In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

Palace Carnage

1978

Chinese

6.3

♡ 3

Kang Cheng Director

Chok Chow Cheung as

Han Chiang as

Biao Yuen as

Wah Yuen as

The emperor's reign of terror expands. Heroic outlaw Ma Teng joins a squad of female rebels, whose leader is torn between family loyalties.

Talk of the Town Tora-san

1978

Japanese

6.5

♡ 4

Comedy

Yôji Yamada Director

Gajirô Satô as Gen-kô

Gin Maeda as Hiroshi

Hisao Dazai as Shachô

Masaru Ikeda as Toraya's guest

After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when a beautiful lady starts working at Toraya.

Stage-struck Tora-san

1978

Japanese

6.1

♡ 5

Comedy

Yôji Yamada Director

Shunji Sayama as Bingoya

Hiroshi Inuzuka as Owner of Hot Spring Inn

Raita Ryû as Takashi Miyata

Hisao Dazai as Umetaro

Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn where he meets Tomekichi, a young man who looks up to Tora-san.

Big Land, Flying Eagles

1978

Chinese

5.9

♡ 2

Action

Drama

Yang-Ming Tsai Director

Yu-Li Lan as

Feng Shih as

Hsiang Li as

Hsiang Chang as

Big Land, Flying Eagles is a spaghetti western-sequel desert intrigue film set on the Mongolian-Chinese border. Xiao Fung, a notable swordsman, has killed the son of a local warlord, Lee San, and the 3,000,000 tael that Lee’s son was transporting, now seems to have gone missing. Xiao Fung is now marked for death by Lee San, but finds protection from “Killer Eagle” another swordsman of great repute, and a band of nomadic Mongolian traders. Nevertheless, Lee sends killers of unusual backgrounds, including Buddhist monks, to hunt Xiao Fung down, while Xiao Fung seems curiously preoccupied with a woman who’s embroiled in unstated conflicts with practically everybody.

Hungarians

1978

Hungarian

6.9

♡ 2

Drama

Zoltán Fábri Director

István Szilágyi as Bacskó Bandi - a falu bolondja

Zoltán Gera as Brainer, intézõ

Gábor Koncz as Fábián András

Sándor Szabó as Német gazda

A group of landless Hungarian peasants accept work as migrant-laborers on a farm in northern Germany where the wages are good, and the wives and family are allowed to accompany them. Though it is in the midst of World War II, they are relatively well-off. However, they glimpse the treatment accorded to POWs and others who are not so gently treated, and at the conclusion of the year's harvest, they choose to return to Hungary and are quickly swept up in the tides of war. This film is part of a series of films by award-winning, well-respected director Zoltan Fabri who devoted much time and effort chronicling the struggle against fascism.

The Big Fix

1978

English

6.4

♡ 6

88%

Jeremy Kagan Director

F. Murray Abraham as Eppis

Donald O'Connor as Francis Joins the Navy

Richard Dreyfuss as Moses Wine

John Lithgow as Sam Sebastian

Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results.

Die allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit - Redupers

1978

German

6.4

♡ 1

Drama

woman director

Helke Sander Director

Gesine Strempel as Fotografin

Abisag Tüllmann as Fotografin

Gislind Nabakowski as Fotografin

Ronny Tanner as Werner

Edda Chiemnyjewski, a freelance press photographer and single mother living in 1970s West Berlin, is confronted with the fact that "a cook has no time for affairs of state". She also fails to find a market for the project she has been working on with her women′s photography group that seeks to document the city. While from today′s perspective the city, which becomes one of the film′s protagonists, looks like post-war Berlin, little has actually changed as regards the precarious existence of free-lancers. With a heavy dose of self-irony Helke Sander, who also plays the leading role, tells of a divided life in a divided city.

Heaven Can Wait

1978

English

6.9

♡ 27

84%

based on play or musical

Buck Henry Director

John Randolph as Former Owner

R.G. Armstrong as General Manager

William Sylvester as Nuclear Reporter

Joseph Maher as Sisk

Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently-murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant—the murderers—are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.

Cock Crows at Eleven

1978

Italian

5.8

♡ 6

Action

coming of age

Drama

dysfunctional marriage

killer

older man younger woman relationship

pedophile

Thriller

turtle

Massimo Pirri Director

Ida Meda as

Karin Trentephol as Simona

Lisa Gastoni as Vera

Mel Ferrer as Vera's husband

Federico is a child-killer running from the law. Wounded, he is taken in by an 11 year old girl named Simona. Their strange love affair is interrupted by Simona's depressed, oversexed mother Vera, who concocts a plan with Federico to kill her wheelchair-bound, reclusive husband. Simona does not take kindly to this new relationship between Federico and Vera.

