8.4

The Sting

1973, USA

• Actors: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan, Harold Gould, John Heffernan, Dana Elcar, Jack Kehoe, Dimitra Arliss, Robert Earl Jones, James Sloyan, Charles Dierkop, Lee Paul, Sally Kirkland, Avon Long, Arch Johnson, Ed Bakey, Brad Sullivan, John Quade, Larry D. Mann, Leonard Barr, Paulene Myers, Joe Tornatore, Jack Collins, Tom Spratley, Kenneth O'Brien, Ken Sansom, Ta-Tanisha
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
• Director(s): George Roy Hill
• Available languages:
  • English English.

When a mutual friend is killed by a mob boss, two con men, one experienced and one young try to get even by pulling off the big con on the mob boss. The story unfolds with several twists and last minute alterations.

  8.1

The Exorcist

1972, USA

• Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, Jason Miller, Linda Blair, William O'Malley, Barton Heyman, Peter Masterson, Rudolf Schündler, Gina Petrushka, Robert Symonds, Arthur Storch, Thomas Bermingham, Vasiliki Maliaros, Titos Vandis, Wallace Rooney, Ron Faber, Donna Mitchell, Roy Cooper, Robert Gerringer, Mercedes McCambridge, William Peter Blatty, Mary Boylan, Dick Callinan, Mason Curry, Eileen Dietz, Joanne Dusseau, Yvonne Jones
• Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
• Director(s): William Friedkin
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A visiting actress in Washington, D.C., notices dramatic and dangerous changes in the behavior and physical make-up of her 12-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, a young priest at nearby Georgetown University begins to doubt his faith while dealing with his mother's terminal sickness. And, book-ending the story, a frail, elderly priest recognizes the necessity for a show-down with an old demonic enemy.

  8.0

Papillon

1973, USA, France

• Actors: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe, Robert Deman, Woodrow Parfrey, Bill Mumy, George Coulouris, Ratna Assan, William Smithers, Val Avery, Gregory Sierra, Vic Tayback, Mills Watson, Ron Soble, Barbara Morrison, Don Hanmer, E.J. André, Richard Angarola, Jack Denbo, Len Lesser, John Quade, Fred Sadoff, Allen Jaffe, Liam Dunn, Peter Brocco, Richard Farnsworth, Billy M. Greene, Anne Byrne Hoffman
• Genre: Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama
• Director(s): Franklin J. Schaffner
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, which is French for 'butterfly' (the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly). A petty criminal, Papillon is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony in 'Guiane' (French Guiana, South America). Papillon is determined to escape but attempt after attempt meets with difficulty, resulting in eventual recapture. He continues his attempts to escape despite incarcerations in solitary confinement as punishment.

  7.9

Jimi Hendrix

1973, USA

• Actors: Arthur Allen, Albert Allen, Stella Benabon, Eric Barrett, Paul Caruso, Eric Clapton, Billy Cox, Frankie Crocker, Monika Dannemann, Jenifer Dean, Alan Douglas, Germaine Greer, Harold Parker, Pat Hartley, Al Hendrix, Mick Jagger, Linda Keith, Eddie Kramer, Buddy Miles, Mitch Mitchell, Juggy Murray, Little Richard, Fayne Pridgon, Lou Reed, Juma Sutan, Pete Townshend, Major Charles Washington, Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding
• Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
• Director(s): Joe Boyd
• Available languages:
  • English English.

This documentary was made three years after Jimi Hendrix's untimely death. At the time it was an example of how a visual biography should be done, but some of the information in it needs revising in the light of new information uncovered over the years. The film contains concert footage spanning the Marquee in 1967 to his last UK performance at the third Isle of Wight festival in 1970; along the way we see classic performances at Monterey (1967), Woodstock (1969), Fillmore East (1969/70), and Berkeley (1970). A double album was released to tie-in with the film, containing the complete performances in the film, along with interviews with people in the film (not necessarily the same interviews). The film is worth seeing for Jimi's performances, and to hear what his contemporaries have to say about him (Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell, Lou Reed, Mick Jagger, Pete Townsend, and others).

  7.7

The Wicker Man

1973, UK

• Actors: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt, Lindsay Kemp, Russell Waters, Aubrey Morris, Irene Sunters, Walter Carr, Ian Campbell, Leslie Blackater, Roy Boyd, Peter Brewis, Barbara Rafferty, Juliet Cadzow, Ross Campbell, Penny Cluer, Michael John Cole, Michael Cole, Kevin Collins, Gerry Cowper, Ian Cutler, Donald Eccles, Myra Forsyth, John Hallam, Alison Hughes, Charles Kearney, Fiona Kennedy, John MacGregor
• Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Robin Hardy
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Sgt. Howie travels to Summerisle to investigate the disappearance of a young girl. He discovers that the locals are weird and unhelpful, and becomes determined to get to the bottom of the disappearance.

