Movies 1979 Page 37

A street-gang leader challenges a handsome young skater in a championship contest at the local roller-disco rink.

Mortal combat erupts when two martial arts masters are killed by a gray haired master of the Crane Style. The deadly battle has a profound effect on...

Famous tragedy by Euripides in ballet.

Grand Opera marks a stock-taking of Benning's work and his life, presenting a personal and artistic autobiography woven together with a series of...

With the layering of picture (double exposure, flowing changes of images, frosen image, solarisation) and sound, the artists and the objects in the...

In the Lithuanian village of Lietuvos, a farmer brings his sheltered nephew, Joni, to the rich Bani. By biting the prospective host's hand, the...

Regarded as a creative extension of Stone (1975), animation unfolds on drawing paper placed on a field and farm.

A portrait of frivolous youth. Unfortunate events force a group of club-hopping young men and women to face reality and reevaluate their lifestyle.

In Kansas during the middle of the Civil War, John Golden is left for dead and his family has been killed by the ruthless Confederate outlaw William...

Successful police officer ASP Zamri fails to build a happy home. His only child succumbs to leukimia and his life falls apart. Then, he meets Marina...

Ming partisan Chu who is on the run from Manchu forces. Local merchant and kung fu enthusiast Li Chen-chau gives the fugitive shelter in his pawnshop...

Tragic story of the brave woman Todora. Germans penetrated into the village. Villagers flee into the forest and a brave Todora rushes to the German...

Tou former boxers meet in the ring again after years for a re-run of an old match. The old loser currently works as a factory executive and he is...

A documentary on the pop music and culture of the 1960's, featuring film and video clips of 60's-era performers.

This dramatic story follows a young Nicaraguan immigrant, Irene, as she faces the challenges of life in the U.S. and re-evaluates her relationships...

A film about a future dinosaur, a species that might be headed for extinction, even though it seems to be thriving now. Not the human race, which in...

A disturbed young boy whose parents have recently died begins worshipping a stuffed chimp god as his relationship with his aunt/guardian becomes...

Camera follows the rhythm of work on a construction site. The music serves as a commentary and warns us about complications or interprets routine...

Woman is kidnaped by hitman who discovers that he is the target of another hitman.

AC/DC in Arnhem, Netherlands, on Friday July 13, 1979. Filmed live for Countdown television series. Setlist includes 1) Highway to Hell, 2) Bad Boy...

Exploration of the way of life of the Q’eros Indians of Peru, who have lived in the Andes for more than 3,000 years.

Returning from the planet Venus, an errant NASA spacecraft crashes into the ocean, spilling its radioactive cargo. Enveloped by a radioactive mass, a...

Young Elizabeth's quiet village life in Kent changes in the summer of 1940 with the arrival of a group of RAF officers. Adaptation of the novel by H...

Adaptation of the Mallen series of novels by Catherine Cookson.

This film is a glimpse of the traditional life of the Afghan people, their culture and their music, just before the Russian intervention in 1979.

Loose Ends is a collage film about the process of internalizing the information that bombards us through a combination of personal experience and...

On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country hills, fields and forests. With no adults around,...

Adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Fir-Tree". The tale was adapted to a 28-minute video format in 1979 by Huntingwood Films produced by...

In GLORIA! Frampton juxtaposes nineteenth-century concerns with contemporary forms through the interfacing of a work of early cinema with a...

The extemporaneous musings of an actress about her career provide the springboard for an imaginative fantasy on the fragility of fame.

A young doctor, Alexandra Kendall, seeking change while recovering from a recent heartbreak, moves from Chicago, Illinois to Hartford, Connecticut....

A couple of bumbling private detective siblings get hired to investigate a bar robbery, in this short, low budget, action/comedy send-up of the 1970s...

Animated film of a traditional Franco-Manitoban tale that resembles the story of the first Christmas.

This satire on the behavioral modification technique of toilet training should be required watching for every prospective parent.

A young man attempts to win back his former love via the power of music.

Sandy is a little girl with a penchant for whoppers. However, when her lies start go so far as to implicate the innocent for her own misdeeds, Puff...

A hotshot junkman decides to go to the moon with his two young companions in a homemade rocket to recover millions of dollars worth of discarded...

This film documents the yearly cycle of the great blue heron, its migration from Central America and the West Indies to the St. Lawrence River in...

In these five "modern narratives" of desire in contemporary consumer culture, Almy constructs an ironic social critique. Each segment focuses on a...