Life of Brian (1979)

Stalker (1979)

Summary: A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

Release Date: April 17, 1980

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Writers: Arkadiy Strugatskiy

, Boris Strugatskiy

, Andrei Tarkovsky

Runtime: 2 h 42 min

MPAA: G

Production: Mosfilm, Vtoroe Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie

Distributor: Janus Films, Media Transactions, Seagull Films, HBO Max, Kino Video, RUSCICO, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Domestic: $ 292,049

International: $ 146,196

Mad Max (1979)

Summary: In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.

Release Date: March 21, 1980

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: George Miller

Writers: James McCausland

, George Miller

, Byron Kennedy

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: R

Production: Kennedy Miller Productions, Mad Max Films

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Vestron Video, Warner Home Video, Video Treasures, GoodTimes Home Video, Image Entertainment, Orion Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: Australia

Language: English

Franchise: Mad Max

Movie budget: $ 300,000

Domestic: $ 8,750,000

International: $ 23,932

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

Summary: Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.

Release Date: January 17, 1979

Genres: Drama, Horror

Director: Werner Herzog

Writers: Werner Herzog

, Tom Shachtman

, Martje Grohmann

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Gaumont, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Distributor: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Twentieth Century Fox, 518 Media, Bleeding Light Film Group, Hemispheric Pictures, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Crown Video, Jef Films International, Scream Factory, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, West Germany

Language: German

Zombie (1979)

Summary: Strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.

Release Date: July 18, 1980

Genre: Horror

Director: Lucio Fulci

Writers: Elisa Briganti

, Dardano Sacchetti

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: R

Production: Variety Film Production

Distributor: The Jerry Gross Organization, Wizard Video, Magnum Entertainment, Starmaker Entertainment, Edde Entertainment, T-Z Video, Anchor Bay Entertainment, The Roan Group, Blue Underground, Media Blasters, Shriek Show

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Movie budget: $ 410,000,000

Mobile Suit Gundam (1979)

Summary: In the war between the Earth Federation and Zeon, a young and inexperienced crew find themselves on a new spaceship. Their best hope of making it through the conflict is the Gundam, a giant humanoid robot, and its gifted teenage p...

Release Date: July 16, 2001

Genres: Action, Drama, Animation, Anime

Runtime: 0 h 30 min

MPAA: TV-14

Production: Nagoya Broadcasting Network (Nagoya TV), Sotsu Agency, Sunrise

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

The New Misadventures of Ichabod Crane (1979)

Summary: Sleepy Hollow, a town plagued by the Headless Horseman, hires the most educated person they can find to fight him - Ichabod Crane. He, talking horse and dog, and Rip van Winkle go on the quest. But the Horseman has a secret.

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Animation

Director: Vic Atkinson

Writer: Michael Paul

Runtime: 0 h 30 min

Production: Titlecraft, Lou Reda Productions, Atkinson Film Arts

Country: Canada

Language: English

Alien (1979)

Summary: After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform.

Release Date: May 25, 1979

Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: Ridley Scott

Writers: Dan O'Bannon

, Ronald Shusett

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: R

Production: Brandywine Productions

Distributor: CBS/Fox, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: Alien

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Domestic: $ 84,206,106

International: $ 24,404,125

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Summary: A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

Release Date: August 15, 1979

Genres: Drama, Mystery, War

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Writers: John Milius

, Francis Ford Coppola

, Michael Herr

Runtime: 2 h 27 min

MPAA: R

Production: American Zoetrope, Zoetrope Studios

Distributor: United Artists, Paramount Home Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), MGM/UA Entertainment Company, MGM/UA Television Distribution, Philips, Miramax

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 31,500,000

Domestic: $ 96,042,913

International: $ 9,043,186

Schalcken the Painter (1979)

Summary: Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?

Release Date: December 23, 1979

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Director: Leslie Megahey

Writers: Sheridan Le Fanu

, Leslie Megahey

Runtime: 1 h 08 min

Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Distributor: Sinister Cinema

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Woyzeck (1979)

Summary: Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control.

Release Date: August 24, 1979

Genre: Drama

Director: Werner Herzog

Writers: Georg Büchner

, Werner Herzog

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Distributor: New Yorker Films, Shout! Factory

Country: West Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 900,000

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)

Summary: In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced out of semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons.

Release Date: September 29, 1980

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Runtime: 0 h 45 min

MPAA: TV-14

Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Paramount Pictures

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Summary: When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of the overhauled USS Enterprise in order to intercept it.

Release Date: December 08, 1979

Genres: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Director: Robert Wise

Writers: Gene Roddenberry

, Harold Livingston

, Alan Dean Foster

Runtime: 2 h 23 min

MPAA: G

Production: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Century Associates, Century Associates, Robert Wise Productions, Robert Wise Productions

Distributor: Fathom Events, Paramount Pictures, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount+, VideoVisa

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Star Trek

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 82,604,699

International: $ 72,106

Over the Edge (1979)

Summary: A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada after the death of one of their own.

Release Date: July 07, 1979

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Jonathan Kaplan

Writers: Charles S. Haas

, Tim Hunter

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Orion Pictures, Orion Pictures

Distributor: Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

The Amityville Horror (1979)

Summary: Newlyweds and their children battle a demonic presence in their home.

Release Date: July 27, 1979

Genre: Horror

Director: Stuart Rosenberg

Writers: Sandor Stern

, Jay Anson

, George Lutz

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: PG

Production: American International Pictures (AIP), American International Pictures (AIP), Cinema 77, Cinema 77, Professional Films, Professional Films

Distributor: American International Pictures (AIP), CBS, Warner Home Video, Orion Pictures, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, GoodTimes Home Video, HBO Max, MGM Home Entertainment, Scream Factory, Vestron Video, Viacom, Vinegar Syndrome, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Amityville

Movie budget: $ 4,700,000

Domestic: $ 86,432,000

Rocky II (1979)

Summary: Rocky struggles in family life after his bout with Apollo Creed, while the embarrassed champ insistently goads him to accept a challenge for a rematch.

Release Date: June 15, 1979

Genres: Drama, Sport

Director: Sylvester Stallone

Writer: Sylvester Stallone

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Chartoff-Winkler Productions, Chartoff-Winkler Productions

Distributor: VidAmerica, Magnetic Video, 20th Century Fox Video, CBS, CBS/Fox, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Rocky

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

Domestic: $ 85,182,160

International: $ 5,695

10 (1979)

Summary: A Hollywood composer endures a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a newly married woman honeymooning at a Mexican resort.

Release Date: October 05, 1979

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Blake Edwards

Writer: Blake Edwards

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: 18A

Production: Geoffrey Productions, Orion Pictures

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Warner Bros., CBS, Warner Home Video, RCA SelectaVision VideoDiscs

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 74,865,517