List of American films of 1977
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A list of American films released in 1977.
Annie Hall won the Academy Award for Best Picture. The highest-grossing film was Star Wars.
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Title | Director | Cast | Genre/Note | |
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1900 | Bernardo Bertolucci | Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda, Francesca Bertini, Laura Betti, Stefania Casini, Sterling Hayden, Ellen Schwiers, Alida Valli, Romolo Valli | Epic | Paramount/United Artists/20th Century Fox |
3 Women | Robert Altman | Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule | Drama | 20th Century Fox |
Airport '77 | Jerry Jameson | Jack Lemmon, Brenda Vaccaro, James Stewart, Lee Grant, George Kennedy, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland, Christopher Lee, Darren McGavin | Disaster film | Universal. 2nd sequel to Airport |
Andy Warhol's Bad | Jed Johnson | Susan Tyrrell, Carroll Baker, Perry King | Comedy | New World |
Annie Hall | Woody Allen | Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Carol Kane | Comedy | United Artists. Oscar for Best Picture |
Audrey Rose | Robert Wise | Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck | Horror | United Artists |
Bad Georgia Road | Gary Lockwood, Carol Lynley, Royal Dano | Action | Dimension Pictures | |
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training | Michael Pressman | William Devane, Jackie Earle Haley, Clifton James | Sports | Paramount. Sequel to 1976 film |
Barbara Broadcast | Radley Metzger | Annette Haven, C. J. Laing, Jamie Gillis | Adult film | Independent |
Bare Knuckles | Don Edmonds | Robert Viharo, Sherry Jackson, Gloria Hendry | Action | Independent |
Between the Lines | Joan Micklin Silver | John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, Jeff Goldblum | Drama | Independent |
Beyond Reason | Telly Savalas | Telly Savalas, Diana Muldaur, Walter Brooke | Drama | Independent |
The Billion Dollar Hobo | Stuart E. McGowan | Tim Conway, Will Geer, Eric Weston | Comedy | Independent |
Billy Jack Goes to Washington | Tom Laughlin | Tom Laughlin, Lucie Arnaz, E. G. Marshall | Drama | Independent. 4th of series |
Black Oak Conspiracy | Jesse Vint, Karen Carlson, Albert Salmi | Action | New World | |
Black Sunday | John Frankenheimer | Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller | Thriller | Paramount. From novel by Thomas Harris |
Bobby Deerfield | Sydney Pollack | Al Pacino, Marthe Keller, Anny Duperey | Drama | Columbia |
Breaker! Breaker! | Don Hulette | Chuck Norris, George Murdock | Action | AIP |
A Bridge Too Far | Richard Attenborough | Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Hardy Krüger, Laurence Olivier, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell | War, Action | United Artists |
Brothers | Arthur Barron | Bernie Casey, Vonetta McGee, Ron O'Neal | Drama | Warner Bros. |
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Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
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Candleshoe | Norman Tokar | David Niven, Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster | Family | Disney; final film for Hayes |
The Car | Elliot Silverstein | James Brolin, Kathleen Lloyd, John Marley, Ronny Cox | Mystery | Universal |
Checkered Flag or Crash | Alan Gibson | Joe Don Baker, Susan Sarandon, Larry Hagman | Adventure | Universal |
The Chicken Chronicles | Frank Simon | Phil Silvers, Ed Lauter, Steve Guttenberg | Comedy | Embassy |
The Choirboys | Robert Aldrich | Charles Durning, Louis Gossett Jr., Perry King, Don Stroud, Burt Young, Barbara Rhoades, Phyllis Davis | Crime drama, comedy | Universal.Based on novel by Joseph Wambaugh |
Cinderella | Michael Pataki | Cheryl Smith, Sy Richardson | Erotic Musical | Independent |
Citizen's Band | Jonathan Demme | Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark, Roberts Blossom | Comedy | Paramount |
