Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1978

Absolution - Anthony Page

Almost Summer - Martin Davidson

American Hot Wax - Floyd Mutrux

L'Argent des autres (Other People's Money) - Christian de Chalonge

Avalanche - Corey Allen

The Bad News Bears Go to Japan - John Berry

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron (Kumokiri Nizaemon) - Hideo Gosha

Battlestar Galactica - Richard A. Colla

The Betsy - Daniel Petrie

The Big Fix - Jeremy Kagan

Big Wednesday – John Milius

Blood and Diamonds (Diamanti sporchi di sangue) - Fernando Di Leo

Bloodbrothers - Robert Mulligan

Blood Feud (Fatto di sangue fra due uomini per causa di una vedova, si sospettano moventi politici /  Revenge) - Lina Wertmüller

Born Again - Irving Rapper

The Boys in Company “C” – Sidney J. Furie

The Buddy Holly Story – Steve Rash

Bye Bye Monkey (Rêve de singe / Ciao maschio) - Marco Ferreri

Caravans - James Fargo

Carry On Emmannuelle - Gerald Thomas

La chambre verte (The Green Room) - François Truffaut

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith – Fred Schepisi

China 9, Liberty 37 (Amore, piombo e furore) - Monte Hellman

Closed Circuit (Circuito chiuso) - Giuliano Montaldo

Coming Home – Hal Ashby

Corvette Summer - Matthew Robbins

Cosi' come sei (aka Stay as you are) - Alberto Lattuada

Crippled Avengers (Can que) - Chang Cheh

Damien: Omen II - Don Taylor

d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (d'Artanyan i tri mushketera) - Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich

Debbie Does Dallas - Jim Clark

The Demon (Kichiku) - YThe Demon (Kichiku)

A Different Story - Paul Aaron

El diputado (The Deputy) - Eloy de la Iglesia

Don - Chandra Barot

A Dream of Passion (Kravgi gynaikon) - Jules Dassin

Drunken Master (Jui kuen) - Yuen Woo-ping

Ecce Bombo - Nanni Moretti

Empire of Passion (Ai no Bōrei) - Nagisa Oshima

The End - Burt Reynolds

An Enemy of the People - George Schaefer

Enter the Fat Dragon (Fei Lung gwoh gong) - Sammo Hung

F.I.S.T. – Norman Jewison

FM - John A. Alonzo

Fedora – Billy Wilder

Five Venoms (Mm Dook / Five Deadly Venoms) - Chang Cheh

The Fury – Brian De Palma

Gates of Heaven - Errol Morris

Germany in Autumn (Deutschland im Herbst) - Multipel Direktors

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Preparez vos mouchoirs) - Bertrand Blier

Go Tell The Spartans – Ted Post

Gray Lady Down - David Greene

Goin’ South – Jack Nicholson

The Green Room (La chambre verte) - François Truffaut

Harper Valley PTA - Richard C. Bennett

The Herd (Sürü) - Zeki Ökten / Yılmaz Güney

High-Ballin - Peter Carter

Hot Lead and Cold Feet - Robert Butler

House Calls - Howard Zieff

A Hunting Accident (Moy laskovyy i nezhnyy zver) - Emil Loteanu

The Inglorious Bastards (Quel maledetto treno blindato) - Enzo G. Castellari

I Wanna Hold Your Hand - Robert Zemeckis

Ice Castles - Donald Wrye

In a Year with 13 Moons (In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The Incident - Yoshitaro Nomura

In Praise of Older Women - George Kaczender

International Velvet - Bryan Forbes

King of the Gypsies - Frank Pierson

Kondura (The Boon) - Shyam Benegal

Lady on the Bus (A Dama do Lotação) - Neville de Almeida

The Left-Handed Woman (Die linkshändige Frau) - Peter Handke

The Legacy – Richard Marquand

Leopard in the Snow - Gerry O'Hara

Long Weekend - Colin Eggleston

Magic – Richard Attenborough

De Mantel der Liefde (The Mantle of Love) - Adriaan Ditvoorst

Mean Dog Blues - Mel Stuart

The Medusa Touch – Jack Gold

Movie Movie - Stanley Donen

Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (Conqueror of Destiny) - Prakash Mehra

Newsfront – Phillip Noyce

A Night Full of Rain (Una notte piena di pioggia) - Lina Wertmüller

The Night the Prowler - Jim Sharman

Occupation in 26 Pictures (Okupacija u 26 slika) - Lordan Zafranović

The One and Only - Carl Reiner

Orchestra Rehearsal (Prova d'orchestra) - Federico Fellini

Paradise Alley - Sylvester Stallone

Passion Flower Hotel (Leidenschaftliche Blümchen) - André Farwagi

Perceval le Gallois (Percival the Gaul) - Éric Rohmer

Piranha - Joe Dante

The Place Without Limits (El lugar sin límites) - Arturo Ripstein

Power Play - Martyn Burke

The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians (Profetul, aurul si Ardelenii) - Dan Pița

Pugachev - Aleksei Saltykov

The Recourse to the Method (El recurso del método) - Miguel Littín

Remember My Name - Alan Rudolph

Renaldo and Clara - Bob Dylan

Rhinegold (Rheingold) - Niklaus Schilling

Rockers - Theodoros Bafaloukos

Rocking Horse – Yaky Yosha

The Sailor's Return - Jack Gold

The Second Awakening of Christa Klages - Margarethe von Trotta

Sextette – Ken Hughes

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Michael Schultz

Shogun's Samurai (Yagu ichizoku no inbō) - Kinji Fukasaku

The Shout - Jerzy Skolimowski

The Silent Partner - Daryl Duke

Slow Dancing in the Big City - John G. Avildsen

Somebody Killed Her Husband - Lamont Johnson

Stevie - Robert Enders

The Stud - Quentin Masters

The Swarm - Irwin Allen

The Swissmakers (Die Schweizermacher) - Rolf Lyssy

Thank God It's Friday - Robert Klane

Toplo (Heat) - Vladimir Yanchev

The Tree of Wooden Clogs (L'Albero degli zoccoli) - Ermanno Olmi

Trout (Las Truchas) – Jose Luis Garcia Sanchez

Trishul - Yash Chopra

Two Solitudes - Lionel Chetwynd

Uncle Joe Shannon - Joseph Hanwright

Up in Smoke – Lou Adler

Violette Noziere – Claude Chabrol

Ward Six (Paviljon VI) - Lucian Pintilie

Warriors Two (Zan xian sheng yu zhao qian Hua) - Sammo Hung

The Water Babies - Lionel Jeffries

Watership Down – Martin Rosen

What Max Said (Las palabras de Max) – Emilo Martinez Lazaro

What Will You Do When You Catch Me? – Stanislaw Bareja

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? - Ted Kotcheff

Who'll Stop the Rain - Karel Reisz

The Wild Geese - Andrew V. McLaglen

Without Anesthesia (Bez znieczulenia) – Andrzej Wajda

Wolf Lake - Burt Kennedy

You Are Not Alone – Ernst Jahansen / Lasse Nielsen