Best Drama movies of 1978

Actors : Dennis Waterman, John Thaw, Denholm Elliott, Ken Hutchison,
Directors : Tom Clegg,

Second cinematic spin-off from the popular 70's police series. Regan & Carter head a Flying Squad investigation into a series of bank raids by a team of well-armed villains who are flying in from the continent.

Actors : Howard Ross, Ligia Branice, Marina Pierro, Gabriella Giacobbe,
Directors : Walerian Borowczyk,

A zealous, handsome priest, who is the confessor for a convent full of women, encourages the equally zealous abbess of one such institution to enforce the same strict rules on these ...

Actors : Kanchana, Kamal Haasan, Bhagyaraj, Goundamani,
Directors : Bharathiraja,

Kamal Haasan, the central character, is a man terribly soured by his unvaryingly devastating encounters with the opposite sex. He develops a pathological hatred for women and uses his charm...

Actors : Aude Landry, Lisa Langlois, Laurent Malet, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Homicide detective Steve Carella is trying to solve the brutal murder of 17-year-old Muriel Stark. Her younger cousin Patricia, who saw the killer and barely escaped with her life, helps him. However, the case soon takes a bizarre turn.

Actors : Eric Henshaw, Sonny Carl Davis, Lou Perryman, Doris Hargrave,
Directors : Eagle Pennell,

Lloyd (Lou Perry) and Frank (Sonny Davis), two lifelong friends and self-styled entrepreneurs in Austin, try to find the get-rich-quick scheme that will actually get them rich. Lloyd has ...

Actors : Oliver Tobias, Joan Collins, Mark Burns, Sue Lloyd,
Directors : Quentin Masters,

Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy but boring businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, the hobo, and partying. She hires a manager, Tony, to run her club, but it is ...

Actors : Nathalie Juvet, Claude Marcault, Philippe Rouleau, François Marthouret,
Directors : Michel Deville,

An unnamed French intelligence service spies on and analyzes a French diplomat code name '51' to identify a method to control him.

Actors : Lucha Villa, Fernando Soler, Roberto Cobo, Ana Martín,
Directors : Arturo Ripstein,

Family honor, greed, machismo, homophobia, and the dreams of whores collide in a Mexican town. Rich, elderly Don Alejo is poised to sell the town for a profit, needing only to buy a ...

Actors : Marie-Françoise Audollent, Frédéric Ladonne, Philippe Caubère, Odile Cointepas,
Directors : Ariane Mnouchkine,

Who was Moliere? He is known everywhere as one of the world's greatest playwrights. But who was he? Born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622, the son of a prosperous tapestry maker. His mother ...

Actors : Hale Soygazi, Cüneyt Arkin, Meral Orhonsay, Tarik Akan,
Directors : Yavuz Özkan,

Mine workers in Turkey struggling for better working conditions.

Actors : Feng Ku, Lung Ti, Lung Chan, Sheng Fu,
Directors : Chung Sun,

Chi Ming-sing is a former disciple of a gang run by overlord Yoh Xi-hung. Yoh's disciples hunt Chi relentlessly as he travels on a soul-searching journey. He comes to the aid of a seemingly...

Actors : Lelia Goldoni, Paul Sorvino, Richard Gere, Tony Lo Bianco,
Directors : Robert Mulligan,

A young man is torn between following in his brothers' footsteps or striking out on his own.

Actors : A.K. Hangal, Shashi Kapoor, Kanhaiyalal Chaturvedi, Zeenat Aman,
Directors : Raj Kapoor,

Rupa (Zeenat Aman) grew up being cursed as "unlucky" in the village she was born in. Her mother died during childbirth. Then a kitchen accident leaves half her face disfigured. This is an ...

Actors : Claude Brasseur, Roger Pigaut, Bruno Cremer, Romy Schneider,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

A simple story about simple people. A 38 old divorced woman (Marie), who now has a lover (Serge) but decides to leave him, abort his baby, and then returns with her ex-husband (Georges). ...

Actors : Joni Flynn, Jody Hanson, Glory Annen, Chris Milne,
Directors : John D. Lamond,

Young Felicity lives in a monastic school. The only way to live out her sexual fantasies is together with her girlfriend Jenny. But then she receives an invitation to her sister in ...

Actors : Wendy Hughes, Bill Hunter, Gerard Kennedy, Chris Haywood,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

In post war Australia the men and women of Cinetone struggle to produce the weekly news reels for the movie going public.

Actors : Rakhee Gulzar, Neetu Singh, Randhir Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Ramesh Behl,

Suman (Raakhee) and Amit (Amitabh Bachchan) love each other and plan to marry soon. Amit lives with his younger brother, Raju (Randhir Kapoor), and Raju already calls Suman "Bhabhi". Amit ...

Actors : José Sacristán, Enrique Vivó, José Luis Alonso, María Luisa San José,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

Sex and politics collide in this tale of forbidden love, blackmail and murder. Set up by the secret police to compromise a prominent politician, a teenage hustler discovers himself ...

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 : Pierre Clémenti, Ugo Bologna, Katya Berger, Michele Soavi,
Directors : Mimmo Cattarinich,

A writer returns home from World War I. He has developed a very bad case of post traumatic stress disorder. He contemplates suicide, but becomes interested in the 12 year old niece of the ...