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The Best Movies of 1978
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Movie: Grease ( 1978 )
Good girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?
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Movie: National Lampoon's Animal House ( 1978 )
At a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
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Movie: The Deer Hunter ( 1979 )
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
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Movie: Superman ( 1978 )
An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero.
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Movie: Halloween ( 1978 )
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
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Movie: Pretty Baby ( 1978 )
A teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917.
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Movie: Death on the Nile ( 1978 )
As Hercule Poirot (Sir Peter Ustinov) enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?
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Movie: The Wiz ( 1978 )
24-year-old kindergarten teacher Dorothy, born, raised, and still working in Harlem, is celebrating Thanksgiving with her extended family, but she doesn't seem to be thankful for much. She lives a sheltered life and is shy and unfulfilled. When she gets caught in a snowstorm while chasing her dog Toto, they're transported to the mysterious Land of Oz, where she's informed that the only way she can find her way home is through the assistance of the powerful wizard in the Emerald City. As she searches for him by easing down the Yellow Brick Road, she befriends some creatures who face problems in their lives. In their quest to find the wizard, they also face Evillene, the equally evil sister of Evermean, the wicked witch whom Dorothy inadvertently killed when she arrived in Oz; Evillene might be their biggest obstacle.
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Movie: The Alien Factor ( 1978 )
A spaceship containing specimens for an intergalactic zoo crashes on Earth near a small back woods town. The specimens escape, and soon town folk are turning up mutilated. Very low budget feature was the first for Baltimore filmmaker Don Dohler.
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Movie: Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 )
Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team members, a traffic reporter, and his television executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
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Movie: The Thirty Nine Steps ( 1979 )
In March 1914, a mining engineer named Richard Hannay tries to prevent Prussian Agents from executing a political assassination designed to trigger World War I.
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Movie: Midnight Express ( 1978 )
On October 6, 1970 while boarding an international flight out of Istanbul Airport, American Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is caught attempting to smuggle two kilos of hashish out of the country, the drugs strapped to his body. He is told that he will be released if he cooperates with the authorities in identifying the person who sold him the hashish. Billy's troubles really begin when after that assistance, he makes a run for it and is recaptured. He is initially sentenced to just over four years for possession, with no time for the more harsh crime of smuggling. The prison environment is inhospitable in every sense, with a sadistic prison guard named Hamidou (Paul L. Smith) ruling the prison, he who relishes the mental and physical torture he inflicts on the prisoners for whatever reason. Told to trust no one, Billy does befriend a few of the other inmates, namely fellow American Jimmy Booth (Randy Quaid) (in for stealing two candlesticks from a mosque), a Swede named Erich (Norbert Weisser), and one of the senior prisoners having already served seven years, an Englishman named Max (Sir John Hurt), the latter two also in for hashish-related charges. One prisoner not befriended is Rifki (Paolo Bonacelli), who wields power in the prison as the unofficial eyes and ears for the guards. As Billy, his family and his girlfriend Susan (Irene Miracle) attempt through legal and diplomatic channels for Billy's release, Max tells him that the only way out is to "catch the midnight express" (escape), which is what Jimmy is continually trying to do. When Billy's situation changes, he becomes more desperate in every sense of the word. It seems as if Billy has only two options: to let the prison ultimately figuratively then literally kill him, or to somehow regain control of his life through whatever means available.
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Movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers ( 1978 )
When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city's residents one body at a time.
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Movie: The Lord of the Rings ( 1978 )
A young Hobbit known as Frodo has been thrown on an amazing adventure, when he is appointed the job of destroying the One Ring, which was created by the Dark Lord Sauron. He is assigned with three warriors including Gandelf, Aragorn, and Boromir. But it's not going to be an easy journey for the Fellowship of the Ring, on the ultimate quest to rid the Middle-earth of all evil.
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Movie: Days of Heaven ( 1978 )
A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.
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Movie: I Spit on Your Grave ( 1978 )
An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
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Movie: Up in Smoke ( 1978 )
Two stoners unknowingly smuggle a van - made entirely of marijuana - from Mexico to L.A., with incompetent Sgt. Stedenko on their trail.
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Movie: The Boys from Brazil ( 1978 )
A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
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Movie: Power Play ( 1978 )
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 regime. However, the planned coup's leader, an infantry colonel, finds that in order to get the support he needs he must work with people he neither respects nor trusts, and soon comes to believe that their main opponent, the country's fearsome chief of the secret police, has planted a spy in their midst.
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Movie: Watership Down ( 1978 )
Hoping to escape destruction by human developers and save their community, a colony of rabbits, led by Hazel and Fiver, seek out a safe place to set up a new warren.
