100 English films of 1977 ranked by box office. #1: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ($775.4 million).
| # | Film | Lead | Director | Budget | Box office | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope | George Lucas | $11 million | $775.4 million | 70.49x | |
| 2 | Smokey and the Bandit | Hal Needham | $4.3 million | $300 million | 69.77x | |
| 3 | Saturday Night Fever | John Badham | $3.5 million | $237.1 million | 67.74x | |
| 4 | The Spy Who Loved Me | Lewis Gilbert | $14 million | $185.4 million | 13.24x | |
| 5 | The Goodbye Girl | Herbert Ross | $102 million | |||
| 6 | The Deep | Peter Yates | $9 million | $100 million | 11.11x | |
| 7 | Airport '77 | Jerry Jameson | $6 million | $91.1 million | 15.18x | |
| 8 | In Search of Noah's Ark | James L. Conway | $55.7 million | |||
| 9 | Oh, God! | Carl Reiner | $2.1 million | $51 million | 24.29x | |
| 10 | A Bridge Too Far | Richard Attenborough | $27 million | $50.7 million | 1.88x | |
| 11 | Pumping Iron | George Butler | $1 million | $50 million | 50.00x | |
| 12 | Annie Hall | Woody Allen | $4 million | $44 million | 11.00x | |
| 13 | Semi-Tough | Michael Ritchie | $5.7 million | $37.2 million | 6.52x | |
| 14 | Pete's Dragon | Don Chaffey | $10 million | $36 million | 3.60x | |
| 15 | The Gauntlet | Clint Eastwood | $5.5 million | $35.4 million | 6.44x | |
| 16 | The Turning Point | Herbert Ross | $33.6 million | |||
| 17 | Heroes | Jeremy Kagan | $3.1 million | $33.5 million | 10.81x | |
| 18 | High Anxiety | Mel Brooks | $3.4 million | $31.1 million | 9.15x | |
| 19 | Exorcist II: The Heretic | John Boorman | $14 million | $30.7 million | 2.19x | |
| 20 | Slap Shot | George Roy Hill | $6 million | $28 million | 4.67x | |
| 20 | Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo | Vincent McEveety | $28 million | |||
| 20 | Slap Shot 3: The Junior League | Richard Martin | $6 million | $28 million | 4.67x | |
| 23 | The Hills Have Eyes | Wes Craven | $700,000 | $25 million | 35.71x | |
| 24 | The Other Side of Midnight | Charles Jarrott | $9 million | $24.7 million | 2.74x | |
| 25 | Looking for Mr. Goodbar | Richard Brooks | $22.5 million | |||
| 26 | For the Love of Benji | Joe Camp | $22.3 million | |||
| 27 | The World's Greatest Lover | Gene Wilder | $4.8 million | $21 million | 4.38x | |
| 28 | Julia | Fred Zinnemann | $7.8 million | $20.7 million | 2.64x | |
| 29 | Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger | Sam Wanamaker | $3.5 million | $20 million | 5.71x | |
| 29 | One on One | Lamont Johnson | $2 million | $20 million | 10.00x | |
| 31 | The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training | Michael Pressman | $19.1 million | |||
| 32 | Kingdom of the Spiders | John "Bud" Cardos | $1 million | $17 million | 17.00x | |
| 33 | New York, New York | Martin Scorsese | $9 million | $16.4 million | 1.82x | |
| 34 | MacArthur | Joseph Sargent | $9 million | $16.3 million | 1.81x | |
| 35 | Ruby | Curtis Harrington | $600,000 | $16 million | 26.67x | |
| 36 | Black Sunday | John Frankenheimer | $8 million | $15.8 million | 1.98x | |
| 37 | Grand Theft Auto | Ron Howard | $602,000 | $15 million | 24.92x | |
| 38 | Orca | Michael Anderson | $6 million | $14.7 million | 2.45x | |
| 39 | Fun with Dick and Jane | Ted Kotcheff | $4.5 million | $13.6 million | 3.02x | |
| 40 | Breaker! Breaker! | Don Hulette | $250,000 | $12 million | 48.00x | |
| 40 | Capricorn One | Peter Hyams | $5 million | $12 million | 2.40x | |
| 42 | First Love | Joan Darling | $3 million | $9.4 million | 3.13x | |
| 43 | Bobby Deerfield | Sydney Pollack | $6.4 million | $9.3 million | 1.45x | |
| 44 | Sorcerer | William Friedkin | $21.6 million | $9 million | 0.42x | |
| 44 | The Amazing Spider-Man | Don McDougall | $9 million | |||
| 46 | Damnation Alley | Jack Smight | $8 million | $8.7 million | 1.09x | |
| 47 | You Light Up My Life | Joseph Brooks | $1.2 million | $8.5 million | 7.08x | |
