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The Best Movies of 1978
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Movie: Grease ( 1978 )
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?
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Movie: National Lampoon's Animal House ( 1978 )
At a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
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Movie: The Deer Hunter ( 1979 )
The lives of a group of friends are forever changed by the Vietnam War.
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Movie: Superman ( 1978 )
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.
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Movie: Halloween ( 1978 )
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.
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Movie: Pretty Baby ( 1978 )
A preteen girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.
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Movie: Death on the Nile ( 1978 )
As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?
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Movie: The Wiz ( 1978 )
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.
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Movie: The Alien Factor ( 1978 )
A science ship with three dangerous specimens collected from around the universe crash lands on Earth. A mysterious stranger named "Ben Zachary" shows up claiming to be able to save the day. Can he do what he claims?
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Movie: Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 )
During an escalating zombie epidemic, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter and his TV executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
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Movie: The Thirty Nine Steps ( 1980 )
In March 1914, a mining engineer named Richard Hannay tries to prevent Prussian Agents from executing a political assassination designed to trigger World War I.
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Movie: Midnight Express ( 1978 )
Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
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Movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 1978 )
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.
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Movie: The Lord of the Rings ( 1978 )
The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron's reign over Middle-earth.
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Movie: Days of Heaven ( 1978 )
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.
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Movie: I Spit on Your Grave ( 1978 )
An aspiring writer is repeatedly assaulted, humiliated, and left for dead by four men she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
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Movie: Up in Smoke ( 1978 )
Stoner musicians Pedro DePacas and Anthony "Man" Stoner unknowingly smuggle a van - made entirely of marijuana - from Mexico to Los Angeles with incompetent Police Sergeant Stedenko hot on their trail.
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Movie: The Boys from Brazil ( 1978 )
A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
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Movie: Power Play ( 1978 )
In an unnamed country rife with internal troubles, Narriman, a loyal army colonel, has his conscience pricked into planning a coup d'etat, under the influence of a dissident intellectual.
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Movie: Watership Down ( 1978 )
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.
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Movie: Jaws 2 ( 1978 )
Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
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Movie: The Star Wars Holiday Special ( 1978 )
Chewbacca and Han Solo try to get to the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk to celebrate Life Day, but are impeded by an Imperial blockade. Chewie's family passes the time with various forms of entertainment.
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Movie: Convoy ( 1978 )
Truckers form a mile-long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff - Based on the country song of the same title by C.W. McCall.
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Movie: Autumn Sonata ( 1978 )
A devoted wife is visited by her mother, a successful concert pianist who had little time for her when she was young.
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Movie: The Cheap Detective ( 1978 )
San Francisco, 1940, detectives, dames, documents, Nazis, and a treasure.
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Movie: The Fury ( 1978 )
A former CIA agent uses the talents of a young psychic to help retrieve his telekinetic son from a shadowy secret government agency.
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Movie: Every Which Way But Loose ( 1978 )
The San Fernando Valley adventures of trucker turned prize-fighter Philo Beddoe and his pet orangutan Clyde.
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Movie: Starcrash ( 1979 )
An outlaw smuggler and her alien companion are recruited by the Emperor of the Galaxy to rescue his son and destroy a secret weapon by the evil Count Zarth Arn.
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Movie: Damien: Omen II ( 1978 )
Damien the Antichrist, now about to turn thirteen years old, finally learns of his destiny under the guidance of an unholy disciple of Satan. Meanwhile dark forces begin to eliminate all those who suspect the child's true identity.
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Movie: Corvette Summer ( 1978 )
High school graduate Kenneth W. Dantley Junior and Vanessa, a hooker-in-training, try to track down his custom-made newly-stolen Corvette.
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Movie: Coming Home ( 1978 )
In 1968 California, a woman whose husband is a Marine officer fighting in Vietnam falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.
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Movie: Game of Death ( 1979 )
A martial arts movie star must fake his death to bring down the syndicate that is extorting him and other celebrities - including his pop singer girlfriend - for protection money.
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Movie: Faces of Death ( 1978 )
A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV material to homemade super 8 movies.
