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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war following a global holocaust, and Buck's piloting skills make him an ideal starfighter ...
Style:
saga, psychotronic, uplifting, cult classic, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
space adventure, space opera, time travel, astronaut, alien invasion, spacecraft, space, superhero, cosmic horror, intergalactic, master criminal, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
year 1979, future, year 1987, 80s, 20th century
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death in this horror-thriller. He is after her money and must try several times before he finally succeeds. Because she is mentally exhausted from being frightened all the time, ...
Style:
suspense, noir, independent film, serious, mind bending ...
Plot:
conservatory, pretending to be someone else, notary, suicide, last will and testament, girl, american horror, old dark house, ghost, danger, rivalry, mind game ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, year 1977
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In this actioner, a bounty hunter is assigned to bring back an enormous and angry ex-convict who wears a deadly glove made of leather and steal. Rock'em sock'em mayhem ensues.
Style:
surreal, creepy, grindhouse, independent film, slasher ...
Plot:
bounty hunter, revenge, torture, retribution, prison, ex convict, money, rage, death, murder, brutality, criminal ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
los angeles, america, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent the country from being repossessed by wealthy Native Americans.
Style:
psychotronic, political, slapstick, slapstick comedy
Plot:
bankruptcy, conspiracy, native american, political satire, sabotage, ventriloquist, voice over narration, satire, arab, adultery, martial arts, commando unit ...
Time:
future, year 1979, 90s, year 1998, near future
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Beginning with "The 400 Blows," director Francois Truffaut made a series of films about the impetuous Antoine Doinel, in which this is the last. Antoine is now 30, working as a proofreader and getting divorced from his his wife. It being ...
Style:
art house, semi serious, realistic, psychological, clever ...
Plot:
bookstore, love, female nudity, childhood memory, new love, book, nude girl, cemetery, infidelity, grownups, adultery, nudity ...
Time:
70s, year 1979, 20th century
Place:
france, montmartre paris, paris france, europe, south of france
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
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 locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter ...
Style:
bleak, psychological, cult classic, surreal, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
vietnam war, jungle, insanity, anti war, military, army, secret mission, violence, mission, soldier, violent, river ...
Time:
20th century, year 1979, 60s, year 1969
Place:
vietnam, cambodia, southeast asia, asia, the philippines ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Amos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and trying to make it on their own. This time, the crazy duo gets involved in an army supply theft case -- and, of course, gets in lots of comic trouble along ...
Style:
funny, humorous, slapstick, family comedy, lighthearted ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
humour, partner, friends, disorder, bank, heist, family life, gang, orphan, rivalry, heroes, goofy hero ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An evil caliph (Christopher Lee) offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to a prince if he can complete a perilous quest for a magical rose. Helped by a young boy and a magic carpet, Prince Hasan (Oliver Tobias), has to overcome genies, fire ...
Style:
feel good, exciting, captivating, light, psychotronic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
palace, imaginary kingdom, friends, wizards and magicians, supernatural, good versus evil, danger, daring rescue, heroes, escapades, genie, sword and sorcery ...
Time:
year 1979
Place:
arabia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, village life, missing person, danger, hostage, terrorism, rivalry, intrigue, race against time, rescue, mercenary, jungle adventure ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
africa
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey they must ...
Style:
political thriller, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, cold war, terrorist, railway, disaster, train, secret agent, natural disaster, law enforcement, cold war era, covert operation, intelligence ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place:
alps, central europe, moscow russia, milan italy, europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A focus on life in a gang, Boulevard Nights portrays the dangers of street violence. Richard Yniguez plays a young Chicano who tries to get out of the gang, but he keeps finding himself drawn back into it.
Style:
hood, crime drama, hispanic, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
gang, gang member, gangster, mexican gang, chicano, mafia, street gang, brother brother relationship, teenager, coming of age, street kid, thug ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
los angeles, south america, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his 3 friends, The comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one ...
Style:
touching, teen, witty, talky, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
underdog, working class, cycling, childhood, bicycle, coming of age, small town, friendship, bicycle race, teenage life, father son relationship, teenage boy ...
Time:
70s, year 1979, 20th century
Place:
indiana, usa, california, new jersey
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.
Style:
creepy, cult classic, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
body horror, mental illness, killer child, murder, creepy child, childhood trauma, child abuse, psychiatrist, transformation, strangulation, supernatural, mutant ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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 in several murders despite having no memory ...
Style:
surreal, dark comedy, semi serious, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
uxoricide, surrealism, murder, unemployment, resentment, investigation, dark humor, estrangement, police corruption, rebelliousness, dishonesty, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place:
france
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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 providing links between the individual ...
Style:
anthology, stylized, humorous, not serious, slapstick ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot:
looney tunes, bugs bunny, coyote, chase, anthropomorphic animal, porky pig, disorder, imaginary, uninhibited rivalry, prank, escapades, rivalry ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
beverly hills
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The more you love, the harder you fight.The world looks at Billy Flynn and sees a has-been who seemingly never was, an ex-boxing champion slammed to the mat years ago by booze and gambling. But Billy's son TJ sees what the world doesn't. ...
