1979 Movies

An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his busines...

Slice-of-life look at class divisions among employees of a brokerage house. Alan, with his portrait of the Queen and love of the peerage; his wife Apr...

The demoness Sylvie Bréal offers voyeurs a breast to die for. Notable for being the first French feature shot on video.

A cinema encyclopedia. Yet another history of film.

Bored with the idea doing a documentary about school life for the upcoming cultural festival three students in the film club decide to make their own...

Bananas, eggs, and tuna: three basic foodstuffs with three wildly different points of origin. Moullet begins with these on his plate but constructs hi...

John Dexter’s brilliant production, James Levine’s masterful conducting of the eclectic score, and a sensational cast come together to make this Kurt...

Renata Scotto is the innocent Luisa, very much in love with Rodolfo (Plácido Domingo in one of his best roles). But he turns out to be the son of the...

Documentary film contrasting the experiences of two high-school seniors, basketball players from remarkably different backgrounds. Brian Walker is ta...

Sesame Street celebrated its 10th anniversary in the spring of 1979 with a half-hour PBS special hosted by James Earl Jones titled A Walking Tour of S...

The Seibu Lions baseball team makes it to the next round of a baseball tournament thanks to the heroic efforts of its star player, Tabuchi, but the ne...

An adaptation of the Icelandic ghost story of "The Deacon of Dark River", set in 1970s France.

The film is an adaptation of Nakano Yu's play "Sexual Beauty Techniques," serialized as a manga.

Tom Robinson is a curious fellow. From suffering a nervous breakdown as a young man he became an articulate banner waving rock star. After becoming a...

1. Intro 2. From The Inside 3. Serious 4. Nurse Rosetta 5. The Quiet Room 6. I Never Cry 7. Devil's Food 8. Welcome To My Nightmare 9. Billion Dollar...

Mathematician Mauno Mutikainen is accidentally pronounced dead as a result of an operation where a splinter is being removed from his finger. He is th...

Triad member Michael Chan Wai-man decides to leave his gang and go straight. But this decision doesn't sit well with his gang leader, who sees Chan's...

A corpulent two meters tall man goes to Turin for a fair. There, by chance, he finds the daughter of two people he knows "walking the streets". With v...