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Disco Fever (1978) on 1 december 1978
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Fabian Forte, Casey Kasem, Michael Blodgett
Rating55%
A singer attempts a comeback at a disco, but won't sleep with the ruthless manager of the disco.
Scared Straight! (1978) on 1 december 1978
, 52minutesDirected by Arnold Shapiro
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Prison films, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about law enforcement
Actors Peter Falk, Danny Glover
Rating76%
Le documentaire, filmé dans la prison d'État de l'East Jersey, raconte la vie d'un groupe de jeunes délinquants qui rencontrent des condamnés à perpétuité, qui font en sorte de les effrayer (d'où le titre Scared Straight!) pour leur éviter la prison.
Die Sister, Die! (1978) on 1 december 1978
, 1h22Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Jack Ging, Edith Atwater, Antoinette Bower, Kent Smith, Robert Emhardt
Rating48%
Edward (Jack Ging) is tired of the "allowance" granted him by his sister, Amanda (Edith Atwater) and becomes impatient for her death, and his inheritance. To hasten her demise, or at least stop her suicides from being thwarted, Edward hires a discredited ex-nurse, Esther (Antoinette Bower) to watch over her. Esther is less than enthusiastic about killing the old woman, though, and is curious about the secrets held in the house, including a mysterious third sister, Nell.
They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way (1978) on 1 december 1978
, 1h36Directed by Stuart E. McGowan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Tim Conway, Chuck McCann, Richard Kiel, Joe Dorsey, Dub Taylor, Reni Santoni
Rating49%
Dewey (Tim Conway) and Wallace (Chuck McCann) are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have hidden their loot. While they're undercover, however, the governor dies, and because no one else knows about the ruse Dewey and Wallace are stranded in prison.
Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1978) on 1 december 1978
, 1h21Directed by Theodore J. Flicker
Origin Canada
Genres Fantasy
Actors Alex Karras, Max Morrow, Gary Busey, Guy L'Écuyer, Alison Pill, Joy Coghill
Rating58%
Jacob Two Two Meets The Hooded Fang is about a young boy who strives to be heard. He is nicknamed "Two-Two" for having to say things twice to be heard. One day, he decided to buy the groceries for his parents. There is a misunderstanding by the clerk, so Jacob finds himself in court. He is sentenced Two Years, Two months, two weeks and two minutes in the Children's Prison hundreds of miles away from civilization.
Give Us Tomorrow (1978) on 30 november 1978
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Sylvia Syms, Derren Nesbitt, Derek Ware, Victor Brooks
Rating56%
A master criminal takes a bank manager's family hostage to help him rob the bank.
Someone's Watching Me! (1978) on 27 november 1978
, 1h37Directed by John Carpenter
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau, Len Lesser, Charles Cyphers, Grainger Hines
Rating65%
A woman named Leigh Michaels moves to Los Angeles, and finds a job directing live television. An older man sees her on the balcony of her new apartment, through a telescope. He enters her apartment when she's out, and begins to terrorize her with phone calls and strange gifts from a fictional company, "Excursions Unlimited".
Enter the Devil (1974) on 1 december 1978
Directed by Mario Gariazzo
Genres Horror
Themes Films about religion, Demons in film
Actors Ivan Rassimov, Gabriele Tinti, Luigi Pistilli, Giuseppe Addobbati
Rating48%
Une étudiante tombe sous le charme mystérieux d'une statue représentant l'un des brigands crucifiés avec le Christ. Reprenant vie, le brigand viole la jeune femme, faisant pénétrer en elle la semence du Démon. Maintenant possédée, elle répand le mal sous ses formes les plus perverses. Un seul homme osera l'affronter : un moine, engagé dans un mortel combat entre les forces de Dieu et celles de l'Enfer.
The Lovers' Wind (1978) on 1 december 1978
Directed by Albert Lamorisse
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Rating83%
Blue Fin (1978) on 1 december 1978
, 1h35Directed by Bruce Beresford, Carl Schultz
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Hardy Krüger, Greg Rowe, Elspeth Ballantyne, John Jarratt, Hugh Keays-Byrne, George Spartels
Rating60%
Based on the children's novel by celebrated South Australian author 'Colin Thiele', this is an emotional father and son story about tuna fishing of Southern Blue Fin tuna in South Australia's Port Lincoln fishing district. Accident prone son Snook is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his father Pascoe. But when tragedy strikes the fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the Southern Ocean, the boy is called on to become a man in a rites of sea passage to reconcile is past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.