Best Thriller movies of 1979

Actors : Joseph Cotten, John Ireland, Gene Barry, Stuart Whitman,
Directors : René Cardona Jr.,

Reverend Jim Jones, the priest of an independent church in the South American country Guyana, orders his followers to commit suicide. But not all of them follow him blindly and begin to think on their own.

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 : Barry Morse, Carol Lynley, John Ireland, 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.

Actors : Mimsy Farmer, Fiamma Maglione, James Franciscus, Venantino Venantini,
Directors : Ruggero Deodato,

A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have them decommissioned.

Actors : José Sacristán, Ángela Molina, Saverio Marconi, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Gillo Pontecorvo,

As 1973 winds down, Franco is still governing Spain with an iron hand. Opposition parties are forbidden; labor movements are repressed; and Basque nationalists are mercilessly hunted down. ...

Actors : Van Johnson, Mario Merola, Biagio Pelligra, Maurizio Merli,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Italian mobster, Michele Barresi heads for the safer climate of Brooklyn after his chief rival is gunned down in the small Sicilian town of Corleone. Commissioner Berni learns of his ...

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 : Angélica Chain, Narciso Busquets, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Pedro Armendáriz Jr.,
Directors : Arturo Ripstein,

A former felon is blackmailed by a corrupt policeman and forced to commit a crime.

Actors : Ernesto Colli, Brigitte Petronio, Maxmilian Vhener, Annamaria Clementi,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

Two amateur armed robbers steal $5,000 from NY's red light district, only to discover it was an intended protection payment to the mob. With Mafia hit men after them they seek shelter in a sleazy sex shop.

Actors : Jun Aki, Yûki Mizuhara, Reiko Fujinami, Keizô Kanie,
Directors : Chûsei Sone,

When a writer for a porn magazine, watches a "rape" porn that is set in a school, he becomes obsessed with the lead actress, Nami, and tries to find her. He meets her by chance as he arrives for a shoot at a hotel.

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 : Giuliano Gemma, Michele Placido, Tano Cimarosa, Eleonora Giorgi,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that a wealthy woman has been kidnapped and that everyone who was involved in it is being ...

Actors : Jun Aki, Miyako Yamaguchi, Yuki Nohira, Yûko Akane,
Directors : Kôyû Ohara,

After being brutally raped, a young woman attempts to commit suicide. A priest talks her out of it and she decides to become a nun. Once inside the convent, she is again a victim of sexual abuse.

Actors : Geoffrey Lewis, Linda Haynes, Ellen Travolta, Lurene Tuttle,
Directors : Gregory Goodell,

A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.

Actors : Turk Cekovsky, Barron Winchester, Debi Chaney, Terry TenBroek,
Directors : Peter Maris,

An ex-soldier is hired by local right-wingers as a vigilante to clean up criminals and street people. However, he freaks out and starts killing off everybody.

Actors : Richard Crenna, Linda Sorensen, Belinda Montgomery, Paul Williams,
Directors : George Mendeluk,

Sergeant Boyd's police search to find a sniper who has been shooting hookers.

Actors : Roosevelt Grier, John Saxon, Joanna Cassidy, Joan Blondell,
Directors : Ross Hagen,

A bounty hunter is offered $20,000 - off the record - for the capture of a very large man who dons body armor and steel-plated gauntlets for his regular beatings of some unfortunate individuals.

Actors : Pierre Vernier, Victor Lanoux, 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 : 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 : Miyako Yamaguchi, Takeo Chii, 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 »