When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new approach to apprehending their targets. They take over a pawn shop where thieves go to unload their merchandise. They record them as they bring stuff in and get them to tell them where they got it. Eventually they're threatened by the mob.

Abbot of Shaolin

1979

Cn

6.4

♡ 3

Action

Adventure

martial arts

Meng Hua Ho Director

Han Chiang as

En-chi Kuo as

Yen Tsan Tang as Hung Sze Kwan Lily Li

Lily Li as Wu Mei

While international favorite David Chiang was best known for his roles as a grinning, streetwise, fighter in many Chang Cheh-directed classics, he rarely played a noble warrior monk. But here he portrays the great Chih Shim, the monk who saved the Southern Shaolin Temple. Making this production all the more notable is Lo Lieh, Shaws' first international star, who returns to a role he also made famous - that of Shaolin renegade Pai Mei. This, and even more, makes for a true martial arts epic of the first order.

Immoral Women

1979

French

5.1

♡ 10

44%

Drama

Walerian Borowczyk Director

Jean-Claude Dreyfus as Bini

Philippe Desboeuf as Doctor

France Rumilly as Madame

Marina Pierro as Margherita Luti

The first episode – featuring frequent Borowczyk muse Marina Pierro – is the longest and, in a way, most substantial: it’s set in Renaissance Rome, with the lusty (and perpetually nude) leading lady sexually involved with famous painters and church benefactors. The second episode is the most notorious and, consequently, gave the film its controversial poster – featuring a rabbit slowly disappearing under the skirt of a teenage girl (played by Gaelle Legrand). The third and final episode, which has a modern-day setting, is the shortest – but also, possibly, the most outrageous: Pascale Christophe is a young married woman who’s abducted on a busy Parisian street by a small-time hood hidden inside a cardboard box!

The Dogs

1979

French

6.3

♡ 2

72%

Alain Jessua Director

Denyse Roland as Brigitte

Victor Lanoux as Docteur Henri Ferret

Fanny Ardant as L'infirmière

Gérard Depardieu as Morel

After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to put a stop to the climb of violence.

Ravagers

1979

English

4.6

♡ 5

96%

post-apocalyptic future

Sci-Fi

Richard Compton Director

Seymour Cassel as Blind Lawyer

Kurt Grayson as Coop

Richard Harris as Falk

Anthony James as Ravager Leader

In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his "pleasure girl" try to find their way to a rumored safe haven called the Land of Genesis.

Pilot Pirx's Inquest

1979

Polish

6.4

♡ 9

71%

Drama

Sci-Fi

Marek Piestrak Director

Vladimir Ivashov as Harry Brown

Tõnu Saar as Kurt Weber

Igor Przegrodzki as McGuirr

Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy as Tom Nowak

Pirx, an experienced pilot, is hired to go on a top-secret mission to evaluate some 'nonlinears' (an experimental model of android) for use as crewmembers on future space flights. Pirx and this intriguing crew are sent out to launch two satellites into the rings of Saturn, but he is determined to find out and identify a hostile unhuman coworker among them.

I Want To

1979

Japanese

6.4

♡ 8

Kôsei Saitô Director

Raita Ryû as Haruhisa Kimura

Yoichi Miura as Manabu Nonaka

Hiroyuki Sanada as Takeda Katsuyori

Hiroshi Katsuno as Track Coach

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.

Steel

1979

English

6.0

♡ 7

33%

Steve Carver Director

Richard Lynch as Dancer

R.G. Armstrong as Kellin

Lee Majors as Mike Catton

Albert Salmi as Tank

Mike Catton was once a world-renowned construction foreman (at least in the construction world), but an accident left him with a serious fear of heights. Unable to climb the big skyscrapers while under construction, he retired and became a truck driver. But when an old friend needs him to help put up a building, and when the old friend gets harassed and threatened by an Evil Corporate Type, he comes out of retirement and assembles the creme de la creme of the construction world. Together, they race against time to finish the building while the Evil Corporate Type tries to stop them.

The Human Factor

1979

English

6.1

♡ 1

33%

29%

based on novel or book

Otto Preminger Director

Derek Jacobi as Arthur Davis

Tony Haygarth as Buffy

Fiona Fullerton as Elizabeth

Sean Caffrey as Policeman

When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security man is brought in to investigate.

