1. Halloween
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles, Kyle Richards, Charles Cyphers
Plot: Institutionalized after killing his sister, a maniac returns to his home town on Halloween night.
2. Midnight Express
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan Parker
Actors: Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Randy Quaid, John Hurt, Paolo Bonacelli
Plot: Billy Hayes is a young American who is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. Although he is just a young man who made a dumb mistake, the Turkish government decides to make an example of him. He's given 30+ years in prison. The conditions are unbelievable. His lawyer and the American government are unable to help him.
3. National Lampoon's Animal House
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Landis
Actors: John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Tom Hulce, Donald Sutherland, Karen Allen, Peter Riegert
Plot: It's the lowbrow "animal" Delta House versus the uptight Dean Wormer as their increasingly lewd and crude behavior threaten to get their beloved fraternity shut down. You know what we are gonna do? Toga party.
4. Days of Heaven
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Terrence Malick
Actors: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Linda Manz, Robert J. Wilke, Sam Shepard, Jackie Shultis
Plot: After accidentally killing his foreman, a young man must flee Chicago with his young sister and his girlfriend. Going to Texas, the young lovers pretend to be siblings and secure employment as farmhands. But when the farmer takes an interest in the girlfriend, a triangle is formed that will lead to tragedy.
5. Superman
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard Donner
Actors: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando, Ned Beatty, Margot Kidder
Plot: The story of an outsider from another planet who has Jesus like abilities - based on the comic of the same name.
6. Grease
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Randal Kleiser
Actors: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Michael Tucci, Didi Conn
Plot: Greaser Danny met Sandy over the summer break, but when she joins his highschool, can they find love again?
7. Autumn Sonata ( Höstsonaten )
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, Halvar Björk, Marianne Aminoff, Arne Bang-Hansen
Plot: After being absent, a world-famous pianist returns home to her daughter. When she arrives, she is surprised to discover that Eva has also taken in her mentally-disabled sister, Helena from the institutions where she had been left years before. After a tense number of days, a late-night conversation will release everything that has been kept unsaid throughout the years.
8. Watership Down
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Martin Rosen
Actors: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox, John Bennett, Ralph Richardson, Simon Cadell
Plot: Much like Richard Adams's wonderful novel, this animated tale of wandering rabbits is not meant for small children. It is, however, rich storytelling, populated with very real individuals inhabiting a very real world. The animation is problematic, sometimes appearing out of proportion or just subpar; but it seems to stem from an attempt at realism, something distinguishing the film's characters from previous, cutesy, animated animals. A band of rabbits illegally leave their warren after a prophecy of doom from a runt named Fiver (Richard Briers). In search of a place safe from humans and predators, they face all kinds of dangers, including a warren that has made a sick bargain with humankind, and a warren that is basically a fascist state.
9. The Last Waltz
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson, Eric Clapton
Plot: Martin Scorsese documents the last performance by The Band, following 16 years on the road. Special guests are there to sent them off in style, while backstage The Band reflects on the ups and downs of their career.
10. Drunken Master ( Jui kuen )
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Woo-ping Yuen
Actors: Jackie Chan, Siu Tien Yuen, Jang Lee Hwang, Ging Man Fung, Shun-Yee Yuen, Hsia Hsu
Plot: An undisciplined boy must learn Drunken Fist Kung Fu in order to stop an assassin.
