| Argo (2012) | 7.7 | |
| Life of Brian (1979) | 8.0 | |
| Private Parts (1997) | 6.9 | |
| The Herd (1978) | 8.1 | |
| The Black Stallion (1979) | 7.4 |
Year 1979 movies and TV shows – page 4
Best films
New films
| The Traitor (2019) | 7.1 | |
| Knife + Heart (2018) | 6.2 | |
| Golden Youth (2019) | 4.8 | |
| Cry Macho (2021) | 5.7 | |
| Birds of Passage (2018) | 7.5 |
List of year 1979 movies
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A mercenary is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal, a woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, rough, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mercenary, racial slur, guard dog, explosions, spy, gangster, hitman, murder, heroes, rivalry, dishonesty, vigilantism ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
miami, washington d.c., caribbean, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.
Style:
independent film, realistic, not serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
basketball, astrology, blaxploitation, black history, black people, black, disco, partner, sport team, misfit, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
independent film, christmas horror, cult classic, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, ninja, karate, police, serial killer, xmas, martial arts tournament, santa claus, kung fu, blaxploitation, immunity, murder mystery ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
vietnam, asia, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, West Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
French Postcards rings both comic and true. The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their French-English dictionaries, they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic ...
Style:
grindhouse
Plot:
teenager, erotica, age difference, parisian, architecture, american abroad, college student, coming of age, college, bare chested male, nudity, sightseeing ...
Time:
year 1979
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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 men to pay for the trip to go west, then they leave him and his ...
Style:
humorous, talky, touching, semi serious, funny ...
Plot:
old west, rabbi, fish out of water, culture clash, friendship, partner, happy ending, heist, disorder, polish, odd couple, buddies ...
Time:
year 1979, 50s, 20th century, 1850s, 19th century
Place:
san francisco, california, poland, philadelphia, pennsylvania ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story—about the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic ...
Style:
freeze frame, realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, prostitute, father son relationship, violence, psychopath, sex scene, brutality, murder, lover lover relationship, father in law daughter in law relationship, womanizer, strangulation ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, year 1979, 70s, 1930s ...
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mattie, a widow living in the backwoods of Florida during Prohibition, meets Trax, a charming man much younger that herself. Trax is a womanizing, lying bootlegger who needs money and he sets his sights on Mattie who can support him. After ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
smuggler, forest, woods, age-gap relationship, love and romance, dishonesty, couple relations, betrayal, contests and competitions, couples, love triangle, siblings relations ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 1930s
Place:
florida, southern usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Plot:
civil war, british empire, mercenary, conspiracy, arms dealing, terrorism, opposites attract, military, state affairs, dishonesty, soldier, society ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
zimbabwe, africa, london
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with nothing to do but feed the birds. One of them comes up with an idea - rob a bank. They certainly could use the money if they get away with it and if they ...
Style:
light, realistic, touching, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot:
heist, senior citizen, bank robbery, robbery, caper, aging, elderly, bank, bittersweet, bank robber, twin towers, hidden treasure ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place:
las vegas, usa, new york state, new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A neo-Nazi Doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised & Conditioned since she was a child to run in the Olympics.
Style:
dark, grim, spooky, independent film
Plot:
olympics, running, exploitation, eugenics, obsession, psychological manipulation, manipulation, scientific experiment, ethical dilemma, neo nazi, ambition, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.
Style:
independent film, freeze frame, crying, f word
Plot:
sexual attraction, interracial sex, sexual abuse, seductive behavior, interracial rape, sexual tension, rape victim, sexual harassment, caught having sex, older woman younger man relationship, nudity, bare chested male ...
Time:
year 1979, year 1954, year 1956, 1950s, year 1955 ...
Place:
kansas
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, serious, independent film ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family drama, military, vietnam war, army, military base, family relations, bittersweet, aviation, strict father, father son relationship, basketball ...
Time:
60s, year 1979, 20th century, year 1962
Place:
california, atlanta georgia, spain, south carolina
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
sex comedy, grindhouse, sexual, humorous, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
sorority, college, university, woman in short shorts, american football, exhibitionism, nudity, sex, exploitation, teenager, high school, erotica ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 80s
Place:
london
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A man falls for a separated woman but can't cope when she returns to her husband.
Style:
romantic, semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love triangle, obsession, master and servant, marriage of convenience, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, love, extramarital affair, winter, mother son relationship, unfulfilled love, looking for love, parents and children ...
Time:
year 1979, 60s, 70s
Place:
usa, salt lake city utah, utah
Is relevant?
754
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful governor of the island. Amid this man-made tension comes a powerful hurricane so devastating, the ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, psychotronic ...
Plot:
beach, forbidden love, disaster, pacific island, natural disaster, island, parent child relationship, escapades, opposites attract, love and romance, danger, injustice ...
Time:
year 1979, 1920s
Place:
pacific ocean
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The film's plot is based on the Kennedy assassination and subsequent investigation. The film begins with the assassination of President Marc Jarry, who is about to be inaugurated for a second six-year term of office. Henri Volney, state ...
