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  • Metamorphoses (1978)

    1. Metamorphoses

    19781h 20mPG
    6.1 (205)
    Several animated stories from "Metamorphoses", Roman poet Ovid's narrative of legends, are presented.
    DirectorTakashi MasunagaStarPeter Ustinov
  • Days of Heaven (1978)

    2. Days of Heaven

    19781h 34mPG94Metascore
    7.7 (66K)
    A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.
    DirectorTerrence MalickStarsRichard GereBrooke AdamsSam Shepard
  • Empire of Passion (1978)

    3. Empire of Passion

    19781h 45mR
    7.0 (5.3K)
    A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well, but his ghost returns to haunt them as the local gossip intensifies.
    DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsTatsuya FujiKazuko YoshiyukiTakahiro Tamura
  • The Demon (1978)

    4. The Demon

    19781h 50m
    7.4 (1.1K)
    After a married man stops providing for his mistress, she abandons their three young children with him and his wrathful wife.
    DirectorYoshitarô NomuraStarsShima IwashitaKen OgataHiroki Iwase
  • Jill Clayburgh in An Unmarried Woman (1978)

    5. An Unmarried Woman

    19782h 4mR79Metascore
    7.2 (6.4K)
    A Manhattan woman struggles with her identity as she tries to move on from a painful divorce.
    DirectorPaul MazurskyStarsJill ClayburghAlan BatesMichael Murphy
  • The Fury (1978)

    6. The Fury

    19781h 58mR64Metascore
    6.3 (18K)
    A former CIA agent uses the talents of a young psychic to help retrieve his telekinetic son from a shadowy secret government agency.
    DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsKirk DouglasJohn CassavetesCarrie Snodgress
  • Geneviève Bujold in Coma (1978)

    7. Coma

    19781h 53mPG60Metascore
    6.9 (22K)
    A young and ambitious female doctor's best friend falls into an unexplained coma after a routine medical procedure. Noticing an unusually high number of similar comas occurring in her hospital, she's determined to uncover the cause.
    DirectorMichael CrichtonStarsMichael DouglasRip TornGeneviève Bujold
  • Watership Down (1978)

    8. Watership Down

    19781h 32mPG64Metascore
    7.5 (41K)
    Hoping to escape destruction by human developers and save their community, a colony of rabbits, led by Hazel and Fiver, seek out a safe place to set up a new warren.
    DirectorsMartin RosenJohn HubleyStarsJohn HurtRichard BriersRalph Richardson
  • Isabelle Huppert in Violette (1978)

    9. Violette

    19782h 4mNot Rated
    7.1 (2.6K)
    In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.
    DirectorClaude ChabrolStarsIsabelle HuppertStéphane AudranJean Carmet
  • Melanie Mayron in Girlfriends (1978)

    10. Girlfriends

    19781h 28mPG
    7.2 (3.3K)
    A photographer and her girlfriend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.
    DirectorClaudia WeillStarsMelanie MayronEli WallachAdam Cohen
  • A Wedding (1978)

    11. A Wedding

    19782h 5mPG
    7.0 (3.9K)
    The daughter of a Louisville truck driver marries the scion of a very wealthy family, but the reception at the family estate is boycotted by the invited guests.
    DirectorRobert AltmanStarsCarol BurnettDesi Arnaz Jr.Geraldine Chaplin
  • Killer of Sheep (1978)

    12. Killer of Sheep

    19781h 20mNot Rated96Metascore
    7.2 (7.9K)
    Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support.
    DirectorCharles BurnettStarsHenry G. SandersKaycee MooreCharles Bracy
  • Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Ted Ross, and Nipsey Russell in The Wiz (1978)

    13. The Wiz

    19782h 14mG53Metascore
    5.6 (18K)
    When Harlem schoolteacher Dorothy is miraculously whisked away to an urban fantasy land called Oz, she goes in search of the Wiz, a wizard who can help her get back to Manhattan, along with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion.
    DirectorSidney LumetStarsDiana RossMichael JacksonNipsey Russell
  • Adam Ant, Nell Campbell, Jayne County, Jordan, Jenny Runacre, and Toyah Willcox in Jubilee (1978)