Close Encounters of the Third Kind | Steven Spielberg | Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, François Truffaut, Bob Balaban | Science fiction | Columbia. 9 Oscar nominations; |
The Confessions of Amans | Gregory Nava | William Bryan | Drama | Independent |
Contract on Cherry Street | William Goldwyn | Frank Sinatra, Martin Balsam | Crime drama | made for TV |
Crossed Swords | Richard Fleischer | Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Mark Lester | Adventure | Warner Bros. |
Damnation Alley | Jack Smight | George Peppard, Jan-Michael Vincent | Science fiction | 20th Century Fox. From Roger Zelazny novel |
Day of the Animals | William Girdler | Leslie Nielsen, Lynda Day George, Richard Jaeckel | Science fiction | Independent. From Edward Montoro story |
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats | George Barry | William Russ | Comedy | Independent |
The Deep | Peter Yates | Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Shaw, Nick Nolte | Thriller | Columbia. From Peter Benchley novel |
Demon Seed | Donald Cammell | Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Robert Vaughn | Horror | MGM. From Dean Koontz novel |
Desperate Living | John Waters | Liz Renay, Mink Stole | Comedy | Independent |
The Domino Principle | Stanley Kramer | Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark, Eli Wallach, Mickey Rooney, Edward Albert | Thriller | Embassy. From Adam Kennedy novel |
Eaten Alive | Tobe Hooper | Carolyn Jones, Michael Berryman, Mel Ferrer | Horror | Independent |
Empire of the Ants | Bert I. Gordon | Joan Collins, Albert Salmi, Jacqueline Scott | Horror | AIP. From H. G. Wells novel |
Equus | Sidney Lumet | Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Joan Plowright | Drama | United Artists. Based on the play; 2 Golden Globes |
Eraserhead | David Lynch | Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart | Horror, Fantasy | Independent. First film directed by Lynch |
Exorcist II: The Heretic | John Boorman | Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Max von Sydow | Horror | Warner Bros. Sequel to The Exorcist |
The Farmer | David Berlatsky | Gary Conway, Michael Dante, Stratton Leopold | Crime | Columbia |
Fellini's Casanova | Federico Fellini | Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Carmen Scarpitta | Drama | Universal |
Fight for Your Life | Richard A. Enderson | Robert Judd, William Sanderson | Thriller | Independent |
Fire Sale | Alan Arkin | Alan Arkin, Rob Reiner, Vincent Gardenia, Anjanette Comer | Comedy | 20th Century Fox |
First Love | Joan Darling | William Katt, Susan Dey, Beverly D'Angelo | Drama | Paramount |
For the Love of Benji | Joe Camp | Patsy Garrett, Ed Nelson | Family | Independent |
Fraternity Row | Thomas J. Tobin | Gregory Harrison, Scott Newman, Nancy Morgan | Drama | Paramount |
Fun with Dick and Jane | Ted Kotcheff | George Segal, Jane Fonda, Ed McMahon | Comedy | Columbia; Remake of 2005 film |
The Gauntlet | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood, Pat Hingle, Sondra Locke | Thriller | Warner Bros. |
The Goodbye Girl | Herbert Ross | Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings | Comedy, Drama | Warner Bros. Oscar for Dreyfuss; written by Neil Simon |
Grand Theft Auto | Ron Howard | Ron Howard, Marion Ross | Action, Comedy | New World. Howard's directorial debut |
The Grateful Dead Movie | Leon Gast | Bob Weir, Jerry Garcia | Documentary | |
Grayeagle | Charles B. Pierce | Ben Johnson, Lana Wood, Jack Elam | Western | AIP |
Greased Lightning | Michael Schultz | Richard Pryor, Pam Grier, Cleavon Little | Biography | Warner Bros. bout auto racer Wendell Scott |
The Greatest | Tom Gries, Monte Hellman | Muhammad Ali, Ernest Borgnine | Biography | Columbia. Ali as himself |
The Great Smokey Roadblock | John Leone | Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan, Austin Pendleton | Comedy | Dimension |
