Drama Movies of 1977
Julia
The film traces the lifelong relationship between playwright Lillian Hellman and Julia, a wealthy girl who turns her back on her upbringing to follow her ideals. In the ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Summer City
Mel Gibson made his feature-film debut in this low-budget Australian teen drama that chronicles the exploits of a quartet of boys who leave Sydney and head out for a weekend of surfing and adventure. Unfortunately the fun takes a serious ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
The Prince and the Pauper
A poor commoner and a young prince each find out how the other half lives in this adventure story based on the classic tale by Mark ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Roots
This award-winning six-part historical epic was one of the first examples of the miniseries format and one of the highest-rated television ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
The Duellists
The Duellists is based on a story by Joseph Conrad, variously titled The Duel and The Point of Honour. Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel play officers in Napoleon's army -- D'Hubert and Feraud, respectively -- who spend their ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
The Turning Point
One of a cycle of '70s post-Women's Liberation "women's pictures," Herbert Ross's drama uses the ballet world to examine the conflict between family and career. Former dance colleagues Deedee (Shirley MacLaine) and Emma (Anne Bancroft) ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Una Giornata Particolare
The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
New York, New York
Martin Scorsese combined the splashy atmosphere of the old studio ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
The Serpent's Egg
The Serpent's Egg, or Das Schlangenei is director Ingmar Bergman's second English language production (The Touch was his first). It is, however, his first completely non-Swedish production, made after his voluntary ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Equus
Richard Burton plays a psychiatrist who attempts to discover why young Peter Firth has taken to mutilating live horses. In probing Firth's psyche, Burton discovers that the source of the boy's ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
First aired March 13, 1977, Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
The Greatest
With Muhammad Ali cast as himself, The Greatest ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Almos' a Man
Based on the story by Richard Wright, Almos' a Man stars LeVar Burton as a black teenager in the South of the 1930s. Working as a field hand, Burton is frustrated at being considered ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
The Amazing Howard Hughes
Taking over the already profitable Hughes tool company from his deceased father, the ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Islands in the Stream
After a parade of top-heavy blockbusters (Papillon, Nicholas and Alexandra), director Franklin J. Schaffner retreats, like the Hemingway character of the ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
The American Friend
Wim Wenders' mines Dennis Hopper's real-life experience as a painter and collector in this existential take on the American gangster film based on a ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
3 Women
Robert Altman's Three Women takes a surreal, improvisational and rather eerie look at the lives of three women in a western desert town. ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
MacArthur
Star Gregory Peck went into MacArthur disliking the title character that he was slated to play, but emerged from the experience with a deeper understanding and respect for this ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
The Other Side of Midnight
One woman's life of love and larceny is recounted in this soapy drama based on the best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon. In the midst of WWII, innocent French girl Noelle Page (Marie-France Pisier) falls in love with ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Bobby Deerfield
Starring Al Pacino and directed by Sydney Pollack, Bobby Deerfield stars Pacino plays the title character, a reckless race car driver. As his fame grows, Bobby becomes increasingly full of himself, which seriously jeopardizes his performance ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
The Rockford Files: Season 04
Ex-con turned private eye Jim Rockford (James Garner) continues serving the cause of justice by reopening closed cases in his own cynical, deceptively disheveled fashion in ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Mary White
Journalist William Allen White, the Pulitzer Prize-winning sage of Emporia, ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Roseland
New York's Roseland ballroom was in 1977 the traditional ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Without ever revealing the diagnosis, this film chronicles the inner life and outer circumstances of Deborah Blake (Kathleen Quinlan), a young mental patient. As ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Wilma
This made-for-TV biographical film chronicles the early life of Olympic gold medalist Wilma Rudolph (Cicely Tyson) as she struggles to overcome a childhood bout of polio and realize her Olympic ambitions. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Death Game
Allegedly based on a real incident, this crime drama begins in San Francisco with a middle-aged man answering the doorbell. He is ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
The Chess Players
Based on a story by Munshi Premchand, and much influenced by Vsevolod Pudovkin's 1925 film Chess Fever, this satirical film by noted ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Little Ladies of the Night
Also known as Little Ladies of the Night, the story focuses on a teenager who runs away from home and finds herself in the sordid world of ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Saturday Night Fever
John Travolta graduated from minor celebrity to superstar with Saturday Night Fever. Travolta plays Tony Manero, a Brooklyn ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
The Boys in Company C
Cowritten by director Sidney J. Furie, The Boys in Company C charts the fortunes of five young Marine recruits. ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Hard Times
