Best Drama movies of 1978

Actors : Ely Galleani, Laura Gemser, Venantino Venantini, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

While attempting to interview an elusive gangster, photojournalist Emanuelle notices a man pushing a girl in a wheelchair through the airport. Later, in another country she sees the same ...

Actors : Angela Winkler, Heinz Hoenig, Hans Christian Blech, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Reinhard Hauff,

One night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works. The police are there rounding up radicals who frequent the center - Hoffmann runs into the ...

Actors : Flavio Andreini, Sherry Buchanan, Ray Lovelock, Florinda Bolkan,
Directors : Franco Prosperi,

Sister Cristina (Florinda Bolkan) plays a nun who takes the teenage girls in her care to a remote house where they rehearse A Midsummer Night's Dream. Three thugs show up, brutally raping ...

Actors : Minori Matsushima, Akira Kamiya, Hitoshi Takagi, Taeko Nakanishi,
Directors : Masami Hata,

An innocent lamb learns about life and death when he seeks revenge upon the wolf who slaughtered his mother.

Actors : Hiroki Iwase, Shima Iwashita, Ken Ogata, Miyuki Yoshizawa,
Directors : Yoshitarô Nomura,

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears.

Actors : Milan Strljic, Boris Kralj, Tanja Poberznik, Frano Lasic,
Directors : Lordan Zafranovic,

Three young men - a Croat, an Italian, and a Jew - are the best friends in pre-WW2 Dubrovnik. When their country is occupied by Nazis and their cronies, the idyllic city becomes a place of ...

Actors : Pierre Clémenti, Ugo Bologna, Katya Berger, Michele Soavi,
Directors : Mimmo Cattarinich,

A writer returns home from World War I. He has developed a very bad case of post traumatic stress disorder. He contemplates suicide, but becomes interested in the 12 year old niece of the ...

Actors : Sergiu Nicolaescu, Amza Pellea, Jean Constantin, Gheorghe Dinica,
Directors : Sergiu Nicolaescu,

After Iron Guard member Paraipan discovers that commissioner Moldovan had staged his own death, he kidnaps Moldovan's son in order to draw him out. Tensions build up resulting in a final epic confrontation.

Actors : Ewa Dalkowska, Andrzej Seweryn, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Krystyna Janda,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world ...

Actors : José Sacristán, Enrique Vivó, José Luis Alonso, María Luisa San José,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

Sex and politics collide in this tale of forbidden love, blackmail and murder. Set up by the secret police to compromise a prominent politician, a teenage hustler discovers himself ...

Actors : Katy Jurado, Anthony Quinn, Lupita Ferrer, Dolores del Rio,
Directors : Hall Bartlett,

The Sanchez clan has seen the worst of times living in impoverished Mexico but they have survived by sticking together. When Sanchez's oldest daughter Consuelo plans to change direction and...

Actors : Tom Berenger, Helen Shaver, Susan Strasberg, Karen Black,
Directors : George Kaczender,

Andras Varda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a ...

Actors : Glenda Jackson, Trevor Howard, Alec McCowen, Mona Washbourne,
Directors : Robert Enders,

This biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems.

Actors : Rakhee Gulzar, Neetu Singh, Randhir Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Ramesh Behl,

Suman (Raakhee) and Amit (Amitabh Bachchan) love each other and plan to marry soon. Amit lives with his younger brother, Raju (Randhir Kapoor), and Raju already calls Suman "Bhabhi". Amit ...

Actors : Paul Kermack, William Carrol, Stephen Archibald, Jessie Combe,
Directors : Bill Douglas,

Jamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the RAF, and goes to Egypt, where he is ...

Actors : Peter Fonda, Chris Wiggins, Jerry Reed, Helen Shaver,
Directors : Peter Carter,

Two truck drivers fight off thugs who have been hired to drive them out of business.

Actors : Lino Ventura, Paul Crauchet, Jean Bouise, Claudine Auger,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

Mystery film about a man who finds there is another world to the one we know.

Actors : Raymond Burr, John Ireland, Susan George, Oliver Reed,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Coming back from an extended business trip, Frank discovers that his girlfriend Janie is now working at a new resort hotel where the owner has given her a permanent place to stay, as well ...

Actors : Rajinikanth, Sarath Babu, Jayalakshmi, Shobha,
Directors : J. Mahendran,

A boorish villager butts heads with a newly appointed engineer from the city.

Actors : Anna Zinnemann, Antiniska Nemour, Barbara Magnolfi, Stefania D'Amario,
Directors : Enzo Milioni,

While searching for their estranged mother, two beautiful sisters, Dagmar and Ursula, arrive at a luxurious seaside hotel. At the same time, a mysterious killer starts murdering promiscuous women in the area.