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Movies: Popular Movies of 1979

Movies in chronological context: 1979 (MCMLXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1979th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 979th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1970s decade. ()

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Alien(1979)

R
| 1h 57min | Horror, Science Fiction
4.1/5 (with 6,482 votes)

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

Directed by Ridley Scott - With Yaphet Kotto, Veronica Cartwright, Tom Skerritt, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Helen Horton, ...
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Apocalypse Now(1979)

2h 27min | Drama, War
4.1/5 (with 3,606 votes)

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 Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola - With Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Dennis Hopper, Francis Ford Coppola, ...
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Mad Max(1979)

R
| 1h 31min | Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 1,909 votes)

In the ravaged near future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them. But they underestimate one officer: Max Rockatansky. And when the bikers brutalize Max's best friend and family, they send him into a mad frenzy that leaves him with only one thing left in the world to live for – revenge!

Directed by George Miller - With Mel Gibson, Steve Bisley, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Roger Ward, Vincent Gil, ...
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Rocky II(1979)

PG
| 1h 59min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 1,881 votes)

After Rocky goes the distance with champ Apollo Creed, both try to put the fight behind them and move on. Rocky settles down with Adrian but can't put his life together outside the ring, while Creed seeks a rematch to restore his reputation. Soon enough, the "Master of Disaster" and the "Italian Stallion" are set on a collision course for a climactic battle that is brutal and unforgettable.

Directed by Sylvester Stallone - With Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith, Tony Burton, Sylvester Stallone, ...
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Life of Brian(1979)

R
| 1h 34min | Comedy
3.9/5 (with 1,878 votes)

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 pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.

Directed by Terry Jones - With Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, ...
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Escape from Alcatraz(1979)

PG
| 1h 53min | Drama, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 1,203 votes)

San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.

Directed by Don Siegel - With Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward, Larry Hankin, Jack Thibeau, Roberts Blossom, ...
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Manhattan(1979)

R
| 1h 36min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 1,029 votes)

Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

Directed by Woody Allen - With Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep, Woody Allen, Michael O'Donoghue, ...
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Kramer vs. Kramer(1979)

PG
| 1h 45min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 963 votes)

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.

Directed by Robert Benton - With Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander, Howard Duff, George Coe, ...
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The Warriors(1979)

R
| 1h 33min | Action, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 939 votes)

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.

Directed by Walter Hill - With Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright, David Patrick Kelly, Marcelino Sánchez, Paul Greco, ...
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Moonraker(1979)

PG
| 2h 6min | Action, Adventure, Thriller, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 898 votes)

After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space.

Directed by Lewis Gilbert - With Roger Moore, Michael Lonsdale, Lois Chiles, Richard Kiel, Bernard Lee, Corinne Cléry, ...
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Stalker(1979)

NR
| 2h 42min | Science Fiction, Drama
4.1/5 (with 874 votes)

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - With Anatoly Solonitsyn, Alisa Freindlich, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Nikolai Grinko, Vladimir Zamanskiy
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture(1979)

G
| 2h 12min | Science Fiction, Adventure, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 729 votes)

When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, and hopefully stop it.

Directed by Robert Wise - With DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Persis Khambatta, Stephen Collins, ...
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French Fried Vacation 2: The Bronzés go Skiing(1979)

1h 30min | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 529 votes)

In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane.

Directed by Patrice Leconte - With Michel Blanc, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gérard Jugnot, Josiane Balasko, Thierry Lhermitte, ...

Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro(1979)

PG
| 1h 42min | Kids & Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
3.8/5 (with 427 votes)

After a successful robbery leaves famed thief Lupin the Third and his partner Jigen with nothing but a large amount of expertly crafted counterfeit bills, he decides to track down the forgers responsible—and steal any other treasures he may find in the Castle of Cagliostro, including the 'damsel in distress' he finds imprisoned there.

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
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Being There(1979)

PG
| 2h 10min | Comedy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 401 votes)

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

Directed by Hal Ashby - With Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Basehart, Richard Dysart, ...
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The Amityville Horror(1979)

R
| 1h 57min | Horror
3.2/5 (with 377 votes)

George Lutz and his wife Kathleen move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is brought in to try and exorcise the demonic presence from their home.