Strange as it seems, the 1977 adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times was the first full-scale adaptation of this work ever seen on ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
The Curious Case of the Campus Corpse
A young man finds out that making friends with the Big Men On Campus is more difficult and dangerous than he ever imagined in this offbeat blend of drama and ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
You Light up My Life
In this film, young singer Lauri Robinson (Didi Conn) struggles to make it in ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Operation Thunderbolt
This thrill-packed fact-based action-adventure from Israel chronicles the daring rescue of 104 passengers from a hijacked plane in Entebbe, Uganda, on ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Die Konsequenz
Based on a true story, this film tells of an unlikely love affair. While in prison, Martin (Jürgen Prochnow) ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
The Last Wave
Peter Weir follows up on his critically acclaimed masterpiece Picnic at Hanging Rock with this surrealist psychological drama. The film opens with a freak hailstorm ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Short Eyes
"Short eyes" is prison slang for a man who sodomizes little boys. Fitting this odious description ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Iphigenia
This production by Michael Cacoyannes is respectfully adapted from the ancient classical Greek play by Euripides (485-406 BCE). When the ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Blue Fire Lady
Although it makes her father unhappy, Jenny does not want a certain horse sold to the ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
The Blue Hotel
Part of the "American Short Story" collection, this is an adaptation of a story by Stephen Crane. In this film, a traveller takes refuge in a hotel. However, he becomes concerned his life is in danger from others who are staying at the same ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
I'm a Fool
Based on a short story by Sherwood Anderson, I'm a Fool stars Ron Howard as a 1920s race-track groom. Told in bittersweet flashbacks, the story relates Howard's attempts to impress pretty debutante Amy Irving by pretending to ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
The Liberators
Klaus Kinski is the leading man of The Liberators. But, Kinski being Kinski, we'd hesitate to call him the hero. He's a ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Mission to Glory: A True Story
This adventure is based upon the true life exploits of 17th-century missionary, Father Francisco "Kino" Kin who was instrumental in ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Padre Padrone
Based on an autobiographical book by Gavino Ledda, Padre Padrone is filmed in Sardinian, a regional Italian dialect. The film concentrates on a young, barely literate shepherd boy, who lives under the thumb of his ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Soldier's Home
The 44-minute Soldier's Home is based on a story by Ernest Hemingway. Richard Backus stars as a returning World War I veteran who can't adapt to the changes in his home town. Nancy Marchand, Mark LaMura and Lane Binkley costar. Though ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Bibi
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In MacArthur Park
In this social drama, the grim life of an impoverished Native American attempting to make it in L.A. is chronicled. To support his family, he turns to crime, murders ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Journey among Women
Set during the years when Australia was a newly established British colony reserved for prisoners, this feminist oriented drama centers upon a ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
The Brute
The Brute is a typically fast and furious British "exploitation" film directed by an ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Das Zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages
The West German The Second Awakening of Christa Klages (Das Zweite Erwachen der ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Vaya Tipos
In this drama, three men go treasure hunting and find it when they encounter a woman whose inheritance consists of four bags filled with gold. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Cananea
Marcela Fernandez Violante directs the 1977 historical Western Cananea, based on the true story of the American-owned Cananea mine. Colonel William Greene ran the profitable copper mine in ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Justine
In this erotic drama based on an infamous novel by the Marquis de Sade, two sisters are raised in a convent, where they suffer all manner of abuse. The girls are eventually ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Las Poquianchis
This social-themed drama is set in 1950's Mexico, where three sisters known as the ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
The Place Without Limits
In a Mexican village, the local whorehouse is run by an elderly transvestite ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
The Royal Family
Based upon the 1927 George S. Kaufman-Edna Ferber stage hit, The Royal Family is about a famous, more than somewhat eccentric theater family that may bring to mind the real-life Barrymores. The Cavendish clan is headed ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Freeman
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Little House on the Prairie: Season 04
Season four of Little House on the Prairie finds the Ingalls' household increased from five to six after Caroline Ingalls (Karen ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Rigoletto (Metropolitan Opera)
This performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Rigoletto was recorded at the ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Starsky & Hutch: Season 03
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Charlie's Angels: Season 02
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A Man Called Magnum
This late-period entry into the cycle of Italian crime films is a prototypical example of the ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
Nicholas Nickleby
Nigel Havers (Chariots of Fire, Empire of the Sun) heads a five-star British cast including Kate Nicholls and Derek ... [ Drama movie - 1977 ]
