1978 - Kkiste - Page 6

Jailbirds

Four female convicts break out of prison, and during their escape they take hostage a bus full of young female tennis players. They drive the bus to the house of the judge who originally sent them to prison, where--since this is after all a women-in-prison picture--the hostages undergo various forms of physical and sexual abuse in various degrees of nudity.

NR

5.6

1978 Action 95 min Spielen

6.1

Mord in Barcelona

Roland Feriaud, französischer Seemann, wollte eigentlich nur eine Woche in Barcelona bleiben. Nachdem er im Hotel niedergeschlagen wird, wacht er zwei Tage später im Sanatorium auf und findet sich alsbald in einem Albtraum krimineller Ereignisse wieder. Als seine Frau auch noch entführt wird, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse. Packender Krimi, der konstant eine bedrohliche Spannung aufrechterhält.

NR

6.1

1978 Drama 95 min Spielen

5

The Seniors

Four college seniors open a bogus sex clinic, which unexpectedly mushrooms into a multi-million dollar business. Featuring a young Dennis Quaid in one of his earliest roles and Alan Reed (the original voice of Fred Flintstone) in his final film appearance.

NR

5

1978 Comedy 87 min Spielen

8

La Banda del Carro Rojo

Drug dealers try to cross the US border.

NR

8

1978 Crime 0 min Spielen

5.5

Rautakauppias Uuno Turhapuro, presidentin vävy

Uuno Turhapuro, a useless bum who has married money, creates havoc around his father-in-law's presidential campaign. He dresses up as his long-lost, wealthy brother from America, but things go awry when the real brother appears. At some point Uuno takes up a job at a hardware store, only to warm up a classic TV sketch perfected years earlier by the film's writer-producer Spede Pasanen. Written by Markku Kuoppamäki

NR

5.5

1978 Comedy 90 min Spielen

7.4

International Velvet

A charming sequel to the hit National Velvet follows our young heroine and her trusty steed overseas.

NR

7.4

1978 Drama 127 min Spielen

4.8

The House of the Dead

When a philandering husband accidentally finds himself lost during a rainstorm, he’s taken in by an elderly mortician and is forced to learn the ghastly origins of four freshly arrived corpses.

PG

4.8

1978 Action 80 min Spielen

7.9

The Man with Number 100

A poor young man chosen by a advertising company, and they made him a public hero to make him advertise poor quality products that no one buy.

NR

7.9

1978 Comedy 79 min Spielen

5.6

The Redeemer: Son of Satan!

Six people are trapped within the confines of their old high school during their 10th high school reunion with a psychotic, masked preacher who kills them off for their sinful lives they have made for themselves.

NR

5.6

1978 Horror 84 min Spielen

5.2

China 9, Liberty 37

Gunslinger Clayton Drumm (Testi) is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he will agree to murder Matthew (Oates), a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major obstacle to the railroad’s plans for expansion.

R

5.2

1978 Action 105 min Spielen

6.9

Die Kröte

Der verkrüppelte Vincenzo ist dem Gespött der Leute ausgesetzt, dabei ist er ein eiskalter Killer, hochgefährlich und mit mächtig Wut im Bauch. Zusammen mit drei Kumpanen plant er, einen Panzerwagen einer Bank auszurauben. Doch seine Mittäter verraten ihn. Der Mann mit dem Buckel schwört daraufhin Rache und versteckt sich in der Kanalisation, um seinen Feldzug zu starten.

NR

6.9

1978 Action 95 min Spielen

6.6

The Fall of Ako Castle

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and ...

NR

6.6

1978 Action 159 min Spielen

6.8

American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince

Martin Scorsese spends an evening with larger-than-life raconteur Steven Prince—a former drug addict, road manager for Neil Diamond, and actor who memorably played Easy Andy, the gun salesman in TAXI DRIVER—as he recounts stories from his colorful life (one of which later inspired a key scene in PULP FICTION).

NR

6.8

1978 Documentary 55 min Spielen

5.2

Lady on the Bus

Solange is a recently married young woman whose wedding night did not end well. After constant fights with her husband, she decides to live through her sexual frustration by sleeping with strangers she picks up on crowded buses in Rio de Janeiro.

NR

5.2

1978 Drama 96 min Spielen

4.1

Benji’s Very Own Christmas Story

While on a publicity tour in Switzerland, Benji, Cindy Smith, and Patsy Garrett convince Kris Kringle that his place on Christmas Eve is delivering presents to all "his" families all over the world.

G

4.1

1978 Family 25 min Spielen

5.3

No. 1 of the Secret Service

No. 1 is fearless, irrestible, and licensed to kill. No. 1 is assigned to capture a madman killing international financiers. Before getting the bad guy, No. 1 encounters mercenaries from the evil organization K.R.A.S.H. (Killing, Rape, Arson, Slaughter, and Hit).

NR

5.3

1978 Action 91 min Spielen

5.6

A Different Story

A gay man and a lesbian enter into a marriage of convenience in order to prevent his deportation, and then gradually fall in love with one another.

NR

5.6

1978 Drama 108 min Spielen

7

Tomorrow Never Comes

Coming back from an extended business trip, Frank discovers that his girlfriend Janie is now working at a new resort hotel where the owner has given her a permanent place to stay, as well as other gifts, in exchange for her affections. The two of them get into a fight and things quickly get out of control and the police are called and in turns into a hostage situation...

NR

7

1978 Action 109 min Spielen

7

The Devil and Daniel Mouse

When a young female mouse makes a deal with the devil to become a rock star and learns the price, her boyfriend has to help her avoid damnation.

NR

7

1978 Animation 25 min Spielen

0

Short Letter to the Long Goodbye

A young German man who has just arrived in America, hopes to get over the collapse of his marriage. However, he soon discovers that his ex-wife is pursuing him.

NR

0

1978 Drama 97 min Spielen

5.7

First Love

Ugo is an old actor who feels too young to be in an "old actor's house". He just can't stand the rules of the other old people so he escapes with a young girl.

NR

5.7

1978 Drama 110 min Spielen

6.8

Despair

Germany in the early 1930s. Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. It begins with his seating himself in a chair to observe himself making love to his wife, Lydia, a zaftig empty-headed siren who is also sleeping with her cousin. Hermann is soon given to intemperate outbursts at his workers, other businessmen, and strangers. Then, he meets Felix, an itinerant laborer, whom he delusionally believes looks exactly like ...

NR

6.8

1978 Drama 119 min Spielen

5

Night Cries

A young woman whose baby died in childbirth refuses to believe it and has dreams that her child is still alive and in danger. A scientist who is conducting experiments about dreams tries to help her.

NR

5

1978 Drama 100 min Spielen

7.3

Filming Othello

Filming Othello is a 1978 documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his award-winning 1952 production Othello. The film, which was produced for West German television, was the last completed feature film directed by Welles.

NR

7.3

1978 Documentary 84 min Spielen