Films set in 1978

Boogie Nights

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a...

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Donnie Brasco

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 7.7

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

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Zodiac

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 7.7

A cartoonist teams up with an ace reporter and a law enforcement officer to track down an elusive serial killer.

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Halloween

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1978 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

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Milk

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 7.5

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becomes an activist for gay rights and inspires others to join hi...

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Cry Freedom

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 7.4

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who...

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The People vs. Larry Flynt

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1996 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes i...

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Norma Rae

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor un...

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Eddie the Eagle

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 7.3

The feel-good story of Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself—even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a r...

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