1978 Movies

The filmed depiction of a program where convicts tell troubled kids about the horrors of prison life. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

Based on the fairy tale "Silver Hoof".

Documentary on the redevelopment on a dock area of Sydney. For 5 years, until 1977, Woolloomooloo was the site of a bitter struggle between property developers and the local community, which at times involved the National Trust, Building Unions and squatters’...

Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hours don't ease his pain, especially when he finds that his leftist views conflict with those of the senior partn...

While investigating a UFO in the Sky Ace, J.A.K.Q. is caught off guard by the return of Iron Claw, with the Big Four now leading the remnants of Crime and the Black Cross Army.

A French diplomat is surveilled by a secret service to find a weakness for political control, his private life becoming 'File No. 51'.

An unscrupulous towing company picks up perfectly fine cars and impounds them. It's up to two bar maids to try and stop them.

In 1950 a Western spy is clandestinely parachuted into Communist Romania to retrieve secret WW2 codes and agent lists and also to assist a group of anti-Communist guerrillas escape but the Communist police is setting a trap.

The passengers and crew of a boat on a summer cruise in the Caribbean stray into the famed Bermuda Triangle and mysterious things start happening.

The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shipyard worker, is arrested and charged with the murder. At Ueda's trial, a complex story unfolds.

An animated short from Viktor Kubal

A story about promotion of the birth control policy in a traditional Chinese rural village.

A policewoman is attacked, handcuffed and raped while on night patrol. Rather than report the incident, she decides to find and punish the rapist herself.

Debut short by Konstantin Lopushanskiy

Irina Kupchenko stars in this psychological drama by the renowned director/writer team of Yuli Raizman and Yevgeny Gabrilovich. In the story, she is the entirely respectable wife of a career diplomat, with a teenaged son. Suddenly one day, she decides to leave...

When scholar Wei Fung is forcibly hired by the Manchu Emperor to infiltrate a clan of rebellious Ming Loyalists, his mission goes adrift when he falls in love with the clan's leader's granddaughter. Wei Fung must choose between his new love and his family, who...

A César award nominated short feature.