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Movie: Jaws 2 ( 1978 )
Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
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Movie: The Star Wars Holiday Special ( 1978 )
Chewbacca and Han Solo try to get to the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk to celebrate Life Day, but are impeded by an Imperial blockade. Chewie's family passes the time with various forms of entertainment.
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Movie: Convoy ( 1978 )
Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff...Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall.
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Movie: Autumn Sonata ( 1978 )
A married daughter who longs for her mother's love is visited by the latter, a successful concert pianist.
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Movie: The Cheap Detective ( 1978 )
San Francisco, 1940, detectives, dames, documents, Nazis, and a treasure.
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Movie: The Fury ( 1978 )
A former CIA agent uses the talents of a young psychic to help retrieve his telekinetic son from terrorists, who want to use his mental powers for evil.
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Movie: Every Which Way But Loose ( 1978 )
The San Fernando Valley adventures of trucker turned prize-fighter Philo Beddoe and his pet orangutan Clyde.
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Movie: Starcrash ( 1979 )
Outlaw smugglers Stella Star and Akton manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zarth Arn. The smugglers are soon recruited by the Emperor of the Galaxy to complete the mission, as well as to rescue the Emperor's son, who has gone missing.
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Movie: Damien: Omen II ( 1978 )
Damien the Antichrist, now thirteen years old, finally learns of his destiny under the guidance of an unholy disciple of Satan. Meanwhile dark forces begin to eliminate all those who suspect the child's true identity.
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Movie: Corvette Summer ( 1978 )
A high school grad and a hooker-in-training try to track down his stolen Corvette.
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Movie: Coming Home ( 1978 )
A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.
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Movie: Game of Death ( 1978 )
A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.
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Movie: Faces of Death ( 1978 )
A collection of death scenes, ranging from TV-material to home-made super-8 movies The common factor is death by some means.
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Movie: Piranha ( 1978 )
When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.
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Movie: The Inglorious Bastards ( 1978 )
In 1944 France, a group of escaped American military prisoners en route to Switzerland volunteers to steal a Nazi V2 rocket warhead for the Allies.
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Movie: Goin' South ( 1978 )
Due to the lack of men after the Civil War, a small western town allows a bachelorette with ulterior motives to save a horse thief from the gallows by marrying him. They must deal with his old gang, the Sheriff, the bank, and each other.
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Movie: Battlestar Galactica ( 1978 )
After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet in a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth.
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Movie: Slave of the Cannibal God ( 1978 )
A girl and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle.
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Movie: Drunken Master ( 1978 )
Wong Fei-Hung (Jackie Chan) is a mischievous, yet righteous young man, but after a series of incidents, his frustrated father has him disciplined by Beggar So (Siu Tin Yuen), a Master of drunken martial arts.
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Movie: F.I.S.T. ( 1978 )
A rebellious Cleveland warehouse worker rises through the ranks of a trucking industry union to become union president but his organized crime links cause his eventual downfall.
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Movie: The Buddy Holly Story ( 1978 )
The story of the life and career of the early rock and roll singer, from his meteoric rise to stardom, to his marriage and untimely death.
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Movie: Coma ( 1978 )
When a young female doctor notices an unnatural amount of comas occurring in her hospital she uncovers a horrible conspiracy.
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Movie: Magic ( 1978 )
Magician's assistant Corky (Sir Anthony Hopkins) performs disastrously at his first solo appearance. He is given a ventriloquist dummy called "Fats" to improve his act, and within a few years, Corky is at the height of fame. However, Fats has developed a mind of his own, and wants to control his master.
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Movie: Heaven Can Wait ( 1978 )
Joe Pendleton is a football quarterback preparing to lead his team to the Superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he was not ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. Another body must be found without his death being discovered, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the Los Angeles Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl. At the same time, he falls in love with an English environmental activist who disapproves of his policies and actions.
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Movie: Foul Play ( 1978 )
A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.
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Movie: The Great Train Robbery ( 1978 )
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
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Movie: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ( 1978 )
Ever since they were sent into World War I battle in 1918, Sergeant Pepper and his Lonely Hearts Club Band of Heartland, USA have been spreading the message of joy and love to the world, which has made them and Heartland famous. Upon Sergeant Pepper's death in 1958, the band's instruments have been housed on display at Heartland City Hall as symbols of that love and joy. Before his death, Sergeant Pepper asked his adolescent grandson Billy Shears to take on the reins of forming his own band to continue to spread the message of joy and love. With Billy's brother Dougie Shears as their Manager, Billy, now an adult, and his three best friends, brothers Mark, Dave, and Bob Henderson, embark on their lives as a new Lonely Hearts Club Band. They quickly come to the attention of Hollywood music producer B.D. Hoffler Of B.D. (Big Deal) Records. With the boys off to Hollywood to spread the words of joy and love to the world, enter into Heartland the evil and demented Mr. Mustard, an ex-real estate agent who wants to take over Heartland by destroying what made it famous. To do so, he plans to steal the instruments in city hall, and promote the music of the F.V.B. (Future Villain Band) in place of the Lonely Hearts Club Band. With Billy's hometown girlfriend Strawberry Fields at their sides, the boys try to thwart Mustard's dastardly plan at their own peril while still trying to spread their own message of love and joy to the world.
