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.

Galaxy Express 999

1979

Japanese

7.4

♡ 10

92%

Rintaro Director

B.J. Ward as Captain Emeraldas / Joey Hanakanabobakananda Smith

Makio Inoue as Captain Harlock

Noriko Ohara as Ryûzu / Mîmé

John Payne as Tochiro Oyama

In the future, one can achieve immortality by obtaining a mechanized body. Orphaned, young Tetsuro hitches a ride on the space train Galaxy Express 999 in the hope of obtaining a cyborg body to avenge his mother's death. Along the way, he meets Maetel, who is the spitting image of his dead mother.

Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales

1979

English

6.9

♡ 8

Chuck Jones Director

Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny

June Foray as Clyde Rabbit

A TV movie special that compiles of a few Looney Tunes episodes centered around an episode of a Christmas Carol, with the part of Scrooge played by Yosemite Sam.

Love and Bullets

1979

English

5.6

♡ 8

35%

John Huston Director

Val Avery as Caruso

John Hallam as Cerutti

Charles Bronson as Charlie Congers

Andy Romano as FBI Agent Marty

Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in to protect her, hoping that she'll have incriminating evidence. Veteran agent Charlie Congers is assigned to watch over Jackie, and while it soon becomes apparent that she knows almost nothing about Bomposa that would be of any use to the FBI, he falls in love with her. Bomposa decides it would be more convenient to have Jackie out of the way, ordering her to be executed. Bomposa's henchmen slip through FBI security and murder her, but now they have to answer the angry and vengeful Congers.

Heart to Heart

1979

French

6.5

♡ 1

Action

Comedy

Drama

Pascal Thomas Director

Michel Fortin as Le commissaire de police

Johnny Pigozzi as Le fiancé au mulet

Claude Lelouch as Le metteur en scène

Marie Rivière as Une élève du cours de dactylo

The independently-minded daughter of lower-middle class French shopkeepers, Brigitte, one of three sisters, refused to marry the father of her child when she became pregnant. In this film, she reminisces about her family life beginning when she was about five years old, up to the present when she is in her early 20s. Of her two sisters, one has a nervous breakdown and the other one becomes something of a baby factory. Colorful anecdotes of her eventful life lend additional depth to her insights.

Captain America II: Death Too Soon

1979

English

3.7

♡ 10

Ivan Nagy Director

Reb Brown as Captain America / Steve Rogers

Christopher Lee as Miguel

William Lucking as Stader

Alex Hyde-White as Young Man

Crimefighting Captain America rights more wrongs by doing battle with a fanatical terrorist who uses his deadly drug that causes accelerated aging to finance his world revolution.

The Jesus Film

1979

English

7.1

♡ 46

86%

Peter Sykes Director

Michael Schneider as Father of epileptic boy

Rula Lenska as Herodias

Yitzhak Ne'eman as James

Brian Deacon as Jesus

Three and a half years of Jesus' ministry, as told in the Gospel of Luke.

Hothead

1979

French

7.2

♡ 5

Jean-Jacques Annaud Director

Patrick Dewaere as François Perrin

Michel Fortin as Langlumey

Jacques Mathou as Le client des toilettes

Corinne Marchand as Madame Sivardière

François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.

Star of David: Beautiful Girl Hunter

1979

Japanese

5.9

♡ 23

Noribumi Suzuki Director

Mayumi Nakamura as

Natsuko Yashiro as Jun / Singer

Akira Takahashi as Old Detective with Hat

Yûko Asuka as Tokie / Tatsuya's mother

The film portrays the life of Tatsuya, a young man of proper descent whose outward respectability hides his urges for rape and torture. This handsome rapist seduces women, then brings them to the basement of the mansion he inherited from his well-to-do parents, where he indulges in lengthy sessions of sado-sexual violence. Based on manga by Masaaki Sato.

Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro

1979

Japanese

7.6

♡ 40

95%

Hayao Miyazaki Director

William Bassett as Counterfeiter

Makio Inoue as Goemon Ishikawa XIII

Michael Gregory as Goemon Ishikawa XIII

Juliana Donald as Waitress

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.

Zombie

1979

Italian

6.8

♡ 33

43%

Lucio Fulci Director

Richard Johnson as Dr. Menard Dakar

Dakar as Lucas

Lucio Fulci as Peter's News Editor

Mónica Zanchi as Zombie

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.

Mad Max

1979

English

6.8

♡ 151

89%

post-apocalyptic future

Sci-Fi

Thriller

George Miller Director

John Arnold as

Joanne Samuel as Jessie

Mel Gibson as Max

Vincent Gil as Nightrider

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.

A Man, a Woman and a Bank

1979

English

5.8

♡ 7

22%

Noel Black Director

Campbell Lane as Citation Cop

Jackson Davies as Elevator Guard #2

Paul Mazursky as Norman Barrie

Brooke Adams as Stacey Bishop

Two novice thieves are plotting to rob a bank in Vancouver. A photographer snaps a shot of one thief as he is carrying the bank building's blueprints. The would-be thief then begins a relationship with the photographer and attempts to retrieve the photos. Meanwhile, the thieves' plot consists of this: one man will enter the bank building after dark, while the other man sits in a van and uses a computer to unlock the building's doors. The final step involves transporting the cash to a freight ship waiting on the docks, for transportation to a money launderer in Macau.

Squadra antigangsters

1979

Italian

5.5

♡ 2

Action

Comedy

Crime

Bruno Corbucci Director

Kim Chan as Chan Chu Kai

Angelo Boscariol as Man at Gitto's Funeral

Tomas Milian as Nico Giraldi

Riccardo Petrazzi as Street Worker in Hole

Now an agent of Interpol undercover, the former Inspector Giraldi, goes to New York to find his friend Salvatore Esposito, aspiring restaurateur in Little Italy, suffocated by debts with the usurers headed by Don Gerolamo. He will remove the gang and assure her of justice, but she will suffer the advances of the Boss's daughter, the ugly Maria Sole.

Monty Python's Life of Brian

1979

English

8.0

♡ 86

96%

Terry Jones Director

Kenneth Colley as Jesus

George Harrison as Mr. Papadopolous

John Cleese as Wise Man #1 / Reg / Jewish Official / First Centurion / Deadly Dirk / Arthur

Michael Palin as Wise Man #3 / Mr. Big Nose / Francis / Mrs. A / Ex-Leper / Announcer / Ben / Pontius Pilate / Boring Prophet / Eddie / Shoe Follower / Nisus Wettus

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.

Ils sont grands ces petits

4.6

Joël Santoni Director

Mustapha Dali as L'émir

Fernand Guiot as L'inspecteur Bugeaud

Catherine Deneuve as Louise Mouchin

Norbert Saada as Saada

When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot them out, they contrive ingenious ways to inconvenience and harass him. By pooling their knowledge, they are able to pull off a crucial robbery using a very special box of chocolates.

The Man Who Stole the Sun

1979

Japanese

7.5

♡ 4

93%

Kazuhiko Hasegawa Director

Ken Mizoguchi as

Kenji Sawada as Makoto Kido

Kiyoshi Kurosawa as Suspect on TV News

Kimiko Ikegami as Zero Sawai

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.

Rocky II

1979

English

7.3

♡ 130

70%

husband wife relationship

Sylvester Stallone Director

John Pleshette as Director

Taurean Blacque as Lawyer

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa

Whitney Rydbeck as Sound Man

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.