Best Drama movies of 1979

Actors : Roberto Gómez Bolaños, Carlos Villagrán, Florinda Meza, Ramón Valdés,
Directors : Enrique Segoviano,

The life of an untalented, but extremely kind waterboy who works for a Mexican soccer team, and how his life unexpectedly changed, when his wife fell pregnant.

Actors : Ray Ashcroft, Stephen MacKenna, Rod Culbertson, John Altman,
Directors : Richard Marquand,

An account of The Beatles during the Hamburg years, their signing with Brian Epstein and their inevitable rise during the early sixties.

Actors : William Smith, Barbara Leigh, Guich Koock, Christopher Joy,
Directors : Andy Sidaris,

A government agent discovers a plot by a cartel of seven gangsters to take over the state of Hawaii. He hires a team of seven hitmen to stop them.

Actors : Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Rados Bajic, Bekim Fehmiu, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Hajrudin Krvavac,

The first Yugoslav Partisan air force unit. Loosely based on historical facts.

Actors : Nafisa Ali, Tom Alter, Shabana Azmi, Jalal Agha,
Directors : Shyam Benegal,

Set during the 1857 War of Independence, an obsessed Indian Nawab desires to wed a young Anglo-Indian woman, but the girl's obstinate mother stands between them.

Actors : Véronique Jannot, Francine Bergé, Bernard Giraudeau, Alain Delon,
Directors : Pierre Granier-Deferre,

The story is set in June 1983. Famous surgeon Jean-Marie Desprée was left by his wife 1 month ago and now he works in a modern movable hospital, where the 3rd world war is taking place.

Actors : Adel Imam, Said Abdel Ghani, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Essad Youniss,
Directors : Hussein Kamal,

Adel Imam and neighbour Abdel Moneim Madbouly are taken to a Police station after an altercation with a bus conductor. They are mistakenly arrested with a group of suspected terrorists and taken to a maximum security jail.

Actors : David Hayman, Sean Scanlan, Alex Norton, Jake D'Arcy,
Directors : John Mackenzie,

The life and imprisonment of Glasgow hard man and gangster Jimmy Boyle.

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

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

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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.