All Films

Beasts: What Big Eyes

1976 • 60 min • United Kingdom

An RSPCA officer is horrified when he discovers a pet shop owner has been conducting experiments on a wolf, searching for proof of lycanthropy. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.

Matchfit

1976 • 60 min

A grumpy Scottish soccer boss meets a young fan in a TB sanatorium.

TVTV Looks at the Oscars

1976 • 59 min • United States of America

Made in 1976, TVTV's close-up look at Hollywood's annual awards ritual mixes irreverent documentary with deadpan comedy. TVTV's cameras go behind the scenes to follow major Hollywood figures (including Steven Spielberg, Michael Douglas, Lee Grant, Jack Nicholson, and many others), capturing them in candid moments—inside their limousines, dressing for the ceremony, backstage at the awards.

UFO Robot Grendizer vs. Great Mazinger

1976 • 24 min • Japan

Alien invaders take over Great Mazinger who is at the entrance of a museum next to Mazinger Z as symbols of peace. Grendizer fights the evil invaders and Great Mazinger is recovered. When the Vegan empire dispatches a new general to oversee the takeover of Earth, he quickly manages to capture Koji Kabuto and, learning of Great Mazinger through interrogation, quickly commandeers it from a museum where it was kept as a symbol of peace. It is now up to Duke Fleed aboard Grendizer to stop humanity's former defender from becoming its destroyer.

Social Worker (#3)

1976 • 50 min • Hong Kong

The third episode of the Hong Kong reclaimed “Social Worker” series (1976), which showed the ecology of marginalized teenagers and their interaction with social workers.

The Kagestar: The Movie

1976 • 21 min • Japan

The superhero The Kagestar fights the monsters of the Satan Empire.

The Author of Beltraffio

1976 • 49 min • United Kingdom

A young American writer visits a famous author in the English countryside, and notices antagonism between the author and his wife over the upbringing of their young son.

The Making of an Epic: Mohammad, Messenger of God

1976 • 47 min • Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco, United Kingdom

An in-depth look at the making of ‘The Message’, featuring interviews with key figures such as Moustapha Akkad, the film's producer, who shares his personal connection to the project. The documentary covers various aspects of the production, including the construction of the massive historical Mecca set, the creation of costumes, and the challenges of shooting in the desert. It also discusses the decision to shoot the film in two different languages (Arabic and English) and the unique issues that arose from this choice.

Place of Work

1976 • 32 min • United Kingdom

Margaret Tait documents her house, studio and garden in Buttquoy, Orkney as the seasons pass. She had lived there from the age of seven and often returned. At the time of filming, the house was about to be taken back by the council - this film is an effective 'goodbye'. Margaret Tait said it 'was meant to define a place, or the feeling of being in one place, with the sense this gives one, not of restriction but of the infinite variations available.'

Medicur

1976 • 6 min • United States of America

Rocky McSnarl breaks out of prison and swears revenge on Dogfather, so he hide out in a hospital as a patient. However, Rocky finds out where he is and gets a job as a nurse at that same hospital. Last "Dogfather" cartoon.

Spiderweb

1976 • 33 min • United Kingdom

A rabbi is murdered. Detective Llonrot is called in on the case and looks for a 'rabbinical explanation' for the murder. Other murders are committed and deliberate clues left in chosen locations. Llonrot, convinced he is on the trail of a 'mystical intrigue' is lured to the 'crime scene' when the tables are turned by his nemesis, the master criminal Red Scharlach.

Miracles of Our Lady

1976 • 57 min • Spain

A film based on a collection of reported miracles of Mary, mother of Jesus, written around 1260 by Spanish poet Gonzalo de Berceo.

The Pink of Arabee

1976 • 6 min • United States of America

An Indian fakir's magic rope falls in love with the Pink Panther's tail.

Hollywood's Musical Moods

1976 • 52 min • United States of America

In the silent film era, movies were never really silent. In the background of films that made figures like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton into cultural icons, were the musical giants whose compositions defined the very films that captivated a generation of movie-goers. Arthur Kleiner converses with the still-living legends from that bygone golden age of cinema.

The Blank Generation

1976 • 53 min • United States of America

The cream of the New York new wave/punk crop, filmed live at CBGB when the scene was just beginning. Includes performances by Patti Smith, Blondie, Television, the Ramones, Talking Heads, the Heartbreakers, the Shirts, Wayne County, the Marbles, the Dolls, Miamis, Harry Toledo, and the Tuff Darts (w/Robert Gordon).

The Shout

1976 • 57 min • Albania

Based on the works of Sterjo Spasse. Kujtim Morava goes to work in a remote village. He assists in the destruction of churches and mosques since they spread a regressive mentality.

Wedding Guests

1976 • 33 min • Hungary

The Pink Pro

1976 • 6 min • United States of America

The Pink Panther teaches a reluctant Little Man various sports.

The Story of Pantomime

1976 • 60 min

This 1976 BBC documentary sees Ken Campbell (and his Roadshow) investigate the origins and the development of the traditional British Christmas pantomime.

Victory

1976 • 45 min • Iceland

Tells the story of the last day in the life of a dictator who knows that this time he won't be victorious.

Smallpox Tale

1976 • 34 min • Japan

The smallpox virus has created its own unique atmosphere in Terayama’s film where the skin of a bandaged adolescent and the surface of the filmic image are subjected to a bizarre ‘disturbance’ as snails cross the screen and nails are hammered into the skull of the ailing patient. Illness in this film is as much a psychic entity as a physical one and manifests itself in an array of theatrical tableaux from grotesque women rigorously brushing their teeth to a snooker game where the players in white face makeup behave like automata. A Tale of Smallpox uses a medical theme to chart the traumatic dream life of Terayama’s times, evincing deep-rooted concerns in the Japanese national psyche that hark back to the upheaval of Meiji modernisation and the devastation of World War Two.

La plaza

1976 • 14 min

All kinds of absurd situations take place in a town square.

Blackwood

1976 • 28 min • Canada

This short film studies the works of one of Canada's greatest contemporary etchers - Newfoundland-born David Blackwood. The artist himself guides viewers through a step-by-step explanation of the etching process. Scenes of his hometown, examples of his own work and vivid tales of an old mariner recall the tragic seal hunts and a way of life that has now vanished.

Harry Callahan/Clint Eastwood: Something Special in Films

1976 • 6 min • United States of America

A promotional short which details the making of 'The Enforcer'.