Movies released in 1976| *P*E, A | Paul Leder |
| 18 Bronzemen, The | Joseph Kuo |
| 1976 FIA Formula One World Championship Season Review | |
| Adventure of Shaolin | Wu Min-hsiung |
| All the President's Men | Alan J. Pakula |
| Animal, The | Walter Ungerer |
| Apple Pie | Howard Goldberg |
| Assault on Precinct 13 | John Carpenter |
| Astrologer, The | Craig Denney |
| At the Earth's Core | Kevin Connor |
| Bad News Bears, The | Michael Ritchie |
| Barbed Wire Dolls | Jesús Franco |
| Beatriz | Gonzalo Suárez |
| Big Racket, The | Enzo G. Castellari |
| Black Emanuelle 2 | Bitto Albertini |
| Black Magic 2 | Ho Meng-Hua |
| Black Shampoo | Greydon Clark |
| Blind Rage | Efren C. Piñon |
| Bloodsucking Freaks | Joel M. Reed |
| Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw | Mark L. Lester |
| Born for Hell | Denis Héroux |
| Brotherhood of Death | Bill Berry |
| Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave | Lee Doo-yong |
| Bruce's Deadly Fingers | Joseph Kong Hung |
| Bugsy Malone | Alan Parker |
| Burnt Offerings | Dan Curtis |
| Car Wash | Michael Schultz |
| Carrie | Brian De Palma |
| Cassandra Crossing, The | George P. Cosmatos |
| Cat Murkil and the Silks | John A. Bushelman |
| Challenge of the Masters | Liu Chia-Liang |
| Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession | Masaru Konuma |
| Clown Murders, The | Martyn Burke |
| Colt 38 Special Squad | Massimo Dallamano |
| Columbo: A Matter of Honor | Ted Post |
| Coup de Grâce | Volker Schlöndorff |
| Crazy Sex | Li Han-Hsiang |
| Creature from Black Lake | Joy N. Houck Jr. |
| Cry Your Purple Heart Out | Ogden Lowell |
| Date with a Kidnapper | Frederick R. Friedel |
| Death Machines | Paul Kyriazi |
| Deathcheaters | Brian Trenchard-Smith |
| Devil's Express | Barry Rosen |
| Devil's Men, The | Kostas Karagiannis |
| Dogs | Burt Brinckerhoff |
| Dojoji Temple | Kihachiro Kawamoto |
| Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde | William Crain |
| Dragon Lives, The | Hsing-Lai Wang |
| Dragon Missile, The | Ho Meng-Hua |
| Drive-In | Rod Amateau |
| Drive-In Massacre | Stu Segall |
| Drum | Steve Carver |
| Eaten Alive | Tobe Hooper |
| Eight Masters, The | Joseph Kuo |
| Emanuelle in Bangkok | Joe D'Amato |
| Emmanuelle on Taboo Island | Enzo D'Ambrosio |
| Enforcer, The | James Fargo |
| Exposé | James Kenelm Clarke |
| Family Plot | Alfred Hitchcock |
| Fighting Mad | Jonathan Demme |
| First Easter Rabbit, The | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. |
| Food of the Gods, The | Bert I. Gordon |
| Freaky Friday | Gary Nelson |
| Free Hand for a Tough Cop | Umberto Lenzi |
| Futureworld | Richard T. Heffron |
| Gator | Burt Reynolds |
| Gilgames | András Rajnai |
| God Told Me To | Larry Cohen |
| Great Okinawa Yakuza War, The | Sadao Nakajima |
| Grey Gardens | Albert Maysles, Ellen Giffard, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer |
| Grizzly | William Girdler |
| Gumball Rally, The | Charles Bail |
| Hand of Death | John Woo |
| Harry and Walter Go to New York | Mark Rydell |
| Hey, You! | Péter Szoboszlay |
| Himalayan, The | Wong Fung |
| Hollywood Boulevard | Joe Dante, Allan Arkush |
| Horse in the House | Györgyi Csonka |
| Hot Potato | Oscar Williams |
| House by the Lake, The | William Fruet |
| House with Laughing Windows, The | Pupi Avati |
| Human Tornado, The | Cliff Roquemore |
| I Don't Want to Be Born | Peter Sasdy |
| In Search of Bigfoot | Lawrence Crowley, William F. Miller |
| In the Beginning Was the End: The Truth About De-Evolution | Chuck Statler |
| In the Dust of the Stars | Gottfried Kolditz |
| In the Realm of the Senses | Nagisa Ōshima |
| Insiang | Lino Brocka |
| J.D.'s Revenge | Arthur Marks |
| Karate Warriors | Kazuhiko Yamaguchi |
| Keoma | Enzo G. Castellari |
| Kill or Be Killed | Ivan Hall |
| Killer Clans | Chor Yuen |
| Killer Meteors, The | Lo Wei |
| Killing Machine, The | Norifumi Suzuki |
| Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The | John Cassavetes |
