1979 Romantic Comedy Movies

Dracula and Renefield relocate to 70's era New York in search of Cindy Sondheim, the reincarnation of Dracula's one true love, Mina Harker. "Trouble adjusting" is a wild understatement for the Count as he battles Cindy's psychiatrist, Jeffrey Rosenberg, a descendant of Van Helsing, who may almost certainly, possibly, may be in love with Cindy too.

Directed by Stan Dragoti - With George Hamilton, Susan Saint James, Richard Benjamin, Arte Johnson, Dick Shawn, Sherman Hemsley, ...

Starting Over(1979)

| 1h 45min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.

Directed by Alan J. Pakula - With Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, Frances Sternhagen, Austin Pendleton, ...

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A Little Romance(1979)

| 1h 48min | Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 27 votes)

A young American girl and a young French boy meet in Paris and fall in love, with the assistance of an old man and his stories.

Directed by George Roy Hill - With Laurence Olivier, Diane Lane, Thelonious Bernard, Arthur Hill, Sally Kellerman, Anna Massey, ...

The Main Event(1979)

| 1h 52min | Comedy, Romance / Love

2.5/5 (with 20 votes)

Hillary Kramer, a successful Perfume magnate, awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write-off. She decides to take Kid Natural, Eddie Scanlon, who is much more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists.

Directed by Howard Zieff - With Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal, Patti D'Arbanville, James Gregory, Kristine DeBell, Whitman Mayo, ...

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Velvet Hands(1979)

1h 38min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 51 votes)

Engineer Quiller has become rich by selling his completely indestructible shop-window glass to jeweleries around the world. But this got him lots of enemies too: the insurance agencies, who've lost hundreds of customers, and the burglarers. When he temporarily looses his memory and voice in an accident, of all people, a family of thieves finds and cares for him - believing he's a pocket-picker. Things get complicated when he falls in love with his host Tilli.

Directed by Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia - With Adriano Celentano, Eleonora Giorgi, Pippo Santonastaso, Olga Karlatos, Gino Santercole, Ania Pieroni, ...

Lost and Found(1979)

1h 46min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

While visiting Switzerland, an American college professor, Adam, keeps running into a divorced British secretary, Patricia, wherever they go. First their cars collide. Then they smash into one another on a ski slope, each breaking a leg. In between numerous quarrels, the two develop lust and love. They hastily marry, but the disagreements continue. Patricia decides to leave, so Adam decides to fake a suicide. They lose and find each other, again and again.

Directed by Melvin Frank - With George Segal, Glenda Jackson, Maureen Stapleton, Hollis McLaren, Paul Sorvino, John Candy, ...

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Chilly Scenes of Winter(1979)

| 1h 32min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 7 votes)

Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker who left him to return to her husband, an A-Frame salesman.

Directed by Joan Micklin Silver - With John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert, Kenneth McMillan, Gloria Grahame, Allen Joseph, ...

Courage fuyons(1979)

1h 40min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 13 votes)

At forty years old, Martin Belhomme leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. One day, he falls hopelessly in love with Eva, a cabaret singer. He decides to follow her to Amsterdam. From then on, his life becomes very eventful!

Directed by Yves Robert - With Jean Rochefort, Catherine Deneuve, Christian Charmetant, Christophe Bourseiller, Dominique Lavanant, Gérard Darmon, ...

A Man, a Woman and a Bank(1979)

| 1h 40min | Comedy, Crime, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

Two novice thieves are plotting to rob a bank in Vancouver. A photographer snaps a shot of one thief as he is carrying the bank building's blueprints. The would-be thief then begins a relationship with the photographer and attempts to retrieve the photos. Meanwhile, the thieves' plot consists of this: one man will enter the bank building after dark, while the other man sits in a van and uses a computer to unlock the building's doors. The final step involves transporting the cash to a freight ship waiting on the docks, for transportation to a money launderer in Macau.

Directed by Noel Black - With Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Paul Mazursky

An Almost Perfect Affair(1979)

1h 31min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian producer at the Cannes Film Festival. A passionate affair begins, but the couple's romance is tested as they face the temptations of fame and fortune.

Directed by Michael Ritchie - With Keith Carradine, Monica Vitti, Raf Vallone, Christian De Sica, Henri Garcin, George Peppard, ...

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Ninaithale Inikkum(1979)

2h 21min | Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 1 vote)

Ninaithale Inikkum film follows lead actor Kamal Hassan who plays a singer and his band on a tour to Singapore. Over there Kamal meets his love interest (played by Jaya Pradha), only to find that she is terminally ill. The film ends on a tragic note with the lady's demise.

Directed by K. Balachander - With Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth, Jaya Prada, Geetha, Sarath Babu

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Tesoromio(1979)

1h 48min | Comedy

2.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Playwright irreparable failure is betrayed by a concubine with the lawyer that finances the charade. But one day arrives at his house Honey, Eastern African domestic workers to first service, to boot, is a billionaire and of royal blood.

Directed by Giulio Paradisi - With Johnny Dorelli, Renato Pozzetto, Zeudi Araya, Sandra Milo, Enrico Maria Salerno, Carlo Bagno, ...

Baton Baton Mein(1979)

1h 53min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Rosie Perreira is an overly anxious widow, living with her guitar-obsessed son, Sabhi, and a lovely daughter, Nancy, who she would like to get married to a wealthy young man. Her helpful neighbor, Tom, introduces a young eligible Tony Braganza to Nancy in the 9:10 AM Western Railway local train from Bandra to Churchgate. Tom also asks Nancy to introduce Tony to Rosie, which she does. Rosie is initially apprehensive about him as he only drawing a mere Rs.300/ compared to Nancy's Rs.700/-, but soon changes her mind when she finds out that after his probationary period he will draw a monthly pay of Rs.1000/-. Nancy and Tom are permitted to meet and both eventually fall in love. While Nancy wants to follow her mother's directions and get married, Tony is hesitant, and this is what costs him Nancy's love, as she starts to feel that he will not come through with the marriage. And soon Rosie starts looking elsewhere for a son-in-law, while Tony is still reluctant to make any commitments.

Directed by Basu Chatterjee - With Amol Palekar

A Perfect Couple(1979)

1h 50min | Comedy, Romance / Love

2.6/5 (with 7 votes)

An uptight bachelor tries his luck with a computer dating service and gets matched up with his polar opposite.

Directed by Robert Altman - With Paul Dooley, Henry Gibson, Dennis Franz, Titos Vandis, Belita Moreno, Dimitra Arliss, ...

Chapter Two(1979)

| 2h 4min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory of his first wife comes between them.

Directed by Robert Moore - With James Caan, Marsha Mason, Joseph Bologna, Alan Fudge, Debra Mooney, Valerie Harper, ...