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Best Movies of 1977, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
80 films from 1977 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Star Wars ('1977), at 8.6 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Capricorn One, 6.8 on IMDb against 38 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Star Wars '1977 | Action / Sci-Fi | 8.6 | 93% | 90 | 8.2 | George Lucas |
| 2 | The Chaos Class Is on Vacation '1977 | Comedy / Drama | 8.6 | - | - | 7.6 | Ertem Eğilmez |
| 3 | Annie Hall '1977 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.9 | 97% | 92 | 7.7 | Woody Allen |
| 4 | The King of the Street Cleaners '1977 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 8.5 | - | - | 7.8 | Zeki Ökten |
| 5 | A Special Day '1977 | Drama / Romance | 8.1 | 100% | - | 8.1 | Ettore Scola |
| 6 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind '1977 | Sci-Fi / Drama | 7.6 | 91% | 90 | 7.4 | Steven Spielberg |
| 7 | The Ascent '1977 | Drama / War | 8.2 | 100% | - | 7.9 | Larisa Shepitko |
| 8 | That Obscure Object of Desire '1977 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 97% | 84 | 7.4 | Luis Buñuel |
| 9 | Sorcerer '1977 | Thriller | 7.7 | 84% | 68 | 7.5 | William Friedkin |
| 10 | Office Romance '1977 | Comedy / Romance | 8.2 | - | - | 7.8 | Eldar Ryazanov |
| 11 | 3 Women '1977 | Drama | 7.7 | 84% | 82 | 7.1 | Robert Altman |
| 12 | The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh '1977 | Animation | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.3 | John Lounsbery |
| 13 | Opening Night '1977 | Drama | 7.8 | 96% | 69 | 7.6 | John Cassavetes |
| 14 | Stroszek '1977 | Drama | 7.7 | 95% | - | 7.3 | Werner Herzog |
| 15 | A Bridge Too Far '1977 | Drama / War | 7.4 | 61% | 63 | 7.2 | Richard Attenborough |
| 16 | Mimino '1977 | Comedy / Drama | 8.0 | - | - | 7.6 | Georgiy Daneliya |
| 17 | Suspiria '1977 | Horror / Mystery | 7.3 | 94% | 79 | 7.5 | Dario Argento |
| 18 | Cross of Iron '1977 | Drama / Action / War | 7.4 | 71% | 64 | 7.1 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 19 | The Duellists '1977 | Drama / War | 7.4 | 75% | 70 | 7.3 | Ridley Scott |
| 20 | Soldier of Orange '1977 | Drama / Thriller / War | 7.6 | 92% | - | 7.1 | Paul Verhoeven |
| 21 | The American Friend '1977 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.4 | 88% | 79 | 7.1 | Wim Wenders |
| 22 | Eraserhead '1977 | Horror / Sci-Fi | 7.2 | 87% | 87 | 7.3 | David Lynch |
| 23 | The Goodbye Girl '1977 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.4 | 77% | 64 | 7.0 | Herbert Ross |
| 24 | Pumping Iron '1977 | Documentary | 7.3 | 92% | 72 | 7.2 | Robert Fiore |
| 25 | Slap Shot '1977 | Comedy / Drama | 7.2 | 87% | 61 | 6.8 | George Roy Hill |
| 26 | House '1977 | Comedy / Fantasy / Horror | 7.2 | 90% | 75 | 7.3 | Nobuhiko Obayashi |
| 27 | An Average Little Man '1977 | Drama / Comedy | 7.8 | - | - | 7.9 | Mario Monicelli |
| 28 | The Man Who Loved Women '1977 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.3 | 82% | - | 7.1 | François Truffaut |
| 29 | The Spy Who Loved Me '1977 | Action / Thriller | 7.0 | 82% | 55 | 6.8 | Lewis Gilbert |
| 30 | Crime Busters '1977 | Action / Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 7.0 | Enzo Barboni |
| 31 | Smokey and the Bandit '1977 | Action / Comedy | 7.0 | 71% | 50 | 7.0 | Hal Needham |
| 32 | Julia '1977 | Drama | 7.1 | 73% | 58 | 6.5 | Fred Zinnemann |
| 33 | Equus '1977 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.1 | 70% | - | 7.0 | Sidney Lumet |
| 34 | Padre Padrone '1977 | Drama | 7.2 | 70% | - | 6.8 | Paolo Taviani |
| 35 | The Devil, Probably '1977 | Drama | 7.0 | 86% | - | 6.8 | Robert Bresson |
| 36 | The Rescuers '1977 | Fantasy / Animation | 6.9 | 79% | 74 | 6.8 | Wolfgang Reitherman |
| 37 | Rolling Thunder '1977 | Drama / Thriller / Action / Crime | 6.9 | 82% | 66 | 6.8 | John Flynn |
| 38 | The Last Wave '1977 | Drama / Mystery / Horror | 6.9 | 78% | 85 | 6.7 | Peter Weir |
| 39 | The New Monsters '1977 | Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 7.0 | Mario Monicelli |
| 40 | The Incredible Hulk '1977 | Action / Sci-Fi / Drama | 6.9 | 63% | - | 6.5 | Kenneth Johnson |
| 41 | We Will All Meet in Paradise '1977 | Comedy | 6.8 | - | - | 6.8 | Yves Robert |
| 42 | The Psychic '1977 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.8 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Lucio Fulci |
| 43 | Black Sunday '1977 | Action / Drama / Thriller | 6.8 | 76% | 57 | 6.7 | John Frankenheimer |
| 44 | Capricorn One '1977 | Drama / Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi | 6.8 | 61% | 38 | 6.8 | Peter Hyams |
| 45 | Saturday Night Fever '1977 | Drama | 6.8 | 82% | 77 | 6.7 | John Badham |
| 46 | Looking for Mr. Goodbar '1977 | Drama | 6.7 | 63% | 64 | 6.3 | Richard Brooks |
| 47 | The Seventh Company Outdoors '1977 | Comedy | 6.2 | - | - | 6.7 | Robert Lamoureux |
| 48 | Animal '1977 | Comedy | 6.5 | - | - | 6.0 | Claude Zidi |
| 49 | The Serpent's Egg '1977 | Mystery / Drama / Thriller | 6.6 | 20% | - | 6.2 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 50 | The Hobbit '1977 | Fantasy / Animation | 6.7 | 72% | - | 6.6 | Jules Bass |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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