Best Drama movies of 1979

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 : 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 : 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 : Eagle Han, John Liu, Don Wong, Lung Chan,
Directors : Chi Chang,

Ming General Cheng has taken a group of soldiers to Taiwan after their kingdom succumbed to the Ching. The Ching prince sends mercenaries to finish of Cheng, but Cheng's elite guard surprises the Manchurian foes.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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.

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

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 : 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 : Giancarlo Giannini, Regimantas Adomaitis, Ornella Muti, Otar Koberidze,
Directors : Grigoriy Chukhray,

Antonio is a retired aviator from the Portuguese colonial wars,he falls in love with a member of the resistance against the dictatorship of Antonio d Oliveira Salazar ( Ornella Muti) . He ...

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

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...