Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "year-1979"

51. I Am Not Your Negro (2016)

PG-13 | 93 min | Documentary, History

Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

Director: Raoul Peck | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X

Votes: 23,566 | Gross: $7.12M

52. Beyond the Darkness (1979)

Unrated | 94 min | Horror

A disturbed young taxidermist exhumes his recently deceased girlfriend, brings her body to his family villa and proceeds to embalm her corpse, with help from his strange housekeeper. But his bouts of insanity are just beginning.

Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Kieran Canter, Cinzia Monreale, Franca Stoppi, Sam Modesto

Votes: 5,686

53. Nightmare City (1980)

R | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.

Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Francisco Rabal

Votes: 6,747

54. Knife + Heart (2018)

Unrated | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Paris, summer 1979. Anne is a producer of cheap gay porn. When Lois, her editor and companion, leaves her, she attempts to get her back by making a more ambitious film with the flamboyant Archibald.

Director: Yann Gonzalez | Stars: Vanessa Paradis, Nicolas Maury, Kate Moran, Jonathan Genet

Votes: 5,557 | Gross: $0.03M

55. 3 Faces (2018)

100 min | Drama

Three actresses at different stages of their career. One from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, one popular star of today known throughout the country, and a young girl longing to attend a drama conservatory.

Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei, Maedeh Erteghaei

Votes: 4,825 | Gross: $0.07M

56. The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (1979 TV Movie)

95 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a lion messiah.

Director: Bill Melendez | Stars: Rachel Warren, Susan Sokol, Reg Williams, Simon Adams

Votes: 2,522

57. Seed (2006)

Not Rated | 90 min | Horror

After a seemingly undead man is bound and buried alive, he digs himself back to the surface and seeks bloody vengeance on those who caused him his suffering.

Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Michael Paré, Will Sanderson, Ralf Moeller, Jodelle Ferland

Votes: 7,250

58. Birds of Passage (2018)

Not Rated | 125 min | Crime, Drama

During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.

Directors: Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra | Stars: Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narváez

Votes: 13,174 | Gross: $0.51M

59. The Man Standing Next (2020)

Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, History, Thriller

In the 1970s, Korea is under the absolute control of President Park, who controls the KCIA, the organization with the edge over any branch of government.

Director: Min-ho Woo | Stars: Lee Byung-hun, Lee Sung-min, Kwak Do-won, Lee Hee-joon

Votes: 4,157

60. Indian Horse (2017)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Sport

Follows the life of Native Canadian Saul Indian Horse as he survives residential school and life amongst the racism of the 1970s. A talented hockey player, Saul must find his own path as he battles stereotypes and alcoholism.

Director: Stephen S. Campanelli | Stars: Ajuawak Kapashesit, Wayne Baker, Sladen Peltier, Skye Pelletier

Votes: 2,662 | Gross: $1.95M

61. The Warriors (2005 Video Game)

M | Action, Crime, Thriller

The Warriors, a gang from Coney Island, go to a gang leader's meeting, when suddenly the gang leader is shot and killed. Framed for this murder, they must travel all the way back to Coney with 60,000 gang members standing in their way.

Stars: James Remar, Ephraim Benton, Dorsey Wright, David Harris

Votes: 2,125

62. Phantasm: Ravager (2016)

Not Rated | 85 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

The final installment of the long-running Phantasm series.

Director: David Hartman | Stars: A. Michael Baldwin, Reggie Bannister, Dawn Cody, Gloria Lynne Henry

Votes: 5,187

63. For Queen & Country (1988)

R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A retired British soldier struggles to adjust to everyday life, with increasing difficulty.

Director: Martin Stellman | Stars: Denzel Washington, Dorian Healy, Sean Chapman, Graham McTavish

Votes: 2,638 | Gross: $0.19M

64. Meltdown: Three Mile Island (2022)

TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, History

Insiders recount the events, controversies and lingering effects of the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.

