Soviet KGB General Marenkov defects to the Americans and together with his CIA handler Harry Wargrave they plan an operation meant to reveal the KGB agents in Europe. Year 1979.
| Generes: Action, Thriller |
| Director: Mark Robson, Monte Hellman |
| Writer: Abraham Polonsky (screenplay), Colin Forbes (novel) |
| Actors: Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Linda Evans, Maximilian Schell |
A lawyer is forced to defend a guilty judge, while defending other innocent clients, and trying to find punishment for the guilty and provide justice for the innocent. Year 1979.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Norman Jewison |
| Writer: Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson |
| Actors: Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe, Lee Strasberg |
An ambitious lab assistant carries out a forbidden experiment and accidentally creates a deadly bacteria which kills her and rapidly engulfs the city. The authorities order a curtain of … Year 1979.
| Generes: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Ed Hunt |
| Writer: Ed Hunt, Barry Pearson |
| Actors: Daniel Pilon, Kate Reid, Céline Lomez, Michael J. Reynolds |
A bounty hunter is offered $20,000 – off the record – for the capture of a very large man who dons body armor and steel-plated gauntlets for his regular beatings of some unfortunate individuals. Year 1979.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Ross Hagen |
| Writer: Hugh Smith (screenplay), Julian Roffman (screenplay), Hugh Smith (story), Ross Hagen (story) |
| Actors: John Saxon, Roosevelt Grier, Joanna Cassidy, Joan Blondell |
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train. Year 1978.
| Generes: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Michael Crichton |
| Writer: Michael Crichton (screenplay by), Michael Crichton (based on his novel) |
| Actors: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Alan Webb |
Movie Year 1978.
| Generes: Adventure, Horror, Thriller |
| Director: Paul Kiener |
| Writer: Algernon Blackwood (short story), Paul Kiener (screenplay) |
| Actors: Van Washburn Jr., Victor Lawrence, Ron Berger, Carole Cocherelle |
A huge swarm of deadly African bees spreads terror over American cities by killing thousands of people. Year 1978.
| Generes: Horror, Thriller |
| Director: Irwin Allen |
| Writer: Arthur Herzog III (novel), Stirling Silliphant (screenplay) |
| Actors: Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain |
A Navy Captain uses his experimental Snark to reach a nuclear submarine stuck on an ocean ledge. Year 1978.
| Generes: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller |
| Director: David Greene |
| Writer: David Lavallee (novel), James Whittaker (screenplay), Howard Sackler (screenplay), Frank P. Rosenberg (adaptation) |
| Actors: Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |