Best Sci-Fi movies of 1979

Actors : Veronica Cartwright, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

After a space merchant vessel perceives an unknown transmission as a distress call, its landing on the source moon finds one of the crew attacked by a mysterious life-form, and they soon realize that its life cycle has merely begun.

Actors : Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley,
Directors : George Miller,

In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.

Actors : Reggie Bannister, A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Kathy Lester,
Directors : Don Coscarelli,

A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a lethal arsenal of terrible weapons with him.

Actors : Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, William Shatner,
Directors : Robert Wise,

When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine and hopefully stop the intruder.

Actors : Roger Moore, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel, Lois Chiles,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Henry Beckman, Art Hindle, Oliver Reed,
Directors : David Cronenberg,

A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.

Actors : David Warner, Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, Charles Cioffi,
Directors : Nicholas Meyer,

H.G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to the 20th Century when the serial murderer uses the future writer's time machine to escape his time period.

Actors : Alisa Freyndlikh, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy,
Directors : Andrei Tarkovsky,

A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

Actors : Lance Henriksen, Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, John Huston,
Directors : Giulio Paradisi,

The soul of a young girl with telekinetic powers becomes the prize in a fight between forces of God and the Devil.

Actors : Maximilian Schell, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Anthony Perkins,
Directors : Gary Nelson,

A research vessel finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole.

Actors : Erin Gray, Gil Gerard, Henry Silva, Pamela Hensley,
Directors : Daniel Haller,

A 20th century astronaut emerges out of 500 years of suspended animation into a future time where Earth is threatened by alien invaders.

Actors : Sean Connery, Karl Malden, Natalie Wood, Brian Keith,
Directors : Ronald Neame,

The USA must join forces with the USSR in order to destroy a gigantic asteroid heading straight for Earth.

Actors : Michel Galabru, Jean-Pierre Rambal, Maurice Risch, Louis de Funès,
Directors : Jean Girault,

The bungling inspector Cruchot (Funès) finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people,...

Actors : Bibi Andersson, Paul Newman, Fernando Rey, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Robert Altman,

During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called "Quintet." For one small group, this obsession is not enough; they play the game with living pieces ... and only the winner survives.

Actors : Talia Shire, Richard Dysart, Robert Foxworth, Armand Assante,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A log company's waste mutates the environment, creating a giant killer bear-monster.

Actors : Rick DiAngelo, Eugene Robert Glazer, Eileen Dietz, Peter Graves,
Directors : Robert S. Fiveson,

Politicians scheme to clone themselves, assuring immortal life.

Actors : Yôko Asagami, Masako Nozawa, Masako Ikeda, Miyoko Asô,
Directors : Rintaro,

The adventures of a brave young boy who travels from planet to planet in a determined quest to avenge his mother's death.

Actors : Cathy Lee Crosby, Keenan Wynn, Richard Jaeckel, William Devane,

An alien mutilator stalks and kills human prey during the night.

Actors : Shirley Cameron, Max Phipps, Chantal Contouri, Henry Silva,
Directors : Rod Hardy,

The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" (read: people) kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.

Actors : Moeko Ezawa, Shin'ichi Chiba, Jun Etô, Ryô Hayami,
Directors : Kôsei Saitô,

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the ...