List of American films of 1977 explained

This is a list of American films released in 1977.

Box office

The highest-grossing American films released in 1977, by domestic box office gross revenue, are as follows:^[1]

Highest-grossing films of 1977

Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic gross
1	Star Wars	20th Century Fox	$221,280,994
2	Smokey and the Bandit	Universal	$126,737,428
3	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Columbia	$116,395,460
4	Saturday Night Fever	Paramount	$94,213,184
5	The Goodbye Girl	MGM / Warner Bros.	$83,700,000
6	A Bridge Too Far	United Artists	$50,750,000
7	The Deep	Columbia	$47,346,365
8	The Spy Who Loved Me	United Artists	$46,838,673
9	Oh, God!	Warner Bros.	$41,687,243
10	Annie Hall	United Artists	$38,251,425

January–March

Opening		Title	Production company	Cast and crew	Ref.
J A N U A R Y	7	The Sentinel
	18	Pumping Iron
	21	Scalpel	United International Pictures / PJ Productions	John Grissmer (director/screenplay); Robert Lansing, Judith Chapman, Sandy Martin, Arlen Dean Snyder, David Scarroll, Muriel Moore, Stan Wojno, Laura Whyte, Larry Quackenbush, Mimi Honce
	25	Providence	Cinema 5 Distributing
	28	The Late Show		Robert Benton (director/screenplay); Rodolfo Sonego (screenplay); Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Eugene Roche, Joanna Cassidy, John Considine, Ruth Nelson, Howard Duff, John Davey
F E B R U A R Y	4	Raw Deal	Greater Union / Homestead Films
	9	Fun with Dick and Jane
		Twilight's Last Gleaming		Robert Aldrich (director); Ronald M. Cohen (screenplay); Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Paul Winfield, Burt Young, Melvyn Douglas, Joseph Cotten, Richard Jaeckel, Roscoe Lee Browne, William Marshall, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Leif Erickson, Charles Aidman, Charles McGraw, William Smith, Simon Scott, Morgan Paull, Bill Walker, Ed Bishop, Phil Brown, Don Fellows, Garrick Hagon, David Healy, William Hootkins, Ray Jewers, John Ratzenberger, Lionel Murton, Shane Rimmer, Mark Russell, M. Phil Senini, David Baxt, Glenn Beck, Gary Cockrell, Weston Gavin, Elizabeth Halliday, Thomasine Heiner, Ron Lee, Robert Sherman, Robert MacLeod, Robert O'Neil, Pamela Roland, Rich Steber, Drew W. Wesche, Kent O. Doering, Allan Dean Moore, Rich Demarest, Gary Harper
		Wizards		Ralph Bakshi (director/screenplay); Bob Holt, Jesse Welles, Richard Romanus, David Proval, Steve Gravers, Mark Hamill, Susan Tyrrell, Ralph Bakshi, James Connell, Angelo Grisanti
	11	Fire Sale		Alan Arkin (director); Robert Klane (screenplay); Alan Arkin, Rob Reiner, Vincent Gardenia, Anjanette Comer, Kay Medford, Sid Caesar, Byron Stewart, Alex Rocco, Oliver Clark, Barbara Dana
		In Search of Noah's Ark		James L. Conway (director/screenplay); Charles E. Sellier Jr. (screenplay); Brad Crandall, Vern Adix
		Thieves		John Berry (director); Herb Gardner (screenplay); Marlo Thomas, Charles Grodin, Irwin Corey, Héctor Elizondo, Mercedes McCambridge, John McMartin, Gary Merrill, Ann Wedgeworth, Larry B. Scott, Bob Fosse, Norman Matlock, Ian Martin, Janet Colazzo, Kenneth Kimmins, Santos Morales, MacIntyre Dixon, Bill Lazarus, Alice Drummond, Zvee Scooler, Craig Barrie, Victor Le Guillow, Lee Wallace, Jess Osuna, Joan Kaye
	20	The Spell	Worldvision Enterprises / MGM Television / Charles Fries Productions / Stonehenge Productions
