1978 Movies

One of the most sensational get-rich-quick schemes that took place in France over 200 years ago with economist John Law at the helm.

Brian Yuzna's debut amateur movie is, in his own words, about an artist who blows his brains out against a canvas for art and becomes a protagonist as a hologram.

Based on the paradoxical life story of a small-time Viennese postman, a former classmate of the "great" Hermann Göring, this television drama depicts the difficult position of the so-called "little man," first under the Nazi regime and later in the postwar yea...

A short film by Keiichi Tanaami

In this activist film, Barbara Meter and Trilby Fairfax explore how the images of beautiful, young women in the media affect the way women view themselves.

An aging dentist looks for a little liveliness by abandoning his wife in favor of a younger woman. When he learns that his mistress also has another younger lover, he gets jealous, but tries not to make an issue of it. In the end, he dumps her and returns to h...

This animated short film attempts to answer the eternal questions, What is dying? and How does it feel? Based on recent studies, case histories and some of the ancient myths, the afterlife state is portrayed as an awesome but methodical working-out of all the...

When the honest, unsuccessful Insurance Agent is transferred to Madhya Pradesh a lot of events are set in motiion.

Evoking a cinema verite feel not found in most sports documentaries, Fast Break examines the 1977 Portland Trailblazers basketball team in a surprisingly personal and compelling fashion. Inter-cutting excerpts from the 1977 playoff / championship season, the f...

Maruthu, a hunter, has an affair with Kaveri, a tea shop owner. He gets drawn to a beautiful dancer from the travelling circus which comes to their village, causing trouble between him and Kaveri.

Based on a short story by writer Guru Prasad Mainali of the same name, the story follows the lives of husband and wife, Chame and Gauthali.

Small rice shop proprietor old Plough is still unmarried despite being in his fifties. When he marries a Thai bride for just ten thousand-odd dollars, he discovers that his wife was pregnant prior to coming to Hong Kong.

The 50-year-old haulier Kluth is left by his wife and falls in love with 15-year-old Anita, the daughter of the owners of his favorite pub. Anita's parents tolerate the relationship because Kluth supports them financially. But when Anita is expecting Kluth's c...

Tells the story of Si Ronda's efforts to fight against Dutch colonialism. When injustice befell the people in his environment, especially those close to him, he fought back.

When a game warden crashes in East Africa, his greyhound goes for help, only to find unexpected assistance from an aging lion.

A young girl returns home to find her mother killed and her village slaughtered.

Our hero Kim is a police inspector who must arrest the baddest of the bad. Nobody believes he can do it. What they don't know is that he is a 10th level master of karate and kung fu. His challenges only make him stronger. Weapons and hand to hand gory comb...

A film about an innovative method of learning a foreign language in just 24 sessions in Galina Kitaygorodskaya‘s method: "The method of activating the capabilities of the individual and the team", allows to activate mental processes (memory, perception, thinki...