Subgenre Sampler
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Alien (1979)
- Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt…
- One of the best films of modern cinema, this classic combines nail–shredding suspense with H.R. Giger's awesome production design. This film…
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
- Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. Ernest Borgnine, Richard Thomas, Donald Pleasence…
- While the 1930's film of Erich Maria Remarque's exceptional anti–war novel is undoubtedly a masterpiece, this later version should not be…
All That Jazz (1979)
- Dir. Bob Fosse
Feat. Roy Scheider
- Audacious, some would say self–indulgent, musical–comedy – a semi–autobiography of celebrated New York choreographer and…
Amityville Horror, The (1979)
- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger
- James Brolin and Margot Kidder are convincingly spooked as happily marrieds who inherit a haunted house. Competently directed, but with the ghosts of…
Amour en fuite, L' (Love on the Run) (1979)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marie-France Pisier
- The fifth and final entry in dir. Truffaut's loosely autobiographical 'Anoine Doinel' series. Here, the footloose hero reaches his 30s and a new…
And Justice for All (1979)
- Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Al Pacino, Jack Warden, Craig T. Nelson…
- Intense, if uneven courtroom–drama in which hot–shot lawyer Al Pacino defends a judge on a rape charge. Even a top supporting cast and a…
Angel Mine (1979)
- Dir. David Blyth
Feat. Derek Ward, Jennifer Redford, Myra De Groot
- A punk, Bunuel–esque social satire in which a married couple escape their material lives through anarchic fantasies, staged as dream–like…
Animal House (1979)
- Feat. John Belushi, Donald Sutherland, Karen Allen…
- National Lampoon's frat–house classic with a grossly hilarious Belushi.
Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall…
- A harrowing account of a soldier's hazardous river journey, his mission to assasinate a renegade colonel who has gone mad in the depths of the…
Apocalypse Now Redux (1979)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall…
- Twenty years after its release, dir. Coppola’s expressionist epic of the Vietnam War, is ‘healed’ (redux in Latin) by the re–inclusion of…