Best 1973 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 1973 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.

#20. The Three Musketeers
- Stacker score: 86.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 21,000)
- Metascore: 77
- Director: Richard Lester
- Actors: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Richard Chamberlain
- Runtime: 1 hour 46 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $22,018,000

#19. Sleeper
- Stacker score: 86.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 46,000)
- Metascore: 77
- Director: Woody Allen
- Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck
- Runtime: 1 hour 29 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $18,344,729

#18. Charley Varrick
- Stacker score: 88.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 15,000)
- Metascore: 76
- Director: Don Siegel
- Actors: Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr
- Runtime: 1 hour 51 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: N/A

#17. Theater of Blood
- Stacker score: 88.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 13,000)
- Metascore: 81
- Director: Douglas Hickox
- Actors: Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry
- Runtime: 1 hour 44 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A

#16. Lady Snowblood
- Stacker score: 91.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 18,000)
- Metascore: 80
- Director: Toshiya Fujita
- Actors: Meiko Kaji, Toshio Kurosawa, Masaaki Daimon
- Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: N/A

#15. The Friends of Eddie Coyle
- Stacker score: 92.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 13,000)
- Metascore: 84
- Director: Peter Yates
- Actors: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan
- Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A

#14. The Day of the Jackal
- Stacker score: 92.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 51,000)
- Metascore: 80
- Director: Fred Zinnemann
- Actors: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair
- Runtime: 2 hours 23 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $16,056,255

#13. Paper Moon
- Stacker score: 92.4
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 56,000)
- Metascore: 77
- Director: Peter Bogdanovich
- Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Tatum O'Neal, Madeline Kahn
- Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: N/A

#12. Enter the Dragon
- Stacker score: 93.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 118,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Robert Clouse
- Actors: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly
- Runtime: 1 hour 42 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $25,259

#11. Serpico
- Stacker score: 93.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 143,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: Sidney Lumet
- Actors: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe
- Runtime: 2 hours 10 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $29,800,000

#10. The Last Detail
- Stacker score: 94.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 30,000)
- Metascore: 86
- Director: Hal Ashby
- Actors: Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Otis Young
- Runtime: 1 hour 44 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A

#9. The Long Goodbye
- Stacker score: 94.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 42,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Robert Altman
- Actors: Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden
- Runtime: 1 hour 52 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A

#8. The Wicker Man
- Stacker score: 94.7
- IMDb user rating: 7.5 (votes: 102,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Robin Hardy
- Actors: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento
- Runtime: 1 hour 28 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $148,882

#7. F for Fake
- Stacker score: 95.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 19,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: Orson Welles, Gary Graver, Oja Kodar
- Actors: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, François Reichenbach
- Runtime: 1 hour 29 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: N/A

#6. The Exorcist
- Stacker score: 95.9
- IMDb user rating: 8.1 (votes: 484,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: William Friedkin
- Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair
- Runtime: 2 hours 2 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $233,005,644

#5. The Sting
- Stacker score: 96.5
- IMDb user rating: 8.2 (votes: 293,000)
- Metascore: 83
- Director: George Roy Hill
- Actors: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw
- Runtime: 2 hours 9 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $156,000,000

#4. Don't Look Now
- Stacker score: 97.1
- IMDb user rating: 7.1 (votes: 67,000)
- Metascore: 95
- Director: Nicolas Roeg
- Actors: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason
- Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A

#3. Mean Streets
- Stacker score: 98.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 125,000)
- Metascore: 96
- Director: Martin Scorsese
- Actors: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval
- Runtime: 1 hour 52 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $32,645

#2. Badlands
- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 82,000)
- Metascore: 94
- Director: Terrence Malick
- Actors: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates
- Runtime: 1 hour 34 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: N/A

#1. American Graffiti
- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 103,000)
- Metascore: 97
- Director: George Lucas
- Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat
- Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $115,000,000