Best Drama Films of 1976
No Substitute for Victory
The Communist threat and ... is the focus of this video hosted by John Wayne with interviews of Lowell Thomas and Sgt. Barry Sadler. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
A Star Is Born
The third remake of ... an Academy Award for Best Song; the credits contain the amusing notice, "Ms. Streisand's Clothes from ... Her Closet." [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Barocco
Former film critic André ... is also drawn to her, and they eventually become lovers. The supporting cast includes Marie-France Pisier and Jean-Claude Brialy. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Mr. Klein
Alain Delon plays Mr. ... about life in the other man's shoes. Star Delon is one of the four producers of this French feature. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
The Virginia Hill Story
Long before the Warren ... The Virginia Hill Story premiered the same November week in 1974 as the network debut of The Godfather (1972). [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Eccentricities of a Nightgale
Blythe Danner and Frank ... she can't bear to turn him down. The Eccentricities of a Nightingale was first shown on PBS in 1975. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
21 Hours at Munich
21 Hours at Munich ... actual events has since become famous, narrates the film. 21 Hours at Munich first aired on November 7, 1976. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
The River Niger
River Niger is a ... support his cancer-plagued wife (Cicely Tyson). This is a realistic portrayal of the difficulties encountered in the poverty-stricken ghetto. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
Welcome Back Kotter star ... tragically terminated when the actress died of cancer. Boy in the Plastic Bubble was first telecast November 12, 1976. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Le Désert des Tartares
With fear and trepidation, ... however, can't wait for the boredom to end and the fighting to begin. Ennio Morricone provided the musical score. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Mikey and Nicky
Nickey (John Cassavetes) is ... and pressing financial concerns. Elaine May's script was allegedly taken from an episode in the life of her uncle. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Gable and Lombard
The love affair between ... happy marriage is cut short by Lombard's tragic death as she was selling defense bonds during World War II. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Eleanor and Franklin: The Early Years
The winner of 11 ... 1976. The film was followed several months later by a multipart sequel, Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
James Michener's Dynasty
James Michener's Dynasty is ... Michener's sprawling novel. James Michener's Dynasty is worth noting for the supporting-cast contributions of Amy Irving and Harrison Ford. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
King Lear
Patrick Magee plays the ... of his ways, and comes to understand his older daughters are using his growing senility for their own purposes. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Bound for Glory
Adapted by Robert Getchell ... and nominations for several Oscars, including Best Picture, Bound for Glory proved less than glorious at the box office. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
The Rockford Files: Season 03
James Garner won an ... and Serve," and finally, "The Becker Connection" serves to reunite James Garner with his former Maverick co-star Jack Kelly. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
The Last of Mrs. Lincoln
Julie Harris stars as ... pension due to her Southern ancestry, and spends the remainder of her life deeply depressed, dying impoverished and insane. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Sybil
The multiple award-winning made-for-TV ... for a total of almost four hours, but most home video versions have been edited down to two hours. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Deadly Hero
Don Murray plays Lacy, ... him of being a cold-blooded killer. Now Lacy has to figure out a way out of this high-shootin' mess. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Sparkle
A trio of musically ... sisters rise to become major stars of the '50s. Unfortunately, their sudden popularity causes much turmoil in their lives. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Tracks
Henry Jaglom directed this ... named Stephanie (Taryn Power) befriends him, briefly giving him the courage to deal with the terrors of the war. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
A distraught youth is ... any by his association with a local perverted youth) the boy plans a vengeful rite for his mother's beau. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Raba Lyubvi
Nikita Mikhalkov examines the ... director Mikhalkov borrows a few pages from Pirandello. With Slave of Love he gained his first serious international attention. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Romeo and Juliet
Joan Kemp-Welch's version of ... live their lives together. Eventually, through a series of misunderstandings and lies, the pair plays out their tragic fate. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Le Coup De Grace
1976's Coup de Grace ... her, Margarethe's tragic flaw is her refusal to acknowledge the cost of the revolution in terms of human lives. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Une Femme Fidèle
In this modern retelling ... finally succumbs to him, she discovers his true nature, and her newly awakened joy in passion turns to dust. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Chinese Roulette
Angela is the crippled ... milieu, they begin playing a truth-telling game called "Chinese Roulette," which leads to even more distasteful revelations and recriminations.. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Helter Skelter
