Best Drama movies of 1979

Actors : John Friedrich, Toni Kalem, Karen Allen, Ken Wahl,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

Set against the urban jungle of 1963 New York's gangland subculture, this coming of age teenage movie is set around the Italian gang the Wanderers. Slight comedy, slight High School angst ...

Actors : Robert Redford, Willie Nelson, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Sonny Steele used to be a rodeo star, but his next appearance is to be on a Las Vegas stage, wearing a suit covered in lights, advertising a breakfast cereal. When he finds out they are ...

Actors : Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Katharina Thalbach,
Directors : Volker Schlöndorff,

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.

Actors : Willy Semmelrogge, Eva Mattes, Klaus Kinski, Wolfgang Reichmann,
Directors : Werner Herzog,

Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Dayle Haddon, Charles Durning,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Dan Shor, John Huston, Brad Dourif,
Directors : John Huston,

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.

Actors : Lisa Jane Persky, Blythe Danner, Robert Duvall, Michael O'Keefe,
Directors : Lewis John Carlino,

As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.

Actors : John Blundell, Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth,
Directors : Alan Clarke,

An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the 70's.

Actors : Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day, Abel Ferrara, Harry Schultz,
Directors : Abel Ferrara,

An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.

Actors : Gisela Uhlen, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny, Hanna Schygulla,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

A World War II widow seeks to adjust to life in postwar Germany.

Actors : Vincent Spano, Matt Dillon, Michael Eric Kramer, Pamela Ludwig,
Directors : Jonathan Kaplan,

A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada after the death of one of their own.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Gere, William Devane, Lisa Eichhorn,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, ...

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Denholm Elliott, Peter Vaughan, Simon Ward,
Directors : Douglas Hickox,

A dramatization of the Battle of Isandlwana, where the British Army met its match against the Zulu nation.

Actors : Judy Davis, Robert Grubb, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes,
Directors : Gillian Armstrong,

Sybylla Melvyn is an independent young woman who soon after arriving to live with her Grandmother Bossier and aunt Helen announces that she will never marry and plans on having a career ...

Actors : James Woods, John Savage, Franklyn Seales, Ted Danson,
Directors : Harold Becker,

Greg Powell is a disturbed ex-con who recruits Jimmy Smith (aka Jimmy Youngblood), a petty thief, as his partner in crime. Powell panics one night when the two of them are pulled over by a ...

Actors : Susan Blakely, George Kennedy, Robert Wagner, Alain Delon,
Directors : David Lowell Rich,

American based Federation World Airlines has just acquired a Concorde jet, which will make its inaugural commercial flight from Washington D.C. to Paris and then to Moscow as a goodwill ...

Actors : Carol Kane, Carmen Argenziano, Rutanya Alda, Charles Durning,
Directors : Fred Walton,

A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.

Actors : Marta Fernández Muro, Will More, Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth,
Directors : Iván Zulueta,

A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.

Actors : Paul Le Mat, Bo Hopkins, Ron Howard, Candy Clark,
Directors : Bill Norton,

College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.

Actors : Peter Boyle, Season Hubley, Dick Sargent, George C. Scott,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter who is making porno films in California's porno pits.