21. Heaven Can Wait
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Warren Beatty, Buck Henry
Actors: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Jack Warden, Charles Grodin, Dyan Cannon
Plot: A quarterback for the Rams is involved in an accident and, although he isn't ready to die, an overeager angel takes him anyway - and his body is promptly cremated. Realizing the mistake, a new body must be found - and they settle on a recently-murdered billionaire. Back in a body, and with nigh-unlimited funds, he purchases the Rams for himself and instills him as the new quarterback, with a Superbowl victory in his sights.
22. Martin
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: George A. Romero
Actors: John Amplas, Lincoln Maazel, Christine Forrest, Tom Savini, Elyane Nadeau, George A. Romero
Plot: A neurotic young man, claiming to be a vampire, is abused by his Catholic grandfather for being the bearer of an old family curse. But is the boy actually a vampire, or merely a murderer with supernatural delusions?
23. Ascent, The ( Voskhozhdeniye )
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Larisa Shepitko
Actors: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergei Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova, Viktoriya Goldentul, Anatoli Solonitsyn
24. In a Year with 13 Moons ( In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden )
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Eva Mattes, Günther Kaufmann
Plot: Erwin Weisshaupt is in love with co-worker Anton - who tells him that it's too bad he wasn't a woman. Now, years later, Erwin is Elvira and he returns to Anton, hoping that in the wreckage love has made of his life, Anton will accept his love.
25. Revenge of the Pink Panther
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Blake Edwards
Actors: Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Burt Kwouk, Dyan Cannon, Robert Loggia, Robert Webber
Plot: While letting the world believe that he's been murdered, ham-fisted but unflappable Inspector Clouseau disguises himself and travels the globe to break up a heroin ring with help from a drug lord's ex-mistress.
26. Chess Players, The ( Shatranj Ke Khilari )
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Satyajit Ray
Actors: Sanjeev Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey, Shabana Azmi, Farida Jalal, Victor Banerjee, David Abraham
27. Death on the Nile
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Guillermin
Actors: Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, Olivia Hussey, George Kennedy
Plot: Based on the Agatha Christie novel, Detective Hercule Poirot must solve the mystery of a murdered heiress who is killed on a cruise down the Nile before it reaches port.
28. The Medusa Touch
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jack Gold
Actors: Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick, Harry Andrews, Alan Badel, Derek Jacobi
29. The Boys in Company C
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Actors: Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens, James Canning, Michael Lembeck, Scott Hylands, R. Lee Ermey
Plot: Follows the lives of five young Marine inductees from their training in
boot camp in 1967 through a tour in Vietnam in 1968 that quickly devolves
into a hellish nightmare.
30. I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Nancy Allen, Bobby Di Cicco, Marc McClure, Susan Kendall Newman, Wendie Jo Sperber, Eddie Deezen