The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

1978

English

3.7

♡ 6

6%

John Berry Director

Tomisaburô Wakayama as Coach Shimizu

Regis Philbin as Harry Hahn

Robert Sorrells as Locke

Gene LeBell as Mean Bones' Manager

A small time promotor/hustler takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps the boys come into.

I Spit on Your Grave

1978

English

5.7

♡ 72

51%

Meir Zarchi Director

Terry Zarchi as Child

Camille Keaton as Jennifer

William Tasgal as Porter

Traci Ferrante as Waitress

A young, beautiful career woman rents a backwoods cabin to write her first novel. Attacked by a group of local lowlifes and left for dead, she devises a horrific plan to inflict revenge.

The Brink's Job

1978

English

6.5

♡ 14

70%

55%

Action

boston, massachusetts

William Friedkin Director

Peter Boyle as Joe McGinnis

Warren Oates as Specs O'Keefe

Peter Falk as Tony Pino

Allen Garfield as Vinnie Costa

In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino, a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McGinnis, who specializes in planning lucrative capers, the gang robs Brink's main office in Boston of more than $2 million. However, things begin to go awry when the FBI gets involved, the cops start cracking down on the gang and McGinnis refuses to hand over the loot...

The House of the Dead

1978

English

4.8

♡ 4

15%

Sharron Miller Director

Charles Aidman as Detective Malcolm Toliver

Bernard Fox as Inspector McDowal

Elizabeth MacRae as Mrs. Lumquist

John Ericson as Talmudge

When a philandering husband accidentally finds himself lost during a rainstorm, he’s taken in by an elderly mortician and is forced to learn the ghastly origins of four freshly arrived corpses.

Fagyöngyök

1978

Hungarian

6.9

♡ 2

Drama

Judit Ember Director

Géza Bende as

Jenõ Sipos as (as id. Sipos Jenõ)

Jenõné Sipos as (as id. Sipos Jenõné)

János Lukasik as (as ifj. Lukasik János)

Judit Ember returns to follow the life of Nóra Szabó, the heroine of her documentary film ?????̈???́??? ("Instructive Story", 1975). The troubled young woman who formerly attempted to commit suicide by jumping off a fourth floor is now an unmarried and pregnant mother with two children. Her own mother also brought up her children in similar circumstances, in a closed community without men. But Jenő, the unflaggingly energetic labourer and father of Nóra’s third, as yet unborn child, brings change into their lives.

Little Italy

1978

Italian

5.9

♡ 1

Bruno Corbucci Director

Emilio Messina as Convict on the Roof

Eli Wallach as Don Gerolamo Giarra

Benito Pacifico as False Priest

Franz Beckenbauer as Self

Undercover cop Nico Giraldi travels to New York and Las Vegas to find a crooked cop who gave his squadron back in Italy a bad name.

Blood Relatives

1978

French

6.2

♡ 2

based on novel or book

Claude Chabrol Director

Kenny Ireland as Bert Klinger

Tim Henry as Captain Marriott

Emil Glassbourg as Detective

Micheline Lanctôt as Mrs. Carella

A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.

Orchestra Rehearsal

1978

Italian

7.1

♡ 12

78%

Federico Fellini Director

Rolando De Santis as Bartender

Umberto Zuanelli as Copyist

David Maunsell as First violin

Franco Trevisi as Franco

An orchestra assembles for a rehearsal in an ancient chapel under the inquisitive eyes of a TV documentary crew, but an uprising breaks out.

Long Weekend

1978

English

6.5

♡ 17

89%

Colin Eggleston Director

Briony Behets as Marcia

Colin Eggleston as Marcia's Lover

John Hargreaves as Peter

Mike McEwen as Truck Driver

When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

The Silent Partner

1978

English

7.4

♡ 12

78%

83%

Action

bank robbery

based on novel or book

Curtis Hanson Director

John Kerr as Detective #3

Susannah York as Julie

Elliott Gould as Miles Cullen

John Candy as Simonsen

Toronto, Canada. A few days before Christmas, Miles Cullen, a bored teller working at a bank branch located in a shopping mall, accidentally learns that the place is about to be robbed when he finds a disconcerting note on one of the counters.

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Palace Carnage

Talk of the Town Tora-san

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Big Land, Flying Eagles

Hungarians

The Big Fix

Die allseitig reduzierte Persönlichkeit - Redupers

Heaven Can Wait

Cock Crows at Eleven

The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

I Spit on Your Grave

The Brink's Job

The House of the Dead

Fagyöngyök

Little Italy

Blood Relatives

Orchestra Rehearsal

Long Weekend

The Silent Partner