Best movies of 1979

Actors : Mel Martin, Tommy Steele, Charles Morgan, Frederick Schiller,
Directors : Robert Reed,

It's the night before Christmas, and all toy store rejects are due to be tossed into the furnace. This includes Quincy, a most lifelike doll. In a last ditch effort to save himself and his ...

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 : 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 : 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 : Michael Forest, Jorge Luke, Franco Nero, Werner Pochath,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

A crusty recluse on a Caribbean island who is dedicated to destroying sharks gets involved in a hunt for buried treasure.

Actors : Michael Ontkean, Amy Irving, Barry Miller, Alex Rocco,
Directors : Robert Markowitz,

A young man meets a deaf teacher and finds she is a great dancer. He encourages her to follow her dream of becoming a professionaL dancer.

Actors : Michele Placido, Giulio Brogi, Isabella Rossellini, Saverio Marconi,

San Gimignano, in Toscana, alla fine degli anni '70. La fine degli ideali degli anni '70 vista in un piccolo microcosmo, pensando a platee più vaste di giovani in crisi. Giovanni, ...

Actors : Long Ten Hsiang, Pai Ah, Jeanie Chang, Hui Lou Chen,
Directors : Joseph Kuo,

A winery owner and drunken boxing master trains two young boys in the art of drunken boxing after he catches them stealing from his winery.

Actors : Gino Felici, Lori Pelosini, Guido Lombardi, Olimpia Carlisi,

Two segments. The first one arranges six stories from Cesare Pavese's "Dialoghi con Leucò", taken from classical mythology. The second segment is taken from Pavese's novel "La luna e i falò...

Actors : Jun Aki, Miyako Yamaguchi, Yuki Nohira, 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 : Monique van de Ven, Marijke Merckens, Maria Schneider, Peter Faber,
Directors : Nouchka van Brakel,

Young mother of two Eva is send on holiday to France by her husband to relief her stress. There she meets lesbian Liliane who lives in a commune.

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 : 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 : Van Johnson, Mario Merola, Biagio Pelligra, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Italian mobster, Michele Barresi heads for the safer climate of Brooklyn after his chief rival is gunned down in the small Sicilian town of Corleone. Commissioner Berni learns of his ...

Actors : Christopher Lee, Lurene Tuttle, Michele Lee, Melissa Gilbert,
Directors : Takeo Nakamura,

Actors : Tincho Zabala, Moria Casán, Alberto Olmedo, Jorge Porcel,
Directors : Hugo Sofovich,

Jorge and Alberto, clerks in don Antonio's pharmacy, accidentally give a young woman rat poison instead of her prescription medicine. When they discover their error, the men - aided by the ...

Actors : David Chiang, Norman Chu, Lieh Lo, Lily Li,
Directors : Ho Meng-Hua,

International favorite, David Chiang, stars as the great Chih Shim, the monk who saved the Southern Shaolin Temple. Joining him is Lo Lieh, the Shaws' first international star who returns ...

Actors : Feng Ku, Yue Wong, Lung Ti, Angie Chiu,
Directors : Chung Sun,

The Kung-Fu Instructor was director Sun Cheng's homage to Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo where Ti Lung plays a righteous weapon instructor. It's the first time a Shaw Brother's director uses a ...

Actors : Siu-Tung Ching, Feng Kuan, Chiu-Sing Hau, Hui Huang Lin,
Directors : Mar Lo,

A small-time crook goes in search of the other half of a wooden keepsake which will lead him to the legendary kung fu technique of the Gibbon Clan Fist.