Search results for "1979"
The Frisco Kid

The Frisco Kid

The Frisco Kid
IMDb: 6.4
114

Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation’s new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced traveller, he is tricked by con…

Genre: Comedy, Western
Escape to Athena

Escape to Athena

Escape to Athena
IMDb: 5.7
125

During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They not only want their freedom, but also seek an ineffable…

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
L’Enfant secret

L’Enfant secret

L’Enfant secret
IMDb: 6.6
95

Jean-Baptiste, a filmmaker, and Elie, an actress, fall in love. To fight their unhappiness, they cling to their children: Jean-Baptiste to his film and Elie to her young son.

Genre: Drama
North Dallas Forty

North Dallas Forty

North Dallas Forty
IMDb: 7
119

A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Concorde… Airport ’79

The Concorde… Airport ’79

The Concorde… Airport ’79
IMDb: 4.4
123

Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps.

The Miracle Worker

The Miracle Worker

The Miracle Worker
IMDb: 7.4
98

The true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, a gripping battle to overcome impossible obstacles and the struggle to communicate. As a young girl, Helen Keller is stricken with…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Over the Edge

Over the Edge

Over the Edge
IMDb: 7.4
95

The music of Cheap Trick, The Cars, and The Ramones highlights this realistic tale of alienated suburban youth on the rampage. Dillon makes his screen debut in this updated, well-done…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Jaguar Lives!

Jaguar Lives!

Jaguar Lives!
IMDb: 4.2
90

The world’s newest kung fu legend, Joe Lewis, takes on evil gangsters and saves the world.

Genre: Action, Comedy
Zulu Dawn

Zulu Dawn

Zulu Dawn
IMDb: 6.7
117

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

S.O.S. Titanic

S.O.S. Titanic

S.O.S. Titanic
IMDb: 6.3
100

The Titanic disaster is depicted as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.

The Driller Killer

The Driller Killer

The Driller Killer
IMDb: 5.2
96

An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of…

Genre: Drama, Horror
The Electric Horseman

The Electric Horseman

The Electric Horseman
IMDb: 6.4
N/A

People whose uncontrollable addiction to drugs, alcohol or compulsive behavior has brought them to the brink of destruction and has devastated their family and friends are presented with a life-changing…

Genre: Documentary
The Fifth Musketeer

The Fifth Musketeer

The Fifth Musketeer
IMDb: 5.3
116

King Louis XIV has without his knowledge a twin brother, Philippe, but when he is told, he immediately locks up his brother in the Bastille. The king wants to increase…

Genre: Action, History
Going the Distance

Going the Distance

Going the Distance
IMDb: 7.5
90

Canadian documentary film directed by Paul Cowan about the 1978 Commonwealth Games.

Genre: Documentary
The Shogun Assassins

The Shogun Assassins

The Shogun Assassins
IMDb: 6.1
148

This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Genre: Action, Drama
The In-Laws

The In-Laws

The In-Laws
IMDb: 7.3
103

In preparation for his daughter’s wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom’s father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag…

Einstein’s Universe

Einstein’s Universe

Einstein’s Universe
IMDb: 7.7
118

A documentary produced in 1979 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Albert Einstein. Narrated and hosted by Peter Ustinov and written by Nigel Calder.

Genre: Documentary
Heaven Sent

Heaven Sent

Heaven Sent
IMDb: 5.7
91

Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea. One day, someone leaves behind a six-year-old child at their…

Genre: Comedy
Eighteen Years, to the Sea

Eighteen Years, to the Sea

Eighteen Years, to the Sea
IMDb: 6.5
110

Kei and Atsuo were both enrolled in summer school. Kei was an honor student, and Atsuo was the polar opposite – but opposites attract. After school, the two head to…

Genre: Drama
Play Motel

Play Motel

Play Motel
IMDb: 4.9
87

The motel has a special room designed for sexual activities. It also has a habit of photographing sex act engines and extorting the parties concerned. One day a mysterious killer…

Macbeth

Macbeth

Macbeth
IMDb: 7.7
145

Macbeth is a 1978 videotaped version of Trevor Nunn’s Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play by William Shakespeare. Produced by Thames Television, it features Ian McKellen as Macbeth and…

Genre: Drama
The War at Home

The War at Home

The War at Home
IMDb: 7.7
100

Documentary film about the anti-war movement in the Madison, Wisconsin area during the time of the Vietnam War. It combines archival footage and interviews with participants that explore the events…

Genre: Documentary, War
Thirst

Thirst

Thirst
IMDb: 5.8
95

The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the “blood cows” (read: people) kept at the…

The Wanderers

The Wanderers

The Wanderers
IMDb: 7.4
117

The streets of the Bronx are owned by ’60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard…

Genre: Drama
Moonraker

Moonraker

Moonraker
IMDb: 6.3
126

After Drax Industries’ Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company’s owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the…

The Black Hole

The Black Hole

The Black Hole
IMDb: 6
98

The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposedly lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering…

Unidentified Flying Oddball

Unidentified Flying Oddball

Unidentified Flying Oddball
IMDb: 5.2
93

A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, traveling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur’s Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom Trimble and Hermes, the look-alike robot he…

A Force of One

A Force of One

A Force of One
IMDb: 5.1
90

Karate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after narcotics agents are killed by an assailant using the martial arts.

Yanks

Yanks

Yanks
IMDb: 6.4
138

During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don’t much like the…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Jerk

The Jerk

The Jerk
IMDb: 7.2
94

After discovering he’s not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson runs off on a hilarious misadventure in this comedy classic that takes him from…

Genre: Comedy
Youth – Part II

Youth – Part II

Youth – Part II
IMDb: 5.2
111

Isamu, a star athlete in high school, becomes a race cyclist. He wins his debut races, but soon his opponents see through his lack of strategy and beat him easily….

Genre: Drama
Hurricane

Hurricane

Hurricane
IMDb: 4.6
120

The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful governor of the island. Amid…

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
The Quatermass Conclusion

The Quatermass Conclusion

The Quatermass Conclusion
IMDb: 5.7
102

Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large…

Game for Vultures

Game for Vultures

Game for Vultures
IMDb: 4.5
113

The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.

Genre: Action
The Marriage of Maria Braun

The Marriage of Maria Braun

The Marriage of Maria Braun
IMDb: 7.8
120

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition…

Genre: Drama
Poto and Cabengo

Poto and Cabengo

Poto and Cabengo
IMDb: 7.2
77

Documentary by Jean-Pierre Gorin about twin girls who spontaneously developed their own unique language as children.

Genre: Documentary
The Woman with Red Hair

The Woman with Red Hair

The Woman with Red Hair
IMDb: 5.9
73

Kozo and his colleague rape their boss’s daughter and have sex with an unnamed woman.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo

Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo

Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
TMDb: 7.2
30,22 min

The original thirty-minute version of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo constitutes the fourth incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 22, 1979 and ran for one season…

Status: Ended
Oh, My Son!

Oh, My Son!

Oh, My Son!
IMDb: 6.7
130

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims’ families.

Genre: Drama
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
TMDb: 7.7
50 min

Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar-man, thief. George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out…

Status: Ended
Genre: Drama