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Best Movies of 1976, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
84 films from 1976 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Chaos Class Failed the Class ('1976), at 8.9 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.5. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Silver Streak, 6.9 on IMDb against 41 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Chaos Class Failed the Class '1976 | Comedy | 8.9 | - | - | 7.6 | Ertem Eğilmez |
| 2 | Tosun Pasha '1976 | Comedy | 8.9 | - | - | 8.0 | Kartal Tibet |
| 3 | Taxi Driver '1976 | Crime / Drama | 8.2 | 89% | 94 | 8.1 | Martin Scorsese |
| 4 | Rocky '1976 | Drama | 8.1 | 93% | 70 | 7.8 | John G. Avildsen |
| 5 | The Chaos Class Is Waking Up '1976 | Comedy | 8.7 | - | - | 7.8 | Ertem Eğilmez |
| 6 | Network '1976 | Drama | 8.0 | 90% | 83 | 7.8 | Sidney Lumet |
| 7 | The Message '1976 | Drama / Action | 8.1 | - | - | 7.1 | Moustapha Akkad |
| 8 | All the President's Men '1976 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.9 | 95% | 84 | 7.7 | Alan J. Pakula |
| 9 | The Outlaw Josey Wales '1976 | Western | 7.8 | 91% | 69 | 7.5 | Clint Eastwood |
| 10 | The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath! '1976 | Comedy / Romance | 8.0 | - | - | 7.2 | Eldar Ryazanov |
| 11 | The Omen '1976 | Horror / Thriller | 7.5 | 76% | 63 | 7.4 | Richard Donner |
| 12 | The Twelve Tasks of Asterix '1976 | Animation / Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.3 | René Goscinny |
| 13 | Cria! '1976 | Drama | 7.9 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Carlos Saura |
| 14 | The Shootist '1976 | Western | 7.6 | 81% | 77 | 7.1 | Don Siegel |
| 15 | 1900 '1976 | Drama | 7.6 | 52% | 70 | 7.8 | Bernardo Bertolucci |
| 16 | The Tenant '1976 | Thriller / Mystery / Drama | 7.5 | 85% | 71 | 7.6 | Roman Polanski |
| 17 | Carrie '1976 | Horror / Thriller | 7.4 | 94% | 86 | 7.3 | Brian De Palma |
| 18 | Marathon Man '1976 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 7.4 | 82% | 64 | 7.2 | John Schlesinger |
| 19 | Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles '1976 | Drama | 7.5 | 95% | 94 | 7.4 | Chantal Akerman |
| 20 | Grey Gardens '1976 | Documentary | 7.5 | 95% | 83 | 7.3 | Ellen Giffard |
| 21 | Ugly, Dirty and Bad '1976 | Comedy / Drama | 7.7 | - | - | 7.5 | Ettore Scola |
| 22 | Assault on Precinct 13 '1976 | Thriller / Action / Crime | 7.3 | 94% | 89 | 7.3 | John Carpenter |
| 23 | Mr. Klein '1976 | Mystery / Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | - | - | 7.2 | Joseph Losey |
| 24 | The Bad News Bears '1976 | Comedy / Drama | 7.3 | 90% | 84 | 6.9 | Michael Ritchie |
| 25 | Kings of the Road '1976 | Drama | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.4 | Wim Wenders |
| 26 | Small Change '1976 | Comedy / Drama | 7.6 | 90% | - | 7.1 | François Truffaut |
| 27 | The Second Tragic Fantozzi '1976 | Comedy | 7.7 | - | - | 7.5 | Luciano Salce |
| 28 | Murder by Death '1976 | Comedy / Crime / Mystery | 7.2 | 63% | 59 | 7.1 | Robert Moore |
| 29 | The Killing of a Chinese Bookie '1976 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 7.3 | 81% | 65 | 7.0 | John Cassavetes |
| 30 | Face to Face '1976 | Drama | 7.5 | 80% | 68 | 7.2 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 31 | The Toy '1976 | Comedy / Drama | 7.4 | - | - | 6.9 | Francis Veber |
| 32 | The Front '1976 | Comedy / Drama | 7.3 | 67% | - | 7.1 | Martin Ritt |
| 33 | Mikey and Nicky '1976 | Crime / Drama | 7.3 | 88% | 81 | 6.9 | Elaine May |
| 34 | The Wing or the Thigh? '1976 | Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 7.2 | Claude Zidi |
| 35 | The Pink Panther Strikes Again '1976 | Comedy / Crime | 7.1 | 73% | 60 | 6.9 | Blake Edwards |
| 36 | Who Can Kill a Child? '1976 | Drama / Horror / Thriller | 7.2 | - | - | 7.0 | Chicho Ibáñez Serrador |
| 37 | The Con Artists '1976 | Comedy / Crime | 7.3 | - | - | 7.1 | Sergio Corbucci |
| 38 | One Way or Another '1976 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.5 | - | - | 7.7 | Elio Petri |
| 39 | Female Trouble '1976 | Comedy / Crime | 7.1 | 90% | - | 6.9 | John Waters |
| 40 | The Judge and the Assassin '1976 | Crime / Drama | 7.3 | - | - | 6.9 | Bertrand Tavernier |
| 41 | Horse Fever '1976 | Comedy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.3 | Steno |
| 42 | The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane '1976 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.0 | 93% | 53 | 7.0 | Nicolas Gessner |
| 43 | Fellini's Casanova '1976 | Drama | 7.0 | 58% | - | 6.9 | Federico Fellini |
| 44 | The House with Laughing Windows '1976 | Mystery / Thriller / Horror | 7.0 | - | - | 7.2 | Pupi Avati |
| 45 | Keoma '1976 | Western / Action / Drama | 7.0 | - | - | 6.8 | Enzo G. Castellari |
| 46 | Pardon Mon Affaire '1976 | Comedy / Romance | 7.0 | - | - | 7.0 | Yves Robert |
| 47 | Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands '1976 | Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance | 6.9 | 78% | 52 | 6.8 | Bruno Barreto |
| 48 | Silver Streak '1976 | Comedy / Crime / Romance / Thriller / Action | 6.9 | 77% | 41 | 6.7 | Arthur Hiller |
| 49 | The Eagle Has Landed '1976 | Drama / Action / Thriller / War | 6.9 | 71% | 61 | 6.6 | John Sturges |
| 50 | Heart of Glass '1976 | Drama | 6.8 | 93% | - | 6.6 | Werner Herzog |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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