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The Best Movies of 1978 - Original Release   (87 Most Notable)

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 RATING    TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
# 1 for 1978, # 109 Overall The Deer Hunter 1978 Cimino, Michael USA D
# 2 for 1978, # 189 Overall Days of Heaven 1978 Malick, Terrence USA DBOPS
# 3 for 1978, # 329 Overall Halloween 1978 Carpenter, John USA D
# 4 for 1978, # 497 Overall The Tree of Wooden Clogs 1978 Olmi, Ermanno Italy / France D
# 5 for 1978, # 641 Overall Dawn of the Dead 1978 Romero, George A. Italy / USA D
# 6 for 1978, # 693 Overall Grease 1978 Kleiser, Randal USA DBO
# 7 for 1978, # 784 Overall National Lampoon's Animal House 1978 Landis, John USA DBOS
# 8 for 1978, # 809 Overall Superman 1978 Donner, Richard UK DBOPS
# 9 for 1978, # 820 Overall Coming Home 1978 Ashby, Hal USA Y
# 10 for 1978, # 865 Overall The Last Waltz 1978 Scorsese, Martin USA DB
# 11 for 1978, # 905 Overall The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith 1978 Schepisi, Fred Australia
# 12 for 1978, # 957 Overall Midnight Express 1978 Parker, Alan UK / USA DBOP
# 13 for 1978, # 991 Overall An Unmarried Woman 1978 Mazursky, Paul USA D
# 14 for 1978, # 1191 Overall Blue Collar 1978 Schrader, Paul USA YOP
# 15 for 1978, # 1230 Overall Get Out Your Handkerchiefs 1978 Blier, Bertrand Belgium / France Y
# 16 for 1978, # 1310 Overall Autumn Sonata 1978 Bergman, Ingmar France / West Germany / Sweden YO
# 17 for 1978, # 1586 Overall Interiors 1978 Allen, Woody USA Y
# 18 for 1978, # 1619 Overall La Cage aux Folles 1978 Molinaro, Edouard France / Italy YOS
# 19 for 1978, # 1673 Overall The Driver 1978 Hill, Walter USA D
# 20 for 1978, # 1675 Overall Knife in the Head 1978 Hauff, Reinhard West Germany Y
# 21 for 1978, # 1701 Overall Straight Time 1978 Grosbard, Ulu USA D
# 22 for 1978, # 1754 Overall Fingers 1978 Toback, James USA D
# 23 for 1978, # 1777 Overall Violette 1978 Chabrol, Claude France / Canada D
# 24 for 1978, # 1779 Overall In a Year of 13 Moons 1978 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner West Germany Y
# 25 for 1978, # 1800 Overall The Buddy Holly Story 1978 Rash, Steve USA YO
# 26 for 1978, # 1904 Overall Movie Movie 1978 Donen, Stanley USA O
# 27 for 1978, # 1942 Overall Hitler: A Film from Germany 1978 Syberberg, Hans-Jürgen West Germany / UK / France
# 28 for 1978, # 1988 Overall Heaven Can Wait 1978 Beatty, Warren / Henry, Buck USA YO
# 29 for 1978, # 2015 Overall Pretty Baby 1978 Malle, Louis USA Y
# 30 for 1978, # 2032 Overall California Suite 1978 Ross, Herbert USA DO
# 31 for 1978, # 2047 Overall My Way Home 1978 Douglas, Bill UK DB
# 32 for 1978, # 2052 Overall Stevie 1978 Enders, Robert UK
# 33 for 1978, # 2081 Overall Up in Smoke 1978 Adler, Lou / Chong, Tommy USA DOPS
# 34 for 1978, # 2082 Overall Newsfront 1978 Noyce, Phillip Australia D
# 35 for 1978, # 2116 Overall Those Wonderful Movie Cranks 1978 Menzel, Jirí Czechoslovakia
# 36 for 1978, # 2117 Overall Five Deadly Venoms 1978 Chang, Cheh Hong Kong D
# 36 for 1978, # 2117 Overall Shaolin Master Killer 1978 Liu, Chia-Liang Hong Kong O
# 37 for 1978, # 2211 Overall Watership Down 1978 Rosen, Martin UK / Canada DS
# 38 for 1978, # 2213 Overall Girl Friends 1978 Weill, Claudia USA Y
# 39 for 1978, # 2245 Overall Go Tell the Spartans 1978 Post, Ted USA D
# 39 for 1978, # 2245 Overall House Calls 1978 Zieff, Howard USA D
# 39 for 1978, # 2245 Overall Mouth to Mouth 1978 Duigan, John Australia
# 39 for 1978, # 2245 Overall Northern Lights 1978 Hanson, John / Nilsson, Rob / Lavut, Martin USA
# 39 for 1978, # 2245 Overall