	25	Slap Shot		George Roy Hill (director); Nancy Dowd (screenplay); Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Jennifer Warren, Lindsay Crouse, Jerry Houser, Andrew Duncan, Jeff Carlson, Steve Carlson, David Hanson, Yvon Barrette, Allan Nicholls, Brad Sullivan, Stephen Mendillo, Yvan Ponton, Matthew Cowles, Kathryn Walker, Melinda Dillon, M. Emmet Walsh, Swoosie Kurtz, Paul D'Amato, Ronald L. Docken, Guido Tenesi, Jean Rosario Tėtreault, Christopher Murney, Blake Ball, Ned Dowd, Larry Block, Paul Dooley, Bruce Boudreau, Galen Head, Connie Madigan, Joe Nolan, Dick Roberge, Ross Smith, Steve Stirling, Cliff Thompson, Nancy N. Dowd, Barbara L. Shorts, Dan Belisle Jr., Rod Bloomfield, Susan Kendall Newman, Ray Schultz, Carol Shelton
		Tentacles		Ovidio G. Assonitis (director); Steven W. Carabatsos (screenplay); John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins, Henry Fonda, Cesare Danova, Delia Boccardo, Claude Akins, Franco Diogene, Marc Fiorini, Alan Boyd, Sherry Buchanan
M A R C H	3	Mr. Billion	20th Century Fox / Pantheon Pictures
	4	Death Weekend	American International Pictures / Cinépix Film Properties
	9	The Farmer	Columbia Pictures / Milway Productions	David Berlatsky (director); John Carmody, Janice Eymann, George Fargo, Patrick Regan (screenplay); Lewell Akins, Gary Conway, Michael Dante, Dave Graig, Stratton Leopold, Ray McIver, George Memmoli, Timothy Scott, Sonny Shroyer, Angel Tompkins, Bill Moses, Judge Parker, Don Payne, Louis C. Pessolano, Johnny Popwell, Ken Renard, Wayne Stewart, Roy Tatum, Jack Waltzer, Eric Weston, Laura Whyte
		Islands in the Stream		Franklin J. Schaffner (director); Denne Bart Petitclerc (screenplay); George C. Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland, Susan Tyrrell, Richard Evans, Claire Bloom, Julius Harris, Hart Bochner, Brad Savage, Michael-James Wixted, Hildy Brooks
	11	The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh		John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman (directors); Larry Clemmons, Ralph Wright, Vance Gerry, Xavier Atencio, Ken Anderson, Julius Svendsen, Ted Berman, Eric Cleworth (screenplay); Sterling Holloway, John Fiedler, Junius Matthews, Paul Winchell, Howard Morris, Bruce Reitherman, Jon Walmsley, Timothy Turner, Ralph Wright, Clint Howard, Barbara Luddy, Hal Smith, Sebastian Cabot, Dori Whitaker
		Black Sunday		John Frankenheimer (director); Ernest Lehman, Kenneth Ross, Ivan Moffat (screenplay); Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver, Bekim Fehmiu, Steven Keats, Michael V. Gazzo, William Daniels, Walter Gotell, Victor Campos, Joe Robbie, Robert Wussler, Pat Summerall, Tom Brookshier, Walter Brooke, Clyde Kusatsu, Tom McFadden, Than Wyenn, James Jeter, Robert Patten
		Airport '77		Jerry Jameson (director); Michael Scheff, David Spector (screenplay); Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, James Stewart, George Kennedy, Brenda Vaccaro, Christopher Lee, Darren McGavin, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland, Robert Foxworth, Robert Hooks, Monte Markham, Kathleen Quinlan, Gil Gerard, James Booth, Monica Lewis, Maidie Norman, Pamela Bellwood, Arlene Golonka, Tom Sullivan, M. Emmet Walsh, Michael Pataki, George Furth, Richard Venture, Elizabeth Cheshire, Anthony Battaglia
	25	Eraserhead		David Lynch (director/screenplay); Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates, Judith Roberts, Jack Fisk, Laurel Near
		The American Friend		Wim Wenders (director/screenplay); Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller, Peter Lilienthal, Daniel Schmid, Jean Eustache, Sandy Whitelaw, Lou Castel, David Blue, Andreas Dedecke
		The Domino Principle

