Represented in this group of movies turning 45 in 2023 are some of the most beloved films of all time along with one of the biggest flops.

In 1978, the Delta Tau Chi members had moviegoers laughing all across the country (Animal House), while Dorothy and her friends helped us ease on down the road (The Wiz.) The year also brought us a Beatles-related film that no one asked for (Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band), a film that would never get made today (Pretty Baby) and one of the greatest movie musicals of all time (Grease.)

Here are 26 movies that turn 45 in 2023!

• Up in Smoke

  Released on September 15, 1978.

• Paradise Alley

  Released on September 22, 1978.

• National Lampoon’s Animal House

  Released on July 28, 1978.

• Grease

  Released on June 13, 1978.

• Superman

  Released on December 15, 1978.

• Midnight Express

  Released on October 6, 1978.

• The Deer Hunter

  Released on December 8, 1978.

• Pretty Baby

  Released on April 5, 1978.

• Halloween

  Released on October 25, 1978.

• Corvette Summer

  Released on June 2, 1978.

• The Wiz

  Released on October 24, 1978.

• Death on the Nile

  Released on September 29, 1978.

• I Spit on Your Grave

  Released on November 22, 1978.

• The Driver

  Released on August 2, 1978.

• Invasion of the Body Snatchers

  Released on December 22, 1978. 

• Dawn of the Dead

  Released on September 1, 1978.

• Heaven Can Wait

  Released on June 28, 1978.

• Every Which Way but Loose

  Released on December 20, 1978.

• Convoy

  Released on June 28, 1978.

• Jaws 2

  Released on June 16, 1978.

• Foul Play

  Released on July 14, 1978.

• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

  Released on October 8, 1978.

• Ice Castles

  Released on December 31, 1978.

• Thank God It’s Friday

  Released on May 19, 1978.

• Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

  Released on July 24, 1978.

• The Buddy Holly Story

  Released on May 18, 1978.

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