TV Movie Movies
Detour to Terror (1980)
A homicidal dune-buggy trio terrorizes a busload of Las Vegas bound tourists with the intent to kidnap one of them.
Escape (1980)
The true story of Dwight Worker, an American who was caught smuggling drugs in Mexico, and sentenced to fortress-like Lecumberri Prison where he endured brutal conditions. With the help of…
The Hard Way (1980)
John Connor is a soon-to-retire hitman that agrees to take on one last job. After years plying his deadly trade, he has finally had enough. Seeking to retire to Dublin…
Animalympics (1980)
Animalympics is all about the Animal Olympics Contest where all the animals around the world gather to take part in everything from skiing in North America to the very long…
The Lathe of Heaven (1980)
George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist, discovers the gift to be real and…
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…
Fårö Document 1979 (1979)
In 1969, with Sven Nykvist as cinematographer, Ingmar Bergman made The Fårö Document, a film that ended with a rather pessimist view of the island’s future. One of the scenes…
Scooby Goes Hollywood (1979)
Shaggy and Scooby-Doo quit their Saturday morning TV series in pursuit of Hollywood stardom.
Schalcken the Painter (1979)
Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?
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…
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…
Jack Frost (1979)
Pardon-me Pete, the official groundhog of Groundhog Day, tells the story of Jack Frost, who falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begs Father Winter to make him…
John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together (1979)
In this beloved holiday classic, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and all the Muppets join the singer for a heart-warming Christmas celebration, with traditional carols as well as lesser-known holiday…
Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women (1979)
The all-male crew of an oil company makes an emergency landing on an island and finds itself at the mercy of a tribe of hostile women programmed to kill all…
Bugs Bunny’s Looney Christmas Tales (1979)
A TV movie special that compiles of a few Looney Tunes episodes centered around an episode of a Christmas Carol, with the part of Scrooge played by Yosemite Sam.
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.
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for…
The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979)
Hoping to repair their marriage, Jennie Logan and her husband move into a beautiful Victorian manor. When Jennie tries on an antique dress she finds in the attic, she is…
The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone (1979)
The Flintstones and the Rubbles win a trip on “Make a Deal or Don’t” to Count Rockula’s castle in Rocksylvania, where they have an unpleasant meeting with the Count and…
Concrete Cowboys (1979)
Two Montana saddletramps head to Nashville to open up a detective agency. At first, the agency begins on a lark but, soon, they get involved in a case involving a…
The Miracle Worker (1979)
The true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, a gripping battle to overcome impossible obstacles and the struggle to communicate. As a young girl, Helen Keller is stricken with…
Churchill and the Generals (1979)
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage (1979)
Time to ease up … not! Although the Yamato’s crew has witnessed the end of the long, hard-fought Comet Empire War, a peaceful future will have to wait. While Dessler…
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.
Stranger in Our House (1979)
A country family of five take in charming cousin Julie, whose parents recently died in a car crash, though teenaged daughter Rachel grows suspect that she has an alternative agenda;…
Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July (1979)
Winterbolt is trying to make the North Pole his evil wonderland, and it is up to Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and others to stop him.
The House on Garibaldi Street (1979)
When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
Hot Rod (1979)
A freewheeling drag racer enters a local championship meet and finds himself head-to-head with the tyrannical town boss who has already arranged for his own son to win.
Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love (1979)
A young couple is overjoyed when they find out that, after having had two girls, the wife is pregnant again, and this time it will be a son. However, the…
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (1979)
This Emmy Award winner for Best Animated Special is based on the first book of C.S. Lewis’ acclaimed series, “The Chronicles of Narnia.” Four children pass through a mystic portal…
Is This Fate? (1979)
A portrait of a family in Berlin in the late 1970s, this film focuses on the mother.
Sooner or Later (1979)
Thirteen-year-old Jessie is in love with Michael, a 17-year-old guitar instructor and aspiring musician. When she finally captures his interest, she lies and tells him she’s 16. But what will…
You’re the Greatest Charlie Brown (1979)
Charlie Brown enters the Junior Olympics decathlon – and one of his rivals is a certain masked beagle!
Gold of the Amazon Women (1979)
An adventurer searches for the fabled Golden Cities of El Dorado and allies himself with a tribe of Amazon women against a murderous villain who is also after the treasure.
Henry VIII (1979)
Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor…
Measure for Measure (1979)
When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn’t be worse for Claudio, who is sentenced to death for…