The Hit

1979

Hebrew

6.0

♡ 1

Comedy

Music

musical

Assi Dayan Director

Golda Heller as

Michal Natzivi as

Yasha Katz as

Dan Ronen as

Dr. Shuki Chaftziva is a ballroom dancing instructor who tries his hand at match-making. He follows the obituaries and takes his client, Zigi Fuchsman, an auto mechanic and childhood friend, to comfort the mourners and check out the widow and her property. At the same time, Ben Gurion Shemesh, a grease monkey who wants to be a singer, tries to win the heart of Dina, the disco floozy and also Zigi's daughter

The Fifth Musketeer

1979

English

5.3

♡ 12

40%

Ken Annakin Director

Cornel Wilde as D'Artagnan

Ian McShane as Fouquet

Sylvia Kristel as Maria Theresa

Alan Hale Jr. as Porthos

King Louis XIV has without his knowledge a twin brother, Philippe, but when he is told, he immediately locks up his brother in the Bastille. The king wants to increase his popularity and stages an assassination against himself where Philippe is dressed as king Louis. But Philippe manages to escape the assassination and everybody believes him to be the real king...

The Dragon, the Hero

1979

Chinese

5.8

♡ 5

Godfrey Ho Director Mars

Mars as

Phillip Ko as

Bolo Yeung as King Kong

Yen Tsan Tang as Tu Wu Sen, son of Tu Kang

Dragon Lee fights white devils who are stealing antiquities from China.

Dracula

1979

English

6.5

♡ 26

64%

John Badham Director

Janine Duvitski as Annie

Trevor Eve as Jonathan Harker

Kate Nelligan as Lucy Seward

Tony Haygarth as Milo Renfield

Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.

Captain America

1979

English

3.5

♡ 10

78%

Rod Holcomb Director

Reb Brown as Captain America / Steve Rogers

Lance LeGault as Harley

Steve Forrest as Lou Brackett

Michael McManus as Ortho

Artist Steve Rogers is nearly murdered by spies, seeking his late father's national secrets. He is saved during surgery via a secret formula; this serum not only heals him but also gives him fantastic strength and lightning reflexes. To help solve the mystery behind his father’s murder and bring those guilty to justice, a government agency equips him with a special motorcycle loaded with gadgets and an indestructible shield. Now armed, he battles against the nation's enemies as the Sentinel of Liberty, Captain America.

Siberiade

1979

Russian

7.9

♡ 6

92%

Andrey Konchalovskiy Director

Vladimir Simonov as Afanasy Ustyuzhanin

Nikita Mikhalkov as Aleksei Ustyuzhanin

Natalya Andreychenko as Nastya Solomina

Sergey Shakurov as Spiridon Solomin

The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.

The Great American Girl Robbery

1979

English

4.7

♡ 7

Jeff Werner Director

David Smilow as Balloon Man

Robert Houston as Billy Mathews

Kristine DeBell as Debbie Williams

Elizabeth Halsey as Susan

A busload containing three cheerleading teams from three different schools who are heading to compete against each other is hijacked by terrorists and the girls are kidnapped.

When a Stranger Calls

1979

English

6.4

♡ 20

38%

Fred Walton Director

Dick Warlock as Bartender

Michael Champion as Bill

Tony Beckley as Curt Duncan

Carol Kane as Jill Johnson

A student babysitter has her evening disturbed when the phone rings. So begins a series of increasingly terrifying and threatening calls that lead to a shocking revelation.

Woyzeck

1979

German

7.0

♡ 14

86%

Werner Herzog Director

Wolfgang Bächler as Jew

Irm Hermann as Margret

Dieter Augustin as Marktschreier

Klaus Kinski as Woyzeck

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One job is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts Woyzeck on a diet of peas. This serves to drive him close to madness, and the discovery that Marie is involved in an affair with the local drum major exacerbates the situation. Pushed too far, Woyzeck resorts to violence.

The Tin Drum

1979

German

7.4

♡ 25

84%

Action

adultery

based on novel or book

Volker Schlöndorff Director

Mario Adorf as Alfred Matzerath

Daniel Olbrychski as Jan Bronski

David Bennent as Oskar Matzerath

Adolf Hitler as Self

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.

Up from the Depths

1979

English

3.4

♡ 6

9%

Charles B. Griffith Director

R. Lee Ermey as

Katherine Scholy as Darleen

Sam Bottoms as Greg Oliver

Clem Persons as Maintenance Man

The staff and vacationers at a first-class resort on the island of Maui are beginning to mysteriously disappear. A biologist believes that an underwater earthquake has caused a giant and very hungry dormant prehistoric fish to be released from its slumber. The fish voraciously helps itself to a tourist buffet. Now it is open season for the local fishermen to find and kill the creature.

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