# List of British films of 1978

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1978 (see 1978 in film):

## 1978

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1978 |||||||
| Absolution | Anthony Page | Richard Burton, Dominic Guard | Thriller | |
| The Big Sleep | Michael Winner | Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles | Crime drama | |
| The Boys from Brazil | Franklin J. Schaffner | Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier James Mason | Thriller | Co-production with the US |
| Carry On Emmannuelle | Gerald Thomas | Kenneth Connor, Suzanne Danielle | Comedy | |
| The Class of Miss MacMichael | Silvio Narizzano | Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Rosalind Cash | Drama | |
| The Comeback | Pete Walker | Pamela Stephenson, David Doyle, Bill Owen | Horror | |
| Death on the Nile | John Guillermin | Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow | Suspense | Based on the Agatha Christie novel |
| Force 10 from Navarone | Guy Hamilton | Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Richard Kiel | World War II/adventure | |
| Give Us Tomorrow | Donovan Winter | Sylvia Syms, Derren Nesbitt | Crime | |
| Home Before Midnight | Pete Walker | James Aubrey, Alison Elliott, Richard Todd | Drama | |
| Killer's Moon | Alan Birkinshaw | Anthony Forrest, David Jackson | Horror | |
| The Legacy | Richard Marquand | Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott | Horror | |
| Leopard in the Snow | Gerry O'Hara | Keir Dullea, Susan Penhaligon | Drama | |
| Let's Get Laid | James Kenelm Clarke | Robin Askwith, Fiona Richmond | Comedy | |
| Long Shot | Maurice Hatton | Charles Gormley, Neville Smith, Susannah York | Drama | |
| The Medusa Touch | Jack Gold | Richard Burton, Lee Remick | Thriller | |
| Midnight Express | Alan Parker | Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt | Prison drama | |
| Nighthawks | | Ken Robertson | LGBT drama | |
| The Odd Job | Peter Madek | David Jason, Graham Chapman | Comedy | |
| The Playbirds | Willy Roe | Alan Lake, Glynn Edwards | Crime | |
| Power Play | Martyn Burke | Peter O'Toole, David Hemmings | Thriller | Co-production with Canada |
| Revenge of the Pink Panther | Blake Edwards | Peter Sellers, Robert Webber | Comedy | |
| Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse | Justin Cartwright | Debbie Ash, Carolyne Argyle | Comedy | |
| The Sailor's Return | Jack Gold | Tom Bell, Shope Shodeinde | Drama | |
| Sammy's Super T-Shirt | Jeremy Summers | Reggie Winch, Lawrie Mark | Family | |
| The Shout | Jerzy Skolimowski | Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt | Horror | |
| Silver Bears | Ivan Passer | Michael Caine, Cybill Shepherd | Comedy | |
| Stevie | Robert Enders | Glenda Jackson, Mona Washbourne | Biopic | |
| The Stud | Quentin Masters | Joan Collins, Oliver Tobias | Drama | |
| Superman | Richard Donner | Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder | Adventure | Co-production with US |
| Sweeney 2 | Tom Clegg | John Thaw, Dennis Waterman | Crime | Second cinematic spin-off of the TV series |
| Terror | Norman J. Warren | John Nolan, Carolyn Courage | Horror | |
| The Thirty Nine Steps | Don Sharp | Robert Powell, David Warner, Karen Dotrice | Thriller | Previously filmed in 1935 and 1959 |
| Tomorrow Never Comes | Peter Collinson | Oliver Reed, Susan George | Crime | Co-production with Canada; entered into the 11th Moscow International Film Festival |
| Warlords of Atlantis | Kevin Connor | Doug McClure, Peter Gilmore, Shane Rimmer | Science fiction/fantasy | |
| The Water Babies | Lionel Jeffries | James Mason, Bernard Cribbins, Billie Whitelaw | Family/animated | |
| Watership Down | Martin Rosen | John Hurt, Richard Briers, Zero Mostel | Animated drama/Horror | Zero Mostel's last film |
| What's Up Superdoc! | Derek Ford | Christopher Mitchell, Julia Goodman, Harry H. Corbett | Comedy | |
| The Wild Geese | Andrew V. McLaglen | Richard Burton, Roger Moore | Action | |

## Top Films at the British Box Office in 1978

Source:
* Star Wars
* Grease
* Close Encounters of the Third Kind
* Saturday Night Fever
* Revenge of the Pink Panther
* The Rescuers
* ABBA: The Movie
* The Gauntlet
* Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
* The Stud
* The Deep
* Annie Hall
* Convoy
* The Wild Geese
* Warlords of Atlantis
* Candleshoe
* The Goodbye Girl
* Spider-Man Strikes Back
* Heaven Can Wait
* Julia
* International Velvet