1977

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Annie Hall

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#1
Star Wars poster

Star Wars (1977)

🎬 Nominee⭐ Top-rated🏛️ All-time great💰 Box office #1

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Dir. George Lucas · Mark Hamill · Harrison Ford · Carrie Fisher · Peter Cushing

IMDb 8.6 (1,573,706 votes) · TMDB 8.205

Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.

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#2
Annie Hall poster

Annie Hall (1977)

🏆 Winner⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Woody Allen · Woody Allen · Diane Keaton · Tony Roberts · Carol Kane

IMDb 7.9 (291,525 votes) · TMDB 7.729

New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

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#3
Saban, Son of Saban poster

Saban, Son of Saban (1977)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Ertem Eğilmez · Kemal Sunal · Halit Akçatepe · Adile Naşit · Şener Şen

IMDb 8.7 (20,069 votes) · TMDB 7.835

Clumsy soldiers Şaban and Ramazan fall for a singer-dancer and accidentally become secret policemen tracking down a missing diamond.

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#4
Close Encounters of the Third Kind poster

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #2

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Dir. Steven Spielberg · Richard Dreyfuss · François Truffaut · Teri Garr · Melinda Dillon

IMDb 7.6 (235,282 votes) · TMDB 7.352

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

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#5
The King of the Street Cleaners poster

The King of the Street Cleaners (1977)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Zeki Ökten · Kemal Sunal · Şener Şen · Ayşen Gruda · İhsan Yüce

IMDb 8.5 (23,048 votes) · TMDB 7.782

Going through his daily routine in a stereotypical neighborhood, a street cleaner falls in love with a charwoman. Unfortunately for him, so does his superior officer.

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#6
The Chaos Class Is on Vacation poster

The Chaos Class Is on Vacation (1977)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Ertem Eğilmez · Münir Özkul · Kemal Sunal · Adile Naşit · Şener Şen

IMDb 8.6 (20,317 votes) · TMDB 7.606

Lazy, uneducated male students mostly coming from money, share a very close band. They live together in the dormitory of this private highschool, where they daily plan their latest pranks on teachers or the other classes. Because of the financial crisis, the headmaster agrees to enroll female students. As the new students try to fit in, a struggle between both parties start, trying to prank the other part away. The prank war continues until PE-Teacher decides to take the class out on a trip for a becoming scouts.

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#7
The Girl with the Red Scarf poster

The Girl with the Red Scarf (1977)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Atıf Yılmaz · Türkan Şoray · Kadir İnanır · Ahmet Mekin · Hülya Tuğlu

IMDb 8.5 (18,181 votes) · TMDB 7.7

İlyas, a truck driver from Istanbul, arrives in a remote village to work on a dam construction project and meets a young village woman named Asya. They fall madly in love and get married. However, their life together is fraught with conflict. When İlyas cheats on Asya, the final straw in their relationship, she takes her son and begins wandering without knowing where she is going, until a familiar hand reaches out to help her selflessly.

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#8
A Special Day poster

A Special Day (1977)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Ettore Scola · Sophia Loren · Marcello Mastroianni · John Vernon · Françoise Berd

IMDb 8.1 (18,667 votes) · TMDB 8.052

Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome.

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#9
Suspiria poster

Suspiria (1977)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Dario Argento · Jessica Harper · Stefania Casini · Flavio Bucci · Miguel Bosé

IMDb 7.3 (115,467 votes) · TMDB 7.471

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.

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#10
Sorcerer poster

Sorcerer (1977)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. William Friedkin · Roy Scheider · Bruno Cremer · Francisco Rabal · Amidou

IMDb 7.7 (36,635 votes) · TMDB 7.4

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

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#11
That Obscure Object of Desire poster

That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Luis Buñuel · Fernando Rey · Carole Bouquet · Ángela Molina · Julien Bertheau

IMDb 7.8 (26,994 votes) · TMDB 7.437

After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.

