Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "year-1977"

51. Birthmarked (2018)

90 min | Comedy

Two scientists raise 3 children contrarily to their genetic tendencies to prove the ultimate power of nurture over nature.

Director: Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais | Stars: Matthew Goode, Toni Collette, Andreas Apergis, Jordan Poole

Votes: 3,659

52. Zappa (2020)

Not Rated | 129 min | Documentary, Biography, History

An in-depth look into the life and work of musician Frank Zappa.

Director: Alex Winter | Stars: Frank Zappa, Lonnie Lardner, Patrice Zappa, Carl Zappa

Votes: 3,620

53. Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash (2020)

Not Rated | 90 min | Biography

Drummer Artimus Pyle's experience as a band member in Lynyrd Skynyrd and the tragically fateful day that the plane they rented crashed in the swamps of Gillsburg, MS on October 20th ,1977.

Director: Jared Cohn | Stars: Artimus Pyle, Taylor Clift, Ian Shultis, Samuel Kay Forrest

Votes: 439

54. The Cannibal in the Jungle (2015)

84 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi

The two-hour scripted feature THE CANNIBAL IN THE JUNGLE follows the story of an American scientist who was convicted of killing and cannibalizing two colleagues in the jungles of Flores, Indonesia in 1977.

Director: Simon George | Stars: Richard Brake, Jim Sturgeon, Tim Ahern, Neil D'Souza

Votes: 412

55. Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (1977 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 95 min | Horror, Thriller

An airplane carrying coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarantulas which overcome the pilots as the airplane is flying over an orange-producing town ... See full summary »

Director: Stuart Hagmann | Stars: Claude Akins, Charles Frank, Deborah Winters, Bert Remsen

Votes: 952

56. Tabloid (2010)

R | 87 min | Documentary, Crime

A documentary on a former Miss Wyoming who is charged with abducting and imprisoning a young Mormon Missionary.

Director: Errol Morris | Stars: Joyce McKinney, Peter Tory, Troy Williams, Jackson Shaw

Votes: 7,288 | Gross: $0.68M

57. Thomas Kinkade's Christmas Cottage (2008)

PG | 96 min | Biography, Drama

A look at the inspiration behind Thomas Kinkade's painting The Christmas Cottage, and how the artist was motivated to begin his career after discovering his mother was in danger of losing their family home.

Director: Michael Campus | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Jared Padalecki, Marcia Gay Harden, Aaron Ashmore

Votes: 2,823

58. The Last of the High Kings (1996)

R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama

After finishing exams June 1977 near Dublin, Frankie spends the summer with his two friends, siblings and mom while dreaming of two cute girls and waiting for exam results. College?

Director: David Keating | Stars: Catherine O'Hara, Jared Leto, Christina Ricci, Gabriel Byrne

Votes: 1,969

59. The Trip (2002)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Romance, politics, sex and humor all collide during two men's 11-year journey of passion, self-discovery and adventure.

Director: Miles Swain | Stars: Larry Sullivan, Steve Braun, Ray Baker, James Handy

Votes: 3,924 | Gross: $0.11M

60. Little Nicholas - Happy as Can Be (2022)

82 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

Young Nicolas lives a childhood full of joy and learning in between camaraderie, arguments, fights, punishments, pranks and games.

Directors: Amandine Fredon, Benjamin Massoubre | Stars: Alain Chabat, Laurent Lafitte, Simon Faliu, Marc Arnaud

Votes: 935

61. Bloody Bloody Bible Camp (2012)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Horror

A group of Christian teens visits the Happy Day Bible Camp, where in 1977 a sadistic nun punished a group of teens for their sinful behavior.

Director: Vito Trabucco | Stars: Reggie Bannister, Tim Sullivan, Ron Jeremy, Ivet Corvea

Votes: 1,317

62. Potiche (2010)

R | 103 min | Comedy

A housewife and grandma takes over the family business 1977, after her husband is hurt during a strike.

Director: François Ozon | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini, Karin Viard

Votes: 11,374 | Gross: $1.62M

63. Lodi

Biography, Crime, Drama | Pre-production

When a major figure in organized crime proposes to purchase a car salesman's Cadillac dealership in 1977, the man transforms from a regular small-town resident to an FBI informant infiltrating the mafia.

