A small group of truckers defy the authorities and head out of the state to avoid a speed trap imposed by a mean sheriff. Soon…
Browsing: Movies 1978
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The directing debut of Matthew Robbins, co-writer (with Hal Barwood) of Steven Spielberg’s The Sugarland Express, is a youth movie very much in the mould…
This made-for-TV movie for the NBC network was directed by 23-year-old former Happy Days star Ron Howard and was something of a family affair for the…
In this sequel to the top 1976 box office shocker The Omen, Damien (Jonathan Scott-Taylor) – the Antichrist predicted in the Book of Revelations, sired…
George Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead (1968) is a low budget classic. He made it for about $114,000 and grossed over $10 million, with the film…
Ravishingly shot (by Nestor Almendros, who was actually going blind during production and won an Academy Award for his work here), Days of Heaven tells…
Peter Ustinov takes over from Albert Finney as pernickety Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot in this solid, star-studded dramatisation of Agatha Christie’s paddle-steamer whodunnit, as he…
In the year 3000, a thousand years after the Great Neutron Wars have decimated the planet, Lord Zirpola (David McLean), the dictator of Helix City,…
Debbie Benton (Bambi Woods) is the captain of her high school cheerleading squad and has been accepted to try out for the Texas Cowgirls. Her parents…
One of America’s first attempts to deal with the Vietnam War on film, Michael Cimino’s masterpiece is long and richly rewarding. It seemed America was…
Based on the 1948 short story What Beckoning Ghost by Harold Lawlor, Dominique stars Cliff Robertson as a businessman named David Ballard. Ballard lives in…
Cold, ruthless and utterly professional, The Driver (Ryan O’Neal) is the best getaway man in Los Angeles. He freelances for crooks, providing his expensive services…
This costume drama from director Ridley Scott perfectly captures the atmosphere of the early 19th century during the Napoleonic wars. Young French Hussar Armand d’Hubert…
This R-rated spoof of classic fairy tale characters begins when the Prince (Don Sparks) turns 21 and discovers he must sire an heir or lose…
One-time legendary movie star Fedora (Marthe Keller) throws herself in the path of an express train. The story is taken up by Barry Detweiler (William…
17-year-old convent girl Felicity Robinson (played by unknown Canadian actress Glory Annen) boards at the Willows End Ladies College in Australia, where she finds herself…
Jimmy “Fingers” Angelelli (Harvey Keitel) is the son of ageing New York loan shark Ben Angelleli (Michael V. Gazzo) and a brutal repo man himself,…
Q-SKY is the number one radio station in Los Angeles mainly because of the music they play and running the station the way they want…
This routine (albeit much belated) sequel to The Guns Of Navarone (1961) has British commandos Mallory (now played by Robert Shaw in Gregory Peck’s old role) and…
A plot to assassinate a newly-elected Pope, weird characters with names like the Albino, Scarface, Stiltskin and the Turk, flying daggers, black limousines trying to…