Best Drama movies of 1976

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Humbert Balsan, Bernadette Lafont, Kika Markham,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

On an island beach a woman vows to avenge her brother's death at the hands of a pirate leader. With help, the woman spies on the pirates and then gets a job as bodyguard to the pirate leader.

Actors : Ling Chia, Jirô Yabuki, Aaron Banks, Etsuko Shiomi,

Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers ...

Actors : Roger Moore, Stacy Keach, Fausto Tozzi, Ivo Garrani,

A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The ...

Actors : Marjoe Gortner, Merrie Lynn Ross, Jesse Vint, Lynda Carter,
Directors : Mark L. Lester,

A young country-star wannabe takes off from her carhop career to join with a young, modern Billy the Kid wannabe for an adventure in theft, murder and mayhem.

Actors : Jorunn Kjellsby, Torgeir Schjerven, Lasse Tømte, Kjersti Døvigen,
Directors : Svend Wam,

The teenagers Lasse and Geir are arrested after making trouble on a night bus into town. After a night in the slammer they go home. To Geir's alcoholic mother and to Lasse's father, who is terrorizing the entire family.

Actors : Erna Schurer, John Steiner, Lina Polito, Sara Sperati,
Directors : Rino Di Silvestro,

Young women in Nazi-occupied countries are packed onto a train and shipped off to a prison camp, where the sadistic commandant uses them as rewards for his lesbian guards and perverted and deviate troops.

Actors : Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Anna Nagy, Sándor Horváth, Marianna Moór,

An orphan girl suffers abuse from her adopting parents.

Actors : Gino Franco, Peter Fonda, Harry Northup, Philip Carey,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

An Arkansas farmer stages a one-man war against corrupt land developers who want to evict him and his neighbors from their farms for real estate developments.

Actors : Masataka Iwao, Rena Uchimura, Akira Shioji, Yûsuke Kazato,
Directors : Yûji Makiguchi,

Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. 1. During a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with young Christian girl. When she and her family are ...

Actors : Yôko Shimada, Teruhiko Aoi, Mieko Takamine, Kôji Ishizaka,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

After the death of the Father , His family are gathered to share Inheritances , but suddenly a woman with a mysterious masked man arrive there , claiming to be the other wife of the man ...

Actors : Dan McCann, Jeff Roth, Ralph Richmond, A. Michael Baldwin,
Directors : Don Coscarelli,

Several days in the life of Kenny, a typical 12-year-old, and his friends. Kenny goes through all the activities that most of us went through as kids as he and his friends prepare for ...

Actors : Mira Banjac, Gordana Kosanovic, Irfan Mensur, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic,
Directors : Goran Paskaljevic,

This dramatic and yet comical story sorrounds a good-hearted young man who wants to get married to a girl he loves but can't get a good job, home of his own, and both of their parents ...

Actors : A.K. Hangal, Amol Palekar, Zarina Wahab, Vijayendra Ghatge,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

Meera, who lives in Bombay writes her parents about a prospective bridegroom for her youngest sister Gowri. Pitambar Chaudhry and his wife are overjoyed by the prospect of marrying Gowri ...

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, André Falcon, Mireille Audibert, Joe Dallesandro,
Directors : Walerian Borowczyk,

Sigismond (Joe Dallesandro) is a man lost in an erotic haze which clouds his judgment. Early in the film, it is evident that the man has a physically passionate relationship with his wife, ...

Actors : Zezé Motta, Altair Lima, Elke Maravilha, Walmor Chagas,
Directors : Carlos Diegues,

The romanced story of Xica da Silva, a slave that used her "feminine atributs" in order to get power.

Actors : Haskell V. Anderson III, Mike Thomas, Roy Jefferson, Le Tari,
Directors : Bill Berry,

A group of black Vietnam vets go up against the Ku Klux Klan.

Actors : Richard Harris, Lois Nettleton, Jodie Foster, Geraldine Fitzgerald,
Directors : Don Taylor,

A couple, whose daughter has a life-threatening heart condition, decides to make her last days of life as meaningful for her as possible by taking her to the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

Actors : Gayle Hunnicutt, Richard Widmark, Sam Wanamaker, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

While vacationing in Lebanon, a former secret agent finds he has been marked for assassination.

Actors : Jacques Dutronc, Ottavia Piccolo, Michel Piccoli, Charles Denner,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

Middle-aged businessman, Simon Léotard finds his future in jeopardy when his partner Julien commits suicide after having accumulated a mass of debts. Simon's unscrupulous business rival ...

Actors : Kuan Tai Chen, Yue Wong, Chia-Hui Liu, Lily Li,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

Teenager Wong Fei-hung is sent to train in the art of hung gar kung fu from his father's teacher, Luk Ah-choy. With training complete, Wong must fight an assassin and regain the honor of his school.