1979 Movies

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Alien(1979)

K-16

4.1/5 (with 6,482 votes)

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

Directed by Ridley Scott - With Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright, Tom Skerritt, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Helen Horton, ...

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Caligula(1979)

| 2h 36min | Drama, History, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 326 votes)

The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome's mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his fiendishly inventive means of disposing those who would oppose him, and more.

Directed by Tinto Brass, Bob Guccione - With Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, Teresa Ann Savoy, Giancarlo Badessi, ...

Mad Max(1979)

| 1h 31min | Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction

3.3/5 (with 1,909 votes)

In the ravaged near future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them. But they underestimate one officer: Max Rockatansky. And when the bikers brutalize Max's best friend and family, they send him into a mad frenzy that leaves him with only one thing left in the world to live for – revenge!

Directed by George Miller - With Mel Gibson, Steve Bisley, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Roger Ward, Vincent Gil, ...

Jesus(1979)

1h 57min | Drama, History

4.1/5 (with 87 votes)

Three and a half years of Jesus' ministry, as told in the Gospel of Luke.

Directed by John Krish, Peter Sykes - With Brian Deacon, Yosef Shiloach, Rivka Neumann, Eli Danker, Alexander Scourby, Eli Cohen, ...

Apocalypse Now(1979)

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| 2h 27min | Drama, War

4.1/5 (with 3,606 votes)

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola - With Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Dennis Hopper, Francis Ford Coppola, ...

Moonraker(1979)

2h 6min | Action, Adventure, Thriller, Science Fiction

3.1/5 (with 898 votes)

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 help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space.

Directed by Lewis Gilbert - With Roger Moore, Michael Lonsdale, Lois Chiles, Richard Kiel, Bernard Lee, Corinne Cléry, ...

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Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro(1979)

1h 42min | Kids & Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime

3.8/5 (with 427 votes)

After a successful robbery leaves famed thief Lupin the Third and his partner Jigen with nothing but a large amount of expertly crafted counterfeit bills, he decides to track down the forgers responsible—and steal any other treasures he may find in the Castle of Cagliostro, including the 'damsel in distress' he finds imprisoned there.

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

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Rocky II(1979)

| 1h 59min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 1,881 votes)

After Rocky goes the distance with champ Apollo Creed, both try to put the fight behind them and move on. Rocky settles down with Adrian but can't put his life together outside the ring, while Creed seeks a rematch to restore his reputation. Soon enough, the "Master of Disaster" and the "Italian Stallion" are set on a collision course for a climactic battle that is brutal and unforgettable.

Directed by Sylvester Stallone - With Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith, Tony Burton, Sylvester Stallone, ...

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The Warriors(1979)

1h 33min | Action, Thriller

3.8/5 (with 939 votes)

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.

Directed by Walter Hill - With Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright, David Patrick Kelly, Marcelino Sánchez, Paul Greco, ...

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Life of Brian(1979)

| 1h 34min | Comedy

3.9/5 (with 1,878 votes)

Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.

Directed by Terry Jones - With Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, ...

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture(1979)

| 2h 12min | Science Fiction, Adventure, Mystery

3.2/5 (with 729 votes)

When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, and hopefully stop it.

Directed by Robert Wise - With DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Persis Khambatta, Stephen Collins, ...

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Stalker(1979)

2h 42min | Science Fiction, Drama

4.1/5 (with 874 votes)

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - With Anatoly Solonitsyn, Alisa Freindlich, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Nikolai Grinko, Vladimir Zamanskiy

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Game of Death(1978)

1h 41min | Drama, Action, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 277 votes)

A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.

Directed by Bruce Lee, Robert Clouse, Sammo Hung - With James Tien, Chieh Yuan, Dan Inosanto, Ji Han-jae, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bruce Lee, ...

Manhattan(1979)

1h 36min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.9/5 (with 1,029 votes)

Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

Directed by Woody Allen - With Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep, Woody Allen, Michael O'Donoghue, ...

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Galaxy Express 999(1978-1981)

25min per episode | Animation, Action & Adventure, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy

3.9/5 (with 9 votes)

In a distant future, Tetsuro is a human boy who wants his body replaced with a robotic one. This is possible, but to do so he has to reach the Immortal Planet onboard the space train Galaxy Express 999. Maetel, a beautiful and mysterious blonde woman dressed in Russian style, joins him in the long journey through space. Every episode sees our heroes arriving in a new planet's space train station.

Escape to Athena(1979)

| 2h 5min | Adventure, Comedy, War

2.8/5 (with 42 votes)

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 treasure hidden in a monastery at the summit of the island's mountain.

Directed by George P. Cosmatos - With Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, David Niven, Stefanie Powers, Claudia Cardinale, Richard Roundtree, ...

Escape from Alcatraz(1979)

| 1h 53min | Drama, Thriller

3.8/5 (with 1,203 votes)

San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.

Directed by Don Siegel - With Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward, Larry Hankin, Jack Thibeau, Roberts Blossom, ...