Stars: Rick Parks, Nicole Remsburg, Paula Kinney, Joyce Corradi

Votes: 5,441

65. Genesis II (1973 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 74 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Alex Cord, Mariette Hartley, Ted Cassidy, Percy Rodrigues

Votes: 1,124

66. Marjorie Prime (2017)

99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A service that provides holographic recreations of deceased loved ones allows a woman to come face-to-face with the younger version of her late husband.

Director: Michael Almereyda | Stars: Geena Davis, Hannah Gross, Jon Hamm, India Reed Kotis

Votes: 6,884 | Gross: $0.18M

67. Balloon (2018)

PG-13 | 125 min | Drama, History, Thriller

East Germany, 1979. After initially failing to flee from the East to the West in a self-built hot-air balloon, two families struggle to make a second attempt, while the East German State Police are chasing them.

Director: Michael Herbig | Stars: Friedrich Mücke, Karoline Schuch, David Kross, Alicia von Rittberg

Votes: 13,383 | Gross: $0.01M

68. Septembers of Shiraz (2015)

PG-13 | 110 min | Thriller

Prior to the Iranian revolution it was a place where people of all religions were allowed to flourish. This is the story of a prosperous Jewish family who abandon everything before they are consumed by the passions of revolutionaries.

Director: Wayne Blair | Stars: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Salma Hayek, Adrien Brody, Alon Aboutboul

Votes: 5,809

69. A Fantastic Fear of Everything (2012)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Horror

A crime novelist whose research on Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck must confront his worst fears when a film executive takes a sudden interest in his movie script.

Directors: Crispian Mills, Chris Hopewell | Stars: Simon Pegg, Paul Freeman, Amara Karan, Clare Higgins

Votes: 15,234

70. Last Days of the Space Age

Comedy, Drama | Post-production

Set in 1979 Western Australia. A power strike threatens to plunge the region into darkness, while the city hosts the iconic Miss Universe pageant and the US space station, Skylab, crashes just beyond the city's suburbs.

Stars: Jesse Spencer, Radha Mitchell, Deborah Mailman, Linh-Dan Pham

71. The Third Generation (1979)

111 min | Crime, Drama

A wildly anarchic satire of urban guerrilla warfare in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Spengler, Margit Carstensen

Votes: 2,823

72. Zappa (2020)

Not Rated | 129 min | Documentary, Biography, History

An in-depth look into the life and work of musician Frank Zappa.

Director: Alex Winter | Stars: Frank Zappa, Lonnie Lardner, Patrice Zappa, Carl Zappa

Votes: 3,610

73. My American Uncle (1980)

PG | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.

Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre, Nelly Borgeaud

Votes: 6,877

74. Night Train to Terror (1985)

R | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

"Night Train to Terror" is a 1985 horror anthology movie where God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals.

Directors: John Carr, Phillip Marshak, Tom McGowan, Jay Schlossberg-Cohen, Gregg G. Tallas | Stars: Barbara Wyler, Jamie Scoggin, Stacey Lyons, Linda Maderas

Votes: 2,831

75. Strawberry & Chocolate (1993)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Story of two men who are opposites: one gay, the other straight; one a fierce communist, the other a fierce individualist; one suspicious, the other accepting; and how they come to love each other.

Directors: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabío | Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Vladimir Cruz, Mirta Ibarra, Francisco Gattorno

Votes: 6,025 | Gross: $2.08M

76. Nadia (1984 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Sport

Story about gymnast Nadia Comaneci from her childhood beginning as a gymnast and how she was discovered by Belya Karolyi. Nadia received 7 perfect 10's in the Montreal Olympics.

Director: Alan Cooke | Stars: Talia Balsam, Jonathan Banks, Joe Bennett, Simone Blue

Votes: 661

77. The O.J. Simpson Story (1995 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Biography, Drama

Dramatizes some of the more tawdry events in the relationship between O.J. Simpson and his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, up to and including his arrest for Brown's murder.

Director: Jerrold Freedman | Stars: Bobby Hosea, Jessica Tuck, David Roberson, James Handy

Votes: 258

78. Silent Waters (2003)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama

1979. A village in Pakistan. A widow sees her 17 years old son being attracted to Islamist militants. It brings her past back.

