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Subgenre Sampler
Snapshot (One More Minute) (1979)- Dir. Simon Wincer
Feat. Chantal Contouri, Sigrid Thornton, Robert Bruning - Offbeat, low–budget thriller from Oz stars Sigrid Thornton as a 20–something lured into the sleazy world of topless modelling. While she…
Winter Kills (1979)- Dir. William Richert
Feat. Jeff Bridges, John Huston, Anthony Perkins… - Low–key but satisfying 'redux' of the Kennedy assassination posits a parallel scenario where the half–brother of an assassinated…
39 Steps, The (Thirty-Nine Steps, The) (1978)- Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter… - Perhaps the most literally faithful of the various adaptations of John Buchan's classic suspense novel. Powell plays the man on the run in…
Absolution (1978)- Dir. Anthony Page
Feat. Richard Burton, Billy Connolly 
Boys from Brazil, The (1978)- Dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Gregory Peck, James Mason… - Ira Levin's novel makes for an ingenious if implausible thriller with obsessed Nazi–hunter Laurence Olivier trying to scupper super–Nazi…
Brass Target (1978)- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, Robert Vaughn… - A classic 70's all–star cast feature in this post–World War II suspense film that suggests that the German automobile crash involving…
Capricorn One (1978)
- Dir. Peter Hyams
Feat. Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro… - Intriguing, thought–provoking thriller, with astronauts Sam Waterston and OJ Simpson helping NASA to fake a manned landing on Mars, unknowing…
Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, The (1978)- Dir. Fred Schepisi
Feat. Tommy Lewis, Freddy Reynolds, Jack Charles - Powerful adaptation of Thomas Keneally's fact–based novel about an exploited half–caste Aborigine who eventually erupts in tragic…
China Syndrome, The (1978)
- Dir. James Bridges
Feat. Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas, Jack Lemmon - Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas pair as TV journalists who become involved in the cover–up of a major malfunction at a nuclear power plant.…
Coma (1978)- Dir. Michael Crichton
Feat. Genevieve Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley… - Numerous patients fall into a permanent coma, arousing the suspicions of maverick doctor Genevieve Bujold. Excellent thriller unfolds its queasy…
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