Drama Movies
Churchill and the Generals (1979)
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
Heartland (1979)
Widowed Elinor Randall and her young daughter Jerrine arrive in a barren stretch of Wyoming in 1910 after Elinor’s application for work as a housekeeper is accepted by Clyde Stewart,…
The Bitch (1979)
The owner of a trendy disco starts having problems with the men in her life and the Mafia, which is trying to move in on her place.
Oh My Son! (1979)
Quadrophenia (1979)
Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job….
The Tempest (1979)
Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He’s in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples….
Scum (1979)
Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys’ struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain’s notorious Borstal Reformatory.
The Onion Field (1979)
An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming…
Seven (1979)
A government agent discovers a plot by a cartel of seven gangsters to take over the state of Hawaii. He hires a team of seven hitmen to stop them.
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (1979)
Six buddies spend the summer together at a Malibu beach house after each has separated from his wife at about the same time.
Disco Godfather (1979)
Retired cop and celebrity DJ Tucker Williams (aka The Disco Godfather) takes to the streets as a dangerous hallucinogenic drug called Angel Dust begins to take hold of the neighborhood.
Autumn Born (1979)
Luna (1979)
Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel (1979)
The police get a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly, an avalanche cuts them off…
Eighteen Years to the Sea (1979)
The Concorde… Airport ’79 (1979)
Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps.
The Seduction of Joe Tynan (1979)
Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary…
Caligula (1979)
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.
Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979)
The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.
North Dallas Forty (1979)
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
More American Graffiti (1979)
College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late ’60s.
Eagle’s Wing (1979)
Two men, an aging Native American and a ne’er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle’s Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans…
Queen of the Blues (1979)
A seedy striptease club in London’s West End becomes the target for unpleasant crooks.
Mai presus de orice (1979)
Docu-drama about the earthquake in Romania, on March 4, 1977. The film was not broadcast in the country.
The Wanderers (1979)
The streets of the Bronx are owned by ’60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard…
The Champ (1979)
Billy used to be a great boxer, but he’s settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright spot in his existence — his…
The Frisco Kid (1979)
Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation’s new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced traveller, he is tricked by con…