Caligola(1979)

Combined Rating:
27
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Details the graphic and shocking, yet undeniably tragic story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius Germanicus Caligula.



The Electric Horseman(1979)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 14

Sonny Steele used to be a rodeo star, but his next appearance is to be on a Las Vegas stage, wearing a suit covered in lights, advertising a breakfast cereal. When he finds out they are ...



Die Blechtrommel(1979)

Combined Rating:
25
Combined Critics Rating: 0

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.



North Dallas Forty(1979)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.



The Great Santini(1979)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 13

As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.



Wise Blood(1979)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.



Woyzeck(1979)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 9

Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control.



Scum(1979)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 6

An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the 70's.



The Driller Killer(1979)

Combined Rating:
21
Combined Critics Rating: 10

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.



Over the Edge(1979)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 8

A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada after the death of one of their own.



Die Ehe der Maria Braun(1979)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A World War II widow seeks to adjust to life in postwar Germany.



Yanks(1979)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 14

During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, ...



Zulu Dawn(1979)

Combined Rating:
19
Combined Critics Rating: 6

A dramatization of the Battle of Isandlwana, where the British Army met its match against the Zulu nation.



My Brilliant Career(1979)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 13

Sybylla Melvyn is an independent young woman who soon after arriving to live with her Grandmother Bossier and aunt Helen announces that she will never marry and plans on having a career ...



The Onion Field(1979)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 10

Greg Powell is a disturbed ex-con who recruits Jimmy Smith (aka Jimmy Youngblood), a petty thief, as his partner in crime. Powell panics one night when the two of them are pulled over by a ...



The Concorde... Airport '79(1979)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 6

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 ...



When a Stranger Calls(1979)

Combined Rating:
17
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.



Arrebato(1979)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 15

A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.



More American Graffiti(1979)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 8

College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.



Hardcore(1979)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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.




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