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The Best Movies of 1976
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Movie: Taxi Driver ( 1976 )
A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.
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Movie: Rocky ( 1976 )
A small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
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Movie: Logan's Run ( 1976 )
A police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.
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Movie: Carrie ( 1976 )
Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
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Movie: Network ( 1976 )
A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about mass media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.
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Movie: The Outlaw Josey Wales ( 1976 )
A Missouri farmer hunts down brutal Union soldiers.
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Movie: All the President's Men ( 1976 )
"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
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Movie: Silent Movie ( 1976 )
A film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years.
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Movie: The Omen ( 1976 )
Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?
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Movie: The Tenant ( 1976 )
A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
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Movie: King Kong ( 1976 )
A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla.
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Movie: Marathon Man ( 1976 )
After the murder of his older brother, a New York history student is hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds.
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Movie: Midway ( 1976 )
A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
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Movie: 1900 ( 1977 )
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
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Movie: The Cassandra Crossing ( 1977 )
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease. Nobody will let them off the train. So what happens next?
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Movie: A Star Is Born ( 1976 )
Has-been singing idol John Norman Howard falls in love with young, up-and-coming songstress Esther Hoffman in Frank Pierson's version of the classic love story updated to the rock and roll era.
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Movie: Murder by Death ( 1976 )
Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.
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TV Show: I, Claudius ( 1976 )
Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.
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Movie: The Bad News Bears ( 1976 )
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
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Movie: The Boy in the Plastic Bubble ( 1976 )
The girl next door makes a teen born with immune deficiencies want to leave his germ-free bubble.
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Movie: Freaky Friday ( 1977 )
A mother and daughter find their personalities switched and have to live each other's lives on one strange Friday.
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Movie: Bugsy Malone ( 1976 )
The classic gangster story of Bugsy Malone told with an all-child cast.
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Movie: The Message ( 1977 )
Historical fresco recounting the life and times of the Prophet Mohammed, the last of the Abrahamic religion, in the sense that, according to Islam, he completed and sealed the monotheistic revelation made to Abraham.
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Movie: The Man Who Fell to Earth ( 1976 )
An alien must pose as a human to save his dying planet, but a woman and greed of other men create complications.
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Movie: Futureworld ( 1976 )
Upon attempting to divulge a diabolical plot of the futuristic theme park, Futureworld, an ex-employee is dispatched after he tips off the reporter who exposed Westworld. The reporter and his ex-co-reporter investigate the situation.
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Movie: The Eagle Has Landed ( 1976 )
A German plot to kidnap Prime Minister Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II.
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Movie: The Enforcer ( 1976 )
Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan reluctantly teams up with rookie Inspector Kate Moore to foil a terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans.
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Movie: In the Realm of the Senses ( 1977 )
A fictionalized retelling of the story of Sada Abe, whose affair with her master quickly turned obsessive and sadomasochistic.
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Movie: The Shootist ( 1976 )
A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.
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Movie: The Pink Panther Strikes Again ( 1976 )
After escaping from an insane asylum, the bonkers Charles Dreyfus sends 26 assassins on the trail of the forever bumbling Inspector Clouseau.
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Movie: The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday ( 1976 )
Three prospectors confront their ex-partner who, 15 years earlier, ran off with all the gold from their mine and they also plan to kidnap his wife.
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TV Show: Rich Man, Poor Man ( 1976 )
The story of Rudy & Tom Jordache - two brothers who battled through their conflicting lifestyles in two different ways. Based on the best-selling novel by Irwin Shaw, we are taken on a roller-coaster ride starting in Port Philip, New York in 1945 through to the French Riviera in the mid-60's. A classic tale of Rags to Riches and Happiness to Heartbreak.
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Movie: Silver Streak ( 1976 )
On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance--but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.
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Movie: The Pom Pom Girls ( 1976 )
A group of carefree high school seniors are having the time of their lives, filled with sex, romance, and teen high jinks.
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Movie: Family Plot ( 1976 )
A phony psychic and her cab driver boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir.
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Movie: Casanova ( 1977 )
Giacomo Casanova uses his sexuality to find his place in life amid eccentric and strange characters.
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Movie: The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane ( 1977 )
A thirteen-year-old girl, who lives with her absentee father, befriends a disabled teenage amateur magician and invites him, gradually, into her tenuous struggle against a predatory local neighbor.
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Movie: Car Wash ( 1976 )
A comedic take on the daily life of car-wash employees, chronicling their hopes, fears, joys, dreams, and tribulations, and meeting some eccentric customers along the way.
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Movie: James Dean ( 1976 )
A dramatization of the story of legendary movie actor James Dean. The film's writer, William Bast, had roomed with Dean in the early '50s, when both were trying to break into films as actors.
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Movie: Alice, Sweet Alice ( 1976 )
In 1961, divorced Catholic couple Dom and Catherine Spages' life is upended when their teenage daughter Alice is suspected of her younger sister Karen's brutal murder during her First Holy Communion and a series of stabbings follow.
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Movie: The Last Tycoon ( 1976 )
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
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Movie: The Ritz ( 1976 )
Evading a mob contract on his life, a heterosexual man winds up hiding out at a homosexual bathhouse.
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Movie: Stay Hungry ( 1976 )
A dishonest businessman asks rich layabout Craig Blake to help him buy a gym that will be demolished for a development project in Alabama. But Craig backs out of the deal after learning that mobsters are involved in the project.
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Movie: Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw ( 1979 )
Aimless country girl Bobbie Jo Baker abandons her carhop job to join Wild West outlaw wannabe Lyle Wheeler for an adventure in theft, mayhem, and murder.
