Best Movies of 1977 by Rank
29
1
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Paul Simon
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
35
2
George Lucas
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Alec Guinness
Sci-Fi / Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Family / Cult
USA
English
182
3
Steven Spielberg
Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon
Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
240
4
John Badham
John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Paul Pape
Drama / Romance / Music / Cult
USA
English
440
5
Wim Wenders
Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir / Gangster
West Germany / France
German
490
6
Dario Argento
Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bosé
Horror
Italy / West Germany
English
494
7
Luis Buñuel
Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina, Julien Bertheau
Drama / Comedy
France / Spain
French
643
8
David Lynch
Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts
Fantasy / Drama / Horror / Experimental / Cult
USA
English
988
10
Paul Verhoeven
Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbé
War / Drama / Thriller
Belgium / Netherlands
Dutch
1166
11
Robert Altman
Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Robert Fortier
Drama
USA
English
1171
12
Andrzej Wajda
Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Jacek Lomnicki
Drama
Poland
Polish
1311
13
Herbert Ross
Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
1332
14
Alain Resnais
Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud, David Warner
Drama
France / Switzerland
English
1354
15
Werner Herzog
Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz, Wilhelm von Homburg
Drama / Comedy
West Germany
English
1594
17
Robert Benton
Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Eugene Roche, Joanna Cassidy
Crime / Mystery / Comedy / Drama / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
1701
18
Peter Weir
Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow
Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Drama
Australia
English
1715
19
Robert Bresson
Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Henri de Maublanc, Laetitia Carcano
Drama
France
French
1781
20
Ridley Scott
Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Cristina Raines
Action / War / Drama / Period Film
UK
English
1818
21
Moshé Mizrahi
Simone Signoret, Michal Bat-Adam, Samy Ben-Youb
Drama
France
French
1852
22
Ousmane Sembene
Tabata Ndiaye, Moustapha Yade, Ismaila Diagne, Matoura Dia
Drama / Experimental
Senegal
French
1889
23
François Truffaut
Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Nelly Borgeaud, Leslie Caron
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
1907
24
Martin Scorsese
Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, Lionel Stander, Barry Primus
Musical / Drama / Period Film
USA
English
1929
25
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi, Marcella Michelangeli
Drama
Italy
Italian
1953
26
Michael Apted
Susan Sullivan, Peter Davies, Charles, Bruce Balden
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
1968
27
Ettore Scola
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni
Drama / Romance
Italy / Canada
Italian
1980
28
Lewis Gilbert
Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel, Caroline Munro
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Spy / Romance / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
2019
29
Derek Jarman
Jenny Runacre, Nell Campbell, Toyah Willcox, Jordan, Hermine Demoriane
Experimental / Fantasy / Crime / Music / Thriller / Horror / Comedy
UK
English
2042
30
Jon Jost
Tom Blair, Wayne Crouse, Jessica St. John, Steve Voorheis
Drama
USA
English
2061
31
George A. Romero
John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel, Christine Forrest, Elyane Nadeau
Drama / Horror / Cult
USA
English
2229
32
Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman
Comedy / Thriller
USA
English
2246
33
William Friedkin
Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Peter Capell
Thriller / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
2266
34
Joan Micklin Silver
John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, Jeff Goldblum, Jill Eikenberry, Bruno Kirby
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2309
35
Robert M. Young
Domingo Ambriz, Trinidad Silva, Linda Gillen, Paul Berrones, George Smith
Drama
USA
English
2311
36
Wes Craven
Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Martin Speer, Dee Wallace-Stone, Russ Grieve
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2332
37
John Frankenheimer
Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller, Bekim Fehmiu, Fritz Weaver, Steven Keats
Action / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2341
38
Sidney Lumet
Richard Burton, Peter Firth, Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright
Drama / Mystery
USA / UK
English
2341
38
Diane Kurys
Eléonore Klarwein, Odile Michel, Anouk Ferjac
Drama / Comedy
France
French
2342
39
Richard Attenborough
Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox
Action / Drama / History / War / Epic
USA / UK
English
2360
40
George Butler, Robert Fiore
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, Matty Ferrigno, Mike Katz, Franco Columbu
Documentary / Sports / Biography / Cult
USA
English
2361
41
Hal Needham
Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Jackie Gleason, Mike Henry, Paul Williams
Comedy / Action / Crime
USA
English
2365
42
Jonathan Demme
Paul Le Mat, Candy Clark, Bruce McGill, Roberts Blossom
Comedy
USA
English
2443
43
Kidlat Tahimik
Kidlat Tahimik, Dolores Santamaria, Mang Fely, Georgette Baudry, Harmut Lerch
Drama / Comedy
Philippines
English
2449
44
Carl Reiner
