Best Thriller movies of 1978

Actors : Stefanie Powers, Robert Foxworth, Mark Slade, Sue Lyon,

A convicted strangler, studying the paranormal in his jail cell, learns to make himself invisible. As an invisible man, he escapes from prison to stalk and strangle the five women who ...

Actors : Vincenzo Crocitti, Gloria Guida, Ray Lovelock, Lilli Carati,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

Lia and Tina are two beautiful girls who meet and realize that they have a lot in common. They are both young, beautiful and pissed off, so they decide to hitchhike their way to Rome to ...

Actors : Angel Tompkins, John Saxon, Claudio Brook, John Carradine,
Directors : Alfredo Zacarías,

When South America killer bees, corporately smuggled into the United States, mutates into intelligent insects and attacks helpless people, young scientist work desperately to end the threat as the menace swarms in on the city areas.

Actors : Jack Jones, Bill Owen, Pamela Stephenson, David Doyle,
Directors : Pete Walker,

A singer holes up at a sinister estate to write new songs for his act. The ghost of his murdered wife begins to haunt him, then the person who actually killed her shows up at the mansion.

Actors : Carroll Baker, Arthur Kennedy, Andrés García, Lionel Stander,
Directors : René Cardona Jr.,

An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any ...

Actors : Ed Devereaux, Terence Donovan, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Tony Bonner,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

An armoured car company is the target of repeated heists. Company leadership is enforcing new measures in order to tighten the security. However, the biggest danger of a new heist lies within the company's own ranks.

Actors : Anna Zinnemann, Antiniska Nemour, Barbara Magnolfi, Stefania D'Amario,
Directors : Enzo Milioni,

While searching for their estranged mother, two beautiful sisters, Dagmar and Ursula, arrive at a luxurious seaside hotel. At the same time, a mysterious killer starts murdering promiscuous women in the area.

Actors : Nelly Borgeaud, Jean Carmet, Michel Piccoli, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Jacques Rouffio,

Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.

Actors : Flavio Andreini, Ray Lovelock, Sherry Buchanan, Florinda Bolkan,
Directors : Franco Prosperi,

Sister Cristina (Florinda Bolkan) plays a nun who takes the teenage girls in her care to a remote house where they rehearse A Midsummer Night's Dream. Three thugs show up, brutally raping ...

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, Ivan Desny, Fabio Testi, Jack Taylor,
Directors : Alberto Negrin,

A detective investigating the murder of a teenage girl begins to focus his suspicions on the three girlfriends of the victim, who call themselves "The Inseparables."

Actors : Pino Colizzi, Sal Borgese, Tomas Milian, Isa Danieli,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Vincenzo 'hunchback' plans a robbery on a armored police van with his gang. Once the job is done, his gang try to kill him and absconds with the loot. Vincenzo hides in the sewers before ...

Actors : Lino Ventura, Paul Crauchet, Jean Bouise, Claudine Auger,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

Mystery film about a man who finds there is another world to the one we know.

Actors : María Martín, Isabel Pisano, Francisco Falcon, Àngel Jové,
Directors : Bigas Luna,

A disturbed middle-aged man is obsessed by a dancer and prostitute and abducts her, with tragic consequences.

Actors : Machiko Ohtani, Sanshô Shinsui, Megu Kawashima, Tatsuma Higuchi,
Directors : Chûsei Sone,

Actors : Sharon Farrell, Patti D'Arbanville, Bo Hopkins, Dianne Hull,
Directors : Howard Avedis,

College disco dancer is wrongly committed to an insane asylum.

Actors : Beba Bidart, Fernanda Mistral, Luisina Brando, Julio De Grazia,
Directors : Adolfo Aristarain,

A man who dreams of striking it rich stumbles upon the loot of a heist.

Actors : Turi Ferro, Marcello Mastroianni, Giancarlo Giannini, Sophia Loren,
Directors : Lina Wertmüller,

In pre-World War II Sicily, just as the fascists come to power, two men fall in love with the same woman. The changes in their country's politics ultimately take all three on a journey across the ocean to New York.

Actors : June Allyson, Robert Carradine, Belinda Montgomery, James Mitchum,
Directors : Eddy Matalon,

Thriller about four sadistic criminals who, after escaping during a transfer, take over a posh Manhattan apartment complex and start looting and terrorizing its occupants during New York City's famous 1977 blackout.

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Giuliano Gemma, Francisco Rabal, Stefano Satta Flores,
Directors : Pasquale Squitieri,

Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia shadow?

Actors : Patrizia Gori, Jacqueline Laurent, Jack Taylor, Jacques Marbeuf,
Directors : Alain Payet,

A female Russian doctor is taken prisoner into a château where German officers go for entertainment, and she struggles both against imprisonment and the sadistic female warden.