Movie Releases by Score
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Taxi Driver
February 7, 1976
Scorsese’s 1976 masterpiece is the all-too-real story of a psychotic New York cabby who is driven to violence in an attempt to rescue a teenage prostitute. [Sony]
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Assault on Precinct 13
November 5, 1976
The lone inhabitants of an abandoned police station are under attack by the overwhelming numbers of a seemingly unstoppable street gang.
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Deep Red
June 11, 1976
After witnessing the murder of a famous psychic, a musician teams up with a feisty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen assailant bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
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Carrie
November 16, 1976
Carrie White, a shy, reclusive teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
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All the President's Men
April 9, 1976
In the Watergate Building on June 17, 1972, lights go on and four burglars are caught breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Headquarters. That night triggered revelations that would eventually drive a U.S. President from office. Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) grabbed the initial break-in story and stayed with it through doubts, denials and discouragement. [Warner Bros.]
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The Bad News Bears
April 7, 1976
An aging, drunk, ex-minor leaguer (Matthau) reluctantly agrees to coach a team of misfit kids in an ultra-competitive California little league.
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Network
November 14, 1976
A devastating commentary on a world of ratings-driving commercial TV that is getting more on target every day, Network introduces us to Howard Beale (Finch), dean of newscasters at the United Broadcasting Systems (UBS). Having heard that he will soon be dumped by the UBS for "skewing too old," Beal announces to his viewers that he will commit suicide on his next and final program. Eyeing ratings gold with this news, an ambitious programming executive convinces the powers that be not to fire Beal on the spot. The tables turn, however, when instead of going through the act, Beal launches into rhetoric about the state of the world and concludes his tirade with "I'm mad as Hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!" [MGM]
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
May 28, 1976
The Man Who Fell to Earth is a daring exploration of science fiction as an art form. The story of an alien on an elaborate rescue mission provides the launching pad for Nicolas Roeg’s visual tour de force, a formally adventurous examination of alienation in contemporary life. Rock legend David Bowie, in his acting debut, completely embodies the title role, while Candy Clark, Buck Henry, and Rip Torn turn in pitch-perfect supporting performances. The film’s hallucinatory vision was obscured in the American theatrical release, which deleted nearly twenty minutes of crucial scenes and details. [The Criterion Collection]
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Mikey and Nicky
December 21, 1976
In Philadelphia, a small-time bookie who stole mob money is in hiding and he begs a childhood friend to help him evade the hit-man who's on his trail.
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Family Plot
April 9, 1976
A phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
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The Shootist
August 20, 1976
A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.
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Silent Movie
June 16, 1976
A film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years.
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Robin and Marian
March 12, 1976
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
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Bugsy Malone
September 15, 1976
A gangster movie in which all the gangsters are played by children. Instead of real bullets they use "splurge guns" that cover the victim in cream. The story tells of the rise of "Bugsy Malone" and the battle for power between "Fat Sam" and "Dandy Dan".
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Car Wash
October 22, 1976
A comedic take on the daily life of a car wash employees, chronicling their hopes, fears, joys, dreams and tribulations. And meeting a few eccentric costumers along the way.
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The Tenant
June 25, 1976
A quiet and inconspicuous man (Roman Polanski) rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide.
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Rocky
December 3, 1976
Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) 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! [MGM]
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Bound for Glory
December 5, 1976
The early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer.
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The Outlaw Josey Wales
June 30, 1976
A Missouri farmer joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family.
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Face to Face
April 5, 1976
A married couple of psychiatrists has their relationship tested when one suffers a mental breakdown.
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The Missouri Breaks
May 22, 1976
Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
February 15, 1976
A proud strip club owner is forced to come to terms with himself as a man, when his gambling addiction gets him in hot water with the mob, who offer him only one alternative.
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Marathon Man
October 8, 1976
A graduate history student is unwittingly caught in the middle of an international conspiracy involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent.
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Murder by Death
June 23, 1976
Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.
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The Omen
June 25, 1976
Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?
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King Kong
December 17, 1976
A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla.
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Stay Hungry
April 23, 1976
A syndicate wants to buy a whole district to rebuild it. They've bought every house except the small gym "Olympic", where Mr. Austria Joe Santo prepares for the Mr. Universum championships a month ahead. The rich sunny-boy Craig Blake is brought in by the syndicate as a dummy to buy the gym. But then he starts to like the people and falls in love with Joe's friend Mary Tate.
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again
December 15, 1976
Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.
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Obsession
August 1, 1976
A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his wife.
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A Star Is Born
December 17, 1976
A has-been rock star falls in love with a young, up-and-coming songstress.
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The Enforcer
December 22, 1976
Dirty Harry must foil a terrorist organization made up of disgruntled Vietnam veterans. But this time, he's teamed with a rookie female partner that he's not too excited to be working with.
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Shivers
July 6, 1976
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.
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The Last Tycoon
November 19, 1976
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
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Logan's Run
June 23, 1976
Live it up today, your time is up tomorrow. In the Year of the City 2274, humans forsake the ravaged outer environment by living in a vast, bubbled metropolis. There, computerized servo-mechanisms provide all needs and everyone can pursue endless hedonism. Endless, that is, until Lastday. That's when anyone who's 30 must submit to Carrousel, a soaring, spinning trip to eternity and supposed rebirth.
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Nickelodeon
December 21, 1976
A lawyer, then a writer, then a film director, is the career path of the bashful Leo Harrigan. But Leo has problems as well, such as being hopelessly smitten with his leading lady, who chooses to reward his attentions by getting herself hitched to Harrigan's vulgar leading man, Buck Greenaway.
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Two-Minute Warning
November 12, 1976
A crazed sniper is set to kill spectators at an L.A. Coliseum football championship game and the police race against time to eliminate him.
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Futureworld
August 13, 1976
Upon uncovering the dirty secret of futuristic theme-park Futureworld, an ex-employee is killed after he tips off two other reporters who decide to do an undercover investigation.
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Silver Streak
December 3, 1976
On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train.
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Gator
August 20, 1976
Agents force a former con man to help them nab a corrupt politician.
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Lipstick
April 2, 1976
A top fashion model seeks justice after she is brutally raped by her teenaged sister's music teacher.
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Titles with fewer than 7 critic reviews are excluded.