April–June

Opening		Title	Production company	Cast and crew	Ref.
A P R I L	1	Breaker! Breaker!	American International Pictures / Paragon Films Inc. / Worldwide Productions	Don Hulette (director); Terry Chambers (screenplay); Chuck Norris, George Murdock, Jack Nance, Terry O'Connor, Michael Augenstein, Don Gentry, John Di Fusco, Ron Cedillos, Dan Vandegrift, Douglas Stevenson, Paul Kawecki, Larry Feder
				Richard Williams (director); Max Wilk (screenplay); Claire Williams, Didi Conn, Mark Baker, Mason Adams, Allen Swift, Sheldon Harnick, George S. Irving, Arnold Stang, Joe Silver, Alan Sues, Marty Brill, Paul Dooley, Joe Raposo, Hetty Galen, Ardyth Kaiser, Margery Gray, Lynne Stuart, Niki Flacks, Fred Stuthman
		The Van		Sam Grossman (director); Celia Susan Cotelo, Robert J. Rosenthal (screenplay); Stuart Getz, Deborah White, Danny DeVito, Harry Moses, Marcie Barkin, Bill Adler, Stephen Oliver, Connie Lisa Marie
	2	The Eagle Has Landed
	6	Audrey Rose	United Artists / Sterobcar Productions	Robert Wise (director); Frank De Felitta (screenplay); Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck, Susan Swift, Norman Lloyd, John Hillerman, Robert Walden, Stephen Pearlman, Mary Jackson, Richard Lawson, Ivy Jones, Aly Wassil, Elizabeth Farley
	8	Demon Seed	Warner Bros. Pictures (United States/Canada) / Cinema International Corporation (international) / Herb Jaffe Productions	Donald Cammell (director); Dean Koontz (screenplay); Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Berry Kroeger, Lisa Lu, Larry J. Blake, Alfred Dennis, Patricia Wilson, Barbara O. Jones, Felix Silla, Robert Vaughn, John O'Leary, Davis Roberts, E. Hampton Beagle, Michael Glass, Dana Laurita, Monica MacLean, Harold Oblong, Georgie Paul, Michelle Stacy, Tiffany Potter
		Rabid	Cinépix Film Properties / New World Pictures / Cinema Entertainment Enterprises / DAL Productions / The Dibar Syndicate	David Cronenberg (director/screenplay); Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Joe Silver, Howard Ryshpan, Patricia Gage, Susan Roman, Terry Schonblum, Allan Moyle, John Boylan, Vlasta Vrana, Peter MacNeill, Louis Negin, J. Roger Periard, Lynne Deragon, Victor Désy, Julie Anna, Gary McKeehan, Terence G. Ross
	15	Jabberwocky	Columbia Pictures (United States/Canada) / Warner Bros. (international) / Python Films / Umbrella Films
	20	Annie Hall
		3 Women	20th Century Fox / Lion's Gate Films	Robert Altman (director/screenplay); Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Robert Fortier, Ruth Nelson, John Cromwell, Sierra Pecheur, Craig Richard Nelson, Maysie Hoy, Belita Moreno, Leslie Ann Hudson, Patricia Ann Hudson, Beverly Ross
	27	Between the Lines		Joan Micklin Silver (director); Fred Barron, David M. Helpern Jr. (screenplay); John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, Jeff Goldblum, Gwen Welles, Bruno Kirby, Stephen Collins, Joe Morton, Marilu Henner, Richard Cox, Michael J. Pollard, Lane Smith, Raymond J. Barry, Guy Boyd, Charles Levin, Jill Eikenberry, Susan Haskins
		The Man Who Loved Women	United Artists / Les Films du Carrosse
M A Y	6	Andy Warhol's Bad		Jed Johnson (director); Pat Hackett, George Abagnalo (screenplay); Carroll Baker, Perry King, Susan Tyrrell, Stefania Casini, Cyrinda Foxe, Susan Blond, Tere Tereba, Lawrence Tierney, Tamara Horrocks, Charles McGregor, Matthew Anton, Cathy Roskam, Mary Boylan, Gordon Oas-Heim, Michael Forella, Kitty Bruce, Renee Paris, John Starke, Ruth Jaroslow
		The Picture Show Man	Village Roadshow Pictures / Umbrella Entertainment / Limelight Productions
		The White Buffalo
	13	The Car		Elliot Silverstein (director); Michael Butler, Dennis Shryack, Lane Slate (screenplay); James Brolin, Kathleen Lloyd, John Marley, Elizabeth Thompson, Ronny Cox, R.G. Armstrong, John Rubinstein, Roy Jenson, Kim Richards, Kyle Richards, Kate Murtagh, Robert Phillips, Doris Dowling, Eddie Little Sky, Lee McLaughlin, Read Morgan, Geraldine Keams, Melody Thomas Scott, Bryan O'Byrne, Don Keefer, Steve Gravers, Henry O'Brien, Margaret Willey, Ernie Orsatti, Joshua Davis, Hank Hamilton, John Moio, Bob Woodlock, James Rawley, Louis Welch, Tony Brande
	17	A Special Day	Surf Film / Gold Film / Compagnia Cinematografica / Champion / Canafox Films	Ettore Scola (director/screenplay); Maurizio Costanzo, Ruggero Maccari (screenplay); Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd, Vittorio Guerrieri, Alessandra Mussolini, Patrizia Basso, Tiziano De Persio, Maurizio Di Paolantonio, Antonio Garibaldi, Nicole Magny
	18	Handle with Care		Jonathan Demme (director); Paul Brickman (screenplay); Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark, Bruce McGill, Roberts Blossom, Richard Bright, Charles Napier, Ann Wedgeworth, Marcia Rodd, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Northup, Will Seltzer, Alix Elias, Michael Rothman, Michael Mahler, Leila Smith
