Year 1977 movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant year 1977 movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, suspense, suspenseful, captivating and weird films and TV shows about / with death, murder, brutality, violence, cigarette smoking, police officer, female nudity, dog, police and blood plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as year 1977: The Secret Agent (2025), Young Soul Rebels (1991), Suspiria (2018), Tracks (2013), Miss Blue Jeans (2012), Koblic (2016), Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977), Woman of the Hour (2023), Late Night with the Devil (2023), Lee (2023).
Best films
New films
| Candyman (2021) | 5.9 | |
| Skies of Lebanon (2020) | 6.7 | |
| Maria (2024) | 6.4 | |
| Tully (2018) | 6.9 | |
| Wonderstruck (2017) | 6.2 |
List of year 1977 movies
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil, France, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
In 1977 Recife, Marcelo, a technology expert in his early forties, returns in the midst of Carnaval to reunite with his son and plot a dangerous escape under the ever-watchful eyes of Brazil’s repressive military regime.
Style:
political thriller, non-linear, period drama
Plot:
male nudity, gas station, projectionist, corruption, hitman, underground movement, resistance movement, public nudity, dead body, teenage boy, carnival, shark ...
Time:
year 1977, 20th century, 70s, 2020s
Place:
brazil, northeast brazil
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Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Young Soul Rebels is a 1991 film by Isaac Julien which examines the interaction between youth cultural movements in Britain. Skinheads, Punks & Soulboys along with the political and cultural tensions between them. The film received the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, independent film, crying, queer cinema ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
gay, lgbt, lgbtq, skinhead, immigrant, friendship, punk, erotica, radio station, oral sex, nudity, gay friend ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place:
europe, england, united kingdom, britain, london
Is relevant?
104K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A young ballet dancer travels to a prestigious dance academy in Europe, only to discover it is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of increasingly grisly murders.
Style:
suspense, psychological horror, dark, sinister, avant garde ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
ritual sacrifice, dead woman, curse, witchcraft, secret, paranormal phenomena, mysterious event, corporal punishment, occult, good versus evil, spiritualism, witch ...
Time:
year 1977, year 1948, 70s, year 1943, post world war two
Place:
berlin germany, west berlin west germany, italy, ohio, east berlin
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33K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.
Style:
touching, uplifting, sexy, scenic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
desert, wilderness, solitude, camel, photographer, human spirit, survival, independent woman, dog, explorer, obsessive quest, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
year 1977, 20th century, 2010s, year 1976, year 1973 ...
Place:
australia, africa, new zealand
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Year 1977. Punk and new wave rock´n roll has arrived to remote Finland and a bleak small town Oulu where increasingly odd-looking youths began to appear in the street with a message. Their rebellion speaks to Välde (17). Välde dreams of joining a ...
Style:
light, entertaining, captivating, feel good
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
musician, adolescence, first love, teenager, outcast, mother son relationship, age-gap relationship, beauty pageant, single mother, car accident, female nudity, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s
Place:
finland
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Tomás Kóblic, a former pilot and captain of the Argentinian Navy, disobeys an order and becomes a fugitive in order to survive. He chooses to hide in a small town in the south of the country, where his presence will catch the attention of the ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, social, intellectual ...
Plot:
military dictatorship, forced incest, haunted by the past, sex scene, military, guilty conscience, murder, colonel, dog, airplane, pilot, uncle ...
Time:
year 1977, year 2016, 70s
Place:
argentina, italy, south america, europe, spain ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
From the moment she arrives in Freiberg, Germany, to attend the prestigious Tans Academy, American ballet-dancer Suzy Bannion senses that something horribly evil lurks within the walls of the age-old institution.
Style:
suspense, creepy, scary, gothic, dark ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
witch, murder, boarding school, coven, black magic, gory, supernatural, ballet school, witchery, spell, killer, darkness ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place:
germany, europe, italy, west germany
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An aspiring actress crosses paths with a prolific serial killer in '70s LA when they're cast on an episode of "The Dating Game."
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, period piece ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, murderer, sexual assault, problem, sexual predator, teenage runaway, rape victim, sex, based on real people, violence, actress ...
Time:
year 1978, year 1979, year 1971, year 1977, 70s ...
Place:
california, wyoming, new york, los angeles
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Genre: Horror
Country: Australia, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.
