Best Crime movies of 1976

Actors : Joseph Bottoms, Bernhard Wicki, Omar Sharif, Karen Black,
Directors : Ivan Passer,

Financier persuades his mistress to marry a rich industrialist for his money, then discovers that he and the new wife are to be murdered by her new husband.

Actors : Brigitte Fossey, Jacques Dutronc, Bruno Cremer, Marlène Jobert,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

Actors : Pilar Pellicer, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Salvador Sánchez, Diana Bracho,
Directors : Felipe Cazals,

Based in the true case of the sisters who ran brothels in which kidnapping, killings and clandestine burial were common.

Actors : Norman Burton, Cesare Danova, William Smith, Connie Stevens,
Directors : Howard Avedis,

Seattle undercover narc Jackie Parker (Stevens) is out to bust the drug smuggling ring commanded by Philip Bianco (Danova).

Actors : Silvia Dionisio, Elio Zamuto, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Claudio Cassinelli,
Directors : Mario Caiano,

A gang pulls a robbery, which goes seriously awry. In their eagerness to escape they start shooting and it turns into a bloodbath, after which they take hostages in their escape attempt. ...

Actors : Yi Chang, Shao Chun Chao, Bruce Li, Kang Chin,
Directors : Tso Nam Lee,

This martial arts movie tries to explain the strange death of the international movie star and kung fu master Bruce Lee. Most of the story centers on a former disciple of Lee who launches a...

Actors : Akiko Koyama, Shin'ichi Chiba, Akane Kawasaki, Isao Natsuyagi,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

A karate fighter and a samurai join opposing gangs to take them down from the inside.

Actors : Eddie Albert, Lonny Chapman, Stephen McHattie, Kay Lenz,
Directors : Charles S. Dubin,

A young drifter (Stephen McHattie) and his newly acquired girlfriend (Kay Lenz) witness a corrupt local Sheriff kill his deputy, soon becoming the prime suspects they set off across country to evade capture.

Actors : Bo Svenson, John Colicos, Robert Culp, Belinda Montgomery,
Directors : Bob Clark,

The Mafia tries to take revenge against a man who testified against them in court.

Actors : Barbara Eden, Fred Astaire, James Franciscus, Jack Carter,
Directors : Byron Chudnow,

An ex-con man and his five trained Dobermans help a Treasury Dept. agent stop a racketeer and his gang.

Actors : Bo Svenson, Phillip R. Allen, Cybill Shepherd, Mel Scott,
Directors : Paul Wendkos,

A gang of thieves plan a daring bank robbery, making their escape across the rooftops of Los Angeles. The police are quickly called in, however, and only one of the robbers, Murdock, makes ...

Actors : Rockne Tarkington, Richard X. Slattery, Mike Lane, Glenn R. Wilder,
Directors : Joe Tornatore,

A group of Vietnam vets, tired of the depredation of the Mafia on their neighborhood, decide to take on the mob on their own terms--but by using a very different twist.

Actors : John Saxon, Mirella D'Angelo, Maurizio Merli, Raymond Pellegrin,
Directors : Marino Girolami,

Actors : Hiroshi Chô, Renji Ishibashi, Kyôichi Mizuki, Junko Miyashita,
Directors : Noboru Tanaka,

The landlord of a boarding house in 1923 Tokyo, is keen on spying on the bizarre close encounters taking place beneath his roof. One day he sees a prostitute killing a customer, and decides he's found his soulmate.

Actors : Luciana Paluzzi, Luc Merenda, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lee J. Cobb,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

Nick Hezard, a young con man, wants to avenge the death of a friend of his and organizes a swindle trying to cheat Robert Turner, an American businessman he thinks responsible for his ...

Actors : William Smith, Jennifer Billingsley, Ray Girardin, Jude Farese,
Directors : Jack Starrett,

Hollywood action film star Rafe Stoker has sunk $130,000 of his own money into his own production, but can't find legitimate financing to complete the film. His mob-connected investor ...

Actors : Rena Niehaus, Flavio Bucci, Michele Placido, Bruno Corazzari,
Directors : Eriprando Visconti,

A teenage girl is kidnapped by 3 guys and taken to an abandoned house in the country, and make her write her own ransom letter. She soon discovers that one of her captors is infatuated with...

Actors : Jack Canon, Gladys Lavitan, Larry Lambeth, Leslie Rivers,
Directors : Frederick R. Friedel,

A woman living in a boarding house is kidnapped by a small-time criminal. Soon others in the gang try to take her away from him so they can get the ransom.

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Reena Roy, Ashok Kumar, Shoma Anand,
Directors : Pramod Chakravorty,

Young Anup Saxena lives a middle-classed lifestyle in Bombay along with his widower dad, Durgaprasad, who works as a Police Inspector. Anup's life is turned upside down when he witnesses ...

Actors : Virginia Gregg, Charles Woolf, Fred Williamson, Tracy Reed,
Directors : Fred Williamson,

Crowder is a man who will do anything, if the price is right. He is a private detective with a past in the police force. A woman comes to his office one day and asks if he will find her ...