: John Denver, George Burns, Teri Garr, Donald Pleasence, Ralph Bellamy
Comedy / Fantasy / Religion
USA
English
2456
45
Richard Brooks
Diane Keaton, Tuesday Weld, William Atherton, Richard Kiley, Richard Gere
Drama
USA
English
2524
46
Agnès Varda
Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès
Drama / Romance
Venezuela / France / Belgium
French
2525
47
Mike Leigh
Alison Steadman, Tim Stern, Janine Duvitski, John Salthouse, Harriet Reynolds
Drama / Comedy
UK
English
2538
48
Larry Clark
Nathaniel Taylor, Clarence Muse, Pamela Jones
Drama / Crime / Music / History
USA
English
2591
49
Phillip Noyce
Bill Hunter, Gary Foley, Zack Martin, Terry Camilleri, Julie McGregor
Action / Drama / Crime
Australia
English
2591
49
Krzysztof Zanussi
Piotr Garlicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Christine Paul-Podlasky, Mariusz Dmochowski
Comedy / Drama
Poland
Polish
2591
49
Robert Dornhelm, Earle Mack
Grace Kelly, Angelina Armeiskaya, Michaela Cerna, Galina Mezenzewa
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2591
49
Donald Cammell
Julie Christie, Fritz Weaver, Gerrit Graham, Berry Kroeger, Lisa Lu
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
2591
49
Pierre Schoendoerffer
Jean Rochefort, Claude Rich, Aurore Clément, Odile Versois
Drama / War
France
French
2591
49
Robert M. Young
Bruce Davison, José Pérez, Nathan George, Don Blakely
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2606
50
Michael Cacoyannis
Irene Papas, Tatiana Papamoschou, Kostas Kazakos
Drama / Action / Fantasy
Greece
Greek
2606
50
Menahem Golan
Yehoram Gaon, Assi Dayan, Ori Levy, Arik Lavie, Klaus Kinski
Action / Drama / Thriller
Israel
Hebrew
2606
50
Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, Ettore Scola
Vittorio Gassman, Ornella Muti, Alberto Sordi, Ugo Tognazzi
Comedy
Italy
Italian
2619
51
Sara Gómez
Mario Balmaseda, Yolanda Cuéllar, Mario Limonta, Isaura Mendoza
Drama / Romance
Cuba
Spanish
2628
52
Bruno Bozzetto
Marialuisa Giovannini, Néstor Garay, Maurizio Micheli, Maurizio Nichetti
Animation / Comedy / Fantasy / Musical
Italy
Italian
2628
52
Ted Kotcheff
George Segal, Jane Fonda, Ed McMahon, Richard Gautier, Allan Miller, Hank Garcia
Comedy / Crime / Romance / Caper
USA
English
2628
52
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney
Action / Thriller / Crime / Drama / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2628
52
Don Taylor
Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera, Richard Basehart
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Adventure / Romance
USA
English
2628
52
John Landis
Donald Sutherland, George Lazenby, Henry Gibson, Bill Bixby, Tony Dow, Jim Abrahams
Comedy / Cult
USA
English
2628
52
George Roy Hill
Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Jennifer Warren, Lindsay Crouse
Comedy / Drama / Sports / Cult
USA
English
2628
52
Don Siegel
Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence, Tyne Daly, Alan Badel, Patrick Magee
Crime / Action / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
2628
52
Robert Aldrich
Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Winfield
Thriller
USA / West Germany
English
2645
53
John Power
Rod Taylor, John Meillon, John Ewart, Harold Hopkins
Comedy / Drama
Australia
English
2657
54
Satyajit Ray
Sanjeev Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey, Shabana Azmi, Farida Jalal, Veena, David Abraham
Drama
India
Urdu
2657
54
Claude Goretta
Isabelle Huppert, Yves Beneyton, Florence Giorgetti, Annemarie Düringer
Drama / Romance
France / Switzerland / West Germany
French
2660
55
John Cassavetes
Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Joan Blondell
Drama
USA
English
2661
56
George Kuchar
George Kuchar, Barbara Lapsley
Short / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2661
56
Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Rob Epstein
Pat Bond, John Burnside, Sally M. Gearhart, Elsa Gidlow, Donald Hackett
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2673
57
James Benning
Serafina Bathrick, Paddy Whannel, Bette Gordon
Drama / Experimental
USA / Canada
English
2689
58
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras, Gérard Depardieu
Drama / Experimental
France
French
2700
59
Anthony Page
Kathleen Quinlan, Bibi Andersson, Ben Piazza, Lorraine Gary
Drama
USA
English
2719
60
William A. Graham
Frank Sinatra, Martin Balsam, Verna Bloom, Joe De Santis, Martin Gabel
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2719
60
Ron Howard
Ron Howard, Nancy Morgan, Elizabeth Rogers, Barry Cahill, Rance Howard
Comedy / Crime / Action / Adventure / Romance / Gangster
USA
English
2719
60
Larry Cohen
Broderick Crawford, Jose Ferrer, Michael Parks, Rip Torn, Celeste Holm
Biography / Drama
USA
English
2751
61
Raoul Ruiz
Eva Simonet, Robert Darmel, Silke Humel, Frank Lesne
Short / Experimental
France
French
2751
61
Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville
Betty Berr, Albert Dray, Arnaud Martin, Camille Virolleaud
Documentary
France
French
2765
62
Valie Export
Susanne Widl, Peter Weibel, Josef Plavec, Monica Helfer-Friedrich, Helke Sander
Drama / Experimental
Austria
German
2765
62
Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen
Dinah Stabb, Merdelle Jordine, Rhiannon Tise, Clive Merrison, Marie Green
Experimental / Drama
UK
English
2765
62
Aleksei German
Yuriy Nikulin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Rashid Sadykov, Aleksey Petrenko
Drama / Romance / War
Soviet Union
Russian
2773
63
Chris Marker
Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Salvador Allende, Regis Debray, Yves Montand
Documentary / History
France
French
2776
64
John Flynn
William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes, James Best
Action / Drama / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
