Best movies of 1979

Actors : Eddie Burt, Richard Demarco, Alex Mackenzie, Tom Mannion,
Directors : Bill Forsyth,

Ronnie, Wal, Andy and Vic are four bored, unemployed teens in dreary, rainy Glasgow. Ronnie comes up with a great idea. He has noticed that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money ...

Actors : Dragan Maksimovic, Terence Stamp, Mikica Dimitrijevic, Athol Fugard,
Directors : Peter Brook,

G.I. Gurdjieff is a spiritual teacher and mystic who, after a lifetime study, developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.

Actors : Ursula Andress, Sylvia Kristel, Cornel Wilde, Beau Bridges,
Directors : Ken Annakin,

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 his popularity and ...

Actors : Conrad Bain, Wesley Eure, Valerie Bertinelli, Chuck McCann,
Directors : Don Chaffey,

A young man invents a robot dog that has super strength, x-ray vision and can detect crimes being committed. A greedy businessman tries to steal the invention from him.

Actors : Olga Karlatos, Adriano Celentano, Eleonora Giorgi, John Sharp,

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, ...

Actors : Diana Polakov, Cameron Mitchell, Antonio Cantafora, José Luis Ayestarán,
Directors : Juan Piquer Simón,

The superhero Kronos, from a distant galaxy, tangles with the mad scientist Dr. Gulik over the fate of mankind.

Actors : Teofil Vâlcu, Emanoil Petrut, Ernest Maftei, Stefan Sileanu,
Directors : Doru Nastase,

Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court.

Actors : David Abraham, Amol Palekar, Tina Ambani, Asrani,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

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 ...

Actors : Lila Kedrova, Romolo Valli, Romy Schneider, Yves Montand,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

Reciprocal consolation. The background of two middle-aged people (Michel and Lydia) is gradually unfolded. Michel's wife is incurably ill. They had agreed that she would take her life on ...

Actors : Natsuko Yashiro, Shun Domon, Asami Ogawa, Hiromi Namino,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

One dark and stormy night, a middle age prison escapee haphazardly breaks into the luxurious mason of a wealthy and privileged family and rapes the young wife in front of her bound husband....

Actors : Susan Anspach, Eugene Levy, Michael Douglas, Lawrence Dane,
Directors : Steven Hilliard Stern,

American marathon runner Michael Andropolis sets his heart on representing his country at the Olympic games. Meanwhile his marriage has fallen apart and his children have no respect for him...

Actors : Lorraine Gary, Ray Bolger, George Burns, Brooke Shields,
Directors : Leonard Stern,

George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.

Actors : Kara Hui, Ho Hsiao, Chia-Liang Liu, Lieh Lo,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A disgraced former Kung Fu expert makes a living as a merchant with the help of a hot headed friend. When the men are harassed by gangsters, the merchant decided to teach his friend monkey boxing so they can defend their business.

Actors : Peter Riegert, Harvey Korman, Zane Buzby, Fred Willard,
Directors : Neal Israel,

In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent the country from being repossessed by wealthy Native Americans.

Actors : Marcy Lafferty, Dorothy Malone, Jim Davis, Christopher Mitchum,
Directors : John 'Bud' Cardos,

Aliens visit the solar-powered house of a middle-class family, and the house is suddenly sucked into a time warp that transports it back to prehistoric times.

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Craig Gardner, Jennifer Holmes, Zoli Marki,
Directors : Percival Rubens,

Random people are terrorized by a malevolent man who brings their worst fears to life.

Actors : Meeno Peluce, Barbara Monker, Aldo Ray, Tammy Taylor,
Directors : Lawrence David Foldes,

Runaways are attacked by evil beings from the far past.

Actors : Wilbur 'Hi-Fi' White, Thommy Pollard, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Hazel Spears,
Directors : Jamaa Fanaka,

A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's ...

Actors : Sue Ane Langdon, Vic Morrow, Michael Parks, Jessica Harper,
Directors : Charles B. Pierce,

A young couple, just married, rents a house in a village in Louisiana. But they are not welcome because the inhabitants of the village look upon them with distrust. Meanwhile, in the house ...

Actors : Titos Vandis, Paul Dooley, Belita Moreno, Marta Heflin,
Directors : Robert Altman,

A repressed, middle-aged divorced U.S. Greek meets a young singer through a dating service and becomes smitten.