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Finding box office information for movies made before 1980 is not an easy task. For somebody looking for box office information on 1978 it is very very frustrating. Over the years, we have researched and collected information on over 36,000 movies. So we figured we would show all the 1978 movies in our database.
To make this list a movie had to be made in 1978. This page will looks at 132 1974 Movies. The movies are listed in a massive table that lets you rank the movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. This only represents about 33% of the movies made in 1978….but should cover the top box office movies.
Our UMR Top 50 of 1978
1978 Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
- Sort 1978 Movies by movie titles and movie trailers
- Sort 1978 Movies by the stars or in some cases the director of the movie.
- Sort 1978 Movies by domestic adjusted box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort 1978 Movies how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each 1978 Movies received and how many Oscar® wins each 1978 Movies received.
- Sort 1978 Movies by Ultimate Movie Ranking Score (UMR). Our UMR score puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
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1. Box Office 2. Oscar Movies 3. Reviews 4. Top Stars of 1978 5. UMR Table
Counting your 2010s yearly reviews you have 58. I agree with a Max and In The Shadows keep em coming.
Hey Steve Crenshaw….good point….we are at 58 yearly reviews. I will probably do the final bridge of stats…as 1980 to 2010…..would give up almost 90 years of Yearly Reviews.
I have seen 19 movies from 1978. I believe that is one more than I saw from 1977.
The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is Heaven Can Wait at number 2.
The highest movie I have NOT seen is The Deer Hunter.
The LOWEST rated film I have seen is The Swarm. I did finally see that movie.
Viewings by Tens For the Top 20:
4 out of 10: Heaven Can Wait, Grease, Revenge of the Pink Panther, Foul Play
10 out of 20:Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Cheap Detective, California Suite, EVery Which Way But Loose, Coma, and The Buddy Holly Story.
The Boys From Brazil is a strong film for Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier. I enjoy it.
The Big Sleep followed the book more closely than the original. It makes a bit more sense than the original (though no one seems to mind the convoluted plot).
Favourite 1978 Movies:
Death on the Nile
Heaven Can Wait (though I prefer the original Here Comes Mr. Jordan)
The Cheap Detective
Grease
The Great Train Robbery
The Boys From Brazil
Hey Flora. Thanks for the visit, the comment and the tally count. I am at 49 1978 movies watched. Knowing your taste in movies…I do not think you would enjoy The Deer Hunter at all. Some scenes are incredibly intense, violent and gory. So you joined The Swarm alumni…..a movie so bad it is good. Even with Caine in the movie…..it is so bad….lol. I have seen all of your favorites with the exception of The Cheap Detective. As for The Boys From Brazil….that movie scared me when I was younger….today…I appreciate it for the cast…Peck, Olivier and Mason. Half of the Top 20 is pretty good. Good feedback as always.
I would like to see more of these yearly reviews. I reference them all the time. The 1980s and 1990s had movies too. If you stop here it seems like a shame. Just my two cents worth.
Hey In The Shadows…always good to hear from you. Thanks for sharing your two cents…..I am sure I will get all the years done…..but having 50 straight years seemed like a good time to stop and smell the roses…lol.
Nice accomplishment. 50 years is a lot of movies.
Thank you Taylor.
Hi Cogerson, wonderful review ! I was unaware of the movie “force 10 from Navarone” … It’s amazing to learn that a sequel was made ! I’m sure that it isn’t as good as the Guns but i’m very curious to see it ! For info there is also a little known sequel to “the dirty dozen”released in 1985 called “the dirty dozen : the next mission” with Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine supposed to happen a few months after the events of the first film….
i also have a question about movies in general ..On the internet and on your website there are a lot of lists who ranks the most successful movies of all time by ticket sales or grosses ; i just wanted to know if there is a “common agreement” or a kind of “intake bar” among box office specialists which defines from how many millions of entries a film is a success that deserves to be included in a list of the most lucrative films in the history of cinema ?….
If there isn’t ; what would your intake bar been ? 20 – 30 millions tickets sold worldwide ? 40 millions …50 millions tickets or maybe more ? …
Can’t wait to seen your yearly reviews from the 80’s !! Hope you’ll going thru the 90’s as well… When you will have arrived at the end of the 80s or 90s with the yearly reviews; you plan to publish (as for you already did for the 30’s) the worldwide box office grosses figures for the 40’s to the 80’s or you prefer to stay on the domestic gross ?…
Thanks a lot !!
Hey Max….thanks for the very nice words about these yearly reviews. Glad we were able to connect you to Force Ten From Navarone. Peck and Niven wanted to be in the sequel…but too much time passed and they got replaced by Robert Shaw and Edward Fox…..and then you get a young Harrison Ford as well. Those Dirty Dozen movies were not nearly as popular as the original.
As for your question about a “common agreement”…sad to say….that would be a big no. I have contacted Box Office Mojo a few times….but have never gotten any response back….I guess I am too small of fish to answer a question. The Numbers is much more receptive….but that subject has never been talked about.
Here…we view the $100,000,0000 mark as being a nice threshold….that would translate to about 113 million tickets sold…..so $200 million would be 226 million tickets sold….$300 million would 339 tickets sold….each threshold is a nice accomplishment.
I might take a break from the yearly reviews for awhile….though….in my box office gross notebook….I only have one year left to do….1980….and I am sure that will get me motivated to reach 1989. As for the worldwide grosses….if we have them…we try and get them out there….sadly those stats from movies made in the 1970s are few and far between.
Good comment.