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Top Grossing Movies in 1977

Rank Title Language Genre(s) Domestic Worldwide
1 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
English

EN

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi

$460,998,507 $775,398,507
2 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
English

EN

Adventure

Sci-Fi

Drama

$135,189,114 $306,889,114
3 Saturday Night Fever
English

EN

Drama

Romance

Music

$94,213,184 $237,113,184
4 Smokey and the Bandit
English

EN

Action

Comedy

$126,737,428 $126,750,426
5 The Rescuers

Adventure

Fantasy

Comedy

$71,215,869 $71,215,989
6 A Bridge Too Far
English

EN

Drama

History

War

$50,750,000 $50,750,000
7 The Deep
English

EN

Adventure

Mystery

Thriller

$47,346,365 $47,346,365
8 The Spy Who Loved Me
English

EN

Action

Adventure

Thriller

$46,838,673 $46,876,386
9 Oh, God!
English

EN

Fantasy

Comedy

$41,687,243 $41,687,243
10 Pete's Dragon
English

EN

Adventure

Fantasy

Family

$39,588,000 $39,588,000
11 Annie Hall
English

EN

Comedy

Romance

$38,251,425 $38,289,445
12 Semi-Tough
English

EN

Sport

Comedy

Romance

$37,187,139 $37,187,139
13 Heroes
English

EN

Drama

Comedy

$33,500,000 $33,500,000
14 High Anxiety
english

EN

Comedy

$31,063,038 $31,063,038
15 Exorcist II: The Heretic
English

EN

Horror

$30,749,142 $30,749,142
16 Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
English

EN

Action

Adventure

Comedy

$29,000,000 $29,000,000
17 Slap Shot
English

EN

Drama

Sport

Comedy

$28,000,000 $28,000,000
18 The Gauntlet
English

EN

Action

Thriller

Crime

$26,414,658 $26,414,658
19 Freaky Friday
English

EN

Fantasy

Comedy

Family

$25,942,000 $25,942,000
20 The Turning Point
Italian

IT

Drama

Romance

$25,933,445 $25,933,445
21 The Other Side of Midnight
English

EN

Romance

Thriller

Drama

$24,652,021 $24,652,021
22 Looking for Mr. Goodbar
English

EN

Drama

Romance

$22,512,655 $22,512,655
23 Julia
English

EN

Drama

$20,714,400 $20,714,400
24 The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
English

EN

Sport

Comedy

Family

$19,104,350 $19,104,350
25 For the Love of Benji
English

EN

Adventure

Drama

Comedy

$17,732,000 $17,732,000
26 New York, New York
Chinese

CN

Drama

Music

Musical

$16,400,000 $16,400,658
27 Black Sunday
English

EN

Adventure

Drama

Thriller

$15,769,322 $15,769,322
28 Orca
Persian

IR

Adventure

Drama

Horror

$14,717,854 $14,717,854
29 Bobby Deerfield
English

EN

Drama

Romance

$9,300,000 $9,300,000
30 Animal
French

FR

Comedy

- $7,196,268
31 Islands in the Stream
English

EN

Drama

$5,596,173 $5,596,173
32 Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown
English

EN

Adventure

Animation

Family

$3,223,888 $3,223,888
33 March or Die
English

EN

War

Drama

Adventure

$1,000,000 $1,000,000
34 Joseph Andrews
English

EN

Romance

Comedy

$839,865 $839,865
35 Citizens Band
English

EN

Drama

Comedy

$815,530 $815,530
36 Fraternity Row
English

EN

Drama

$290,674 $290,674
37 Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas
English

EN

Music

Family

Fantasy

$231,710 $231,710
38 House
Japanese

JP

Horror

Comedy

Fantasy

$209,765 $223,859
39 ABBA: The Movie
English

EN

Comedy

Documentary

Drama

- $144,398
40 Billy Connolly: Big Banana Feet
English

EN

Comedy

Music

Documentary

- $101,965
41 Suspiria
English

EN

Horror

- $47,000
42 The Girl with the Red Scarf
Turkish

TR

Drama

Romance

- $45,123
43 A Grin Without a Cat
French

FR

Documentary

$43,616 $43,616
44 The Serpent’s Egg
English

EN

Thriller

Mystery

Drama

- $39,238
45 Crime Busters
Italian

IT

Comedy

Action

- $33,642
46 Opening Night

Drama

$23,488 $32,191
47 The Devil, Probably
French

FR

Drama

$26,816 $29,158
48 One Sings, the Other Doesn’t
French

FR

Music

Drama

$19,919 $19,919
49 Between the Lines
English

EN

Comedy

Drama

$15,383 $15,383
50 The Brothers Lionheart
Swedish

SE

Adventure

Family

Fantasy

- $13,184

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