MY TOP 60 Movies and Documentaries for 1976 (in list order)
Schrader joins the team of Scrosese, De Niro & Kietel; the coming of age in the Australian film industry, and Stallone gives birth to Rocky, plus a whole lotta Seventies style of groovy and hip movies from politics to comedy and everything in between... In List Order.
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- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroJodie FosterCybill ShepherdA mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.A pure modern cinema classic...
- DirectorFred SchepisiStarsCharles McCallumJohn FrawleyArthur DignamFred Schepisi's first feature is this lushly photographed period drama detailing a young boy's coming-of-age in a strict Catholic seminary in 1950s Australia.For those who have been through it...
- DirectorHal AshbyStarsDavid CarradineRonny CoxMelinda DillonThe early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.Ashby and Wexler do it for the people...
- DirectorBernardo BertolucciStarsRobert De NiroGérard DepardieuDominique SandaThe epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.Only Bertolucci could get De Niro and Gerard together in a political epic...
- DirectorJohn G. AvildsenStarsSylvester StalloneTalia ShireBurt YoungA small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.A quasi neo-fantasy-realism good feel cheering film...
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsRoman PolanskiIsabelle AdjaniMelvyn DouglasA bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.Polanski at his best when dealing with mental issues...
- DirectorMartin RittStarsWoody AllenZero MostelHerschel BernardiIn 1953, a cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.Politics in Hollywood with Woody perfectly cast...
- DirectorBarbara KoppleStarsJohn L. LewisCarl HornNorman YarboroughA heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.Brilliant observational documentary on the struggle of the coal mine worker, which I'm sure in this day and age is seen as a lefty film...
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsTatsuya FujiEiko MatsudaAoi NakajimaA passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.It does smash your senses...
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsGiancarlo GianniniLaura AntonelliRina MorelliTullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful, he becomes enamored of her again.Love in all its ugliness...
- DirectorWim WendersStarsRüdiger VoglerHanns ZischlerLisa KreuzerA traveling projection-equipment mechanic works in Western Germany along the East-German border, visiting worn-out theatres. He meets with a depressed young man whose marriage has just broken up, and the two decide to travel together.Last of the "Wenders' Road Movie Trilogy" where he finally found his style and tone...
- DirectorBruno BozzettoStarsMaurizio NichettiMaurizio MicheliMarialuisa GiovanniniAn enthusiastic filmmaker thinks he's come up with a totally original idea: animation set to classical music! When he is informed that some American named "Prisney" (or something) has already done it, he decides to do his own version, using an orchestra comprising mostly old ladies and an animator he's kept locked in a dungeon. Several different classical pieces are animated, while the animator plots his escape.Sheer delight...
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsPaul NewmanJoel GreyKevin McCarthyA cynical Buffalo Bill hires Sitting Bull to exploit him and add his credibility to the distorted view of history presented in his Wild West Show.Altman can do no wrong with Newman up front...
- DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsDustin HoffmanLaurence OlivierRoy ScheiderAfter the shocking murder of his older brother, a New York history student finds himself inexplicably hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds.IS IT SAFE...
- DirectorAlan J. PakulaStarsDustin HoffmanRobert RedfordJack Warden"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.Pakula knows how to do politics and the likes...
- DirectorBertrand TavernierStarsPhilippe NoiretMichel GalabruIsabelle HuppertAn unstable former French Sergeant commits many atrocities. A judge considers how this case could benefit or damage his career.Tavernier always stimulates the audience's mind...
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsFranciszek PieczkaMariusz DmochowskiJerzy StuhrWhen a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist party man has to confront the local community opposing the construction.Very interesting early Kieslowski piece...
- DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsAustin StokerDarwin JostonLaurie ZimmerA Highway Patrol Officer, two criminals and a station secretary defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct office against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.Carpenter's homage to the Western...
- DirectorMel BrooksStarsMel BrooksMarty FeldmanDom DeLuiseA film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years.Mel at his prime...
