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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.