100 titles that travel well across time — a personal watchlist for best movies/tv shows of 1977.
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Star Warsaka Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope(1977)
FR #7 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Adventure | USA | English
Director
George Lucas
Writer
George Lucas
Cast
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Plot
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth ...
FR #421 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Spain | Spanish, French
Director
Luis Bunuel
Writer
Luis Bunuel, Jean-Claude Carriere, Pierre Lou?s
Cast
Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ngela Molina
Plot
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.
FR #573 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Drama | USA, UK | English, Hindi
Director
Steven Spielberg
Writer
Steven Spielberg, Hal Barwood, Jerry Belson
Cast
Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr
Plot
An Indiana electric lineman finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.
FR #586 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English, German
Director
Woody Allen
Writer
Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Cast
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts
Plot
Alvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages.
FR #643 | Movie | Comedy | Turkey, USA | Turkish, English
Director
Ertem Egilmez
Writer
Sadik Sendil
Cast
Kemal Sunal, Halit Akcatepe, Sener Sen
Plot
Husamettin the commander in the army is constantly bothered by the stupidity of one of his soldiers Saban. After discharge from the army, Saban and his friend Ramazan work in a night club as member of the band. They ran again into...
Going through his daily routine in a stereotypical neighborhood, a street cleaner falls in love with a charwoman. Unfortunately for him, so does his boss.
Hababam Sinifi (The Chaos Class) continue to their adventures. Now first female students of the school history joins to the class and all Hababam Sinifi fight each other for them at first but later they understand that female stud...
FR #881 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Turkey | Turkish
Director
Atif Yilmaz
Writer
Ali Ozgenturk, Chingiz Aitmatov
Cast
Turkan Soray, Kadir Inanir, Ahmet Mekin
Plot
Story of a dilemma between a woman's love and her logic. Asya, a young girl with a strict mother, meets Ilyas, who is a womanizer city man, and they quickly fall in love. They get over the hardships and have a happy marriage. Howe...
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Smt. Jeevanprabha M. Desai, Kader Khan, Prayag Raj
Cast
Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan
Plot
Three brothers are separated and united after many years - one is brought up a Hindu, another a Muslim and the last (and most memorable) a Christian. Hilarity and adventure ensues.
Story of the central hero of Mahabharata who rises from nothing to becoming the world's greatest warrior ever born in history and emerges as the hero of the Kurukshetra war.
FR #1876 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Germany, UK | English, German
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog
Cast
Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz
Plot
In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin.
FR #2127 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Turkey | Turkish
Director
Ertem Egilmez
Writer
Sadik Sendil
Cast
Munir Ozkul, Adile Nasit, Halit Akcatepe
Plot
Yasar and his wife Nezaket have kept on producing children in the hope of finally getting a male child. But they end up with only daughters instead (who they give masculine names). Now they are stuck with the task of arranging sui...
Kemal Sunal played the role of Shakir who is a dumb and funny guy. He got informed that his uncle passed away and all the possession of his uncle including a supermarket, apartment and etc have been left as heritage.
Vakhtang Kikabidze, Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Elena Proklova
Plot
Local Georgian pilot Mimino dreams of flying airplanes for major international airlines. To realize his aspirations, he goes to Moscow where he encounters a fellow comrade from the Caucasus, the Armenian Rubik. Many misadventures ...
FR #2662 | TV | Biography, Drama | Italy, UK | English, Spanish
Cast
Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey, Laurence Olivier
Plot
Beginning before the Nativity and extending through the Crucifixion and Resurrection, this mini-series brings to life all of the sweeping drama in the life of Jesus, as told by the Gospels.
FR #2840 | Movie | Animation, Family | USA, France | English, French
Director
John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman, Ben Sharpsteen
Writer
A.A. Milne, Larry Clemmons, Ralph Wright
Cast
Sebastian Cabot, Junius Matthews, Barbara Luddy
Plot
In this collection of animated shorts based on the stories and characters by A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh, a honey-loving teddy bear, embarks on some eccentric adventures.
FR #2866 | Movie | Musical, Drama | USA, UK | English, Italian
Director
John Badham
Writer
Nik Cohn, Norman Wexler
Cast
John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller
Plot
Anxious about his future after high school, a 19-year-old Italian-American from Brooklyn tries to escape the harsh reality of his bleak family life by dominating the dance floor at the local disco.
A girl learns music from her courtesan grandmother and breaks into the burgeoning show business industry of 1930s Bombay, which eventually leads to decades of superstardom as well as romantic entanglements.
FR #3344 | Movie | History, Drama | UK, USA | English, Dutch
Director
Richard Attenborough
Writer
Cornelius Ryan, William Goldman
Cast
Sean Connery, Ryan O'Neal, Michael Caine
Plot
Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.
FR #3588 | Movie | Spy-Thriller, Action | UK, USA | Italian, Arabic
Director
Lewis Gilbert
Writer
Christopher Wood, Richard Maibaum, Ian Fleming
Cast
Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jurgens
Plot
James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. agent whose lover he killed.
FR #4130 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France, Italy | French, Italian
Director
Francois Truffaut
Writer
Michel Fermaud, Suzanne Schiffman, Francois Truffaut
Cast
Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Nelly Borgeaud
Plot
Bertrand Morane, a 40-year-old engineer, dies. At his funeral, his past lovers gather, revealing his life and affairs as he narrates while writing his autobiography.
FR #5098 | Movie | Documentary | USA | English, French
Director
George Butler, Robert Fiore
Writer
Charles Gaines, George Butler
Cast
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, Matty Ferrigno
Plot
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno face off in a no-holds-barred competition for the title of Mr. Olympia in this critically-acclaimed film that made Schwarzenegger a household name.