Style:
mystical, captivating, psychological horror, psychological, mockumentary ...
Plot:
satanic cult, found footage, evil, dead wife, possession, demon, halloween, hallucination, death, worm, mass suicide, levitation ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, year 1971, year 1974, year 1972 ...
Place:
usa, new york, california, melbourne, manhattan new york city ...
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33K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA, Hungary, Australia, Singapore
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The story of photographer Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.
Style:
surprise ending, thrilling, psychological, captivating, dramatic ...
Plot:
photographer, war photographer, world war two, nazi concentration camp, female photographer, female nudity, world war, soldier, photojournalism, military, journalism, wartime ...
Time:
year 1941, 1930s, year 1944, year 1942, year 1945 ...
Place:
former yugoslavia, munich germany, normandy, london
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is an animated television series that aired from August 2004 to May 2009 for a total of 79 episodes in six seasons. The premise is based on a simple question: In a world... where imaginary friends are living, ...
Style:
humorous, slapstick comedy, entertaining, semi serious, adult animation ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, toddlers, pre-teens
Plot:
imaginary friend, friendship, imaginary character, naivete, troublemaker, surrealism, friend, family relations, young heroes, imaginary, youth, rescue ...
Time:
2000s, year 1943, 20th century, year 1996, year 1968 ...
Place:
tuscany, transylvania, paris france, new york, las vegas
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, sexual, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, dark humor, psycho killer, punk, vigilante, infidelity, killer, true crime, profanity, lust, sex ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1977, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, harlem, usa ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
It's the summer of '68 and the young Czech playwright Vaclav Havel is enjoying the heady atmosphere of new- found freedom as the iron grip of Soviet repression gradually loosens throughout Central Europe. In Havel's Prague, politics ...
Style:
non-linear, captivating, serious, realistic, period drama
Plot:
playwright, czech history, conscience, political activist, lifestyle change, husband wife relationship, rivals, jail, fight, friendship between men, communist, extramarital affair ...
Time:
year 1977, year 1968, year 1976, year 1989, 60s ...
Place:
prague, central europe
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83K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Australia, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
For as long as residents can remember, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini Green neighborhood were terrorized by a word-of-mouth ghost story about a supernatural killer with a hook for a hand, easily summoned by those daring to repeat his ...
Style:
scary, suspense, slasher, demonic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
urban legend, strong violent content, murder, gay brother, urban decay, art exhibition, candyman, african american, supernatural, vengeful ghost, mirror, revenge ...
Time:
2020s, year 2019, year 1977, 2010s, 70s
Place:
chicago, usa, oceania
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK, Puerto Rico
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
FBI informant Jim Hoffman lures troubled automobile magnate John DeLorean to an undercover sting for cocaine trafficking.
Style:
realistic, exciting, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, inspirational ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
trial, fbi, drug, biopic, twists and turns, money, spy, car, danger, fight, brutality, greed ...
Time:
year 1977, 80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
california, san diego california
Is relevant?
35K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early ’70s through the mid ’80s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world that existed there until the rise of HIV, the violence of the ...
Style:
sexy, captivating, suspenseful, erotic, sensual ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
porn industry, prostitution, sex, female nudity, closeted homosexual, porn actor, bare breasts, sleaze, society, sex scene, rivalry, porn ...
Time:
70s, year 1984, year 1985, year 1971, year 1972 ...
Place:
usa, new york state, manhattan new york city, new york
Is relevant?
56K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A diverse band of Nazi Hunters living in 1977 New York City discover that hundreds of high ranking Nazi officials are living among us and conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in the U.S. The eclectic team of Hunters set out on a bloody quest to bring ...
Style:
funny, inspirational, psychotronic, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Plot:
nazi hunter, world war two, concentration camp, holocaust, male protagonist, fake identity, war criminal, nazi, alternate history, holocaust survivor, forensic, law ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, post world war two
Place:
new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on the research for his non-fiction book "Der Baader-Meinhoff-Komplex", "Spiegel" journalist Stefan Aust wrote the screen play to Reinhard Hauff’s controversial feature film that re-narrates the startling trial against ...
Style:
controversial, contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
terrorism, prison, raf, courtroom, spy, law, politics, german politics, jail cell, prisoner, justice, prison escape ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
germany, west germany, europe
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of ...
