Best Drama movies of 1979

Actors : Sterling Hayden, Niall O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Craig Wasson,
Directors : Tony Luraschi,

A young American man joins the IRA in Ireland but soon finds out that he is being used for political purposes and propaganda.

Actors : Maureen McCormick, Lorenzo Lamas, Kathleen Lloyd, Edward Herrmann,
Directors : Kieth Merrill,

An unqualified teacher finds himself saddled with coaching duties after a small group of high school seniors form a wrestling team in a last ditch effort to end a 9-year losing streak against a rival school.

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Aruna Irani, Danny Denzongpa, Ranjeeta Kaur,
Directors : Harnam Singh Rawail,

Kaish Amari comes from a wealthy Islamic family. At the tender age of six he is sent to school and gets friendly with a young girl named Laila. Both of them become close friends, so much so...

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

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

Actors : Sheng Chiang, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Chien Sun, Feng Lu,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

The heroes pose as gun dealers and acrobats in order to get close to the bad guys so they can avenge the death of one of their brothers. In the end they lock the bad guys in a warehouse for a final battle to the death.

Actors : Roland Blanche, Laura Gemser, Marpessa Djian, Catherine Gandois,

Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He ...

Actors : Osvaldo Terranova, Juan Carlos Altavista, Pepe Soriano, Eva Franco,
Directors : Héctor Olivera,

The story about a family that must maintain a insatiable grandmother.

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 : Turi Ferro, Virna Lisi, Concha Velasco, Michele Placido,
Directors : Salvatore Samperi,

Triest in the year 1911. Ernesto is the priviliged, seventeen year old son of a jewish mother and a non-jewish father, who has deserted his family. He is raised by his uncle Giovanni and ...

Actors : Ewa Dalkowska, Iwona Biernacka, Halina Labonarska, Tadeusz Huk,
Directors : Agnieszka Holland,

The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a modern vein. Everyone in the production ...

Actors : Marie-Christine Barrault, Senne Rouffaer, Roger Van Hool, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : André Delvaux,

The story of a woman's love for two young men. Antwerp, 1940. Lieve marries Adriaan, a Flemish idealist who is drawn towards Germany by the occupation to the Eastern Front. She shelters the...

Actors : Roland Bertin, Claire Deluca, Serge Avedikian, Michelle Marquais,
Directors : Michel Drach,

A film version of author Gilles Perrault's best-selling book about the 1976 trial and execution of Christian Ranucci, the youth who was convicted with extremely inconclusive evidence of ...

Actors : Joni Eareckson Tada, Katherine De Hetre, Bert Remsen, Cooper Huckabee,
Directors : James F. Collier,

Based on Joni Eareckson's autobiography. She becomes paralyzed after breaking her neck in a swimming accident at age 17. Trying to cope with her new life, she learns to paint using her mouth and finds strength in her new Christian faith.

Actors : Richard Harris, Joan Collins, Richard Roundtree, Ray Milland,
Directors : James Fargo,

The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.

Actors : Tomas Milian, Asha Puthli, Margherita Fumero, Enzo Cannavale,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

An ex policeman, now working for Interpol, and his ex assistant find themselves caught up in a Mafia war. With the help of a large dose of luck, two sexy women and the timely arrival of ...

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 : Monique van de Ven, Marijke Merckens, Maria Schneider, Peter Faber,
Directors : Nouchka van Brakel,

Young mother of two Eva is send on holiday to France by her husband to relief her stress. There she meets lesbian Liliane who lives in a commune.

Actors : Louis Lyonnet, Emmanuel Lemoine, Nicolas Silberg, Béatrice Bruno,
Directors : Paul Vecchiali,

Pierrot, a mechanic in Paris, falls madly for an older woman, a chemist, who at first refuses his love. Finally she accepts his love when she discovers she is affected by a deadly illness. ...

Actors : Sherrie Lee Cronn, Paul Nicholas, Carroll Baker, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : Robert Young,

David Cooper works in advertising but spends more time on his love life despite the fact that he is married. When his wife Linda discovers his girlfriends, she decides to find get revenge by having an affair.

Actors : John Mills, Margaret Tyzack, Simon MacCorkindale, Barbara Kellerman,
Directors : Piers Haggard,

A separate screenplay by Nigel Kneale for theaters, parallel to the 1979 Quatermass four part mini-series. The story set in the near future involves influences from outer space that are possessing people. Professor Quatermass must save his granddaughter from the clutches of a popular and sinister cult "Planet People" that "performs raptures".