Movie List for "old english"

Meatballs (1979)

Wacky hijinks of counselors and campers at a less-than-average summer camp. Year 1979.

Generes: Comedy
Director: Ivan Reitman
Writer: Len Blum, Daniel Goldberg, Janis Allen, Harold Ramis
Actors: Bill Murray, Harvey Atkin, Kate Lynch, Russ Banham

Delirium (1979)

An ex-soldier is hired by local right-wingers as a vigilante to clean up criminals and street people. However, he freaks out and starts killing off everybody. Year 1979.

Generes: Thriller
Director: Peter Maris
Writer: Eddie Krell (story), Jim Loew (story), Peter Maris, Richard Yalem
Actors: Turk Cekovsky, Debi Chaney, Terry TenBroek, Barron Winchester

Dawn! (1979)

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

Plague (1979)

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

The Great Train Robbery (1978)

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

Zero to Sixty (1978)

A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners. In HD. Year 1978.

Generes: Comedy
Director: Don Weis
Writer: Darren McGavin (screenplay), Peg Shirley (story), Judith Bustany (story)
Actors: Darren McGavin, Sylvia Miles, Joan Collins, Denise Nickerson

The Playbirds (1978)

Two detectives are drawn into the world of porn, while investigating murders of centrefolds… Year 1978.

Generes: Drama
Director: Willy Roe
Writer: George Evans (screenplay), Willy Roe (screenplay)
Actors: Mary Millington, Glynn Edwards, Gavin Campbell, Alan Lake

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

When seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade a small town, replicating the residents one body at a time. Year 1978.

Generes: Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: Philip Kaufman
Writer: W.D. Richter (screenplay), Jack Finney (novel)
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright

Go Tell the Spartans (1978)

During the early 1960s, U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam discover the same challenges that plagued the French army in Indochina ten years prior. Year 1978.

Generes: Drama, War
Director: Ted Post
Writer: Daniel Ford (novel), Wendell Mayes
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Jonathan Goldsmith, Marc Singer

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978)

Jimmie Blacksmith, the son of an Aboriginal mother and a white father, falls victim to much racist abuse after marrying a white woman, and goes on a killing spree and finds himself on the run in the aftermath. Year 1978.

Generes: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Director: Fred Schepisi
Writer: Fred Schepisi (screenplay), Thomas Keneally (novel)
Actors: Tommy Lewis, Freddy Reynolds, Ray Barrett, Jack Thompson

Coma (1978)

When a young female doctor notices an unnatural amount of comas occurring in her hospital she uncovers a horrible conspiracy. Year 1978.

Generes: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Michael Crichton
Writer: Michael Crichton (screenplay), Robin Cook (novel)
Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn

The Cat and the Canary (1978)

A group of potential heirs gather in a forbidding old house to learn which of them will inherit a fortune. Later, they learn that a flesh-rending maniac is loose. Year 1978.

Generes: Comedy, Mystery, Horror
Director: Radley Metzger
Writer: Radley Metzger (screenplay), John Willard (play)
Actors: Honor Blackman, Michael Callan, Edward Fox, Wendy Hiller

The Buddy Holly Story (1978)

The story of the life and career of the early rock and roll singer, from his meteoric rise to stardom, to his marriage and untimely death. Year 1978.

Generes: Biography, Drama, Music
Director: Steve Rash
Writer: Alan Swyer (story), John Goldrosen (book), Robert Gittler (screenplay)
Actors: Gary Busey, Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith, Conrad Janis

Death Force (1978)

An American Vietnam soldier on his way home is left for dead and is saved by a pair of Japanese stragglers from WWII, who train him in the way of the samurai. Year 1978.

Generes: Action, Crime, Drama
Director: Cirio H. Santiago
Writer: Howard R. Cohen (screenplay), Cirio H. Santiago (story), Robert E. Waters (story)
Actors: James Iglehart, Carmen Argenziano, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Jayne Kennedy

Another Man, Another Chance (1977)

A photographer, who has been hired to photograph the wild west of America where he has lived his entire life, tells his client of a photograph he has that was taken one hundred years ago by… Year 1977.

Generes: Western
Director: Claude Lelouch
Writer: Claude Lelouch
Actors: James Caan, Geneviève Bujold, Francis Huster, Susan Tyrrell

The Purple Taxi (1977)

With its mauve taxi, the old philosopher Dr. Seamus Scully runs around the small green roads of the south of Ireland, becoming confident of his patients, while trying to help them find their way. Year 1977.

Generes: Drama
Director: Yves Boisset
Writer: Anne Dutter (adaptation), Georges Dutter (French adaptation), Michel Déon (novel), Michel Déon (screenplay)
Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Noiret, Peter Ustinov, Fred Astaire