“May the Force be with you.”
— Star Wars (1977)
From disco fever and gritty road chases to mind-bending indies and Skywalker’s first flight, 1977 slapped. Browse the lineup below—then pick your top three and drop them in the comments! ⬇️
- Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas — Jim Henson’s sweet, small-town Muppet tale of music and making do.
- Black Sunday — A terrorist plot targets the Super Bowl in this nerve-rattling thriller.
- Eraserhead — David Lynch’s nightmarish debut: industrial dread, surreal parenthood, unforgettable hair.
- The Turning Point — Rival dancers reckon with roads taken and not in a backstage ballet drama.
- Saturday Night Fever — Tony Manero struts through Brooklyn to a Bee Gees beat—disco immortal.
- Smokey and the Bandit — Burt Reynolds outruns the law hauling Coors across state lines.
- Slap Shot — Paul Newman’s minor-league hockey team embraces goon tactics and glory.
- Rolling Thunder — A Vietnam vet’s revenge burns slow, hard, and brutal.
- New York, New York — Scorsese’s jazzy, tempestuous romance set in postwar showbiz.
- The Duellists — Two Napoleonic officers fight a decades-long series of duels—honor versus obsession.
- Star Wars (A New Hope) — A farm kid, a princess, a rogue—space opera redefined.
- The Goodbye Girl — Odd-couple roommates become something more in Neil Simon’s breezy romance.
- Equus — A psychiatrist unpacks a shocking crime—and a boy’s worship of horses.
- Capricorn One — A faked Mars mission spirals into conspiracy and murder.
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind — Ordinary people are drawn to a cosmic rendezvous: “We are not alone.”
- Opening Night — Cassavetes’ raw portrait of a star unraveling before opening curtain.
- The Rescuers — Two brave mice and a seagull take on a swampy kidnapping caper.
- Annie Hall — Love, neurosis, and “la-di-da”—a modern rom-com landmark.
- Candleshoe — A street-smart kid hunts hidden treasure with a plucky grand dame.
- A Bridge Too Far — Star-studded WWII epic recreating Operation Market Garden’s daring failure.
- 3 Women — Identities blur in Altman’s desert dream of shifting personas.
- Sorcerer — Four desperate men haul nitro over hellish roads—pure, sweaty suspense.
- Julia — A writer risks everything to help a resistance fighter in Nazi Europe.
- The Gauntlet — Eastwood escorts a key witness through a city trying to kill them both.
- Telefon — A sleeper-agent plot awakens in this Cold War chase with Bronson.
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh — A honey-sweet anthology of Pooh, Piglet, Tigger & friends.
🙏 Your turn: which three ’77 picks are you cueing up tonight? 🍿✨