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Movie: Grizzly ( 1976 )
An eighteen-foot-tall grizzly bear terrorizes a state park, leaving Ranger Mike Kelly, photographer Allison Corwin, naturist Arthur Scott, and chopper pilot Don Stober to track down the beast. Meanwhile, the body count rises.
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Movie: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie ( 1976 )
A proud strip club owner is forced to come to terms with himself as a man when his gambling addiction gets him in hot water with the mob, who offer him only one alternative.
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Movie: Robin and Marian ( 1976 )
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
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Movie: Eaten Alive ( 1977 )
Psychotic redneck Judd owns a dilapidated hotel in rural East Texas, where he murders people who upset him or his business, and then feeds their remains to his large pet crocodile in the swamp beside his hotel.
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Movie: The Missouri Breaks ( 1976 )
Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.
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Movie: Obsession ( 1976 )
A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his late wife.
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Movie: The Town That Dreaded Sundown ( 1976 )
The story of a berserk, hooded killer who terrorized the border town of Texarkana, Arkansas in 1946--leaving no fewer than five murder victims in his wake. He was never caught. Based on one of America's most baffling murder cases.
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Movie: Lifeguard ( 1976 )
Rick, still in his 30's, works full-time as a lifeguard on the beaches of Los Angeles. When he meets his divorced high school girlfriend and her five-year-old son after fifteen years, he considers switching to a more "serious" job.
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Movie: Across the Great Divide ( 1976 )
In this family classic, two orphans cross the Rocky Mountains in search of their heritage. The couple forms an uncertain alliance with a drifter and embarks on the adventure of a lifetime together.
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Movie: The Human Tornado ( 1976 )
Dolemite flees to California, where he helps Queen Bee and her Kung Fu prostitutes battle a local gangster.
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Movie: Burnt Offerings ( 1976 )
A family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.
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Movie: The Shaggy D.A. ( 1976 )
Wilby Daniels, now all grown up and running for district attorney, finds himself once again turning into a shaggy dog at inopportune moments.
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Movie: The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella ( 1976 )
A musical retelling of the classic tale of Cinderella. In the tiny kingdom of Euphrania, the King and his court are anxious to get Prince Edward wed. But Edward wants to marry for love.
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Movie: To the Devil a Daughter ( 1976 )
An American occult novelist battles to save the soul of a young girl from a group of Satanists, led by an excommunicated priest, who plan on using her as the representative of the Devil on Earth.
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TV Show: Sybil ( 1976 )
Director Daniel Petrie's riveting drama stars Sally Field in an Emmy-winning turn as New York City teacher Sybil Dorsett, who has developed multiple personalities as a result of physical and emotional childhood abuse. To blot out memories that continue to haunt her, Sybil manifests at least 16 distinct personas. Joanne Woodward portrays the compassionate psychiatrist who helps Sybil come to grips with her harrowing past.
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Movie: Lipstick ( 1976 )
A top fashion model seeks justice after getting sexually assaulted by her teenage sister's obsessive music teacher.
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Movie: Voyage of the Damned ( 1976 )
The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.
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Movie: The Seven-Per-Cent Solution ( 1976 )
To treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud.
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Movie: Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson ( 1976 )
A cynical Buffalo Bill hires Sitting Bull to exploit him and add his credibility to the distorted view of history presented in his Wild West Show.
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Movie: Mikey and Nicky ( 1976 )
Nicky is on the run from the mob, and he turns to old pal Mikey for help.
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Movie: The Big Bus ( 1976 )
A nuclear-powered bus driving cross-country from New York City to Colorado is destined for disaster because of the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby.
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Movie: Helter Skelter ( 1976 )
Chilling story of the investigation and trial of Charles Manson, leader of a strange cult which under his direction and 'control' committed numerous murders.
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Movie: The Gumball Rally ( 1976 )
An eclectic group of people takes part in a secret, and illegal, cross country road race.
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Movie: Gus ( 1976 )
The inept 'California Atoms,' floundering in the cellar of the National Football League, welcome the team's newest member - a mule capable of place kicking a football 100 yards with deadly accuracy.
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Movie: Mother, Jugs & Speed ( 1976 )
Competition between privately owned Los Angeles, California ambulance companies is played for humor.
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Movie: Embryo ( 1976 )
A scientist (Rock Hudson) doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days. All is not well though as the child begins to exhibit some horrific tendencies.
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Movie: The Front ( 1977 )
In 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
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Movie: Two-Minute Warning ( 1976 )
A crazed sniper is set to kill spectators at an L.A. Coliseum football championship game and the police race against time to eliminate him.
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Movie: Jackson County Jail ( 1976 )
A wrongfully imprisoned young woman accused of murdering the guard who assaulted her escapes from jail and becomes a fugitive.
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TV Show: The Quest ( 1976 )
Morgan and Quentin Beaudine are two brothers who search the Old West for their sister, captured years earlier by Indians.
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Movie: The Song Remains the Same ( 1976 )
The pioneers of hard rock take the stage - and blow your mind. Led Zeppelin storm Madison Square Garden in this collection of footage taken from their legendary performances at the New York venue in 1973.
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Movie: Harry and Walter Go to New York ( 1976 )
In 1892, two vaudevillians and petty con artists get involved, together with the most notorious bank robber, in a New York City bank heist.
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Movie: Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway ( 1976 )
A 15-year-old girl runs away from home and arrives in Hollywood, but winds up becoming a prostitute to support herself and gets involved with a tough-talking pimp.