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Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
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The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington | William A. Levey | Joey Heatherton, George Hamilton, Ray Walston | Comedy | Cannon |
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo | Vincent McEveety | Dean Jones, Don Knotts, Julie Sommars | Family | Disney. Sequel to The Love Bug |
Heroes | Jeremy Kagan | Henry Winkler, Sally Field, Harrison Ford | Comedy, Drama | Universal |
High Anxiety | Mel Brooks | Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Howard Morris, Ron Carey | Comedy | 20th Century Fox. Spoof of Alfred Hitchcock films |
The Hills Have Eyes | Wes Craven | Susan Lanier, Michael Berryman, Dee Wallace | Horror | Independent |
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden | Anthony Page | Kathleen Quinlan, Bibi Andersson, Lorraine Gary | Drama | New World. From Joanne Greenberg novel |
The Incredible Melting Man | William Sachs | Myron Healey, Burr DeBenning, Lisle Wilson | Sci-fi | AIP |
The Island of Dr. Moreau | Don Taylor | Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport | Sci-fi | AIP. From H. G. Wells novel; remade in 1996 |
Islands in the Stream | Franklin J. Schaffner | George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland | Drama | Paramount. Based on Ernest Hemingway story |
Joyride | Joseph Ruben | Desi Arnaz Jr., Melanie Griffith, Robert Carradine | Drama | AIP. |
Julia | Fred Zinnemann | Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Meryl Streep, Rosemary Murphy, John Glover, Hal Holbrook | Drama | 20th Century Fox. From Lillian Hellman book; 11 Oscar nominations |
The Kentucky Fried Movie | John Landis | Donald Sutherland, Henry Gibson, Uschi Digard | Comedy | Independent Landis's 2nd film |
Kingdom of the Spiders | John Cardos | William Shatner, Woody Strode, Tiffany Bolling | Sci-fi | Dimension |
Last House on Dead End Street | Roger Watkins | Roger Watkins, Ken Fisher | Horror | Independent |
The Last Remake of Beau Geste | Marty Feldman | Marty Feldman, Michael York, Ann-Margret | Comedy | Universal |
The Late Show | Robert Benton | Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Eugene Roche, Bill Macy, Joanna Cassidy, Ruth Nelson | Drama | Warner Bros.; Silver Bear for Tomlin |
The Lincoln Conspiracy | James L. Conway | Bradford Dillman, John Anderson, Robert Middleton | Drama | Independent. On Abe Lincoln assassination |
A Little Night Music | Harold Prince | Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou | Musical | New World. Based on stage show; Oscar for Best Score |
Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Richard Brooks | Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, Richard Gere | Drama | Paramount. From Judith Rossner novel |
MacArthur | Joseph Sargent | Gregory Peck, G. D. Spradlin, Dan O'Herlihy | War, Biography | Universal. On General Douglas MacArthur |
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh | Wolfgang Reitherman | Sterling Holloway, John Fiedler, Paul Winchell | Animation | Disney; based on story by A.A. Milne |
Moonshine County Express | Gus Trikonis | John Saxon, Susan Howard, William Conrad | Action | New World |
The Mouse and His Child | Chris Swenson | Voices of Cloris Leachman, Peter Ustinov, Andy Devine | Animated, Family | Independent. USA/Japan production |
Mr. Billion | Jonathan Kaplan | Terence Hill, Valerie Perrine, Jackie Gleason | Action | 20th Century Fox |
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Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
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New York, New York | Martin Scorsese | Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, Lionel Stander | Musical | United Artists; music by Kander and Ebb |
Oh, God! | Carl Reiner | George Burns, John Denver, Paul Sorvino, Teri Garr | Comedy | Warner Bros. Based on Avery Corman novel; 2 sequels |
