11. Gates of Heaven
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Errol Morris
Actors: Lucille Billingsley, Zella Graham, Cal Harberts, Dan Harberts, Mike Koewler, Floyd McClure
Plot: A documentary about pet cemeteries (successful and not) and the people who both run the business and those who have their pets buried within.
12. Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lou Adler
Actors: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Strother Martin, Edie Adams, Richard Novo, Arthur Roberts
Plot: Two hippie potheads compete in a battle of the bands contest together.
13. Blue Collar
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Schrader
Actors: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Bellaver, Lane Smith
14. The Last Wave
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Weir
Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow, Vivean Gray, Nandjiwarra Amagula
Plot: A Sydney lawyer is called on to defend five Aboriginals in court over a ritualized murder. Determined to break their silence, he is drawn deeper into a prophesy that portends an Armageddon where all shall drown.
15. Coming Home
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Hal Ashby
Actors: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Robert Carradine, Robert Ginty
Plot: A woman left alone after her husband goes to Vietnam decides to volunteer at a local veteran's hospital. There she meets Luke, an old high school friend, who has been paralyzed from the waist down with an injury. But as she helps him heal, it opens the door for romance, forcing her to make a life-altering decision.
16. Who Can Kill a Child? ( Quién puede matar a un niño? )
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
Actors: Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome, Miguel Narros, Luis Ciges, María Luisa Arias, Antonio Canal
17. The Buddy Holly Story
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Steve Rash
Actors: Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith , Conrad Janis, Maria Richwine, William Jordan
Plot: Biography of the young rock star Buddy Holly - from his early days, his meteoric rise, his breakup (and reunion) with The Crickets and his much-too early death.
18. An Unmarried Woman
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Mazursky
Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy, Cliff Gorman, Kelly Bishop, Patricia Quinn
19. Ascent, The ( Voskhozhdeniye )
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.1 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
20. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Philip Kaufman
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright, Leonard Nimoy, Art Hindle
Plot: In San Francisco a group of people are brought together when they notice friends and relatives somehow changing. As more and more people are affected, they soon realize an alien life-form is behind the changes and must act before they are all taken.