Skin Deep 1978 Steven, Geoff New Zealand
# 40 for 1978, # 2306 Overall The Scenic Route 1978 Rappaport, Mark USA Y
# 41 for 1978, # 2325 Overall Big Wednesday 1978 Milius, John USA DOPS
# 41 for 1978, # 2325 Overall Drunken Master 1978 Yuen, Woo-ping Hong Kong DO
# 42 for 1978, # 2376 Overall Perceval 1978 Rohmer, Eric France / Italy / West Germany Y
# 43 for 1978, # 2378 Overall Filming 'Othello' 1978 Welles, Orson West Germany
# 43 for 1978, # 2378 Overall Genesis of a Meal 1978 Moullet, Luc France D
# 43 for 1978, # 2378 Overall The Green Room 1978 Truffaut, François France Y
# 43 for 1978, # 2378 Overall Incontinence 1978 de Landa, Manuel unknown
# 43 for 1978, # 2378 Overall Les Rendez-vous d'Anna 1978 Akerman, Chantal France / Belgium / West Germany D
# 43 for 1978, # 2378 Overall Lmno 1978 Breer, Robert USA
# 43 for 1978, # 2378 Overall Mongoloid 1978 Conner, Bruce USA
# 44 for 1978, # 2381 Overall Convoy 1978 Peckinpah, Sam USA DO
# 44 for 1978, # 2381 Overall Death on the Nile 1978 Guillermin, John UK DS
# 44 for 1978, # 2381 Overall Foul Play 1978 Higgins, Colin USA Y
# 45 for 1978, # 2387 Overall The Glass Cell 1978 Geissendörfer, Hans W. West Germany
# 45 for 1978, # 2387 Overall Hungarians 1978 Fábri, Zoltán Hungary
# 45 for 1978, # 2387 Overall A Simple Story 1978 Sautet, Claude France / West Germany Y
# 46 for 1978, # 2389 Overall Bye Bye Monkey 1978 Ferreri, Marco Italy / France D
# 46 for 1978, # 2389 Overall The Shout 1978 Skolimowski, Jerzy UK
# 47 for 1978, # 2391 Overall Comes a Horseman 1978 Pakula, Alan J. USA YO
# 47 for 1978, # 2391 Overall Dear Detective 1978 de Broca, Philippe France Y
# 48 for 1978, # 2400 Overall A Dream of Passion 1978 Dassin, Jules Greece / USA / Switzerland Y
# 48 for 1978, # 2400 Overall Lemon Popsicle 1978 Davidson, Boaz Israel
# 49 for 1978, # 2411 Overall A Wedding 1978 Altman, Robert USA D
# 50 for 1978, # 2432 Overall The Boys from Brazil 1978 Schaffner, Franklin J. USA / UK DOPS
# 50 for 1978, # 2432 Overall The Boys in Company C 1978 Furie, Sidney J. USA / Hong Kong D
# 50 for 1978, # 2432 Overall Capricorn One 1978 Hyams, Peter USA / UK DOPS
# 50 for 1978, # 2432 Overall The Cheap Detective 1978 Moore, Robert USA D
# 50 for 1978, # 2432 Overall Coma 1978 Crichton, Michael USA DS
# 50 for 1978, # 2432 Overall The End 1978 Reynolds, Burt / Best, James USA DOP
# 50 for 1978, # 2432 Overall Eyes of Laura Mars 1978 Kershner, Irvin USA DOS
# 50 for 1978, # 2432 Overall The Fury 1978 De Palma, Brian USA DOPS
# 50 for 1978, # 2432 Overall Hooper 1978 Needham, Hal USA D
# 50 for 1978, # 2432 Overall Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 Kaufman, Philip USA DBS
# 50 for 1978, # 2432 Overall Same Time, Next Year 1978 Mulligan, Robert USA DS
# 50 for 1978, # 2432 Overall Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? 1978 Kotcheff, Ted USA / Italy / France / West Germany VS
# 50 for 1978, # 2432 Overall Who'll Stop the Rain? 1978 Reisz, Karel USA D
# 50 for 1978, # 2432 Overall The Wiz 1978 Lumet, Sidney USA DBOPS
# 51 for 1978, # 2436 Overall Death of the President 1978 Kawalerowicz, Jerzy Poland D
# 51 for 1978, # 2436 Overall In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni 1978 Debord, Guy France
# 51 for 1978, # 2436 Overall Without Anesthesia 1978 Wajda, Andrzej Poland / France Y
NR The Dain Curse 1978 Swackhamer, E.W. USA D
NR Revenge of the Pink Panther 1978 Edwards, Blake UK / USA DOPS
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V   VHS
Y   Yes (DVD or VHS, unspecified)
B   Blu-ray Disc
O   On Demand Video Download
P   Preview Trailer
S   Soundtrack
 
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