  7.6

Enter the Dragon

1972, Hong Kong, USA

• Actors: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Kien Shih, Ahna Capri, Angela Mao, Jim Kelly, Robert Wall, Bolo Yeung, Betty Chung, Geoffrey Weeks, Peter Archer, Li Jen Ho, Marlene Clark, Allan Kent, William Keller, Mickey Caruso, Pat E. Johnson, Darnell Garcia, Mike Bissell, Hidy Ochiai, Jackie Chan, Roy Chiao, Paul M. Heller, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Tony Liu, Hoi Mang, Steve Sanders, Chin-lai Sung, Wei Tung, Donnie Williams
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Robert Clouse
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Enter the Dragon revolves around the three main characters. Lee, a man recruited by an agency to investigate a tournament hosted by Han, since they believe he has an Opium trade there. Roper and Williams are former army buddies since Vietnam and they enter the tournament due to different problems that they have. Roper is on the run from the Mafia due to his gambling debts, while Williams is harassed by racist police officers and defends himself from them and uses the car for his getaway. It is a deadly tournament that they will enter on an island. Lee's job is to get the other two out of there alive.

  7.6

High Plains Drifter

1972, USA

• Actors: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitch Ryan, Jack Ging, Stefan Gierasch, Ted Hartley, Billy Curtis, Geoffrey Lewis, Scott Walker, Walter Barnes, Paul Brinegar, Richard Bull, Robert Donner, John Hillerman, Anthony James, William O'Connell, John Quade, Dan Vadis, Buddy Van Horn, Jane Aull, Reid Cruickshanks, Jim Gosa, Jack Kosslyn, Russ McCubbin, Belle Mitchell, John Mitchum, Carl Pitti, Alex Tinne, Chuck Waters
• Genre: Thriller, Western
• Director(s): Clint Eastwood
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A stranger rides out of the hot desert into a small town in the wild west. The towns people are scared of him, and 3 gunmen try, unsuccessfully, to kill him. He takes a room and decides to stay. Meanwhile, a group of outlaws are about to return to the town and take their revenge - will the towns leaders convince the mysterious man to help ?

  7.5

Mean Streets

1973, USA

• Actors: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus, Cesare Danova, Victor Argo, George Memmoli, Lenny Scaletta, Jeannie Bell, Murray Moston, David Carradine, Robert Carradine, Lois Walden, Harry Northup, Dino Seragusa, D'Mitch Davis, Peter Fain, Juli Andelman, Robert Wilder, Ken Sinclair, Jaime Alba, Ken Konstantin, Nicki 'Ack' Aquilino, B. Mitchel Reed, Catherine Scorsese, Martin Scorsese
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Director(s): Martin Scorsese
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The future is set for Tony and Michael - owning a neighbour- hood bar and making deals in the mean streets of New York city's Little Italy. For Charlie, the future is less clearly defined. A small-time hood, he works for his uncle, making collections and reclaiming bad debts. He's probably too nice to succeed. In love with a woman his uncle disapproves of (because of her epilepsy) and a friend of her cousin, Johnny Boy, a near psychotic whose trouble-making threatens them all - he can't reconcile opposing values. A failed attempt to escape (to Brooklyn) moves them all a step closer to a bitter, almost preordained future.

  7.5

Robin Hood

1972, USA

• Actors: Brian Bedford, Phil Harris, Andy Devine, Monica Evans, Carole Shelley, Peter Ustinov, Terry-Thomas, Pat Buttram, Roger Miller, George Lindsey, Ken Curtis, Candy Candido, John Fiedler, Dana Laurita, Barbara Luddy, J. Pat O'Malley, Dori Whitaker, Billy Whittaker
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Romance
• Director(s): Wolfgang Reitherman
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Retelling of the Robin Hood legend with animals for the characters. Robin Hood is an outlaw who starts to form a gang in Sherwood Forest to fight the injustices of the Sheriff of Nottingham, who levies unpayable taxes upon the people.

  7.4

Il mio nome è Nessuno

1973, Italy, France, West Germany

• Actors: Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin, R.G. Armstrong, Karl Braun, Leo Gordon, Steve Kanaly, Geoffrey Lewis, Neil Summers, Piero Lulli, Mario Brega, Marc Mazza, Benito Stefanelli, Alexander Allerson, Rainer Peets, Antoine Saint-John, Franco Angrisano, Tommy Polgár, Antonio Palombi, Hubert Mittendorf, Emil Feist, Carla Mancini, Luigi Antonio Guerra, Angelo Novi, Ullrich Müller, Claus Schmidt, Stocker Fontelieu, Jackson D. Kane, Maurice Kowaleski
• Genre: Western, Comedy
• Director(s): Tonino Valerii
• Available languages:
  • Italian Italian.

