Best Movies of 1979 – page 3
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, a gripping battle to overcome impossible obstacles and the struggle to communicate. As a young girl, Helen Keller is stricken with scarlet fever. The illness leaves her blind, mute, and deaf. Sealed ...
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
teacher, deaf, school teacher, blind girl, deafness, teacher student relationship, high school teacher, mentor protege relationship, sign language, education, deaf mute, deaf girl ...
Time:
70s, 19th century
Place:
boston
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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".
Style:
mockumentary, satirical, funny, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, society, fictional reality show, family relations, dark humor, lifestyle, family life, nothing goes right, disorder, satire, husband wife relationship, showbiz ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place:
arizona, phoenix arizona, usa, hawaii, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, DC.
Style:
independent film, cult classic, realistic, talky, political ...
Plot:
friendship, vietnam war, male nudity, college, skinny dipping, naked man, drinking, drug, marriage, teacher, hitchhiking, marijuana ...
Time:
year 1979, 20th century, 70s, 80s, 60s
Place:
new hampshire, washington d.c., usa, boston, california
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Disarmingly realistic in its depiction of the realities of frontier life, Heartland is a strong antidote to the cliches of traditional Westerns. This semi-documentary slice of life is based on the diaries of Elmore Randall Stewart about her days on ...
Style:
historically accurate, independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
farm, homestead, rural setting, widow, ranch, cattle, scenery, nature, strong female presence, society, single parent, love and romance ...
Time:
1910s, year 1979, 20th century
Place:
wyoming, usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Their car breaks down and four friends find themselves stranded at The Lost Oasis, a strange museum run by the friendly Mr. Slausen. Even though they are warned not to, the teens explore a house nearby and learn that it belongs to Davey, Mr. ...
Style:
slasher, scary, cult horror, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mannequin, serial killer, psychopath, insanity, murder, psychic, fear, group of friends, masked man, chase, old dark house, blood ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Rain Murphy is a man sentenced to life in prison, choosing to do his time in near-isolation, and engages in distance running when given the opportunity for free-time. While his form and speed capture the attention of prison officials who believe he ...
Style:
inspirational, realistic, serious, uplifting, sincere ...
Plot:
prison, runner, prison life, running, prisoner, bare chested male, jail, olympics, racing, motor racing, revenge, fistfight ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In this fascinating adventure of the England of the 1750s, the huge Frenchman Black Jack (Jean Franval) miraculously survives a hanging by the British authorities in Yorkshire and escapes from the grim jaws of "justice." He takes to the ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
boy strangling, coming of age, little boy, youth, boy, blackmail, apprentice, child protagonist, carnival, stagecoach, madness, inn ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
yorkshire, northern england
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Genre: Family, Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
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 songs.
Style:
christmas special, sentimental, christmas comedy, light hearted, uplifting
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, muppets, puppetry, kids and family, christmas spirit, heartwarming, holiday, family tradition, singing, singer, sing along, celebrity guests ...
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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
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Netherlands, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership. Cy Endfield co-wrote the epic prequel Zulu Dawn 15 years after his enormously popular Zulu. Set in 1879, this film depicts the catastrophic Battle of ...
Style:
action adventure, historical drama, cult classic, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
imperialism, battles, british empire, zulu, medieval, colonialism, revolution, hand to hand combat, massacre, war hero, last stand, british army ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 1979, turn of the century, 1870s
Place:
africa, south africa
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA, West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, historical drama ...
Plot:
world war two, soldier, wartime life, forbidden love, premarital sex, american abroad, prejudice, racism, infidelity, couple relations, love affair, world war ...
Time:
1940s, year 1979, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
england, yorkshire, northern england, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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 deals, as well as further straining his already part-time family life. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, clever, suspenseful, political ...
Plot:
politics, political corruption, infidelity, betrayal, state affairs, dishonesty, relationship vs career, moral dilemma, couple relations, workplace, legal, workplace situations ...
Time:
70s, year 1979
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This effects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel. Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ...
Style:
realistic, touching, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
support group, starting over, dating, love affair, love triangle, infidelity, couple relations, hopes, thanksgiving, love, friendship, holiday ...
Time:
20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place:
boston, usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
19 years after President Timothy Keegan was assassinated, his brother Nick discovers a dying man claiming to have been the gunman. While trying to avoid his wealthy and domineering father's attempts to control his actions, Nick follows the ...
