Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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1978 | ||||||
Absolution | Anthony Page | Richard Burton, Dominic Guard | Thriller | |||
The Big Sleep | Michael Winner | Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles | Crime drama | |||
The Boys from Brazil | Franklin J. Schaffner | Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier James Mason | Thriller | Co-production with the US | ||
Carry On Emmannuelle | Gerald Thomas | Kenneth Connor, Suzanne Danielle | Comedy | |||
The Comeback | Pete Walker | Pamela Stephenson, David Doyle, Bill Owen | Horror | |||
Death on the Nile | John Guillermin | Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow | Suspense | Based on the Agatha Christie novel | ||
Force 10 from Navarone | Guy Hamilton | Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Richard Kiel | World War II/Adventure | |||
Give Us Tomorrow | Donovan Winter | Sylvia Syms, Derren Nesbitt | Crime | |||
Home Before Midnight | Pete Walker | James Aubrey, Alison Elliott, Richard Todd | Drama | |||
Intimate Games | Tudor Gates | George Baker, Felicity Devonshire | Comedy | |||
Killer's Moon | Alan Birkinshaw | Anthony Forrest, David Jackson | Horror | |||
The Legacy | Richard Marquand | Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott | Horror | |||
Leopard in the Snow | Gerry O'Hara | Keir Dullea, Susan Penhaligon | Drama | |||
Let's Get Laid | James Kenelm Clarke | Robin Askwith, Fiona Richmond | Comedy | |||
Long Shot | Maurice Hatton | Charles Gormley, Neville Smith, Susannah York | Drama | |||
The Medusa Touch | Jack Gold | Richard Burton, Lee Remick | Thriller | |||
Midnight Express | Alan Parker | Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt | Prison Drama | |||
The Odd Job | Peter Madek | David Jason, Graham Chapman | Comedy | |||
The Playbirds | Willy Roe | Alan Lake, Glynn Edwards | Crime | |||
Power Play | Martyn Burke | Peter O'Toole, David Hemmings | Thriller | Co-production with Canada | ||
Revenge of the Pink Panther | Blake Edwards | Peter Sellers, Robert Webber | Comedy | |||
Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse | Justin Cartwright | Debbie Ash, Carolyne Argyle | Comedy | |||
The Sailor's Return | Jack Gold | Tom Bell, Shope Shodeinde | Drama | |||
Sammy's Super T-Shirt | Jeremy Summers | Reggie Winch, Lawrie Mark | Family | |||
The Shout | Jerzy Skolimowski | Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt. | Horror | |||
Silver Bears | Ivan Passer | Michael Caine, Cybill Shepherd | Comedy | |||
Stevie | Robert Enders | Glenda Jackson, Mona Washbourne | Biopic | |||
The Stud | Quentin Masters | Joan Collins, Oliver Tobias | Drama | |||
Superman | Richard Donner | Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder | Adventure | Co-production with US | ||
Sweeney 2 | Tom Clegg | John Thaw, Dennis Waterman | Crime | Second cinematic spin-off of the TV series | ||
Terror | Norman J. Warren | John Nolan, Carolyn Courage | Horror | |||
The Thirty Nine Steps | Don Sharp | Robert Powell, David Warner, Karen Dotrice | Thriller | Previously filmed in 1935 and 1959 | ||
Tomorrow Never Comes | Peter Collinson | Oliver Reed, Susan George | Crime | Co-production with Canada, entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival | ||
Warlords of Atlantis | Kevin Connor | Doug McClure, Peter Gilmore, Shane Rimmer | Science Fiction/Fantasy | |||
The Water Babies | Lionel Jeffries | James Mason, Bernard Cribbins, Billie Whitelaw | Family/Animated | |||
Watership Down | Martin Rosen | John Hurt, Richard Briers, Zero Mostel | Animated drama | This was Zero Mostel's last film | ||
What's Up Superdoc! | Derek Ford | Christopher Mitchell, Julia Goodman, Harry H. Corbett | Comedy | |||
The Wild Geese | Andrew V. McLaglen | Richard Burton, Roger Moore | Action |
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