Best movies of 1976

Actors : Albert Brooks, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, while attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.

Actors : William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall, Peter Finch,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.

Actors : Rip Torn, David Bowie, Buck Henry, Candy Clark,
Directors : Nicolas Roeg,

Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return ...

Actors : Bill McKinney, Sondra Locke, Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A Missouri farmer joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Amy Irving, Piper Laurie, John Travolta,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

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.

Actors : Darwin Joston, Martin West, Laurie Zimmer, Austin Stoker,
Directors : John Carpenter,

A police sergeant and an unlikely band of criminals defend a closing LA precinct office on New Years Eve against an army of gang members.

Actors : Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Sylvester Stallone,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer, gets a supremely rare chance to fight heavy-weight champion Apollo Creed in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.

Actors : Vic Morrow, Joyce Van Patten, Walter Matthau, Tatum O'Neal,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.

Actors : Gregory Peck, David Warner, Harvey Stephens, Lee Remick,
Directors : Richard Donner,

Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?

Actors : Martin Balsam, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.

Actors : Roy Scheider, Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, William Devane,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

A graduate history student is unwittingly caught in the middle of an international conspiracy involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent.

Actors : Jenny Agutter, Michael York, Roscoe Lee Browne, Richard Jordan,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at the age of 30.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Tyne Daly, Bradford Dillman, Harry Guardino,
Directors : James Fargo,

Dirty Harry must foil a terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans. But this time, he's teamed with a rookie female partner that he's not too excited to be working with.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane, Karen Black,
Directors : Alfred Hitchcock,

A phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.

Actors : John Astin, Patsy Kelly, Jodie Foster, Barbara Harris,
Directors : Gary Nelson,

A mother and daughter find their personalities switched and have to live each other's lives on one strange Friday.

Actors : Eileen Brennan, Alec Guinness, Peter Falk, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Robert Moore,

Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.

Actors : Peter Lühr, Bruno Ganz, Edith Clever, Edda Seippel,
Directors : Éric Rohmer,

A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.

Actors : Burt Kwouk, Lesley-Anne Down, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.

Actors : Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart, John Wayne,
Directors : Don Siegel,

A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.

Actors : Marty Feldman, Mel Brooks, Sid Caesar, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Mel Brooks,

A film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years.