Director: Sabiha Sumar | Stars: Kirron Kher, Aamir Ali Malik, Navtej Singh Johar, Salman Shahid

Votes: 1,235 | Gross: $0.01M

79. God's Country (1985 TV Movie)

90 min | Documentary

Original footage of the prosperous farming community of Glencoe Minnesota, 60 miles west of Minneapolis, was filmed in 1979 for a PBS documentary. But for the next six years Malle was too ... See full summary »

Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Louis Malle, Lowell Barnum, Arnold Beneke, Millie Beneke

Votes: 942

80. Any Day Now (I) (2012)

R | 98 min | Drama

In the 1970s, a gay couple fights a biased legal system to keep custody of the abandoned mentally handicapped teenager that comes to live under their roof.

Director: Travis Fine | Stars: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva, Frances Fisher

Votes: 6,580 | Gross: $0.20M

81. Golden Youth (2019)

118 min | Drama

Rose, a 16-year-old girl who was abandoned by her parents and taken in by social services, and her fiancé, 22-year-old Michel, are enjoying their first great and innocent love affair in ... See full summary »

Director: Eva Ionesco | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Melvil Poupaud, Galatéa Bellugi, Lukas Ionesco

Votes: 402

82. The Beast in the Jungle (2023)

103 min | Drama, Music

For 25 years, in an enormous nightclub, a man and a woman watch and wait for an unknown event. From 1979 to 2004, we follow the evolution of disco to techno music, the story of a love, the story of an obsession.

Director: Patric Chiha | Stars: Anaïs Demoustier, Tom Mercier, Béatrice Dalle, Martin Vischer

Votes: 409

83. Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women (1979 TV Movie)

96 min | Adventure

Some men in a plane land on an uncharted island. They discover that it's inhabited by women. Women who don't trust men. They try to get them to help them.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Steven Keats, Jaime Lyn Bauer, Jayne Kennedy, Kathryn Davis

Votes: 322

84. La mafia uccide solo d'estate (2016–2018)

TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Drama

A TV series following the story of the movie by the same title. Also in this case Pif tells the story of a young boy in the city of Palermo during the roaring seventies, when the mafia was not around, officially.......

Stars: Claudio Gioè, Anna Foglietta, Francesco Scianna, Edoardo Buscetta

Votes: 1,199

85. Dalida (2016)

PG | 127 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The story of the Egyptian-Italian singer Dalida and her story against life and how she dealt with her problems while she was the most successful artist in the history of France.

Director: Lisa Azuelos | Stars: Sveva Alviti, Riccardo Scamarcio, Jean-Paul Rouve, Niels Schneider

Votes: 3,621

86. Tales from the Golden Age (2009)

Not Rated | 155 min | Comedy, History

Several urban legends of Communist Romania are dramatized.

Directors: Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru | Stars: Diana Cavallioti, Radu Iacoban, Vlad Ivanov, Tania Popa

Votes: 6,083

87. Frank McKlusky, C.I. (2002)

PG-13 | 83 min | Comedy

After his work partner is murdered, a gung-ho insurance claims investigator teams with a new female investigator to uncover a massive, homicidal fraud the company seems to be perpetrating on its biggest clients.

Director: Arlene Sanford | Stars: Dave Sheridan, Cameron Richardson, Randy Quaid, Dolly Parton

Votes: 1,466

88. Fall River (2021)

TV-MA | 235 min | Documentary, Crime, History

Re-investigation of the murder of three young women in 1979 - Fall River, MA.

Stars: Murray Farnell, Chaz Smith, Alan Silvia, Alan Alves

Votes: 850

89. Hostages (2022– )

TV-MA | 60 min | Documentary, History

November 4, 1979, Iranian student activists stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking over 60 Americans hostage. A 48-hour sit-in to protest imperialism, turned into an international crisis and 24/7 media event that would last 444 days.

