1979 movies

Wanderers, The (1979)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Ken Wahl | John Friedrich | Alan Rosenberg | Jim Youngs | Tony Ganios | William Andrews | Erland van Lidth | Val Avery | Dolph Sweet | Michael Wright | Burtt Harris | Samm-Art Williams | Dion Albanese | George Merolle | John Califano
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Set against the urban jungle of 1963 New York’s gangland subculture, this coming of age teenage movie is set around the Italian gang the Wanderers. Slight comedy, slight High School angst and every bit entertaining with its classic 1950’s Rock n’ Roll soundtrack such as “Walk Like a Man”, “Big Girls Don’t Cry” by The Four Seasons and “My Boyfriend’s Back” by The Angels. Focusing around a football game where the different gangs play with and against each other, then at its grand finale, come together in a mass of union to defend their honour and their turf. Nostalgic stuff and above all a Rock n’ Roll retrospective on a grand musical era. Timeless.

1941 (1979)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Dan Aykroyd | John Candy | Warren Oates | Christopher Lee | Toshiro Mifune | Robert Stack | Nancy Allen | Treat Williams | John Belushi | Ned Beatty | Samuel Fuller
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Hysteria grips California in the wake of the bombing of Pearl harbour as an assorted group of defenders attempt to make the coast defensible against an imagined Japanese invasion in this big budget, big cast comedy. Members of a Japanese submarine crew scout out the madness.

Mad Max (1979)

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: Mel Gibson | Joanne Samuel | Hugh Keays-Byrne | Steve Bisley | Tim Burns | Roger Ward | Lisa Aldenhoven | David Bracks | Bertrand Cadart | David Cameron | Robina Chaffey | Stephen Clark | Mathew Constantine | Jerry Day | Reg Evans
Directors: George Miller
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It is a couple of years in the future… The highways of Australia are ruled by violent gangs who have turned the highways into a battleground as they loot gasoline and terrorize the innocent. Max Rockatansky is a policeman who had everything… Until, a murderous motorcycle gang led by the evil Toecutter burns his partner Jim Goose to death and murders his wife and son, after Max killed their leader “The Knight Rider”. Loosing his rocker, Max decides to take the law into his own hands as he sets out to get his revenge on the motorcycle gang and become the road warrior known as “Mad Max”.

Life of Brian (1979)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Graham Chapman | John Cleese | Terry Gilliam | Eric Idle | Michael Palin | Terence Bayler | Carol Cleveland | Kenneth Colley | Neil Innes | Charles McKeown | John Young | Gwen Taylor | Sue Jones-Davies | Peter Brett
Directors: Terry Jones
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The Monty Pyton team tells the life, death and resurrection (?) of Brian from Nazareth, an unwilling prophet who wants to free his land from the oppression of Rome. When Brian covers a huge wall with the writing “ROMANI ITE DOMUM” (Romans go home), a local revolutionary group begins to take him seriously…

Being There (1979)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Peter Sellers | Shirley MacLaine | Melvyn Douglas | Jack Warden | Richard Dysart | Richard Basehart | Ruth Attaway | David Clennon | Fran Brill | Denise DuBarry | Oteil Burbridge | Ravenell Keller III | Brian Corrigan | Alfredine P. Brown | Donald Jacob
Directors: Hal Ashby
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A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.

Dracula (1979)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Horror | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gary Oldman | Winona Ryder | Anthony Hopkins | Keanu Reeves | Richard E. Grant | Cary Elwes | Bill Campbell | Sadie Frost | Tom Waits | Monica Bellucci | Michaela Bercu | Florina Kendrick | Jay Robinson | I.M. Hobson | Laurie Franks
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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When a schooner is wrecked off Whitby the only survivor is Count Dracula who has arrived with large amounts of Transylvanian soil to take up residence in Carfax Abbey. He takes the life or Lucy, who is engaged to Dr. Seward, who runs the local asylum. Lucy’s friend Mina, and her fiancĂ© Jonathan Harker, a solicitor, also make contact with Dracula. But almost immediately, Lucy dies from loss of blood, and just possibly this may not be a coincidence. The group calls on the aid of Prefessor Van Helsing, noted supernatural expert, and together they pursue the vampire.

007 Moonraker (1979)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Roger Moore | Lois Chiles | Michael Lonsdale | Richard Kiel | Corinne Clery | Bernard Lee | Geoffrey Keen | Desmond Llewelyn | Lois Maxwell | ToshirĂ´ Suga | Emily Bolton | Blanche Ravalec | Irka Bochenko | Mike Marshall | Leila Shenna
Directors: Lewis Gilbert
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A Boeing 747 carrying a US space shuttle on loan to the UK crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. When the British examine the wreckage they can find no trace of the spacecraft and send agent James Bond to the shuttle’s manufacturers, Drax Industries, to investigate.

Alien (1979)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Tom Skerritt | Sigourney Weaver | Veronica Cartwright | Harry Dean Stanton | John Hurt | Ian Holm | Yaphet Kotto | Bolaji Badejo | Helen Horton
Directors: Ridley Scott
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While returning from a deep-space mission, the crew of the commercial spaceship Nostromo is awakened by a supposed SOS call from a system they are passing through. Descending to the planet’s surface, they discover a strange derelict spaceship - the apparent source of the transmission - and one of the crew descends into the hold. What he finds are thousands of strange alien eggs. While examining one of the eggs, it hatches and the parasite inside attacks him. After returning to the Nostromo the crew takes off again to head for Earth. The alien parasite subsequently dies and all seems well again. But what no one knows is that another alien is quietly forming within its host - and when it emerges, the crew finds itself in serious trouble…

Caligula (1979)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Malcolm McDowell | Teresa Ann Savoy | Helen Mirren | Peter O'Toole | John Steiner | Guido Mannari | Paolo Bonacelli | Leopoldo Trieste | Giancarlo Badessi | Mirella D'Angelo | Anneka Di Lorenzo | Lori Wagner | Adriana Asti | John Gielgud | Bruno Brive
Directors: Tinto Brass | Bob Guccione
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The rise and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the violent methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the subsequent insanity of his reign - he gives his horse political office and humiliates and executes anyone who even slightly displeases him. He also sleeps with his sister, organises elaborate orgies and embarks on a fruitless invasion of England before meeting an appropriate end. There are various versions of the film, ranging from the heavily- truncated 90-minute version to the legendary 160-minute hardcore version which leaves nothing to the imagination (though the hardcore scenes were inserted later and do not involve the main cast members).

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Duvall | Marlon Brando | Martin Sheen | Frederic Forrest | Laurence Fishburne | Sam Bottoms | Dennis Hopper | Albert Hall | Harrison Ford | G.D. Spradlin | Jerry Ziesmer | Scott Glenn | Bo Byers | James Keane | Kerry Rossall
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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Based on Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness, this is a controversial addition to the multitude of Vietnam war movies in existence. Set in 1969 Vietnam, we follow U.S. Special Forces Captain Willard on his mission up a river into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.