		Joseph Andrews
	20	Cross of Iron
		The Greatest		Tom Gries, Monte Hellman (directors); Muhammad Ali (screenplay); Muhammad Ali, Ernest Borgnine, James Earl Jones, Robert Duvall, John Marley, Lloyd Haynes, David Huddleston, Ben Johnson, Dina Merrill, Roger E. Mosley, Paul Winfield, Annazette Chase, Mira Waters, Drew Bundini Brown, Malachi Throne, Richard Venture, Arthur Adams, Stack Pierce, Paul Mantee, Skip Homeier, David Clennon, Nai Bonet, Chip McAllister, Rahaman Ali, Howard Bingham, Don Dunphy, Lloyd Wells, Harold Conrad, Pat Patterson, Gene Kilroy
	25	Star Wars
	27	Cinderella	Group 1
		Desperate Living		John Waters (director/screenplay); Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Susan Lowe, Mary Vivian Pearce, Jean Hill, Cookie Mueller, Channing Wilroy, Ed Peranio, Paul Swift, George Figgs, Sharon Niesp, George Stover, Turkey Joe, Al Strapelli, Brook Blake, Karen Gerwig, Marina Melin
		Smokey and the Bandit		Hal Needham (director); James Lee Barrett, Charles Shyer, Alan Mandel (screenplay); Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Jackie Gleason, Mike Henry, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams, Macon McCalman, Michael McManus, Ben Jones, Joe Klecko, Hank Worden, Sonny Shroyer, Susan McIver, George Reynolds, Laura Lizer Sommers, Michael Mann, Lamar Jackson, Ronnie Gay, Quinnon Sheffield, Alfie Wise, Pat Hustis, Ingeborg Kjeldsen, Gene Witham, Susan Sindelar
J U N E	1	The Grateful Dead Movie	Monarch Films
	3	Fraternity Row
		Crossed Swords	Warner Bros. Pictures / International Film Production / Prince and the Pauper Film Export A.G.
	8	The Other Side of Midnight
	10	For the Love of Benji	Mulberry Square Releasing	Joe Camp (director/screenplay); Ben Vaughn (screenplay); Benjean, Patsy Garrett, Cynthia Smith, Allen Fiuzat, Ed Nelson, Peter Bowles, Art Vasil, Bridget Armstrong, Tiffany
		Grand Theft Auto		Ron Howard (director/screenplay); Rance Howard (screenplay); Ron Howard, Nancy Morgan, Marion Ross, Peter Isacksen, Don Steele, Clint Howard, Rance Howard, Paul Linke, Elizabeth Rogers, Barry Cahill, Jack Perkins, Paul Bartel, Garry Marshall, Leo Rossi, Allan Arkush, Bill Conklin, Robby Weaver, James Ritz
		Rollercoaster
	15	A Bridge Too Far	United Artists / Joseph E. Levine Productions
	17			John Boorman (director); William Goodhart (screenplay); Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow, Kitty Winn, Paul Henreid, James Earl Jones, Ned Beatty, Richard Paul, Dana Plato, Belinha Beatty, Rose Portillo, Barbara Mason, Joey Green, Tiffany Kinney, Charles Parks, Lorry Goldman, Robert Lussier, George Skaff, Karen Knapp
		The Getting of Wisdom	Roadshow / Southern Cross Films	Bruce Beresford (director); Eleanor Witcombe (screenplay); Susannah Fowle, Hilary Ryan, Terence Donovan, Patricia Kennedy, Sheila Helpmann, Candy Raymond, Barry Humphries, John Waters, Julia Blake, Diana Greentree, Monica Maughan, Dorothy Bradley, Kay Eklund, Maggie Kirkpatrick, Phillip Adams, Kerry Armstrong, Sigrid Thornton, Celia De Burgh, Kim Deacon, Alix Longman, Jo-Anne Moore, Amanda Ring, Janet Shaw, Karen Sutton
	21	New York, New York	United Artists / Chartoff-Winkler Productions
	24	Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo		Vincent McEveety (director); Arthur Alsberg, Don Nelson (screenplay); Dean Jones, Don Knotts, Julie Sommars, Jacques Marin, Roy Kinnear, Bernard Fox, Eric Braeden, Xavier Saint-Macary, Alan Caillou, Laurie Main, Johnny Haymer, Gérard Jugnot, Richard Warlock, Carey Loftin, Katia Tchenko, Josiane Balasko, François Lalande, Mike Kulcsar
		The Rescuers		Wolfgang Reitherman, John Lounsbery, Art Stevens (directors); Larry Clemmons, Vance Gerry, Ken Anderson, Frank Thomas, Burny Mattinson, Fred Lucky, Dick Sebast, David Michener, Ted Berman (screenplay); Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, Michelle Stacy, Geraldine Page, Joe Flynn, Jim Jordan, John McIntire, Jeanette Nolan, Pat Buttram, Bernard Fox, James McDonald, George Lindsey, Larry Clemmons, Dub Taylor, John Fiedler, Shelby Flint, Bill McMillian
		Sorcerer	Universal Pictures (U.S.A & Canada) / Paramount Pictures (International) / Film Properties International N.V.	William Friedkin (director); Walon Green (screenplay); Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou, Ramon Bieri, Karl John, Peter Capell, Anne-Marie Deschodt, Friedrich von Ledebur, Chico Martinez, Joe Spinell, Rosario Almontes, Richard Holley, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jacques François, Gerard Murphy, Randy Jurgensen, Cosmo Allegretti

