1978 Movies

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 Renato, and then with his young colleague, Elena.

A musical play based on the early years of actor Paul Muni.

Marilyn’s shine flickering into your eyes, Marilyn’s mind melting into your mind, Marilyn’s heart beating inside of your chest,…if you so wish. – R.L.Before you start the film please light a candle and after stopping the film, please blow it out. Should the ca...

A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.

A 1980 Canadian drama by Janine Manatis.

The kids take part in a bicycle race and manage to win new bikes, in spite of the organiser's treachery.

The main character is a young man who lives with his poor mother in Zagreb. He holds no job and is barely making ends meet in the overwhelming post-war poverty. They have a tenant named John. He is constantly full of money, which, allegedly, comes to him from...

Driven by his financial difficulties, a man embarks his sister and triplet nieces on various adventures.

Docu-drama about the earthquake in Romania, on March 4, 1977. In 1978 it was broadcast only in select cities in Romania for 1 week, being deemed "too harsh" by the government.

Charmed Particles is a physics term... it describes the point at which energy becomes matter, intangible ‘nothing’ becoming, somehow, ‘something.’ What lies at the heart of each atom is nothing... the beast at the heart of the labyrinth... and from that nothin...

This experimental short consists of eight unedited rolls of super-8 film, each of which profiles an individual woman in real time. The women engage in everyday behaviour, such as playing pinball or reading a letter aloud.

A ski-masked maniac kills apartment complex tenants with the contents of a toolbox.

Obscure Filipino action film starring the famous Weng Weng in an early role.

A talent agent pitches a singing dog act.

The monkey is a bit of a rascal, until the tiger cub shows him he doesn't have any friends because of it.

Masked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank.

An upper-class family celebrates their daughter's upcoming marriage to a young man who appears to be of the same social standing. The fiancé has sexual relations with another woman, and this sets off a chain of humiliations.