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsFaye DunawayWilliam HoldenPeter FinchA television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control.Still going on till this day...
- DirectorHerbert RossStarsAlan ArkinVanessa RedgraveRobert DuvallTo treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud.Interesting concept...
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodSondra LockeChief Dan GeorgeMissouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.Eastwood begins to find his style...
- DirectorRichard LesterStarsSean ConneryAudrey HepburnRobert ShawRobin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.What a lovely film...
- DirectorRobert MooreStarsPeter FalkAlec GuinnessPeter SellersFive famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.Silly but absolute fun...
- DirectorBurt KennedyStarsStacy KeachSusan TyrrellTisha SterlingHaunted by visions from his abusive childhood, Montana deputy sheriff Lou Ford gradually exhibits the signs of a homicidal schizophrenic.Kennedy does a good job in the director's chair, and Keach gives it that extra kick...
- DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsRyan O'NealBurt ReynoldsTatum O'NealBuck and lawyer Leo accidentally get into movie production in the early days (1910).For those who love filmmaking...
- DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsJohn HargreavesPat BishopGraham KennedyOn the night of the 1969 Australian election, Don holds a party in his suburban Sydney house, where his raucous, rude, embarrassing, extrovert friends discuss sex, politics, and their lives, and seduce each others wives.Party politics Aussie style...
- DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsPeter SellersHerbert LomLesley-Anne DownAfter escaping from an insane asylum, the bonkers Charles Dreyfus sends 26 assassins on the trail of the forever bumbling Inspector Clouseau.Always loved the pink...
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsCharles BronsonJacqueline BissetJohn HousemanA crime novelist is hired by a shady character to negotiate the return of stolen confidential documents.One of Bronson's best...
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsLiv UllmannErland JosephsonAino TaubeTwo psychiatrists have their marriage tested when one suffers a mental breakdown.Bergman doing what he does best...
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsKaren BlackBruce DernBarbara HarrisA phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/actor boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.Hitchcock still had it right up to the last one...
- DirectorPaul MazurskyStarsLenny BakerShelley WintersEllen GreeneThe ups and downs of life as experienced by a group of aspiring young artists in the early Fifties New York.Mazursky gets it right with this...
- DirectorArthur PennStarsMarlon BrandoJack NicholsonRandy QuaidTom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.Strange one that seems to work...
- DirectorElia KazanStarsRobert De NiroTony CurtisRobert MitchumF. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.A busy year for De Niro...
- DirectorHenri SafranIan GoddardStarsGreg RowePeter CumminsDavid GulpililMike is a lonely Australian boy living in a coastal wilderness with his reclusive father. In search of friendship he encounters an Aboriginal native loner and the two form a bond in the care of orphaned pelicans.Beautiful photography from the legend, Geoff Burton, and the relationship between boy and pelican is heartwarming...
- DirectorBruno BarretoStarsSonia BragaJosé WilkerMauro MendonçaIn a small city of Brazil, a woman named Flor marries a man named Vadinho, but once married she finds that he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking and he takes all of her money to gamble. After Vadinho dies, Flor marries Tedoror, the owner of a drugstore. Flor is happy with her new husband but misses the love life with her previous husband. When one day the ghost of Vadhino comes back to pursue her.A movie of three parts, with the 1/3 too long, 2/3 not too interesting, and the third partbeing the best bit, and too short...
- DirectorJoan Micklin SilverStarsShelley DuvallVeronica CartwrightBud CortBernice, a shy young woman, leaves her safe home to go visit her flapper cousin. When her cousin tries to teach Bernice how to be much more modern, Bernice gives her much more than she bargained for.FSF's cheeky tale handled well with a director and cast who knew how to play it...
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsCliff RobertsonGeneviève BujoldJohn LithgowA wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his wife.De Palma does good Hitchcock...
- DirectorArthur HillerStarsGene WilderRichard PryorJill ClayburghOn a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.Fun with these guys...