July–September

Opening		Title	Production company	Cast and crew	Ref.
J U L Y	1	Greased Lightning	Warner Bros. Pictures	Michael Schultz (director); Melvin Van Peebles (screenplay); Richard Pryor, Beau Bridges, Pam Grier, Cleavon Little, Vincent Gardenia, Richie Havens, Julian Bond, Earl Hindman, Lucy Saroyan, Noble Willingham, Bill Cobbs, Georgia Allen, Bruce Atkins, Steve Fifield
	8	The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training		Michael Pressman (director); Paul Bickman (screenplay); William Devane, Jackie Earle Haley, Clifton James, Chris Barnes, Erin Blunt, Jimmy Baio, Alfred W. Lutter, Brett Marx, David Pollock, Jeffrey Louis Starr, David Stambaugh, Jaime Escobedo, George Gonzales, Quinn Smith, Lane Smith, Dolph Sweet, Pat Corley, Douglas Anderson, Jerry Lawson, Fred Stuthman
	12	Stroszek
	13	The Spy Who Loved Me		Lewis Gilbert (director); Christopher Wood, Richard Maibaum (screenplay); Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel, Caroline Munro
		The Island of Dr. Moreau		Don Taylor (director); John Herman Shaner (screenplay); Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera, Richard Basehart, Nick Cravat, Fumio Demura, The Great John L., Bob Ozman, Gary Baxley, John Gillespie, David Cass
	14	I Never Promised You a Rose Garden		Anthony Page (director); Roger Corman (screenplay); Kathleen Quinlan, Bibi Andersson, Ben Piazza, Lorraine Gary, Martine Bartlett, Darlene Craviotto, Reni Santoni, Susan Tyrrell
	15	The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington
		MacArthur
		The Last Remake of Beau Geste		Marty Feldman (director/screenplay); Sam Bobrick (screenplay); Marty Feldman, Michael York, Ann-Margret, Peter Ustinov, James Earl Jones, Trevor Howard, Henry Gibson, Roy Kinnear, Spike Milligan, Terry-Thomas, Sinéad Cusack, Burt Kwouk, Avery Schreiber, Irene Handl, Hugh Griffith, Stephen Lewis, Ed McMahon, Michael McConkey
	17	The Deep		Peter Yates (director); Peter Benchley (screenplay); Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Louis Gossett Jr., Eli Wallach, Dick Anthony Williams, Earl Maynard, Bob Minor, Teddy Tucker, Robert Tessier, Lee McClain, Colin Shaw
	22	One on One
		Orca	Paramount Pictures / Famous Films
		The Hills Have Eyes	New World Pictures / Vanguard / Blood Relations Company	Wes Craven (director/screenplay); Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Martin Speer, Dee Wallace, Russ Grieve, John Steadman, Michael Berryman, Virginia Vincent, Janus Blythe, James Whitworth, Cordy Clark, Lance Gordon, Peter Locke, Brenda Marinoff
	29	Empire of the Ants	American International Pictures / Cinema 77	Bert I. Gordon (director/screenplay); Jack Turley (screenplay); Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John David Carson, Albert Salmi, Jacqueline Scott, Pamela Susan Shoop, Robert Pine, Tom Fadden, Irene Tedrow, Edward Power, Brooke Palance, Harry Holcombe
		House		Nobuhiko Obayashi (director); Chiho Katsura (screenplay); Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Ai Matubara, Kumiko Oba, Mieko Sato, Eriko Tanaka, Masayo Miyako, Yōko Minamida, Kiyohiko Ozaki, Saho Sasazawa, Haruko Wanibuchi
				Jack Starrett (director); Howard B. Kreitsek, Samuel A. Peeples (screenplay); Bo Svenson, Lurene Tuttle, Forrest Tucker, Leif Garrett, Dawn Lyn, Simpson Hemphill, Sandy McPeak, Logan Ramsey, Morgan Woodward, Clay Tanner, Maggie Blye, Bruce Glover, Red West, David Adams, Michael Allen Honaker, Vance Davis, Libby Boone
A U G U S T	3	Brothers	Warner Bros. / Edward Lewis Productions / Soho Productions	Arthur Barron (director); Bernie Casey, Vonetta McGee, Ron O'Neal, John Lehne, Stu Gilliam, Renny Roker, Owen Pace, Dwan Smith, Martin St. Judge
	5	March or Die		Dick Richards (director); David Zelag Goodman (screenplay); Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Max von Sydow, Ian Holm, Catherine Deneuve
