1977 Movies
Take a nostalgic look back at the top movies of 1977, celebrating the films, directors and actors that defined the year and left a lasting legacy in the world of entertainment.
Annie Hall
Directed by: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane
Country: United States of America
Outline: Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon
Country: United States of America
Outline: After an accidental encounter with otherworldly vessels, an ordinary man follows a series of psychic clues to the first scheduled meeting between representatives of Earth and visitors from the cosmos.
A Bridge Too Far
Directed by: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Sean Connery, Ryan O'Neal, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier
Country: United States of America
Outline: Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines. However, mismanagement and poor planning result in its failure.
The Goodbye Girl
Directed by: Herbert Ross
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, Paul Benedict
Country: United States of America
Outline: After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.
The Spy Who Loved Me
Directed by: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel
Country: United States of America
Outline: James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. Agent, whose lover he killed.
Smokey and the Bandit
Directed by: Hal Needham
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Mike Henry
Country: United States of America
Outline: The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor trailer full of beer over state lines, in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff.
Saturday Night Fever
Directed by: John Badham
Starring: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali
Country: United States of America
Outline: Anxious about his future after high school, a 19 year old Italian American from Brooklyn tries to escape the harsh reality of his bleak family life by dominating the dance floor at the local disco.
Oh, God!
Directed by: Carl Reiner
Starring: John Denver, George Burns, Teri Garr, Donald Pleasence
Country: United States of America
Outline: When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
The Deep
Directed by: Peter Yates
Starring: Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Dick Anthony Williams, Robert Shaw
Country: United States of America
Outline: In Bermuda, two amateur treasure-hunting divers have a run-in with local criminals when they inadvertently discover the secret cargo of a World War II shipwreck.
Secret Army
Written by: Gerard Glaister
Starring: Bernard Hepton, Angela Richards, Clifford Rose, Juliet Hammond
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Outline: During World War II, a Belgian resistance movement called Lifeline, based in Brussels, organises the return of Allied airmen who have been shot down by the Luftwaffe to the United Kingdom.
Office Romance
Directed by: Eldar Ryazanov
Starring: Alisa Freyndlikh, Andrey Myagkov, Svetlana Nemolyaeva, Oleg Basilashvili
Outline: Anatoli Yefremovich Novoseltsev works in a statistics institution, whose director is an unattractive and bossy woman. An old friend of his, Yuri Grigorievich Samokhvalov, who gets appointed...
Mimino
Directed by: Georgiy Daneliya
Starring: Vakhtang Kikabidze, Mher Mkrtchyan, Elena Proklova, Evgeniy Leonov
Outline: Pilot Mimino works at small local airlines in Georgia, flying helicopters between small villages. He dreams of piloting large international airlines aircrafts, so he goes to Moscow for ...
Blankety Blanks
Starring: Graham Kennedy, Ugly Dave Gray, Stuart Wagstaff
Country: Australia
Outline: Australian version of the popular American game show Match Game (1973). In this game is two contestants - one champion and one challenger. Host Graham Kennedy reads a funny ...
The Professionals
Written by: Brian Clemens
Starring: Gordon Jackson, Martin Shaw, Lewis Collins
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Outline: Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative...
A Special Day
Directed by: Ettore Scola
Starring: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd
Outline: Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.
Opening Night
Directed by: John Cassavetes
Starring: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Joan Blondell
Outline: An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.
That Obscure Object of Desire
Directed by: Luis Buñuel
Starring: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau
Country: United States of America
Outline: Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen year-old former chambermaid Conchita.
Stroszek
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Starring: Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz, Wilhelm von Homburg
Outline: In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.
On Our Own
Directed by: Lyman Dayton
Outline: Maria Bonino and Julia Peters are two secretaries in a high-powered New York advertising agency. They are promoted to art director and copywriter and begin their new careers with enthusiasm...
3 Women
Directed by: Robert Altman
Starring: Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Robert Fortier
Country: United States of America
Outline: Two roommates and physical therapists, one a vain woman and the other a mysterious teenager, share a bizarre relationship.
Rock Follies of '77
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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Directed by: John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman
Starring: Sebastian Cabot, Junius Matthews, Barbara Luddy, Howard Morris
Country: United States of America
Outline: A collection of animated shorts based on the stories and characters by A. A. Milne.
Cross of Iron
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner
Country: United States of America
Outline: A German commander places a squad in extreme danger after its Sergeant refuses to lie for him.
Suspiria
Directed by: Dario Argento
Starring: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé
Country: United States of America
Outline: An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
The Duellists
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Starring: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Edward Fox
Country: United States of America
Outline: A small feud between two Napoleonic officers evolves into a decades-long series of duels.
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