Based on the best-selling ... Christina Hart, and Cathey Paine portray the three loyal Manson Family members who were the co-defendants at his trial. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
The Stationmaster's Wife
This drama is set ... Bavaria prior to Hitler's rise to power and chronicles the many affairs of a stationmaster's bored wife. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
The Marquise of O
The costume drama Die ... Sander) why she's pregnant. Die Marquise von O won the Grand Jury Prize in the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
J.D.'s Revenge
This stylish and very ... The Artist Formerly Known As Prince -- who also supplies the vocal for " Will Never Let You Go". [ best drama films - 1976 ]
The Scar
The postwar history of ... a succession of directors of a large industrial plant. The movie is based on a popular television mini-series, Managers. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Small Change
L'Argent de Poche (Small ... screen time to share their wisdom. The conclusion consists of a monologue from the schoolteacher, played by Jean-François Stévenin. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Across the Great Divide
Set in 1876, this ... by a shifty but good-hearted gambler. Along the way, the travelers see cuddly bears, beautiful horses and frolicsome deer. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Black Shampoo
Greydon Clark has mined ... the mentality at work. The director returned to racial themes in 1989 with Skinheads: The Second Coming of Hate. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Gambling City
A sly card sharp ... to make it in the Mafia world of gambling. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
East End Hustle
The action film East ... other to revolt against their sinister pimps. Their bid for freedom turns much more dangerous than they ever imagined. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
El Apando
A prison drama full ... juvenile-delinquent blood and violence. Spanish. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Heart of Glass
Heart of Glass (Herz ... gone beyond haunted and into "possessed." Watch carefully and spot director Herzog in a bit as a glass carrier. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
The Child
This odd little period ... really worth the wait. Released briefly to theaters as The Child or The Zombie Child, then re-titled for video. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
The Killer Elephants
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La Ultima Cena
As indicated by the ... even at the end does the hypocrisy of religiosity combined with forced servitude become obvious to the well-meaning Allegra. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Sebastiane
Filmed entirely in vulgar ... it is an early film by the noted experimental and outspokenly homosexual director Derek Jarman, who died in 1994. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Mister Scarface
This Italian feature is ... an ambitious criminal who attempts upward mobility in the criminal world. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Edvard Munch
The troubled life and ... tone. The film was produced for Norwegian television, but a shortened version was later prepared for international theatrical release. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Abigail Leslie is Back in Town
Abigail Leslie is Back ... the title was Abagail Leslie is Back in Town, indicating that someone in the publicity department needed a spell-checker. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
The Dark Side of Innocence
This pilot film for ... didn't fly as a series, which means that some of the crises presented in the pilot are never resolved. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Fear of Fear
A housewife's slow descent ... suicidal depression is chronicled in great detail in this movie by experimental film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Canoa
This 1976 Mexican feature ... a paranoid and fanatical priest, they are labelled as communists and desecrators and are lynched by the bespelled townspeople. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Leper
This classical romantic melodrama, ... town in which they both live is scandalized, and will not permit the two of them to remain together. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
L'Ultima Orgia del III Reich
One of dozens of ... of love, meets his just desserts. Fulvio Ricciardi (Delitto Carnale) co-stars with Marc Loud, Maristella Greco, and Caterina Barbero. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Directed by Stacy Keach, ... Julie Adams, Beverly Todd, and James Keach, the program was released as part of Kultur's Broadway Theatre Archive series. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
The Patriots
The major internal conflict ... deep, the fundamental clash in their belief systems would strike deep-rooted discord as a fledgling nation continued to grow. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Supervivientes de los Andes
A plane crash in ... a group of people so desperate to survive that they look to the bodies of the dead for sustenance. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Charlie's Angels: Season 01
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Starsky & Hutch: Season 02
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Young Dr. Freud
The analyst becomes the ... between the Parisian and Viennese schools of psychiatry, the origins of Freud's Studies in Hysteria slowly come into focus. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Little House on the Prairie: Season 03
Victor French and Bonnie ... in which Charles and his family try to compensate for the loss of their crops by prospecting for gold. [ best drama films - 1976 ]
Aap Beati
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El Rey de Los Gorillas
A small boy abandoned ... like the rest of his primate family in this touching meditation on the bond shared between man and beast. [ best drama films - 1976 ]Supplemental Navigation
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