Directed by Stuart Rosenberg - With James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud, Murray Hamilton, K. C. Martel, ...
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The Jerk(1979)

R
| 1h 34min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 350 votes)

After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson runs off on a hilarious misadventure in this comedy classic that takes him from rags to riches and back to rags again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.

Directed by Carl Reiner - With Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, M. Emmet Walsh, Jackie Mason, Dick O'Neill, Mabel King, ...
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Nosferatu the Vampyre(1979)

PG
| 1h 47min | Drama, Horror
3.7/5 (with 336 votes)

Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent, goes to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. Once Jonathan is caught under his evil spell, Dracula travels to Wismar where he meets the beautiful Lucy, Jonathan's wife, while a plague spreads through the town, now ruled by death.

Directed by Werner Herzog - With Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor, Jacques Dufilho, Walter Ladengast, ...
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Caligula(1979)

R
| 2h 36min | Drama, History, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 326 votes)

The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome's mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his fiendishly inventive means of disposing those who would oppose him, and more.

Directed by Tinto Brass, Bob Guccione - With Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, Teresa Ann Savoy, Giancarlo Badessi, ...

The Brood(1979)

R
| 1h 32min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 285 votes)

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.

Directed by David Cronenberg - With Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Susan Hogan, Felix Silla, Henry Beckman, ...
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Hair(1979)

PG
| 2h 1min | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance / Love, War
3.6/5 (with 281 votes)

Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.

Directed by Miloš Forman - With John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo, Annie Golden, Dorsey Wright, Donnie Dacus, ...
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Phantasm(1979)

R
| 1h 29min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 274 votes)

A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him.

Directed by Don Coscarelli - With A. Michael Baldwin, Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm, Bill Thornbury, Don Coscarelli
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The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space(1979)

1h 36min | Comedy, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 267 votes)

The bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that they sound like empty garbage cans when you touch them. Chaos is ahead.

Directed by Jean Girault - With Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch, France Rumilly, Guy Grosso, Michel Modo, ...

1941(1979)

PG
| 1h 58min | Action, Comedy, War
2.9/5 (with 265 votes)

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

Directed by Steven Spielberg - With Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, Lorraine Gary, Christopher Lee, Tim Matheson, ...
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The Muppet Movie(1979)

G
| 1h 37min | Comedy, Adventure, Music, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 247 votes)

A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there he meets his future muppet crew while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!

Directed by James Frawley - With Charles Durning, Austin Pendleton, Milton Berle, Mel Brooks, James Coburn, Dom DeLuise, ...
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Zombie Flesh Eaters(1979)

R
| 1h 31min | Horror
3.3/5 (with 244 votes)

On the Caribbean island of Matul, white doctor David Menard is trying to stem the tide of cannibal zombies that are returning from the dead. Arriving on the island are Anne and reporter Peter West who are looking for Anne's missing father. The pair soon find themselves under attack from the zombies.

Directed by Lucio Fulci - With Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson, Al Cliver, Auretta Gay, Stefania D'Amario, ...
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I'm for the Hippopotamus(1979)

1h 35min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 205 votes)

In Africa, Slim and Tom don't like it when a German tyrant starts selling all of the African wildlife to Canadian zoos. Slim and Tom must teach this guy a lesson by beating the hell out of him and his gang.

Directed by Italo Zingarelli - With Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Joe Bugner, Malcolm Kirk

...And Justice for All(1979)

R
| 1h 59min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 202 votes)

An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat of being disbarred.

Directed by Norman Jewison - With Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe, Lee Strasberg, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Lahti, ...
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The Black Hole(1979)

PG
| 1h 38min | Adventure, Kids & Family, Science Fiction, Action
2.9/5 (with 196 votes)

The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-terrestrial life when the crew comes upon a supposedly lost ship, the USS Cygnus, hovering near a black hole. The ship is controlled by Dr. Hans Reinhardt and his monstrous robot companion, but the initial wonderment and awe the Palomino crew feel for the ship and its resistance to the power of the black hole turn to horror as they uncover Reinhardt's plans.

Directed by Gary Nelson - With Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux, Ernest Borgnine, ...
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All That Jazz(1979)

R
| 2h 3min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 190 votes)

Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.

Directed by Bob Fosse - With Jessica Lange, Roy Scheider, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer, Max Wright, John Lithgow, ...
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