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#12
Eraserhead poster

Eraserhead (1977)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. David Lynch · Jack Nance · Charlotte Stewart · Allen Joseph · Jeanne Bates

IMDb 7.2 (144,112 votes) · TMDB 7.34

First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

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#13
A Bridge Too Far poster

A Bridge Too Far (1977)

⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #10

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Dir. Richard Attenborough · Dirk Bogarde · James Caan · Michael Caine · Sean Connery

IMDb 7.4 (67,858 votes) · TMDB 7.206

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.

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#14
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh poster

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. John Lounsbery · Sterling Holloway · John Fiedler · Junius Matthews · Paul Winchell

IMDb 7.5 (42,962 votes) · TMDB 7.238

Whether we’re young or forever young at heart, the Hundred Acre Wood calls to that place in each of us that still believes in magic. Join pals Pooh, Piglet, Kanga, Roo, Owl, Rabbit, Tigger and Christopher Robin as they enjoy their days together and sing their way through adventures.

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#15
The Spy Who Loved Me poster

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #4

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Dir. Lewis Gilbert · Roger Moore · Barbara Bach · Curd Jürgens · Richard Kiel

IMDb 7.0 (125,636 votes) · TMDB 6.82

Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.

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#16
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Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

💰 Box office #6

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Dir. Hal Needham · Burt Reynolds · Sally Field · Jerry Reed · Jackie Gleason

IMDb 7.0 (62,939 votes) · TMDB 6.976

A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours, picking up a reluctant bride-to-be on the way.

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#17
The Goodbye Girl poster

The Goodbye Girl (1977)

🎬 Nominee💰 Box office #7

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Dir. Herbert Ross · Richard Dreyfuss · Marsha Mason · Quinn Cummings · Paul Benedict

IMDb 7.4 (17,692 votes) · TMDB 6.9

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.

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#18
The Rescuers poster

The Rescuers (1977)

💰 Box office #5

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Dir. Wolfgang Reitherman · Bob Newhart · Eva Gabor · Geraldine Page · Joe Flynn

IMDb 6.9 (75,467 votes) · TMDB 6.789

Two agents of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society search for a little orphan girl kidnapped by sinister treasure hunters.

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#19
Saturday Night Fever poster

Saturday Night Fever (1977)

💰 Box office #3

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Dir. John Badham · John Travolta · Karen Lynn Gorney · Barry Miller · Joseph Cali

IMDb 6.8 (94,953 votes) · TMDB 6.733

Tony spends his Saturdays at a disco where his stylish moves raise his popularity among the patrons. But his life outside the disco is not easy and things change when he gets attracted to Stephanie.

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#20
Julia poster

Julia (1977)

🎬 Nominee

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Dir. Fred Zinnemann · Jane Fonda · Vanessa Redgrave · Jason Robards · Maximilian Schell

IMDb 7.0 (11,413 votes) · TMDB 6.503

At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

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#21
The Turning Point poster

The Turning Point (1977)

🎬 Nominee

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Dir. Herbert Ross · Anne Bancroft · Shirley MacLaine · Tom Skerritt · Mikhail Baryshnikov

IMDb 6.8 (5,597 votes) · TMDB 6.618

As young dancers, they were best friends and fierce rivals. Deedee left the stage for marriage and motherhood, while Emma would become an international ballet icon. But when Deedee's teenage daughter is invited to join Emma's dance company and begins an affair with a young Russian star, the two women are forced to confront the choices they've made, the resentments they've hidden and the emotional truths they must face at the turning point.

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The Deep poster

The Deep (1977)

💰 Box office #8

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Dir. Peter Yates · Robert Shaw · Jacqueline Bisset · Nick Nolte · Louis Gossett Jr.

IMDb 6.3 (15,405 votes) · TMDB 6.06

A pair of young vacationers are involved in a dangerous conflict with treasure hunters when they discover a way into a deadly wreck in Bermuda waters.

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#23
Airport '77 poster

Airport '77 (1977)

💰 Box office #9

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Dir. Jerry Jameson · Jack Lemmon · Lee Grant · Brenda Vaccaro · Joseph Cotten

IMDb 5.8 (13,893 votes) · TMDB 5.596

Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all while 200 feet underwater.

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