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Displaying Search Results: 20 Best Movies from 1979 till 1979

Alien ( 1979 )

Genre:   Horror | Sci-Fi

Runtime:  117

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English

Director:  Ridley Scott

Writer:   Dan O'Bannon | Dan O'Bannon | Ronald Shusett

Stars:   Tom Skerritt | Sigourney Weaver | Veronica Cartwright | Harry Dean Stanton

Plot:    After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform.

Apocalypse Now ( 1979 )

Genre:   Drama | Mystery | War

Runtime:  147

Country:  United States

Language:  English | French | Vietnamese

Director:  Francis Ford Coppola

Writer:   John Milius | Francis Ford Coppola | Michael Herr | Joseph Conrad

Stars:   Marlon Brando | Martin Sheen | Robert Duvall | Frederic Forrest

Plot:    A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

Life of Brian ( 1979 )

Genre:   Comedy

Runtime:  94

Country:  United Kingdom

Language:  English | Latin

Director:  Terry Jones

Writer:   Graham Chapman | John Cleese | Terry Gilliam | Eric Idle | Terry Jones | Michael Palin

Stars:   Graham Chapman | John Cleese | Terry Gilliam | Eric Idle

Plot:    Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.

Being There ( 1979 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama

Runtime:  130

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Russian | Italian

Director:  Hal Ashby

Writer:   Jerzy Kosinski | Jerzy Kosinski | Robert C. Jones

Stars:   Peter Sellers | Shirley MacLaine | Melvyn Douglas | Jack Warden

Plot:    After the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.

Kramer vs. Kramer ( 1979 )

Genre:   Drama

Runtime:  105

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Robert Benton

Writer:   Avery Corman | Robert Benton | Meryl Streep | Jay Christian

Stars:   Dustin Hoffman | Meryl Streep | Jane Alexander | Justin Henry

Plot:    After his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.

All That Jazz ( 1979 )

Genre:   Drama | Music | Musical

Runtime:  123

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Spanish

Director:  Bob Fosse

Writer:   Robert Alan Aurthur | Bob Fosse

Stars:   Roy Scheider | Jessica Lange | Ann Reinking | Leland Palmer

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

Manhattan ( 1979 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama | Romance

Runtime:  96

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Woody Allen

Writer:   Woody Allen | Marshall Brickman

Stars:   Woody Allen | Diane Keaton | Michael Murphy | Mariel Hemingway

Plot:    The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

Breaking Away ( 1979 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama | Sport

Runtime:  101

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Italian | French

Director:  Peter Yates

Writer:   Steve Tesich

Stars:   Dennis Christopher | Dennis Quaid | Daniel Stern | Jackie Earle Haley

Plot:    A working-class Indiana teen obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl while searching for life goals with his friends.

Die Ehe der Maria Braun ( 1979 )

Genre:   Drama | Romance

Runtime:  120

Country:  West Germany

Language:  German | English | French

Director:  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer:   Pea Fröhlich | Peter Märthesheimer | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Pea Fröhlich | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Peter Märthesheimer | Kurt Raab

Stars:   Hanna Schygulla | Klaus Löwitsch | Ivan Desny | Gisela Uhlen

Plot:    Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany\'s "economic miracle" of the 1950s.

The Muppet Movie ( 1979 )

Genre:   Adventure | Comedy | Family | Musical

Runtime:  95

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English

Director:  James Frawley

Writer:   Jerry Juhl | Jack Burns

Stars:   Jim Henson | Frank Oz | Jerry Nelson | Richard Hunt

Plot:    Kermit and his newfound friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog legs merchant is after Kermit.

Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro ( 1979 )

Genre:   Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy

Runtime:  100

Country:  Japan

Language:  Japanese | English | French

Director:  Hayao Miyazaki

Writer:   Monkey Punch | Maurice Leblanc | Hayao Miyazaki | Haruya Yamazaki

Stars:   Yasuo Yamada | Eiko Masuyama | Kiyoshi Kobayashi | Makio Inoue

Plot:    A dashing thief, his gang of desperadoes and an intrepid cop struggle to free a princess from an evil count, and learn the secret of a treasure that she holds part of the key to.

Escape from Alcatraz ( 1979 )

Genre:   Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  112

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Don Siegel

Writer:   J. Campbell Bruce | Richard Tuggle

Stars:   Clint Eastwood | Patrick McGoohan | Roberts Blossom | Jack Thibeau

Plot:    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 possibly successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.

The Warriors ( 1979 )

Genre:   Action | Crime | Thriller

Runtime:  93

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Spanish

Director:  Walter Hill

Writer:   Sol Yurick | David Shaber | Walter Hill

Stars:   Michael Beck | James Remar | Dorsey Wright | Brian Tyler

Plot:    A street gang known as the Warriors must fight its way from the Bronx to its home turf on Coney Island when its members are falsely accused of assassinating a respected gang leader.

Hair ( 1979 )

Genre:   Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance | War

Runtime:  121

Country:  West Germany | United States

Language:  English

Director:  Milos Forman

Writer:   Gerome Ragni | James Rado | Michael Weller

Stars:   John Savage | Treat Williams | Beverly D'Angelo | Annie Golden

Plot:    Claude Bukowski leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly embraced into the hippie group of youngsters led by Berger, yet he's already been drafted. He soon falls in love with Sheila Franklin, a rich girl but...

Scum ( 1979 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama

Runtime:  98

Country:  United Kingdom

Language:  English

Director:  Alan Clarke

Writer:   Roy Minton

Stars:   Ray Winstone | Mick Ford | Julian Firth | John Blundell

Plot:    An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the '70s.

Nosferatu - Phantom der Nacht ( 1979 )

Genre:   Drama | Horror

Runtime:  107

Country:  West Germany | France

Language:  German | English | Romany

Director:  Werner Herzog

Writer:   Werner Herzog | Tom Shachtman | Martje Grohmann | Bram Stoker

Stars:   Klaus Kinski | Isabelle Adjani | Bruno Ganz | Roland Topor

Plot:    Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.

...And Justice for All ( 1979 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  119

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Norman Jewison

Writer:   Valerie Curtin | Barry Levinson

Stars:   Al Pacino | Jack Warden | John Forsythe | Lee Strasberg

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

The China Syndrome ( 1979 )

Genre:   Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  122

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  James Bridges

Writer:   Mike Gray | T.S. Cook | James Bridges

Stars:   Jane Fonda | Jack Lemmon | Michael Douglas | Scott Brady

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

The Black Stallion ( 1979 )

Genre:   Adventure | Family | Sport

Runtime:  118

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Arabic | Italian

Director:  Carroll Ballard

Writer:   Melissa Mathison | Jeanne Rosenberg | William D. Wittliff | Walter Farley | Walter Murch

Stars:   Kelly Reno | Mickey Rooney | Teri Garr | Clarence Muse

Plot:    After being shipwrecked with a magnificent horse off the coast of Africa in the 1940s, a boy bonds with the stallion, and trains him to race after their rescue.

Quadrophenia ( 1979 )

Genre:   Drama | Music

Runtime:  120

Country:  United Kingdom

Language:  English

Director:  Franc Roddam

Writer:   Dave Humphries | Martin Stellman | Franc Roddam | Pete Townshend

Stars:   Phil Daniels | Leslie Ash | Phil Davis | Mark Wingett

Plot:    Jimmy Cooper loathes his dead-end job and his working-class parents. He seeks solace with his mod clique, scooter riding, and drugs, only to be disappointed.

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