1. Taxi Driver
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks
Plot: A Vietnam vet is a taxi driver who obsesses over a woman, while at the same time he tries to save a young prostitute. His mental instability makes him go to the extreme in certain situations.
2. Rocky
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sport/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John G. Avildsen
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith, Joe Spinell
Plot: A undersized and underfunded heavyweight challenges the long time heavyweight to a fight after being the underdog in many of his fights. He struggles to balance his training with his personal life and confidence.
3. Network
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sidney Lumet
Actors: William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Ned Beatty, Robert Duvall, Peter Finch, Wesley Addy
Plot: A soon to be retired news anchor is exploited by the Network he has worked for, for so long as he spouts off at the media.
4. All the President's Men
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Actors: Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Ned Beatty, Jack Warden, Hal Holbrook
Plot: A leaked report to Washington Post reporters causes Bernstein and Woodward to investigate further into the Watergate Scandal to force Nixon to resign.
5. The Outlaw Josey Wales
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, John Vernon, Sam Bottoms
Plot: Set after the end of the Civil War, Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood), joins a
rebel group that continues to wage war against the Union after a group of
Union soldiers murder his wife and son. He soon finds him self on his own
and running from the same group of Union soldiers chasing him to bring him
to justice. All the while Josey continues to kill (or spit tobacco) on any
man or thing that gets in his way.
6. Carrie
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, William Katt, John Travolta, Betty Buckley
Plot: Shy, isolated Carrie White has an embarrassing experience in the girls' shower at school, at the same time discovers budding psychic powers. As one girl reaches out to her at school, another plans a bloody revenge at the school prom not realizing the devastating consequences it will have.
7. Harlan County U.S.A.
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Barbara Kopple
Actors: Billy G. Williams, Basil Collins, Lawrence Jones, W.A. 'Tony' Boyle, Ken Yablonski, Arnold Miller
Plot: About a coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973.
8. The Omen
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Donner
Actors: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Harvey Stephens, Patrick Troughton
Plot: A diplomat secretly exchanges his wife's stillborn child with an orphaned boy. As he grows up, disturbing signs and events lead him to believe this boy is the antichrist and needs to be killed.
9. Tenant, The ( locataire, Le )
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet, Bernard Fresson, Lila Kedrova
Plot: A man searching for the apartment finds the perfect place. One day he
starts becoming like the former tenant, even though he had no previous
knowledge of him.
10. The Shootist
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Don Siegel
Actors: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart, Richard Boone, Hugh O'Brian
Plot: J.B. Books is one of the baddest outlaws in the land; But he's dying of cancer.
