Best Drama movies of 1979

Actors : Alan Arkin, Shelley Winters, Valerie Perrine, Louise Fletcher,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

Yasha is a Jewish stage magician who tours through eastern Europe while destroying his career through personal problems. He has one more chance at theatrical success, but he needs to do a brand new trick in a Warsaw theater.

Actors : Perry King, George Kennedy, Tisa Farrow, Don Stroud,
Directors : William Fruet,

The members of a Vietnam veteran's old Army unit start turning up murdered. The police soon begin to suspect that he is in fact the killer. He knows he isn't, and must find the real killer ...

Actors : Consol Tura, Linda Pérez Gallardo, Àngel Jové, Cruz Tobar,
Directors : Bigas Luna,

Están recogiendo caracoles y metiéndoles en una bolsa de lona. Hay fragmentos de partes del cuerpo, un caracol sin concha... See full synopsis »

Actors : Datta Bhatt, Satish Dubhashi, Mohan Agashe, Reema Lagoo,
Directors : Jabbar Patel,

When Chief Minister of Maharashtra gets an anonymous call to warn him against possible rebellion in his party, all is not well. The current government is being questioned by opposition on a...

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoshio Harada, Ayumi Ishida, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan ...

Actors : Jocelyn Fournier, Ihor Procak, Nate MacIntosh, Dorothy Stratten,
Directors : Lloyd A. Simandl,

A rich young woman is kidnapped and taken to a school of "discipline."

Actors : Dana Preu, David Peck, Gene Densmore, J. Smith-Cameron,
Directors : Victor Nunez,

Gal Young 'Un centers on a spinster woman who lives alone in the woods of north Florida until she is swept off her feet by an opportunistic bootlegger. He marries her for her place and her ...

Actors : Chiu-Sing Hau, Yuan-Chun Wu, Siu-Hung Leung, Austin Wai,
Directors : Mar Lo,

Three young martial arts students and their teacher are beaten up badly by a wandering man who proclaims himself ''a corrector of bad kung-fu.'' Determined to avenge their teacher and ...

Actors : Moushumi Chatterjee, Satyendra Kapoor, Rakesh Pandey, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

Ajay Chandra, a hard working and ambitious young man, who dreams of bigger things than a small job. He has dreams of starting his own business. One day he meets Aruna at a friends wedding ...

Actors : Kirill Lavrov, Viktor Proskurin, Irina Kupchenko, Igor Gorbachyov,
Directors : Viktor Tregubovich,

Actors : Bibi Andersson, Sandrine Dumas, Kitty Courbois, Anthony Perkins,
Directors : George Sluizer,

Woman (Laura) falls in love with girl (Sylvia). They have an affair, but suddenly Sylvia runs off with the ex-husband of Laura. Laura can't understand why, but Sylvia doesn't want to talk ...

Actors : Hollis McLaren, Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson, Laurent Malet,
Directors : Claude Pinoteau,

Au Canada, un jeune homme, passeur d'émigrés clandestins vers les Etats-Unis, tue l'un de ses clients pour lui dérober une valise pleine de dollars. Il s'enfuit à bord d'un véhicule conduit...

Actors : Cecília Esztergályos, Lajos Szabó, Pál Hetényi, Judit Pogány,
Directors : Péter Gothár,

Irén and Attila, a not-so-young couple, are in love. All they want is a flat of their own where they could live together. Unfortunately, Hungary in the 70s is no place for dreams.

Actors : Michael Brandon, Susan Clark, Ned Beatty, Marsha Mason,
Directors : Jerome Hellman,

Numbed by career demands and a recent divorce, Dr. Alexandra Kendall (Marsha Mason) hides behind a hard shell of professional detatchment - until she treats Buffy Koenig (Kathleen Beller), ...

Actors : Marie-Hélène Breillat, Dominique Laffin, Bertrand Bonvoisin, Joe Dallesandro,
Directors : Catherine Breillat,

Solange is a filmmaker. She is married and a mother. She enjoys occasional sex with her husband but also feels drawn towards a bisexual actor named Jim. This doesn't prevent her from taking...

Actors : Vlasta Fabiánová, Rudolf Hrusínský, Vladimír Mensík, Blazena Holisová,
Directors : Jirí Menzel,

Returning home to Prague, the magician Pasparte (Rudolf Hrusínský), an owner of a circus caravan, meets his dying colleague who entrusts his beautiful daughter Aloisie (Hana Buresová) to ...

Actors : Monique van de Ven, Grant Page, Paul Haynes, Margaret Gerard,
Directors : Brian Trenchard-Smith,

Australian stuntman Grant Page goes to Los Angeles to work on a television series. He uses his spare time to lend his expertise to rock band Sorcery, whose act features duels between the ...

Actors : Takeo Chii, Miyako Yamaguchi, Eri Kanuma, Mimi Sawaki,
Directors : Noboru Tanaka,

This is the third film in the Angel Guts series. It tells the story of Nami, a young female journalist... See full synopsis »

Actors : Rodna Yeshonov, Feliks Sergeyev, Olga Yenzak, Vladimir Kruglov,
Directors : Boris Buneev,

A team of surveyors in Siberia enlist the help of native Evenk guides to solve a string of disappearances on the dreaded mountain Yambuy.

Actors : Richard Harris, Ernest Borgnine, Art Carney, Ann Turkel,
Directors : Richard Compton,

In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his "pleasure girl" try to find their way to a rumored safe haven called the Land of Genesis.