Best Drama movies of 1979

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 : Miles Chapin, David Marshall Grant, Blanche Baker, Valérie Quennessen,
Directors : Willard Huyck,

An American group of exchange students come to Paris to study the language and culture for a year. The film depicts the various interactions between the students and the instructors, ...

Actors : William Smith, Barbara Leigh, Guich Koock, Christopher Joy,
Directors : Andy Sidaris,

A government agent discovers a plot by a cartel of seven gangsters to take over the state of Hawaii. He hires a team of seven hitmen to stop them.

Actors : Edward Underdown, Peter Ustinov, Peter Bennett, Brenda Cavendish,
Directors : David Cobham,

A family film which follows the life of a real otter and its adventures in the wild.

Actors : Richard Yniguez, Danny De La Paz, Marta DuBois, James Victor,
Directors : Michael Pressman,

Kid brother Chuco (Danny De La Paz) is a sullen low-rider still caught up in the life. Despite their differences, their family bond is strong. But that bond is violently tested when rivals ...

Actors : Rajinikanth, Jayalakshmi, Thengai Srinivasan, Cho Ramaswamy,
Directors : S.P. Muthuraman,

Aarilirunthu Aruvathu varai, Revolves around Santhanam(Rajnikanth) who solely runs his poor family of 2 brothers and a sister, after their parents death, by taking them to higher level in ...

Actors : Ray Ashcroft, Stephen MacKenna, Rod Culbertson, John Altman,
Directors : Richard Marquand,

An account of The Beatles during the Hamburg years, their signing with Brian Epstein and their inevitable rise during the early sixties.

Actors : Nafisa Ali, Tom Alter, Shabana Azmi, Jalal Agha,
Directors : Shyam Benegal,

Set during the 1857 War of Independence, an obsessed Indian Nawab desires to wed a young Anglo-Indian woman, but the girl's obstinate mother stands between them.

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 : Pomson Shi, Yao Lin Chen, Chiu-Sing Hau, John Cheung,
Directors : Sum Cheung,

A snake style expert travels the lands, imposing his mastery on others, until he runs into a monkey expert living on the edge of a small town, who defeats him soundly. The snake expert ...

Actors : Chiara Moretti, Dominique Laffin, Carlo Monni, Roberto Benigni,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

Roberto has a new job as the teacher at a nursery school. The first child he meets is Gianluigi, who's mute. Roberto is spirited, bringing a TV into class, then a donkey. He takes children ...

Actors : Lucien Guérin, Piotr Stanislas, Catherine Albin, Serge Avedikian,
Directors : Philippe Vallois,

During the final days of World War II, a simple French peasant rescues a wounded German soldier and nurses him back to health. As their playful camaraderie grows, two young men who should ...

Actors : Roberto Gómez Bolaños, Carlos Villagrán, Florinda Meza, Ramón Valdés,
Directors : Enrique Segoviano,

The life of an untalented, but extremely kind waterboy who works for a Mexican soccer team, and how his life unexpectedly changed, when his wife fell pregnant.

Actors : Dennis Christopher, Glynnis O'Connor, Dorothy Tristan, Seymour Cassel,
Directors : John D. Hancock,

Young T.T. comes from Chicago to spend the summer in California. He slowly becomes "California-ized," while learning about love and life in the Golden State.

Actors : François Guétary, Gaëlle Legrand, Pascale Christophe, Marina Pierro,
Directors : Walerian Borowczyk,

Three erotic tales: The first film features Marina Pierro as a woman who inspires more than just creativity in the minds and loins of the men of ancient Rome. In the second offering, a ...

Actors : Bill Adler, Melissa Prophet, Cynthia Wood, Dennis Bowen,
Directors : William Sachs,

A small-town kid hears about the wild nights of cruising the boulevard in Van Nuys, California. He drives out there to check it out, and gets involved with drag racers, topless dancers and bikers.

Actors : Ivan Ivanov, Yanina Kasheva, Valcho Kamarashev, Ibish Orhanov,
Directors : Borislav Sharaliev,

A boy from a poor Sofia neighborhood - Rado who is orphan and has committed several petty crimes - is sent to a borstal, or, to put it otherwise becomes a juvenile prisoner. Unfortunately, ...

Actors : Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Rados Bajic, Bekim Fehmiu, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Hajrudin Krvavac,

The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.

Actors : Véronique Jannot, Francine Bergé, Bernard Giraudeau, Alain Delon,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

The story is set in June 1983. Famous surgeon Jean-Marie Desprée was left by his wife 1 month ago and now he works in a modern movable hospital, where the 3rd world war is taking place.

Actors : Yalçin Avsar, Tamer Çeliker, Hakan Tanfer, Cem Davran,
Directors : Ömer Kavur,

Yusuf, 14, and Kenan, 9, are two shepherd brothers. When their father was killed as a result of a blood feud, children flee to Istanbul to find their only relative, uncle Ali. However all ...