Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.

Despair

1978

English

6.9

♡ 3

based on novel or book

husband wife relationship

identity

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Volker Spengler as Ardalion

Klaus Löwitsch as Felix

Dirk Bogarde as Herman

Roger Fritz as Inspector Braun

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.

Gates of Heaven

1978

English

7.3

♡ 1

90%

Errol Morris Director Ed Quye

Ed Quye as Self

Mike Koewler as Self

Floyd McClure as Self

Scottie Harberts as Self

A documentary about a pet cemetery in California, and the people who have pets buried there.

Skateboard

1978

English

5.5

♡ 2

Drama

skateboarding

Sport

George Gage Director

Eugene Elman as Maitre d'

Allen Garfield as Manny Bloom

Kathleen Lloyd as Millicent Broderick

Owen Bush as Sign Painter

A Hollywood agent finds himself in debt to a powerful bookie. To make a fast buck, he creates a team of exceptionally talented skateboarders and enters them in a downhill race. If they win, they will get $20,000

Good-for-Nothing

1978

German

5.5

♡ 2

Adventure

Comedy

Romance

Bernhard Sinkel Director

Eva Maria Meineke as Gräfin

Karel Augusta as Hofgesellschaft

Boris Rösner as Hofgesellschaft

Mario Adorf as Trunkener Dichter

A young man seeks freedom and eventually gets conformed. To escape society, he wanders south. After some adventures he returns to his lover, where he expects a civil career.

Carry on Emmannuelle

1978

English

3.2

♡ 8

16%

Comedy

Romance

Gerald Thomas Director

Aileen Lewis as Dinner Guest

Joan Sims as Mrs. Dangle

Peter Butterworth as Richmond

Bruce Boa as U.S. Ambassador

The beautiful and sex-starved Emmannuelle Prevert just cannot inflame her husband's ardour. In frustration she seduces a string of VIPs, including the Prime Minister and the American Ambassador. A jealous lover gives a list of all her conquests to the national press and a scandal ensues. But will she ever manage to get her own husband into bed?

Avalanche

1978

English

3.8

♡ 2

Lewis Teague Director

Mia Farrow as Caroline Brace

Steve Franken as Henry McDade

Robert Forster as Nick Thorne

Jerry Douglas as Phil Prentiss

After an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort, a holiday at a winter wonderland turns into a game of survival for a group of vacationers.

The Deer Hunter

1978

English

8.1

♡ 148

86%

post traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder

Michael Cimino Director

Joe Grifasi as Bandleader

Meryl Streep as Linda

Robert De Niro as Michael

Christopher Walken as Nick

A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.

Money Movers

1978

English

6.5

♡ 9

50%

Bruce Beresford Director

Bryan Brown as Brian Jackson

Ray Meagher as First Guard

Charles 'Bud' Tingwell as Jack Henderson

Brian Anderson as Technician

A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.

Convoy

1978

English

6.3

♡ 24

58%

Sam Peckinpah Director

Seymour Cassel as Governer Jerry Haskins

Ali MacGraw as Melissa

Sam Peckinpah as News Crew Director

Cassie Yates as Violet

Trucker Rubber Duck and his buddies Pig Pen, Widow Woman and Spider Mike use their CB radios to warn one another of the presence of cops. But conniving Sheriff Wallace is hip to the truckers' tactics, and begins tricking the drivers through his own CB broadcasts. Facing constant harassment from the law, Rubber Duck and his pals use their radios to coordinate a vast convoy and rule the road.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

1978

Czech

7.5

♡ 4

Animation

apprentice

based on novel or book

sorcerer's apprentice

Karel Zeman Director

Christian Brückner as Krabat

Friedrich Schütter as Master

Ludek Munzar as Narrator

Jaroslav Moucka as Raven / Sorcerer

Krabat, a beggar boy, is lured to become an apprentice to an evil, one-eyed sorcerer. With a number of other boys, he works at the sorcerer's mill while learning black magic. Every Christmas one of the boys has to face the master in a magical duel, where the boy never stands a chance because the master is the only person who is allowed to use a secret spell: The Koraktor.

The Water Babies

1978

English

6.1

♡ 5

70%

Lionel Jeffries Director

David Jason as Cyril the Walrus

James Mason as Mr. Grimes / Voice of Killer Shark

Bernard Cribbins as Mr. Masterman / Voice of Eel

Una Stubbs as (voice)

Grimes, an amoral chimney sweep, occasionally likes to steal valuables from his clients. One day, on the verge of being caught, he frames his young apprentice, Tom, for the crime. Tom runs away and jumps into a river where, instead of drowning, he finds himself transformed into a mystical aquatic creature. Swimming and breathing effortlessly, he discovers a colorful underwater world replete with creatures both cruel and kind.

Goin' South

1978

English

6.2

♡ 27

69%

Jack Nicholson Director

Christopher Lloyd as Deputy Towfield

Lucy Lee Flippin as Diane Haber

Jack Nicholson as Henry Lloyd Moon

Danny DeVito as Hog, Moon's Old Gang

Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him.

Damien: Omen II

1978

English

6.2

♡ 31

50%

Don Taylor Director

Lee Grant as Ann Thorn

Sylvia Sidney as Aunt Marion

Leo McKern as Carl Bugenhagen

Meshach Taylor as Dr. Kane

Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, he relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire — and the world.

The Swarm

1978

English

4.5

♡ 11

9%

19%

Action

animal attack

based on novel or book

Irwin Allen Director

Lee Grant as Anne MacGregor

Michael Caine as Brad Crane

John Williams as Launching Officer

Chuck Hayward as Standby Engineer

Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.

The Green Room

1978

French

♡ 4

40%

François Truffaut Director

Thi-Loan Nguyen as Apprentice

Jean Dasté as Bernard Humbert

Nathalie Baye as Cecilia Mandel

François Truffaut as Julien Davenne

A WWI veteran decides to build a memorial to all of the people who have mattered to him but are now dead.

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

1978

English

6.4

♡ 8

77%

Ted Kotcheff Director

John Le Mesurier as Dr. Deere

Jacqueline Bisset as Natasha

Aimée Delamain as Old Woman

Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Priest marrying Bobby and Natasha

Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.

Closed Circuit

1978

Italian

7.0

♡ 4

Giuliano Montaldo Director

Annabella Andreoli as Audience Member

Mario Adorf as Harry

Benito Stefanelli as Rick

William Berger as Second Gunfighter

At the local cinema, an audience watches a Spaghetti Western matinee. During the film's on-screen climactic duel, a bullet is fired into a patron. With no leads and a theater full of suspects, police investigators lock the doors, put everyone back in their seats, and run the movie again. But will this shot in the dark reveal the real killer?

Silver Saddle

1978

Italian

6.1

♡ 6

Lucio Fulci Director

Aldo Sambrell as Garrincha

Karina Verlier as Peggy

Giuliano Gemma as Roy Blood

Geoffrey Lewis as Two-Strike Snake

Young boy who sees his father gunned down kills the assassin. Years later, he has grown up to be a successful bounty hunter who is feared by many. And then one day he discovers secrets to his past...