Death Watch (1980)
In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes…
Air Crew (1980)
Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.
Confidence (1980)
La Femme flic (1980)
The Legend of Alfred Packer (1980)
Based on a true story of Colorado’s only convicted killer/cannibal Alfred Packer.
The Last Reunion (1980)
Several members of a platoon of American soldiers not only kill a Japanese general, but also rape and murder the man’s wife. The couple’s son, Kimon, witnesses these ghastly events…
Rappaccini’s Daughter (1980)
Set in 18th Century Italy, RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTER is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni (Kristoffer Tabori) who falls in love with a beautiful, yet forbidden, girl who tends…
The Pocketbook (1980)
In the course of a botched purse-snatching, a boy comes to question the path of his life. Billy Woodberry’s second film, and first completed in 16mm, adapts Langston Hughes’ short…
Death Duel of Kung Fu (1979)
Ming General Cheng (Wang Dao) and his band of soldiers escape to Taiwan after Ching forces topple the Ming Dynasty. Still fearing the deposed general’s deadly potential, however, the Ching…
Going in Style (1979)
Three kindly old men decide to light up the dimming twilight of their lives with a last blaze of glory – by sticking up a Manhattan bank in broad daylight.
Schalcken the Painter (1979)
Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?
Cuba (1979)
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista’s army against Castro’s guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous…
The Electric Horseman (1979)
A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show. When he’s asked to perform with a…
Christmas Lilies of the Field (1979)
In this belated sequel to ‘Lilies of the Field’ (1963), jack-of-all-trades Homer Smith revisits the chapel in the Arizona desert that he helped build for five German nuns under the…
An American Christmas Carol (1979)
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of…
Day of the Assassin (1979)
Treasure hunters from around the world race to Mexico after a Middle Eastern luxury yacht explodes, sending a Shah’s fortune and mysterious document to the bottom of the ocean.
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now…
The Nineteen-Year-Old’s Map (1979)
Penitentiary (1979)
A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where…
Radio On (1979)
A London radio DJ receives news of his brother’s suicide and travels west to Bristol to find out more.
Siberiade (1979)
The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find…
The Outsider (1979)
Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterling Hayden). Soon he finds that he is…
When She Was Bad… (1979)
Stressed by a recent move and being a stay-at-home mom, Teeny takes out her bottled-up rage on her daughter Robbie. Only the help of her friends, family and counselors can…
Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979)
Crimefighting Captain America rights more wrongs by doing battle with a fanatical terrorist who uses his deadly drug that causes accelerated aging to finance his world revolution.
New Old (1979)
Don Giovanni (1979)
Screen adapatation of Mozart’s greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest after another until the ghost of Donna Anna’s father, the Commendatore, (whom Giovanni killed) makes his…
Natural Enemies (1979)
Paul Steward, editor of a scientific journal, considers his life to be an empty failure. Awake one morning after a sleepless night, he comes to a decision: this evening he…
Taxi Girls (1979)
A sexy hooker comes up with a plan to operate her own taxi service for her fellow streetwalkers as a safe way to make easy money, with their male customers.
Running (1979)
Ticket of No Return (1979)
Wise Blood (1979)
A Southerner–young, poor, ambitious but uneducated–determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his…