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Movie: Eyes of Laura Mars ( 1978 )
Suddenly Laura Mars can see through the eyes of a serial killer as he commits his crimes. She contacts the police and with the aid of a police detective, tries to stop the killer. But first, they have to figure out who it is.
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Movie: Deathsport ( 1978 )
Futuristic Science Fiction about a sport to the death, using "destructocycles".
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Movie: The Wild Geese ( 1978 )
A British multinational seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader.
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Movie: Remember My Name ( 1978 )
Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life", but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.
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Movie: The Driver ( 1978 )
A getaway driver becomes the latest assignment for a tenacious detective.
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Movie: Force 10 from Navarone ( 1978 )
Mallory and Miller are back. It seems that there was traitor with them at Navarone, whom they thought was executed. But it seems that not only was he not executed, and he was not a traitor but a German spy. Intelligence believes he made it to Yugoslavia and is now with the Partisans. So, Mallory and Miller being the only ones who can positively identify him are sent along with a unit called Force 10, which is led by Colonel Barnsby, who objects to their presence. It seems that Force 10 has a mission of their own which Mallory and Miller know nothing about. When their plane is shot and most of the team is killed, they mistakenly believe that some of the locals they meet are Partisans but in reality are German Allies, so they are taken prisoner, and have to convince the German commander that they are not spies or else they will be killed.
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Movie: Interiors ( 1978 )
Three sisters find their lives spinning out of control in the wake of their parents' sudden, unexpected divorce.
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Movie: The Last Waltz ( 1978 )
A film account and presentation of the final concert of The Band.
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Movie: Moment by Moment ( 1978 )
Trisha Rawlings, a Beverly Hills socialite suffers from loneliness following the separation of her womanizing husband Stu. Strip, a young drifter, became infatuated with her and, develops a May/December relationship with her.
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Movie: The Big Sleep ( 1978 )
Grizzled American private detective in England investigates a complicated case of blackmail turned murder involving a rich but honest elderly general, his two loose socialite daughters, a pornographer and a gangster.
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Movie: Hooper ( 1978 )
Hollywood aging stuntman Sonny Hooper wants to prove that he's still got what it takes to be a great professional in this risky and under-recognized line of work.
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Movie: Revenge of the Pink Panther ( 1978 )
To prove that he still is strong and powerful, Philippe Douvier decides to kill Clouseau. Once news of his "death" has been announced, Clouseau tries to take advantage of it and goes undercover with Cato to find out who tried to kill him.
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Movie: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! ( 1978 )
A group of scientists band together to save the world from mutated killer tomatoes.
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Movie: The Silent Partner ( 1979 )
A bank teller is held up at gun point in his bank. Luckily for him he receives a clue that this is going to occur and diverts most of the cash into his own safety deposit box, leaving only a nominal amount for the crook. The ruse works well, but for the fact that the crook resents the fact that he has been outsmarted. There ensues a terrific battle of wits involving the clever but basically "moral" teller, and the cunning and totally uninhibited bank robber, which involves several other people in ways which cannot be revealed here.
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Movie: The Cat from Outer Space ( 1978 )
Three scientists help an Alien feline, stranded on Earth, to repair its damaged spacecraft in order to return home but their efforts are hampered by inept army officials and foreign spies.
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Movie: The Swarm ( 1978 )
A huge swarm of deadly African bees spreads terror over American cities by killing thousands of people.
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Movie: An Unmarried Woman ( 1978 )
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
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Movie: Paradise Alley ( 1978 )
Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager.
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Movie: Same Time, Next Year ( 1979 )
A married man and a married woman end up sleeping with each other, and decide to meet at the same place every year on the anniversary of their one night stand. As the years go by, they observe changes in each other and their relationship.
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Movie: The Toolbox Murders ( 1978 )
A ski-masked maniac kills apartment complex tenants with the contents of a toolbox.