Jack Beauregard, once the greatest gunslinger of the Old West, only wants to move to Europe and retire in peace. But a young gunfighter, known only as "Nobody", idolizes him and wants to see him go out in a blaze of glory. He arranges for Jack to face the 150-man gang known as The Wild Bunch and earn his place in history.

  7.3

Sleeper

1973, USA

• Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck, Mary Gregory, Don Keefer, John McLiam, Bartlett Robinson, Chris Forbes, Mews Small, Peter Hobbs, Susan Miller, Lou Picetti, Jessica Rains, Brian Avery, Spencer Milligan, Stanley Ross, John Cannon, Regis Cordic, Howard Cosell, George Furth, Laurence Kirchmar, Jackie Mason, Richard Nixon, Albert Popwell, Douglas Rain, Whitney Rydbeck
• Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Woody Allen
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A clarinet player who also runs a health food store is frozen and brought back in the future by anti-government radicals in order to assist them in their attempts to overthrow an oppressive government. When he goes off on his own, he begins to explore this brave new world that has Orgasmatron booths to replace sex and confessional robots.

  7.3

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

1973, USA

• Actors: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado, Chill Wills, Barry Sullivan, Jason Robards, Bob Dylan, R.G. Armstrong, Luke Askew, John Beck, Richard Bright, Matt Clark, Rita Coolidge, Jack Dodson, Jack Elam, Emilio Fernández, Paul Fix, L.Q. Jones, Slim Pickens, Jorge Russek, Charles Martin Smith, Harry Dean Stanton, Claudia Bryar, John Davis Chandler, Michael T. Mikler, Aurora Clavel, Rutanya Alda, Walter Kelley, Rudy Wurlitzer
• Genre: Drama, History, Western
• Director(s): Sam Peckinpah
• Available languages:
  • English English.

It's 1881 in New Mexico, and the times they are a'changing. Pat Garrett, erstwhile travelling companion of the outlaw Billy the Kid has become a sheriff, tasked by cattle interests with ridding the territory of Billy. After Billy escapes, Pat assembles a posse and chases him through the territory, culminating in a final confrontation at Fort Sumner, but is unaware of the full scope of the cattle interests' plans for the New West.

  7.2

Scarecrow

1973, USA

• Actors: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan, Ann Wedgeworth, Richard Lynch, Eileen Brennan, Penelope Allen, Richard Hackman, Al Cingolani, Rutanya Alda, Charles Noel
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Jerry Schatzberg
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Max is an ex-con who's been saving money to open a car wash in Pittsburgh. Lionel is a sailor who's returning home to the midwest to see the child born while he was at sea. They form an unlikely pair as the brawling Max learns a little how Lionel copes with the world: Lionel believes that the scarecrow doesn't scare birds, but instead amuses them - birds find scare-crows funny.

  7.0

Westworld

1973, USA

• Actors: Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, Norman Bartold, Alan Oppenheimer, Victoria Shaw, Dick Van Patten, Linda Gaye Scott, Steve Franken, Michael T. Mikler, Terry Wilson, Majel Barrett, Anne Randall, Julie Marcus, Sharyn Wynters, Anne Bellamy, Chris Holter, Charles Seel, Wade Crosby, Nora Marlowe, Lin Henson, Orville Sherman, C. Lindsay Workman, Lauren Gilbert, Davis Roberts, Howard Platt, Richard Roat, Kenneth Washington, Jared Martin, Robert Patten
• Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
• Director(s): Michael Crichton
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A amusement park for rich vacationers. The park provides its customers a way to live out their fantasies through the use of robots that provide anything they want. Two of the vacationers choose a wild west adventure. However, after a computer breakdown, they find that they are now being stalked by a rogue robot gun-slinger.

  7.2

Theater of Blood

1972, UK

• Actors: Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Robert Coote, Jack Hawkins, Michael Hordern, Arthur Lowe, Robert Morley, Dennis Price, Milo O'Shea, Eric Sykes, Madeline Smith, Diana Dors, Joan Hickson, Renée Asherson, Bunny Reed, Peter Thornton, Charles Sinnickson, Brigid Erin Bates, Tutte Lemkow, Stanley Bates, Eric Francis, Sally Gilmore, John Gilpin, Joyce Graeme, Jack Maguire, Declan Mulholland, Tony Calvin
• Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Horror
• Director(s): Douglas Hickox
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) stars as an actor overlooked for a critics' acting award, despite producing a season of Shakespeare plays. After confronting the Critics' Circle, an attempted suicidal dive into the Thames results in Lionheart being rescued by your typical paraffin/meths/turps swigging tramps. Lionheart then (presumed dead) exacts his grizzly, and quite amusing revenge on the critics who denied him his finest hour.

