Best Thriller movies of 1976

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 : 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 : Clint Eastwood, Tyne Daly, Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman,
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, Karen Black, William Devane,
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 : 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 : Seymour Cassel, Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey, Robert Phillips,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

A proud strip club owner is forced to come to terms with himself as a man, when his gambling addiction gets him in hot water with the mob, who offer him only one alternative.

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Isabelle Adjani, Roman Polanski,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

Actors : Alexis Smith, Mort Shuman, Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Nicolas Gessner,

13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives alone in a high-class Quebec small town, but unknown to the neighbors, she is leading a secret and dangerous life.

Actors : Burgess Meredith, Eileen Heckart, Karen Black, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Dan Curtis,

A family moves into an old, haunted house that regenerates itself by feeding off of the life forces of its injured occupants.

Actors : Yul Brynner, Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, Arthur Hill,
Directors : Richard T. Heffron,

Upon uncovering the dirty secret of futuristic theme-park Futureworld, an ex employee is killed after he tips-off 2 other reporters who decide to do an undercover investigation.

Actors : Jenny Agutter, Robert Duvall, Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : John Sturges,

A German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II.

Actors : Neville Brand, Mel Ferrer, Carolyn Jones, Marilyn Burns,
Directors : Tobe Hooper,

A psychotic redneck who owns a dilapidated hotel in rural East Texas kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds their bodies to a large crocodile that he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel.

Actors : Richard Harris, O.J. Simpson, Sophia Loren, Martin Sheen,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease. Nobody will let them off the train. So what happens next?

Actors : Sylvia Kuumba Williams, John Lithgow, Geneviève Bujold, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his wife.

Actors : Martin Balsam, John Cassavetes, Charlton Heston, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly (Charlton Heston) and SWAT ...

Actors : Mildred Clinton, Paula E. Sheppard, Niles McMaster, Linda Miller,
Directors : Alfred Sole,

After a young girl is brutally murdered during her first communion, her strange and withdrawn older sister becomes the main suspect. But are the authorities mistaken?

Actors : Gianni Cavina, Francesca Marciano, Giulio Pizzirani, Lino Capolicchio,
Directors : Pupi Avati,

Stefano, a young restorer, is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village.

Actors : Chris Sarandon, Anne Bancroft, Perry King, Margaux Hemingway,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

A top fashion model seeks justice after she is brutally raped by her teenaged sister's music teacher.

Actors : Christopher George, Joan McCall, Andrew Prine, Richard Jaeckel,
Directors : William Girdler,

An eighteen-foot-tall grizzly bear terrorizes a state park, leaving it up to a Park Ranger to save the day.

Actors : Brigitte Mira, Ulli Lommel, Margit Carstensen, Anna Karina,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

Both the parents of a young teen who walks with crutches, goes on each their secret meeting with lovers, both surprising each other at the family's county home. The daughter arrives and initiates a guessing game of "Chinese roulette".