Comedy Movies
Breaking Away (1979)
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys…
Escape to Athena (1979)
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 seek an ineffable…
Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979)
Believe it or not, even Smalltown USA still has people who are unfulfilled and unrelieved in the midst of plenty. Levonna and Lamar could have the perfect relationship, were it…
Winter Kills (1979)
The younger brother of an assassinated US President is led down a rabbit hole of conspiracies and dead ends after learning of a man claiming to be the real shooter.
Dimboola (1979)
Smokey and the Hotwire Gang (1979)
Some CB Outlaws attempt to rob an armored car.
John Travolto: The Face with Two Left Feet (1979)
Fast Charlie… the Moonbeam Rider (1979)
A World War I deserter competes in the first long-distance motorcycle race.
H.O.T.S. (1979)
Four girls spurned by the popular Sorority on campus decide to start their own and steal all the men on campus away from the house that rejected them.
The Lady Vanishes (1979)
On the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While passing through Germany, she meets a sweet elderly lady, who suddenly vanishes. Distraught,…
A Little Romance (1979)
Intellectually precocious teenager Lauren King lives in Paris with her somewhat ditzy mother. On a movie set, she strikes up a friendship with teenage film buff Daniel Michon. After Lauren’s…
Love at First Bite (1979)
Dracula and Renefield relocate to ’70s era New York in search of Cindy Sondheim, the reincarnation of Dracula’s one true love, Mina Harker. “Trouble adjusting” is a wild understatement for…
Manhattan (1979)
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend’s mistress.
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979)
A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
Cause toujours… tu m’intéresses (1979)
A Perfect Couple (1979)
An uptight bachelor tries his luck with a computer dating service and gets matched up with his polar opposite.
California Dreaming (1979)
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.
Cop or Hood (1979)
When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute’s house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute’s long-lost brother “Antonio…
Frat House (1979)
The guys in the ‘I Phelta Thi’ fraternity want to live out all their fantasies before they graduate.
You’re the Greatest Charlie Brown (1979)
Charlie Brown enters the Junior Olympics decathlon – and one of his rivals is a certain masked beagle!
The Whole Shootin’ Match (1979)
Lloyd and Frank, two lifelong friends and self-styled entrepreneurs in Austin, try to find the get-rich-quick scheme that will actually get them rich. Lloyd has developed a new invention that…
Van Nuys Blvd. (1979)
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,…
Hair (1979)
Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.
These Kids Are Grown-Ups (1979)
Real Life (1979)
A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series “An American Family”.
Fast Break (1979)
David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. He brings along some players, who…
The Gang That Sold America (1979)
Now an agent of Interpol undercover, the former Inspector Giraldi, goes to New York to find his friend Salvatore Esposito, aspiring restaurateur in Little Italy, suffocated by debts with the…
The Shadow Boxing (1979)
Lau Kar-leung returns to the success of his first directed film, “The Spiritual Boxer,” which also stars the original film’s bumbling ghost controller, Wong Yu. Hoping to make the lightning…
The Popeye Valentine Special: Sweethearts at Sea (1979)
When Popeye forgets to send Olive Oyl a valentine, she takes a Valentine’s Day Sweetheart Cruise, convinced that she’ll find her “Mr. Right” there.
The North Avenue Irregulars (1979)
When crooks set up operations in a traditional town, a minister and a group of church ladies are willing to do anything, no matter how wacky, to get them out.
Uncle Marin the Billionaire (1979)
Angels’ Brigade (1979)
Six sexy women, and a teenage girl, devastate a right-wing militia before doing battle with ruthless drug pushers.
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space (1979)
The bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people,…