Best Drama movies of 1973

Actors : Bill Gunn, Sam L. Waymon, Marlene Clark, Duane Jones,
Directors : Bill Gunn,

After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor's assistant finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.

Actors : Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan, Robert Duvall, Karen Black,
Directors : John Flynn,

Earl Macklin robs a bank owned by the mob, serves his prison time and is released, only to start a private war against the crime outfit that owned the bank.

Actors : J.A. Preston, Paula Kelly, Lawrence Cook, Janet League,
Directors : Ivan Dixon,

A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.

Actors : Akemi Negishi, Ryôko Ema, Yôko Hori, Reiko Ike,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

During the Meiji era, a gambler called Ocho takes revenge on three gangsters who killed her father, shelters a wanted anarchist and confronts a British spy.

Actors : Gloria Hendry, Fred Williamson, Margaret Avery, Julius Harris,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A gangster in Harlem must rescue his ex-wife, who has been kidnapped by the Mafia.

Actors : Kunie Tanaka, Hiroki Matsukata, Bunta Sugawara, Eiko Nakamura,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses.

Actors : Vonetta McGee, Hari Rhodes, Herbert Jefferson Jr., Alex Rocco,
Directors : Arthur Marks,

After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.

Actors : Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger, Elizabeth Taylor, Keith Baxter,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Barbara gets secret plastic surgery in Switzerland in an attempt to save her marriage to Mark, but he doesn't seem interested in meeting her. She checks in to a ski resort to wait for Mark,...

Actors : Margaret Markov, Sid Haig, Lynn Borden, Pam Grier,
Directors : Eddie Romero,

When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, ...

Actors : Ned Beatty, Jeff Bridges, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Valerie Perrine,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

A young hellraiser quits his moonshine business to try to become the best NASCAR racer the south has ever seen.

Actors : Irena Orska, Jan Nowicki, Halina Kowalska, Tadeusz Kondrat,
Directors : Wojciech Has,

Józef visits his dying father at a remote mental institution, where time itself doesn't seem to exist, and the line between dreams and memories becomes indistinguishable.

Actors : Alec Guinness, Diane Cilento, Adolfo Celi, Simon Ward,
Directors : Ennio De Concini,

A dramatization based on eye witness accounts of Hitler's final days in an underground bunker, his military henchmen, and his stormy relationship with Eva Braun.

Actors : Charles Gérard, Lino Ventura, André Falcon, Françoise Fabian,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

Released from prison apparently under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewellers in out-of-season Cannes ...

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Bindu, Amitabh Bachchan, Asrani,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

A popular singer convinces his new wife to enter show-business, but his pride is wounded when she outshines him.

Actors : Paul Scofield, Katharine Hepburn, Kate Reid, Lee Remick,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

A well-to-do Connecticut family is upended when the grown daughter's godparents, seized by a nameless terror, decide they've come to live with them.

Actors : Clotilde Joano, Claude Piéplu, Michel Piccoli, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne's husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre's wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years. Lucienne's ...

Actors : Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Eros Pagni, Pina Cei,
Directors : Lina Wertmüller,

When a friend is murdered by the Facists, a melancholy farmer takes up residence in a Roman brothel as he and an anarchist prostitute plot to assassinate Mussolini.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Charles Bronson, Paul Koslo, Jack Colvin,
Directors : Michael Winner,

A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.

Actors : Dean Shek, Siu Tin Yuen, Hung Lieh Chen, Jackie Chan,

Young Jackie was intrigued by Kung-Fu since an early age, but his father strictly forbade its practice. One day, he meets an old beggar who offers to teach Jackie how to fight. Jackie grows...

Actors : Imtiaz Khan, Zeenat Aman, Vijay Arora, Dharmendra,
Directors : Nasir Hussain,

Three brothers are separated after their parents' murder. Years later, their only hope of avenging their parents and reuniting as a family lies in the song they learned as children.