• 3 Women, directed by Robert Altman, starring Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule

• 21 Up, a TV made documentary film - (UK)

• ABBA: The Movie - directed by Lasse Hallström - (Sweden/Australia)

• Airport '77, starring Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, Christopher Lee, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, James Stewart

• Alien Prey, directed by Norman J. Warren, starring Glory Annen - (UK)

• Alice or the Last Escapade (Alice ou la dernière fugue), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Sylvia Kristel - (France)

• Allegro Non Troppo, a musical animated film - (Italy)

• Amar Akbar Anthony, starring Amitabh Bachchan - (India)

• The American Friend (Der amerikanische Freund), directed by Wim Wenders, starring Dennis Hopper and Bruno Ganz - (West Germany)

• Andy Warhol's Bad, starring Carroll Baker and Perry King

• Annie Hall, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon

• Audrey Rose, directed by Robert Wise, starring Marsha Mason, Anthony Hopkins, John Beck

• The Ascent, directed by Larisa Shepitko - (USSR)

• An Average Little Man (Un borghese piccolo piccolo), directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Alberto Sordi - (Italy)

• Backroads, directed by Phillip Noyce - (Australia)

• The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, starring Jackie Earle Haley and William Devane

• Black Joy, starring Norman Beaton - (UK)

• Black Sunday, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller

• A Bridge Too Far, directed by Richard Attenborough, starring James Caan, Sean Connery, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O'Neal, Robert Redford - (US/UK)

• The Brothers Lionheart (Bröderna Lejonhjärta) - (Sweden)

• Candleshoe, starring David Niven, Helen Hayes, Jodie Foster

• The Car, starring James Brolin

• Ceddo, directed by Ousmane Sembène - (Senegal)

• Charleston, starring Bud Spencer, James Coco, Herbert Lom

• The Chess Players (Shatranj Ke Khilari), directed by Satyajit Ray - (India)

• Chinatown Kid (Tang ren jie xiao zi), directed by Chang Cheh - (Hong Kong)

• The Choirboys, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Charles Durning, Louis Gossett, Jr., Perry King, Phyllis Davis, Barbara Rhoades

• Cinderella, starring Cheryl Rainbeaux Smith

• Circuit no Ōkami (The Circuit Wolf) - (Japan)

• Citizen's Band, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Paul Le Mat and Candy Clark

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr

• Cross of Iron, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason - (UK/West Germany)

• Crossed Swords, starring Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Rex Harrison, Charlton Heston, George C. Scott

• Damnation Alley, directed by Jack Smight, starring George Peppard and Jan-Michael Vincent

• Death of a President (Śmierć prezydenta) - (Poland)

• The Deep, directed by Peter Yates, starring Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Louis Gossett, Jr.

• Demon Seed, directed by Donald Cammell, starring Julie Christie

• Desperate Living, directed by John Waters

• The Devil Probably (Le diable probablement), directed by Robert Bresson - (France)

• Dharam Veer, starring Dharmendra - (India)

• Dinner for Adele (Adéla ještě nevečeřela) - (Czechoslovakia)

• Down and Dirty Duck, starring Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman

• The Disappearance, starring Donald Sutherland and David Hemmings

• The Dog Who Loved Trains (Pas koji je voleo vozove) - (Yugoslavia)

• The Domino Principle, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Mickey Rooney, Eli Wallach, Richard Widmark

• Dot and the Kangaroo - (Australia)

• Double Murder, starring Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Peter Ustinov

• The Duellists, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel - (UK)

• Elisa, vida mía (Elisa, My Life), directed by Carlos Saura, starring Geraldine Chaplin and Fernando Rey - (Spain)

• Equus, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Richard Burton and Peter Firth - (US/UK)

• Eraserhead, directed by David Lynch, starring Jack Nance

• Executioners from Shaolin (Hong Xi Guan) - (Hong Kong)

• Exorcist II: The Heretic, directed by John Boorman, starring Richard Burton, Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher

• First Love, starring Susan Dey, William Katt, Beverly D'Angelo

• Full Circle, aka The Haunting of Julia, starring Mia Farrow, Keir Dullea, Tom Conti

• Fun with Dick and Jane, directed by Ted Kotcheff, starring Jane Fonda and George Segal

• The Gauntlet, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, with Sondra Locke

• The Getting of Wisdom, directed by Bruce Beresford - (Australia)

• Golden Rendezvous, starring Richard Harris, Ann Turkel, David Janssen

• The Goodbye Girl, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason

• Grand Theft Auto, directed by and starring Ron Howard with Nancy Morgan

• The Grateful Dead Movie, directed by Jerry Garcia and Leon Gast

• The Greatest, starring Muhammad Ali as himself

• Gulliver's Travels

• Halloween with the New Addams Family

• Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, directed by Vincent McEveety, starring Dean Jones and Don Knotts

• Heroes, starring Henry Winkler, Sally Field, Harrison Ford

• High Anxiety, directed by and starring Mel Brooks, with Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Howard Morris, Cloris Leachman

