Drama Movies of 1976
The Last Tycoon
Elia Kazan directed this curiously constipated film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished final novel, about Monroe Starr, a brilliant and efficient studio executive (based upon Fitzgerald's experiences with MGM wunderkind Irving ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
All the President's Men
Conspiracy film specialist Alan J. Pakula turned journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling account of their Watergate investigation into ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Taxi Driver
"All the animals come out at night" -- and one of them is a cabby about ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
1900
Bernardo Bertolucci's 255-minute 1900 was a gargantuan ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
No Substitute for Victory
The Communist threat and its zenith in Vietnam is the focus of this video ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
A Star Is Born
The third remake of the 1932 drama What Price Hollywood?, this adaptation of A Star Is Born moved the story into the mid-1970's and changed the milieu from the movie business to pop music. John Norman Howard (Kris Kristofferson) is a rock ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Barocco
Former film critic André Téchiné directed and co-wrote this ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Mr. Klein
Alain Delon plays Mr. Klein, a French-Catholic art dealer who works as a school principal during the Nazi occupation. Strapped for cash, Klein takes financial advantage of his Jewish neighbors, knowing that they have no legal ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
The Virginia Hill Story
Long before the Warren Beatty/Annette Bening vehicle Bugsy (92), Harvey Keitel portrayed ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Eccentricities of a Nightgale
Blythe Danner and Frank Langella star in this made-for-television adaptation of Tennessee Williams' drama. Alma Winemiller ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
21 Hours at Munich
21 Hours at Munich is a grim reenactment of the darkest days of the 1972 Munich Olympics. A gang of eight Arab terrorists storm the Israeli dormitory, killing two and ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Rocky
Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), a Philadelphia boxer, is but one step removed from total bum-hood. A once-promising pugilist, Rocky is now taking nickel-and-dime bouts and running strongarm errands for local loan ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
The River Niger
River Niger is a Tony Award-winning play turned to a movie. It features James Earl Jones as a house-painter/poet who struggles to support his cancer-plagued wife (Cicely Tyson). This is a ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
Welcome Back Kotter star John Travolta headlines the made-for-TV Boy in the Plastic Bubble. Douglas Day Stewart's fact-based teleplay casts Travolta as Tod Lubitsch, a teenager who was born without disease ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Le Désert des Tartares
With fear and trepidation, the military division encamped in a desert fort await the return of a Tartar army--which attacked the fort years ago. One young soldier (Jacques Perrin), however, can't wait for the boredom to end ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Mikey and Nicky
Nickey (John Cassavetes) is a small-time Jewish ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Gable and Lombard
The love affair between two of Hollywood's greatest stars of the 1930s and '40s is recounted in this biopic. Clark Gable (James Brolin), the tough but quick-witted leading man often called "the King ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Eleanor and Franklin: The Early Years
The winner of 11 Emmy awards, the made-for-TV Eleanor and Franklin stars Edward Herrmann as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Jane Alexander as Eleanor Roosevelt. The film traces the first four decades ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
James Michener's Dynasty
James Michener's Dynasty is aptly named. This TV movie is indeed based on a novel by Michener, which does indeed cover thirty five years (1820-1855) in the lives of a land-rich family. Harris ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
King Lear
Patrick Magee plays the aging and confused monarch in this made-for-television adaptation of one of Shakespeare's most resonant ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Bound for Glory
Adapted by Robert Getchell from Woody Guthrie's autobiography, Hal ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
The Rockford Files: Season 03
James Garner won an Emmy for his continuing performance as disheveled, cynically humorous ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
The Last of Mrs. Lincoln
Julie Harris stars as Mary Todd Lincoln in this look at the twilight of the former First Lady's life. After her husband's assassination, she finds herself heavily in debt and denied a pension due to her Southern ancestry, and spends the ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Sybil
The multiple award-winning made-for-TV movie Sybil was based on the book by Flora Rheta Schreiber. ... [ Drama 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 ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Sparkle
A trio of musically talented Harlem sisters rise to become major stars of the '50s. Unfortunately, their sudden popularity causes much turmoil in their lives. ~ Sandra ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Tracks
Henry Jaglom directed this moody meditation on the Vietnam War and one of its disturbed veterans. Dennis Hopper stars a sergeant who travels across the United States with the ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
A distraught youth is troubled by his mother's new relationship with her ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Raba Lyubvi
Nikita Mikhalkov examines the plight of the filmmaker operating in an uncertain political climate in his irony-laden seriocomedy Slave of Love. The time is 1918, at the height of the Bolshevik revolution. A small group of ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Romeo and Juliet
