Best Adventure movies of 1979

Actors : Banjô Ginga, Ke Bi, Junko Hori, Daisuke Gôri,

Actors : Edward Underdown, Peter Ustinov, Peter Bennett, Brenda Cavendish,
Directors : David Cobham,

A family film which follows the life of a real otter and its adventures in the wild.

Actors : Heather Rattray, Robert Logan, Ham Larsen, Susan Damante,
Directors : Jack Couffer,

The family who went "back to nature" by homesteading in the Colorado Rockies is threatened by possible federal opposition to their mining claims on the land they moved to.

Actors : Lee Majors, Harris Yulin, Jennifer O'Neill, Art Carney,
Directors : Steve Carver,

Mike Catton was once a world-renowned construction foreman (at least in the construction world), but an accident left him with a serious fear of heights. Unable to climb the big skyscrapers...

Actors : David Chiang, Lieh Lo, Norman Chu, Lily Li,
Directors : Ho Meng-Hua,

International favorite, David Chiang, stars as the great Chih Shim, the monk who saved the Southern Shaolin Temple. Joining him is Lo Lieh, the Shaws' first international star who returns ...

Actors : Dayton Ka'ne, Keahi Farden, Maren Jensen, Kathleen Swan,
Directors : Frank C. Clarke,

Tikoyo lives by the Bora Bora lagoon in the South Pacific, where he found a man-eating tiger shark when it was an orphaned baby, just a foot long. He named it Manidu, and it grew to be ...

Actors : Jorge Rivero, Fabio Testi, Andrés García, Agostina Belli,
Directors : Alberto Vázquez Figueroa,

At the beginning of this century some owners of rubber plantations in the Amazonas jungle convert a village into one big prison. But the inhabitants have other plans...

Actors : John Colicos, David McCallum, Britt Ekland, Patrick Macnee,
Directors : Alvin Rakoff,

Three adventurers lead an expedition into darkest Africa in search of the treasure of King Solomon, and on the way encounter hostile natives, volcanoes, dinosaurs and a lost Phoenician city ruled by a beautiful queen.

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 : Louise Cooper, Phil Askham, Stephen Hirst, Jean Franval,
Directors : Ken Loach,

A rediscovered classic from director Ken Loach (THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY, KES) and one of the inspirations for Wes Anderson's MOONRISE KINGDOM, BLACK JACK is a dark and complex ...

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 : Gil Van Waggoner, Ron Berger, Bridget Agnew, Clayton King,
Directors : Paul Kiener,

Actors : Michael Forest, Jorge Luke, Franco Nero, Werner Pochath,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

A crusty recluse on a Caribbean island who is dedicated to destroying sharks gets involved in a hunt for buried treasure.

Actors : Kristine DeBell, Wally Ann Wharton, Jason Williams, Anthony Lewis,
Directors : Jeff Werner,

A bus-load containing three cheer-leading teams from 3 different schools who are heading to compete against each other is hijacked by terrorists and the girls are kidnapped.

Actors : Meg Lam, Siu Tin Yuen, Lau Chan, Bruce Li,
Directors : Bong Luk,

A well-to-do villager decides learning kung fu is the best way to protect himself and his family from the local gangsters. But the mentor he visits is a conman who is only after his money.

Actors : Jaromír Hanzlík, Josef Vinklár, Martin Ruzek, Jan Potmesil,
Directors : Ludvík Ráza,

Two scientists use their inherited fortune differently. One designs a beautiful town called Fortuna, while the second builds huge factories to make munitions known as Steel City.

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 : Yi-Min Li, Chung-Kuei Chang, Pu-Liao Hsu, Pao-Shan Chang,
Directors : Shih Hao Ko,

Beggars are being killed left and right to get their old leader to come out of hiding and face an old enemy. Meanwhile, young Wu Han Wei is being instructed by his blind grandfather to ...

Actors : Michael Dante, Curd Jürgens, Peter Graves, John Carradine,
Directors : Leslie H. Martinson,

An American intelligence agent travels to pre-Islamic Revolution Iran to try to thwart a power-mad European baron from using a stolen cruise missile to destroy an unspecific target in that country.

Actors : Moushumi Chatterjee, Rajesh Khanna, Rekha, Vikram,
Directors : Ramanand Sagar,

Adivasi Mahua lives a poor lifestyle in a fishing village along with her widowed dad. One day the local Poojary comes across a seemingly menacing looking male, feeds him, and asks Mahua's ...