Best movies of 1979

Actors : Dawn Dunlap, James Mitchell, Maud Adams, Maureen Kerwin,
Directors : David Hamilton,

Sculptor Paul meets a former great love again after a long time -- but is much more impressed by her 15-year-old daughter, Laura, who looks like her mother when Paul was in love with her. ...

Actors : Peter Fonda, Luke Askew, Brooke Shields, Fiona Lewis,
Directors : Peter Fonda,

Romantic drama following the fortunes of a drifter named Beaudray Demerille (Peter Fonda) who wins a young orphan named Wanda (13-year-old Brooke Shields) in a poker game and takes her gold...

Actors : Cathy Lee Crosby, Keenan Wynn, Richard Jaeckel, William Devane,

An alien mutilator stalks and kills human prey during the night.

Actors : Richard Burton, Klaus Löwitsch, Rod Steiger, Helmut Griem,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

In 1944 a German sergeant gets involved in an anti-Hitler conspiracy, and saves the life of an American colonel.

Actors : Josef Abrhám, Karel Kalas, Rudolf Hrusínský, Daniela Kolárová,

In the flat of the retired opera singer Bílek there is a meeting of people wishing to exchange their flats. The "duodeca-exchange" is organized by a lawyer Radosta (Rudolf Hrusínský), who ...

Actors : Hristos Valavanidis, Rita Bensousan, Konstantinos Tzoumas, Alkis Panagiotidis,
Directors : Nikos Nikolaidis,

Five friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together after many years of silence. One shows up from jail, where he has been entering and exiting for ...

Actors : Moeko Ezawa, Shin'ichi Chiba, Jun Etô, Ryô Hayami,
Directors : Kôsei Saitô,

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the ...

Actors : Sean Grady, Larry Brodsky, Jim Fitzpatrick, Alan Bowers,
Directors : David Jamison,

Steve Street is about to lead his Highschool Football team to the City Championship, when he's diagnosed with cancer.

Actors : Kimiko Ikegami, Bunta Sugawara, Kazuo Kitamura, Kenji Sawada,
Directors : Kazuhiko Hasegawa,

A high school science teacher builds an atomic bomb and uses it to extort the nation, but cannot decide what he wants. Meanwhile, a determined cop is catching up to him, as is radiation poisoning.

Actors : Lembit Peterson, Mikk Mikiver, Jüri Järvet, Uldis Pucitis,
Directors : Grigori Kromanov,

Police gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly an avalanche cuts them out from the rest of the world and strange things are going to happen.

Actors : Laszlone Horvath, László Horváth, Gábor Kun, Gábor Ifj. Kun,
Directors : Béla Tarr,

The breakdown of the relationship of a couple by living in a flat of the husband's parents.

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Kazuo Kitamura, Jun'ya Katô, Kirin Kiki,

A young boy has to make a voyage to a distant lake to save his mother, who has been turned into a dragon.

Actors : Aud Schønemann, Sverre Holm, Carsten Byhring, Arve Opsahl,
Directors : Knut Bohwim,

En tidligere høyt betrodd medarbeider i oljedirektoratet, nå finansmegler, Brock-Larsen, er på jakt etter en mikrofilm som inneholder opplysninger om nye oljeforekomster i Nordsjøen. Disse ...

Actors : Sergei Desnitsky, Vladimir Ivashov, Boleslaw Abart, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy,
Directors : Marek Piestrak,

The movie is about "finite nonlinears," robots that closely resemble human beings but are even more perfect than humans. They are intended to eventually replace human beings in space ...

Actors : Andrew Byatt, Lisa Kreuzer, Sandy Ratcliff, David Beames,
Directors : Christopher Petit,

Set in 1970's Britain, a man drives from London to Bristol to investigate his brother's death. The purpose of his trip is offset by his encounters with a series of odd people.

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Fernando Rey, Alberto Sordi, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Luigi Comencini,

A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the ...

Actors : Dimitr Dimitrov, Moris Assa, Yevgeniya Bozhikova, Dimitar Ganev,
Directors : Ivanka Grybcheva,

'The Hedgehogs' are a group of youngsters who are trying to gain control of the empty space between the blocks of flats, which they want to convert into a basketball court. The resistance ...

Actors : Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Leslie Nielsen, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Alvin Rakoff,

A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.

Actors : Chung-Kuei Chang, Chiu Ho, Sung-Chuan Shen, Chao-Ming Kang,
Directors : Kei Law,

Two men skilled in the arts of Kung-Fu are betrayed by their master and crippled for life, one left with no arms and the other with no legs. Despite their obvious disadvantages, they learn ...

Actors : Valentina Telichkina, Stanislav Lyubshin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Larisa Kuznetsova,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

Tamara and Sasha were separated during the war. Now (1957) Sasha is visiting Moscow for five days and by chance recognizes the house where Tamara used to live. She is still living there with her nephew Slava.