1978 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1978

Notable Films Released in 1978

U.S.A. unless stated #

• The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Shao Lin san shi liu fang), starring Gordon Liu - (Hong Kong)

A

• The Adventures of Jody Shanan
• Alexandria... Why? (Iskanderija... lih?), directed by Youssef Chahine - (Egypt)
• Almost Summer, starring Bruno Kirby
• American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince, directed by Martin Scorsese (documentary)
• American Hot Wax, a biopic of Alan Freed, starring Tim McIntire, Fran Drescher, Laraine Newman, Jay Leno
• L'Argent des autres (Other People's Money), starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Catherine Deneuve - (France)
• Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten), directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann - (Sweden)
• Avalanche, starring Rock Hudson, Robert Forster, Mia Farrow

B

• The Bad News Bears Go to Japan, starring Tony Curtis and Jackie Earle Haley
• Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron (Kumokiri Nizaemon) - (Japan)
• Battlestar Galactica (Canada and most European countries only; released in U.S. theatres the following year)
• The Betsy, starring Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Katharine Ross, Kathleen Beller, Lesley-Anne Down
• The Big Fix, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Anspach, F. Murray Abraham, John Lithgow
• The Big Sleep, starring Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Oliver Reed, Richard Boone, Candy Clark, Joan Collins, James Stewart - (U.K.)
• Big Wednesday, directed by John Milius, starring Jan-Michael Vincent
• Bloodbrothers, starring Richard Gere and Paul Sorvino
• Blue Collar, directed by Paul Schrader, starring Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto, Harvey Keitel
• Born Again, starring Dean Jones and Anne Francis
• The Boys from Brazil, directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starring Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• The Boys in Company C, starring Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens, Craig Wasson
• The Brink's Job, directed by William Friedkin, starring Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands, Peter Boyle, Paul Sorvino, Warren Oates
• The Buddy Holly Story, starring Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith
• Bye Bye Monkey (Rêve de singe / Ciao maschio), starring Gérard Depardieu and Marcello Mastroianni - (France/Italy)

C

• La Cage aux Folles, directed by Edouard Molinaro, starring Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault - (France/Italy)
• California Suite, starring Alan Alda, Jane Fonda, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, Elaine May, Walter Matthau
• Capricorn One, directed by Peter Hyams, starring Elliott Gould, James Brolin, O.J. Simpson, Sam Waterston, Hal Holbrook, Brenda Vaccaro
• Caravans, starring Anthony Quinn, Jennifer O'Neill, Michael Sarrazin
• Casey's Shadow, starring Walter Matthau, Alexis Smith, Robert Webber
• The Cat from Outer Space, starring Ronnie Schell and Sandy Duncan
• Centennial, TV miniseries, starring Raymond Burr, Richard Chamberlain, Richard Crenna, Andy Griffith, David Janssen, Alex Karras
• La chambre verte (The Green Room), directed by and starring François Truffaut - (France)
• The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, directed by Fred Schepisi - (Australia)
• The Cheap Detective, starring Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Marsha Mason, Sid Caesar
• China 9, Liberty 37 (Amore, piombo e furore), starring Fabio Testi, Jenny Agutter, Warren Oates - (Italy/Spain)
• Closed Circuit (Circuito chiuso) - (Italy)
• Coma, directed by Michael Crichton, starring Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Richard Widmark
• Comes a Horseman, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Jane Fonda, James Caan, Jason Robards
• Coming Home, directed by Hal Ashby, starring Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford
• Convoy, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine
• Corvette Summer, starring Mark Hamill
• Cosi' come sei (aka Stay as you are) starring Marcello Mastoianni and Nastassja Kinski - (Italy)
• Crippled Avengers (Can que), directed by Chang Cheh - (Hong Kong)

D

• The Dain Curse, mini-series for TV, starring James Coburn and Jean Simmons
• Damien: Omen II, starring William Holden and Lee Grant
• d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (d'Artanyan i tri mushketera) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Dawn of the Dead, directed by George A. Romero - (U.S.A./Italy)
• Days of Heaven, directed by Terrence Malick, starring Richard Gere and Brooke Adams
• Death on the Nile, directed by John Guillermin, starring Peter Ustinov, David Niven, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith, Angela Lansbury, Olivia Hussey, Mia Farrow - (U.K.)
• Debbie Does Dallas, adult comedy
• The Deer Hunter, directed by Michael Cimino, starring Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep
• The Demon (Kichiku) - (Japan)
• A Different Story, starring Meg Foster, Perry King, Valerie Curtin
• El diputado (The Deputy) - (Spain)
• Don, starring Amitabh Bachchan - (India)
• A Dream of Passion (Kravgi gynaikon), directed by Jules Dassin, starring Melina Mercouri and Ellen Burstyn - (Greece)
• The Driver, directed by Walter Hill, starring Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani, Ronee Blakely
• Drunken Master (Jui kuen), starring Jackie Chan - (Hong Kong)

