19 films released in 1979

House of Seven Belles

Andy Milligan, 1979, United States

92 mins
5.4 / 10 (350)
128 countries
2 years
Horror

Black Head (Kara Kafa)

Korhan Yurtsever, 1979, Turkey

82 mins
7.8 / 10 (510)
1 country
1 year
Drama

Black Jack

Ken Loach, 1979, United Kingdom

102 mins
7.6 / 10 (124)
3 countries
11 months
Drama Action Comedy

Charles and Lucie (Charles et Lucie)

Nelly Kaplan, 1979, France

94 mins
8.2 / 10 (171)
116 countries
11 months
Comedy

Camera Buff (Amator)

Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1979, Poland

109 mins
8.6 / 10 (3037)
3 countries
10 months
Drama

West Indies (West Indies ou les nègres marrons de la liberté)

Med Hondo, 1979, France

116 mins
8.6 / 10 (80)
1 country
9 months
Drama Musical

Love on the Run (L'amour en fuite)

François Truffaut, 1979, France

93 mins
7.6 / 10 (3106)
4 countries
8 months
Drama Comedy Romance

Life Sentence (Cadena perpetua)

Arturo Ripstein, 1979, Mexico

95 mins
7.8 / 10 (771)
1 country
8 months
Crime Drama Thriller

Family Nest (Családi tüzfészek)

Béla Tarr, 1979, Hungary

101 mins
7.2 / 10 (308)
2 countries
7 months
Drama

Is This Fate? (Von wegen ‚Schicksal')

Helga Reidemeister, 1979, West Germany

122 mins
9 / 10 (565)
127 countries
6 months
Documentary

First Case, Second Case (Ghazieh-e Shekl-e Aval, Ghazieh-e Shekl-e Dou Wom)

Abbas Kiarostami, 1979, Iran

48 mins
7.4 / 10 (96)
1 country
6 months
Documentary

Yusuf and Kenan (Yusuf İle Kenan)

Ömer Kavur, 1979, Turkey

77 mins
8.8 / 10 (1097)
1 country
5 months
Drama

Ernesto

Salvatore Samperi, 1979, Italy

91 mins
7 / 10 (198)
1 country
4 months
Drama Romance LGBTQ+

The Brood

David Cronenberg, 1979, Canada

91 mins
7.4 / 10 (2770)
1 country
2 months
Horror Sci-Fi

Nosferatu the Vampyre (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht)

Werner Herzog, 1979, West Germany

107 mins
8 / 10 (3767)
2 countries
40 days
Horror

Traffic Jam (L'ingorgo, una storia impossibile)

Luigi Comencini, 1979, France

109 mins
7.8 / 10 (528)
1 country
39 days
Drama Comedy

Stalker (Сталкер)

Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979, Soviet Union

162 mins
9.2 / 10 (16488)
3 countries
39 days
Drama Avant-Garde Sci-Fi

The Wanderers

Philip Kaufman, 1979, United States

117 mins
7.6 / 10 (650)
3 countries
9 days
Romance Comedy

Asparagus

Suzan Pitt, 1979, United States

18 mins
8.2 / 10 (4548)
124 countries
Unlimited
Short Animation