| King Kong | John Guillermin |
| King Kung Fu | Lance D. Hayes |
| Kiss of the Tarantula | Chris Munger |
| Like Rabid Dogs | Mario Imperoli |
| Lipstick | Lamont Johnson |
| Little Drummer Boy Book II, The | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. |
| Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, The | Nicolas Gessner |
| Little Mermaid, The | Karel Kachyňa |
| Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man | Ruggero Deodato |
| Logan's Run | Michael Anderson |
| Magic Blade, The | Chor Yuen |
| Man on the Roof | Bo Widerberg |
| Man Who Fell to Earth, The | Nicolas Roeg |
| Marathon Man | John Schlesinger |
| Mars Men | Chen Hung-min |
| Massacre at Central High | Rene Daalder |
| Master of the Flying Guillotine | Jimmy Wang Yu |
| Meet Him and Die | Franco Prosperi |
| Midway | Jack Smight |
| Million Dollar Rip-Off, The | Alexander Singer |
| Ming Patriots, The | Tsai Yang-Ming |
| Missouri Breaks, The | Arthur Penn |
| Mother, Jugs & Speed | Peter Yates |
| Murder by Death | Robert Moore |
| Muthers, The | Cirio H. Santiago |
| Nea | Nelly Kaplan |
| Network | Sidney Lumet |
| New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss | Kinji Fukasaku |
| New Fist of Fury | Lo Wei |
| New Shaolin Boxers, The | Chang Cheh |
| Northville Cemetery Massacre, The | William Dear, Thomas L. Dyke |
| Obsession | Brian De Palma |
| Oily Maniac, The | Ho Meng-Hua |
| Omen, The | Richard Donner |
| One Armed Swordsman Against Nine Killers | Hsu Tseng-Hung, Lee Jeong-Ho |
| One Armed Swordsmen, The | David Chiang, Jimmy Wang Yu |
| One of My Wives Is Missing | Glenn A. Jordan |
| Paul Lynde Halloween Special, The | Sid Smith |
| People Who Own the Dark, The | León Klimovsky |
| Plot of Fear | Paolo Cavara |
| Private Eyes, The | Michael Hui |
| Queen Kong | Frank Agrama |
| Queen's Ransom, A | Ting Shan-Hsi |
| Rattlers | John McCauley |
| Rendezvous | Claude Lelouch |
| Return of the 18 Bronzemen | Joseph Kuo |
| Revenge of the Cheerleaders | Richard Lerner |
| Rocky | John G. Avildsen |
| Rome, Armed to the Teeth | Umberto Lenzi |
| Rudolph's Shiny New Year | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. |
| Rulers of the City | Fernando Di Leo |
| Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Salon Kitty | Tinto Brass |
| Satan's Black Wedding | Nick Millard |
| Satan's Slave | Norman J. Warren |
| Savage Beast Goes Mad, A | Sadao Nakajima |
| Scenes with Beans | Ottó Foky |
| Seven-Per-Cent Solution, The | Herbert Ross |
| Shaggy D.A., The | Robert Stevenson |
| Shaolin Temple | Chang Cheh |
| Shaolin Wooden Men | Chen Chi-Hwa |
| Shoot | Harvey Hart |
| Shootist, The | Don Siegel |
| Signalman, The | Lawrence Gordon Clark |
| Silent Movie | Mel Brooks |
| Silver Streak | Arthur Hiller |
| Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist | Shigehiro Ozawa |
| Slipper and the Rose, The | Bryan Forbes |
| Spirit of the Raped | Kuei Chih-Hung |
| Squirm | Jeff Lieberman |
| St. Ives | J. Lee Thompson |
| Story in the Temple Red Lily | Karl Liao |
| Stranger in My Forest, A | Donald W. Thompson |
| Street People | Maurizio Lucidi, Guglielmo Garroni |
| Super Riders, The | Lin Chong-Guang |
| Super Weapon, The | Jim Sotos, Henry Scarpelli |
| Taxi Driver | Martin Scorsese |
| Tenant, The | Roman Polanski |
| Things to Come | Derek Todd |
| To the Devil a Daughter | Peter Sykes |
| Town That Dreaded Sundown, The | Charles B. Pierce |
| Track of the Moon Beast | Richard Ashe |
| Trackdown | Richard T. Heffron |
| Tracks | Henry Jaglom |
| Trains | Caleb Deschanel |
| Two-Minute Warning | Larry Peerce |
| Velvet Smooth | Michael Fink |
| Vigilante Force | George Armitage |
| Visa de censure n° X | Pierre Clémenti |
| War God | Chen Hung-min |
| Web of Death, The | Chor Yuen |
| Werewolf Woman | Rino Di Silvestro |
| Who Can Kill a Child? | Narciso Ibáñez Serrador |
| Witch Who Came from the Sea, The | Matt Cimber |
| Yakuza Graveyard | Kinji Fukasaku |