Style:
sentimental, sad, emotional, weeping, heartfelt ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
boxing, father son relationship, boy, boxer, gambling, coming of age, death, underdog, redemption, bittersweet, father, fight ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
florida, usa, ireland, miami
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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 are moving along, the memory of his first wife comes between them.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching
Plot:
actress, widower, friendship, friends, family problems, couples, family relations, death in the family, love affair, fall in love, starting over, couple relations ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A modern nightmare nearly becomes reality in this tension-filled story about an "incident" at a nuclear power plant. Jane Fonda stars as Kimberly Wells, an ambitious TV reporter covering a story on energy sources, who is present at the ...
Style:
suspense, tension, suspenseful, political, tense ...
Plot:
reporter, conspiracy, investigation, power plant, radiation, politics, journalism, nuclear power, whistleblower, disaster, murder, corruption ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, southern california, pennsylvania
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychotronic ...
Plot:
disaster, fire, firefighter, revenge, arson, natural disaster, trapped, rescue, fire brigade, city, explosions, firefighting ...
Time:
year 1979
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, psychological, existential, political ...
Plot:
loneliness, loss, mourning, grief, bereavement, suicide, middle aged, compassion, relationships, support, tragedy, desperation ...
Time:
70s, year 1979
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Destn (Tom Sullivan) is the leader of a rock band on the brink of super-stardom. Until now they have juggled their music career with cocaine smuggling. The musicians, and their manager Raf (Jack Palance), wish to sever ties with organized-crime, ...
Style:
crime drama, suspense, tension, tense, period piece ...
Plot:
drug, cocaine, rock band, organized crime, smuggling, danger, heist gone wrong, criminal underworld, musician, music industry, black market, coercion ...
Time:
70s, year 1979
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Genre: Adventure, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
Style:
black comedy, political, cynical, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mercenary, cuban revolution, revolutionary, englishman abroad, husband wife relationship, adulterous husband, swimming pool, satire, revolution, infidelity, politics, adultery ...
Time:
1950s, year 1959, year 1979, 20th century, 50s ...
Place:
cuba, caribbean, havana cuba, latin america
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
From Hell To Victory follows the relationship of six friends throughout the Second World War. They meet in a cafe in Paris on 24th August 1939 and agree to meet there on the same day every year. The war however takes them on their own individual ...
Style:
period piece, tense, realistic, political, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, nazi, world war, occupation, commando, friendship, liberation, military, resistance, combat, survival ...
Time:
1940s, year 1979, 1930s
Place:
paris france, amsterdam, france
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A man hires hires five hookers to fulfill a final fantasy before killing himself and his family.
Style:
depressing, philosophical, cynical, independent film, f word
Plot:
suicide, prostitute, bipolar disorder, magazine editor, midlife crisis, adultery, child murder, two brothers, brother sister relationship, ends with death, adulterer, brothel ...
Time:
year 1979
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in New Mexico.
Style:
natural horror, psychotronic, suspense, scary, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
killer animal, creature feature, animal attack, bat, plague, vampire, killer bat, native, cave, desert, poison gas, witch doctor ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new mexico
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
minister, gang, neighbor, church, car chase, police officer, partner, friends, religions or cults, odd couple, amateur detective, chase ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
Style:
realistic, clever, funny, spiritual, tense ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
american football, football, football team, naked man, sexist, drug abuse, addiction, business, corruption, american football player, drug, nfl ...
Time:
70s, year 1979, 20th century, 80s
Place:
texas, dallas texas, california, new jersey
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Genre: Action, Comedy, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from the numbing boredom of camp life and long range patrols, raids and ambushes where nothing happens, to the the terror of ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, independent film
Plot:
vietnam war, military, soldier, male pubic hair, bare chested male, male nudity, brothel, jungle warfare, cold war, wartime, war trauma, cold war era ...
Time:
year 1979, year 1967, 60s, year 1968, 20th century
Place:
australia, vietnam, asia, indochina
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Greg Powell, a disturbed ex-con, recruits Jimmy Youngblood (Smith) a petty thief, as partner in crime. Powell panics when they two of are pulled over by two cops for tail lights. Powell decides to kidnap the cops and Smith goes along with his crazy ...
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, closeted homosexual, murder, true crime, police investigation, legal, death sentence, trial, moral ambiguity, manipulation, morality, brutality ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1979, 60s, year 1963
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, las vegas
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Midler is the rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster (known as the Rose to her legions of fans), whose romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperiled by the demands of life on the road.
Style:
retro, serious, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
addiction, rock band, rock and roll, musician, singer, female singer, love, women, stalker, blues, rock, drug abuse ...
Time:
year 1979, 60s, 20th century, year 1969, 70s
Place:
usa, new jersey, new york
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