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Movie: Return from Witch Mountain ( 1978 )
Tia and her brother Tony have supernatural powers, can communicate and moving things with the power of their minds. While in Los Angeles for a visit. Tony uses his powers to prevent an accident, and the ruthless scientist, iDr. Gannon, who's looking to control the world, finds out and takes Tony into his clutches. Gannon implants a device near Tony's brain which enables him to control Tony's will. its up to Tia Anna a group of kids to free Tony and save the Earth.
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Movie: Straight Time ( 1978 )
After being released on parole, a career burglar assaults his former probation officer, returns to a life of crime, and goes on the run.
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Movie: California Suite ( 1978 )
Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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Movie: King of the Gypsies ( 1979 )
In the criminal and violent world of modern-day Gypsies based in New York City, their 'king' Zharko Stepanowicz passes his leadership to his unwilling grandson, leaving the skipped father resentful.
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Movie: I Wanna Hold Your Hand ( 1979 )
In 1964, six teenagers from New Jersey run off to see The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) in the hope of meeting their idols. However, they don't have tickets. Along the way, they learn new things about friendship and growing up.
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Movie: Rescue from Gilligan's Island ( 1978 )
The castaways must try to readjust to life in civilization after they are rescued from the island.
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Movie: Big Wednesday ( 1978 )
The lives of some California surfers from the early 1960s to the 1970s.
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Movie: La Cage aux Folles ( 1978 )
Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the drag club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.
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Movie: Blue Collar ( 1978 )
When three workers try to steal from the local union, they discover the corruption of the union instead and decide to blackmail them.
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Movie: Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park ( 1978 )
Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park is a TV movie starring Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, and Gene Simmons. KISS, a rock band made up of superheroes, battles an evil inventor who has plans for destruction at a California amusement park.
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Movie: The Evil ( 1978 )
A doctor buys a Civil War era dilapidated mansion, and hires a few friends to fix it up, but the mansion hides a deadly secret.
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Movie: Summer of Fear ( 1978 )
A teenage girl's life is turned upside down after her cousin moves into her house, and as time goes by, she begins to suspect that she may be a practitioner of witchcraft.
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Movie: The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash ( 1978 )
Charts the adventures of the prefab four, possibly the most famous band of all time.
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Movie: Avalanche ( 1978 )
The vacationers at a winter wonderland struggle to survive after an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort. Their holiday then turns into a game of survival.
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Movie: Good Guys Wear Black ( 1979 )
An ex-US Army commando must find the reason why his comrades from his unit are being systematically murdered before he is next.
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Movie: Just a Gigolo ( 1978 )
After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich w
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Movie: The Hound of the Baskervilles ( 1978 )
A Sherlock Holmes spoof about a family that has been haunted for years by the curse of a horrible hound.
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Movie: The Bad News Bears Go to Japan ( 1978 )
A small-time hustler takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best Little League baseball team, sparking off a series of adventures and mishaps.
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Movie: Barracuda ( 1978 )
Little coastal town is being terrorized by deadly Barracudas.
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Movie: Rabbit Test ( 1979 )
Twenty-four year old Angeleno Lionel Carpenter teaches a citizenship class at night school, most of his immigrant students who have no idea of what he is teaching in the language barrier. He has also had no luck with women largely due to the sheltered life he's led under the wings of his overbearing mother. His lack of encounters with women in the sexual sense is unlike his brash cousin, Sgt. Danny Bonhoff, who will do anything and take whatever opportunity to be up close and personal with the opposite sex. With Danny's help, Lionel is able to lose his virginity, although it isn't a totally satisfying experience. Regardless, Lionel learns that the reason for his nausea and vomiting following that encounter is because he got pregnant from it, he being the first male in recorded history to be so. By this time, he and one of his students, Russian gypsy Segoynia Savaka, have fallen in love and want to get married. They have to decide what to do about the baby. But the infamy and notoriety of Lionel's situation may not only dictate what happens about the baby, but whether Lionel and Segoynia's relationship can withstand the pressures.
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Movie: Puff the Magic Dragon ( 1978 )
Jackie is a boy who is so trapped by his fears and doubts that he could not communicate with anyone. His condition is so severe that the doctors are giving up and the parents are losing hope for him to live as something more than a zombie. Then, a magic dragon named Puff comes to help Jackie by taking his soul force on a wonderous voyage to his island of Honah Lee. Along the way, they have adventures that nurture Jackie's imagination and courage in unorthodox ways. However, their arrival at Honah Lee is marked with horror as they see the land despoiled and desolate which leaves Puff powerless. Yet while trapped in his despair, Puff soons to his own astonishment just how well he has changed Jackie for the better as the boy responds to this tragedy in his own way.
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Movie: American Hot Wax ( 1978 )
The story of Alan Freed, the pioneering disc jockey who was instrumental in introducing and popularizing rock 'n' roll in the 1950s.