Best Comedy movies of 1979

Actors : Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Woody Allen,

The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.

Actors : Daniel Stern, Dennis Christopher, Jackie Earle Haley, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A small-town boy obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl.

Actors : John Savage, Annie Golden, Beverly D'Angelo, Treat Williams,
Directors : Milos Forman,

Claude Bukowski leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly embraced into the hippie group of youngsters led by Berger, yet he's already been drafted. He soon falls in love with Sheila Franklin, a rich girl but still a rebel inside.

Actors : Jim Henson, Richard Hunt, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson,
Directors : James Frawley,

Kermit and his newfound friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog-legs merchant is after Kermit.

Actors : Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese,
Directors : Terry Jones,

Brian is born on the original Christmas, in the stable next door. He spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.

Actors : Vincent Van Patten, P.J. Soles, Dey Young, Clint Howard,

A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.

Actors : Nancy Allen, Treat Williams, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor.

Actors : Melvyn Douglas, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

A simple, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful businessman and an insider in Washington politics.

Actors : Catlin Adams, Bernadette Peters, Steve Martin, Mabel King,
Directors : Carl Reiner,

An idiotic man struggles to make it through life on his own in St. Louis.

Actors : Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking,
Directors : Bob Fosse,

Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.

Actors : Russ Banham, Bill Murray, Harvey Atkin, Kate Lynch,
Directors : Ivan Reitman,

Wacky hijinks of counselors and campers at a less-than-average summer camp.

Actors : J.A. Preston, Dick Haymes, Matthew Tobin, Albert Brooks,
Directors : Albert Brooks,

A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family". However, ...

Actors : Julie Andrews, Robert Webber, Bo Derek, Dudley Moore,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

A Hollywood composer goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy, newly married woman.

Actors : Val Bisoglio, Gene Wilder, Ramon Bieri, Harrison Ford,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A Polish rabbi wanders through the Old West on his way to lead a synagogue in San Francisco. On the way he is nearly burnt at the stake by Indians and almost killed by outlaws.

Actors : Richard Libertini, Nancy Dussault, Alan Arkin, Peter Falk,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

On the eve of their children's marriage, NYC in-laws Sheldon Kornpett and Vince Ricardo embark on a series of misadventures involving the CIA, the Treasury Department and Central American dictators.

Actors : Robert Redford, Willie Nelson, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Sonny Steele used to be a rodeo star, but his next appearance is to be on a Las Vegas stage, wearing a suit covered in lights, advertising a breakfast cereal. When he finds out they are ...

Actors : Arthur Hill, Laurence Olivier, Thelonious Bernard, Diane Lane,
Directors : George Roy Hill,

A French boy (Daniel) and an American girl (Lauren), who goes to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. They befriend Julius who enchants them with his storytelling. In an ...

Actors : Richard Benjamin, George Hamilton, Susan Saint James, Dick Shawn,
Directors : Stan Dragoti,

This vampire spoof has Count Dracula moving to New York to find his Bride, after being forced to move out of his Transylvanian castle. There with the aid of assistant Renfield, he stumbles ...

Actors : Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Dayle Haddon, Charles Durning,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Dan Shor, John Huston, Brad Dourif,
Directors : John Huston,

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.