Best Drama movies of 1978

Actors : Robert Duvall, Laurence Olivier, Tommy Lee Jones, Katharine Ross,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

The aging, retired founder of an auto giant comes out of retirement to try to develop a safe, fuel-efficient car.

Actors : Yftach Katzur, Zachi Noy, Anat Atzmon, Jonathan Sagall,
Directors : Boaz Davidson,

Three friends live their lives in the 1950's each searching for someone to love.

Actors : Jean Dasté, Patrick Maléon, Nathalie Baye, François Truffaut,
Directors : François Truffaut,

A French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne is a journalist whose wife Julie died a decade ago. He gathered in the green room all Julie's objects. When a fire destroys ...

Actors : Eileen Brennan, Cleavon Little, Michael Brandon, Alex Karras,
Directors : John A. Alonzo,

Q-SKY is the #1 radio station in Los Angeles mainly because of the music they play, and running the station the way they want to. It has led them to a ratings success. The interesting radio...

Actors : Andra Akers, Bert Kramer, Lily Tomlin, John Travolta,
Directors : Jane Wagner,

A lonely socialite and a young drifter enter into a May-December romance.

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Moses Gunn, Anthony Perkins, Berry Berenson,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life", but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.

Actors : Robert Webber, Alexis Smith, Murray Hamilton, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

Casey is a young boy in a family that trains racehorses. His best friend, a foal they call "Casey's Shadow", looks to be a loser, but comes out a champion.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Ryan O'Neal, Nicola Pagett, Edward Binns,
Directors : John Korty,

In this sequel to Love Story (1970), grieving Oliver is being pressured by his in-laws to move on and take part in the family business. He meets a pretty heiress and they start dating, but memories of Jennie come rushing back.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Sterling Hayden, Judd Hirsch, Eric Roberts,
Directors : Frank Pierson,

In the criminal and violent world of modern-day Gypsies based in New York City, their 'king' Zharko Stepanowicz passes his leadership to his unwilling grandson, leaving the skipped father resentful.

Actors : Meng Lo, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Kuan-Tai Chan, Feng Lu,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Three men, crippled by an evil warlord, become friends and learn kung fu with the help of an old teacher and his idiot pupil.

Actors : Nora Miao, Jackie Chan, Jeong-Nam Kim, Yung-Kuo Li,
Directors : Chi-Hwa Chen,

Jackie Chan stars as the young warrior Hsu Yiu Fong. Hsu has been entrusted with the book of the "Art of the Snake and Crane," after the mysterious disappearance of the eight Shaolin ...

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Necla Soylu, Meral Orhonsay, Ali Sen,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

Adem is working as a waiter and he gets fired at that moment he inherits a fortune from his rich uncle in USA. Women start to throw themselves at him, people try to use him, everyone acts ...

Actors : Ronnie Hawkins, Sara Dylan, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan,
Directors : Bob Dylan,

This epic is a mass amalgamation of three separate film-types that is, contrary to popular opinion, coherent and a unified whole. Bob Dylan is shown in concert, often masked, during the ...

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Hema Malini, Sanjeev Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Vijay Kumar is the illegitimate son of a construction baron, Raj Kumar Gupta and his first love, Shanti, whom he gives up in order to marry a wealthy heiress. Raj does not know of this son,...

Actors : Piero Galletti, Luisa Rossi, Nanni Moretti, Lina Sastri,
Directors : Nanni Moretti,

An ironic peak into the life of a group of Italian university students in the 1970s.

Actors : Jean Carmet, Jean-François Garreaud, Stéphane Audran, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.

Actors : Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Plummer, Nanette Newman, Tatum O'Neal,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

Velvet's orphaned niece, Sarah, follows her dream of Olympic glory with her horse Arizona Pie.

Actors : Teruhiko Saigô, Hiroki Matsukata, Shin'ichi Chiba, Kinnosuke Nakamura,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and ...

Actors : William Smithers, Richard Lynch, David Carradine, Claudia Jennings,

Futuristic Science Fiction about a sport to the death, using "destructocycles".

Actors : Jeanette Nolan, Mia Farrow, Robert Forster, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Corey Allen,

The vacationers at a winter wonderland struggle to survive after an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort. Their holiday then turns into a game of survival.