Best Thriller movies of 1979

Actors : James Remar, Brian Tyler, Michael Beck, Dorsey Wright,
Directors : Walter Hill,

In the near future, a charismatic leader summons the street gangs of New York City in a bid to take it over. When he is killed, The Warriors are falsely blamed and now must fight their way home while every other gang is hunting them down.

Actors : Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, Scott Brady, Michael Douglas,
Directors : James Bridges,

A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.

Actors : Al Pacino, John Forsythe, Jack Warden, Lee Strasberg,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

A lawyer is forced to defend a guilty judge, while defending other innocent clients, and trying to find punishment for the guilty and provide justice for the innocent.

Actors : Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day, Abel Ferrara, Harry Schultz,
Directors : Abel Ferrara,

An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.

Actors : James Mason, Susan Clark, Christopher Plummer, David Hemmings,
Directors : Bob Clark,

Sherlock Holmes investigates the murders commited by Jack the Ripper and discovers a conspiracy to protect the killer.

Actors : John Glover, Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, Sam Levene,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

Harry breaks down and loses his job after his wife is assassinated - could it be his turn next ?

Actors : Susan Blakely, George Kennedy, Robert Wagner, Alain Delon,
Directors : David Lowell Rich,

American based Federation World Airlines has just acquired a Concorde jet, which will make its inaugural commercial flight from Washington D.C. to Paris and then to Moscow as a goodwill ...

Actors : Peter Boyle, Season Hubley, Dick Sargent, George C. Scott,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter who is making porno films in California's porno pits.

Actors : Helen Morse, Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton,
Directors : Michael Apted,

A fictional account of the real life, eleven day, never explained 1926 disappearance of famed murder mystery writer Agatha Christie is presented. On a cold winter day, her damaged car with ...

Actors : Hector Elizondo, Sean Connery, Jack Weston, Brooke Adams,
Directors : Richard Lester,

A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.

Actors : Joop Doderer, Richard Attenborough, Derek Jacobi, Nicol Williamson,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

When a leak of information in the African Section of British Intelligence is discovered security man Daintry is brought in to investigate.

Actors : Barbara Steele, Avery Schreiber, Cameron Mitchell, Rebecca Balding,
Directors : Denny Harris,

During her first semester at college, a co-ed finds housing at a seaside mansion where, following the death of a fellow-student, she becomes entangled in a murder mystery surrounding the property and it's secretive tenants.

Actors : Paola Morra, Anita Ekberg, Alida Valli, Massimo Serato,
Directors : Giulio Berruti,

A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, whilst presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is the head nurse/nun in a general hospital,...

Actors : Maximilian Schell, Linda Evans, Robert Shaw, Lee Marvin,

Soviet KGB General Marenkov defects to the Americans and together with his CIA handler Harry Wargrave they plan an operation meant to reveal the KGB agents in Europe.

Actors : Alan Badel, Jenny Agutter, Michael York, Simon MacCorkindale,
Directors : Tony Maylam,

In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale) stumble upon a German plot to invade the east coast of England in a flotilla of ...

Actors : Kimiko Ikegami, Bunta Sugawara, Kazuo Kitamura, Kenji Sawada,
Directors : Kazuhiko Hasegawa,

A high school science teacher builds an atomic bomb and uses it to extort the nation, but cannot decide what he wants. Meanwhile, a determined cop is catching up to him, as is radiation poisoning.

Actors : Katie Johnson, Wallace Earl Laven, Jill Lansing, Stuart Taylor,
Directors : Irvin Berwick,

When a high school senior is dumped by her boyfriend, her grades fall drastically...to avoid failing, she begins seducing her male teachers. Thus begins her downward spiral into drug ...

Actors : Natsuko Yashiro, Shun Domon, Asami Ogawa, Hiromi Namino,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

One dark and stormy night, a middle age prison escapee haphazardly breaks into the luxurious mason of a wealthy and privileged family and rapes the young wife in front of her bound husband....

Actors : Donald Jones, Rutger Hauer, Rijk de Gooyer, Willeke van Ammelrooy,
Directors : Wim Verstappen,

When a hanged man is found, the question is whether it is suicide or murder. Possible suspects are available; the world of drugs and a suspecious sect...

Actors : Carol Lynley, John Ireland, Barry Morse, Jack Palance,
Directors : George McCowan,

In the future, human race sets up colonies on the Moon, when Earth becomes uninhabitable. A madman decides to destroy the Moon colonies with his robots and automated ships and only three people and their robot dog can stop him.