Search results for "1979"
The Shogun Assassins

The Shogun Assassins

The Shogun Assassins
IMDb: 5.9
148

This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Genre: Action, Drama
Life on Earth

Life on Earth

Life on Earth
TMDb: 9
55 min

The story of life, from the first primitive cells to the plants and animals that now live around us.

Status: Ended
Genre: Documentary
Heaven Sent

Heaven Sent

Heaven Sent
IMDb: 5.3
91

Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea. One day, someone leaves behind a six-year-old child at their…

Genre: Comedy
This Old House

This Old House

This Old House
TMDb: 5.4
30,60 min

TV’s original home-improvement show, following one whole-house renovation over several episodes.

Status: Returning Series
Genre: Documentary
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo

Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo

Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
TMDb: 7.1
30,22 min

The original thirty-minute version of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo constitutes the fourth incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 22, 1979 and ran for one season…

Status: Ended
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
TMDb: 7.7
50 min

Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar-man, thief. George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out…

Status: Ended
Genre: Drama
Einstein’s Universe

Einstein’s Universe

Einstein’s Universe
IMDb: 7.4
118

A documentary produced in 1979 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Albert Einstein. Narrated and hosted by Peter Ustinov and written by Nigel Calder.

Genre: Documentary
Eighteen Years, to the Sea

Eighteen Years, to the Sea

Eighteen Years, to the Sea
IMDb: 7.1
110

Kei and Atsuo were both enrolled in summer school. Kei was an honor student, and Atsuo was the polar opposite – but opposites attract. After school, the two head to…

Genre: Drama
Macbeth

Macbeth

Macbeth
IMDb: 7.6
145

Macbeth is a 1978 videotaped version of Trevor Nunn’s Royal Shakespeare Company production of the play by William Shakespeare. Produced by Thames Television, it features Ian McKellen as Macbeth and…

Genre: Drama
The War at Home

The War at Home

The War at Home
IMDb: 7.6
100

Documentary film about the anti-war movement in the Madison, Wisconsin area during the time of the Vietnam War. It combines archival footage and interviews with participants that explore the events…

Genre: Documentary, War
Archie Bunker’s Place

Archie Bunker’s Place

Archie Bunker’s Place
TMDb: 6.4
30 min

Archie Bunker’s Place is an American sitcom originally broadcast on the CBS network, conceived in 1979 as a spin-off and continuation of All in the Family. While not as popular…

Status: Ended
Genre: Comedy
Youth – Part II

Youth – Part II

Youth – Part II
IMDb: N/A
111

Isamu, a star athlete in high school, becomes a race cyclist. He wins his debut races, but soon his opponents see through his lack of strategy and beat him easily….

Genre: Drama
The Quatermass Conclusion

The Quatermass Conclusion

The Quatermass Conclusion
IMDb: N/A
102

Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large…

Hurricane

Hurricane

Hurricane
IMDb: N/A
120

The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful governor of the island. Amid…

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Game For Vultures

Game For Vultures

Game For Vultures
IMDb: 4.6
113

The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.

Genre: Action
Poto and Cabengo

Poto and Cabengo

Poto and Cabengo
IMDb: 7.2
77

Documentary by Jean-Pierre Gorin about twin girls who spontaneously developed their own unique language as children.

Genre: Documentary
The Woman with Red Hair

The Woman with Red Hair

The Woman with Red Hair
IMDb: 6
73

Kozo and his colleague rape their boss’s daughter and have sex with an unnamed woman.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Fifth Estate

The Fifth Estate

The Fifth Estate
TMDb: 6.5
60 min

Each week the fifth estate brings in-depth investigations that matter to Canadians – delivering a dazzling parade of political leaders, controversial characters and ordinary people whose lives were touched by…

Status: Returning Series
Genre: Documentary, News
The Ropers

The Ropers

The Ropers
TMDb: 3.7
30 min

The Ropers is an American sitcom that ran from March 13, 1979 to May 22, 1980 on ABC. The series is a spin-off of Three’s Company and based on the…

Status: Ended
Genre: Comedy
Benson

Benson

Benson
TMDb: 7.4
N/A

José Ferrer and Horst Buchholz star in this fictionalised account of events leading up to the assassination of Indian spiritual leader and independence campaigner Mahatma Gandhi.

