Leidenschaftliche Blümchen (1978)

AKA:
Boarding School

Synopsis:
This film tells the story about a group of girls at an exclusive German girls boarding school. Across the lake is an exclusive boys boarding school...

Starring:
Nastassja Kinski
Gerry Sundquist
Stefano D'Amato

Director: André Farwagi

Kondura (1978)

Starring:
Smita Patil
Vanisri
Anant Nag
Amrish Puri
Rao Gopal Rao
Satyadev Dubey
Venu
Shekhar Chatterjee
Sulabha Deshpande

Director: Shyam Benegal

Junoon (1978)

Synopsis:
The movie chronicles the period of 1857 to 1858 when the soldiers of the East India Company mutinied and many smaller kingdoms joined the soldiers in the hope of regaining their territories from the English. The movie is shown from the perspective of one of the leaders of the fight (Shashi Kapoor).

Starring:
Shashi Kapoor
Shabana Azmi
Jennifer Kendal
Naseeruddin Shah

Director: Shyam Benegal

Kissaa Kursee Kaa (1978)

Synopsis:
Elections are soon to be held in Jan Gan, and the two main rivals are Bhikharimal and Garibdas, who are contesting under their symbols of a horse and a cycle. Then Meera and Gopal recruit a poor male, Gangaram, who assists his employer to sell fake herbs and medicines, including a birth-control pill 'Sanjay Sanjeevni', to stand for elections. Armed with a tonic-shot of Netagiri; a pill for Revolution; and a needle-shot of Socialism, Gangaram competes to be the next president with a symbol of a car. Meera then bribes the two main competitors and gets them to withdraw from the race, thus ensuring an easy win for Gangaram, who is then elected President. On his very first day, Gangaram learns that it is more practical to worship his Kursee, as well as listen to it's 8 Dictums. Then he decides to live it up during the daytime, and sleep with his busty Personal Secretary, Ruby Dixsana, at night.

Starring:
Shabana Azmi
Raj Babbar
Raj Kiran
Surekha Sikri

Director: Amrit Nahta

Leidenschaftliche Blümchen (1978)

AKA:
Boarding School

About:
This film tells the story about a group of girls at an exclusive German girls boarding school. Across the lake is an exclusive boys boarding school...

Starring:
Nastassja Kinski
Gerry Sundquist
Stefano D'Amato

Director: André Farwagi

La sorella di Ursula (1978)

AKA: The Sister of Ursula

Synopsis:
While searching for their estranged mother, two beautiful sisters, Dagmar and Ursula, arrive at a luxurious seaside hotel. At the same time, a mysterious killer starts murdering promiscuous women in the area.

Starring:
Barbara Magnolfi
Stefania D'Amario
Anna Zinnemann

Director: Enzo Milioni

Kissaa Kursee Kaa (1978)

Synopsis:
This Shabana Azmi starrer was a political spoof of "Emergency" on celluloid and its title-Kissa Kursi Ka (KKK)-has become part of the popular political lexicon. Indira Gandhi's errant son, then leading an unbridled youth brigade, known as Sanjay Gandhi's storm-troopers, was not amused at the film's thinly veiled digs at Sanjay's Maruti Udyog (peoples' car) and sterilization programme (Nasbandi). The film's negative, all the prints and the master-print were lifted from CBFC office, brought to the Maruti factory in Gurgaon and burned. The Shah Commission, set up to examine the Emergency excesses, held Sanjay guilty for burning the prints. As the Supreme Court denied him bail, Sanjay had to spend a month in Tihar Jail.

Though very few could see the film directed by Amrit Nahata, its title became immortal.

Starring:
Shabana Azmi
Seema Biswas
Raj Kiran
Utpal Dutt

Director: Amrit Nahata

Buffalo Rider (1978)

Synopsis:
In the 1800s Jake Jones finds a buffalo about to be eaten by coyotes. He rescues the buffalo and raises it. He names the him Samson. Jones decides to break the buffalo and saddle him. He then becomes the guy ON A buffalo.

Starring:
C. Lindsay Workman
Rick Guinn
John Freeman

Directors: John Fabian, Dick Robinson and George Lauris

Halloween I (1978)

AKA:
Halloween

Synopsis:
The year is 1963, the night; Halloween. Police are called to 43 Lampkin Ln. only to discover that a 17 year Judith Myers had been stabbed to death, by her 6 year-old brother. After being institutionalized for 15 years, Myers breaks out just days before Halloween. No one knows nor would wish to find out what would happen on October 31st 1978, besides Myer's psychiatrist Dr. Loomis. He knows Michael is coming back to Haddonfield, but by the time the town realizes it, it'll be to late for many people.