Star: Ewan McGregor

64. 4 Little Girls (1997)

TV-14 | 102 min | Documentary, History

A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Maxine McNair, Walter Cronkite, Chris McNair, Fred Lee Shuttlesworth

Votes: 3,591 | Gross: $0.13M

65. Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon (1977)

R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A HK cop investigates several similar murders done by Chow's men. Golgo 13, top sniper, is the 4th assassin hired to kill HK drug lord Chow for Americans wanting the HK drug market.

Director: Yukio Noda | Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Lun Chia, Etsuko Shihomi, Emi Shindô

Votes: 619

66. Young Soul Rebels (1991)

R | 105 min | Drama, Music

Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.

Director: Isaac Julien | Stars: Valentine Nonyela, Mo Sesay, Dorian Healy, Frances Barber

Votes: 634

67. Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 48 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A poor otter family risks everything for the chance to win the cash prize of a talent contest for Christmas.

Director: Jim Henson | Stars: Jerry Nelson, Frank Oz, Marilyn Sokol, Dave Goelz

Votes: 4,782 | Gross: $0.23M

68. Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President (2020)

95 min | Documentary, History, Music

Jimmy Carter's election to the presidency of the United States in 1977 was helped by the links that this fan of pop music had with stars.

Director: Mary Wharton | Stars: Madeleine Albright, Tom Beard, Bono, Garth Brooks

Votes: 730

69. The Little Traitor (2007)

TV-PG | 88 min | Drama

A coming of age tale of the unlikely bond between a kindly British soldier and a spirited Jewish boy set against the backdrop of the birth of the State of Israel.

Director: Lynn Roth | Stars: Ido Port, Alfred Molina, Gilya Stern, Rami Heuberger

Votes: 1,108 | Gross: $0.40M

70. The Weather Underground (2002)

Unrated | 92 min | Documentary, History, War

The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.

Directors: Sam Green, Bill Siegel | Stars: Lili Taylor, Pamela Z, Jim Lange, Evan White

Votes: 3,776 | Gross: $0.56M

71. Funkytown (2011)

R | 132 min | Drama, Music

1976. Montreal. Eight people who wanted to see and be seen at the trendiest disco will be juggling fame and anonymity until they will be forced to make sober choices in an era when excess was the norm, and when disco was king.

Director: Daniel Roby | Stars: Patrick Huard, Justin Chatwin, Paul Doucet, Sarah Mutch

Votes: 925

72. Germany in Autumn (1978)

123 min | Documentary, Drama

Germany in Autumn has no typical plot; it mixes documentary footage with standard movie scenes to present the mood of Germany during the late 1970s. The film covers 2 months in 1977 when a ... See full summary »

Directors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, Alexander Kluge, Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupé, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Schubert, Bernhard Sinkel | Stars: Wolfgang Bächler, Heinz Bennent, Wolf Biermann, Joachim Bißmeier

Votes: 1,418

73. Carterland (2021)

122 min | Documentary, Biography

In the mid 1970's, a visionary leader decades ahead of his time is locked in a struggle for the future of America. His name is Jimmy Carter.

Directors: Jim Pattiz, Will Pattiz | Stars: Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Andrew Young, Jonathan Alter

Votes: 31

74. The Wife of an Important Man (1987)

115 min | Drama

When Mona marries the seemingly decent police officer Hisham, she finds out there is more into him than what he shows to the people.

Director: Mohamed Khan | Stars: Mervat Amin, Ahmed Zaki, Abdel Halim Hafez, Zizi Mustafa

Votes: 1,808

75. Kóblic (2016)

R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Tomás Kóblic is a former Navy captain who, during the last Argentine dictatorship, was a participant in "the flights of death." He will abandon his career to hide in Colonia Helena, where the only law is a corrupt Commissioner.

Director: Sebastián Borensztein | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Oscar Martínez, Inma Cuesta, Javier Tortarolo

Votes: 2,328

76. Funan (2018)

84 min | Animation, Drama, History

The survival and the struggle of a young mother during the Khmer Rouge revolution, to find her 4-year-old son, torn from his family by the regime.

