Comedy Movies
Tora-san’s Dream of Spring (1979)
Going in Style (1979)
Three kindly old men decide to light up the dimming twilight of their lives with a last blaze of glory – by sticking up a Manhattan bank in broad daylight.
Scooby Goes Hollywood (1979)
Shaggy and Scooby-Doo quit their Saturday morning TV series in pursuit of Hollywood stardom.
The Electric Horseman (1979)
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 to perform with a…
C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979)
A young man invents a robot dog that has super strength, x-ray vision and can detect crimes being committed. A greedy businessman tries to steal the boy’s invention from him.
Scavenger Hunt (1979)
An eccentric games inventor dies and leaves behind an inheritance worth hundreds of millions of dollars – which will only be given to the person or team, amongst his family…
Buffet Froid (1979)
An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved…
Being There (1979)
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street…
The Plank (1979)
Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of “wordless dialogue” which consists of…
The Jerk (1979)
After discovering he’s not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and…
Chapter Two (1979)
George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things…
1941 (1979)
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together (1979)
In this beloved holiday classic, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and all the Muppets join the singer for a heart-warming Christmas celebration, with traditional carols as well as lesser-known holiday…
Gas Pump Girls (1979)
June and her friends take over a service station formerly run by her uncle. They perform every trick in the book to attract the customers.
The Winner (1979)
Bugs Bunny’s Looney Christmas Tales (1979)
A TV movie special that compiles of a few Looney Tunes episodes centered around an episode of a Christmas Carol, with the part of Scrooge played by Yosemite Sam.
French Fried Vacation 2 (1979)
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)
The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.
Taxi Girls (1979)
A sexy hooker comes up with a plan to operate her own taxi service for her fellow streetwalkers as a safe way to make easy money, with their male customers.
The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone (1979)
The Flintstones and the Rubbles win a trip on “Make a Deal or Don’t” to Count Rockula’s castle in Rocksylvania, where they have an unpleasant meeting with the Count and…
Wise Blood (1979)
A Southerner–young, poor, ambitious but uneducated–determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his…
Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)
Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker who left him to…
Courage fuyons (1979)
10 (1979)
A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.
Starting Over (1979)
After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.
Skatetown U.S.A. (1979)
A street-gang leader challenges a handsome young skater in a championship contest at the local roller-disco rink.
Derek and Clive Get the Horn (1979)
A documentary recording the making of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s comedy album Derek and Clive Ad Nauseam.
Cabbages and Kings (1979)
Everything would have gone on as usual in the island of Anchuria, if not for a small suitcase filled with hundreds of thousands of dollars that suddenly turned up at…
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979)
A collection of Warner Brothers short cartoon features, “starring” the likes of Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Wile.E.Coyote. These animations are interspersed by Bugs Bunny reminiscing on past events and…
Time After Time (1979)
Writer H. G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to modern day San Francisco after the infamous serial killer steals his time machine to escape the 19th century.
The Tigress of Shaolin (1979)
Hui Ying-hung, legendary director Chang Cheh’s discovery, and the protege of equally legendary director Liu Chia-liang co-stars with Liu’s nephew, Liu Chia-yung in this fast-paced, action packed comedy of kung-fu…