1979 Movies

A satire on modern housing and tiny apartment architecture.

This short film by Walerian Borowczyk was made in 1979 but is so little known that when it was rediscovered in 2014 it had not been included in any of...

The final days of the reign of the Shah: processions of mourning and jubilation, scenes after the fire in the Cinema Rex in Abadan, southern Iran, in...

Set in the summer of 1976, people and stories in the disaster relief after a violent earthquake.

Two beings, a man and a woman, coming from elsewhere, find themselves in a church in ruins after all life on Earth has disappeared.

"Groper Train" pink film distributed by Shintoho.

A series of six fifteen-minute shows, directed by Pantelis Voulgaris, in which the unforgettable actress Elli Lampeti reads excerpts from the Gospel o...

Renata Scotto is the innocent Luisa, very much in love with Rodolfo (Plácido Domingo in one of his best roles). But he turns out to be the son of the...

Hong Kong crime movie from 1979, The family patriarch hands over power to his eldest son. Fighting off challenges from rival gangs, the son runs the...

A funny musical comedy about an adventures of children and adults in a summer camp.

Sometimes a little kid thing causes a lot of grief. Twelve-year-old Tomáš (F. Renč) is going through a bad time at school and his classmates get him i...

Documentary about João Nogueira, popular singer and composer from Rio de Janeiro

Cheriyachan, a landlord, feels threatened by industrialisation and leftist activities. But when he witnesses police atrocities on poor peasants, a fee...

An experimental film using a mixture of techniques to portray the different views of the human body. It consists of seven parts, each one presenting a...

A fifth-grader Zamanbek lives in a mountainous Kazakh village. He is passionate about Mark Twain's book "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and wants to fi...

Mr. Selkie is a seal who comes ashore in the shape of a man during full moon. He helps some children in an anti-pollution campaign.

Experimental short directed by Bastian Clevé.

Documentary film.

Joe Jackson Live at Hatfield Polytechnic, UK. 29 November 1979. Introduction 1) SUNDAY PAPERS (00:26) 2) ONE MORE TIME (05:22) 3) FRIDAY (08:12) 4) IT...