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The most successful movies, first aired in 1978 year
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Superman (1978) USA,  United Kingdom,  Canada,  Switzerland,  FranceAn alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest superhero... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 300 451 603 IMDb: 7.4/10 (190 448) |
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Jaws 2 (1978) USA The small island resort town of Amity is trying to bounce back from the financial troubles that suffered after becoming known as the site of shark attacks four years earlier... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 187 884 007 IMDb: 5.8/10 (86 265) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Halloween (1978) USA The year is 1963, the night: Halloween... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 47 000 000 IMDb: 7.7/10 (312 422) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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The End (1978) USA Wendell Lawson has only 6 months to live... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 44 917 151 IMDb: 6.1/10 (4 468) |
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House Calls (1978) USA Charley is a surgeon who's recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age, who immediately and unexpectedly captures his heart... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 28 460 702 IMDb: 6.6/10 (2 052) |
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Damien: Omen II (1978) USA Seven years later, 13-year-old Damien is just discovering who he really is, and what he is destined to do... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 26 518 355 IMDb: 6.2/10 (37 613) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) USA Ever since they were sent into WWI battle in 1918, Sgt... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 20 378 470 IMDb: 4.2/10 (7 053) |
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The One and Only (1978) USA 1951: Andy Schmidt is in his last year of college... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 16 928 137 IMDb: 5.8/10 (953) |
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Return from Witch Mountain (1978) USA Tia and her brother Tony have supernatural powers, can communicate and move things with the power of their mind alone... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 16 393 000 IMDb: 5.7/10 (5 769) User Rating: /10 Votes: 6 |
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Death on the Nile (1978) United Kingdom Almost everyone on the S.S.Karnak, cruising the Nile, has a reason to want heiress Linnet Ridgeway dead... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 14 560 084 IMDb: 7.3/10 (40 623) User Rating: /10 Votes: 5 |
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The Big Fix (1978) USA An ex-'60s radical now working as a private eye is hired by an old flame to investigate a political smear campaign... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 13 062 708 IMDb: 6.4/10 (2 435) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II (1978) USA Several years after the deaths of Dick Buek and her father, Jill Kinmont and her mother leave Los Angeles to spend their summer in their hometown of Bishop, California... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 11 565 678 IMDb: 6.2/10 (407) |
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American Hot Wax (1978) USA This is the story loosely based on Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed, who introduced rock'n'roll to teenage American radio audiences in the 1950's... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 7 932 571 IMDb: 6.9/10 (1 368) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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King of the Gypsies (1978) USA Not surprisingly, this fascinating dissection of Gypsy life in America was vilified by several ethnic special-interest groups, who'd previously delivered their mimeoed missives to novelist Peter Maas, on whose book the film was based... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 7 325 177 IMDb: 6.2/10 (1 470) User Rating: /10 Votes: 5 |
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Force 10 from Navarone (1978) United Kingdom, USA Mallory and Miller are back... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 7 230 000 IMDb: 6.4/10 (20 161) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978) USA,  JapanIn this third film of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promoter/hustler who takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps the boys come into... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 7 092 495 IMDb: 3.7/10 (3 322) User Rating: /10 Votes: 2 |
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International Velvet (1978) USA This sequel to the 1944 Elizabeth Taylor film National Velvet focuses on Sarah Brown, a young, recently orphaned American girl sent to England to live with her aunt - a now grown Velvet Brown... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 7 009 238 IMDb: 5.8/10 (1 667) |
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Pretty Baby (1978) USA A semi-scandal upon its release in 1978, this Louis Malle film is set in a turn-of-the-century, New Orleans bordello and focuses on a girl named Violet (then-child actress Brooke Shields) whose imminent twelfth birthday signals her "readiness" to become a career prostitute... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 5 786 368 IMDb: 6.5/10 (13 156) User Rating: /10 Votes: 61 |
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Days of Heaven (1978) USA A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 3 475 702 IMDb: 7.7/10 (64 040) |
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I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) USA If they missed Beatles' first appearance in the U.S.A... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 1 944 682 IMDb: 6.8/10 (5 735) |
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Skateboard (1978) USA A Hollywood agent finds himself in debt to a powerful bookie... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 1 318 823 IMDb: 5.4/10 (358) |
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Uncle Joe Shannon (1978) USA A trumpet player, self-destructive after the death of his wife and child in a fire, befriends a crippled youngster and together they battle obstacles through each other's encouragement... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 494 797 IMDb: 6.0/10 (142) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Killer of Sheep (1978) USA Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 468 460 IMDb: 7.2/10 (7 664) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Leidenschaftliche Blümchen (1978) West GermanyBoarding schools for girls are full of young nymphos who are ready to pose as prostitutes in order to lose their virginity... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 306 061 IMDb: 4.7/10 (604) User Rating: /10 Votes: 4 |
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Höstsonaten (1978) France, West Germany,  Sweden, United KingdomAfter having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her daughter Eva in her home... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 14 338 IMDb: 8.1/10 (38 651) |
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L'albero degli zoccoli (1978) ItalyThe life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 9 367 IMDb: 7.8/10 (7 026) User Rating: /10 Votes: 6 |
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Die Linkshändige Frau (1978) West Germany After returning from a business trip in Finland, Bruno (Bruno Ganz) find that his wife Marianne (Edith Clever) wants her husband to leave her alone with their son... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 3 773 IMDb: 6.4/10 (382) |
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Jubilee (1978) United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth I travels to late twentieth-century Britain to discover a tawdry and depressing landscape where life mostly seems aimless and is anyway held cheap... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 923 IMDb: 6.0/10 (3 748) |
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La chambre verte (1978) France A French little town, at the end of the twenties... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 509 IMDb: 6.9/10 (3 347) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
