From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A list of American films released in 1979
Kramer vs. Kramer won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
The Muppet Movie was the highest-grossing film of 1979.
A
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre/Note
|
|
1979
|
10 |
Blake Edwards |
Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, Bo Derek |
Comedy |
|
1941 |
Steven Spielberg |
John Belushi, Ned Beatty, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Toshiro Mifune, Robert Stack, Warren Oates, Tim Matheson |
Comedy |
|
A Force of One |
Paul Aaron |
Chuck Norris, Jennifer O'Neill, Ron O'Neal |
Action |
|
Agatha |
Michael Apted |
Dustin Hoffman, Vanessa Redgrave |
Drama |
|
Alien |
Ridley Scott |
Sigourney Weaver, Yaphet Kotto, Tom Skerritt |
Science Fiction, Horror |
|
The Alien Encounters |
James T. Flocker |
Bonnie Henry |
Science Fiction |
|
All That Jazz |
Bob Fosse |
Roy Scheider, Ann Reinking, Ben Vereen |
Drama, Musical |
|
Americathon |
Neal Israel |
John Ritter, Harvey Korman, Fred Willard |
Comedy |
|
The Amityville Horror |
Stuart Rosenberg |
James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger |
Horror |
|
An Almost Perfect Affair |
Michael Ritchie |
Monica Vitti, Keith Carradine |
Romance, Drama |
|
...And Justice for All |
Norman Jewison |
Al Pacino, John Forsythe, Jack Warden |
Drama, Comedy |
|
Angels' Brigade |
Greydon Clark |
Sylvia Anderson, Peter Lawford, Jim Backus |
Action |
|
Apocalypse Now |
Francis Ford Coppola |
Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms, Laur. Fishburne, Harrison Ford |
Drama, War |
|
Avalanche Express |
Mark Robson |
Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Joe Namath |
Thriller, Action |
|
B-G
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
Baby Snakes |
Frank Zappa |
Frank Zappa, Dale Bozzio |
Concert, Comedy |
|
Being There |
Hal Ashby |
Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvin Douglas |
Comedy |
|
Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens |
Russ Meyer |
Ken Kerr, Kitten Natividad, Uschi Digard |
Comedy |
|
Best Boy |
Ira Wohl |
Philip Wohl, Zero Mostel |
Documentary |
|
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure |
Irwin Allen |
Michael Caine, Telly Savalas |
Thriller, Action |
|
The Black Hole |
Gary Nelson |
Ernest Borgnine, Anthony Perkins, Yvette Mimieux |
Science Fiction |
|
The Black Stallion |
Carroll Ballard |
Teri Garr, Mickey Rooney |
Family |
|
Bloodline |
Terrence Young |
Audrey Hepburn, James Mason |
Drama |
|
Breaking Away |
Peter Yates |
Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Paul Dooley, Barbara Barrie |
Drama, Comedy |
|
The Brood |
David Cronenberg |
Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar |
Horror |
|
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie |
Phil Monroe, Chuck Jones |
Voices of Mel Blanc |
Animated, Family |
|
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days |
Richard Lester |
Tom Berenger, William Katt |
Western |
|
The Champ |
Franco Zeffirelli |
Jon Voight, Rick Schroder, Faye Dunaway |
Drama |
|
Chapter Two |
Robert Moore |
James Caan, Marsha Mason, Joseph Bologna |
Comedy, Drama |
|
Cheerleaders' Wild Weekend |
Jeff Werner |
Kristine DeBell |
Thriller, Action |
|
The Children of Sanchez |
Hall Bartlett |
Anthony Quinn, Dolores del Rio |
Drama |
|
The China Syndrome |
James Bridges |
Michael Douglas, Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon |
Thriller, Drama |
|
The Concorde: Airport '79 |
David Lowell Rich |
George Kennedy, Alain Delon, Charo |
Drama, Thriller |
|
The Disco Godfather |
J. Robert Wagoner |
Rudy Ray Moore, Carol Speed |
Action, Comedy |
|
Dracula |
John Badham |
Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier |
Horror, Drama |
|
Dreamer |
Noel Nosseck |
Tim Matheson, Jack Warden, Susan Blakely |
Drama |
|
The Driller Killer |
Abel Ferrara |
Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz |
Horror, Drama |
|
The Electric Horseman |