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsDonald SutherlandTina AumontCicely BrowneGiacomo Casanova uses his sexuality to find his place in life amid eccentric and strange characters.An interesting Casanova...
- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsGregory PeckLee RemickHarvey StephensMysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?Almost pulled it off...
- DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsSissy SpacekPiper LaurieAmy IrvingCarrie 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.An A-Class horror film...
- DirectorFrank D. GilroyStarsCharles BronsonJill IrelandDouglas FowleyAfter spending 3 unforgettable hours with an outlaw, a beautiful young widow turns her story into a worldwide famous book.Bronson and Ireland are so terribly cute in this one...
- DirectorMichael RitchieStarsWalter MatthauTatum O'NealVic MorrowAn aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.Very enjoyable...
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsBill CosbyRaquel WelchHarvey KeitelCompetition between privately owned Los Angeles, California ambulance companies is played for humor.Pretty funny little film...
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsMichael CaineDonald SutherlandRobert DuvallA German plot to kidnap Sir Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II.Sturges still at it with a top notch cast...
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsJohn WayneLauren BacallRon HowardA dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.Wayne plays out his death...
- DirectorNicolas RoegStarsDavid BowieRip TornCandy ClarkAn alien must pose as a human to save his dying planet, but a woman and greed of other men create complications.Roeg and Bowie make the perfect strange couple...
- DirectorCharles BailStarsMichael SarrazinTim McIntireRaul JuliaAn eclectic group of people takes part in a secret, and illegal, cross country road race.Silly cheap fun...
- DirectorLewis John CarlinoStarsSarah MilesKris KristoffersonJonathan KahnAfter his father dies, a disturbed young boy plots to take revenge on the new man in his mother's life.More of a curious pieces with an interesting take on a Yukio Mishima story...
- DirectorJack SmightStarsCharlton HestonHenry FondaJames CoburnA dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.A good ol' fashion cast...
- DirectorDon TaylorStarsLee MarvinOliver ReedRobert CulpThree prospectors confront their ex-partner who, 15 years earlier, ran off with all the gold from their mine and they also plan to kidnap his wife.Marvin at his drunkest best...
- DirectorPhilippe MoraStarsDennis HopperJack ThompsonDavid GulpililThe true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.Hopper tripping in the Aussie outback...
- DirectorJames FargoStarsClint EastwoodTyne DalyHarry GuardinoInspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan reluctantly teams up with rookie Inspector Kate Moore to foil a terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans.Getting dirtier with each film...
- DirectorRandal KleiserStarsJohn TravoltaGlynnis O'ConnorRobert ReedThe girl next door makes a teen born with immune deficiencies want to leave his germ-free bubble.Travolta was so cute...
- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsJodie FosterScott BaioFlorence GarlandThe classic gangster story of Bugsy Malone told with an all-child cast.Kiddy gangster fun...
- DirectorFrank PiersonStarsBarbra StreisandKris KristoffersonGary BuseyA has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.One for the Streisand fans, and worth a look at Kris...
- DirectorJames FrawleyStarsJoseph BolognaStockard ChanningJohn BeckA nuclear powered bus driving cross-country, from New York City to Colorado, is destined for disaster due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby.One of the very first disaster spoof films that almost came off...
- DirectorAmos PoeStarsDuncan HannahEric MitchellKitty SondernPhotographer Rico fantasizes himself a 1960s Paris gangster. An outsider using his camera like a gun, he searches for reality to fulfill his dreams until falling in love disrupts the delicate balance of his imagined world.Film art by Amos Poe who pays tribute to the French New Wave but in the American way of trash…
- DirectorMark HaggardBruce KimmelStarsStephen NathanCindy WilliamsBruce KimmelThe son of famous studio owner is forced to make porno films to keep the bankrupt studio from being made into a shopping center. In an attempt to get back on the high ground he makes a nudie musical. He makes a bet with the debtors who wish to take ownership of the studio, that if they finance the musical and he can't complete it within two weeks, they can foreclose.Gimmick film within a gimmick film with a few funny moments within the silliness…