1978

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Fangface
6.1

Fangface

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 Story of the Faithful Wookiee
6

The Story of the Faithful Wookiee

The Story of the Faithful Wookiee is an animated story that aired as part of the 1978 made-for-TV-film The Star Wars Holiday Special. It was ...
Crazy Nights
4.1

Crazy Nights

Apr. 20, 1978

Crazy Nights

Somewhat crazy semi-documentary by director Joe D’Amato is a strange series of Burlesque performances from around the globe. Actress and ...
Sappho and Jerry (Parts I – III)
6.7

Sappho and Jerry (Parts I – III)

“The three parts developed over a year period of intense study during the mid-1970s. It sort of began and ended my dependency on “high-tech” ...
The Suicide
6.5

The Suicide

Jun. 15, 1978

The Suicide

A young boy, abandoned by his father and supported by a blindly optimistic mother, struggles to fit in at his new school.
Brawl Busters
5.7

Brawl Busters

Sep. 30, 1978

Brawl Busters

The cruel Tien Hu, with his many powerful alliances, oppresses an entire Chinese province, killing many of the hard working citizens.
Big Land Flying Eagles
5.6

Big Land Flying Eagles

Big Land, Flying Eagles is a spaghetti western-sequel desert intrigue film set on the Mongolian-Chinese border. Xiao Fung, a notable swordsman, ...
Wild Gunman
6.4

Wild Gunman

Jan. 01, 1978

Wild Gunman

The mythic nature of cowboy masculinity is deconstructed in this scathing montage of re-contextualized sounds and images culled from advertising, ...
Winter’s Flower
6.7

Winter’s Flower

Jun. 17, 1978

Winter’s Flower

Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave ...
Monkey
8.4

Monkey

Oct. 01, 1978

Monkey

Buddhist priest Tripitaka and his three disciples Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy, travel from China to India to fetch the Buddhist scriptures. They ...
Connections
9.3

Connections

Oct. 17, 1978

Connections

Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the history of science and invention, Connections explores an “Alternative View of Change” ...
A Woman Called Moses
7.8

A Woman Called Moses

Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and reincarnates as a dog. Remembering some of his previous being, he returns to his wife and ...
Vega$
6.9

Vega$

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to ...
Taxi
7.7

Taxi

Sep. 12, 1978

Taxi

Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a collection of varied and strange ...
Pennies from Heaven
8.4

Pennies from Heaven

Based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner’s son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his ...
The Paper Chase
8.1

The Paper Chase

Sep. 09, 1978

The Paper Chase

Critically lauded drama about the life and pressures of a group of students at a prestigious Eastern law school, with a strict and domineering ...
Pilgrim’s Progress
5.3

Pilgrim’s Progress

Ten celebrities must survive entirely on their own on an uninhabited island in the Pacific.
Holocaust
8

Holocaust

Apr. 16, 1978

Holocaust

Berlin, Germany, 1935. The day Karl Weiss, a Jewish painter, and Inga Helms, a Christian woman, marry, is the one in which both of them and the ...
Going Straight
7

Going Straight

Feb. 24, 1978

Going Straight

Going Straight is a BBC sitcom which was a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, newly released from ...
Diff’rent Strokes
6.6

Diff’rent Strokes

Nov. 03, 1978

Diff’rent Strokes

The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two African American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich ...
Blake’s 7
8

Blake’s 7

Jan. 02, 1978

Blake’s 7

A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.
Battlestar Galactica
7.2

Battlestar Galactica

Sep. 17, 1978

Battlestar Galactica

When the 12 Colonies of Man are wiped out by a cybernetic race called the Cylons, Commander Adama and the crew of the battlestar Galactica lead a ...
O Aleijadinho
7.4

O Aleijadinho

Jan. 01, 1978

O Aleijadinho

O Aleijadinho, a study of the work of Antonio Francisco Lisboa, the architect whose cathedral de Andrade had assisted in the restoration of more ...
Skin of Roses
4.4

Skin of Roses

Sep. 09, 1978

Skin of Roses

Ritsuko is a popular madame of a nightclub but, ever since her gangster husband got caught and imprisoned, her life has taken a turn for the ...
Sometimes… Like a Prostitute
4.4

Sometimes… Like a Prostitute

A man with a medical condition and a guilty past becomes obsessed with a simple minded girl he finds in a park. His wife is not thrilled when he ...