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The Jerk(1979)

1h 34min | Comedy

3.5/5 (with 350 votes)

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 rags to riches and back to rags again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.

Directed by Carl Reiner - With Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, M. Emmet Walsh, Jackie Mason, Dick O'Neill, Mabel King, ...

The Amityville Horror(1979)

1h 57min | Horror

3.2/5 (with 377 votes)

George Lutz and his wife Kathleen move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is brought in to try and exorcise the demonic presence from their home.

Directed by Stuart Rosenberg - With James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud, Murray Hamilton, K. C. Martel, ...

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All Quiet on the Western Front(1979)

2h 30min | War, Drama, TV Movie

3.3/5 (with 75 votes)

At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.

Directed by Delbert Mann - With Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Ian Holm, Patricia Neal, Ewan Stewart, ...

Gas Pump Girls(1979)

1h 26min | Comedy

2.7/5 (with 9 votes)

June and her friends take over a service station formerly run by her uncle. They perform every trick in the book to attract the customers.

Directed by Joel Bender - With Leslie King, Ken Lerner

Dracula(1979)

1h 49min | Horror, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 105 votes)

Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.

Directed by John Badham - With Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Kate Nelligan, Sylvester McCoy, Trevor Eve, ...

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Being There(1979)

2h 10min | Comedy, Drama

3.8/5 (with 401 votes)

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

Directed by Hal Ashby - With Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Basehart, Richard Dysart, ...

Fearless Hyena(1979)

1h 37min | Comedy, Action

3.4/5 (with 63 votes)

Lung is a talented fighter but prefers to spend his time loafing around and picking fights, despite orders from his grandfather not to fight. Unknown to him, a brutal general has been slaughtering all the people from his grandfather’s clan. When the general recognizes Lung’s style of kung fu during one of his street fights, he hunts down Lung’s grandfather and kills him.

Directed by Jackie Chan - With Jackie Chan, James Tien, Dean Shek, Yen Shi-Kwan, Lee Kwan, Chen Hui-lou, ...

Kramer vs. Kramer(1979)

| 1h 45min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 963 votes)

Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.

Directed by Robert Benton - With Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander, Howard Duff, George Coe, ...

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The Tin Drum(1979)

2h 42min | Drama, History, War

3.5/5 (with 189 votes)

Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, a boy refuses to grow older after his third birthday.

Directed by Volker Schlöndorff - With David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach, Charles Aznavour, ...

The Muppet Movie(1979)

1h 37min | Comedy, Adventure, Music, Kids & Family

3.6/5 (with 247 votes)

A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there he meets his future muppet crew while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!

Directed by James Frawley - With Charles Durning, Austin Pendleton, Milton Berle, Mel Brooks, James Coburn, Dom DeLuise, ...

The Wanderers(1979)

1h 57min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 80 votes)

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 Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’.

Directed by Philip Kaufman - With Ken Wahl, John Friedrich, Karen Allen, Tony Ganios, Toni Kalem, Alan Rosenberg, ...

Zombie Flesh Eaters(1979)

1h 31min | Horror

3.3/5 (with 244 votes)

On the Caribbean island of Matul, white doctor David Menard is trying to stem the tide of cannibal zombies that are returning from the dead. Arriving on the island are Anne and reporter Peter West who are looking for Anne's missing father. The pair soon find themselves under attack from the zombies.

Directed by Lucio Fulci - With Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson, Al Cliver, Auretta Gay, Stefania D'Amario, ...

Rope and Skin(1979)

1h 10min

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Okoma (literally, Red Cherry) was a woman gambler until she retired from the yakuza world. Two years later, she returns home, and finds that the big boss has been assassinated and his daughter is having trouble keeping things in line against the rival gang headed by the men who killed her father. Okoma decides to avenge her former boss and help his daughter, a former friend of hers. She recruits her own gang, starting with an expert knife-fighter, her former lover. After a fight, the new Gang Leader captures and tortures Okoma sadistically.

Directed by Shōgorō Nishimura - With Naomi Tani, Junko Miyashita

1979 Movies

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Alien(1979)

Caligula(1979)

Mad Max(1979)

Jesus(1979)

Apocalypse Now(1979)

Moonraker(1979)

Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro(1979)

Rocky II(1979)

The Warriors(1979)

Life of Brian(1979)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture(1979)

Stalker(1979)

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Game of Death(1978)

Manhattan(1979)

Galaxy Express 999(1978-1981)

Escape to Athena(1979)

Escape from Alcatraz(1979)

The Jerk(1979)

The Amityville Horror(1979)

All Quiet on the Western Front(1979)

Gas Pump Girls(1979)

Dracula(1979)

Being There(1979)

Fearless Hyena(1979)

Kramer vs. Kramer(1979)

The Tin Drum(1979)

The Muppet Movie(1979)

The Wanderers(1979)

Zombie Flesh Eaters(1979)

Rope and Skin(1979)

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