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Movie: Piranha ( 1978 )
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
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Movie: The Inglorious Bastards ( 1978 )
In 1944 France, a group of escaped American military prisoners en route to Switzerland volunteers to steal a German V2 rocket warhead for the Allies.
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Movie: Goin' South ( 1978 )
Due to the lack of men after the Civil War, a western town allows a young bachelorette who lives alone to save a thief from hanging by marrying him. They must deal with his old gang, the Sheriff, the railroad, a gold mine, and each other.
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Movie: Battlestar Galactica ( 1979 )
After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet on a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth.
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Movie: Slave of the Cannibal God ( 1979 )
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.
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Movie: Drunken Master ( 1978 )
Wong Fei-Hung is a mischievous, yet righteous young man, but after a series of incidents, his frustrated father has him disciplined by a master of drunken martial arts.
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Movie: F.I.S.T. ( 1978 )
A rebellious Cleveland warehouse worker rises through the ranks of a trucking industry union to become union president but his organized crime links cause his eventual downfall.
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Movie: The Buddy Holly Story ( 1978 )
The story of the life and career of the early rock and roll singer, from his meteoric rise to stardom, to his marriage and untimely death.
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Movie: Coma ( 1978 )
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.
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Movie: Magic ( 1978 )
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
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Movie: Heaven Can Wait ( 1978 )
A Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally taken away from his body by an overanxious angel before he was meant to die, returns to life in the body of a recently murdered millionaire.
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Movie: Foul Play ( 1978 )
A San Francisco librarian picks up a hitchhiker whose car has broken down, which leads to her being stalked and hunted by shady individuals. A cop she briefly met during a function eventually comes to her rescue.
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Movie: The Great Train Robbery ( 1979 )
England, 1850s. A master criminal aims to rob a train of a large sum of gold. Security is incredibly tight and the task seems an impossible one. However, he has a plan and just the right people to carry it out.
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Movie: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ( 1978 )
A small-town band hits it big, but it must battle a nefarious plot in the music industry.
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Movie: Eyes of Laura Mars ( 1978 )
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.
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Movie: Deathsport ( 1978 )
Futuristic Science Fiction about a sport to the death, using "destructocycles".
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Movie: The Wild Geese ( 1978 )
A British banker hires a former British Army colonel turned mercenary to parachute into Africa with his team and rescue a deposed president of a southern African nation from the hands of a corrupt dictator.
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Movie: Remember My Name ( 1978 )
Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life", but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.
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Movie: The Driver ( 1978 )
A getaway driver becomes the latest assignment for a tenacious detective.
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Movie: Force 10 from Navarone ( 1978 )
During World War II, several oddly assorted military experts are teamed in a mission to raid and destroy a bridge vital to enemy strategy.
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Movie: Interiors ( 1978 )
Three sisters find their lives spinning out of control in the wake of their parents' sudden, unexpected divorce.
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Movie: The Last Waltz ( 1978 )
A film account and presentation of the final concert of The Band.
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Movie: Moment by Moment ( 1978 )
Trisha Rawlings, a Beverly Hills socialite, suffers from loneliness following separation from her womanizing husband Stu. Strip, a young drifter, becomes infatuated with her and develops a May/December relationship with her.
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Movie: The Big Sleep ( 1978 )
A grizzled American private detective in England investigates a complicated case of blackmail-turned-murder involving a rich but honest elderly general, his two loose socialite daughters, a pornographer, and a gangster.
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Movie: Hooper ( 1978 )
Aging Hollywood stuntman Sonny Hooper wants to prove that he's still got what it takes to be a great professional in this risky, under-recognized line of work.
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Movie: Revenge of the Pink Panther ( 1978 )
To prove that he still is strong and powerful, Philippe Douvier decides to kill Clouseau. Once news of his "death" has been announced, Clouseau tries to take advantage of it and goes undercover with Cato to find out who tried to kill him.
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Movie: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! ( 1978 )
A group of scientists band together to save the world from mutated killer tomatoes.
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Movie: The Silent Partner ( 1979 )
A timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives. When the sadistic crook realizes he's been fooled, he tracks down the teller and engages him in a cat-and-mouse chase for the cash.
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Movie: The Cat from Outer Space ( 1978 )
Three scientists help an Alien feline, stranded on Earth, to repair its damaged spacecraft in order to return home but their efforts are hampered by inept army officials and foreign spies.
