Best Drama movies of 1979

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 : Katie Johnson, Wallace Earl Laven, Jill Lansing, Stuart Taylor,
Directors : Irvin Berwick,

When a high school senior is dumped by her boyfriend, her grades fall drastically...to avoid failing, she begins seducing her male teachers. Thus begins her downward spiral into drug ...

Actors : Chung-Kuei Chang, Chiu Ho, Sung-Chuan Shen, Chao-Ming Kang,
Directors : Kei Law,

Two men skilled in the arts of Kung-Fu are betrayed by their master and crippled for life, one left with no arms and the other with no legs. Despite their obvious disadvantages, they learn ...

Actors : Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Leslie Nielsen, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Alvin Rakoff,

A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.

Actors : Eugene Levy, Susan Anspach, 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 : Peter Bull, Neil Cunningham, David Meyer, Heathcote Williams,
Directors : Derek Jarman,

Banished to a forsaken island, the Right Duke of Milan and Sorcerer Prospero gets the chance to take his revenge on the King of Naples with the assistance of his airy spirit-servant, Ariel.

Actors : Laszlone Horvath, László Horváth, Gábor Kun, Gábor Ifj. Kun,
Directors : Béla Tarr,

The breakdown of the relationship of a couple by living in a flat of the husband's parents.

Actors : Hristos Valavanidis, Rita Bensousan, Konstantinos Tzoumas, Alkis Panagiotidis,
Directors : Nikos Nikolaidis,

Five friends (representatives of the Fifties generation) now in their forties, get together after many years of silence. One shows up from jail, where he has been entering and exiting for ...

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 : Pascal Greggory, Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : André Téchiné,

In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.

Actors : Rekha, Shashi Kapoor, Parveen Babi, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Manmohan Desai,

Vikram has prospered in a life of crime and lives a hedonistic, self-indulgent lifestyle. When Durga, his wife gives birth to twins, he not only repudiates the children but discards his ...

Actors : Valentina Telichkina, Stanislav Lyubshin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Larisa Kuznetsova,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

Tamara and Sasha were separated during the war. Now (1957) Sasha is visiting Moscow for five days and by chance recognizes the house where Tamara used to live. She is still living there with her nephew Slava.

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 : 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 : Sean Grady, Larry Brodsky, Jim Fitzpatrick, Alan Bowers,
Directors : David Jamison,

Steve Street is about to lead his Highschool Football team to the City Championship, when he's diagnosed with cancer.

Actors : Patrick Dewaere, Fernando Rey, Alberto Sordi, Annie Girardot,
Directors : Luigi Comencini,

A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the ...

Actors : Andrew Byatt, Lisa Kreuzer, Sandy Ratcliff, David Beames,
Directors : Christopher Petit,

Set in 1970's Britain, a man drives from London to Bristol to investigate his brother's death. The purpose of his trip is offset by his encounters with a series of odd people.

Actors : Sergei Desnitsky, Boleslaw Abart, Vladimir Ivashov, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy,
Directors : Marek Piestrak,

The movie is about "finite nonlinears," robots that closely resemble human beings but are even more perfect than humans. They are intended to eventually replace human beings in space ...

Actors : Ian Hendry, Antonio Cantafora, Kenneth Haigh, Joan Collins,
Directors : Gerry O'Hara,

The owner of a trendy disco starts having problems with the men in her life and the Mafia, which is trying to move in on her place.

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....