Drama Movies of 1978
The Betsy
Based on the novel by Harold Robbins, this is the story of Loren Hardeman, Sr., a Midwestern automobile manufacturer (Lord Olivier) who pins his ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
The Deer Hunter
One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War (including Hal Ashby's Oscar-winning Coming Home), Michael Cimino's epic second feature The ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Macbeth
This 1976 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Macbeth was originally broadcast on Thames Television in 1978. The company's artistic director Trevor Dunn directs the cast on a small bare stage with mostly black costumes and ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Langrishe, Go Down
Years before they became two of the most celebrated British actors of their generation, Jeremy Irons and Judi Dench were paired up for this ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Coming Home
Hal Ashby's 1978 melodrama examines the impact of the Vietnam War on the "war at home" among the men who fought it and the women in their lives. Left alone in Los Angeles when ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Straight Time
Paroled criminal Max Dembo (Dustin Hoffman) is compelled to withstand ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Interiors
Diane Keaton, Kristin Griffith, and Mary Beth Hurt play Renata, Flyn, and Joey, the grown daughters of wealthy Arthur (E.G. Marshall) and his emotionally disturbed wife, Eve (Geraldine Page). ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
F.I.S.T.
F.I.S.T. is author Norman Jewison's chronicle of an innocent and idealistic young man corrupted by power and success as seen through the rise of the United States labor movement. Sylvester Stallone plays a Jimmy ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
A Real American Hero
This made-for-TV actioner was designed as the pilot for a series based on the popular Walking Tall films of the 1970s. This time out, a young Brian Dennehy is cast as the stick-wielding, ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
King of the Gypsies
Not surprisingly, this fascinating dissection of Gypsy life in America was vilified by several ethnic ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Casey's Shadow
Cajun quarter-horse trainer Lloyd Bourdelle (Walter Matthau) struggles to eke out a decent living for himself and his three sons ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Les Miserables
The 1979 TV movie Les Miserables was advertised as the 12th feature film to be based on the 1862 Victor ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Oliver's Story
Get ready for another dose of love and loss in ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Pretty Baby
After making a series of acclaimed and controversial films in his native France, director Louis Malle made his American debut with this disturbing but visually beautiful story about Hattie (Susan ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
The Corn Is Green
Welsh-born writer Emlyn Williams' 1938 play The Corn is Green originally starred Ethel Barrymore as L.C. Moffat, the strong-willed schoolteacher under whose guidance the illiterate Welsh ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Days of Heaven
Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, the long-awaited ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Disraeli
Deadwood star Ian McShane stars as Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in this Emmy-nominated period biopic from All Creatures Great and Small director Claude Whatham. His ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
The White Shadow: Season 01
In the Emmy-winning debut episode of The White Shadow, Chicago Bulls forward Ken Reeves (Ken Howard), forced to retire after a series of injuries, bypasses the offers of several more prestigious jobs, accepting instead ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Big Wednesday
Jan-Michael Vincent plays a self-destructive beach bum to whom surfing is a Zen experience. We first meet Vincent in the devil-may-care 1960s, in the company of his carefree buddies ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Autumn Sonata
Ingrid Bergman, the Swedish expatriate who became one of Hollywood's greatest stars, and Ingmar Bergman, one of the world's most acclaimed ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
The Mafu Cage
In this combination of domestic melodrama and offbeat suspense flick, an astronomer must shoulder the burden of caring for and sleeping with her mentally ill sister after their anthropologist ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Violette Nozière
Claude Chabrol's Violette was based on the true story of 19-year-old Violette Noziere, who in the 1930s was tried and convicted for the poisoning of her father and the attempted murder of her mother. As played by Isabelle Huppert (who won ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Fingers
Jimmy Angelelli (Harvey Keitel) wants to be a concert pianist. Jimmy's dad, Ben Angelelli (Michael V. Gazzo), wants his son to go into the family business. So far, so banal. But the "family business" depicted in Fingers ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Uncommon Women... and Others
A group of classmates from Mount Holyoke College ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
The Children of Sanchez
Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the novel The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
The Buddy Holly Story
From the time he was a high-school student in Lubbock, Texas until his tragic death at ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
The Gift of Love
For her dramatic acting debut, singer Marie Osmond chose this sentimental adaptation of the venerable Yuletide short story The Gift of the Magi, previously filmed in 1952 as a segment of the ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
The Rockford Files: Season 05
James Garner is back as Jim Rockford, an ex-con turned private eye with a penchant for righting old ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Fast Company
Amidst such formative shockers as Shivers, Rabid and The Brood, writer/director David Cronenberg dashed off this semi-documentary. Fast Company relates the life story of race car champion Lonnie ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Dallas: Season 02
Having proven itself as a viewer magnet during its five-episode trial in the spring of 1978, the ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Midnight Express
Midnight Express is a harrowing tale of a naïve American caught in a nightmare of his own making thousands of miles from his home. Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is an American tourist visiting ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Pennies From Heaven
Not to be confused with Herbert Ross' 1981 remake starring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters, the highly acclaimed British television miniseries Pennies from Heaven was the ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Our Winning Season
In this youthful drama, a high-school senior aspires to become a track star while simultaneously dealing with the other travails of youth. One of his best friends is drafted and ends up getting killed in Vietnam. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Little Women
The third filming of Louisa May Alcott's novel is this made-for-TV effort, which follows the hardships faced by the March family during the ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Watership Down
Unique in the annals of animated films, Watership Down is a serious, even grim tale that many will find relentless and depressing and others will find poetic and moving. It doesn't pull any punches. Death -- violent, disturbing death -- is ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
