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Movies produced in year 1979

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007 Moonraker (1979, UK, France) from $1.99
Moonraker Is Out Of This World (3 more taglines...)
 
007 Moonraker (1979)
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Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller |
Actors: Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel, Corinne Clery, Bernard Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois Maxwell, Toshirô Suga, Emily Bolton, Blanche Ravalec, Irka Bochenko, Mike Marshall, Leila Shenna,
Directors: Lewis Gilbert, 

Plot Summary:
A Boeing 747 carrying a US space shuttle on loan to the UK crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. When the British examine the wreckage they can find no trace of the spacecraft and send agent James Bond to the shuttle's manufacturers, Drax Industries, to investigate.


1941 (1979, USA) from $1.99
A Comedy Spectacular!
 
1941 (1979)
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Genres: Comedy | War |
Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, Treat Williams, Nancy Allen, Robert Stack, Toshiro Mifune, Christopher Lee, Warren Oates, John Candy, Samuel Fuller,
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Plot Summary:
Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl harbour as an assorted group of defenders attempt to make the coast defensible against an imagined Japanese invasion in this big budget, big cast comedy. Members of a Japanese submarine crew scout out the madness.


Alien (1979, UK) from $1.99
Just one can kill seven. (5 more taglines...)
 
Alien (1979)
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Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller |
Actors: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Bolaji Badejo, Helen Horton,
Directors: Ridley Scott, 

Plot Summary:
While returning from a deep-space mission, the crew of the commercial spaceship Nostromo is awakened by a supposed SOS call from a system they are passing through. Descending to the planet's surface, they discover a strange derelict spaceship - the apparent source of the transmission - and one of the crew descends into the hold. What he finds are thousands of strange alien eggs. While examining one of the eggs, it hatches and the parasite inside attacks him. After returning to the Nostromo the crew takes off again to head for Earth. The alien parasite subsequently dies and all seems well again. But what no one knows is that another alien is quietly forming within its host - and when it emerges, the crew finds itself in serious trouble...


Amityville Horror, The (1979, USA) from $1.99
"For God's Sake, Get Out!" (1 more taglines...)
 
Amityville Horror, The (1979)
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Genres: Drama | History | Horror | Mystery | Thriller |
Actors: James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud, Murray Hamilton, John Larch, Natasha Ryan, K.C. Martel, Meeno Peluce, Michael Sacks, Helen Shaver, Amy Wright, Val Avery, Irene Dailey, Marc Vahanian,
Directors: Stuart Rosenberg, 

Plot Summary:
George and Kathy Lutz, a newly married couple with three children, movie into their beautiful new house in Amityville, New York, only to discover the house already has demonic inhabitants.


Apocalypse Now (1979, USA) from $1.99
The Horror. . . The Horror. . .
 
Apocalypse Now (1979)
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Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War |
Actors: Robert Duvall, Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, Albert Hall, Harrison Ford, G.D. Spradlin, Jerry Ziesmer, Scott Glenn, Bo Byers, James Keane, Kerry Rossall,
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola, 

Plot Summary:
Based on Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, this is a controversial addition to the multitude of Vietnam war movies in existence. Set in 1969 Vietnam, we follow U.S. Special Forces Captain Willard on his mission up a river into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.


Arabian Adventure (1979, UK) from $1.99
 
Arabian Adventure (1979)
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Genres: Adventure | Fantasy |
Actors: Christopher Lee, Milo O'Shea, Oliver Tobias, Emma Samms, Puneet Sira, Peter Cushing, Capucine, Mickey Rooney, John Wyman, John Ratzenberger, Shane Rimmer, Hal Galili, Elisabeth Welch, Suzanne Danielle, Art Malik,
Directors: Kevin Connor, 

Plot Summary:
An evil magician seeks to gain power by obtaining a magic rose. A peasant boy and a prince join forces to stop him.


Being There (1979, USA) from $1.99
Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it! (2 more taglines...)
 
Being There (1979)
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Genres: Comedy | Drama |
Actors: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart, Ruth Attaway, David Clennon, Fran Brill, Denise DuBarry, Oteil Burbridge, Ravenell Keller III, Brian Corrigan, Alfredine P. Brown, Donald Jacob,
Directors: Hal Ashby, 

Plot Summary:
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. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.


Bloodline (1979, USA, West Germany) from $1.99
The line between love and death is the bloodline. (1 more taglines...)
 
Bloodline (1979)
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Genres: Crime | Mystery | Thriller |
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Claudia Mori, Irene Papas, Michelle Phillips, Maurice Ronet, Romy Schneider, Omar Sharif, Beatrice Straight, Gert Fröbe, Wolfgang Preiss, Marcel Bozzuffi, Pinkas Braun, Wulf Kessler,
Directors: Terence Young, 

Plot Summary:
Sam Roffe, president of a multi-national pharmaceutical corporation, is killed while mountain-climbing. It is first determined to be an accident, but Inspector Max Hormung later deduces that Roffe was murdered. Sam's daughter Elizabeth assumes control of the company, and while traveling through Europe she immediately becomes a target as well. Suspicion falls on the Roffe cousins, all of whom want to go public with the company and sell their stock at a huge profit. Since this would be against her father's wishes, Elizabeth rejects their advice and decides to keep the company within the family. As Inspector Hormung investigates the background of the cousins, more attempts are made on Elizabeth's life. Hoping to reveal the guilty party, Hormung is able to connect these attempts to a series of murders on prostitutes, which are recorded on snuff films.