One on One | Lamont Johnson | Robby Benson, Annette O'Toole, G. D. Spradlin | Drama | Warner Bros. Co-written by Benson |
Opening Night | John Cassavetes | Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes | Drama | Independent |
The Opening of Misty Beethoven | Radley Metzger | Constance Money, Jamie Gillis, Gloria Leonard | Adult film | Independent |
Orca | Michael Anderson | Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Bo Derek | Adventure | Paramount; Dino De Laurentiis production |
The Other Side of Midnight | Charles Jarrott | Marie-France Pisier, Susan Sarandon, John Beck, Clu Gulager, Michael Lerner, Raf Vallone | Drama | Fox; based on Sidney Sheldon novel |
Outlaw Blues | Richard T. Heffron | Peter Fonda, Susan Saint James, John Crawford | Drama | Warner Bros. |
The Pack | Robert Clouse | Joe Don Baker, Richard B. Shull, Bibi Besch | Horror | Warner Bros. |
The People That Time Forgot | Kevin Connor | Doug McClure, Sarah Douglas | Science fiction | AIP. |
Pete's Dragon | Don Chaffey | Sean Marshall, Helen Reddy, Mickey Rooney, Shelley Winters | Animated | Disney |
A Piece of the Action | Sidney Poitier | Bill Cosby, Sidney Poitier, James Earl Jones | Comedy | Warner Bros. 3rd Cosby-Poitier pairing |
Pine Canyon is Burning | Christian I. Nyby II | Kent McCord, Megan McCord, Shane Sinutko | Drama | TV film for NBC |
Planet of Dinosaurs | James Shea | Max Thayer, Louie Lawless | Sci-fi | Independent |
Portrait of a Hitman | Allan A. Buckhantz | Rod Steiger, Jack Palance, Bo Svenson | Crime | Independent. Unreleased until 1984 |
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover | Larry Cohen | Broderick Crawford, Jose Ferrer, Celeste Holm | Biopic | AIP |
Pumping Iron | George Butler | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno | Documentary | Mr. Olympia contest |
Rabid | David Cronenberg | Marilyn Chambers, Joe Silver, Howard Ryshpan, | Horror | New World |
Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown | Phil Roman, Bill Melendez | Duncan Watson, Bill Melendez, Gail Davis, Stuart Brotman | Animation | Paramount |
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure | Richard Williams | Didi Conn, Mark Baker | Animation | 20th Century Fox |
Raid on Entebbe | Irvin Kershner | Peter Finch, Martin Balsam, Yaphet Kotto, Charles Bronson, John Saxon, Jack Warden | Drama | made for TV; 10 Emmy nominations |
The Ransom | Richard Compton | Oliver Reed, Deborah Raffin, James Mitchum | Thriller | New World |
The Rescuers | John Lounsbery | Voices of Eva Gabor, Bob Newhart, Geraldine Page | Animated | Disney |
Rollercoaster | James Goldstone | George Segal, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda | Thriller | Universal |
Rolling Thunder | John Flynn | William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, James Best | Drama | AIP |
Roseland | James Ivory | Teresa Wright, Geraldine Chaplin, Christopher Walken | Romance | Independent. 3 stories |
Ruby | Curtis Harrington | Piper Laurie, Stuart Whitman. Roger Davis | Horror | Dimension |
Run for the Roses | Henry Levin | Vera Miles, Stuart Whitman, Lisa Eilbacher | Drama | Independent |
Satan's Cheerleaders | Greydon Clark | Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland | Comedy | Dimension Pictures |
Saturday Night Fever | John Badham | John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Donna Pescow | Drama | Paramount; 4 Golden Globe nominations |
Scott Joplin | Jeremy Kagan | Billy Dee Williams, Clifton Davis, Margaret Avery | Biopic | Universal |
Semi-Tough | Michael Ritchie | Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Preston, Brian Dennehy, Carl Weathers, Bert Convy | Comedy | United Artists; from Dan Jenkins novel |
The Sentinel | Michael Winner | Chris Sarandon, Martin Balsam, Ava Gardner | Horror | Universal; from Jeffrey Konvitz novel |
September 30, 1955 | James Bridges | Richard Thomas, Susan Tyrell, Collin Wilcox | Drama | Universal |