Sydney Pollack |
Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Willie Nelson |
Comedy, Romance |
|
Escape from Alcatraz |
Don Siegel |
Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Fred Ward |
Drama, Action
|
Escape to Athena |
George P. Cosmatos |
Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, Claudia Cardinale |
Action, War |
|
The Europeans |
James Ivory |
Lee Remick, Lisa Eichhorn |
Drama |
|
Fast Company |
David Cronenberg |
John Saxon, Claudia Jennings |
Drama |
|
The Fifth Floor |
Howard Avedis |
Sharon Farrell, Bo Hopkins |
Horror, Thriller |
|
The First Great Train Robbery |
Michael Crichton |
Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down |
Drama, Action |
|
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh |
Gilbert Moses |
Jonathan Winters, Julius Erving, Flip Wilson |
Comedy, Sports |
|
The Frisco Kid |
Robert Aldrich |
Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford |
Comedy |
|
The Glove |
Ross Hagen |
John Saxon, Joanna Cassidy, Roosevelt Grier |
Action |
|
Going in Style |
Martin Brest |
George Burns, Art Carney, Lee Strasberg |
Comedy, Drama |
|
The Great Santini |
Lewis Carlino |
Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O'Keefe |
Drama film |
|
H-M
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
Hair |
Milos Forman |
Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo |
Musical |
|
Hanover Street |
Peter Hyams |
Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Plummer |
Drama |
|
Hardcore |
Paul Schrader |
George C. Scott, Season Hubley, Peter Boyle |
Drama |
|
Head Over Heels |
Joan Micklin Silver |
Mary Beth Hurt, John Heard |
Drama |
|
Heartland |
Richard Pearce |
Conchata Ferrell, Rip Torn |
Drama |
|
Hot Stuff |
Dom DeLuise |
Dom DeLuise, Suzanne Pleshette, Jerry Reed |
Comedy |
|
The Human Factor |
Otto Preminger |
Richard Attenborough, John Gielgud |
Thriller |
|
The In-Laws |
Arthur Hiller |
Peter Falk, Alan Arkin |
Comedy |
|
The Jerk |
Carl Reiner |
Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters |
Comedy |
|
Jesus |
Peter Sykes, John Krish |
Brian Deacon, Eli Cohen |
Drama, Family |
|
Just You and Me, Kid |
Leonard B. Stern |
George Burns, Brooke Shields |
Comedy |
|
The Kids Are Alright |
Jeff Stein |
The Who, Ringo Starr, Tom Smothers |
Documentary, Music |
|
Kramer vs. Kramer |
Robert Benton |
Dustin Hoffman, Justin Henry, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander |
Drama |
|
Last Embrace |
Jonathan Demme |
Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin |
Drama |
|
A Little Romance |
George Roy Hill |
Laurence Olivier, Diane Lane |
Comedy |
|
Lost and Found |
Melvin Frank |
Glenda Jackson, George Segal |
Comedy |
|
Love At First Bite |
Stan Dragoti |
George Hamilton, Susan Saint James |
Comedy |
|
La Luna |
Bernardo Bertolucci |
Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry |
Drama |
|
The Main Event |
Howard Zieff |
Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal |
Comedy |
|
A Man, a Woman, and a Bank |
Noel Black |
Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams |
Comedy, Crime |
|
Manhattan |
Woody Allen |
Woody Allen, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep |
Drama |
|
Meatballs |
Ivan Reitman |
Bill Murray, Matt Craven |
Comedy |
|
Meteor |
Ronald Neame |
Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden |
Thriller, Science Fiction |
|
Moonraker |
Lewis Gilbert |
Roger Moore, Richard Kiel |
Adventure, Science Fiction |
|
More American Graffiti |
Bill L. Norton |
Ron Howard, Candy Clark, Paul LeMat |
Comedy, Drama |
|
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video |
Michael O'Donoghue |
Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Teri Garr |
Comedy |
|
The Muppet Movie |
James Frawley |
James Coburn, Mel Brooks, Orson Welles |
Comedy, Family |
|
N-S
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square |
Ralph Thomas |
David Niven, Elke Sommer |
Comedy |
|
Norma Rae |
Martin Ritt |
Sally Field, Ron Leibman |