E

• Ecce bombo, directed by and starring Nanni Moretti - (Italy)
• Empire of Passion (Ai no Bōrei), directed by Nagisa Oshima - (Japan)
• The End, directed by and starring Burt Reynolds, with Dom DeLuise, Joanne Woodward, Pat O'Brien, Myrna Loy, Sally Field
• An Enemy of the People, starring Steve McQueen
• Enter the Fat Dragon (Fei Lung gwoh gong), starring Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)
• Every Which Way but Loose, directed by James Fargo, starring Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis
• Eyes of Laura Mars, directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Faye Dunaway and Tommy Lee Jones

F

• F.I.S.T., directed by Norman Jewison, starring Sylvester Stallone, Melinda Dillon, Rod Steiger
• FM, starring Cleavon Little and Eileen Brennan
• Fedora, directed by Billy Wilder, starring William Holden and Marthe Keller
• Fingers, starring Harvey Keitel
• Five Deadly Venoms
• Force 10 from Navarone, starring Robert Shaw, Edward Fox, Harrison Ford - (U.K.)
• Foul Play, directed by Colin Higgins, starring Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Dudley Moore, Billy Barty
• The Fury, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Kirk Douglas, John Cassavetes, Carrie Snodgress, Andrew Stevens, Amy Irving

G

• Gates of Heaven, a documentary film
• Germany in Autumn (Deutschland im Herbst) - (West Germany)
• Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Preparez vos mouchoirs), directed by Bertrand Blier - (France)
• Girlfriends, directed by Claudia Weill, starring Melanie Mayron - Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner
• Go Tell the Spartans, starring Burt Lancaster
• Gray Lady Down, starring Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty
• Grease, directed by Randal Kleiser, starring John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Jeff Conaway, Stockard Channing, Sid Caesar, Eve Arden

H

• Halloween, directed by John Carpenter, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Donald Pleasence
• Harper Valley PTA, starring Barbara Eden
• Heaven Can Wait, starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Charles Grodin, Dyan Cannon, Jack Warden, James Mason
• The Herd (Sürü) - (Turkey)
• High-Ballin', starring Peter Fonda, Michael Ironside, Helen Shaver, Jerry Reed
• Holocaust, TV miniseries, starring Meryl Streep, James Woods, Michael Moriarty, Tovah Feldshuh, Fritz Weaver, Ian Holm
• Hooper, directed by Hal Needham, starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jan-Michael Vincent, Robert Klein, Brian Keith
• Hot Lead and Cold Feet, starring Karen Valentine
• House Calls, directed by Howard Zieff, starring Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Richard Benjamin, Art Carney
• A Hunting Accident (Moy laskovyy i nezhnyy zver) - (U.S.S.R.)

I-J

• I Wanna Hold Your Hand, directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Nancy Allen, Marc McClure, Bobby Di Cicco
• Ice Castles, starring Lynn-Holly Johnson
• In a Year with 13 Moons (In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder - (West Germany)
• In Praise of Older Women, starring Tom Berenger, Karen Black, Helen Shaver - (Canada)
• Interiors, directed by Woody Allen, starring Geraldine Page, Diane Keaton, E.G. Marshall, Mary Beth Hurt, Maureen Stapleton
• International Velvet, starring Tatum O'Neal, Nanette Newman, Anthony Hopkins
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers, remake of 1956 movie, starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum
• Jaws 2, starring Roy Scheider

K-L

• King of the Gypsies, starring Eric Roberts, Sterling Hayden, Judd Hirsch, Shelley Winters, Brooke Shields
• Kondura (The Boon), directed by Shyam Benegal - (India-Bollywood/Telugu)
• Lady on the Bus (A Dama do Lotação), starring Sônia Braga - (Brazil)
• The Left-Handed Woman (Die linkshändige Frau) - (West Germany)
• The Last Waltz, directed by Martin Scorsese, featuring The Band
• Long Weekend, starring John Hargreaves - (Australia)
• The Lord of the Rings, animated film by Ralph Bakshi

M

• Magic, directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Anthony Hopkins, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Ed Lauter
• De Mantel der Liefde (The Mantle of Love) - (Netherlands)
• Mean Dog Blues, starring Gregg Henry, Kay Lenz, Tina Louise, George Kennedy
• The Medusa Touch, starring Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick - (U.K.)
• Midnight Express, directed by Alan Parker, starring Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Movie Movie, directed by Stanley Donen, starring George C. Scott, Harry Hamlin, Barry Bostwick, Trish Van Devere, Red Buttons, Art Carney
• Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (Conqueror of Destiny), starring Amitabh Bachchan - (India)