Caligula (1979, Italy, USA) from $1.99
What would you have done if you had been given absolute power of life and death over everybody el... (1 more taglines...)
 
Caligula (1979)
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Genres: Drama | History |
Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole, John Steiner, Guido Mannari, Paolo Bonacelli, Leopoldo Trieste, Giancarlo Badessi, Mirella D'Angelo, Anneka Di Lorenzo, Lori Wagner, Adriana Asti, John Gielgud, Bruno Brive,
Directors: Tinto Brass,  Bob Guccione, 

Plot Summary:
The rise and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the violent methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the subsequent insanity of his reign - he gives his horse political office and humiliates and executes anyone who even slightly displeases him. He also sleeps with his sister, organises elaborate orgies and embarks on a fruitless invasion of England before meeting an appropriate end. There are various versions of the film, ranging from the heavily- truncated 90-minute version to the legendary 160-minute hardcore version which leaves nothing to the imagination (though the hardcore scenes were inserted later and do not involve the main cast members).


Dracula (1979, USA, UK) from $1.99
Throughout history he has filled the hearts of men with terror, and the hearts of women with desire. (1 more taglines...)
 
Dracula (1979)
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Genres: Horror | Romance |
Actors: Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Kate Nelligan, Trevor Eve, Jan Francis, Janine Duvitski, Tony Haygarth, Teddy Turner, Sylvester McCoy, Kristine Howarth, Joe Belcher, Ted Carroll, Frank Birch, Gabor Vernon,
Directors: John Badham, 

Plot Summary:
When a schooner is wrecked off Whitby the only survivor is Count Dracula who has arrived with large amounts of Transylvanian soil to take up residence in Carfax Abbey. He takes the life or Lucy, who is engaged to Dr. Seward, who runs the local asylum. Lucy's friend Mina, and her fiancé Jonathan Harker, a solicitor, also make contact with Dracula. But almost immediately, Lucy dies from loss of blood, and just possibly this may not be a coincidence. The group calls on the aid of Prefessor Van Helsing, noted supernatural expert, and together they pursue the vampire.


Escape from Alcatraz (1979, USA) from $1.99
No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz... And no one ever will!
 
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
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Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller |
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau, Fred Ward, Paul Benjamin, Larry Hankin, Bruce M. Fischer, Frank Ronzio, Fred Stuthman, David Cryer, Madison Arnold, Blair Burrows, Bob Balhatchet, Matthew Locricchio,
Directors: Don Siegel, 

Plot Summary:
The true story of Frank Morris, a convict who was sent to Alcatraz, the most feared prison in the world. Although nobody had ever escaped from Alcatraz, Frank did it.


Going in Style (1979, USA) from $1.99
Meet three guys with an outrageous plan to beat the system ... (2 more taglines...)
 
Going in Style (1979)
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Genres: Comedy | Drama |
Actors: George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg, Charles Hallahan, Pamela Payton-Wright, Siobhan Keegan, Brian Neville, Constantine Hartofolis, Mary Testa, Jean Shevlin, James Manis, Tito Goya, William Pabst, Christopher Wynkoop, John McComb,
Directors: Martin Brest, 

Plot Summary:
Joe, Al, and Willie are three old men who have resigned themselves to dying. One night, Joe hatches a scheme to put a bit of excitement back into their lives: robbing a bank....


Hair (1979, USA, West Germany) from $1.99
Let the sun shine in! [USA theatrical] (4 more taglines...)
 
Hair (1979)
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Genres: Comedy | Drama | Musical |
Actors: John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo, Annie Golden, Dorsey Wright, Don Dacus, Cheryl Barnes, Richard Bright, Ray Nicholas, Charlotte Rae, Miles Chapin, Fern Tailer, Charles Denny, Herman Meckler, Agness Breen,
Directors: Milos Forman, 

Plot Summary:
This movie, based on the cult Broadway musical of the 60s, tells a story about Claude, a young man from Oklahoma who comes to New York City. There he strikes up a friendship with a group of hippies, led by Berger, and falls in love with Sheila, a girl from a rich family. However, their happiness is short because Claude must go to the Vietnam war.


Kramer vs. Kramer (1979, USA) from $1.99
 
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
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Genres: Drama |
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, Justin Henry, Howard Duff, George Coe, JoBeth Williams, Bill Moor, Howland Chamberlain, Jack Ramage, Jess Osuna, Nicholas Hormann, Ellen Parker, Shelby Brammer, Carol Nadell,
Directors: Robert Benton, 

Plot Summary:
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. When he has learned to adjust his life to these new responsibilities, Joanna resurfaces and wants Billy back. Ted however refuses to give him up, so they go to court to fight for the custody of their son.