  7.1

Electra Glide in Blue

1972, USA

• Actors: Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush, Mitch Ryan, Jeannine Riley, Elisha Cook Jr., Royal Dano, Hawk Wolinski, Peter Cetera, Terry Kath, Lee Loughnane, Walter Parazaider, Joe Samsil, Jason Clark, Michael Butler, Susan Forristal, Lucy Angle Guercio, Melissa Green, Jim Gilmore, Bob Zemko, Mickey Alzola, Jerry Brutsche, Lew Burch, Doug Burns, Percy Curtis, George Dockstader, Scott Dockstader, Steve Fagin, Jane Ferris, Alan Gibbs, Chester Grimes
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Director(s): James William Guercio
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A short Arizona motorcycle cop gets his wish and is promoted to Homicide following the mysterious murder of a hermit. He is forced to confront his illusions about himself and those around him in order to solve the case, eventually returning to solitude in the desert.

  7.0

Soylent Green

1972, USA

• Actors: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters, Paula Kelly, Edward G. Robinson, Stephen Young, Mike Henry, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Roy Jenson, Leonard Stone, Whit Bissell, Celia Lovsky, Dick Van Patten, Morgan Farley, John Barclay, Belle Mitchell, Cyril Delevanti, Forrest Wood, Faith Quabius, Jane Dulo, Tim Herbert, John Dennis, Jan Bradley, Carlos Romero, Pat Houtchens, Joyce Williams, Erica Hagen, Beverly Gill
• Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Richard Fleischer
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A tale of Earth in despair in 2022. Natural food like fruits, vegetables, and meat among others are now extinct. Earth is overpopulated and New York City has 40 million starving, poverty stricken people. The only way they survive is with water rations and eating a mysterious food called Soylent. A detective investigates the murder of the president of the Soylent company. The truth he uncovers is more disturbing than the Earth in turmoil when he learns the secret ingredient of Soylent Green.

  6.9

Jesus Christ Superstar

1972, USA

• Actors: Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson, Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen, Bob Bingham, Larry Marshall, Josh Mostel, Kurt Yaghjian, Paul Thomas, Pi Douglass, Richard Orbach, Robert LuPone, Jonathan Wynne, Thommie Walsh, Richard Molinare, David Devir, Jeff Hyslop, Shooki Wagner, Darcel Wynne, Marcia McBroom, Sally Neal, Leeyan Granger, Vera Biloshisky, Kate Wright, Wendy Maltby, Denise Pence, Baayork Lee, Wyetta Turner, Susie Allanson, Tamar Zafria
• Genre: Drama, History, Musical
• Director(s): Norman Jewison
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Based on a concept album project written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, and the subsequent long-running Broadway performance, this film tells the story of the final 6 days in the life of Jesus Christ through the troubled eyes of Judas Iscariot. Too often mis-labeled a musical, this film is a "rock opera." There are no spoken lines, everything is sung.

  6.8

Live and Let Die

1972, UK

• Actors: Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James, Julius Harris, Geoffrey Holder, David Hedison, Gloria Hendry, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Tommy Lane, Earl Jolly Brown, Roy Stewart, Lon Satton, Arnold Williams, Ruth Kempf, Joie Chitwood, Madeline Smith, Michael Ebbin, Kubi Chaza, Brenda Arnau, Robert Dix, James Drake, Dennis Edwards, Stocker Fontelieu, Lance Gordon, Stephen Hendrickson, Roy Hollis, Dan Jackson, Della McCrae
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
• Director(s): Guy Hamilton
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Several British agents have been murdered and James Bond is sent to New York, to investigate these mysterious deaths. Mr. Big comes to his knowledge, who is self-producing heroin. Along his journeys he meets Tee Hee who has a claw for a hand, Baron Samedi the voodoo master and Solitaire and her tarot cards. Bond must travel deep inside New York, through marshy grass and on water as he completes his mission.

  6.7

Dillinger

1973, USA

• Actors: Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips, Cloris Leachman, Harry Dean Stanton, Geoffrey Lewis, John P. Ryan, Richard Dreyfuss, Steve Kanaly, John Martino, Roy Jenson, Read Morgan, Frank McRae, David Dorr, Roland Bob Harris, J. Edgar Hoover, Terry Leonard, Jerry Summers, Catherine Tambini
• Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
• Director(s): John Milius
• Available languages:
  • English English.

After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.