Subgenre Sampler
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…
Arabian Adventure (1979)- Dir. Kevin Conner
Feat. Christopher Lee, Milo O'Shea, Mickey Rooney… - Sumptuous Arabic fantasy set around a treasure hunt for the mystical Rose of Elil. Good f/x and a great British cast make for smooth entertainment.
Armchair Thriller Collection (1979-1981)- Feat. Ian McKellen, James Bolam, Alun Armstrong
- With memorably unsettling opening credits and exceptional performances and direction, this anthology series became a significant hit for Thames…
Ashanti (1979)- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov, Omar Sharif… - When his wife is kidnapped by Arab slave traders, UN medic Michael Caine hops aboard a camel and goes on an adventure quest to retrieve her. Caine…
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