Style:
political, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
political conspiracy, conspiracy, government corruption, assassination, kennedy assassination, coup d'etat, uncover truth, witnessing a crime, political corruption, legal investigation, dedicated lawyer, state affairs ...
Time:
20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place:
france, yale university
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures ...
Style:
funny, exciting, humorous, witty, spy action ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
armored car robbery, dentist, dictator, masked robber, spy, screwball, wedding, chase, car chase, fictional country, helicopter, bank ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
central america, latin america, washington d.c., new jersey, new york ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The world's newest kung fu legend, Joe Lewis, takes on evil gangsters and saves the world.
Style:
semi serious, suspense, grindhouse, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, james bond spoof, heroes, chases and races, drug dealing, danger, special agent, working undercover, law enforcement, espionage, drug lord, pursuit ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
hong kong, new york
Is relevant?
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, History
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
This classic film portrays 3½ years of Jesus' ministry as told in the Gospel of Luke from the Good News and King James translations of the Bible. Producer John Heyman created a film so true-to-life, you will feel like you are in first-century ...
Style:
biblical, christian film, inspirational, independent film, serious ...
Plot:
jesus, christianity, bible, jesus christ, christian, ancient, religious, faith, ancient history, miraculous event, biopic, biblical stories ...
Time:
1st century, ancient times, year 1979, biblical epic
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.
Style:
entertaining, realistic, semi serious, humorous, black humor
Plot:
runaway, drug dealer, magic, youth, friendship, grandparent grandchild relationship, car trunk, woman in danger, elderly, drug dealing, unlikely partners, on the run ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sad, clever, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
courtroom, divorce, lawyer, marriage, custody battle, father son relationship, single father, family drama, courtroom drama, legal, family relations, court ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place:
new york, california, usa, persia, new york state ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 classic. On the eve of the Second World War, a train carrying an assortment of passengers, pulls out of a small town in Bavaria. When one of the passengers, a kindly old lady, mysteriously disappears the other ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
missing person, amateur detective, mind game, secret agent, danger, dishonesty, woman in danger, american abroad, train, world war two, railway, intrigue ...
Time:
1930s, year 1979, pre world war two, year 1939
Place:
germany, london, austria
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
1930's gangster era film about Dillinger and his last girl. Written by John Sayles.
Style:
grindhouse, sexual, cult classic, independent film, serious ...
Plot:
mafia, gangster, nudity, murder, prostitution, violence, sex scene, loss of virginity, brothel, farm, on the run, dishonesty ...
Time:
1930s, year 1979, 70s
Place:
chicago
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Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum, after which he eventually returns to work. But, once again, he begins to doubt his sanity when he ...
Style:
neo noir, cult classic, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
niagara falls, nudity, brothel, female nudity, spy, betrayal, obsession, murder, conspiracy, cemetery, death of wife, pet cat ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, austin texas, mexico
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.
Style:
sexy, sex comedy, erotic, hot
Plot:
older woman younger man, sexual tension, widow, older woman younger man relationship, sex scene, police officer, dead man, framed for murder, photographer, bare breasts, erotica, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1979
Place:
italy
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the ...
Style:
hilarious, funny, humorous, cult classic, parody ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
religion, monty python, satire, mistaken identity, absurdism, ancient rome, dark humor, medieval, ancient, roman empire, god, sarcasm ...
Time:
1st century, ancient times, biblical epic, 20th century, year 1979 ...
Place:
jerusalem, palestine, ancient greece, greece, middle east ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young American girl and a young French boy meet in Paris and fall in love, with the assistance of an old man and his stories.
Style:
teen, sentimental, avant garde, grindhouse, offbeat ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
first love, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, childhood love, coming of age, child, aging, relationships, teen angst, fall in love, youth, bittersweet, young lovers ...
Time:
year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place:
paris france, venice, france, italy, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Charles Bronson is out for revenge in this action drama. Jackie Pruit (Jill Ireland) is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa (Rod Steiger). When it looks as if Jackie's life is being threatened by Bomposa's goons, the FBI moves ...
Style:
fast, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapped girl, assassin, conspiracy, fbi, mobster, cop, partner, gangster, tough heroes, police detective, woman in danger, death wish ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
switzerland, europe, phoenix arizona, arizona, tucson arizona ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Dracula and Renefield relocate to 70's 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 the Count as he battles Cindy's ...
Style:
spoof, surprise ending, horror comedy, psychotronic, detective ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
vampire, dracula, disco, romantic rivalry, supernatural power, master servant relationship, sidekick, supernatural, culture clash, fish out of water, love, police station ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place:
romania, new york, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Marjoe Gortner plays a drug dealer whose car breaks down in a small U.S. town. In turn, the town's people become victim to his unique brand of physical and mental torture.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
diner, hostage, torture, vietnam veteran, mexican border, mexican american border, underground, sociopath, mind game, skinny dipping, marital problem, teenage boy ...
Time:
year 1979, 60s
Place:
texas
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