Best Thriller movies of 1979

Actors : John Ireland, Joseph Cotten, Gene Barry, Stuart Whitman,
Directors : René Cardona Jr.,

Reverend Jim Jones, the priest of an independent church in the South American country Guyana, orders his followers to commit suicide. But not all of them follow him blindly and begin to think on their own.

Actors : José Sacristán, Ángela Molina, Saverio Marconi, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Gillo Pontecorvo,

As 1973 winds down, Franco is still governing Spain with an iron hand. Opposition parties are forbidden; labor movements are repressed; and Basque nationalists are mercilessly hunted down. ...

Actors : Mimsy Farmer, Fiamma Maglione, James Franciscus, Venantino Venantini,
Directors : Ruggero Deodato,

A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have them decommissioned.

Actors : David Hayman, Sean Scanlan, Alex Norton, Jake D'Arcy,
Directors : John Mackenzie,

The life and imprisonment of Glasgow hard man and gangster Jimmy Boyle.

Actors : Adel Imam, Said Abdel Ghani, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Essad Youniss,
Directors : Hussein Kamal,

Adel Imam and neighbour Abdel Moneim Madbouly are taken to a Police station after an altercation with a bus conductor. They are mistakenly arrested with a group of suspected terrorists and taken to a maximum security jail.

Actors : Ernesto Colli, Brigitte Petronio, Maxmilian Vhener, Annamaria Clementi,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

Two amateur armed robbers steal $5,000 from NY's red light district, only to discover it was an intended protection payment to the mob. With Mafia hit men after them they seek shelter in a sleazy sex shop.

Actors : Pierre Vernier, Victor Lanoux, Nicole Calfan, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Alain Jessua,

After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Linda Haynes, Ellen Travolta, Lurene Tuttle,
Directors : Gregory Goodell,

A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.

Actors : Turk Cekovsky, Barron Winchester, Debi Chaney, Terry TenBroek,
Directors : Peter Maris,

An ex-soldier is hired by local right-wingers as a vigilante to clean up criminals and street people. However, he freaks out and starts killing off everybody.

Actors : Sterling Hayden, Niall O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Craig Wasson,
Directors : Tony Luraschi,

A young American man joins the IRA in Ireland but soon finds out that he is being used for political purposes and propaganda.

Actors : Céline Lomez, Daniel Pilon, Michael J. Reynolds, Kate Reid,
Directors : Ed Hunt,

An ambitious lab assistant carries out a forbidden experiment and accidentally creates a deadly bacteria which kills her and rapidly engulfs the city. The authorities order a curtain of ...

Actors : Renato Pozzetto, Max von Sydow, Shelley Winters, Alberto Lionello,
Directors : Mauro Bolognini,

Black Journal (originally titled Gran Bollito) is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. It is based on the real life events of Leonarda Cianciulli, the Italian serial killer best known as the "Soap-Maker of Correggio".

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, Michele Placido, Tano Cimarosa, Eleonora Giorgi,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that a wealthy woman has been kidnapped and that everyone who was involved in it is being ...

Actors : Roosevelt Grier, John Saxon, Joanna Cassidy, Joan Blondell,
Directors : Ross Hagen,

A bounty hunter is offered $20,000 - off the record - for the capture of a very large man who dons body armor and steel-plated gauntlets for his regular beatings of some unfortunate individuals.

Actors : Richard Crenna, Linda Sorensen, Belinda Montgomery, Paul Williams,
Directors : George Mendeluk,

Sergeant Boyd's police search to find a sniper who has been shooting hookers.

Actors : Takeo Chii, Miyako Yamaguchi, Eri Kanuma, Mimi Sawaki,
Directors : Noboru Tanaka,

This is the third film in the Angel Guts series. It tells the story of Nami, a young female journalist... See full synopsis »

Actors : Miyako Yamaguchi, Yuki Nohira, Jun Aki, Yûko Akane,
Directors : Kôyû Ohara,

After being brutally raped, a young woman attempts to commit suicide. A priest talks her out of it and she decides to become a nun. Once inside the convent, she is again a victim of sexual abuse.

Actors : Perry King, Tisa Farrow, George Kennedy, Don Stroud,
Directors : William Fruet,

The members of a Vietnam veteran's old Army unit start turning up murdered. The police soon begin to suspect that he is in fact the killer. He knows he isn't, and must find the real killer ...

Actors : Jun Aki, Yûki Mizuhara, Reiko Fujinami, Keizô Kanie,
Directors : Chûsei Sone,

When a writer for a porn magazine, watches a "rape" porn that is set in a school, he becomes obsessed with the lead actress, Nami, and tries to find her. He meets her by chance as he arrives for a shoot at a hotel.

Actors : Rodna Yeshonov, Feliks Sergeyev, Olga Yenzak, Vladimir Kruglov,
Directors : Boris Buneev,

A team of surveyors in Siberia enlist the help of native Evenk guides to solve a string of disappearances on the dreaded mountain Yambuy.