In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Muhammad is fought by Abu Sufian and his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Muhammad's followers are hunted and tortured but he continues his calling.

The Inheritance

1976

Italian

6.9

♡ 5

29%

Action

Drama

Mauro Bolognini Director

Anthony Quinn as Gregorio / Father

Dominique Sanda as Irene / Pippo's wife

Paolo Bonacelli as Paolo / Teta's husband

Adriana Asti as Teta / Daughter

In 1880 Rome, a patriarch closes the family bakery. His ambitious daughter-in-law manipulates her brothers-in-law to prevent their father's remarriage, securing her inheritance.

Network

1976

English

8.1

♡ 65

91%

co-worker relationship

Sidney Lumet Director

Darryl Hickman as Bill Herron

Robert Duvall as Frank Hackett

John Carpenter as George Bosch

Arthur Burghardt as Great Ahmed Kahn

When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.

The Devil's Men

1976

English

4.3

♡ 4

2%

Kostas Karagiannis Director

Peter Cushing as Baron Corofax

Donald Pleasence as Father Roche

Luan Peters as Laurie

Anestis Vlahos as Shopkeeper - Karapades

A satanic cult led by Baron Corofax kidnaps three young people and Father Roche & Milo must save them from the hands of this evil.

Drive in Massacre

1976

English

3.7

♡ 7

Stu Segall Director

Douglas Gudbye as Germy

Cheri Woods as Murder Victim

Norman Sheridan as Orville Ingleson

Bruce Kimball as Police Det. John Koch

Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.

News from Home

1976

French

7.3

♡ 10

Documentary

woman director

Chantal Akerman Director

Chantal Akerman as Self - Letter Reader

Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman lives in New York. Filmed images of the City accompany texts of Akerman's loving mother back home in Brussels. The City comes more and more to the front while the words of the mother, read by Akerman herself, gradually fade away.

Rocky

1976

English

8.1

♡ 203

93%

philadelphia, pennsylvania

Sport

transporter

underdog

John G. Avildsen Director

Talia Shire as Adrian

John Pleshette as Aftershave Commercial Director

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky

Frank Pesce as Spectator

Rocky Balboa is a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere. But when a stroke of fate puts him in the ring with a world heavyweight champion, Rocky knows that it's his one shot at the big time — a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner!

Up!

1976

English

5.7

♡ 32

Russ Meyer Director

Edward Schaaf as Adolph Schwartz

Monty Bane as Homer Johnson

Raven De La Croix as Margo Winchester

Russ Meyer as Villager at Alice's Café

Adolf Hitler is hiding out in California under the identity of Adolf Schwartz; however, he is soon murdered by a mysterious assailant. This coincides with the arrival of a mysterious woman in a nearby town. Whatever the case might be, nobody seems interested in investigating the crime, but there are many who are interested in her.

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

1976

English

7.2

♡ 20

79%

los angeles, california

John Cassavetes Director

James Lew as Asian guard

Val Avery as Blair Benoit

Timothy Carey as Flo

Seymour Cassel as Mort Weil

Cosmo Vittelli, the proprietor of a sleazy, low-rent Hollywood cabaret, has a real affection for the women who strip in his peepshows and the staff who keep up his dingy establishment. He also has a major gambling problem that has gotten him in trouble before. When Cosmo loses big-time at an underground casino run by mobster Mort, he isn't able to pay up. Mort then offers Cosmo the chance to pay back his debt by knocking off a pesky, Mafia-protected bookie.

Assault on Precinct 13

1976

English

7.3

♡ 36

96%

John Carpenter Director

Gilman Rankin as Bus Driver

John Carpenter as Gang Member

Charles Cyphers as Starker

Tony Burton as Wells

A highway patrol officer, two criminals, and a station secretary form an unlikely alliance to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.

