Fellini
Starring: Magali Noël, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia
Country: United States of America
Outline: A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.
Papillon
Directed by: Michael Noer
Starring: Charlie Hunnam, Rami Malek, Tommy Flanagan, Roland Møller, Nina Senicar
Country: United States of America
Slither
Directed by: James Gunn
Starring: Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rooker, Don Thompson
Country: United States of America
Outline: A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
The Crazies
Directed by: Breck Eisner
Starring: Radha Mitchell, Timothy Olyphant, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson
Country: United States of America
Outline: About the inhabitants of a small Iowa town suddenly plagued by insanity and then death after a mysterious toxin contaminates their water supply.
Love
Directed by: Gaspar Noé
Starring: Aomi Muyock, Karl Glusman, Klara Kristin, Juan Saavedra
Country: France
Outline: Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbor into their bed.
Baba Yaga
Directed by: Corrado Farina
Starring: Carroll Baker, George Eastman (II), Ely Galleani, Carla Mancini, Lorenzo Piani, Isabelle De Funès, Daniela Balzaretti
Country: Italy
The Sting
Directed by: George Roy Hill
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning
Country: United States of America
Outline: Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.
Paper Moon
Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Hillerman
Country: United States of America
Outline: 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.
Papillon
Directed by: Franklin J. Schaffner
Starring: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon
Country: United States of America
Outline: 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.
The Exorcist
Directed by: William Friedkin
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb
Country: United States of America
Outline: When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.
The Holy Mountain
Directed by: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Horacio Salinas, Zamira Saunders, Juan Ferrara
Country: United States of America
Outline: In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a Christ-like character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.
Fantastic Planet
Directed by: René Laloux
Starring: Barry Bostwick, Jennifer Drake, Eric Baugin, Jean Topart
Country: United States of America
Outline: On a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.
Serpico
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire
Country: United States of America
Outline: An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
The Long Goodbye
Directed by: Robert Altman
Starring: Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell
Country: United States of America
Outline: Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
Enter the Dragon
Directed by: Robert Clouse
Starring: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly, Ahna Capri
Country: United States of America
Outline: A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
Robin Hood
Directed by: Wolfgang Reitherman
Starring: Brian Bedford, Phil Harris, Roger Miller, Peter Ustinov
Country: United States of America
Outline: The story of the legendary outlaw is portrayed with the characters as humanoid animals.
The Wicker Man
Directed by: Robin Hardy
Starring: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland
Country: United States of America
Outline: A police sergeant is sent to a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl whom the townsfolk claim never existed. Stranger still are the rites that take place there.
American Graffiti
Directed by: George Lucas
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith
Country: United States of America
Outline: A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
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