# List of French films of 1973

A list of films produced in France in 1973.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| A Full Day's Work | Jean-Louis Trintignant | Jacques Dufilho, Luce Marquand | Comedy | French-Italian co-production |
| Amarcord | Federico Fellini | Bruno Zanin, Magali Noël, Pupella Maggio | Drama | Italian–French co-production |
| Anita: Swedish Nymphet | Torgny Wickman | Christina Lindberg, Stellan Skarsgård | Adult | Swedish–French co-production |
| A Police Officer Without Importance | Jean Larriaga | Robert Hossein, Charles Denner, Nicole Courcel, Raymond Pellegrin, Julian Negulesco, Dani, Marc Porel | Crime | French-Italian co-production |
| A Rare Bird | Jean-Claude Brialy | Barbara, Pierre Bertin, Anny Duperey, Jacqueline Maillan, Micheline Presle, Jean-Claude Brialy | Comedy | |
| Bananes mécaniques | Jean-François Davy | Marie-Georges Pascal, Elisabeth Drancourt, Anne Libert | Sex comedy | French–West German co-production |
| Can Dialectics Break Bricks? | René Viénet | | Comedy | Situationist International-inspired |
| Chino | John Sturges | Charles Bronson, Marcel Bozzuffi, Jill Ireland | Western | Italian–Spanish–French co-production |
| Closed Shutters | Jean-Claude Brialy | Marie Bell, Jacques Charrier, Catherine Rouvel | Comedy | |
| Day for Night | François Truffaut | Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, François Truffaut | Comedy-drama | French–Italian co-production |
| The Day of the Jackal | Fred Zinnemann | Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Alan Badel | Thriller | French–British co-production |
| Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman | Roger Vadim | Brigitte Bardot, Maurice Ronet, Mathieu Carrière | Drama | French–Italian co-production |
| Escape to Nowhere | Claude Pinoteau | Lino Ventura, Leo Genn, Suzanne Flon, Robert Hardy, Lea Massari | Thriller | French-Italian co-production |
| Fantastic Planet | René Laloux | | Science fiction | Animated French–Czechoslovakian co-production |
| Female Vampire | Jesús Franco | Lina Romay, Jack Taylor, Monica Swinn | Horror | French–Belgian co-production |
| Flesh for Frankenstein | Paul Morrissey | Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Monique van Vooren | Horror | Italian–French co-production |
| Forbidden Priests | Denys de La Patellière | Robert Hossein, Claude Jade | Drama, War | |
| Home Sweet Home | Benoît Lamy | Claude Jade, Jacques Perrin, Ann Petersen | Comedy drama | French–Belgian co-production |
| Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu | André Cayatte | Annie Girardot, Bernard Fresson, Michel Bouquet | Thriller | French–Italian co-production |
| Immoral Tales | Walerian Borowczyk | Lise Danvers, Paloma Picasso, Fabrice Luchini | Adult, avant-garde, drama | |
| The Iron Rose | Jean Rollin | Françoise Pascal, Hugues Quester, Nathalie Perrey | Horror | |
| L'emmerdeur | Édouard Molinaro | Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel, Caroline Cellier | Comedy | French–Italian co-production |
| La dernière bourrée à Paris | Raoul André | Francis Blanche, Roger Coggio, Annie Cordy, Micheline Dax, Michel Galabru, Marion Game | Comedy | |
| La Grande Bouffe | Marco Ferreri | Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi | Comedy drama | French–Italian co-production |
| Le complot | René Gainville | Michel Bouquet, Michel Duchaussoy, Raymond Pellegrin, Jean Rochefort, Gabriele Tinti, Marina Vlady | Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War | French-Spanish-Italian co-production |
| Le Magnifique | Philippe de Broca | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jacqueline Bisset, Vittorio Caprioli | Comedy | French–Italian co-production |
| Les Démons | Jesús Franco | | | French-Portuguese co-production |
| Lucky Luciano | Francesco Rosi | Gian Maria Volonté, Rod Steiger, Edmond O'Brien | Crime | Italian–French co-production |
| The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob | Gérard Oury | Louis de Funès, Marcel Dalio, Claude Giraud | Comedy | French–Italian co-production |
| Massacre in Rome | George Pan Cosmatos | Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, Leo McKern | War | Italian–French co-production |
| Men | Daniel Vigne | Michel Constantin, Marcel Bozzuffi, Angelo Infanti, Henry Silva | Crime | French-Italian co-production |
| The Mother and the Whore | Jean Eustache | Jean-Pierre Léaud, Françoise Lebrun, Bernadette Lafont | Romantic drama | |
| My Name Is Nobody | Tonino Valerii | Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin | | Italian–French–West German co-production |
| Night Flight from Moscow | Henri Verneuil | Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde | Spy film | French-Italian–West German co-production |
| Now Where Did the 7th Company Get to? | Robert Lamoureux | Jean Lefebvre, Pierre Mondy, Aldo Maccione | Comedy | French–Italian co-production |
| The Nun and the Devil | Domenico Paolella | Claudia Gravy, Muriel Catala, Anne Heywood | — | Italian–French co-production |
| The Outside Man | Jacques Deray | Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider, Angie Dickinson | Thriller | French–Italian co-production |
| Papillon | Franklin J. Schaffner | Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman | — | American–French co-production |
| The Pelican | Gérard Blain | Gérard Blain, Dominique Ravix, Daniel Sarky | Drama | |
| The Society of the Spectacle | Guy Debord | | Experimental documentary | |
| Themroc | Claude Faraldo | Michel Piccoli, Béatrice Romand, Jeanne Herviale | Comedy | French–Italian co-production |
| Tony Arzenta | Duccio Tessari | Alain Delon, Richard Conte, Carla Gravina | — | Italian–French co-production |
| Two Men in Town | José Giovanni | Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Michel Bouquet | Drama | French–Italian co-production |
| Vivre ensemble | Anna Karina | Anna Karina, Michel Lancelot, Viviane Blassel | Drama | |
| Wedding in Blood | Claude Chabrol | Stéphane Audran, Michel Piccoli, Claude Piéplu | Crime | French–Italian co-production |