1979 Movies

A remake of Abram Room's 1927 silent Russian feature, "Bed and Sofa". Heralded as a revolutionary feminist film, Room's version was suppressed for its...

The first two in a series of in-camera edited films by Marjorie Keller. ANCIENT PARTS portrays the symbolic differentiation and mock conquest of a boy...

Heidar is a kind religious man. He meets a girl named Maryam and finds out that she's forced to work for a whore. Heidar frees her and asks her to tra...

Movie starring Roopa, Jayamala, Suresh Heblikar, B S Achar and is directed by P Lankesh.

Filmed on location at New Yorks legendary underground clubs such as Max's Kansas City and featuring original music and appearances from bands THE STIL...

Horse turned detective, and communicates with children, helping them to foil a dairy robbery.

A short 1979 sand animation celebrating women's spirituality with 80-year-old lesbian poet Elsa Gidlow reading her work "What If."

This, the sixth film of the SINCERITY/DUPLICITY series, seems rooted in the earliest tradition of my work, Psycho-Drama, as well as in the most recent...

A group of holidaymakers have booked themselves a dream trip with the Wild West White Water River Boat Company. Their journey will take them along the...

Woman goes vigilante to avenge her son's murder, infiltrates smuggling ring.

Three sisters living together are tied to the memory of their father. They welcome their suitors into their home and then repeat a ritual that seems t...

In a remote village in the "land of roses and nightingales" one day surfaces a stranger: William Knox D'Arcy. To enact his plan for exploiting the wea...

Here the codes are both amplified and distanced by an expressionist plastic that for the first time perhaps in Expressionism, takes humor into account...

The most critically celebrated Rue essay of 1979 was the two-part Petit Manuel d'Histoire de France, directed by the exiled Chilean filmmaker Raul Rui...

On Christmas Eve, Mauro, a reporter, has 24 hours to find a headline.

After Keith's death in a rally accident, Steve, his co-driver, decides to try to fix the car in a bid to undo what happened. While working on the car...