Movies 1979 Page 49

Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1979 directed by Emmanuel Borlaza and starred Jay Ilagan, Ronald Corveau, Rez Cortez, Anna...

Flamboyant kung-fu stylings and arterial blood-spray are let loose when the fantastic jade sword, a weapon that can kill a man without even touching...

Gangasati's spiritual odyssey leads her onto a path of becoming a saint-poet. She composes bhajans to inculcate devotion in her daughter-in-law...

Commissario Paolo Ferro (Maurizio Merli) stars as a (typical) tough cop again. This time he returns to the city of Milan to go after a murder...

A remake of episodes 12-13 of the TV series, the 999 arrives on a planet where the entire populace has been turned to stone. The one person still...

A serialized propaganda epic that portrays the conflicts among Party leaders in the 1930s

A small-time crook goes in search of the other half of a wooden keepsake which will lead him to the legendary kung fu technique of the Gibbon Clan...

Le Navire Night is a story of love and desire sustained and nourished through sound waves. The film’s voice-over tells the story of a woman,...

Banjo is a curious and rebellious kitten who is always getting into trouble. When he decides to jump off a roof of a chicken coop to see if he can...

Based on the eponymous play by K. Čapek, directed by the State Academic Maly Theatre of the USSR. The Macropoulos Method — an elixir of...

Adivasi Mahua lives a poor lifestyle in a fishing village along with her widowed dad. One day the local Poojary comes across a seemingly menacing...

A story of a young cadets of Suvorovsky army school - based on Boris Iziumskii novel.

After becoming 12 years old, little Asime is forced to stay inside the house. her family betroths her to a boy she doesn't know. After a wounded...

In the early period of China's War of Liberation the Yan'an Nursey which housed the children of the revolutionary fighters had to be evacuated. Li...

Kaveri gets raped by Vikram who impregnates her and then refuses to marry her. When their son, Vijay, grows up and learns the truth, he seeks revenge.

When their father is killed in a blood feud, Yusuf and Kenan, two shepherd boys, flee to Istanbul in search of their uncle. They become involved with...

Set between 1945 and 1951 in the pre-Independence state of Hyderabad, the film tells the story of a young peasant, Ramiah, who rebels against the...

François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on...

A horny college student is spotted peeping and is chased into a dark tunnel. He mysteriously emerges into a topsy turvy erotic dreamland.

Gourmet Nero Wolfe interrupts his orchid-tending to take on the case of a lady tycoon who wants to know why she's under investigation by the FBI,...

It's Willie Nelson celebrating the 4th of July

Jasper Carrott travels to Tampa Bay, Florida (a city just like Liverpool, but with palm trees), to research the state of soccer in the USA, in...

We hear from the Minister of White Papers about how Stanley Baxter is to return, then we hear how Miss Porker wants her own show, we learn about sex...

A short film by Tom Schiller featuring Bill Murray.

Actor and film-maker Kenneth Griffith traces the journey made by the Three Wise Men. Commissioned by Thames Television in 1979, Griffith was expelled...

A filmed exercise that follows in the path of Rotating Cubic Grid and Cubits, the predictably titled Cube features cubes of varying shapes and size...

In this retrospective on creators Hanna and Barbera, Bill Bixby hosts a behind-the-scenes look at technical and sound artistry. Segments spotlight...

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television. A couple's car breaks down, and frustration over its failure raises tensions. An older...

The story centers on how pride, ego, and petty disputes among relatives (neighbours and family) disrupt the peace of a household.

A group of celebrants find themselves trapped in an amusement park that is being torn apart by a hurricane during a Fourth of July holiday. The real...

Documentary about Giger's work for the movie Alien (1979).

Rapunzel imprisoned in a tall wooden tower by a witch, allows a young man to climb her long brown hair to visit her.

One of six Canada Vignettes from the NFB production Don Messer - His Land and His Music, featuring one of the principal performers, Don Messer, who...

A comical documentary film by Roy Spence focuses on the various stages of a bottle of school milk. The commentary is given by a pint-sized cartoon...

A gang of Missisipi good-old-boys visit Steven Wolfe's "played by Ronnie Elder" late departed father's cottage that was unbeknownst to the son until...

Six members of a multi-cultural household in Hampstead, north London, explore their innermost fantasies

A boy turns to his pets after his father dies, and on a visit to his great-uncle in the Amish country, he learns their legends and superstitions. He...

Aunt Agatha threatens to call the police on innocent trick-or-treaters. Her nephew, Ralph, would love to be out with them. But what he wants most of...