Status: Released
Genre: Drama, History
Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love

Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love

Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love
IMDb: 7.5
97

A young couple is overjoyed when they find out that, after having had two girls, the wife is pregnant again, and this time it will be a son. However, the…

Genre: Drama
Christmas Lilies of the Field

Christmas Lilies of the Field

Christmas Lilies of the Field
IMDb: 6.2
100

Sometime after the events in ‘Lilies of the Field’ (1963) Homer Smith returns to the Church he helped build to find the nuns have taken in a group of homeless…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Fast Break

Fast Break

Fast Break
IMDb: 6.2
107

David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. He brings along some players, who…

Genre: Comedy
The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Movie

The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Movie

The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Movie
IMDb: 7.3
98

A collection of Warner Brothers short cartoon features, “starring” the likes of Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Wile.E.Coyote. These animations are interspersed by Bugs Bunny reminiscing on past events and…

The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone

The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone

The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone
IMDb: 7
48

The Flintstones and Rubbles win a trip on “Make a Deal or Don’t” to Count Rockula’s castle in Rocksylvania where they have an unpleasant meeting with the Count and his…

Dominique

Dominique

Dominique
IMDb: 5.3
95

The wife of a greedy man comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death.

Gas Pump Girls

Gas Pump Girls

Gas Pump Girls
IMDb: 4.8
86

June and her friends take over a service station formerly run by her uncle. They perform every trick in the book to attract the customers.

Genre: Comedy
An American Christmas Carol

An American Christmas Carol

An American Christmas Carol
IMDb: 6.9
98

In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of…

Arabian Adventure

Arabian Adventure

Arabian Adventure
IMDb: 5.8
98

An evil caliph (Christopher Lee) offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to a prince if he can complete a perilous quest for a magical rose. Helped by a young boy…

The Bitch

The Bitch

The Bitch
IMDb: 3.5
89

The owner of a trendy disco starts having problems with the men in her life and the Mafia, which is trying to move in on her place.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Brood

The Brood

The Brood
IMDb: 6.8
92

A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist’s therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the…

City on Fire

City on Fire

City on Fire
IMDb: 4.1
106

A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.

Genre: Action
The Dark

The Dark

The Dark
IMDb: 4.3
92

At night the Mangler stalks the streets of Los Angeles, killing and mutilating random victims. On the trail are a TV reporter, the father of one of the victims, and…

Fast Company

Fast Company

Fast Company
IMDb: 5.5
91

An early departure from director David Cronenberg’s canon of visceral horror, 1979’s Fast Company profiles one of his personal passions, racecars, in a gritty melodrama that also features exciting racetrack…

Genre: Drama
Escape to Athena

Escape to Athena

Escape to Athena
IMDb: 5.7
125

During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a greek island are trying to escape. They don’t want only their freedom, but they also seek for…

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, War
Eagle’s Wing

Eagle’s Wing

Eagle’s Wing
IMDb: 5.9
111

Two men, an aging Native American and a ne’er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle’s Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans…

Genre: Drama, Western
Fascination

Fascination

Fascination
IMDb: 6.1
80

A thief seeks refuge in a castle owned by two women, Eva and Elizabeth. The women are seductive and teasing, but turn out to be part of a vampiric cult…

Genre: Drama, Horror
A Force of One

A Force of One

A Force of One
IMDb: 5.2
90

Karate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after narcotics agents are killed by an assailant using the martial arts.

Chilly Scenes of Winter

Chilly Scenes of Winter

Chilly Scenes of Winter
IMDb: 7
92

Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker who left Charles to…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Proud Twins

The Proud Twins

The Proud Twins
IMDb: 6.2
105

After his parents are murdered, Jiang Xiao Yu (Fu Sheng) is separated from his twin as a baby and taken by a family friend to “Villains Valley,” where he is…