	10	The Kentucky Fried Movie	United Film Distribution Company / Kentucky Fried Theater	John Landis (director); Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker (screenplay); Bill Bixby, George Lazenby, Evan C. Kim, Bong Soo Han, Donald Sutherland, Henry Gibson, Barry Dennen, Agneta Eckemyr, Tony Dow
		The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane	Astral Films / Cinema International Corporation / American International Pictures / Claremont Productions / Zev Braun Productions / I.C.L. Industries / La Societe Filmel / Ypsilon Films	Nicolas Gessner (director); Laird Koenig (screenplay); Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith, Mort Shuman, Scott Jacoby, Connie Foster
	12	Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger	Columbia Pictures / Andor Films	Sam Wanamaker (director); Ray Harryhausen, Beverley Cross (screenplay); Patrick Wayne, Taryn Power, Margaret Whiting, Jane Seymour, Patrick Troughton
	14	Outlaw Blues		Richard T. Heffron (director); Bill L. Norton (screenplay); Peter Fonda, Susan Saint James, John Crawford, James T. Callahan, Michael Lerner, Steve Fromholz
		Suspiria	20th Century Fox / Produzioni Atlas Consorziate (Italy) / Seda Spettacoli	Dario Argento (director/screenplay); Daria Nicolodi (screenplay); Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé, Barbara Magnolfi
	17	That Obscure Object of Desire	Greenwich Film Productions / Les Films Galaxie / InCine / GEF-CCFC
	18	Journey Among Women	Greater Union / Ko-An Film Productions	Tom Cowan (director/screenplay); John Weiley, Dorothy Hewett (screenplay); Jeune Pritchard, Nell Campbell, Diana Fuller, Lisa Peers, Jude Kuring, Robyn Moase, Michelle Johnson, Rose Lilley, Lillian Crombie, Therese Jack, Kay Self, Helenka Link, Ralph Cotterill, Martin Phelan, Tim Elliot
	24	Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown		Bill Melendez (director); Phil Roman (co-director); Charles M. Schulz (screenplay); Duncan Watson, Stuart Brotman, Gail Davis, Liam Martin, Melanie Kohn, Jimmy Ahrens, Kirk Jue, Jordan Warren, Tom Muller, Greg Felton, Joseph Biter, Bill Melendez
		Thunder and Lightning		Corey Allen (director); William Hjortsberg (screenplay); David Carradine, Kate Jackson, Sterling Holloway, Patrick Cranshaw, Charles Napier, George Murdock
	26	Joyride		Joseph Ruben (director/screenplay); Peter Rainer (screenplay); Desi Arnaz Jr., Robert Carradine, Melanie Griffith, Anne Lockhart, Tom Ligon, Cliff Lenz, Robert Loper, Diana Grayf
	31	You Light Up My Life		Joseph Brooks (director/screenplay); Didi Conn, Joe Silver, Michael Zaslow, Melanie Mayron, Jerry Keller, Joseph Brooks, Ken Olfson, Stephen Nathan, Lisa Reeves, John Gowans, Simmy Bow, Bernice Nicholson, Ed Morgan, Amy Letterman, Marty Zagon, Martin Gish
S E P T E M B E R	11	The Haunting of Julia		Richard Loncraine (director); Dave Humphries (screenplay); Mia Farrow, Keir Dullea, Tom Conti, Jill Bennett, Robin Gammell
	21	Shock Waves	Joseph Brenner Associates / Lawrence Friedricks Enterprises / Zopix Company	Ken Wiederhorn (director/screenplay); John Harrison (screenplay); Peter Cushing, John Carradine, Brooke Adams, Fred Buch, Jack Davidson, Luke Halpin, D. J. Sidney, Don Stout
	22	Soldier of Orange	Tuschinski Film Distribution / The Rank Organisation / The International Picture Show Company / Excelsior Films / Film Holland / Rob Houwer Productions	Paul Verhoeven (director/screenplay); Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, Kees Holierhoek, Gerard Soeteman (screenplay); Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbé, Derek de Lint, Edward Fox
	28	Another Man, Another Chance	United Artists / Chartoff-Winkler Productions
		Short Eyes	Film League
	29	Bobby Deerfield		Sydney Pollack (director); Alvin Sargent (screenplay); Al Pacino, Marthe Keller, Anny Duperey, Walter McGinn, Romolo Valli, Stephan Meldegg, Jaime Sánchez
	30	A Little Night Music

