A young man invents a robot dog that has super strength, x-ray vision and can detect crimes being committed. A greedy businessman tries to steal the invention from him. Year 1979.
| Generes: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi |
| Director: Don Chaffey |
| Writer: Dick Robbins (screenplay), Duane Poole (screenplay), Joseph Barbera (screenplay), Joseph Barbera (story) |
| Actors: Wesley Eure, Valerie Bertinelli, Conrad Bain, Chuck McCann |
A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city. Year 1979.
| Generes: Action, Drama |
| Director: Alvin Rakoff |
| Writer: Jack Hill, David P. Lewis, Céline La Frenière |
| Actors: Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Shelley Winters, Leslie Nielsen |
Biopic of Australian 3 Time Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer Dawn Fraser. Year 1979.
| Generes: Biography, Drama, Sport |
| Director: Ken Hannam |
| Writer: Joy Cavill |
| Actors: Bronwyn Mackay-Payne, Ron Haddrick, Bunney Brooke, Tom Richards |
An account of The Beatles during the Hamburg years, their signing with Brian Epstein and their inevitable rise during the early sixties. Year 1979.
| Generes: Biography, Drama, Music |
| Director: Richard Marquand |
| Writer: John Kurland (teleplay), Jacob Eskendar (teleplay), John Kurland (story) |
| Actors: Stephen MacKenna, Rod Culbertson, John Altman, Ray Ashcroft |
A research vessel finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole. Year 1979.
| Generes: Action, Sci-Fi |
| Director: Gary Nelson |
| Writer: Jeb Rosebrook (story by), Bob Barbash (story by), Richard H. Landau (story by), Jeb Rosebrook (screenplay by), Gerry Day (screenplay by) |
| Actors: Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms |
Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor. Year 1979.
| Generes: Action, Comedy, War |
| Director: Steven Spielberg |
| Writer: Robert Zemeckis (screenplay), Bob Gale (screenplay), Robert Zemeckis (story), Bob Gale (story), John Milius (story) |
| Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Ned Beatty, John Belushi, Lorraine Gary |
Soviet KGB General Marenkov defects to the Americans and together with his CIA handler Harry Wargrave they plan an operation meant to reveal the KGB agents in Europe. Year 1979.
| Generes: Action, Thriller |
| Director: Mark Robson, Monte Hellman |
| Writer: Abraham Polonsky (screenplay), Colin Forbes (novel) |
| Actors: Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Linda Evans, Maximilian Schell |
A film on postwar Vietnam. Year 1979.
| Generes: Documentary |
| Director: Robert Richter |
| Writer: Robert Richter |
| Actors: Tranh Thi Lei, Robert Richter, My Lai Survivor |
A lawyer is forced to defend a guilty judge, while defending other innocent clients, and trying to find punishment for the guilty and provide justice for the innocent. Year 1979.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Norman Jewison |
| Writer: Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson |
| Actors: Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe, Lee Strasberg |
Movie Year 1979.
| Generes: Documentary |
| Director: Nick Doob |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Brother Blue, Gene Palma |
An ambitious lab assistant carries out a forbidden experiment and accidentally creates a deadly bacteria which kills her and rapidly engulfs the city. The authorities order a curtain of … Year 1979.
| Generes: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Ed Hunt |
| Writer: Ed Hunt, Barry Pearson |
| Actors: Daniel Pilon, Kate Reid, Céline Lomez, Michael J. Reynolds |
Movie Year 1979.
| Generes: Documentary |
| Director: Costanzo Allione |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Amiri Baraka, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg |
Set to the narration of a talking buzzard, Charlie moves to a new town with his family. He wants to be friends with the popular kids at his local park, but they all play football and he … Year 1979.
| Generes: Fantasy |
| Director: Christopher Cain |
| Writer: Christopher Cain |
| Actors: Ron Landry, Christopher Hanks, Bruce Kimball, Mike Hanks |
A bounty hunter is offered $20,000 – off the record – for the capture of a very large man who dons body armor and steel-plated gauntlets for his regular beatings of some unfortunate individuals. Year 1979.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Ross Hagen |
| Writer: Hugh Smith (screenplay), Julian Roffman (screenplay), Hugh Smith (story), Ross Hagen (story) |
| Actors: John Saxon, Roosevelt Grier, Joanna Cassidy, Joan Blondell |
The story of Lady Oscar, a female military commander who served during the time of the French Revolution. Year 1979.
| Generes: Drama, History, Romance |
| Director: Jacques Demy |
| Writer: Jacques Demy (screenplay), Patricia Louisianna Knop (screenplay), Jacques Demy (adaptation), Patricia Louisianna Knop (adaptation), Riyoko Ikeda (manga: Versailles no bara/La Rose de Versailles) |
| Actors: Catriona MacColl, Barry Stokes, Christine Böhm, Jonas Bergström |
Family movies to a border town near Rio Grande and opens up a store. Unfortunately, Pancho Villa and his man storm the town and rob the place. The wife is left to fend for herself, so she gets in touch with the man who works for Villa. Year 1979.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, Drama |
| Director: Albert Band |
| Writer: Frank Ray Perilli (screenplay), Albert Band (screenplay), Cleo Dawson (novel) |
| Actors: Ronee Blakley, Dean Stockwell, Scott Glenn, Freddy Fender |