Drama Movies
The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)
Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary…
Caligula (1979)
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.
Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979)
The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.
North Dallas Forty (1979)
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
More American Graffiti (1979)
College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late ’60s.
Eagle’s Wing (1979)
Two men, an aging Native American and a ne’er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle’s Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans…
Queen of the Blues (1979)
A seedy striptease club in London’s West End becomes the target for unpleasant crooks.
Mai presus de orice (1979)
Docu-drama about the earthquake in Romania, on March 4, 1977. The film was not broadcast in the country.
The Wanderers (1979)
The streets of the Bronx are owned by ’60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard…
The Champ (1979)
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 spot in his existence — his…
The Frisco Kid (1979)
Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation’s new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced traveller, he is tricked by con…
The Last of the Knucklemen (1979)
Ravagers (1979)
In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his “pleasure girl” try to find their way to a rumored safe haven…
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape…
Hunter in the Dark (1979)
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa…
Walk Proud (1979)
A young Chicano gang member in Los Angeles comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn’t know how to get out.
Rocky II (1979)
After Rocky goes the distance with champ Apollo Creed, both try to put the fight behind them and move on. Rocky settles down with Adrian but can’t put his life…
Christiana (1979)
The second chapter in the story of John Bunyan’s immortal classic Pilgrim’s Progress. Christiana, who had earlier scoffed at her husband for leaving his family in the City of Destruction,…
Dog of Fortune (1979)
Joni (1979)
Based on Joni Eareckson’s autobiography. She becomes paralyzed after breaking her neck in a swimming accident at age 17. Trying to cope with her new life, she learns to paint…
Sunnyside (1979)
Nick Martin, a young street tough, has a change of heart and attempts to stop the gang violence in his neighborhood.
A Force of One (1979)
Karate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after narcotics agents are killed by an assailant using the martial arts.
Wanda Nevada (1979)
In the American Southwest of the 1950s, middle-aged vagabond Beaudray Demerille survives as a cardsharp who moves from town to town. But his latest victory brings him unwanted spoils in…
The Third Generation (1979)
A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.
The House on Garibaldi Street (1979)
When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
Woyzeck (1979)
Pilot Pirx’s Inquest (1979)
Pirx, an experienced pilot, is hired to go on a top-secret mission to evaluate some ‘nonlinears’ (an experimental model of android) for use as crewmembers on future space flights. Pirx…
Hot Rod (1979)
A freewheeling drag racer enters a local championship meet and finds himself head-to-head with the tyrannical town boss who has already arranged for his own son to win.
Stalker (1979)
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A…
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…
Twice a Woman (1979)
When a divorced museum director takes a young girl as a lover things quickly become more complicated when her ex-husband also engages in a relationship with the girl.
The Hussy (1979)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, “does not exist, nor will it ever exist.” His goal is to…
Over the Edge (1979)
A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada.
Hanover Street (1979)
Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.