Drama |
|
The North Avenue Irregulars |
Bruce Bilson |
Edward Herrmann, Cloris Leachman |
Comedy, Family |
|
North Dallas Forty |
Ted Kotcheff |
Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Charles Durning |
Comedy, Sports |
|
Over the Edge |
Jonathan Kaplan |
Matt Dillon, Vincent Spano |
Drama |
|
Parts: The Clonus Horror |
Robert S. Fiveson |
Peter Graves, Keenan Wynn |
Science Fiction |
|
Penitentary |
Jamaa Fanaka |
Leon Issac Kennedy, Badja Djola |
Drama, Action |
|
A Perfect Couple |
Robert Altman |
Paul Dooley, Marta Heflin, Henry Gibson |
Comedy |
|
Phantasm |
Don Coscarelli |
Reggie Bannister, Angus Scrimm |
Horror |
|
The Prisoner of Zenda |
Richard Quine |
Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer |
Comedy |
|
Prophecy |
John Frankenheimer |
Talia Shire, Armand Assante |
Horror |
|
The Punk Rock Movie |
Don Letts |
John Lydon, Joe Strummer, Siouxsie Sioux |
Documentary |
|
Quintet |
Robert Altman |
Paul Newman, Fernando Rey |
Drama |
|
Real Life |
Albert Brooks |
Albert Brooks, Charles Grodin |
Comedy |
|
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert |
Jeff Margolis |
Richard Pryor |
Comedy, Concert |
|
Rock 'n' Roll High School |
Allan Arkush |
P.J. Soles, Mary Woronov, The Ramones |
Comedy |
|
Rocky II |
Sylvester Stallone |
Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers, Talia Shire |
Drama, Sports |
|
Roller Boogie |
Mark L. Lester |
Linda Blair, Beverly Garland |
Drama, Romance |
|
The Rose |
Mark Rydell |
Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest |
Drama |
|
Saint Jack |
Peter Bogdanovich |
Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott |
Drama |
|
Scavenger Hunt |
Michael Schultz |
Cloris Leachman, Cleavon Little, Tony Randall |
Comedy |
|
The Seduction of Joe Tynan |
Jerry Schatzberg |
Alan Alda, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn |
Drama |
|
Skatetown, U.S.A. |
William A. Levey |
Scott Baio, Flip Wilson, Patrick Swayze |
Comedy |
|
Star Trek: The Motion Picture |
Robert Wise |
William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Persis Khambatta |
Science Fiction |
|
Starting Over |
Alan J. Pakula |
Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen |
Comedy |
|
Sunburn |
Richard C. Sarafian |
Farrah Fawcett, Art Carney, Charles Grodin |
Action, Comedy |
|
T-Z
Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Note
|
Take Down |
Keith Merrill |
Edward Herrmann, Kathleen Lloyd |
Drama |
|
The Promise |
Gilbert Cates |
Kathleen Quinlan, Stephen Collins |
Drama |
|
Tilt |
Rudy Durand |
Brooke Shields, Charles Durning |
Drama |
|
Time After Time |
Nicholas Meyer |
Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen |
Drama, Sci-Fi |
|
The Villain |
Hal Needham |
Kirk Douglas, Ann-Margret, Arnold Schwarzenegger |
Comedy |
|
The Visitor |
Giulio Paradisi |
Glenn Ford, Shelley Winters, Steve Somers |
Horror |
|
The Wanderers |
Philip Kaufman |
Ken Wahl, Karen Allen, Val Avery |
Drama |
|
The War at Home |
Glenn Silber |
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Allen Ginsberg |
Documentary |
|
The Warriors |
Walter Hill |
James Remar, Michael Beck |
Action |
|
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? |
Milton Katselas |
Marjoe Gortner, Candy Clark |
Drama |
|
When a Stranger Calls |
Fred Walton |
Carol Kane, Charles Durning |
Thriller |
|
Winter Kills |
William Richert |
Jeff Bridges, Anthony Perkins, Sterling Hayden |
Drama |
|
Wise Blood |
John Huston |
Brad Dourif, John Huston, Ned Beatty |
Drama |
|
Wolfman |
Worth Keeter, Earl Owensby |
Earl Owensby, Ed Grady |
Horror |
|
Yanks |
John Schlesinger |
Richard Gere, Lisa Eichhorn |
Drama, War |
|
External links
|
---|
Africa | Central | |
---|
Eastern | |
---|
Northern | |
---|
Southern | |
---|
Western | |
---|
|
---|
Asia | Central | |
---|
Eastern | |
---|
Southern | |
---|
Southeastern | |
---|
Western | |
---|
|
---|
Europe | Eastern | |
---|
Northern | |
---|
Southern | |
---|
Western | |
---|
|
---|
Americas | |
---|
Oceania | |
---|