Action Movies of 1976
The Cassandra Crossing
This bizarre entry into the disaster film genre concerns a group of hapless passengers aboard a ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Silver Streak
While taking a train trip from L.A. to Chicago, mild-mannered George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) makes the acquaintance of Hilly Burns (Jill Clayburgh). As they indulge in a brief bit of spooning, Hilly tells George ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Swashbuckler
A latter-day attempt to update the swordplay success of Errol Flynn movies, this film is part burlesque, part homage to old-fashioned pirate films. James ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Two-Minute Warning
Larry Peerce directed this tired disaster movie about a mad sniper loose in a football stadium. At the beginning, the sniper picks off a cyclist for practice and then takes roost in the top tower of ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Gator
Having created the character of Gator McKlusky in 1973's White Lightning, Burt Reynolds reprises the role in the appropriately titled Gator. Once again, ex-convict McKluskey is strong-armed into helping the feds nab a ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
The Big Bus
The Big Bus is set aboard a nonstop, nuclear-powered luxury bus commandeered by Joseph Bologna. Naturally, ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Logan's Run
In a hermetically sealed, post-apocalyptic urban environment several ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
The Enforcer
Number three in the Dirty Harry series, The Enforcer equips macho cop Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) with a female assistant, Kate Moore (Tyne Daly). Their quarry is a terrorist ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Dance of Death
Mao Ling stars as a young girl, well versed in the deadly art of kung-fu. She takes over for her deceased male relatives in doing ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
The Killing Machine
Sonny Chiba stars in The Killing Machine; in fact, you could say that he is the killing machine. A veteran of the World War II Japanese army, Doshin So (Chiba) would like to live a life of peace, but...right now, he'd ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
The Next Man
Audiences loved him as a Berber sheik in the historical saga The Wind and the Lion, so who better ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Cannonball
Paul Bartel rips off his own Death Race 2000 in this mindless car-crash saga, containing more twisted metal than a bombed-out steel mill. The nominal storyline concerns an illegal auto race from Los ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Jackson County Jail
Yvette Mimieux delivers a sensitive, nuanced performance in a role that could have easily spread into a cheap exploitation turn in Jackson County Jail. Mimieux plays advertising executive ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
The Sell Out
In this action-packed spy drama, a retired CIA agent reluctantly returns to espionage at the request of his treacherous student, who messed up and went to the Soviet side. Now the agent wants out, causing both the US and the USSR to ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Deadly Hero
Don Murray plays Lacy, a blatantly bigoted New York cop who finds that his rabid hatred forces him into a bloody rampage in order to save himself and his job in the derivative cop melodrama Deadly Hero. At ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Wonder Woman: Season 01
The premise of the ABC fantasy adventure series Wonder ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
New Fist of Fury
New Fist of Fury stars Jackie Chan as A Lung, a kung fu master who is hired to ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Eat My Dust!
Charles B. Griffith, author of Little Shop of Horrors, was the writer/director of the low-budget Eat My Dust!. Ron Howard heads the cast as Hoover Niebold, the hell-raising son of rural sheriff Harry Niebold (Warren Kemmerling). The sheriff is ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Ape
This laughable Korean rip-off of King Kong was released the same year as Dino De Laurentis's trumpeted remake to sponge up some free hype from that film's massive ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
Exploitation film vixen Claudia Jennings stars with Jocelyn Jones in this ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
The Big Racket
A by-the-books cop struggling to bust a brutal protection racket in Rome is forced to throw the rules out the window when the vicious gang attempts to cement their status by moving into the drug trade in director Enzo ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Viaje Fantastico en Globo
In this children's action/adventure movie, a team of Royal Geographical Society scientists, led by ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Assault on Precinct 13
Cops, secretaries, and prisoners stuck in a soon-to-be-shuttered L.A. police station fight off a horde of murderous gang members in director John ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Black Sister's Revenge
Jamaa Fanaka produced, directed and wrote the inner-city drama Black Sister's Revenge. Jerri Hayes plays a young, naïve black girl from Georgia. She grows up way too fast when she relocates to LA, where she ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
The Bodyguard
A bunch of Japanese and NYC gangsters face off while a martial arts hero attempts to make sense of it all in this actioner. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave
Directed by Umberto Lenzi, Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave revolves around Lee's fight for his eternal soul -- the marital arts extraordinaire must face off against the Black Angel of Death in this unique, supernatural ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Bruce's Deadly Fingers
