1977 Top Ten List

  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg)
  • Eraserhead (David Lynch)
  • 3 Women (Robert Altman)
  • Annie Hall (Woody Allen)
  • Providence (Alain Resnais)
  • Saturday Night Fever (John Badham)
  • New York, New York (Martin Scorsese)
  • The Duellists (Ridley Scott)
  • Slap Shot (George Roy Hill)
  • Stroszek (Werner Herzog)
  • Additional 1977 Films By Rating

  • Suspiria (Dario Argento)
  • Star Wars (George Lucas)
  • Between the Lines (Joan Micklin Silver)
  • Rolling Thunder (John Flynn)
  • Rabid (David Cronenberg)
  • Sorcerer (William Friedkin)
  • Smokey and the Bandit (Hal Needham)
  • One Way Boogie Woogie (James Benning)
  • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Wolfgang Reitherman/John Lounsbery)
  • Opening Night (John Cassavetes)
  • The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko)
  • 21 (Michael Apted)
  • Canal Zone (Frederick Wiseman)
  • Black Sunday (John Frankenheimer)
  • News From Home (Chantal Akerman)
  • The Kentucky Fried Movie (John Landis)
  • Iodo (Kim Ki-young)
  • A Special Day (Ettore Scola)
  • House (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
  • The American Friend (Wim Wenders)
  • The Last Wave (Peter Weir)
  • The Great Bank Hoax (Joseph Jacoby)
  • Abigail's Party (Mike Leigh)
  • That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel)
  • Twilight's Last Gleaming (Robert Aldrich)
  • Invisible Adversaries (Valie Export)
  • The Kiss of Death (Mike Leigh)
  • High Anxiety (Mel Brooks)
  • Damnation Alley (Jack Smight)
  • The Devil, Probably (Robert Bresson)
  • The Spy Who Loved Me (Lewis Gilbert)
  • ¡Alambrista! (Robert M. Young)
  • The Deep (Peter Yates)
  • One Sings, the Other Doesn't (Agnès Varda)
  • The Rescuers (Wolfgang Reitherman & John Lounsbery & Art Stevens)
  • The Gauntlet (Clint Eastwood)