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 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 |
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 |
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 |
Woman is kidnaped by hitman who discovers that he is the target of another hitman. Year 1979.
| Generes: Crime, Drama |
| Director: Beverly Sebastian, Ferd Sebastian |
| Writer: Ferd Sebastian, Beverly Sebastian |
| Actors: Stuart Whitman, John Ireland, Richard Jaeckel, Richard Lynch |
Pampa is a social drama that tells the dramatic life of a little girl who finds a good life in the most hopeless of situations . It shows the nature of man, both good and evil, and portrays… Year 1979.
| Generes: Drama |
| Director: Pradeep Bhattacharjee |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Satya Banerjee, Subrata Chatterjee |
Vinnie gets out of jail after serving 10 years and tries to find out who killed his younger brother – played by a young Robert de Niro. Year 1979.
| Generes: Crime, Drama |
| Director: Jordan Leondopoulos |
| Writer: John C. Broderick |
| Actors: Robert De Niro, Jennifer Warren, Jarred Mickey, Terrayne Crawford |
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train. Year 1978.
| Generes: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Director: Michael Crichton |
| Writer: Michael Crichton (screenplay by), Michael Crichton (based on his novel) |
| Actors: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Alan Webb |
Bhagawant Kumar Bhartendu, Professor in a reputed college is financially well placed & happily married to beautiful Priya. He has a deep-rooted fear that he is suffering from some chronic … Year 1979.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama |
| Director: Rajat Rakshit |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Amol Palekar, Ranjeeta Kaur, Ashok Saraf, Birbal |
This biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems. Year 1978.
| Generes: Biography, Drama |
| Director: Robert Enders |
| Writer: Hugh Whitemore (screenplay), Hugh Whitemore (based on his play), Stevie Smith (and the works of) |
| Actors: Glenda Jackson, Mona Washbourne, Alec McCowen, Trevor Howard |
Samir Sahni is a farmer living with his mom, dad, wife, Rama, a young daughter, and his younger brother, Veer. Samir gets an offer to work in the U.K., and departs accordingly. He would … Year 1978.
| Generes: Drama, Family |
| Director: Dev Anand |
| Writer: Dev Anand, Suraj Sanim |
| Actors: Ajit, Tom Alter, Tina Ambani, Dev Anand |
An aging out of shape reporter falls for a pretty but seriously ill ballerina. Year 1978.
| Generes: Drama, Musical, Romance |
| Director: John G. Avildsen |
| Writer: Barra Grant |
| Actors: Paul Sorvino, Anne Ditchburn, Nicolas Coster, Anita Dangler |