Best Thriller movies of 1978

Actors : Roberta Leighton, Cliff Emmich, Jason Evers, Wayne Crawford,

Little coastal town is being terrorized by deadly Barracudas.

Actors : Angel Tompkins, John Saxon, John Carradine, Claudio Brook,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Arthur Kennedy, Andrés García, Carroll Baker, 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 : Christine Kaufmann, Fabio Testi, Ivan Desny, 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 : 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 : Lino Ventura, Paul Crauchet, Claudine Auger, Jean Bouise,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

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

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 : Ed Devereaux, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Terence Donovan, 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 : 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 : Patrizia Gori, Richard Allan, Dominique Aveline, Malisa Longo,
Directors : Patrice Rhomm,

Vicious warden Helga runs the castle penitentiary Stilberg for female political prisoners with an iron fist. Stubborn and recalcitrant new inmate Elisabeth Vogel, who's the daughter of a ...

Actors : Tony Musante, Claudia Cardinale, John Forsythe, John Steiner,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

An agent's plot to overthrow an African nation is jeopardized by his friend's interference in the country's politics.

Actors : Barry Morse, Donald Pleasence, Peter O'Toole, David Hemmings,
Directors : Martyn Burke,

A group of military officers, angered and frustrated by the corruption and repression of the current government, finally decide that for the good of the country they must overthrow the ...

Actors : Juraj Kukura, Václav Babka, Marta Vancurová, Gustáv Valach,
Directors : Frantisek Vlácil,

Actors : Dirce Funari, Claude Maran, Joseph Dickson, Danielle Dugas,
Directors : Alberto Cavallone,

A woman escapes from being raped only to find herself trapped by a sado-masochistic photographer who, among other nasty things, gets off on consuming fresh human excrement.

Actors : John Karlen, Susan Sullivan, Martin Speer, James Luisi,
Directors : Jeremy Hoenack,

A detective tracks a serial killer through San Francisco.

Actors : Karin Trentephol, Howard Ross, Andrea Franchetti, Lisa Gastoni,
Directors : Massimo Pirri,

Federico is a child-killer running from the law. Wounded, he is taken in by a 12 year old girl named Simona. Their strange love affair is interrupted by Simona's depressed, oversexed mother...