Tora-san's Heart of Gold

1976

Japanese

6.8

♡ 3

Comedy

Yôji Yamada Director

Machiko Kyô as Aya Yagyû

Gin Maeda as Hiroshi

Fumi Dan as Masako Yagyû

Hisao Dazai as Umetaro

When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love with the teacher's mother.

Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset

1976

Japanese

7.0

♡ 4

Action

Comedy

Yôji Yamada Director

Shunji Sayama as Apartment Manager

Jûkichi Uno as Seikan Ikenouchi

Senri Sakurai as Tourist Section Chief

Hisao Dazai as Umetaro

Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family, he goes to a bar to drink, then brings home a surly old man with a sad story, whose identity will surprise everyone. Later, Tora meets Botan, a geisha.

Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession

1976

Japanese

5.0

♡ 6

Masaru Konuma Director

Shinshô Nakamaru as Keigo shinozaki

Tatsuya Hamaguchi as Kitahata

Yôko Azusa as Reiko Mine

Toshihiko Oda as Yamamoto

Sisterhood is powerful. Before leaving for a mission in Africa, Runa, a nun, visits her sister three years after entering the convent when her sister stole Runa's boyfriend. Runa comes to forgive and to help her sister make enough money buying and selling some convent property so she can marry. The old boyfriend has new women in his life, but he and the sister tell Runa they're a couple in order to keep the property deal. To make even more money, Runa's sister wheedles large gifts from various men she's stringing along. There are flashbacks to Runa's sexual awakening at the convent. But what are her real reasons to close this deal?

Wild Detective

1976

Japanese

6.4

♡ 4

Yûsuke Watanabe Director

Ken Takakura as

Hideji Ôtaki as

Yoshio Harada as

Naoko Ohtani as

A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same man that her husband is hunting. Once he discovers this, he loses his nerve and turns in his badge. But the chase turns into a personal vendetta where the ex-cop plans to wipe out the entire gang.

Strange Occasion

1976

Italian

6.2

♡ 2

Comedy

Luigi Comencini Director

Massimo Ferrero as

Stefania Sandrelli as Donatella

Paolo Villaggio as Giobatta

Giovannella Grifeo as Paola

Three sexy and comic episodes.

Ugly, Dirty and Bad

1976

Italian

7.7

♡ 12

91%

Action

Comedy

Drama

Ettore Scola Director

Beryl Cunningham as Baraccata Negra

Augusto Colonnelli as Diner Patron

Marcella Michelangeli as Impieg. Postale

Franco Marino as Padre Santandrea

Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome. Some time ago he has lost his left eye while at work, and got a consistent sum of money from the insurance company, which he keeps hidden from the rest of the family. His whole life is now based on defending the money he sees as his own, while the rest of the family tries to kill him.

The Littlest Horse Thieves

1976

English

6.8

♡ 8

Charles Jarrott Director

Duncan Lamont as

Tom Laughlin as

Joe Gladwin as Bert

Prunella Scales as Mrs. Sandman

When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three children plan to steal them to keep them safe. But when they're caught, it's up to the mine owners and the miners themselves to decide what's right.

Nick the Sting

1976

Italian

5.9

♡ 3

Fernando Di Leo Director

Edoardo Faieta as Rahn

Lee J. Cobb as Robert Clark

William Berger as Roizman

Pietro Ceccarelli as Strauss

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 friend's death. He succeeds in getting a hundred thousand swiss francs and uses them to carry out the second part of his plan.

Revenge of the Cheerleaders

1976

English

4.5

♡ 3

44%

Richard Lerner Director

Patrick Wright as Cop

Carl Ballantine as Dr. Ivory

Eddra Gale as Nurse Beam

Garry Walberg as State Inspector

There's shakin', quakin' and plenty of booty to be enjoyed when the perky gals from Aloha High School shimmy their groove things in this red-hot sequel to The Cheerleaders. Rainbeaux Smith (from the first film) is back ... and pregnant!

Black Shampoo

1976

English

4.7

♡ 4

48%

Action

blaxploitation cinema

Greydon Clark Director

Heather Leigh as Mrs. Simpson

Joseph Carlo as Mr. Wilson

Gary Allen as Richard

A black hairdresser's sexual escapades with married customers lead to a confrontation with a jealous mobster.

Fill 'er Up with Super

6.5

Alain Cavalier Director

Nathalie Baye as Charlotte

Albert Dray as Le client du restoroute

Jean-Paul Bonnaire as Le pompiste

Valérie Quennessen as Marie

When a young auto salesman is forced to give up a vacation with his wife in order to drive a big American car to its new owner who lives on the Riviera, he makes the best of things. First, he gets and old friend to ride along with him. Then, the two of them are joined by another pair of men who want to ride south.

The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox

1976

English

5.7

♡ 7

50%

Melvin Frank Director

Roy Jenson as Bloodworth

E.J. André as Prospector

Jerry Gatlin as Stein

John Alderson as Trent

A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures before falling in love with him.

Snatch

1976

Italian

5.6

♡ 2

Eriprando Visconti Director

Eleonora Morana as

Rena Niehaus as Alice

Michele Placido as Michele Turrisi

Bruno Corazzari as Paolo

A teenage girl is kidnapped by 3 guys and taken to an abandoned house in the country, where she is made to write her own ransom letter. She soon discovers that one of her captors is infatuated with her and she will use those feelings to stay alive.

Ape

1976

English

2.6

♡ 4

Paul Leder Director

Bob Kurcz as American Actor

Charles Johnson as American Tourist

Choi Sung Kwan as Film Producer

Joanna Kerns as Marilyn Baker

A newly discovered 36-foot gorilla escapes from a freighter off the coast of Korea. At the same time an American actress is filming a movie in the country. Chaos ensues as the ape kidnaps her and rampages through Seoul.

The Big Bus

1976

English

5.7

♡ 13

64%

James Frawley Director

Richard Mulligan as Claude Crane

John Beck as Shoulders

Sally Kellerman as Sybil Crane

Jess Nadelman as TV Reporter

The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. Will the down-on-his-luck driver, with a reputation for eating his passengers, be able to complete the journey?

Casanova

1976

Italian

7.0

♡ 13

58%

79%

18th century

Action

based on memoir or autobiography

Federico Fellini Director

Harold Innocent as Count Saint-Germain

Dudley Sutton as Duke of Wuertemberg

Daniel Emilfork as Marquis Du Bois

Elisa Mainardi as Party guest

Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person? Is he really alive?

The New Deal for Artists

7.4

Wieland Schulz-Keil Director

John Houseman as Self

John Randolph as Self

Howard Da Silva as Self

Norman Lloyd as Self

The Arts Project of the Work Projects Administration (1935-1942) was a USA government agency established to support writers, theater people, painters, sculptors, and photographers.

In Hell

1976

French

5.9

♡ 10

Nikos Papatakis Director

Annick Fougery as

Didot Lyloudis as

Louis Navarre as

André Lambert as L'espion

An actress of political torture movies made by her husband has to finish his latest film and arrange a screening for distributors while the husband, who is also secretly an anarchist revolutionary, is away for some resistance operation.