Director: Denis Do | Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Louis Garrel, Colette Kieffer, Aude-Laurence Clermont Biver

Votes: 1,115 | Gross: $0.02M

77. Billie (2019)

Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Documentary on the famed jazz singer Billie Holiday.

Director: James Erskine | Stars: Linda Lipnack Kuehl, Billie Holiday, Sylvia Syms, Tony Bennett

Votes: 1,018

78. Mogadischu (2008 TV Movie)

90 min | Crime, Drama

In 1977, skyjackers abduct Lufthansa Flight 181, subsequently involving Germany's special operations unit GSG 9 to free all the hostages.

Director: Roland Suso Richter | Stars: Thomas Kretschmann, Nadja Uhl, Saïd Taghmaoui, Herbert Knaup

Votes: 1,309

79. Past Life (2016)

109 min | Drama

Past Life tracks the daring late 1970s odyssey of two sisters - an introverted classical musician and a rambunctious scandal sheet journalist - as they unravel a shocking wartime mystery that has cast a dark shadow on their entire lives.

Director: Avi Nesher | Stars: Nelly Tagar, Joy Rieger, Doron Tavory, Evgenia Dodina

Votes: 617 | Gross: $0.09M

80. Skies of Lebanon (2020)

92 min | Comedy, Drama

In the 1950s, Alice leaves her Swiss homeland for Lebanon. There, the best years of her life are marred by the threat of war.

Director: Chloé Mazlo | Stars: Alba Rohrwacher, Wajdi Mouawad, Isabelle Zighondi, Mariah Tannoury

Votes: 1,142

81. Callas Forever (2002)

PG-13 | 111 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The last days of legendary opera singer Maria Callas.

Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons, Joan Plowright, Jay Rodan

Votes: 2,463 | Gross: $0.45M

82. Mical (2020)

20 min | Short, Biography, Drama

A seven year old boy struggles to make sense of words on the page. But when Mike is diagnosed with dyslexia and the teachers continue to fail him, his mother takes matters into her own hands to help her son fulfil his true potential.

Director: Yewweng Ho | Stars: Jayne Lunn, William Biletsky, Dale Grant, M.K. Rose

Votes: 40

83. Village of Eight Gravestones (1977)

151 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors.

Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Mayumi Ogawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yôko Yamamoto

Votes: 415

84. Baby Snakes (1979)

R | 166 min | Documentary, Comedy, Music

Rock artist Frank Zappa hosts a concert in New York City. This movie contains tons of on-stage footage, off-stage footage, and animation.

Director: Frank Zappa | Stars: Frank Zappa, Adrian Belew, Tommy Mars, Terry Bozzio

Votes: 926

85. Wow Signal (2017)

88 min | Documentary

On a late summer evening in 1977, Ohio radio astronomers discovered a strong, interstellar signal that is believed by many to be the best evidence of communication from an extraterrestrial civilization.

Director: Bob Dawson | Stars: Jerry Ehman, Karen O'Neil, Seth Shostak, Michael Holstine

Votes: 81

86. A Matter of Sex (1984 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Biography, Drama, History

Dramatization of the true story of the so-called Willmar Eight, a group of Minnesota bank workers who braved freezing conditions whilst picketing their branch in a struggle for union rights.

Director: Lee Grant | Stars: Jean Stapleton, Nancy Beatty, J. Winston Carroll, Peter Dvorsky

Votes: 146

87. Den svavelgula himlen (2021)

120 min | Drama

In the 70s lower class Frej becomes close with upper class Stella when they are teens but their relationship is harder to sustain during the ensuing decades.

Director: Claes Olsson | Stars: Nicke Lignell, Linda Zilliacus, Görel Ahlnäs, Mikko Ahonen

Votes: 131

88. The Making of 'Star Wars' (1977 TV Movie)

Unrated | 50 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi

C-3PO and R2-D2 explore the creation of the film that made them famous.

