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Boca do Lixo Cinema (1976)
A look into the Boca do Lixo, a square in downtown São Paulo known as a point for filmmakers, actors, and technicians who worked on low-budget films.
Directed by: Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias
Breakfast (Table-Top Dolly) (1976)
A continuous zoom traverses the space of a breakfast table, serving as a grand metaphor for indigestion.
Directed by: Michael Snow
The Mad Canadian (1976)
A tense, tight close-up of stunt man Ken Carter's role on the stock-car racing track. Risking life and limb to rocket a car from a ramp over a parked line of cars takes more than the will to make a living. What else is involved is shown by the film as the camera looks and listens while the stunt man readies for his act and then makes his wild ride.
Directed by: Robert Fortier
Dojoji Temple (1976)
A man who is on a pilgrimage spends the night with a woman. After they share a moment of passion, he runs away and she chases him.
Directed by: Kihachiro Kawamoto
John Baker's Last Race (1976)
John Baker emerges as a fine runner while in High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and then continues setting records at the University of New Mexico. His ability is world-class, and after receiving his university degree he accepts a position as a coach and physical education teacher at Aspen Elementary School while continuing to train (with the 1972 Olympics in sight). He becomes very popular with ...
Labyrinth (1976)
Oscar nominated animated short film by Manfredo Manfredi
Directed by: Manfredo Manfredi
Bonga (1976)
Kundan Shah's FTII Diploma Film - A 23-minute dialogue-less short about a gang of bank robbers.
Directed by: Kundan Shah
Stars: Satish Shah | Shobhini Singh | Rakesh Bedi | Sudhir Pandey | Suresh Oberoi
Zindagi (1976)
An elderly couple retires without a penny and becomes dependent on their shockingly neglectful sons.
Directed by: Ravi Tandon
Stars: Moushumi Chatterjee | Vinod Mehra | Sanjeev Kumar | Mala Sinha | Anil Dhawan | Aruna Irani
От и до (1976)
Directed by: Yefim Berezin | Aleksei Mishurin |
Stars: Tatyana Sudets | Yefim Berezin | Yuri Timoshenko | Yuliya Pashkovskaya
Ladies and Hussars (1976)
The action takes place on the estate of a major, where his friends, inveterate bachelors, and the sisters of the major, who came to marry him with his niece, meet. But the niece has long loved Lieutenant Edmund, and then a plan matures to persuade the major to marry, at the last moment, replacing him with the lieutenant. To do this, the ladies have woven insidious intrigues. At the end of the play, the ...
Directed by: Anatoli Nitochkin
Stars: Larisa Pashkova | Yuriy Yakovlev | Alla Kazanskaya | Vladimir Osenev | Lyudmila Tselikovskaya | Yuri Volyntsev | Aleksei Kuznetsov
Travesties (1976)
The play centres on the figure of Henry Carr, an elderly man who reminisces about Zürich in 1917 during the First World War, and his interactions with James Joyce when he was writing Ulysses, Tristan Tzara during the rise of Dada, and Lenin leading up to the Russian Revolution, all of whom were living in Zürich at that time.
Break of Day (1976)
Tom Cooper, a married man recently returned from WWI, falls in love with an artist visiting his country town, but he has misgivings after meeting her city friends.
Directed by: Ken Hannam
Stars: Andrew McFarlane | Sara Kestelman | Ingrid Mason | John Bell | Kate Ferguson
Chulas Fronteras (1976)
A complex, insightful look at the Chicano experience as mirrored in the lives and music of the most acclaimed Norteño musicians of the Texas-Mexican border, including Flaco Jimenez and Lydia Mendoza. Video includes bonus feature, Del Mero Corazon.
Directed by: Les Blank
Stars: Lydia Mendoza | Flaco Jiménez
Low Society (1976)
A misguided youth falls into the bad company of an underground brothel syndicate but redeems himself on discovering that his mother was murdered by the syndicate's female boss.
Directed by: Kao Pao-Shu
Stars: Hsia-Hui Huang | Kim Jung-hoon | Feng Chen Chen | Cheung Kam | Chi-hua Liao | Sombat Metanee | Chia-Lin Sun
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1976)
TV-movie version of the Victor Hugo novel.
Directed by: Alan Cooke
Stars: Warren Clarke | Christopher Gable | Michelle Newell
Os Mansos (1976)
Directed by: Braz Chediak | Pedro Carlos Rovai | Aurélio Teixeira |
Stars: Mário Benvenutti | Sandra Bréa | José Lewgoy | Chantale Karine | Pichin Plá | Braz Chediak | Pedro Carlos Rovai
La Legge Violenta Della Squadra Anticrimine (1976)
A mobster kills a cop during a robbery and then finds himself pursued by the police, his gang, and the media.
Directed by: Stelvio Massi
Stars: John Saxon | Lee J. Cobb | Renzo Palmer | Lino Capolicchio | Rosanna Fratello | Thomas Hunter | Antonella Lualdi
The Last Round (1976)
Stelvio Massi's crime thriller centers on a drifter who sets out to help blue-collar workers rise up against the two powerful families who are exploiting them. After settling in an industrial town and witnessing the cruelty of the factory owners, ex-mercenary Marco (Carlos Monzón) assumes the role of union agitator. When a violent confrontation erupts, the labor leader is driven to bring ...
Directed by: Stelvio Massi
Stars: Luc Merenda | Carlos Monzon | Mariangela Giordano | Gianni Dei | Luisa Maneri | Leonora Fani
Agonia (1976)
Cropped hair, a rosemary branch behind the ear, yellow shirt of shiny satin, he's behind the wheel of his car when passing by a woman who walks by the roadside. Strongly painted lips, printed dress with round skirt and red shoes matching the color of the lipstick, she catches his attention. He gives her a ride, the two of them stare in silence for a few moments. They introduce themselves to one another and ...
Directed by: Júlio Bressane
Stars: Joel Barcellos | Maria Gladys | Grande Otelo | Wilson Grey | Sandra Pêra | Kleber Santos | Renato Laclete
Vow of Chastity (1976)
Before Joe D'amato made 1979's Buio Omega he touched upon death several times in his earlier works. This one is the first example of the director's start working with George Eastman, who wrote the screenplay for this title. The story is about innocent boy, who is afraid of sex, so all his family starts to push on him and sent women to persuade him. The things come here to the idea of well-acted ...
Directed by: Joe D'Amato
Stars: Enzo Colajacono | Antonio Dauria | Rosa Coppolino | Laura Gemser | Jacques Dufilho | Gillian Bray | Sofia Dionisio
Pleasure at Her Majesty's (1976)
The first of the Amnesty International comedy benefit galas. The title is a play on the phrase at Her Majesty's pleasure (the show was performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, London). This show came to be considered part of the Secret Policeman's Ball series of shows that it inspired, although it pre-dated the first show in the series by three years. The event was organized by a team of three: Monty Python ...
Stars: Terry Gilliam | John Cleese | Michael Palin | Graham Chapman | Peter Cook | Dudley Moore | Terry Jones