Style:
dark comedy, anamorphic, neo noir, surreal, political ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, assassination of president, assassination, winter, sex scene, bare breasts, female nudity, assassin, chess, cop, basement, paranoid ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century, year 1959, 60s ...
Place:
philadelphia, new york, havana cuba, cleveland ohio, malaysia ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, period piece, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
world war two, war, secret mission, aviation, secret agent, couples, fall in love, love triangle, infidelity, love and romance, dishonesty, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, year 1979, 1940s
Place:
london, europe, france, england
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Hillary Kramer, successful Perfume magnate awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write off. She decides to take ...
Style:
romantic comedy, semi serious, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
boxing, forbidden love, fish out of water, underdog, screwball, love, teenager, disco, martial arts, opposites attract, financial ruin, driving instructor ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 1930s
Place:
latin america, new jersey
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Allison, the unfaithful wife of a famous mentalist with a heart problem, together with her lover tries to kill him by scaring him to death, but the whole thing goes downhill when it turns out that he knew about it all along.
Style:
thrilling, psychological, crime thriller
Plot:
open ending, battle of wits, mind reading, accomplice, assassination plot, assassination attempt, movie actress, videotaping, psychic, quitting smoking, betrayal, struggling actor ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Shakespeare's classic tragedy of ambition, witches and murder.
Style:
dark, art house, period drama
Plot:
shakespeare, medieval, macbeth, ambition, tragedy, power struggle, witch, guilt, madness, prophecy, regicide, supernatural ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Running low on fuel, the Battlestar Galactica receives the help of the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus which is taking the offensive with the Cylons.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, action packed, cult classic, teen ...
Plot:
battlestar galactica, space opera, spacecraft, space battle, robot, cyborgs, survival, sabotage, deep space, sacrifice, heroism, military ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed them that their son Michael had been killed in Vietnam by "friendly fire." Their determined attempts to learn more about the circumstances of ...
Style:
emotional, bleak, melancholic, intense, tragic
Plot:
vietnam war, friendly fire, family drama, grief, loss, cover up, parents, empathy, investigation, bereavement, corruption, justice ...
Time:
70s, year 1970
Place:
iowa, vietnam
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.
Style:
spiritual, philosophical, surreal, inspirational, esoteric ...
Plot:
biopic, spirit, camel, spirituality, holy man, buddhism, occult, myth, anthropology, dancing, transcendence, art ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Place:
tibet, asia, himalaya, afghanistan, armenia ...
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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
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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: Action, Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a greek island are trying to escape. They don't want only their freedom, but they also seek for an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the top of the island's mountain.
Style:
exciting, suspense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, escape, chase, soldier, archaeologist, daring rescue, danger, survival, relic, military, world war, archeological dig ...
Time:
1940s, year 1979, year 1944
Place:
greece, europe, athens greece, balkan
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A couple whose son had been diagnosed as mentally retarded, and was institutionalized, are shocked to discover that the diagnosis was wrong, and that their son is in fact deaf.
Style:
thought provoking, independent film, serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
sign language, deaf, coming of age, deafness, hearing, youth, family relations, spouse leaving, family problems, disability, hopes, mute or deaf ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
ohio, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Handsome Stranger has agreed to escort Charming Jones to collect her inheritance from her father. But Avery Jones wants the money, and hires notorious outlaw Cactus Jack to ambush Charming. However, Cactus Jack is not very good at robbing people.
Style:
funny, humorous, light, feel good, spoof ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
chase, disorder, escapades, nothing goes right, goofy hero, wild west, robbery, partner, friends, kidnapping, rescue, heroes ...
Time:
20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place:
tokyo
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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
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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: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 48 min.
Story:
In this delightful animated tale, Pardon-me Pete (Buddy Hackett), the official groundhog of Groundhog Day, tells the story of Jack Frost, who falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begs Father Winter to make him human so that she can see ...
Style:
christmas special, christmas classics, claymation, semi serious, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
holiday, christmas, stop motion, winter, xmas, christmas season, groundhog day, ventriloquist dummy, christmas wish, christmas spirit, name calling, fall in love ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Thirteen-year-old Jessie is in love with Michael, a 17-year-old guitar instructor and aspiring musician. When she finally captures his interest, she lies and tells him she's 16. But what will Michael do when he discovers the truth?
Style:
grindhouse, cute, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
young love, age difference, high school romance, switching roles, self discovery, artists and showbiz, youth, musician's life, innocence lost, love and romance, teenage life, rock ...
Time:
70s
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