• The Hills Have Eyes, directed by Wes Craven

• Hitler: A Film from Germany, directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg - (West Germany)

• The Hobbit, an animated film

• House (Hausu) - (Japan)

• The Hunters (Oi kynigoi), directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos - (Greece)

• I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, starring Kathleen Quinlan

• In the Name of the Pope King (In nome del papa re), starring Nino Manfredi - (Italy)

• In Search of Noah's Ark

• Iphigenia, directed by Michael Cacoyannis - (Greece)

• The Iron Prefect (Il prefetto di ferro) - (Italy)

• The Iron-Fisted Monk (San De huo shang yu Chong Mi Liu), directed by and starring Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)

• The Island of Dr. Moreau, starring Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Barbara Carrera

• Islands in the Stream, starring George C. Scott

• J.A. Martin Photographer (J.A. Martin photographe) - (Canada)

• Jabberwocky, directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Michael Palin - (UK)

• Joseph Andrews, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Ann-Margret

• Jubilee, by Derek Jarman, starring Adam Ant, Toyah Willcox, Little Nell - (UK)

• Julia, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards

• The Kentucky Fried Movie, directed by John Landis, starring Bill Bixby and George Lazenby

• Kingdom of the Spiders, starring William Shatner and Tiffany Bolling

• The King of the Street Cleaners (Çöpçüler Kralı) - (Turkey)

• Die Konsequenz (The Consequence), directed by Wolfgang Petersen, starring Jürgen Prochnow - (West Germany)

• La Soufrière, a documentary film directed by Werner Herzog - (West Germany)

• The Lacemaker (La Dentellière), starring Isabelle Huppert - (France)

• The Last Remake of Beau Geste, directed by and starring Marty Feldman

• The Last Wave, directed by Peter Weir - (Australia)

• The Late Show, directed by Robert Benton, starring Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Eugene Roche, Joanna Cassidy

• A Little Night Music, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Lesley-Anne Down, Diana Rigg

• Looking for Mr. Goodbar, directed by Richard Brooks, starring Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, Richard Kiley, Richard Gere

• The Lorry (Le Camion), directed by and starring Marguerite Duras with Gérard Depardieu - (France

• MacArthur, starring Gregory Peck

• Madame Rosa, starring Simone Signoret - Academy Award for Best Foreign Film - (France)

• The Magic Pony

• Ma-ma - (Romania/USSR/France)

• Mama, I'm Alive (Mama, ich lebe) - (East Germany)

• Man of Marble (Człowiek z marmuru), directed by Andrzej Wajda - (Poland)

• The Man Who Loved Women (L'Homme qui aimait les femmes), directed by François Truffaut, starring Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Leslie Caron - (France)

• Manly Times, directed by Eduard Zahariev, starring Grigor Vachkov, Mariana Dimitrova, Velko Kanev - (Bulgaria)

• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

• March or Die, directed by Dick Richards, starring Gene Hackman, Catherine Deneuve, Max von Sydow

• Martin, directed by George A. Romero

• Mimino - (USSR)

• Mogliamante - (Wifemistress) - (Italy)

• Mr. Billion, starring Terence Hill, Valerie Perrine, Jackie Gleason

• Nenè - (Italy)

• New York, New York, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro

• A Nice Plate of Spinach (Což takhle dát si špenát) - (Czechoslovakia)

• Office Romance (Sluzhebnyy roman) - (USSR)

• Oh, God!, directed by Carl Reiner, starring George Burns, John Denver, Teri Garr, Paul Sorvino

• One on One, starring Robby Benson, Annette O'Toole, G. D. Spradlin

• One Sings, the Other Doesn't (L'une chante, l'autre pas), directed by Agnès Varda - (France)

• Opening Night, directed by John Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands, Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara

• Orca, starring Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling, Bo Derek

• The Other Side of Midnight, starring Marie-France Pisier, Susan Sarandon, John Beck, Clu Gulager, Raf Vallone

• Outlaw Blues, starring Peter Fonda and Susan Saint James

• Padre Padrone (Father and Master), directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani - (Italy) - Palme d'Or winner

• Pafnucio Santo - (Mexico)

• Pete's Dragon, directed by Don Chaffey, starring Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney

• The Picture Show Man, starring Rod Taylor - (Australia)

• A Piece of the Action, directed by and starring Sidney Poitier, with Bill Cosby and James Earl Jones

• Plae Kao (The Scar) - (Thailand)

• Portrait of a Hitman, starring Jack Palance and Rod Steiger

• Providence, directed by Alain Resnais, starring John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn - (France/Switzerland)

• Pumping Iron, a docudrama starring Arnold Schwarzenegger

• Rabid, starring Marilyn Chambers (Canada)

• Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown

• Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure, an animated film with the voices of Didi Conn and Mark Baker

• Rembrandt 1669 - (Netherlands)

• The Report (Gozāresh), directed by Abbas Kiarostami - (Iran)