    14. Jubilee

    19781h 46mNot Rated79Metascore
    5.9 (3.9K)
    Queen Elizabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.
    DirectorDerek JarmanStarsAdam AntRichard O'BrienIan Charleson
  • Halloween (1978)

    15. Halloween

    19781h 31mR90Metascore
    7.7 (323K)
    Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, to kill again.
    DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsDonald PleasenceJamie Lee CurtisTony Moran
  • Camille Keaton and Meir Zarchi in I Spit on Your Grave (1978)

    16. I Spit on Your Grave

    19781h 41mR19Metascore
    5.6 (33K)
    An aspiring writer is repeatedly assaulted, humiliated, and left for dead by four men she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
    DirectorMeir ZarchiStarsCamille KeatonEron TaborRichard Pace
  • Jûsan-nin renzoku bôkôma (1978)

    17. Jûsan-nin renzoku bôkôma

    19781h
    6.3 (494)
    A chubby, bicycle-riding killer dispatches 13 people in a cold, bloody, detached rampage.
    DirectorKôji WakamatsuStarsKumiko ArakiRara ChinamiMayuko Hino
  • Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

    18. Eyes of Laura Mars

    19781h 44mR49Metascore
    6.2 (13K)
    Fashion photographer Laura Mars, whose photographs contain violent images, develops the ability to see through a killer's eyes. Those around her include her driver Tommy, her manager Donald, her ex-husband Michael, and policeman John.
    DirectorIrvin KershnerStarsFaye DunawayTommy Lee JonesBrad Dourif
  • Harvey Keitel in Fingers (1978)

    19. Fingers

    19781h 30mR
    6.7 (3K)
    A dysfunctional young man is pulled between loyalties to his Italian mob-connected loan-shark father and his mentally-disturbed Jewish concert-pianist mother.
    DirectorJames TobackStarsHarvey KeitelTisa FarrowJim Brown
  • Sam Elliott, Katharine Ross, and Roger Daltrey in The Legacy (1978)

    20. The Legacy

    19781h 42mR31Metascore
    5.7 (3.7K)
    An American couple in England stumble upon a rambling mansion where a number of powerful individuals have been summoned by its patriarch regarding the home's legacy.
    DirectorRichard MarquandStarsKatharine RossSam ElliottJohn Standing
  • Donald Sutherland and Veronica Cartwright in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

    21. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

    19781h 55mPG75Metascore
    7.4 (76K)
    When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city's residents one body at a time.
    DirectorPhilip KaufmanStarsDonald SutherlandBrooke AdamsJeff Goldblum
  • Michel Galabru, Michel Serrault, and Ugo Tognazzi in La Cage aux Folles (1978)

    22. La Cage aux Folles

    19781h 37mR61Metascore
    7.2 (12K)
    The manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and his star attraction, are a gay couple. Madness ensues when his straight son brings home a fiancée and her ultra-conservative parents to meet them.
    DirectorÉdouard MolinaroStarsUgo TognazziMichel SerraultClaire Maurier
  • Gene Hackman, Terence Stamp, Ned Beatty, Christopher Reeve, Jackie Cooper, Sarah Douglas, Jeff East, Margot Kidder, Jack O'Halloran, Valerie Perrine, and Susannah York in Superman (1978)

    23. Superman

    19782h 23mPG82Metascore
    7.4 (196K)
    An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.
    DirectorRichard DonnerStarsChristopher ReeveMargot KidderGene Hackman
  • Ursula Andress and Stacy Keach in Slave of the Cannibal God (1978)

    24. Slave of the Cannibal God

    19781h 39m
    5.2 (5K)
    A woman is aided by her brother, a professor and an explorer as they search the jungles of New Guinea for her anthropologist husband, who vanished near a mountain that is said to be cursed.
    DirectorSergio MartinoStarsUrsula AndressStacy KeachClaudio Cassinelli
  • John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John in Grease (1978)

    25. Grease

    19781h 50mPG70Metascore
    7.2 (315K)
    Good girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?
    DirectorRandal KleiserStarsJohn TravoltaOlivia Newton-JohnStockard Channing

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