1979
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1. Us Two (1979)
112 min | Drama
Simon Lacassaine a thief with cultural attachments has just broken out of jail. Through circumstances, he falls in with upmarket hooker Deneuve, also on the constabulary's wanted list, and ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Dutronc, Jacques Villeret, Paul Préboist
Votes: 504
2. Bloodline (1979)
R | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When her father is murdered, a pharmaceutical heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Claudia Mori
Votes: 1,916
3. Being There (1979)
PG | 130 min | Comedy, Drama
After the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.
Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden
Votes: 77,711 | Gross: $30.18M
4. Terror Train (1980)
R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Three years after a prank went terribly awry, the six college students responsible are targeted by a masked killer at a New Year's Eve party aboard a moving train.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner, David Copperfield
Votes: 13,866
5. Agatha (1979)
PG | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In December 1926, Agatha Christie's husband asks for a divorce. She leaves her car and goes missing for 11 days. She books into a hotel as Mrs. Neele. A US reporter looks for her and investigates.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Dalton, Helen Morse
Votes: 3,602 | Gross: $7.50M
6. Manhattan (1979)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Murphy
Votes: 147,345 | Gross: $45.70M
7. The Frisco Kid (1979)
PG | 119 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A Polish rabbi wanders through the Old West on his way to lead a synagogue in San Francisco. On the way, he is nearly burned at the stake by Native Americans and almost killed by outlaws.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri, Val Bisoglio
Votes: 11,504 | Gross: $9.35M
8. Salem's Lot (1979)
PG | 100 min | Horror
A novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires.
Stars: David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia
Votes: 27,506
9. Buffet Froid (1979)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Alphonse lives in an empty building. Empty but for one neighbour, the police captain Morvandieu. When the man who have killed Alphonse's wife appears, the three men will be thrown in a serie of event in a surrealist world.
Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet, Denise Gence
Votes: 6,509
10. Dracula (1979)
R | 109 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In 1913, the charming, seductive and sinister vampire Count Dracula travels to England in search of an immortal bride.
Director: John Badham | Stars: Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Kate Nelligan
Votes: 11,116 | Gross: $20.16M
11. Fascination (1979)
Not Rated | 80 min | Horror
A runaway criminal breaks into an eerie chateau, taking its two frightened chambermaids hostage. As night falls, a group of mysterious aristocratic women arrive and the criminal begins to realize the women are hiding a sinister secret.
Director: Jean Rollin | Stars: Franca Maï, Brigitte Lahaie, Jean-Marie Lemaire, Fanny Magier
Votes: 3,551
12. Womanlight (1979)
98 min | Drama
Two strangers help each other survive a night of great loss.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Romolo Valli, Lila Kedrova
Votes: 925
13. The Changeling (1980)
R | 107 min | Horror, Mystery
After the death of his wife and daughter in a car crash, a music professor staying at a long-vacant Seattle mansion is dragged into a decades-old mystery by an inexplicable presence in the mansion's attic.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh
Votes: 40,056
14. The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials (1979)
96 min | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
In St. Tropez, French gendarme Cruchot and his men battle petroleum-drinking, human-looking, metallic aliens.
Director: Jean Girault | Stars: Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch, Jean-Pierre Rambal
Votes: 9,462
15. Courage fuyons (1979)
100 min | Comedy, Romance
At forty years old, Martin Belhomme leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. One day, he falls hopelessly in love with Eva, a cabaret singer. He decides to follow her to Amsterdam. From then on, his life becomes very eventful.
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Catherine Deneuve, Philippe Leroy, Michel Beaune
Votes: 447
16. French Fried Vacation 2 (1979)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy
Eight tourists who met in a holiday camp on the Ivory Coast are reunited for a skiing holiday.
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier
Votes: 9,139
17. Le coup de sirocco (1979)
102 min | Drama
Paul Narboni remembers his happy childhood in Algeria before leaving the country in 1954. With his family, he then arrives in Marseille before reaching Paris. His father Albert, a grocer, will have to adapt to this new country.
Director: Alexandre Arcady | Stars: Roger Hanin, Marthe Villalonga, Michel Auclair, Jacques Duby
Votes: 296
18. Graduate First (1978)
TV-14 | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A study of a group of young working class people in a French village, who are embarking upon adult life. The film follows the choices and decisions made for their futures.
Director: Maurice Pialat | Stars: Sabine Haudepin, Philippe Marlaud, Annick Alane, Michel Caron
Votes: 995
19.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Who's Who
(1979)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
Slice-of-life look at class divisions among employees at a brokerage house.
Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Richard Kane, Joolia Cappleman, Phil Davis, Adam Norton
Votes: 260
20. Wise Blood (1979)
PG | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
Fresh out of the army, Hazel Motes attempts to open the first Church Without Christ in the small town of Taulkinham.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Brad Dourif, John Huston, Dan Shor, Harry Dean Stanton
Votes: 6,470
21. La femme flic (1980)
103 min | Drama, Thriller
Corinne Levassuer, a Paris police inspector, uncovers some embarrassing evidence during one of her investigations and is transferred to a northern French mining town.
Director: Yves Boisset | Stars: Miou-Miou, Jean-Marc Thibault, Leny Escudéro, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Votes: 464
22. The Amityville Horror (1979)
R | 117 min | Horror
Newlyweds and their three children move into a large house where a mass murder was committed. They start to experience strange, inexplicable manifestations which have strong effects on everyone living in or visiting the house.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud
Votes: 44,623 | Gross: $86.43M
23. Alien (1979)
R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 951,868 | Gross: $78.90M
24. Moonraker (1979)
PG | 126 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel
Votes: 108,850 | Gross: $70.31M
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