• The Rescuers, animated film with voices of Eva Gabor and Bob Newhart

• Rollercoaster, starring Timothy Bottoms, George Segal, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda

• Rolling Thunder, starring William Devane

• Roots, TV mini-series, starring LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Amos, Cicely Tyson, Georg Stanford Brown, Olivia Cole, Ben Vereen

• Roseland, starring Teresa Wright, Geraldine Chaplin, Lou Jacobi, Christopher Walken

• Ruby, starring Piper Laurie

• Saturday Night Fever, directed by John Badham, starring John Travolta and Karen Lynn Gorney

• Scott Joplin, starring Billy Dee Williams, Margaret Avery, Clifton Davis, Art Carney

• Semi-Tough, directed by Michael Ritchie, starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Preston, Bert Convy

• The Sentinel, starring Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, José Ferrer, Martin Balsam, Ava Gardner

• September 30, 1955, directed by James Bridges, starring Richard Thomas, Susan Tyrrell, Dennis Quaid, Tom Hulce, Dennis Christopher

• The Serpent's Egg, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring David Carradine and Liv Ullmann - (US/West Germany)

• Short Eyes, directed by Robert M. Young, starring Bruce Davison and Jose Perez

• Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, directed by Sam Wanamaker, starring Patrick Wayne and Jane Seymour - (US/UK)

• Slap Shot, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean, Lindsay Crouse, Strother Martin

• Smokey and the Bandit, directed by Hal Needham, starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Jackie Gleason

• Soldier of Orange (Soldaat van Oranje), directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Rutger Hauer - (Netherlands)

• Sorcerer, directed by William Friedkin, starring Roy Scheider

• A Special Day (Una giornata particolare), directed by Ettore Scola, starring Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon - (Italy)

• Speedtrap, starring Joe Don Baker and Tyne Daly

• Spider-Man, starring Nicholas Hammond

• The Spy Who Loved Me, starring Roger Moore (as James Bond) with Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel - (UK)

• Starship Invasions, starring Christopher Lee, Robert Vaughn, Helen Shaver

• Star Wars, directed by George Lucas, starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing

• Stroszek, directed by Werner Herzog, starring Bruno S. and Eva Mattes - (West Germany)

• Suspiria, directed by Dario Argento, starring Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Alida Valli - (Italy)

• Sweeney!, starring John Thaw and Dennis Waterman - (UK)

• A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness (Hishū monogatari) - (Japan)

• Telefon, directed by Don Siegel, starring Charles Bronson and Lee Remick

• Tenda dos Milagres (Tent of Miracles), directed by Nelson Pereira dos Santos - (Brazil)

• Tentacles, starring John Huston, Shelley Winters, Henry Fonda

• That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet obscur objet du désir), directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina - (France/Spain)

• That's Carry On!, a compilation film featuring Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor - (UK)

• Thunder and Lightning, starring David Carradine and Kate Jackson

• Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (Czech: Zítra vstanu a opařím se čajem) - (Czechoslovakia)

• Tongpan - (Thailand)

• The Turning Point, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Shirley MacLaine, Anne Bancroft, Tom Skerritt, Mikhail Baryshnikov

• Twilight's Last Gleaming, directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Paul Winfield, Burt Young

• Unsichtbare Gegner directed by Valie Export - (Austria)

• Viva l'Italia! (I nuovi mostri), starring Vittorio Gassman and Ornella Muti - (Italy)

• Viva Knievel!, featuring Evel Knievel

• The War in Space (Wakusei Daisensō: Za uō in Supesu) - (Japan)

• Which Way Is Up?, directed by Michael Schultz, starring Richard Pryor, Margaret Avery, Lonette McKee

• White Bim Black Ear (Belyy Bim, Chyornoe ukho) - (USSR)

• The White Buffalo, starring Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson, Slim Pickens, Kim Novak

• Wilma, starring Shirley Jo Finney, Cicely Tyson, Denzel Washington

• Wizards - animated film directed by Ralph Bakshi

• The World's Greatest Lover, directed by and starring Gene Wilder, with Carol Kane, Dom DeLuise

• Wounded Game (Podranki) - (USSR)

• The Year of the Hare (Jäniksen vuosi) - (Finland)

• The Yellow Handkerchief (Shiawase no kiiroi hankachi) - (Japan)

• You Light Up My Life, starring Didi Conn

Highest-grossing films (US)

The top ten 1977 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

• Rank	Title	Studio	Domestic gross
  1.	Star Wars	20th Century Fox/Lucasfilm Ltd.	$221,280,994
  2.	Smokey and the Bandit	Universal Pictures	$126,737,428
  3.	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Columbia Pictures	$116,395,460
  4.	Saturday Night Fever	Paramount Pictures	$94,213,184
  5.	The Goodbye Girl	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Warner Bros. / Rastar	$82,000,470
  6.	A Bridge Too Far	United Artists	$50,750,000
  7.	The Deep	Columbia Pictures	$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