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Movie: The Swarm ( 1978 )
Deadly African bees spread over Texas and kill thousands of people. Scientists led by Bradford Crane and Captain Helena Anderson try to find an antidote and destroy the swarm - against the advice of Army General Thalius Slater.
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Movie: An Unmarried Woman ( 1978 )
A Manhattan woman struggles with her identity as she tries to move on from a painful divorce.
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Movie: Paradise Alley ( 1978 )
Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager.
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Movie: A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich ( 1978 )
A troubled boy (Larry B. Scott) becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother (Cicely Tyson) and foster father (Paul Winfield) help him fight it.
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Movie: Same Time, Next Year ( 1979 )
Beginning in 1951, neurotic married accountant George and naive married homemaker Doris have a one-night stand and then meet at the same place once each year. As years go by, they observe changes in each other and their relationship.
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Movie: The Toolbox Murders ( 1978 )
A ski-masked maniac kills apartment complex tenants with the contents of a toolbox.
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Movie: Return from Witch Mountain ( 1978 )
Tia and Tony visit Los Angeles, but he's quickly kidnapped by an evil scientist, leaving her to desperately search for him.
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Movie: Straight Time ( 1978 )
The difficulties of a career burglar to reinsert himself after being released on parole.
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Movie: California Suite ( 1978 )
Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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Movie: King of the Gypsies ( 1979 )
In the criminal and violent world of modern-day Gypsies based in New York City, their 'king' Zharko Stepanowicz passes his leadership to his unwilling grandson, leaving the skipped father resentful.
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Movie: I Wanna Hold Your Hand ( 1978 )
In 1964, six teenagers from New Jersey run off to see The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) in the hope of meeting their idols. However, they don't have tickets. Along the way, they learn new things about friendship and growing up.
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Movie: Rescue from Gilligan's Island ( 1978 )
The castaways must try to readjust to life in civilization after they are rescued from the island.
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Movie: Big Wednesday ( 1978 )
Character study about the lives of some California surfers from the early 1960s to the 1970s as the Vietnam War interrupts their carefree life.
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Movie: La Cage aux Folles ( 1979 )
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.
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Movie: Blue Collar ( 1978 )
When three automotive factory workers who're struggling financially try to steal from their own labor union, they discover corruption, and reluctantly decide to use this information for blackmail.
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Movie: Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park ( 1978 )
KISS, a rock band made up of superheroes, battles an evil inventor who has plans for destruction at a California amusement park.
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Movie: The Evil ( 1978 )
A doctor buys a Civil War era dilapidated mansion, and hires a few friends to fix it up, but the mansion hides a deadly secret.
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Movie: Summer of Fear ( 1978 )
A teenage girl's life is turned upside down after her cousin moves into her house, and as time goes by she begins to suspect that she may be a practitioner of witchcraft.
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Movie: The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash ( 1978 )
Charts the adventures of the prefab four, possibly the most famous band of all time.
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Movie: Avalanche ( 1978 )
The vacationers at a winter wonderland struggle to survive after an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort. Their holiday then turns into a game of survival.
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Movie: Good Guys Wear Black ( 1978 )
An ex-US Army commando must find the reason why his comrades from his unit are being systematically murdered before he is next.
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Movie: Just a Gigolo ( 1978 )
After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.
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Movie: The Hound of the Baskervilles ( 1978 )
A Sherlock Holmes spoof about a family that has been haunted for years by the curse of a horrible hound.
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Movie: The Bad News Bears Go to Japan ( 1978 )
A small-time hustler takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best Little League baseball team, sparking off a series of adventures and mishaps.
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Movie: Barracuda ( 1978 )
Little coastal town is being terrorized by deadly Barracudas.
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Movie: Rabbit Test ( 1979 )
Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world's first pregnant man!
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Movie: Puff the Magic Dragon ( 1978 )
A friendly dragon comes to help a non-communicative boy overcome his debilitating fears.
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Movie: American Hot Wax ( 1978 )
The story of the rise and fall of Alan Freed, the pioneering New York City radio disc jockey who was instrumental in introducing and popularizing rock 'n' roll music in the 1950s.