One of the many similarly named actors to cash in on the success of the legendary Bruce Lee, Bruce Le ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Cantonen Iron Kung Fu Men
Ten men seek to master the art of Cantonen Iron Kung Fu in this martial arts feature. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Gambling City
A sly card sharp tries to make it in the Mafia world of gambling. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Death Machines
Paul Kyriazi's martial arts action film Death Machines concerns a trio of expert fighters. A gangster doses the three of them with a mind-control drug and forces them to do his bidding. The threesome ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Dixie Dynamite
Two sisters (Jane Johnstone, Kathy McHaley) seek vengeance when they are evicted ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
The Human Tornado
In this violent comedy, the sequel to Dolemite, the rotund rapster must hit the road for California after an Anglo sheriff finds him fooling around with his wife. Once there he gets involved with a sexy, hard-living madame and her flock of kung fu ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
The Hot, the Cool, and the Vicious
In this period martial arts-adventure, three warriors set out ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Juan Armenta El Repatriado
Fernando Duran's action film Juan Armenta El Repatriado concerns the title hero teaming up with his twin in order to defeats group of bad guys. Their relationship complicates when, after that adventure, he begins an affair with his ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
The Killer Elephants
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King Kung Fu
A Chinese gorilla that turned on its master after years of martial arts training embarks on a brutal rampage through the streets of Wichita, Kansas in director Lance D. Hayes' ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
The Young Bruce Lee
Bolo Yeung and Bruce Li star in this biopic of the early fighting career of the martial arts legend Bruce Lee. The Young Bruce Lee shows how he established his legend by ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth
This biography of famed martial arts actor Bruce Lee begins as Lee is leaving Hong Kong for America, to fulfill his mother's wishes. The story follows him to San Francisco, ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Story of the Dragon
When a villain's evil schemes threaten to destroy the reputation of a number of residents of San Francisco's Chinatown, a skilled ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
5 Kung Fu Daredevil Heroes
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The Invasion of Johnson County
The made-for-TV Invasion of Johnson County is based on a dark chapter in the ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
The Invincible Superguy
An Asian prince finds himself in danger at the hands of gold thieves. Fortunately, the ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
One Armed Swordsmen
Jimmy Wang Yu and David Chiang face off against each other in One Armed Swordsmen. The infamous One Armed Swordsman cuts off the arm of The Dragon Masked Bandit. While revenge is plotted, the Swordsman learns the true ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
The Secret Rivals
In this martial arts feature, an upright general has been sent out by the Emperor of China to discipline one of the Chinese overlords of Korea who has been stealing silver. The general ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
The Magic Blade
While searching for a magic blade, a group of martial artists encounter such characters from folklore as the Devil Grandmother. When they ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Hand of Death
The Chinese Manchus were a northern tribal people who conquered the country and formed the last Imperial dynasty. Most Chinese ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Mask of Death
As the best fighters from the most revered clans in China begin falling prey to a mysterious assassin, the only clue that the killer leaves behind is an untraceable death mask. When the masked killer fails to kill one of his intended targets ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
The 18 Bronzemen Part 2
Directed by Joseph Kuo, the sequel to Eighteen ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
The Blazing Temple
Carter Wong and Jia Ling star in this vintage martial arts action drama. The Ching Emperor has ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Snake-Crane Secret
A family struggles to survive as they attempt to keep their sacred kung fu book from ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Traitorous
Shaolin Traitorous is directed by Sung Ting Mei. After his father ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
General Stone
Kung fu fans know well the legends of the 18 Bronze Men and the 108 Wooden Men of Shaolin, and in this fast-paced martial arts adventure, a whole new myth comes to the screen with the ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
One Armed Swordsman Against Nine Killers
The saga of the one-armed swordsman draws to a surprising close in this effort co-written by and starring Shaw Brothers screen-legend Jimmy Wang Yu. When an entire syndicate of killers threatens to destroy the legacy ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Ninjas and Dragons
A fledgling Bushido master determined to avenge the murder of his father finds that the single killing is but a small piece in a much larger puzzle in this martial arts classic starring Sonny Chiba protégé ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Yakuza Graveyard
A haunted detective whose unconventional methods virtually define the term rogue cop is set up for failure when his corrupt superiors assign him the task of heading the organized crime ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
Colt 38 Special Squad
A rogue cop and a merciless crime lord take their ... [ Action movie - 1976 ]
