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Movies Set in 1979

Public list by WPS with 89 movies or TV shows/series

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X(2022)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 45min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 905 votes)

In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives. Hilarity ensues.

Forrest Gump(1994)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 22min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
4.3/5 (with 12,194 votes)

A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.

Cannibal Holocaust(1980)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 35min | Horror
3.2/5 (with 686 votes)

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

Friday the 13th(1980)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 35min | Horror
3.2/5 (with 1,224 votes)

Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.

Bloodsport(1988)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 32min | Action, Drama
3.5/5 (with 749 votes)

U.S. soldier Frank Dux has come to Hong Kong to be accepted into the Kumite, a highly secret and extremely violent martial arts competition. While trying to gain access into the underground world of clandestine fighters, he also has to avoid military officers who consider him to be AWOL. After enduring a difficult training and beginning a romance with journalist Janice Kent, Frank is given the opportunity to fight. But can he survive?

American Made(2017)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 55min | Action, Crime, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 1,951 votes)

The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.

Super 8(2011)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 52min | Thriller, Science Fiction, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 3,015 votes)

In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and are lucky to escape with their lives. They soon discover that the catastrophe was no accident, as a series of unexplained events and disappearances soon follows. Deputy Jackson Lamb, the father of one of the kids, searches for the terrifying truth behind the crash.

Escape from Pretoria(2020)

1h 42min | Drama, History, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 533 votes)

South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.

Directed by Francis Annan - With Daniel Radcliffe, Tim Jenkin, Nathan Page, Mark Leonard Winter, Ian Hart, Daniel Webber, ...

Boogie Nights(1997)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 36min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 1,450 votes)

Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.

Argo(2012)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h | Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 3,762 votes)

As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again(2018)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 53min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 1,505 votes)

Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each could be Sophie’s biological father.

Friday the 13th Part 2(1981)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 27min | Horror
3.1/5 (with 749 votes)

Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, a new group of counselors roam the area, not sensing an ominous lurking presence that proves the grisly legend is real.

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End of Days(1999)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 1min | Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 818 votes)

On 28 December 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, Satan decides to crash the party by coming to the city and searching for his chosen bride — a 20-year-old woman named Christine York. The world will end, and the only hope lies within an atheist named Jericho Cane.

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues(2013)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 59min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 1,117 votes)

With the 70s behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.

Woodlawn(2015)

2h 3min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 81 votes)

Love and unity in a school torn by racism and hate in the 1970s. A gifted high school football player must learn to embrace his talent and his faith as he battles racial tensions on and off the field.

Frailty(2001)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 40min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
3.5/5 (with 484 votes)

A man confesses to an FBI agent his family's story of how his religious fanatic father's visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed 'demons'.

Cry Macho(2021)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 44min | Drama, Western
3.0/5 (with 398 votes)

Mike Milo, a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home from Mexico.

Directed by Clint Eastwood - With Dwight Yoakam, Fernanda Urrejola, Clint Eastwood, Natalia Traven

Kingpin(1996)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 54min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 358 votes)

After bowler Roy Munson swindles the wrong crowd and is left with a hook for a hand, he settles into impoverished obscurity. That is, until he uncovers the next big thing: an Amish kid named Ishmael. So, the corrupt and the hopelessly naive hit the circuit intent on settling an old score with Big Ern.

Secondhand Lions(2003)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 51min | Kids & Family, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 335 votes)

The comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives.

Antrum(2018)

1h 35min | Horror
3.0/5 (with 127 votes)

Rumored to have been lost, Antrum appears as a cursed film from the 1970s. Viewers are warned to proceed with caution. It’s said to be a story about a young boy and girl who enter the forest in an attempt to save the soul of their recently deceased pet. They journey to “The Antrum,” the very spot the devil landed after being cast out of heaven. There, the children begin to dig a hole to hell.

3 from Hell(2019)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 55min | Drama, Horror, Crime
2.9/5 (with 185 votes)

After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained. Teaming up with Otis’ half-brother Winslow, the demented Firefly clan escape to unleash a whole new wave of murder, madness and mayhem.

20th Century Women(2016)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 59min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 507 votes)

In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.

The Red Sea Diving Resort(2019)

The incredible story of a group of international agents and brave Ethiopians who in the early 80s used a deserted holiday retreat in Sudan as a front to smuggle thousands of refugees to Israel.

Directed by Gideon Raff - With Chris Evans

God's Crooked Lines(2022)

3.7/5 (with 233 votes)

Alice Gould, a private investigator, pretends to be mentally ill in order to enter a psychiatric hospital and gather evidence for the case she is working on: the death of a patient in unclear circumstances.

Miracle(2004)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 15min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 254 votes)

When college coach Herb Brooks is hired to helm the 1980 U.S. men's Olympic hockey team, he brings a unique and brash style to the ice. After assembling a team of hot-headed college all-stars, who are humiliated in an early match, Brooks unites his squad against a common foe: the heavily-favored Soviet team.

The Boys from Brazil(1978)

3.4/5 (with 162 votes)

Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

The Man Standing Next(2020)

1h 54min | Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 48 votes)

In the 1970s, Korea is under the absolute control of the President Park, who controls the KCIA, the organization with an edge over any branch of government. The director of KCIA, KIM Gyu-pyeong, is the seemingly most prospective second-in-command. In the midst of reign of fear, a former KCIA director, PARK Yong-gak who knows all about the government’s obscure operations, exiles to the U.S. where the investigation of ‘Koreagate’ is underway. As the tension escalates, the stifling political maneuvering by the all second-in-command’s unfolds.

Directed by Woo Min-ho - With Lee Sung-min, Lee Byung-hun, Kwak Do-won, Lee Hee-joon, Kim So-jin, Seo Hyun-woo, ...

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie(1979)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Animation, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 87 votes)

A collection of Warner Brothers short cartoon features, "starring" the likes of Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Wile.E.Coyote. These animations are interspersed by Bugs Bunny reminiscing on past events and providing links between the individual animations which are otherwise unconnected. This 1979 feature-length compilation includes several of his best cartoons. Among the 11 shorts shown in their entirety are the classics "Robin Hood Daffy," "What's Opera, Doc?," "Bully for Bugs," and "Duck Amuck". The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Movie provides a showcase not only for Jones's razor-sharp timing, but for the work of his exceptional crew, which included designer Maurice Noble, writer Mike Maltese, composers Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn, and voice actor Mel Blanc.

Directed by Chuck Jones

Time After Time(1979)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 52min | Adventure, Drama, Comedy, Science Fiction, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 138 votes)

Writer H. G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to modern day San Francisco after the infamous serial killer steals his time machine to escape the 19th century.

The Iron Lady(2011)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 45min | History, Drama
3.2/5 (with 772 votes)

A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.

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