Life of Brian (1979, UK) from $1.99
A motion picture destined to offend nearly two thirds of the civilized world. And severely annoy ... (5 more taglines...)
 
Life of Brian (1979)
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Genres: Comedy |
Actors: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Terence Bayler, Carol Cleveland, Kenneth Colley, Neil Innes, Charles McKeown, John Young, Gwen Taylor, Sue Jones-Davies, Peter Brett,
Directors: Terry Jones, 

Plot Summary:
The Monty Pyton team tells the life, death and resurrection (?) of Brian from Nazareth, an unwilling prophet who wants to free his land from the oppression of Rome. When Brian covers a huge wall with the writing "ROMANI ITE DOMUM" (Romans go home), a local revolutionary group begins to take him seriously...


Mad Max (1979, Australia) from $1.99
The Maximum Force of the Future. (3 more taglines...)
 
Mad Max (1979)
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Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller |
Actors: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, Roger Ward, Lisa Aldenhoven, David Bracks, Bertrand Cadart, David Cameron, Robina Chaffey, Stephen Clark, Mathew Constantine, Jerry Day, Reg Evans,
Directors: George Miller, 

Plot Summary:
It is a couple of years in the future... The highways of Australia are ruled by violent gangs who have turned the highways into a battleground as they loot gasoline and terrorize the innocent. Max Rockatansky is a policeman who had everything... Until, a murderous motorcycle gang led by the evil Toecutter burns his partner Jim Goose to death and murders his wife and son, after Max killed their leader "The Knight Rider". Loosing his rocker, Max decides to take the law into his own hands as he sets out to get his revenge on the motorcycle gang and become the road warrior known as "Mad Max".


Murder by Decree (1979, UK, Canada) from $1.99
Sherlock Holmes unveils the secrecy of Jack the Ripper - clue by clue - murder by murder. (3 more taglines...)
 
Murder by Decree (1979)
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Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller |
Actors: Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings, Susan Clark, Anthony Quayle, John Gielgud, Frank Finlay, Donald Sutherland, Geneviève Bujold, Chris Wiggins, Tedde Moore, Peter Jonfield, Roy Lansford, Catherine Kessler, Ron Pember,
Directors: Bob Clark, 

Plot Summary:
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have its roots in a Royal indiscretion and that a cover-up is being managed by politicians at the highest level, all of whom happen to be Masons. Homes races to save the life of Annie Crook who has been forcibly incarcerated in an insane asylum and that of her friend Mary Kelly, in whom she has entrusted her secret.


My Brilliant Career (1979, Australia) from $1.99
Sometimes it is the things that bind us, that truly set us free. (1 more taglines...)
 
My Brilliant Career (1979)
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Genres: Biography | Drama | Romance |
Actors: Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes, Robert Grubb, Max Cullen, Aileen Britton, Peter Whitford, Patricia Kennedy, Alan Hopgood, Julia Blake, David Franklin, Marion Shad, Aaron Wood, Sue Davies, Gordon Piper,
Directors: Gillian Armstrong, 

Plot Summary:
The heroine, Sybylla (Davis), a headstrong girl growing up in early 20th century Australia, has the opportunity of marriage to a wealthy young man (Harry played by Niel) whom she loves, but rejects it in order to maintain her independence, preferring to take a job as governess/housekeeper to the family of an illiterate neighbor to whom her father owes money.


North Dallas Forty (1979, USA) from $1.99
"Wait till you see the weird part." [USA Theatrical] (1 more taglines...)
 
North Dallas Forty (1979)
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Genres: Comedy | Drama | Sport |
Actors: Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Charles Durning, Dayle Haddon, Bo Svenson, John Matuszak, Steve Forrest, G.D. Spradlin, Dabney Coleman, Savannah Smith Boucher, Marshall Colt, Guich Koock, Deborah Benson, Jim Boeke, John Bottoms,
Directors: Ted Kotcheff, 

Plot Summary:
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.


Phantasm (1979, USA) from $1.99
If this one doesn't scare you, you're already dead! (2 more taglines...)
 
Phantasm (1979)
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Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi |
Actors: A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister, Kathy Lester, Terrie Kalbus, Kenneth V. Jones, Susan Harper, Lynn Eastman, David Arntzen, Ralph Richmond, Bill Cone, Laura Mann, Mary Ellen Shaw, Myrtle Scotton, Angus Scrimm,
Directors: Don Coscarelli, 

Plot Summary:
Mike cannot decide what is real and what isn't, and is plagued by vivid nightmares. He gets the shock of his life when he watches, with binoculars, the conclusion of the funeral of his older brother's friend—the mortician (the Tall Man), by himself, lifts the casket into the back of a hearse. Mike heads to the grounds of the mortuary, which is home to very bizarre happenings, including a unique security device. Enlisting the help of brother Jody and ice cream salesman Reggie, Mike attempts to vanquish the Tall Man.


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