31. Julia
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Meryl Streep, Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook
Plot: The story of writer Lillian Hellman and her attempt to help her friend Julia, with the rise of Hitler as the back drop.
32. Opening Night
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Cassavetes
Actors: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Joan Blondell, Paul Stewart, Laura Johnson
Plot: Broadway actress Myrtle Gordon (Gena Rowlands) rehearses for her latest play, about a woman unable to admit that she is aging. When she witnesses the accidental death of an adoring young fan, she begins to confront the personal and professional turmoil she faces in her own life.
33. The Goodbye Girl
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Herbert Ross
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings, Paul Benedict, Barbara Rhoades, Theresa Merritt
34. Pete's Dragon
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Don Chaffey
Actors: Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters, Sean Marshall
35. Are You Being Served?
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bob Kellett
Actors: John Inman, Mollie Sugden, Frank Thornton, Trevor Bannister, Wendy Richard, Arthur Brough
36. American Friend, The ( Amerikanische Freund, Der )
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Wim Wenders
Actors: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain, Nicholas Ray, Samuel Fuller
Plot: An art forger diagnosed with leukemia is slowly drawn into a shady world of criminal business dealings.
37. House ( Hausu )
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi
Actors: Kimiko Ikegami, Kumiko Ohba, Yôko Minamida, Ai Matsubara, Kiyohiko Ozaki, Haruko Wanibuchi
Plot: House (Hausu) is about a schoolgirl traveling with her six classmates to her sick aunt's country home, where they come face to face with supernatural events as the girls are, one by one, devoured by the home.
38. Oh, God!
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Carl Reiner
Actors: John Denver, George Burns, Teri Garr, Donald Pleasence, Ralph Bellamy, Paul Sorvino
Plot: God appears to a grocery store employee to tell him that he will be his messenger.
39. High Anxiety
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Mel Brooks
Actors: Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman, Dick Van Patten, Ron Carey
Plot: An new administrator at a psychiatric care facility finds himself framed for murder. In order to clear his name he will have to face his own "high anxiety" while uncovering clues to find the real killer.
40. Sorcerer
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: William Friedkin
Actors: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou, Ramon Bieri, Peter Capell
Plot: Through chance and (mis)fortune - a group of outcasts find themselves
working on an oil drilling campaign in South America. A raging fire leads
four of the members on a task that may spell their freedom - if they can
survive: transport six crates of unstable dynamite through the jungle with
a couple of ancient trucks.