Style:
exciting, period piece, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, war, art theft, art, nazi germany, painting, nazism, nazi, gold bar, stolen gold, treasure hunt, military ...
Time:
1940s, year 2014, year 1977, year 1945, year 1943 ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe, austria, england ...
Is relevant?
765
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life in a place where he is not known and dreams only of a job, a wife and a family. He succeeds partially in fulfilling these dreams, but then runs into ...
Style:
bleak, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
corruption, class conflict, character study, social realism, working class, redemption, betrayal, alienation, solidarity, loneliness, realism, rehabilitation ...
Time:
year 1970, year 1980, year 1976, year 1978, year 1977 ...
Place:
poland
Is relevant?
29K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
In a small Indian village Mandwa, Vijay Dinanath Chauhan is taught about the path of fire (Agneepath) by his principled father. His life is shattered when the evil drug lord Kancha Cheena hangs his father. Vijay leaves for Mumbai with his pregnant ...
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, powerful ...
Plot:
revenge, vengeance, family relations, criminal heroes, drug lord, parents and children, teaching the ways of the world, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, gangster, massacre, main character dies ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 21st century
Place:
india, asia
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409K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
Style:
neo noir, action comedy, funny, buddy comedy, entertaining ...
Plot:
private detective, conspiracy, investigation, corruption, murder, teenage girl, party, private investigator, father daughter relationship, bare breasts, buddy cop, revenge ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 70s, year 1977, 90s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.
Style:
anthology, psychotronic, dark fairy tale, gothic horror, natural horror ...
Plot:
cat, animal attack, killer animal, canuxploitation, pet cat, shrinking, deadly creature, evil child, darkness, ailurophobia, conspiracy, orphan ...
Time:
year 1977, year 1936, 70s, 1910s, 1930s ...
Place:
london, canada, england, europe, quebec ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The incredible true story of Lufthansa Flight 181, which was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in October of 1977, and the noble efforts of stewardess Gabriele Dillmann (Nadja Uhl) to ensure the safety of the terrified ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
terrorism, terrorist attack, passenger, daring rescue, danger, confined, airplane, hysteria, terrorist, raf, pilot, mossad ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place:
germany, africa, west germany
Is relevant?
665K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, suspense, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, journalism, maniac, murder mystery, mind game, journalist, true crime, paranoia, killer, uncover truth ...
Time:
70s, year 2007, year 1971, year 1969, year 1979 ...
Place:
san francisco, california, bay area, usa, oakland california ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Denmark, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in school. Convinced he will fail, he survives the summer ...
Style:
humorous, light, talky, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
politics, coming of age, cheerleader, male nudity, 17 year old, friendship, infidelity, self discovery, single parent, teenage love, best friend, introspection ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, year 1996, 90s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, milwaukee wisconsin, massachusetts, europe ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.
Style:
realistic, stylized, factual, cult classic, period piece ...
Plot:
gay, pianist, aids, lgbtq, celebrity, couples, gays and lesbians, biopic, closeted homosexual, gay romance, music, showbiz ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 2013, year 1979, year 1986 ...
Place:
las vegas, southern california, indiana, usa, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the straightforward, intimate approach to students. He is opposed in ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, cynical, biting, thought provoking ...
Plot:
renaissance, campus, father son relationship, male nudity, sex, skinny dipping, nude girl, summer, satire, intrigue, manipulation, summer camp ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place:
poland, eastern europe, europe, central europe, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Tony Manero is a Brooklyn paint-store clerk who'd give anything to break out of his dead-end existence. In life, Tony is a peasant; on the disco dance floor, he's a king. As the soundtrack plays one Bee Gees hit after another, white-suited ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, rough, teen, light ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
dancing, disco, dance, coming of age, dancer, nightclub, friendship, profanity, music, working class, slut, pizza ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, north america, usa ...
Is relevant?
14K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Martin sedates women with a syringe full of narcotics and then slices their wrists with a razor blade so he can drink their blood. Martin, who comes to live with his uncle and cousin in the dying town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has romantic ...
Style:
surreal, cult horror, suspenseful, grindhouse, creepy ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, serial killer, female pubic hair, curse, murder, shyness, hidden identity, mental disorder, teenage life, zombie, socially awkward ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century, 80s
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, romania
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