1979 Movies

Shelly, a young American girl, is attracted to two men for their idealism. One is a missionary, out to change the world through the power of God's wor...

A Quechua and Christian peasant festival in the town of Ocongate, featuring purification in the snows of Mount Ausangate and before a crucifix. The fi...

A 1979 Filipino action comedy film starring Rey Malonzo.

Depicts assorted natural and human disasters, including the crash of the Hindenburg (1937),earthquakes in Alaska (1964) and Long Beach (1933),the Le...

A romance unexpectedly blossoms between a delinquent student boy, who should be graduated from school years ago, while playfully rebelling against his...

Based on a novel by Ismail Kadare. A group of partisans is tasked with reestablishing Radio Tirana.

Konkombe is an extraordinary journey into the musical kaleidoscope of juju, Afrobeat, highlife, Afro-pop, and Lagos street music that makes up the Nig...

Music video for an Elvis Costello song. A series of everyday mishaps—from a burnt piece of toast to a nuclear disaster—unfolds in a chain of animated...

Documentary on the 1976 Tiananmen incident produced by the official China Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio.

For the 'Are'are people of the Solomon Islands, the most valued music is that of the four types of panpipe ensembles. With the exception of slit drums...

This film, based on the play of the same name, portrays the harsh lives of early Saskatchewan settlers and the foundation of the co-op movement on the...

Strange Fruit is a 1979 short film directed by Seth Pinsker. It follows a black painter in 1948 Georgia who faces racism after becoming involved with...

The Legend of Lasseter is a 1979 Australian documentary about Lasseter's Reef. Lasseter's Reef refers to the purported discovery, announced by Harold...

A masterful kung fu student must face all challengers to his honor and his school. He must battle Western boxers in the ring and Thai boxers in the st...

Claymation Animation Workshop Student Film of an absurd chorus of dancing fruits, ending with one banana "splitting" from the scene.