Best movies of 1979

Actors : Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Sylvester Stallone,
Directors : Sylvester Stallone,

Rocky struggles in family life after his bout with Apollo Creed, while the embarrassed champ insistently goads him to accept a challenge for a rematch.

Actors : Catlin Adams, Bernadette Peters, Steve Martin, Mabel King,
Directors : Carl Reiner,

An idiotic man struggles to make it through life on his own in St. Louis.

Actors : Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, James Brolin, Don Stroud,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

Newlyweds move into a large house where a mass murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations which drive them away.

Actors : Roberts Blossom, Clint Eastwood, Jack Thibeau, Patrick McGoohan,
Directors : Don Siegel,

Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possible successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.

Actors : John Collin, Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

A strong-willed young peasant girl becomes the affection of two men.

Actors : Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.

Actors : Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, Scott Brady, Michael Douglas,
Directors : James Bridges,

A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.

Actors : Al Pacino, John Forsythe, Jack Warden, Lee Strasberg,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

A lawyer is forced to defend a guilty judge, while defending other innocent clients, and trying to find punishment for the guilty and provide justice for the innocent.

Actors : Bill Murray, Russ Banham, Harvey Atkin, Kate Lynch,
Directors : Ivan Reitman,

Wacky hijinks of counselors and campers at a less-than-average summer camp.

Actors : Ian McCulloch, Al Cliver, Tisa Farrow, Richard Johnson,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

Strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately searches for the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Henry Beckman, Art Hindle, Oliver Reed,
Directors : David Cronenberg,

A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.

Actors : J.A. Preston, Dick Haymes, Matthew Tobin, Albert Brooks,
Directors : Albert Brooks,

A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family". However, ...

Actors : David Warner, Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, Charles Cioffi,
Directors : Nicholas Meyer,

H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period.

Actors : Julie Andrews, Robert Webber, Bo Derek, Dudley Moore,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

A Hollywood composer goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy, newly married woman.

Actors : Eiko Masuyama, Makio Inoue, Yasuo Yamada, Kiyoshi Kobayashi,
Directors : Hayao Miyazaki,

A flamboyant thief and his gang struggle to free a princess from an evil count's clutches and to learn the hidden secret to a fabulous treasure that she holds part of a key to.

Actors : Alisa Freyndlikh, Nikolay Grinko, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy,
Directors : Andrei Tarkovsky,

A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

Actors : Val Bisoglio, Gene Wilder, Ramon Bieri, Harrison Ford,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A Polish rabbi wanders through the Old West on his way to lead a synagogue in San Francisco. On the way he is nearly burnt at the stake by Indians and almost killed by outlaws.

Actors : Lance Henriksen, Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, John Huston,
Directors : Giulio Paradisi,

The soul of a young girl with telekinetic powers becomes the prize in a fight between forces of God and the Devil.

Actors : Faye Dunaway, Jon Voight, Jack Warden, Ricky Schroder,
Directors : Franco Zeffirelli,

Billy Flynn, a former boxing champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy T.J., over whom he got custody after his wife Annie left him seven...

Actors : Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, Teresa Ann Savoy,

Details the graphic and shocking, yet undeniably tragic story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius Germanicus Caligula.