N-O

• National Lampoon's Animal House, directed by John Landis, starring John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Peter Riegert, Tom Hulce, Karen Allen, John Vernon
• Newsfront, directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Wendy Hughes and Bryan Brown - (Australia)
• A Night Full of Rain (Una notte piena di pioggia), directed by Lina Wertmuller, starring Giancarlo Giannini and Candice Bergen - (Italy/U.S.A.)
• The Night the Prowler, directed by Jim Sharman - (Australia)
• Occupation in 26 Pictures (Okupacija u 26 slika) - (Yugoslavia)
• The One and Only, directed by Carl Reiner, starring Henry Winkler and Kim Darby
• Orchestra Rehearsal (Prova d'orchestra), directed by Federico Fellini - (Italy)

P-Q

• Paradise Alley, directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone, with Armand Assante, Anne Archer
• Passion Flower Hotel (Leidenschaftliche Blümchen), starring Nastassja Kinski - (West Germany)
• Perceval le Gallois (Percival the Gaul), directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)
• Piranha, directed by Joe Dante, starring Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy
• The Place Without Limits (El lugar sin límites) - (Mexico)
• Pretty Baby, directed by Louis Malle, starring Keith Carradine, Susan Sarandon, Brooke Shields
• The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians (Profetul, aurul si Ardelenii) - (Romania)
• Pugachev - (U.S.S.R.)

R

• Rabbit Test, directed by Joan Rivers, starring Billy Crystal
• Remember My Name, starring Geraldine Chaplin and Anthony Perkins
• Renaldo and Clara, directed by and starring Bob Dylan
• Return from Witch Mountain, starring Bette Davis and Christopher Lee
• Revenge of the Pink Panther, starring Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom and Dyan Cannon - (U.K./U.S.A.)
• Rhinegold - (West Germany)
• Ringing Bell (Chirin no Suzu), an anime film - (Japan)
• Rockers, starring Burning Spear, Gregory Isaacs, Big Youth and others - (Jamaica)

S

• The Sailor's Return, starring Tom Bell - (U.K.)
• Same Time Next Year, starring Alan Alda and Ellen Burstyn
• Sextette, starring Mae West, Timothy Dalton, Dom DeLuise, Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, George Hamilton, Alice Cooper
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, starring Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees with music by The Beatles
• Shogun's Samurai (Yagu ichizoku no inbō), starring Sonny Chiba - (Japan)
• The Shout, directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, starring Alan Bates, John Hurt, Susannah York - (U.K.)
• The Silent Partner, directed by Daryl Duke, starring Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York
• Slow Dancing in the Big City, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Paul Sorvino
• The Small One
• Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (Shé xíng diāo shǒu), starring Jackie Chan - (Hong Kong)
• Somebody Killed Her Husband, starring Farrah Fawcett and Jeff Bridges
• Stevie, starring Glenda Jackson and Trevor Howard - (U.K.)
• Straight Time, directed by Ulu Grosbard, starring Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Harry Dean Stanton, Gary Busey
• The Stud, starring Joan Collins - (U.K.)
• Superman, directed by Richard Donner, starring Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Valerie Perrine, Ned Beatty, Glenn Ford
• The Swarm, starring Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray, Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson, Lee Grant
• The Swissmakers (Die Schweizermacher) - (Switzerland)

T

• Thank God It's Friday, starring Debra Winger, Donna Summer, Jeff Goldblum
• Three from Buttermilk Village (Troye iz Prostokvashino) - (U.S.S.R.)
• Toplo (Heat) - (Bulgaria)
• The Tree of Wooden Clogs (L'Albero degli zoccoli), directed by Ermanno Olmi - (Italy) - Palme d'Or winner
• Trishul, starring Sanjeev Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan - (India)
• Las Truchas (The Trout) - (Spain) - Golden Bear winner
• Two Solitudes, starring Jean-Pierre Aumont and Stacy Keach - (Canada)

U-V

• Uncle Joe Shannon, starring Burt Young
• An Unmarried Woman, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy
• Up In Smoke, starring Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong
• Violette Nozière, directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Isabelle Huppert and Stéphane Audran - (France)

W

• Ward Six (Paviljon VI) - (Yugoslavia)
• Warriors Two (Zan xian sheng yu zhao qian Hua), starring Bryan Leung and Sammo Hung - (Hong Kong)
• The Water Babies, directed by Lionel Jeffries, starring James Mason, Bernard Cribbins, Billie Whitelaw - (U.K./Poland)
• Watership Down, animated film directed by Martin Rosen, with voices of John Hurt and Richard Briers - (U.K.)
• A Wedding, directed by Robert Altman, starring Desi Arnaz Jr., Carol Burnett, Geraldine Chaplin, Lauren Hutton, Paul Dooley, Mia Farrow
• Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?, starring George Segal and Jacqueline Bisset - (West Germany/U.S.A.)
• Who'll Stop the Rain, directed by Karel Reisz, starring Nick Nolte and Tuesday Weld
• The Wild Geese, starring Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris - (U.K.)
• Without Anesthesia (Bez znieczulenia), directed by Andrzej Wajda - (Poland)
• The Wiz, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson
• Wolf Lake, directed by Burt Kennedy, starring Rod Steiger

XYZ

• You Are Not Alone (Du er ikke alene) - (Denmark)