Best Drama movies of 1978

Actors : Poul Bundgaard, Jens Okking, Kirsten Olesen, Claus Strandberg,
Directors : Bille August,

A young man finds love and settles down, but when his young wife spirals into depression they both have decisions to make.

Actors : Stephen McNally, Mel Ferrer, Darby Hinton, Ralph Meeker,
Directors : Greydon Clark,

Story of a group of drag races and the young boy and girl who join them.

Actors : Daniel Auteuil, Anne Jousset, Henri Guybet, Gérard Jugnot,
Directors : Charles Nemes,

Actors : Leon Isaac Kennedy, Carmen Argenziano, James Iglehart, Jayne Kennedy,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

An American Vietnam soldier on his way home is left for dead and is saved by a pair of Japanese stragglers from WWII, who train him in the way of the samurai.

Actors : Richard Bright, John Heard, Thomas G. Waites, Mike Kellin,
Directors : Raphael D. Silver,

In prison, one prisoner buys some smokes from another. Then he admits he can't pay for it and becomes indebted to him and the interest is rising daily.

Actors : Jan Nowicki, Zofia Kucówna, Aleksander Bardini, Maja Komorowska,
Directors : Krzysztof Zanussi,

A strange arrogant tourist arrives at the Morskie Oko mountain shelter. Next morning, in spite of danger, he climbs alone and the search for him begins.

Actors : Feng Ku, Chen Chi Lin, Hui-Ling Liu, Lung Ti,
Directors : Shan Hua,

Famed actor Ti Lung plays a lone swordsman trying to defeat the "Number One Swordsman" as part of his vengeance package in life in Soul Of The Sword. He quickly learns however, that sometimes wanting is better than having.

Actors : Bernhard Minetti, Bernhard Wicki, Bruno Ganz, Edith Clever,
Directors : Peter Handke,

After returning from a business trip in Finland, Bruno (Bruno Ganz) find that his wife Marianne (Edith Clever) wants her husband to leave her alone with their son. A struggle with loneliness and adapting to the new situation ensues.

Actors : Silvia Dionisio, James Mason, Maurizio Merli, Raymond Pellegrin,
Directors : Giuseppe Rosati,

A cop pursues the Mob for revenge as well as personal honor.

Actors : Ann Michelle, Alisha Fontaine, Bruce Davison, Virginia Mayo,
Directors : Dennis Kane,

Chronicles the life of a young New Orleans prostitute and her co-workers.

Actors : Ellen Burstyn, Despo Diamantidou, Andréas Voutsinas, Melina Mercouri,
Directors : Jules Dassin,

Melina Mercouri plays an actress who is attempting a comeback with a staging of the Greek tragedy "Medea" (about a woman who kills her children) in her native Greece. As a publicity stunt, ...

Actors : Michel Marot, Anne-Marie Miéville,

A film about politics and the media, in which two workers in a newspaper plant attempt to make a film.

Actors : Dana, Sing Chen, Bruce Li, Lik Cheung,

The tribe of a remote island worships the legendary Snake Pearl. Two masters of kung fu visit the isle and discover they must defend the daughter of the murdered chief against a evil wizard.

Actors : Christa Löser, Evelyn Opoczynski, Kareen Schröter, Harald Rathmann,
Directors : Herrmann Zschoche,

Teens in a holiday-camp. First love, first sex, first self-made theatre performance of "Romeo and Julliet" - quite interesting to have a look at the east-German youth in the seventies.

Actors : France Lambiotte, Miou-Miou, Laurent Malet, Yves Montand,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

The story of an exiled Spanish revolutionary, now a successful screenwriter, dangerously drawn back to his homeland and the "good fight" for freedom from fascism.

Actors : Frankie Crocker, Philip Michael Thomas, Rosalind Cash, Vernee Watson,
Directors : Oscar Williams,

A young man in Los Angeles dreams of striking it big as a singer in the music business. One day he gets signed to a big record contract, but along with the fame and money he develops an addiction to the drug PCP.

Actors : Capucine, Senta Berger, Paolo Bonacelli, Ornella Muti,
Directors : Tonino Cervi,

A background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's bourgeoisie and falls in love with a mature teacher, Carla, the mother of his friend ...

Actors : Rekha, Vinod Mehra, Prema Narayan, Asit Kumar Sen,

Vikas, the son of a successful lawyer defies his father's arrangement for him to be married; and marries his sweetheart Aarti. They enjoy the bliss of marriage, breaking away from the ...

Actors : Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Silvia Reize, Tina Engel, Katharina Thalbach,
Directors : Margarethe von Trotta,

Three people rob a bank to help a day care center that's in debt. Wolf is captured, Werner identified, police suspect Christa is the third. She and Werner ask Hans, a clergyman, to launder ...