Films set in 1978

2012 film directed by Ang Lee

2008 film directed by Gus Van Sant

1981 film by Hugh Hudson

Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, who co-wrote it with producer Debra Hill. It stars Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P. J. Soles, and Nancy Loomis. The film follows escaped mental patient Michael Myers, who was committed to a mental institution for murdering his teenage sister on Halloween in the fictional Illinois town of Haddonfield; 15 years later, he returns to Haddonfield, where he stalks teenage babysitter Laurie Strode and her friends while his psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis pursues him.

2013 American film directed by David O. Russell

1980 film by Vladimir Menshov

2003 film directed by Wolfgang Becker

2002 film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld

2007 film by David Fincher

1992 film by Robert Zemeckis

2002 film directed by Gore Verbinski

1997 film by Mike Newell

1997 film by Paul Thomas Anderson

1996 film directed by Miloš Forman

2010 film by Dennis Dugan

1978 film by Franklin J. Schaffner

1983 film directed by John Carpenter

The Black Phone is a 2021 American supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson from a screenplay he wrote with C. Robert Cargill, based on the 2004 short story by Joe Hill. It is the first installment in the Black Phone franchise. It stars Mason Thames as Finney, a teenage boy abducted by a serial child killer known colloquially as the Grabber. When Finney encounters a mystical black rotary phone in captivity, he uses it to plot his escape by communicating with the ghosts of the Grabber's slain victims. Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, and James Ransone also feature in the principal cast. Derrickson and Cargill produced The Black Phone in association with Blumhouse Productions CEO Jason Blum. Universal Pictures oversaw the film's commercial distribution, and funding was sourced through a pact with Blumhouse and tax subsidies from the North Carolina state government.

1981 film by Rick Rosenthal

2011 film by Mark Waters

2021 film directed by David Gordon Green

1986 film directed by Randal Kleiser

2010 film by Mark Romanek

2017 film directed by Doug Liman

1987 British drama film directed by Richard Attenborough

1979 film by Martin Ritt

1998 film directed by John Roberts

1985 film by Peter Bogdanovich

1978 film by Sidney Lumet

1978 film directed by Blake Edwards

2005 film by Rob Zombie

2016 film directed by Dexter Fletcher

2021 film directed by Michael Showalter

2018 Indian Kannada film by Prashanth Neel

2021 film directed by Leigh Janiak

1999 film by Adam Rifkin

1988 film by Wes Craven

1986 film directed by James Foley

2019 film directed by Andrea Berloff

2002 American serial killer film directed by Matthew Bright

1991 film by John Frankenheimer

1978 film by Ted Post

1978 film by Andrew V. McLaglen

Potiche is a 2010 comedy film written and directed by François Ozon, based on the play of the same name by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy. It stars Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini, Karin Viard, Judith Godrèche and Jérémie Renier. Set in 1977, the film tells the story of a submissive wife who gets to run her husband's umbrella factory, after the employees rebel against their tyrannical manager. In French, a potiche is a decorative vase, but by extension means "window dressing" or, roughly, "trophy wife". The film competed at the 67th Venice International Film Festiva

2002 film by David Jacobson

2017 film directed by Marc Meyers

1985 film by Bruno Corbucci

2019 film directed by George Gallo

2023 film directed by Anna Kendrick

2003 film

2013 film by Daniel Schechter

2003 film directed by Gabriele Salvatores

2005 film by Malcolm D. Lee

2003 film directed by Marco Bellocchio

2007 film by Davis Guggenheim

2014 film

2019 film directed by Jeff Tremaine

1986 film by Giuseppe Ferrara

1986 Chinese film directed by Xie Jin

Shottas is a 2002 Jamaican-American crime film about two young men who participate in organized crime in Kingston and Miami. It stars Ky-Mani Marley, Spragga Benz, Paul Campbell and Louie Rankin and was written, produced and directed by Cess Silvera. Despite its low budget, the distribution of an unfinished bootleg made it a cult favourite long before its official limited release in the United States by Triumph Films and Destination Films in 2006.