1973

1. High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood) - 10
   
2. The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman) - 9.0
3. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
   
4. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice)
5. Badlands (Terrence Malick)
   
6. Amarcord (Federico Fellini) - 8.5
   
7. The Fantastic Planet (René Laloux)
   
8. American Graffiti (George Lucas) - 8.0
   
9. Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich)
10. Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)
    
11. The Last Detail (Hal Ashby)
    
12. The Exorcist (William Friedkin) - 7.5
    
13. Serpico (Sidney Lumet)
14. Papillon (Franklin J. Schaffner)
15. The Sting (George Roy Hill) - 7.0
    
16. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
17. The Fate of Lee Khan (King Hu)
    
18. The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
    
19. Sisters (Brian De Palma) - 6.5
    
20. Sleeper (Woody Allen)
21. The Tiger Leaped and Killed, But It Will Die... It Will Die... (Santiago Álvarez) - 6.0
    
22. Charlotte's Web (Charles A. Nichols, Iwao Takamoto) - 5.0
23. Bricklayer (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
    
24. Magnum Force (Ted Post)
25. Robin Hood (Wolfgang Reitherman) - 3.0
    
26. Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer)