Movies 1979 Page 40

The early days of the Fab Four are traced from their bleakest hours as unknowns on Penny Lane in Liverpool to their triumph on "The Ed Sullivan Show."

A 1979 Japanese tokusatsu kaiju film produced by Tsuburaya Productions, consisting of re-edited material from the original television series...

Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt...

Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.

Cindy finds her fiancée Sergio in bed with a young hitch-hiker and discovers that he has been unfaithful with other women too. She takes her revenge...

Corrupt builder Ballard is approached by Bernie Fermor, a young computer engineer with a roll of names from Ballard's business which he intends to...

Tung Wei is a lad who wants to learn kung fu. He trains in two different styles: Hung Gar and Wing Chun. Everything is fine until a jealous master...

The son of a wealthy, respected family seeks the hand of Hazal; unexpectedly, soon after her marriage, her husband dies. According to custom, as the...

Rado, an orphan from a poor Sofia neighborhood, has been in and out of school for troubled youth for years. Although he is approaching adulthood, he...

A black-out occurs during the meeting of a gang of criminals. When the light is back one of them is found killed with a stab on his back and all the...

Successful soccer player Rod Turner spirals into drunken self-pity until he develops a friendship with an inspirational orphan and a beautiful...

This documentary short is a portrait of Miyuki Tanobe, a Japanese painter who has chosen to make Québec her home. She works in the Nihonga style,...

Ulderico Quario hires as servant a very beautiful young woman Teresa. Ulderico decides to proceed like a new Pygmalion and he sets about teaching...

Distant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted.

Smart Boy and Big Eyes are happy foes, and idly cheat one another to make a living. One day, they meet and injured man who has a secret for them.

How a dog, a horse and a cat became friends.

A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.

A satire on modern housing and tiny apartment architecture.

Trouble at the ATM

Special featuring performances by some of the great names of the last 25 years of rock music, using newsreel, cinema film and trailers, video tape,...

a film about animation by Vince Collins

A monologue in past, present and future by characters without a name.

"Leo asks Grump to give him a signal if his speech gets boring." (Muppet Wiki)

Filming Othello is a 1978 documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his award-winning 1952 production Othello. The...

Canadian horror film featuring music from Canadian punk bands The Curse, Cardboard Brains, Space Phlegm, The Ugly, Willie English, The Spenglers and...

8mm film by Swiss artist Roman Signer.

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...

From the beautiful jungles of Sri Lanka, this is the exciting story of a boy and his pet elephant and the lesson that it's easier to hide an elephant...

A love affair between a Greek and a middle-class Australian divorcee.

A graphic disintegration of paranoia, perversion and violence in Chicago. (worldcat.org)

Comedy set against the danger and brutality of Belfast. Music librarian by day, showband singer by night, Nelson Glover cocoons himself from the...

Not to be confused with her longer film from 1981, this is an earlier film about Ellis Island made by Meredith Monk.

Directed by Djingareye Maiga.

Colin is the deputy principal of a city high school (Avondale College, Auckland) who reluctantly applies for the principal's job on the latter's...

A Life of Rupert Brooke from his letters and poems

Made for Roger Reynolds's Voicescapes performance, containing elements from Emshwiller's previous film "Sunstone."

Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally minuscule rival, Blefuscu. This version of...

For the 'Are'are people of the Solomon Islands, the most valued music is that of the four types of panpipe ensembles. With the exception of slit...

Tom Waits live: Chicago, IL, USA, PBS Soundstage 1975 & London, UK, BBC Studios, "Live in Person" TV Show