October–December

Opening		Title	Production company	Cast and crew	Ref.
O C T O B E R	1	The Yellow Handkerchief
	2	Julia		Fred Zinnemann (director); Alvin Sargent (screenplay); Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Hal Holbrook, Rosemary Murphy, Maximilian Schell, Meryl Streep, John Glover, Lisa Pelikan, Maurice Denham, Gérard Buhr, Cathleen Nesbitt, Lambert Wilson, Dora Doll, Elisabeth Mortensen, Susan Jones
		Roseland	Cinema Shares International Distribution	James Ivory (director); Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (screenplay); Teresa Wright, Lou Jacobi, Geraldine Chaplin, Helen Gallagher, Joan Copeland, Christopher Walken, Conrad Janis, Lilia Skala, Don De Natale, Louise Kirkland, Hetty Galen, Carol Culver, Denny Shearer, Jayne Heller, Annette Rivera, Floyd Chisolm, Jeanmarie Evans, David Thomas, Edward Kogan, Madeline Lee, Stan Rubin, Dortha Duckworth
	7	Oh, God!		Carl Reiner (director); Larry Gelbart (screenplay); George Burns, John Denver, Teri Garr, Donald Pleasence, Ralph Bellamy, William Daniels, Barnard Hughes, Paul Sorvino, Barry Sullivan, Dinah Shore, Carl Reiner, Jeff Corey, George Furth, David Ogden Stiers, Titos Vandis, Moosie Drier, Jerry Dunphy, Mario Machado, Connie Sawyer, Wonderful Smith, Murphy Dunne, Zane Buzby, Bob McClurg, Rachel Longaker, Jane Lambert
		A Piece of the Action
		Rolling Thunder	American International Pictures / Lawrence Gordon Productions / TBC Film	John Flynn (director); Paul Schrader, Heywood Gould (screenplay); William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes, James Best, Dabney Coleman, Luke Askew, James Victor, Cassie Yates, Paul A. Partain, James N. Harrell, Carol Baass Sowa, Lawrason Driscoll, Lisa Blake Richards, Randy Hermann, Charles Escamilla, Pete Ortega, Jordan Gerler, Jacque Burandt
	14	The Chicken Chronicles
		Starship Invasions	Warner Bros. Pictures / Hal Roach Studios	Ed Hunt (director/screenplay); Robert Vaughn, Christopher Lee, Daniel Pilon, Helen Shaver, Sean McCann, Tiiu Leek, Henry Ramer, Victoria Johnson, Doreen Lipson, Kate Parr, Sherri Ross, Linda Rennhofer, Richard Fitzpatrick, Ted Turner, Bob Warner, Kurt Schiegl
	16	Alambrista!	First Run Features / Filmhaus
	19	Equus	United Artists / Winkast Film Productions	Sidney Lumet (director); Peter Shaffer (screenplay); Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter, Joan Plowright, Colin Blakely, Harry Andrews, Eileen Atkins, Kate Reid, John Wyman, Frazier Mohawk, Brook Williams, Elva Mai Hoover, Ken James, David Gardner, James Hurdle, Sheldon Rybowski
		Looking for Mr. Goodbar
	21	Damnation Alley
		Ruby		Curtis Harrington (director); George Edwards, Steve Krantz, Barry Schneider (screenplay); Piper Laurie, Stuart Whitman, Roger Davis, Janit Baldwin, Paul Kent, Len Lesser, Fred Kohler Jr., Michael Alldredge, Sal Vecchio, Crystin Sinclaire, Jack Perkins, Eddy Donno, Rory Stevens, Kip Gillespie, Mary Margaret Robinson
	28	Valentino
N O V E M B E R	2	Madame Rosa		Moshé Mizrahi (director/screenplay); Simone Signoret, Michal Bat-Adam, Samy Ben-Youb, Gabriel Jabbour, Geneviève Fontanel, Claude Dauphin, Costa-Gavras, Bernard La Jarrige, Elio Bencoli, Stella Annicette, El Kebir, Ibrahim Seck, Mohamed Zinet
	3	Pete's Dragon
	4	Heroes
		First Love		Joan Darling (director); Jane Stanton Hitchcock, David Freeman (screenplay); William Katt, Susan Dey, John Heard, Beverly D'Angelo, Robert Loggia, Swoosie Kurtz, Tom Lacy, June Barrett
		Which Way Is Up?
	6	Black Joy
	14	The Turning Point		Herbert Ross (director); Arthur Laurents (screenplay); Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Tom Skerritt, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Martha Scott, James Mitchell, Alexandra Danilova, Lisa Lucas, Philip Saunders, Antoinette Sibley, Marshall Thompson, Starr Danias, Anthony Zerbe, Daniel Levans
	16	Close Encounters of the Third Kind		Steven Spielberg (director/screenplay); Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, François Truffaut, Bob Balaban, Roberts Blossom, Cary Guffey, Lance Henriksen, George DiCenzo, Gene Dynarski, Josef Sommer, Carl Weathers, J. Patrick McNamara, Warren Kemmerling, Philip Dodds, Merrill Connally
