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  • Days of Heaven (1978)

    1. 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
  • Watership Down (1978)

    2. 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
  • Big Wednesday (1978)

    3. Big Wednesday

    19782hPG54Metascore
    7.1 (7.7K)
    Character study about the lives of some California surfers from the early 1960s to the 1970s as the Vietnam War interrupts their carefree life.
    DirectorJohn MiliusStarsJan-Michael VincentWilliam KattGary Busey
  • The Boys from Brazil (1978)

    4. The Boys from Brazil

    19782h 5mR40Metascore
    7.0 (32K)
    A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
    DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsGregory PeckLaurence OlivierJames Mason
  • Pastorale 1943 (1978)

    5. Pastorale 1943

    19782h 5m
    6.8 (513)
    In a Dutch village during the German occupation, a small group of badly organized resistance fighters attempt to assassinate a collaborator.
    DirectorWim VerstappenStarsFrederik de GrootLeen JongewaardCoen Flink
  • Robert De Niro in The Deer Hunter (1978)

    6. The Deer Hunter

    19783h 3mR90Metascore
    8.1 (376K)
    An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.
    DirectorMichael CiminoStarsRobert De NiroChristopher WalkenJohn Cazale
  • The Driver (1978)

    7. The Driver

    19781h 31mR56Metascore
    7.1 (21K)
    A getaway driver becomes the latest assignment for a tenacious detective.
    DirectorWalter HillStarsRyan O'NealBruce DernIsabelle Adjani
  • Brad Davis in Midnight Express (1978)

    8. Midnight Express

    19782h 1mR59Metascore
    7.5 (91K)
    Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
    DirectorAlan ParkerStarsBrad DavisIrene MiracleBo Hopkins
  • Halloween (1978)

    9. 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
  • Empire of Passion (1978)

    10. 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
  • John Paul in Dawn of the Dead (1978)

    11. Dawn of the Dead

    19782h 7mUnrated71Metascore
    7.8 (133K)
    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.
    DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDavid EmgeKen ForeeScott H. Reiniger
  • Donald Sutherland and Veronica Cartwright in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

    12. 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
  • Dustin Hoffman and Theresa Russell in Straight Time (1978)

    13. Straight Time

    19781h 54mR64Metascore
    7.4 (11K)
    The difficulties of a career burglar to reinsert himself after being released on parole.
    DirectorsUlu GrosbardDustin HoffmanStarsDustin HoffmanTheresa RussellGary Busey
  • National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

    14. National Lampoon's Animal House

    19781h 49mR79Metascore
    7.4 (133K)
    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.
    DirectorJohn LandisStarsJohn BelushiKaren AllenTom Hulce
  • Orchestra Rehearsal (1978)

    15. Orchestra Rehearsal

    19781h 12mR
    7.1 (5.3K)
    An orchestra assembles for a rehearsal in an ancient chapel under the inquisitive eyes of a TV documentary crew, but an uprising breaks out.
    DirectorFederico FelliniStarsBalduin BaasClara ColosimoElizabeth Labi
  • A Wedding (1978)

    16. 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
  • Blue Collar (1978)

    17. Blue Collar

    19781h 54mR77Metascore
    7.5 (12K)
    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.
    DirectorPaul SchraderStarsRichard PryorHarvey KeitelYaphet Kotto
  • The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)

    18. The Tree of Wooden Clogs

    19783h 6mNot Rated
    7.8 (8.5K)
    Peasant life in a feudal farm in rural Italy at the end of the 19th century.
    DirectorErmanno OlmiStarsLuigi OrnaghiFrancesca MoriggiOmar Brignoli
  • Damien: Omen II (1978)

    19. Damien: Omen II

    19781h 47mR45Metascore
    6.2 (39K)
    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.
    DirectorsDon TaylorMike HodgesStarsWilliam HoldenLee GrantJonathan Scott-Taylor
  • Harvey Keitel in Fingers (1978)

    20. 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
  • The Fury (1978)

    21. 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
  • Camille Keaton and Meir Zarchi in I Spit on Your Grave (1978)

    22. 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
  • The Evil (1978)

    23. The Evil

    19781h 29mR
    5.6 (3.4K)
    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.
    DirectorGus TrikonisStarsRichard CrennaJoanna PettetAndrew Prine
  • Briony Behets and John Hargreaves in Long Weekend (1978)

    24. Long Weekend

    19781h 37mNot Rated61Metascore
    6.5 (6.5K)
    When a suburban couple go camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.
    DirectorColin EgglestonStarsJohn HargreavesBriony BehetsMike McEwen
  • Marie-Georges Pascal in The Grapes of Death (1978)

    25. The Grapes of Death

    19781h 25mR
    6.0 (2.9K)
    A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into killer zombies.
    DirectorJean RollinStarsMarie-Georges PascalFélix MartenSerge Marquand

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