Best Drama movies of 1979

Actors : Ihsan Yüce, Kadir Inanir, Melike Zobu, Erol Tas,
Directors : Orhan Aksoy,

Actors : Susan Blakely, Tim Matheson, Jack Warden, Richard B. Shull,
Directors : Noel Nosseck,

Up and coming professional bowler trying to win a tournament against a grizzled veteran bowler.

Actors : Victor Lanoux, Pierre Vernier, Nicole Calfan, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Alain Jessua,

After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence.

Actors : Birgit Doll, Hanno Pöschl, Helmut Qualtinger, Jane Tilden,
Directors : Maximilian Schell,

In Vienna, in 1930, a young woman falls in love with a gambler and leaves her fiancé, a common butcher. They become a couple and have a baby, but he gets bored and leaves them. Without means to support herself, her downfall begins.

Actors : Alberto Farnese, Marina Ripa di Meana, Roberta Manfredi, Tomas Milian,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

A black-out occurs during the meeting of a gang of criminals. When the light is back one of them is found killed with a stab on his back and all the clues point to a penniless man who had ...

Actors : Palmira Barbosa, Arlindo Barreto, José de Abreu, Maria Zilda Bethlem,
Directors : Carlos Hugo Christensen,

The film follows the parallel lives of two brothers of Danish ancestry in the "Pampas" of the Brazilian-Argentine-Uruguayan rural area. The rough life these "gauchos" (South American ...

Actors : Cristel Braak, Tingue Dongelmans, Joop Admiraal, Derek de Lint,
Directors : Guido Pieters,

Actors : Sushilendra Joshi, Vasant Rao Nakod, Rekha Sabnis, Shankar Nag,
Directors : Girish Karnad,

A mercernary sets out to assist a tribal chieftain to defeat the chieftain's brother who is now an opponent and an enemy.

Actors : Ali MacGraw, Maximilian Schell, Dean Paul Martin, Pancho González,
Directors : Anthony Harvey,

A rising tennis star falls for an older woman engaged with a wealthy man she doesn't love. Will he become the next John McEnroe? Will she choose love over financial security?

Actors : Andrée Lachapelle, Aurore Clément, Stefano Madia, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Dino Risi,

Actors : Isabela Corona, María Rebeca, Manuel Ojeda, Diana Bracho,
Directors : Arturo Ripstein,

Old aunt Alejandra goes to live with a Mexican middle-class family; she's bitter and the children tease her and make her life miserable, but the old woman is truly a witch, and takes revenge.

Actors : Dénes Ladányi, János Opoczki, István Iványi, József Farkas,
Directors : András Jeles,

Actors : Robby Benson, Henry Darrow, Pepe Serna, Sarah Holcomb,
Directors : Robert L. Collins,

A young Chicano gang member in Los Angeles comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out.

Actors : Céline Lomez, Daniel Pilon, Michael J. Reynolds, Kate Reid,
Directors : Ed Hunt,

An ambitious lab assistant carries out a forbidden experiment and accidentally creates a deadly bacteria which kills her and rapidly engulfs the city. The authorities order a curtain of ...

Actors : Paul Savoie, Monique Miller, Julie Vincent, Germain Houde,
Directors : Anne Claire Poirier,

A director and an editor, both woman, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the situation of womenhood in general, and the...

Actors : Hugh Keays-Byrne, Chantal Contouri, Sigrid Thornton, Robert Bruning,
Directors : Simon Wincer,

Angela is a young hairdresser thrown out of home by her puritantical mother after too many nights out. She quickly falls in with the modeling crowd and does some modeling work herself, ...

Actors : Carlos Larrañaga, Alfredo Landa, Ángel Picazo, María Casanova,
Directors : José Luis Garci,

Rebolledo is an honest clerk, quiet and low profile that dreams during the week to rest in a villa which is in the suburbs. Hoping to find peace with his family everything goes wrong over the weekend.

Actors : Ashwini, Sarath Babu, Vijayan, Sunder,
Directors : J. Mahendran,

A hedonist/sadist makes life hell for everyone around him.

Actors : Ian McShane, Stephen Greif, Warren Clarke, Christopher Malcolm,
Directors : Francis Megahy,

A group of fascists plan to finance their work by pulling off a bank robbery.