Best Drama movies of 1976

Actors : Tetsuya Watari, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuo Umemiya, Hideo Murota,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

When a cop is transferred to a new precinct it is obvious that the area's yakuza mob are not dealing with just another policeman. The cop is bent on results and is not immune to becoming ...

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Sally Kellerman,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

The lives and romantic entanglements of a group of young adults who have achieved "overnight" success in Los Angeles.

Actors : Ivan Rassimov, Ely Galleani, Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

Emmanuelle is sent to Bangkok on a journalism assignment. While there, she embarks on her own exploration of the secrets of sensual pleasure. While learning much, she also reveals several secrets of her own.

Actors : Debra Berger, Myriam Boyer, Mathieu Carrière, Christine Boisson,
Directors : Denis Héroux,

A Vietnam vet terrorizes a house full of nurses.

Actors : Kadir Inanir, Elif Pektas, Savas Basar, Türkan Soray,
Directors : Osman F. Seden,

Reunion of two former lovers brings the end to the society they are part of through hate through revenge and through bloodshed, especially when the lovers were obliged to stand against their associates and families.

Actors : David Gulpilil, Peter Cummins, Greg Rowe, Judy Dick,
Directors : Henri Safran,

Storm Boy is a rambunctious Australian youth, living along the coastline with his freewheeling father. At the behest of an aging aborigine, Storm Boy takes care of an uncared-for nest of pelicans.

Actors : Gigi Proietti, Fabio Testi, Dominique Sanda, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Mauro Bolognini,

Quinn plays a retired bakery tycoon, alienated from his two sons and jealously guarding his vast wealth... until a cunning young beauty (Sanda) enters the picture, marries one son, seduces ...

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : André Téchiné,

The story of a girl in love with a boxer. They plan to go abroad after making a lot of money by participating in an interview intended to discredit a politician at elections time. But the ...

Actors : Sacha Bulthuis, Adendu Soesilaningrat, Maruli Sitompul, Peter Faber,
Directors : Fons Rademakers,

An idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the 19th century is cohvinced that he can make the kinds of changes that will actually help the local people he is in charge of, ...

Actors : Lisa Copeland, Cliff Emmich, Tommy Lee Jones, Yvette Mimieux,
Directors : Michael Miller,

This is a powerful drama about a young woman who stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.

Actors : Ni Tien, Lieh Lo, Lung Ti, Li Ching,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

Don't miss this one it is excellent. Chinese sword masters pair up to fight off yet another villain for the deadly PeacockDart. The ending is eye popping don't miss this one. Shaw Brothers come thru yet again

Actors : Jack Elam, Dub Taylor, Dennis Fimple, John David Carson,
Directors : Joy N. Houck Jr.,

Two men exploring the Louisiana swamps encounter a Bigfoot-type creature.

Actors : Bobby Alto, Joe Cortese, Lou Criscuolo, Joe Pesci,
Directors : Ralph De Vito,

Neighborhood kid goes to work for the Mafia as a debt collector.

Actors : John Fraser, John Leyton, Stephanie Beacham, Lynne Frederick,
Directors : Pete Walker,

A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable, begins to suspect that someone close to her is the culprit in a sudden string of murders.

Actors : Pavle Vuisic, Miodrag Radovanovic, Slavko Stimac, Renata Ulmanski,
Directors : Branko Bauer,

War arrives to a small secluded village in Vojvodina. The Germans take a group of hostages through the village and on their way molest a small boy. As revenge the boy sets the German corn ...

Actors : Ken Norton, Isela Vega, Pam Grier, Warren Oates,

A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.

Actors : Ciccio Ingrassia, Marcello Mastroianni, Mariangela Melato, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Elio Petri,

Party leader and power broker Aldo Moro, holed up with his cronies and rivals at a monastic retreat where they plot their political fortunes while being led by a Jesuit cleric in spiritual cleansings.

Actors : Lung Wei Wang, Yue Wong, Chia-Hui Liu, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A prince enlists a thief to serve as his bodyguard to protect him from assassins.

Actors : Natsuko Yashiro, Tamaki Katsura, Yôko Azusa, Yuri Yamashina,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

Two restaurant employees begin a torturous and sexual killing spree after they accidentally kill a hitch hiker and find that murder and mutilation is their mutual aphrodisiac.

Actors : Jill Clayburgh, Red Buttons, James Brolin, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

A biography about the love affair between 1930s Hollywood superstars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.