Zile fierbinti

1976

Romanian

5.8

♡ 1

Action

Sergiu Nicolaescu Director

Marga Barbu as actrita Clara

Alexandru Dobrescu as contabilul sef Sandu

Constantin Diplan as Dutu Damian, centrul înaintas al echipei de fotbal

Colea Rautu as secretarul de partid Tanase

In summer 1975 at the Constanța Shipyard, director Mihai Coman pushes to cast a massive ship propeller in-house, facing technical failures, internal resistance, and political hesitation. As the casting repeatedly breaks and deadlines loom, he must overcome engineering hurdles and personal sacrifices to see the vessel launched with the home-forged propeller.

The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!

1976

Russian

8.0

♡ 4

based on novel or book

Eldar Ryazanov Director

Alla Pugacheva as Nadya

Barbara Brylska as Nadya

Valentina Talyzina as Nadya / Nadya's Friend

Andrey Myagkov as Zhenya

A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Year's Eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes. Zhenya wakes up at Leningrad airport. Believing that he is still in Moscow he takes a taxi and goes home. The street name, building and even apartment number, the way an apartment complex looks the same and the key coincide completely - just typical Soviet-type 'economy' architecture. Imagine the surprise of Nadya when she enters her apartment and finds a man without trousers in her bed. What's more - Nadya's fiancé also finds him there...

Fantozzi 2

1976

Italian

7.7

♡ 3

Action

Comedy

Luciano Salce Director

Angelo Boscariol as Hunter

Antonino Faà di Bruno as Mega Direttore Clamoroso, Duca Conte P.C.Semenzara

Paolo Paoloni as Mega Direttore Galattico Duca Conte G.M.Balabam

Paolo Villaggio as Rag. Ugo Fantozzi

The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses.

Robin and Marian

1976

English

6.5

♡ 17

73%

Richard Lester Director

Ian Holm as King John

Richard Harris as Richard the Lionheart / King Richard

Sean Connery as Robin Hood

Denholm Elliott as Will Scarlett

Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.

The Return of a Man Called Horse

1976

English

6.1

♡ 11

55%

42%

Action

based on novel or book

Irvin Kershner Director

Claudio Brook as Chemin De Fer

Richard Harris as John Morgan

Jorge Luke as Running Bull

William Lucking as Tom Gryce

Lord John Morgan has returned to civilized life in England, but finds he has nothing but disdain for that life. Yearning to embrace the simplicity of the American West-and the Yellow Hands Sioux tribe he left behind, Morgan returns to the tribe's land only to discover that they've been decimated by ruthless, government-backed fur traders. Led by Horse, they fight to repossess their land.

The Omen

1976

English

7.5

♡ 98

86%

Richard Donner Director

Leo McKern as Carl Bugenhagen

Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Gentleman at Rugby Match

David Warner as Jennings

Massimo Serato as Man at gas station

Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.

The Front

1976

English

7.3

♡ 17

68%

Martin Ritt Director

Charles Kimbrough as Committee Counselor

Lucy Lee Flippin as Nurse

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self - 1953 Inauguration Gala

Harry S. Truman as Self - Reviewing Landing Craft

A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

The Con Artists

1976

Italian

7.3

♡ 9

59%

Action

Comedy

Crime

Sergio Corbucci Director

Margherita Horowitz as Dancing Woman

Adriano Celentano as Felice 'Félix' Brianza

Anthony Quinn as Philip Bang

Veriano Ginesi as Prison Cook

Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organize his jail break. But instead of Philip is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, to escape. Now Felix is obliged to help Philip to escape. He will succeeded and from that moment on the two will join to defraud Belle. The swindle plot become more complicate when Felix falls in love for Philip's daughter.

J.D.'s Revenge

1976

English

6.0

♡ 7

50%

63%

Action

blaxploitation cinema

Arthur Marks Director

Julian Christopher as Carl

Fuddle Bagley as Enoch Land

Bob Minor as Husband

Glynn Turman as Isaac

Although notorious New Orleans gangster J.D. Walker is shot and killed in the 1940s, his spirit remains restless for three decades, until a hypnotist's supernatural nightclub act allows him to take over the body of a mild-mannered law student and seek revenge on those who got him killed.