Joan Kemp-Welch's version of Shakespeare's classic Romeo and Juliet follows the original storyline faithfully. The star crossed lovers meet at a ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Le Coup De Grace
1976's Coup de Grace (released in Germany as Der Fangschluss) was inspired by a Marguerite Yourcenar novel and ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Une Femme Fidèle
In this modern retelling of the classic Dangerous Liaisons, a virtuous young woman becomes the target of the schemes of an amoral womanizer who is in the habit ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Chinese Roulette
Angela is the crippled daughter of two separated but still-feuding ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Helter Skelter
Based on the best-selling Vincent Bugliosi book of the same name, Helter Skelter is a made-for-TV account of the ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
The Stationmaster's Wife
This drama is set in Bavaria prior to Hitler's rise to power and chronicles the many affairs ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
The Marquise of O
The costume drama Die Marquise von O is French director Eric Rohmer's first feature-length theatrical release after a four-year break from ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Man of Marble
The first of Polish director Andrzej Wajda's two "Solidarity" films, Man of Marble (originally ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
J.D.'s Revenge
This stylish and very entertaining blend of the horror and "Blaxploitation" genres takes some creative risks on a seriously limited budget but manages to deliver the gory goods. The story begins in New ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
The Scar
The postwar history of Poland is seen through the experiences of a succession of directors of a large industrial plant. The movie is ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Small Change
L'Argent de Poche (Small Change) is an episodic comedy drama composed of several sequences that explore childhood in director François Truffaut's signature humanistic style. Filmed in Thiers in South Central France, each ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Across the Great Divide
Set in 1876, this family-oriented wilderness ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Black Shampoo
Greydon Clark has mined almost every exploitation genre from horror (Satan's ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Gambling City
A sly card sharp tries to make it in the Mafia world of gambling. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
East End Hustle
The action film East End Hustle concerns a group of prostitutes who rely on each other to revolt against their sinister pimps. Their bid for freedom ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
El Apando
A prison drama full of juvenile-delinquent blood and violence. ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Heart of Glass
Heart of Glass (Herz aus Glas) is essentially a treatise by Werner Herzog on the ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
The Child
This odd little period zombie film plays like a hybrid of Night of the Living Dead and The Bad Seed. The story centers on a seemingly-innocent tyke (Rosalie Cole), living in the rural Northwest in the 1930s, who discovers her ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
The Killer Elephants
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La Ultima Cena
As indicated by the title, the Cuban The Last Supper (La Ultima Cena) has pronounced ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Sebastiane
Filmed entirely in vulgar Latin, this experimental film recounts the life of Sebastiane, a puritanical but beautiful Christian soldier in the Roman Imperial troops who is martyred when he refuses the homosexual advances of his pagan captain. ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Mister Scarface
This Italian feature is about an ambitious criminal who attempts upward ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Edvard Munch
The troubled life and career of one of Norway's most celebrated artists is examined with documentary-style realism in this biography from celebrated filmmaker Peter Watkins. Edvard Munch (Geir Westby) was born in 1863 into ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Abigail Leslie is Back in Town
Abigail Leslie is Back in Town was the brainchild of prolific (200-plus titles!) ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
The Dark Side of Innocence
This pilot film for a TV series titled Hancock was ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Fear of Fear
A housewife's slow descent into suicidal depression is chronicled in great detail in this movie by experimental film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Canoa
This 1976 Mexican feature is based on a reportedly real incident which took place in 1968. When a group of hikers happen upon a village governed by a paranoid and fanatical priest, ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Leper
This classical romantic melodrama, based on the novel by Helena Miniszkowna, is retold without any hint of irreverence, even though it had been a favorite ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
L'Ultima Orgia del III Reich
One of dozens of Nazi-themed Italian sex/horror films released in the wake of Il Portiere di Notte, this creepy revenge story from Cesare Canevari is among the best ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Directed by Stacy Keach, this 1976 made-for-television movie ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
The Patriots
The major internal conflict that highlighted the early days of the Republic is showcased in a filmed version of a play detailing the ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Supervivientes de los Andes
A plane crash in the snowy Andes mountains leaves the passengers and crew stranded without food for who knows how long. What follows is the ... [ Drama movie - 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 analyzed as filmmaker Alex Carti and ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Little House on the Prairie: Season 03
Victor French and Bonnie Bartlett, heretofore guest stars in the roles of Isaiah and Grace Edwards, graduate to regular status as Little House on the Prairie enters its third season. The opening episode, ... [ Drama movie - 1976 ]
Aap Beati
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