Stars: John Limbert, Parvaneh Limbert, Michael Metrinko, Mansour Farhang

Votes: 609

90. Cutlass (2007)

16 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

When Robin's daughter Lacy wants to buy an expensive guitar, Robin reminisces about the days when she was a teenager, asking her dad for her first car, an Olds Cutlass Supreme.

Director: Kate Hudson | Stars: Virginia Madsen, Dakota Fanning, Kristen Stewart, Kurt Russell

Votes: 2,089

91. Radiograph of a Family (2020)

82 min | Documentary, Biography, History

"Mother married a photo of Father," says director Firouzeh Khosrovani in the opening of this deeply personal documentary. She's not speaking metaphorically though. Her mother Tayi literally... See full summary »

Director: Firouzeh Khosrovani | Stars: Farahnaz Sharifi, Hossein Khosrovani, Tayi, Firouzeh Khosrovani

Votes: 294

92. The Go-Go's (2020)

TV-MA | 98 min | Documentary, Music

The Go-Go's are the most successful female rock band of all time. This documentary chronicles the meteoric rise of a band born of the LA punk scene that not only captured but created a zeitgeist.

Director: Alison Ellwood | Stars: The Go-Go's, Charlotte Caffey, Elissa Bello, Belinda Carlisle

Votes: 1,736

93. A Man Called Sloane (1979–1980)

60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Sloane is a freelance spy. Although he doesn't work for the government, he frequently accepts assignments from The Director, a head of a secret government agency. He's assisted by Torque, a... See full summary »

Stars: Robert Conrad, Dan O'Herlihy, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Karen Purcill

Votes: 158

94. King of the Avenue (2010)

R | 83 min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller

A young drug dealer sells his soul to the devil in order to become the #1 seller on the block.

Director: Ryan Combs | Stars: Ving Rhames, Simon Rex, Esai Morales, Erick Nathan

Votes: 569

95. They Reach (2020)

87 min | Adventure, Horror

In 1979, a young girl stumbles upon a possessed tape player. She unknowingly unleashes a demonic entity that haunts her family while slowly dragging the small town of Clarkston to Hell.

Director: Sylas Dall | Stars: Mary Madaline Roe, Morgan Chandler, Eden Campbell, Kyan Zielinski

Votes: 1,231

96. Station (1981)

132 min | Drama

Constantly put to the test and faced with tragedy wherever he turns, can a man finally find solace and a modicum of love or rest with what is left of his hometown, his family, love or himself?

Director: Yasuo Furuhata | Stars: Ken Takakura, Chieko Baishô, Ayumi Ishida, Setsuko Karasuma

Votes: 284

97. Carterland (2021)

122 min | Documentary, Biography

In the mid 1970's, a visionary leader decades ahead of his time is locked in a struggle for the future of America. His name is Jimmy Carter.

Directors: Jim Pattiz, Will Pattiz | Stars: Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Andrew Young, Jonathan Alter

Votes: 30

98. The Curse of Dracula (1979)

TV-PG | 172 min | Horror, Romance, Thriller

Count Dracula is alive and well and teaching college in 1979 under false identity. However, someone is still trying to stop his evil plans. Originally aired as part of NBC's Cliffhangers TV series which featured three revolving serials.

Stars: Michael Nouri, Carol Baxter, Stephen Johnson, Bever-Leigh Banfield

Votes: 170

99. Au nom de la terre (2019)

103 min | Biography, Drama

Pierre is 25 when he returns from Wyoming to his fiancée and take over the family farm. Twenty years later, the farm expanded and so did the family.

Director: Édouard Bergeon | Stars: Guillaume Canet, Veerle Baetens, Anthony Bajon, Rufus

Votes: 1,449

100. Cursed Bastards (2011)

120 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

A sinister healer who will curse several people dragging them to live creepy experiences along their own stories.

Directors: Fabián Forte, Demián Rugna | Stars: Victoria Almeida, Paula Bouquet Roldán, Víctor Cura, Pedro Di Salvia

Votes: 78