As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.

The Marriage of Maria Braun

1979

German

7.7

♡ 19

93%

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Director

Günther Kaufmann as American on train

Claus Holm as Doctor

Hanna Schygulla as Maria Braun

Volker Spengler as Train conductor

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.

Stalker

1979

Russian

8.0

♡ 97

100%

92%

Action

alien

based on novel or book

Andrei Tarkovsky Director

Evgeniy Kostin as Cafe Owner

Raymo Rendi as Patrulnyy politseyskiy

Anatoliy Solonitsyn as Pisatel

Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy as Stalker

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.

Un uomo in ginocchio

1979

Italian

7.2

♡ 5

Damiano Damiani Director

Calocera Spoto as

Michele Placido as Antonio Platamonte

Eleonora Giorgi as Lucia Peralta

Giuliano Gemma as Nino Peralta

Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that a wealthy woman has been kidnapped and that everyone who was involved in it is being killed off. However, Nino had nothing to do with the kidnapping and has to find out who has sent the killers and stop them before it's too late.

All That Jazz

1979

English

7.8

♡ 37

88%

Bob Fosse Director

Wallace Shawn as Assistant Insurance Man

Frankie Man as Comic

John Lithgow as Lucas Sergeant

CCH Pounder as Nurse Blake

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.

The Electric Horseman

1979

English

6.5

♡ 7

62%

Sydney Pollack Director

Quinn K. Redeker as Bud Broderick

Wilford Brimley as Farmer

Patricia Blair as Fashion Narrator

Robert Redford as Sonny

A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show. When he's asked to perform with a $12 million horse, he discovers it is being doped to remain docile. He flees into the desert astride the beast in an act of defiance. A story-hungry female reporter gives chase.

Scum

1979

English

7.5

♡ 9

89%

Alan Clarke Director

Ray Winstone as Carlin

Philip Jackson as Greaves

Phil Daniels as Richards

Craig Fairbrass as Riot scene

Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory.

Apocalypse Now

1979

English

8.4

♡ 260

90%

Francis Ford Coppola Director

Harvey Keitel as Captain Benjamin L. Willard

Harrison Ford as Colonel Lucas

Robert Duvall as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore

Laurence Fishburne as Tyrone 'Clean' Miller

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.

The Brood

1979

English

6.8

♡ 36

82%

David Cronenberg Director

Henry Beckman as Barton Kelly

Nicholas Campbell as Chris

Felix Silla as Creature

Oliver Reed as Dr. Hal Raglan

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.

North Dallas Forty

1979

English

6.9

♡ 6

85%

70%

american football

based on novel or book

Ted Kotcheff Director

Dayle Haddon as Charlotte Caulder

Bo Svenson as Jo Bob Priddy

Nick Nolte as Phillip Elliott

Mac Davis as Seth Maxwell

A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.

The Mystery of Chess Boxing

1979

Chinese

6.7

♡ 6

78%

Joseph Kuo Director

Yi-Min Li as Ah Pao

Kuan-Wu Lung as Ghost Face Killer Wan Chun-Shan

Hou Tao Hsiao as Student Bully

Wang Hsiao as Wan's servant

Evil Chun Shan uses chess boxing and a five-element ninja style to terrorize the martial arts world until he is challenged in a series of battles, then destroyed.

Salem's Lot

1979

English

6.8

♡ 35

90%

Tobe Hooper Director

Marie Windsor as Eva Miller 2 episodes, 1979

Lew Ayres as Jason Burke 2 episodes, 1979

James Mason as Richard K. Straker 2 episodes, 1979

Bonnie Bedelia as Susan Norton 2 episodes, 1979

Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House. When people around the Marsten House start dying mysteriously, Mears discovers that the owner of the mansion is actually a vampire who is turning them into an army of undead slaves.

Escape from Alcatraz

1979

English

7.5

♡ 139

97%

85%

Action

based on a true story

based on novel or book

san francisco, california

Thriller

Don Siegel Director

Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris

Terry Wills as Guard

Joseph Whipp as Guard

Danny Glover as Inmate

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.

Elvis

1979

English

6.9

♡ 25

67%

John Carpenter Director

Kurt Russell as Elvis Presley

Joe Mantegna as Joe Esposito

Larry Pennell as Paul Beaulieu

Season Hubley as Priscilla Presley

This biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant conquering of Las Vegas.

The Elephant God

1979

Bangla

7.9

♡ 10

Satyajit Ray Director

Subhadra Devi as

Abani Mukherjee as (as Abani Kumar Mukherjee)

Utpal Dutt as Maganlal Meghraj

Soumitra Chatterjee as Prodosh Mitra

Set in the holy city of Benares, this is the second film about the detective Feluda, who goes on a holiday with his cousin, Topshe, and his friend, Lalmohan Ganguly. But the theft of a priceless deity of Lord Ganesh (the Elephant God) from a local household forces him to investigate.

Strategia per una missione di morte

1979

Italian

4.6

♡ 2

Action

Luigi Batzella Director

Michel Charrel as Chris

Gino Turini as Louis

Richard Harrison as Richard Benson

John Benedy as Sheik's son

A diplomatic meeting between Western and Arab diplomats goes wrong, and a black gold dossier is firmly pushed across a desk. Against a background of hostages taken in an embassy, a covert operations agent, Benson, is given a mission in Paris. He is going into an Arab Emirate with a chosen group of operatives, and blow up an oil refinery.

10

1979

English

6.2

♡ 22

64%

Blake Edwards Director

Dudley Moore as George Webber

Bo Derek as Jenny Hanley

Michael Champion as Party Guest

William Lucking as Policeman

A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.

The Black Hole

1979

English

5.9

♡ 39

42%

Gary Nelson Director

Robert Forster as Captain Dan Holland

Tom McLoughlin as Captain S.T.A.R.

Maximilian Schell as Dr. Hans Reinhardt

Gary Nelson as Drone with Mask Removed

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.