Starring:
Donald Pleasence
Jamie Lee Curtis
Tony Moran

Director: John Carpenter

Dawn Of The Dead (1978)

Gaman (1978)

Starring:
Jalal Agha
Sulabha Deshpande
Nana Patekar
Smita Patil
Farooq Shaikh
Gita Siddharth

Director: Muzaffar Ali

Besharam (1978)

Starring:
Amitabh Bachchan
Sharmila Tagore

Badaltey Rishtey (1978)

Synopsis:
Manohar (Rishi Kapoor) though an orphan is full of life and being a brilliant student still earns while he learns. His pranks amuse Savitri (Reena Roy) who also earns her living by teaching music to Prema (Rachna Bhatt), Sagar (Jeetendra) sister. Savitri takes liking for Manohar, while in Sagar heart of hearts, these is only one image and that is the one of Savitri-Savitri mother favours this match which Savitri clearly rejects. Savitri is disturbed and approaches Manohar disclosing to him about her mother wishes. Manohar assured her that he will persuade Colonel Saheb (Pinchoo Kapoor), his God father to approach Savitri mother and arrange a dialogue to discuss the bethrotal. In this gay mood, he sings and skiis down the snow-clad peaks, but suddenly slips and meets with an accident-he is unconcious with serious head injuries. Champa (Shashi Bala) Savitri friend warns her that her father Professor (Hangal) has predicted that Manohar will die within forty days of their marriage. He has also predicted the serious paralytic stroke her mother would suffer. The family doctor cautions Savitri brother Anup (Asrani) and requests them to accede to the wishes of the mother and marry Sagar in order to save her life. Savitri reluctantly submits and the marriage is being solomnised, but then champa gives out the truth to Savitri that according to the prediction her first husband will die within forty days of her marriage and she is destined to become widow. Manohar is lying unconscious in the hospital. Savitri is married to Sagar. What had destiny in store for the future of these three innocent souls-trapped in the TRIANGLE OF "BADALTEY RISHTEY".

Starring:
Jeetendra
Rishi Kapoor
Reena Roy
Asrani
A.K.Hangal

Director: R. Jhalani

Behind Convent Walls (1978)

AKA:
Interno di un convento >> Italian
Intérieur d'un couvent >> France

Within a Cloister >> USA
Within the Convent >> UK

Synopsis:
A jealous, handsome priest, who is the confessor for a convent full of women, encourages the equally zealous abbess of one such institution to enforce the same strict rules on these unfortunate women that are applied to others. In doing so, they uncover a snake pit of sexual couplings, both lesbian and heterosexual, as well as many tools for masturbation. At the same time, a particularly disturbed inmate manages to poison herself and many of the other novitiates in yet another scandal which is covered up by church authorities.

Starring:
Ligia Branice
Howard Ross
Marina Pierro

Director: Walerian Borowczyk

Laal Kothi (1978)

Starring:
Tanuja
Danny Dengzongpa

Rathinirvedam (1978)

Zameer Ke Bandi (1978)

AKA:
Prisoners of Conscience

Synopsis:
June 26, 1975 is remembered as a black day for Indian democracy. On this day, 36 years back, the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, declared a state of national emergency, thereby granting her extraordinary powers to rule by decree; which was promptly followed by launching a massive crackdown on civil liberties and on all political opposition.

An important historical record of this dark period in India's post-independence political history, Anand Patwardhan's "Prisoners of Conscience" documents the State of Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi from June 1975 to March 1977.

During the Emergency the media was muzzled, over 100,000 people were arrested without charge and imprisoned without trial. Cases of custodial torture, beatings and death were a plenty. Repression was also unleashed on defenceles people - workers, peasants and middle class - outside of jails.

But political prisoners existed before the Emergency, and they continue to exist after it was over. Today, the common people of India witness a state of 'undeclared emergency' as the Indian state holds tens of thousands of political prisoners behind bars, often for years without trial, and employing an arsenal of infamous and heavily criticized draconian acts, some of the most repressive of which are the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), the Public Safety Act (PSA) in Jammu and Kashmir, the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act (CSPSA), the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), the colonial era Sedition Law, et cetera.

Nizhal Nijamakirathu (1978)

Synopsis:
Thilagam (Shobha) joins as a cook in Indumathi's (Sumitra) house. Indu is a very headstrong, egoistic lady and lives with her brother Venkatachalam (Sarat Babu). Believing a prediction that she would be wedded to a rich man, Thilagam looses her chastity to Venkatachalam. Venkatachalam puts the blame on Kasi, a servant, who is secretly in love with Thilagam. Sanjeevi (Kamal Haasan), a friend of Venkatachalam, is in love with Indu and takes the responsibility of uniting Thilagam with Venkatachalam. Whether Venkatachalam accepts Thilagam forms the remaining part of the story. The movie ends with a beautiful explanation on true love.

Starring:
Kamal Haasan
Sumitra
Shobha
Sarat Babu
Anumanth
Mouli
Natarajan
'Oru vira' Krishna Rao
Sundari Bai

Director: K. Balachander

Convoy (1978)

Intekhab (1978)

Starring:

Mohd. Ali
Shabnam
Ghulam Mohiyu-ud-din

Director: Pervaiz Malik