Best Thriller movies of 1978

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 : Howard Ross, Karin Trentephol, 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...

Actors : Esther Studer, Nanda Van Bergen, Lina Romay, Michael Maien,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Margarita, the only witness of a brutal murder, has temporary amnesia due to shock. She's sent to a psychiatric clinic where a masked man rapes her and kills another woman. She must piece her memory back together before he returns.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Nancy Kwan, Ross Hagen, Jennifer Rhodes,
Directors : Lee Madden,

A big-game hunter brings a killer leopard to his private island and turns it loose so he can hunt it down. However, unexpected visitors arrive at the island and interrupt his hunt. ...

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

A detective tracks a serial killer through San Francisco.

Actors : Sophie Renoir, Thierry Turchet, Richard Constantini, Alain Delon,
Directors : Serge Leroy,

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

Actors : Rafael Machado, David Thomson, Patricia Granada, Lidia Zuazo,
Directors : José Ramón Larraz,

A superstitious, illiterate young gypsy servant girl comes to live with a solitary female artist at her country chateau. The girl has recurring nightmares of a naked man on horseback ...

Actors : Martin Balsam, Sherry Buchanan, Nathalie Delon, Robert Hoffmann,
Directors : Mario Gariazzo,

A photographer and his model are on a photo shoot in a forest when they get the feeling they are being watched. The feeling becomes so strong that they decide to cut their session short and...

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

College disco dancer is wrongly committed to an insane asylum.

Actors : Franco Ressel, Joan Collins, Maurizio Merli, Werner Pochath,
Directors : Stelvio Massi,

An Italian private investigator tries to get to the bottom of a suspicious kidnapping case with the help of an exotic dancer

Actors : Yun Ling, Tony Liu, Lung Ti, Li Ching,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

Once again we follow the ultimate playboy sword master, Chu Liu Hsiang, and his faithful friend, Yi Tien Hung, on another amazing adventure in Southeastern China. This time, our heroes make...

Actors : Robin Mattson, Rod Steiger, Jerry Hardin, David Huffman,
Directors : Burt Kennedy,

War veterans visit a lakeside cabin for a week of shooting, drinking, etc. but find the cabin being looked after by a young caretaker named David. When David's status as a war deserter is revealed, all hell breaks loose.

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 : Pilar Velázquez, Laura Gemser, Stuart Whitman, Francisco Algora,
Directors : José María Forqué,

A man and a woman (Whitman & Gemser), both with checkered pasts, hitch a ride together. While on the trip both begin to converse about their most recent relationship. Through flashbacks the...

Actors : Ted D'Arms, Ann Bowden, Martin LaPlatney, Dean Meland,
Directors : Bruce Wilson,

A young man plays an interactive reality game with a group of friends, but he soon suspects one of them is playing a little too seriously. As the game progresses, the danger mounts and the mystery deepens.

Actors : Mireia Ros, Linda Lay, Eva Lyberten, Alicia Orozco,
Directors : Ignacio F. Iquino,

A gang of four out of control adolescent ruffians egg each other on, to take hostage, torture, and brutally rape several girls, whilst on the run from the law.