Director: Robert Guenette | Stars: William Conrad, Anthony Daniels, George Lucas, Mark Hamill

Votes: 733

89. Les Rascals (2022)

105 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

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Director: Jimmy Laporal-Trésor | Stars: Jonathan Feltre, Angelina Woreth, Missoum Slimani, Victor Meutelet

Votes: 262

90. The Day of the Roses (1998)

220 min | Drama

The dramatized true-story of the Granville train disaster in Jan 1977 and the subsequent inquiry. Told across two time-frames: the impossible conditions of rescuers, victims and survivors and the divisive investigation by the Coroner.

Stars: Cormac Costello, Stephen Curry, Helen Dallimore, Gigi Edgley

Votes: 201

91. The Panama Deception (1992)

91 min | Documentary, History, War

A film about the true reasons for the 1989 US invasion of Panama and big media complicity in these activities.

Director: Barbara Trent | Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery, Carlos Cantú, Diviana Ingravallo, Abraham Alvarez

Votes: 1,168 | Gross: $0.31M

92. The Price of Fame (2014)

110 min | Comedy, Drama

Two friends decide to steal Charlie Chaplin's body, right after his death, for ransom.

Director: Xavier Beauvois | Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Roschdy Zem, Séli Gmach, Chiara Mastroianni

Votes: 917

93. Punk in London (1977)

TV-MA | 111 min | Documentary, Music

A contemporary documentary covering the Great British punk rock explosion of 1977.

Director: Wolfgang Büld | Stars: Gaye Advert, Jack Airport, Arturo Bassick, Chelsea

Votes: 538

94. Lea (1996)

100 min | Drama, Romance

51-year-old Herbert Strehlow, a furniture restorer, falls in love with 21-year-old Lea, who has not spoken a word since childhood when her father killed her mother. She bears a striking ... See full summary »

Director: Ivan Fíla | Stars: Lenka Vlasáková, Christian Redl, Hanna Schygulla, Miroslav Donutil

Votes: 498 | Gross: $0.03M

95. Warrior Women (2018)

65 min | Documentary, History

A documentary which details the life of Lakota activist and community organizer Madonna Thunder Hawk, whose career fighting for Indigenous and women's rights has now spanned over 50 years.

Directors: Elizabeth Castle, Christina D. King | Stars: Marcella Gilbert, Madonna Thunder Hawk

Votes: 50

96. Havel (2020)

104 min | Biography, Drama, History

'Havel' covers the Czech president's transformation from playwright to politician

Director: Slávek Horák | Stars: Anna Geislerová, Martin Hofmann, Stanislav Majer, Miroslav Hanus

Votes: 510

97. Unnatural Causes (1986 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 120 min | Drama

Frank Coleman is a Vietnam veteran dying from cancer brought on by exposure to the defoliant chemical Agent Orange which he turns to Maude DeVictor, a Veterans Administration benefits ... See full summary »

Director: Lamont Johnson | Stars: John Ritter, Alfre Woodard, Patti LaBelle, John Vargas

Votes: 179

98. Paz! (2002)

102 min | Comedy

Who killed the director's cat?

Director: Renato De Maria | Stars: Flavio Pistilli, Cristiano Callegaro, Matteo Taranto, Fabrizia Sacchi

Votes: 1,069

99. That's the Way I Like It (1998)

PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Hock, an ordinary underachiever, discovers disco when his favorite kung fu movie is replaced by "Forever Fever," a low-budget Saturday Night Fever (1977) knockoff. Amazingly, the movie's main character comes to life and becomes Hock's guardian angel.

Director: Glen Goei | Stars: Adrian Pang, Medaline Tan, Pierre Png, Anna Belle Francis

Votes: 624 | Gross: $0.02M

100. Jonestown: The Women Behind the Massacre (2018 TV Special)

TV-14 | 85 min | Documentary

Jim Jones wasn't the only one responsible for the mass suicide. Blame the woman he loved, used and abused along the way. Everything about him was fake, even the "miracles" performed. Now ... See full summary »

Director: Nicole Rittenmeyer | Stars: Jim Jones, Stephan Jones, Marceline Jones, Mary McCormick Maaga

Votes: 264