Movie List for "thriller"

F.I.S.T. (1978)

A rebellious Cleveland warehouse worker rises through the ranks of a trucking industry union to become union president but his organized crime links cause his eventual downfall. Year 1978.

Generes: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Norman Jewison
Writer: Joe Eszterhas (story), Joe Eszterhas (screenplay), Sylvester Stallone (screenplay)
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Melinda Dillon

Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a killer. Year 1978.

Generes: Mystery, Thriller
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: John Carpenter (screenplay), David Zelag Goodman (screenplay), John Carpenter (story)
Actors: Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif, Rene Auberjonois

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team members, a traffic reporter, and his television executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall. Year 1978.

Generes: Horror, Thriller
Director: George A. Romero
Writer: George A. Romero
Actors: David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger, Gaylen Ross

Coma (1978)

When a young female doctor notices an unnatural amount of comas occurring in her hospital she uncovers a horrible conspiracy. Year 1978.

Generes: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Michael Crichton
Writer: Michael Crichton (screenplay), Robin Cook (novel)
Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn

The Comeback (1978)

A singer holes up at a sinister estate to write new songs for his act. The ghost of his murdered wife begins to haunt him, then the person who actually killed her shows up at the mansion. Year 1978.

Generes: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Pete Walker
Writer: Murray Smith (screenplay), Michael Sloan (additional script material)
Actors: Jack Jones, Pamela Stephenson, David Doyle, Bill Owen

The Boys from Brazil (1978)

A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich. Year 1978.

Generes: Drama, Thriller
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Writer: Ira Levin (novel), Heywood Gould (screenplay)
Actors: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer

Die Sister, Die! (1978)

A man hires a nurse to care for his ailing but nasty and shrewish sister. What he really intends to do, however, is to convince the nurse to join him in a plot to kill her. Year 1978.

Generes: Horror, Thriller
Director: Randall Hood
Writer: William Hersey (story), Tony Sawyer
Actors: Jack Ging, Edith Atwater, Antoinette Bower, Kent Smith

Tintorera: Killer Shark (1977)

Two shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while hunting down a large tiger shark terrorizing the Mexican East coast. Year 1977.

Generes: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Director: René Cardona Jr.
Writer: Ramón Bravo (novel), René Cardona Jr. (screenplay), Christina Schuch (story adaption)
Actors: Susan George, Hugo Stiglitz, Andrés García, Fiona Lewis

Tentacles (1977)

A mutated giant octopus wreaks havoc on a California seaside community. Year 1977.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director: Ovidio G. Assonitis
Writer: Jerome Max, Tito Carpi, Steven W. Carabatsos
Actors: John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins, Henry Fonda

The Last Wave (1977)

A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal Persons in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and premonitions. Year 1977.

Generes: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Peter Weir
Writer: Peter Weir (screenplay), Tony Morphett (screenplay), Petru Popescu (screenplay)
Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow

The Late Show (1977)

A grumpy semi-retired private investigator partners with a quirky female client to catch the people who murdered his partner. Year 1977.

Generes: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Robert Benton
Writer: Robert Benton
Actors: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Eugene Roche

Chalta Purza (1977)

Movie Year 1977.

Generes: Action, Thriller
Director: Bhappi Sonie
Writer: Sachin Bhowmick (screenplay), Sachin Bhowmick (story), Kader Khan (dialogue)
Actors: Rajesh Khanna, Parveen Babi, Rakesh Roshan, Ajit

Day of the Animals (1977)

A battle for survival ensues after a group of hikers encounters a chemically imbalanced forest. Year 1977.

Generes: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director: William Girdler
Writer: William W. Norton (screenplay), Eleanor E. Norton (screenplay), Edward L. Montoro (story)
Actors: Christopher George, Leslie Nielsen, Lynda Day George, Richard Jaeckel

Death Game (1977)

Two young girls come to the home of a businessman whose family is away on his birthday. They seduce him and afterwards, however, they tie him up, torture him and trash his house. Year 1977.

Generes: Thriller
Director: Peter S. Traynor
Writer: Anthony Overman, Michael Ronald Ross
Actors: Sondra Locke, Colleen Camp, Seymour Cassel, Beth Brickell

The Deep (1977)

In Bermuda, two amateur treasure-hunting divers have a run-in with local criminals when they inadvertently discover the secret cargo of a World War II shipwreck. Year 1977.

Generes: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Peter Yates
Writer: Peter Benchley (novel), Peter Benchley (screenplay), Tracy Keenan Wynn (screenplay)
Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Dick Anthony Williams, Robert Shaw

Claws (1977)

Hunters wound a grizzly bear in a national forest in Alaska. Soon after, the wounded bear goes off and kills several other hunters, hikers, campers, the sheriff and a little boy scout. … Year 1977.

Generes: Horror, Thriller
Director: Richard Bansbach, Robert E. Pearson
Writer: Chuck D. Keen, Brian Russell
Actors: Jason Evers, Leon Ames, Anthony Caruso, Carla Layton