The Billion Dollar Hobo
Stuart McGowan, once a leading light of TV's Death Valley Days, serves as director and writer ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Thomas and Sarah [TV Series]
Thomas and Sarah was the much-heralded spin-off to the long-running British ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Martin
Nearly a decade after George A. Romero changed the face of modern horror films with Night of the Living Dead -- and following the less successful projects Season of the Witch and The Crazies -- the Pittsburgh-based ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Woyzeck
Controversial German director Werner Herzog helmed this cinematization of ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
The Stud
Jackie Collins wrote the best-selling novel The Stud. Her sister ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Blue Fin
Based on a novel by Colin Theile, the Australian Blue Fin stars Hardy Kruger as a taciturn tuna boat captain. Kruger's son, played by Greg ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Newsfront
Set between the years 1949 and 1956, Newsfront tracks the destinies of two brothers, their ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Flambards
Based upon the books by K.M. Peyton, this British miniseries enjoyed a healthy ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
In a Year With 13 Moons
This Rainer Werner Fassbinder drama centers around the lonely quest for love of Elvira Weishaupt, a man who became a woman to please his/her man. ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Cat in the Cage
A recently released mental patient may well wonder who the looney ones are in this drama that chronicles his strange homecoming. He has been gone many years and during that time, his father has married a very young woman. He then ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Clarence Darrow
Henry Fonda stars in this one-man play based on the writings of famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow. The play, constructed in the ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
The Dain Curse
Dashiell Hammett's money-grubbing detective Hamilton Nash is on the case in this mystery set in 1928. This time he is looking ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
In the Realm of Passion
Also known as Phantom Love, the French/Japanese ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
King: The Martin Luther King Story
King: The Martin Luther King Story originated as a three-part miniseries, first telecast February 12, 13 and 14, 1978. Paul ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Little Lips
A young French lass experiences her sexual awakening in this erotic drama from director Mimmo Cattarinich. ~ Jason Buchanan, ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Sooner or Later
Attempting to get the attention of a 17-year-old rock musician, a 13-year-old ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Struggle Through Death
In this adventure, two young men are abducted and imprisoned in an isolated gold mine by the burly guards of the wicked Ching Kue. To escape and end Kue's terrible reign, the daring young heroes must garner the ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
The Tree of the Wooden Clogs
Italian filmmaker Ermanno Olmi's Tree of the Wooden Clogs covers a period of twelve months, dividing its time between ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Beartooth
A secluded mountain paradise becomes a snowbound deathtrap when a ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Nighthawks
The dual life of a homosexual schoolteacher is chronicled in this drama. By day, he is the model of an upstanding educator, but at night, he creeps out to feed his deepest desires. ~ ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Three Card Monte
Busher is a card and pool shark who is on the run from some of the many people he has cheated. An orphaned 12-year-old boy wants to join him in his journeys, and together they scam their way across the underbelly of Canada. ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Ishi: The Last of His Tribe
Made for television, Ishi: The Last of His Tribe is based on the book by Theodora Kroeber. Kroeber's anthropologist husband Alfred was the man who, in 1911, discovered the last ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Ruby and Oswald
Producer/director Mel Stuart, who'd previously worked with David L. Wolper on the historical-recreation ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Someone's Watching Me!
Hot on the heels of his theatrical-feature megahit Halloween, writer-producer John Carpenter concocted this nailbiting made-for-TV suspenser. Lauren Hutton stars ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Nuevo Mundo
Gabriel Retes's period religious drama Nuevo Mundo (AKA The New World, 1978) concerns a 16th century Machiavellian priest who devises a wicked scheme to convert mass numbers of South Americans to Catholicism. He teams ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Cadena Perpetua
An ex-con struggling to break away from his criminal past is dragged back into a life of crime by a crooked ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Csaladi Tuzfeszek
In a one-room apartment, live a man, his wife and two children -- along with his grown son and his wife and child -- a total of seven people in one tiny space. On returning from a tour of duty in the military, the grown son ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
The Mallens
A 19th Century family living in Northumberland struggles to restore their family name amidst numerous scandalous accusations in this ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Originally telecast by the BBC from January 22 to March 5, 1978, The Mayor of Casterbridge was a seven-part adaptation of the novel by Thomas Hardy. Alan Bates played ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Anna Karenina
This ten-hour BBC adaptation of the famous novel Anna Karenina features Nicola Pagett as the title character and Eric Porter and Stuart Wilson as the other two points of the love triangle ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Verna: USO Girl
Based on a short story by Paul Gallico, this drama (produced for public television) stars Sissy Spacek as Verna Vane, a small-town girl who dreams of hitting it big in show business. Verna isn't much of a singer ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
The Trial of the Moke
From the Broadway Theatre Archive, this performance video of the play Trial of the Moke tells the real-life story of Lt. ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Daphne Laureola
Sir Laurence Olivier stars in this film about a ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Little House on the Prairie: Season 05
Devastating financial reverses, prompted by the closing of the town mill, force several Walnut Grove citizens to pack up and move out as Little House on the Prairie enters it fifth season. Among those leaving are Charles ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Hunting Drama
From director Emil Lotyanu, this 1978 Russian film was adapted from a story by Anton Chekov. Young ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
Starsky & Hutch: Season 04
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Charlie's Angels: Season 03
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Family Flaw
A straight-laced father and his not-so-straight brother come together under strange circumstances in this comedy from Italy. Only a few days before his daughter Chiara ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
The Mill on the Floss
Family ties and moral quandaries complicate the romance of an intelligent and attractive young woman in director Ronald ... [ Drama movie - 1978 ]