| 48 | The Greatest | Monte Hellman | $8.4 million | |||
| 49 | Rollercoaster | James Goldstone | $9 million | $8.2 million | 0.91x | |
| 50 | Islands in the Stream | Franklin J. Schaffner | $8 million | |||
| 51 | Eraserhead | David Lynch | $100,000 | $7.1 million | 71.00x | |
| 52 | Day of the Animals | William Girdler | $1.2 million | $7 million | 5.83x | |
| 53 | Walking Tall: Final Chapter | Jack Starrett | $6.3 million | |||
| 54 | Thunder and Lightning | Corey Allen | $6 million | |||
| 55 | The Lincoln Conspiracy | James L. Conway | $5.6 million | |||
| 56 | Twilight's Last Gleaming | Robert Aldrich | $6.2 million | $4.5 million | 0.73x | |
| 56 | The Van | Raúl Ruiz | $4.5 million | |||
| 58 | The Sentinel | Michael Winner | $3.5 million | $4 million | 1.14x | |
| 58 | The Island of Dr. Moreau | John Frankenheimer | $6 million | $4 million | 0.67x | |
| 60 | Can I Do It... 'Til I Need Glasses? | I. Robert Levy | $750,000 | $3.5 million | 4.67x | |
| 61 | March or Die | Dick Richards | $8 million | $3.2 million | 0.41x | |
| 62 | I Never Promised You a Rose Garden | Anthony Page | $3 million | $3.2 million | 1.07x | |
| 63 | Tentacles | Ovidio G. Assonitis | $750,000 | $3 million | 4.00x | |
| 63 | The People That Time Forgot | Kevin Connor | $500,000 | $3 million | 6.00x | |
| 65 | Cinderella | Michael Pataki | $2.6 million | |||
| 66 | Grayeagle | Charles B. Pierce | $2.5 million | |||
| 66 | Empire of the Ants | Bert I. Gordon | $2.5 million | |||
| 68 | The Pack | Robert Clouse | $2 million | $2.4 million | 1.20x | |
| 69 | 3 Women | Robert Altman | $1.7 million | $2.2 million | 1.29x | |
| 70 | Audrey Rose | Robert Wise | $4 million | $2 million | 0.50x | |
| 70 | Demon Seed | Donald Cammell | $2 million | |||
| 70 | Stunts | Mark L. Lester | $600,000 | $2 million | 3.33x | |
| 73 | Mr. Billion | Jonathan Kaplan | $4 million | $1.9 million | 0.48x | |
| 74 | Why Shoot the Teacher? | Silvio Narizzano | C$810,000 | $1.8 million | ||
| 74 | Suspiria | Dario Argento | ITL 1.4 billion | $1.8 million | ||
| 76 | The Domino Principle | Stanley Kramer | $6 million | $1.7 million | 0.28x | |
| 76 | Fire Sale | Alan Arkin | $1.5 million | $1.7 million | 1.13x | |
| 78 | Cross of Iron | Sam Peckinpah | $6 million | $1.5 million | 0.25x | |
| 79 | Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure | Richard Williams | $4 million | $1.4 million | 0.34x | |
| 79 | The Chicken Chronicles | Frank Simon | $1.4 million | |||
| 81 | Cathy's Curse | Eddy Matalon | $1.3 million | |||
| 82 | Who Has Seen the Wind | Allan King | $1.1 million | $1.2 million | 1.07x | |
| 83 | The Crater Lake Monster | William R. Stromberg | $200,000 | $1.1 million | 5.25x | |
| 84 | Moonshine County Express | Gus Trikonis | $700,000 | $1 million | 1.43x | |
| 85 | Handle with Care | Jonathan Demme | $5 million | $815,000 | 0.16x | |
| 86 | Sleeping Dogs | Roger Donaldson | $450,000 | |||
| 87 | Killer of Sheep | Charles Burnett | $10,000 | $416,509 | 41.65x | |
| 88 | The Child | Robert Voskanian | $30,000 | |||
| 89 | Short Eyes | Robert Milton Young | $3,921 | |||
| Rabid | David Cronenberg | C$7 million | ||||
| ABBA: The Movie | Lasse Hallström | SEK 5.3 million | ||||
| The Last Wave | Peter Weir | A$818,000 | A$1.3 million | 1.54x | ||
| The Mango Tree | Kevin James Dobson | A$800,000 | A$1 million | 1.29x | ||
| The Getting of Wisdom | Bruce Beresford | A$525,000 | A$982,000 | 1.87x | ||
| Welcome to Blood City | Peter Sasdy | $846,659 | C$900,000 | |||
| High Rolling | Igor Auzins | A$400,000 | A$841,000 | 2.10x | ||
| Journey Among Women | Tom Cowan | A$150,000 | A$800,000 | 5.33x | ||
| The FJ Holden | Michael Thornhill | $319,695 | A$710,000 | |||
| The Picture Show Man | John Power | A$600,000 | A$566,014 | 0.94x | ||
| Jabberwocky | Terry Gilliam | £587,668 | £479,219 | 0.82x |
Figures are shown in the currency they were reported in (Wikipedia, Wikidata or TMDB); no conversion.