Thriller Movies of 1978
Target of an Assassin
African Rage is a comparatively little-known political thriller, set in an African hospital. Top-billed Anthony Quinn plays a male nurse, assigned to care for a powerful tribal leader ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
The Fury
Brian De Palma returns to the mind-blowing potential of telekinesis in the follow-up to ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
Coma
A feisty, feminist intern uncovers a medical conspiracy in this icy thriller about mysterious goings-on at Boston Memorial ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
The Boys From Brazil
This film of Ira Levin's novel The Boys from Brazil wastes no time in establishing the fact that several seemingly unrelated men have been mysteriously murdered. Elderly Jewish Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
Magic
Anthony Hopkins is a ventriloquist psychologically tormented by his ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
This remake of the 1956 horror classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers moves the action from small-town USA to 1970s San Francisco and replaces at least ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
Eyes of Laura Mars
A shutterbug is haunted by psychic visions of the killer who is murdering all of her friends in this hit thriller. Intense and driven, successful photographer Laura Mars ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
The Big Sleep
Robert Mitchum reprises his role as Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe from Farewell, My Lovely, in this misconceived remake of Howard Hawks's classic 1946 film -- transferring the setting from 1940s California to 1970s ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
Capricorn One
Astronauts Charles Brubaker, John Walker, and Peter Willis (James Brolin, O.J. Simpson, and Sam Waterston, respectively) are ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
The Cat and the Canary
Frank Willard's 1927 stage play The Cat and the Canary was filmed several times before this 1978 version saw the light of day. In the story, ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
Foul Play
As he did in his screenplay for Silver Streak (1974), writer/director Colin Higgins mixes ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
The Silent Partner
The Canadian "sleeper" The Silent Partner stars Elliott Gould as a teller, Miles Cullen, who figures out psycho Harry Reikle's (Christopher Plummer) scheme to rob his bank, several days ahead of time. Cullen providently squirrels away 50,000 ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
Summer of Fear
Notable as an early effort from renowned horror filmmaker Wes Craven, this made-for-TV occult thriller was loosely adapted from a novel by Lois Duncan. Star Linda Blair -- whose film career had taken a detour into ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
Blackout
In this above-average, exciting Canadian-made action thriller, four psychopaths, led by Christie (Robert Carradine) take over and vandalize a ritzy Manhattan apartment building during the New York power blackout. They ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
The Blood Stained Shadow
This well-handled giallo thriller was directed by Antonio Bido (Il Gatto dagli Occhi di Giada). After a young girl is murdered by a mysterious stranger, the young Stefano (Lino Capolicchio) comes home to Venice to ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
Sette Notte in Nero
In this Italian thriller, a woman is tormented by morbid premonitions heralding the deaths of people she knows. As she tries to ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
Long Weekend
An Australian couple sets off on a weekend to the coast in this psychological thriller. Peter ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
Blue Fin
Based on a novel by Colin Theile, the Australian Blue Fin stars Hardy Kruger as a taciturn tuna boat captain. ... [ Thriller 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 discovers that ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
The Enforcer from Death Row
In this exciting actioner, a former Army Ranger sits in ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
Patrick
In Australian director Richard Franklin's Patrick, the subject of psychokinesis is used, not for the creation of ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
Teen Alien
Inspired by a series of alien sightings that occurred in rural Utah in the 1950s, director Peter Semelka's sci-fi thriller follows a group of thrill-seeking teens as they set ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
Shalimar: The Deadly Thief
Deadly Thief is the American video title of the Indian feature Shalimar. The title character is played by, of all people, Rex ... [ Thriller movie - 1978 ]