The Serpent's Egg | Ingmar Bergman | Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe | Drama | Paramount; Bergman's only Hollywood film |
The Shadow of Chikara | Earl E. Smith | Betty Bronson, Ford Sterling, Louise Dresser | Western | Howco |
Shock Waves | Ken Wiederhorn | Peter Cushing, Brooke Adams, John Carradine | Horror | Independent |
Short Eyes | Robert M. Young | Bruce Davison, Jose Perez | Crime drama | Independent |
Sidewinder 1 | Earl Bellamy | Marjoe Gortner, Michael Parks, Susan Howard | Action | Embassy |
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger | Sam Wanamaker | Jane Seymour, Taryn Power, Patrick Wayne | Action | Columbia |
Slap Shot | George Roy Hill | Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Lindsay Crouse, Jennifer Warren, M. Emmet Walsh | Comedy | Universal |
Smokey and the Bandit | Hal Needham | Burt Reynolds, Jackie Gleason, Sally Field, Jerry Reed | Comedy | Universal. 2nd to Star Wars at box office; 2 sequels |
Sorcerer | William Friedkin | Roy Scheider, Francisco Rabal, Bruno Cremer | Thriller | Paramount-Universal. The Wages of Fear remake |
Speedtrap | Earl Bellamy | Joe Don Baker, Tyne Daly, Richard Jaeckel | Action | Independent |
The Spy Who Loved Me | Lewis Gilbert | Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel | Spy, Action | United Artists. Sequel to The Man with the Golden Gun |
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (aka Star Wars) | George Lucas | Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness | Science fiction | Fox; first Star Wars film released; won 6 Academy Awards |
Stunts | Mark L. Lester | Robert Forster, Fiona Lewis, Joanna Cassidy | Mystery | New Line |
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Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
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Telefon | Don Siegel | Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence | Spy film | MGM |
Tentacles | Ovidio G. Assonitis | John Huston, Shelley Winters, Henry Fonda | Horror | AIP |
Thieves | John Berry | Marlo Thomas, Héctor Elizondo, Charles Grodin | Comedy | Paramount |
Thunder and Lightning | Corey Allen | David Carradine, Kate Jackson, Sterling Holloway | Action | 20th Century Fox |
Too Hot to Handle | Don Schain | Cheri Caffaro, Aharon Ipalé, Corinne Calvet | Action | New World |
The Turning Point | Herbert Ross | Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Tom Skerritt | Drama | 20th Century Fox; 11 Oscar nominations |
Twilight's Last Gleaming | Robert Aldrich | Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Paul Winfield, Burt Young, Joseph Cotten, William Marshall, Melvyn Douglas | Thriller | Allied Artists; based on Walter Wager novel |
Valentino | Ken Russell | Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Carol Kane | Drama, Biography | United Artists. On Rudolf Valentino |
The Van | Sam Grossman | Danny DeVito, Stuart Getz | Comedy | Crown International |
Viva Knievel! | Gordon Douglas | Evel Knievel, Lauren Hutton, Gene Kelly | Action, Biography | Warner Bros. Knievel as himself |
Walking Tall: Final Chapter | Jack Starrett | Bo Svenson, Lurene Tuttle, Forrest Tucker | Action | AIP |
Which Way Is Up? | Michael Schultz | Richard Pryor, Lonette McKee, Margaret Avery | Comedy | Universal. Pryor in 3 roles |
The White Buffalo | J. Lee Thompson | Charles Bronson, Will Sampson, Jack Warden, Slim Pickens, Kim Novak | Western | United Artists |
Bud Greenspan | , Cicely Tyson, Denzel Washington | Drama, Biography | TV film. Story of Wilma Rudolph | |
Wizards | Ralph Bakshi | Voices of Mark Hamill, David Proval | Animated, Fantasy | 20th Century Fox |
Word Is Out | Rob Epstein | John Burnside, Elsa Gidlow | Documentary | |
The World's Greatest Lover | Gene Wilder | Gene Wilder, Carol Kane, Dom DeLuise | Comedy | 20th Century Fox |
You Light Up My Life | Joseph Brooks | Didi Conn, Joe Silver, Michael Zaslow | Romance | Columbia. Oscar for Best Song |
See also[]
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