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The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

Summary: The daily programming of a fictional local TV channel presented as a series of highly irreverent skits.

Release Date: November 04, 1978

Genre: Comedy

Director: John Landis

Writers: David Zucker

, Jim Abrahams

, Jerry Zucker

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

MPAA: R

Production: United Film Distribution Company (UFDC), Kentucky Fried Theater

Distributor: United Film Distribution Company (UFDC), Wm. Lange & Associates, Media Home Entertainment, CBS, Best Film & Video, Image Entertainment, Comedy Central, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Taurus Entertainment Company, Shout! Factory, Shout! Factory TV, Tubi TV

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 600,000

Desperate Living (1977)

Summary: A neurotic society woman murders her husband with her maid's help; on the lam, they escape to Mortville, a homeless community ruled by a fascist queen.

Release Date: November 02, 1980

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

Director: John Waters

Writer: John Waters

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: X

Production: Charm City Productions

Distributor: Saliva Films, Continental Video, Cinema Group Home Video, Image Entertainment, New Line Home Video, Fine Line Features, New Line Cinema, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Turner Home Entertainment, Viacom

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 65,000

Demon Seed (1977)

Summary: A scientist creates Proteus--an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creators wife.

Release Date: April 15, 1977

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Donald Cammell

Writers: Dean R. Koontz

, Robert Jaffe

, Roger O. Hirson

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Herb Jaffe

Distributor: CBS, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

The Beast in Heat (1977)

Summary: A beautiful, nefarious senior female SS officer/doctor creates a genetic, mutant human hybrid; the beast is a, squat, mongoloid hyper-sexually-driven fiend which she uses to torture and molest female prisoners while get fellow Naz...

Release Date: July 19, 1977

Genres: Horror, War

Director: Luigi Batzella

Writers: Lorenzo Artale

, Luigi Batzella

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Eterna Film, Sonora Films

Distributor: Exploitation Digital, Mogul Communications, Severin Films, Video City Productions, Wizard Entertainment

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Cross of Iron (1977)

Summary: German commander Hauptmann Stransky places a squad in extreme danger after Sergeant Rolf Steiner refuses to lie for him.

Release Date: May 20, 1977

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Sam Peckinpah

Writers: Julius J. Epstein

, Walter Kelley

, James Hamilton

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: R

Production: Anglo-EMI Film Distributors, Rapid Film, Terra-Filmkunst, ITC Films, Radiant Film GmbH

Distributor: AVCO Embassy Pictures, Warner Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Short Eyes (1977)

Summary: A child molester sent to prison finds that criminals exact harsher justice than society.

Release Date: July 20, 1979

Genre: Drama

Director: Robert M. Young

Writer: Miguel Pinero

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Distributor: Film League, Lightning Video, Wellspring Media, Scorpion Releasing, Vestron Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 300,000

Domestic: $ 3,456

That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)

Summary: Recounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen-year-old former chambermaid Conchita.

Release Date: October 08, 1977

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Luis Buñuel

Writers: Luis Buñuel

, Jean-Claude Carrière

, Pierre Louÿs

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: R

Production: Greenwich Film Productions, Les Films Galaxie, In-Cine Compañía Industrial Cinematográfica

Distributor: First Artists, Rialto Pictures, Embassy Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection

Countries: France, Spain

Language: French

The Other Side of Midnight (1977)

Summary: A Greek tycoon's mistress tries to track down and find her ex-World War II lover.

Release Date: June 08, 1977

Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller

Director: Charles Jarrott

Writers: Sidney Sheldon

, Herman Raucher

, Daniel Taradash

Runtime: 2 h 45 min

MPAA: R

Production: Frank Yablans Presentations

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, CBS, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Twilight Time

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 24,652,021

The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

Summary: On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.

Release Date: July 22, 1977

Genres: Horror, Thriller

Director: Wes Craven

Writer: Wes Craven

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: R

Production: Blood Relations Company

Distributor: Vanguard Releasing Group, Harmonyvision, Showtime Networks, Castle Hill Productions, Lightning Video, Magnum Entertainment, Image Entertainment, Starmaker Entertainment, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Arrow Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 230,000

The Gauntlet (1977)

Summary: A hard but mediocre cop is assigned to escort a prostitute into custody from Las Vegas to Phoenix, so that she can testify in a mob trial. But a lot of people are literally betting that they won't make it into town alive.

Release Date: December 21, 1977

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Director: Clint Eastwood

Writers: Michael Butler

, Dennis Shryack

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., The Malpaso Company

Distributor: Warner Bros., Home Box Office (HBO), National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,500,000

Domestic: $ 26,414,658

The Goodbye Girl (1977)

Summary: After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.

Release Date: November 30, 1977

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Herbert Ross

Writer: Neil Simon

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Rastar Pictures

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), MGM/CBS Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 102,000,000

The Sentinel (1977)

Summary: A young woman moves into an apartment in a building which houses a sinister evil.

Release Date: February 11, 1977

Genre: Horror

Director: Michael Winner

Writers: Jeffrey Konvitz

, Michael Winner

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, Jeffrey Konvitz Productions

Distributor: Universal Pictures, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), GoodTimes Home Video, MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, Scream Factory, Shout! Factory, TGG Direct, Universal Studios Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,700,000

Tintorera: Killer Shark (1977)

Summary: Two shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while hunting down a large tiger shark terrorizing the Mexican East coast.

Release Date: September 15, 1978

Genres: Drama, Horror, Romance

Director: René Cardona Jr.

Writers: René Cardona Jr.

, Ramón Bravo

, Christina Schuch

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: R

Production: Conacite Uno, Productora Filmica Real, Productora Fílmica Real

Distributor: United Film Distribution Company (UFDC), Best Film & Video Corp., Kino Lorber, Scorpion Releasing

Countries: United Kingdom, Mexico

Language: Spanish

Rape! 13th Hour (1977)

Summary: A serial rapist takes on a young protégé to his craft as he is pursued by a homosexual gang seeking vengeance for an attack on their leader.

Release Date: January 22, 1977

Genres: Crime, Action, Thriller

Director: Yasuharu Hasebe

Writers: Chiho Katsura

, Yoshio Shirasaka

Runtime: 1 h 13 min

Production: Nikkatsu

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Oh, God! (1977)

Summary: When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.

Release Date: October 07, 1977

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy

Director: Carl Reiner

Writers: Larry Gelbart

, Avery Corman

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: CBS, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Warner Home Video, Shout! Factory, Shout Select

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Oh, God!

Domestic: $ 41,687,243

Islands in the Stream (1977)

Summary: An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.

Genre: Drama

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Writers: Ernest Hemingway

, Denne Bart Petitclerc

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures, Zeeuwse Maatschappij N.V.

Distributor: CBS, Warner Archive Collection, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 5,596,173

The Devil, Probably (1977)

Summary: Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, he decides that suicide is the only option...

Release Date: June 15, 1977

Genre: Drama

Director: Robert Bresson

Writer: Robert Bresson

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Sunchild Productions, G.M.F. Productions

Distributor: Olive Films

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 26,816