	18	The Mouse and His Child		Fred Wolf (director); Russell Hoban (screenplay); Peter Ustinov, Cloris Leachman, Sally Kellerman, John Carradine, Andy Devine, Don Lake, Joan Gerber, Frank Nelson, Cliff Norton, Regis Cordic, Neville Brand, Bob Holt, Robert Ridgely, Iris Rainer, Mel Leven, Cliff Osmond, Maitzi Morgan, Charles Woolf, Alan Barzman, Marcy Swenson
		The Pack
		Planet of Dinosaurs	Cineworld Pictures	James Shea (director); Jim Aupperle, Ralph Lucas (screenplay); James Whitworth, Pamela Bottaro, Louie Lawless, Harvey Shain, Charlotte Speer, Chuck Pennington, Derna Wylde, Max Thayer, Mary Appleseth
		Semi-Tough
	23	Kingdom of the Spiders	Dimension Pictures / Arachnid Productions Ltd.	John "Bud" Cardos (director); Alan Caillou, Richard Robinson (screenplay); William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling, Woody Strode, Altovise Davis, Lieux Dressler, David McLean, Roy Engel, Natasha Ryan, Marcy Lafferty, Joe Ross, Adele Malis-Morey
	27	The Hobbit
	30	The Goodbye Girl
		Scott Joplin
D E C E M B E R	9	The Disappearance		Stuart Cooper (director); Paul Mayersberg (screenplay); Donald Sutherland, Francine Racette, David Hemmings, John Hurt, David Warner, Peter Bowles, Virginia McKenna, Christopher Plummer, Dan Howard, Robin Sachs, Michael Eric Kramer, Michèle Magny, Christina Greatrex, Robert Korne, Maureen Beck
	13	Goodbye Emmanuelle
		The Last Wave		Peter Weir (director/screenplay); Tony Morphett, Petru Popescu (screenplay); Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, Gulpilil, Nandjiwarra Amagula, Fred Parslow, Vivean Gray, Peter Carroll, Wallas Eaton, Walter Amagula, Roy Bara, Cedrick Lalara, Morris Lalara, Athol Compton, Hedley Cullen, Michael Duffield
	16	Candleshoe		Norman Tokar (director); David Swift, Rosemary Anne Sisson (screenplay); Jodie Foster, David Niven, Helen Hayes, Leo McKern, Vivian Pickles, John Alderson, Mildred Shay, Michael Balfour, Sydney Bromley, Veronica Quilligan, Ian Sharrock, Sarah Tamakuni, David Samuels
		Saturday Night Fever		John Badham (director); Norman Wexler (screenplay); John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Paul Pape, Donna Pescow, Bruce Ornstein, Val Bisoglio, Julie Bovasso, Martin Shakar, Lisa Peluso, Sam Coppola, Denny Dillon, Fran Drescher, Monti Rock III, Robert Costanzo, Nina Hansen, Bert Michaels, Robert Weil, Donald Gantry
		Telefon
	18	The World's Greatest Lover
	21	The Gauntlet
	22	The Choirboys
		Summer City	Intertropic films / Avalon Film Corporation Studio	Christopher Fraser (director); Phil Avalon (screenplay); Mel Gibson, John Jarratt, Phil Avalon, Steve Bisley, James Elliott, Abigail, and Ward "Pally" Austin, Debbie Forman, Carl Rorke, Ross Bailey, Vicki Hekimian, Karen Williams
	25	The Duellists	Paramount Pictures / Enigma Productions / National Film Finance Consortium
		High Anxiety		Mel Brooks (director/screenplay); Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca, Barry Levinson (screenplay); Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Ron Carey, Howard Morris, Dick Van Patten, Jack Riley, Charlie Callas, Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca, Barry Levinson, Lee Delano, Richard Stahl, Darrell Zwerling, Murphy Dunne, Albert J. Whitlock, Eddie Ryder, Sandy Helberg, Billy Sands, Ira Miller, Beatrice Colen, Hunter von Leer, Frank Campanella, Arnold Soboloff, Bernie Kuby
		Opening Night	Universal Pictures / Faces Distribution	John Cassavetes (director/screenplay); Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, Joan Blondell, Paul Stewart, Zohra Lampert, John Cassavetes, John Tuell, Laura Johnson, Lady Rowlands, John Finnegan, Fred Draper, Katherine Cassavetes, Louise Lewis, Carol Warren, Ray Powers
	26
	28	Grayeagle		Charles B. Pierce (director/screenplay); Brad White, Michael O. Sajbel (screenplay); Ben Johnson, Iron Eyes Cody, Lana Wood, Jack Elam, Alex Cord, Paul Fix, Charles B. Pierce, Jacob Daniels, Jimmy Clem, Cindy Butler

See also

• List of 1977 box office number-one films in the United States
• 1977 in the United States

External links

• 1977 films at the Internet Movie Database

Notes and References

1. Web site: Domestic Box Office for 1977 . . . January 12, 2024 .