Alien
Rating: 8.2
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team o...
Best movies of 1979
Titles indexed: 67
Mad Max
Rating: 6.7
In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthle...
The Gang That Sold America
Rating: 5.4
Now an agent of Interpol undercover, the former Inspector Giraldi, goes to New York to find his friend Salvatore Esposito, aspiring restaura...
Apocalypse Now
Rating: 8.3
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it eve...
Snapshot
Rating: 5.4
A young hairdresser enters into the modeling world while fearing retaliation from her puritanical mother and stalker ex-boyfriend....
Life of Brian
Rating: 7.8
Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not d...
Old Boyfriends
Rating: 4.9
When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out those of her former boyfriends who left the biggest impact on her life, mostly in a ...
The Tin Drum
Rating: 6.9
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, Worl...
Killer Fish
Rating: 4.6
Jewel thieves attempt to recover treasure from piranha infested waters. Mistrust and betrayals happen amongst the gang in the quest for gold...
The Warriors
Rating: 7.7
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival...
Caligula
Rating: 6.0
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness an...
Moonraker
Rating: 6.2
After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to m...
The Castle of Cagliostro
Rating: 7.5
After a successful robbery leaves famed thief Lupin the Third and his partner Jigen with nothing but a large amount of expertly crafted coun...
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Rating: 6.5
When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterpris...
Escape from Alcatraz
Rating: 7.5
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Altho...
The Concorde... Airport '79
Rating: 4.7
Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two ov...
Dracula
Rating: 6.4
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, ...
Luna
Rating: 6.3
While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcom...
French Fried Vacation 2
Rating: 7.3
In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye...
The Brood
Rating: 6.7
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks c...
10
Rating: 5.7
A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed....
Agatha
Rating: 6.1
England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no ...
Lady Oscar
Rating: 5.6
Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the...
The Champ
Rating: 7.0
Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright...
Tess
Rating: 7.1
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are ...
Last Embrace
Rating: 5.3
Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a ment...
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Rating: 5.1
After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passenge...
More American Graffiti
Rating: 5.2
College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s....
Escape to Athena
Rating: 5.7
During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They not only want their freedom, but also s...
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
Rating: 5.0
Before the adventures that made them legends, they were charming mastermind Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, and crack-shot outlaw ...
Burnout
Rating: 1.0
Troubled teenager Scott aspires to be a professional drag race car driver. Scott makes several faltering attempts to break into the world of...
Quadrophenia
Rating: 7.0
Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job...
Fast Company
Rating: 5.1
An over the hill drag racer finds himself considering retirement and ceding the spotlight to his protégé and targeted for replacement by the...
Tim
Rating: 6.2
Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love...
Bear Island
Rating: 6.0
A group of people converge on a barren Arctic island. They have their reasons for being there but when a series of mysterious accidents and ...
Prophecy
Rating: 5.4
When a dispute occurs between a logging operation and a nearby Native American tribe, Dr. Robert Verne and his wife, Maggie, are sent in to ...
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
Rating: 6.0
The bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way...
Love and Bullets
Rating: 5.9
Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI...
Rock 'n' Roll High School
Rating: 6.4
A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive adminis...
Island of the Fishmen
Rating: 5.6
After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon disc...
Tourist Trap
Rating: 6.1
After their car breaks down, a group of young travelers find themselves stranded at a roadside museum run by the enigmatic Mr. Slausen and p...
The Electric Horseman
Rating: 6.1
A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show. When he's asked...
Stranger in Our House
Rating: 5.3
A country family of five take in charming cousin Julie, whose parents recently died in a car crash, though teenaged daughter Rachel grows su...
A Force of One
Rating: 4.8
Karate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after narcotics agents are killed by an assailant usi...
Scooby Goes Hollywood
Rating: 7.6
Shaggy and Scooby-Doo quit their Saturday morning TV series in pursuit of Hollywood stardom....
North Dallas Forty
Rating: 6.6
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s....
Kaala Patthar
Rating: 7.4
Vijay Singh is a disgraced former Merchant-Navy officer who is branded as a coward after he abandons his crew during an emergency. Guilt-rid...
Love on the Run
Rating: 7.0
Now in his thirties, Antoine Doinel is a divorced proofreader in love with a record seller. Colette Tazzi, now a lawyer, buys his first publ...
Fascination
Rating: 6.0
A runaway criminal breaks into an eerie chateau, taking its two frightened chambermaids hostage. As night falls, a group of mysterious arist...
Gol Maal
Rating: 7.4
A man's simple lie to secure his job escalates into more complex lies when his orthodox boss becomes suspicious....
The Very Same Munchhausen
Rating: 7.5
A philosophical and poetic portrait of the famous (or maybe infamous?) Baron Munchhausen. His crazy, yet very merriment, stories, views and ...
No Longer Kids
Rating: 8.0
The play tells the story of four siblings trying to stop their father from leaving his family for another woman after one of them accidental...
The Prize Fighter
Rating: 4.8
"Bags" the boxer (Tim Conway) and his manager, Shake (Don Knotts), are quite a pair: One is a dim bulb, and the other has a mean streak. Tim...
The Odd Angry Shot
Rating: 6.0
A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing bored...
Summer Camp
Rating: 4.0
The director of a failing summer camp decides to invite campers from ten years ago for a free weekend event, hoping that he can trick them i...
Dracula Bites the Big Apple
Rating: 10.0
Dracula travels to New York for a change of scenery....
The Legend of the Golden Gun
Rating: 5.0
In Kansas during the middle of the Civil War, John Golden is left for dead and his family has been killed by the ruthless Confederate outlaw...
Snake in the Monkey's Shadow
Rating: 7.5
A young peasant boy who is bullied by local noblemen seeks to learn drunken boxing from the head of a local martial arts school. When the bo...
Rockers
Rating: 7.1
Horsemouth, a drummer living in a ghetto of Kingston, plans to make money selling records. After his prized motorcycle is stolen, his plans ...
The Island of Thirty Coffins
Rating: 5.2
The story takes place in 1917. Véronique is a young woman of 35 years, nurse at the military hospital of Besançon. She suddenly learns of th...
It Is Really A Respectable Family
Rating: 0.0
The story revolves around a father dedicated to raising his children and harnessing all his life and power to achieve that goal, especially ...
Anxious to Return
Rating: 0.0
A wounded soldier of the Northeast Anti-Japanese forces is found and helped by a local girl. They fall in love, but the soldier wants to ret...
Once Upon a Midnight Scary
Rating: 8.7
"Once Upon a Midnight Scary" is a 1979 television program that aired as part of a CBS television anthology series. The program, hosted by no...
Treasure of Bruce Le
Rating: 3.0
In "Treasure of Bruce Le," a Samurai steals the Kung Fu secrets of the Shaolin Buddhists. Now Bruce must fight the powerful Samurai for cont...
Some Kind of Saint
Rating: 2.8
Country bumpkin Wolfgang believes he has been called by God and travels from Freilassing to Munich's den of iniquity to follow his Christian...
Virgin blues: Nurete sayônara
Rating: 2.0
Pinku distributed by Toei Central Film....
The New Media Bible: The Gospel According to St. Luke
Rating: 0.0
A dramatic presentation of the Bible from (New Media Bible), and producer John Heyman. spoken word-for-word from the King James Version by t...