A young boy lives with his sister away from his mother to study in school. However, he is neither fond of the school nor his new home and decides to run away to be with his mother.
A policeman adopts the son of a bandit. A misunderstanding leads the officer's own biological son to believe he is the bandit's son and he takes up a secret life of crime; meanwhile, the adopted son becomes an officer of the law.
FR #5607 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA, Mexico | English, German
Director
William Friedkin
Writer
Walon Green, Georges Arnaud, William Friedkin
Cast
Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal
Plot
Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous Latin American jungle.
Rajesh belonged to a wealthy family his father turned all his savings from Africa into diamonds and hid it in a belt and was returning to India where he is followed by gang of smugglers he passes away due to heart attack and gives...
Movie revolves around two brothers who are separated during birth but meet as adults and form a deep friendship. Also about the challenges that test their friendship.
Alok goes against his father's wishes by choosing music over law studies and leaves the house to pursue his dream. However, his authoritarian father is hell-bent on foiling his efforts.
FR #6365 | Movie | War, Drama | UK, USA | English, Russian
Director
Ridley Scott
Writer
Gerald Vaughan-Hughes, Joseph Conrad
Cast
Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney
Plot
France, 1801. Due to a minor perceived slight, mild-mannered Lieutenant d'Hubert is forced into a duel with the hot-headed and irrational, Lieutenant Feraud; their disagreement ultimately resulting in scores of duels spanning seve...
FR #6403 | Movie | Documentary, History | Germany, Russia | German, English
Director
Joachim Fest, Christian Herrendoerfer
Writer
Joachim Fest
Cast
Gert Westphal, Stephen Murray, Artur Axmann
Plot
This meticulously assembled film dissects the Third Reich with an analytical blade, charting Hitler's improbable rise, his mastery of crowd psychology and his consummate skill in exploiting others' weaknesses.
Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Plot
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
FR #7107 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, Japanese
Director
Herbert Ross
Writer
Neil Simon
Cast
Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings
Plot
After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, unemployed dancer Paula McFadden and her ten-year-old daughter Lucy are forced to live with struggling off-Broadway actor Elliot Garfield, who is subletting their apartment.
Bodie and Doyle, senior agents of the British intelligence service CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their handler George Cowley fight terrorism and similar high-level crimes.
FR #8853 | Movie | Horror, Thriller | USA | English
Director
Wes Craven
Writer
Wes Craven
Cast
Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, John Steadman
Plot
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.
FR #8868 | Movie | Drama | France | French, English
Director
Robert Bresson
Writer
Robert Bresson
Cast
Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Henri De Maublanc
Plot
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...
A police detective helps a wealthy shoe company owner search for the young son of the owner's chaufeur whom was kidnapped by a disgruntled ex-employee and his gang for a large ransom.
FR #9650 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Russia, Italy | Russian, Italian
Director
Aleksey German
Writer
Konstantin Simonov
Cast
Yuriy Nikulin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Rashid Sadykov
Plot
During the 20-day leave, war correspondent Lopatin travels by train to the distant city of Tashkent. It's very far from the front but the war seems to be present in people's minds even there.
A young Brahmin Vedic school student, who is from an aristocratic family, befriends his school master's daughter who is a pregnant widow. The boy tries but fails in concealing his friend's pregnancy. The widow has an abortion forc...
An egotistical saxophonist and a young lounge singer meet on VJ Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long, uphill climb.
FR #10177 | Movie | Drama, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Lekh Tandon
Writer
Vrajendra Gaur, Madhusudan Kalelkar, Lekh Tandon
Cast
Rameshwari, Premkrishen Malhotra, Madan Puri
Plot
Wealthy businessman, Harkishan, lives in a palatial house, with his womanizing and alcoholic grandson, Prem. He would like Prem to get married, settle down, and look after the business, but Prem refuses to do so, unless and until ...
A young man, who believes himself to be a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a small Pennsylvanian town, where he tries to suppress his blood-lust.
FR #10601 | Movie | Comedy, Mystery | USA | English
Director
Mel Brooks
Writer
Mel Brooks, Ron Clark, Rudy De Luca
Cast
Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman
Plot
A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.
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.
FR #10891 | TV | Adventure, Action | Romania | Romanian
Cast
Ion Besoiu, Ilarion Ciobanu, Sebastian Papaiani
Plot
The 1977 Romanian series 'Toate pînzele sus' follows Moldavian fishermen turned sailors aboard the 'Hope' in the 19th century. Facing challenges at sea, it focuses on friendship, survival, and freedom.
FR #10932 | Movie | Drama, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
Shakti Samanta
Writer
Gauri Prasanna Mazumder, Din Dayal Sharma
Cast
Rajesh Khanna, Ashok Kumar, Vinod Mehra
Plot
A rich businessman disapproves of his son's passion for singing. This leads to friction between them, causing the boy to leave home. He adopts a new identity when he becomes a popular singer.
FR #10942 | Movie | Family, Drama | India | Kannada, Tamil
Director
Bhargava
Writer
G. Balasubramaniam, Bhargava, Chi Udayashankar
Cast
T.N. Balakrishna, Rajkumar, Ashok
Plot
Raj and his wife are thrown out of the house by their children. Raj works very hard and becomes rich. His children, for the love of money welcome him home. Will he go back to stay with them?
The movie revolves around the trials and tribulations of Anu (Sujatha). Anu is a happy-go-lucky girl who is in love with her boyfriend. Her life changes when her father gets transferred to Mumbai (then Bombay). Her love life falls...
A 9-year-old girl wishes to be kidnapped by an ex-con whom she dreams of a prince charming on white horse. This dull-witted ex-con man about town plays the role of the prince in her dreams lest she faces the bitter facts of real w...
