Best 1977 movies

Stacker compiled a list of the best 1977 movies of all time based on our own Stacker score, a weighted index split evenly between IMDb user rating and Metascore. The top movie on this list has a Stacker score of 100; the remaining movies are ranked relative to it. To qualify, the film had at least 10,000 IMDb user votes and a Metascore. Any ties were broken by number of IMDb votes.

#20. Slap Shot
- Stacker score: 75.6
- IMDb user rating: 7.2 (votes: 44,000)
- Metascore: 61
- Director: George Roy Hill
- Actors: Paul Newman, Michael Ontkean, Strother Martin
- Runtime: 2 hours 3 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $28,000,000

#19. Rolling Thunder
- Stacker score: 76.7
- IMDb user rating: 6.9 (votes: 14,000)
- Metascore: 66
- Director: John Flynn
- Actors: William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Haynes
- Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A

#18. A Bridge Too Far
- Stacker score: 77.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 66,000)
- Metascore: 63
- Director: Richard Attenborough
- Actors: Sean Connery, Ryan O'Neal, Michael Caine
- Runtime: 2 hours 55 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $50,750,000

#17. Martin
- Stacker score: 78.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.0 (votes: 14,000)
- Metascore: 68
- Director: George A. Romero
- Actors: John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel, Christine Forrest
- Runtime: 1 hour 35 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A

#16. The Goodbye Girl
- Stacker score: 78.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 17,000)
- Metascore: 64
- Director: Herbert Ross
- Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings
- Runtime: 1 hour 51 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $102,000,000

#15. Cross of Iron
- Stacker score: 78.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 31,000)
- Metascore: 64
- Director: Sam Peckinpah
- Actors: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason
- Runtime: 1 hour 59 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A

#14. The Rescuers
- Stacker score: 81.2
- IMDb user rating: 6.9 (votes: 73,000)
- Metascore: 74
- Director: John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman, Art Stevens
- Actors: Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, Geraldine Page
- Runtime: 1 hour 17 minutes
- Rating: G
- Box office: $71,215,869

#13. The Duellists
- Stacker score: 81.8
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 29,000)
- Metascore: 70
- Director: Ridley Scott
- Actors: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney
- Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: N/A

#12. Pumping Iron
- Stacker score: 82.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 26,000)
- Metascore: 72
- Director: George Butler, Robert Fiore
- Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, Matty Ferrigno
- Runtime: 1 hour 26 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: N/A

#11. Sorcerer
- Stacker score: 82.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 32,000)
- Metascore: 68
- Director: William Friedkin
- Actors: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal
- Runtime: 2 hours 1 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: N/A

#10. Saturday Night Fever
- Stacker score: 82.4
- IMDb user rating: 6.8 (votes: 92,000)
- Metascore: 77
- Director: John Badham
- Actors: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller
- Runtime: 1 hour 58 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: $94,213,184

#9. Opening Night
- Stacker score: 83.5
- IMDb user rating: 7.8 (votes: 14,000)
- Metascore: 69
- Director: John Cassavetes
- Actors: Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara
- Runtime: 2 hours 24 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Box office: $23,488

#8. Suspiria
- Stacker score: 86.4
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 113,000)
- Metascore: 79
- Director: Dario Argento
- Actors: Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci
- Runtime: 1 hour 32 minutes
- Rating: R
- Box office: N/A

#7. The American Friend
- Stacker score: 86.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.4 (votes: 20,000)
- Metascore: 79
- Director: Wim Wenders
- Actors: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer
- Runtime: 2 hours 8 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: N/A

#6. The Last Wave
- Stacker score: 87.5
- IMDb user rating: 6.9 (votes: 12,000)
- Metascore: 85
- Director: Peter Weir
- Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil
- Runtime: 1 hour 46 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $957

#5. 3 Women
- Stacker score: 90.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.7 (votes: 19,000)
- Metascore: 82
- Director: Robert Altman
- Actors: Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule
- Runtime: 2 hours 4 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: N/A

#4. Eraserhead
- Stacker score: 90.9
- IMDb user rating: 7.3 (votes: 139,000)
- Metascore: 87
- Director: David Lynch
- Actors: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph
- Runtime: 1 hour 29 minutes
- Rating: Not Rated
- Box office: N/A

#3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Stacker score: 94.3
- IMDb user rating: 7.6 (votes: 228,000)
- Metascore: 90
- Director: Steven Spielberg
- Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr
- Runtime: 2 hours 18 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $135,189,114

#2. Annie Hall
- Stacker score: 97.2
- IMDb user rating: 7.9 (votes: 286,000)
- Metascore: 92
- Director: Woody Allen
- Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts
- Runtime: 1 hour 33 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $38,251,425

#1. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
- Stacker score: 100.0
- IMDb user rating: 8.6 (votes: 1.5 million)
- Metascore: 90
- Director: George Lucas
- Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
- Runtime: 2 hours 1 minutes
- Rating: PG
- Box office: $460,998,507