Movie Releases by Score
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1.
American Graffiti
August 11, 1973
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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Don't Look Now
December 9, 1973
A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.
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Mean Streets
October 14, 1973
Charlie (Harvey Keitel) is working his way up the ranks of a local mob. Teresa (Amy Robinson) is the girlfriend his family deems unsuitable because of her epilepsy. Johnny Boy (Robert De Niro) is a small-time gambler in big-time debt to loan sharks. This is a story Martin Scorsese lived, a semi-biographical tale of the first-generation sons and daughters of New York's Little Italy. [Warner Bros.]
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Badlands
October 15, 1973
Loosely based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of 1958, Terrence Malick's debut features follows outlaws Kit and Holly from Fort Dupre, South Dakota to the badlands of Montana.
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The Last Detail
December 12, 1973
Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
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The Long Goodbye
March 7, 1973
Private investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam then gets implicated in his wife's murder.
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Enter the Dragon
August 19, 1973
A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
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The Sting
December 25, 1973
In Chicago of September 1936, a young con man seeks revenge for his murdered by teaming up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.
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Bang the Drum Slowly
August 26, 1973
The story of the friendship between a star pitcher, wise to the world, and a half-wit catcher, as they cope with the catcher's terminal illness through a baseball season.
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The Day of the Jackal
July 30, 1973
A professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.
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Sleeper
December 17, 1973
A nerdish store owner is revived out of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government.
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Paper Moon
May 9, 1973
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.
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The Holy Mountain
November 29, 1973
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.
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The Iceman Cometh
October 29, 1973
A salesman with a sudden passion for reform has an idea to sell to his barfly buddies: throw away your pipe dreams. The drunkards, living in a flophouse above a saloon, resent the idea.
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The Harder They Come
February 8, 1973
Reggae superstar Jimmy Cliff is Ivan, a rural Jamaican musician who journeys to the city of Kingston in search of fame and fortune. Pushed to desperate circumstances by shady record producers and corrupt cops, he finally achieves notoriety—as a murderous outlaw. Boasting some of the greatest music ever produced in Jamaica, The Harder They Come brought the catchy and subversive rhythms of the Rastas to the U.S. in the early 1970s. [The Criterion Collection]
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Fantastic Planet
December 1, 1973
On a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.
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Scarecrow
April 11, 1973
Max, an ex-con drifter with a penchant for brawling and Lion, a homeless ex-sailor, partner up and head east together.
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The Offence
May 11, 1973
A burnt-out British police detective finally snaps whilst interrogating a suspected child molester.
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High Plains Drifter
August 22, 1973
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago and is hired to bring the townsfolk together in an attempt to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
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Soylent Green
May 9, 1973
In the world ravaged by the greenhouse effect and overpopulation, an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a big company CEO.
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The Paper Chase
October 16, 1973
A first-year law student at Harvard Law School struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of his sternest professor.
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Jesus Christ Superstar
August 15, 1973
Film version of the musical stage play, presenting the last few weeks of Christ's life told in an anachronistic manner.
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The Train Robbers
February 7, 1973
A gunhand named Lane is hired by a widow, Mrs. Lowe, to find gold stolen by her husband so that she may return it and start fresh.
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The Way We Were
October 19, 1973
Two disparate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.
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Walking Tall
February 22, 1973
Based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser whom almost single-handily cleaned up his small town of crime and corruption, but at a personal cost of his family life and nearly his own life.
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Coffy
May 1, 1973
A sexy black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim.
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Cleopatra Jones
July 13, 1973
During the 1970s, U.S. Special Agent Cleopatra Jones proves to be an invaluable asset to the local police forces in the war on drugs.
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Magnum Force
December 25, 1973
Dirty Harry is on the trail of vigilante cops who are not above going beyond the law to kill the city's undesirables.
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Papillon
December 16, 1973
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.
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Robin Hood
November 8, 1973
The story of the legendary outlaw is portrayed with the characters as humanoid animals.
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31.
Live and Let Die
June 27, 1973
007 is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.
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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
May 23, 1973
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
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Titles with fewer than 7 critic reviews are excluded.