1979 Movies

A graphic disintegration of paranoia, perversion and violence in Chicago. (worldcat.org)

This documentary chronicles the assassination attempt made on Adolph Hitler on July 20, 1944 and the subsequent trial of the conspirators. Film footag...

A disaffected media executive spends his days watching violent programming on the television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his fru...

The setting is Central Asia during the Russian civil war. In the post-revolutionary twenties, when the power in European Russia was (officially) "full...

At 20, Tonya gave birth to a daughter — alone, without a husband. At 30 — personal happiness became an unattainable dream. She devoted herself to her...

Two people in debt to loan sharks cooperate with each other to clear their debt and cheat other people out of their money.

The independently-minded daughter of lower-middle class French shopkeepers, Brigitte, one of three sisters, refused to marry the father of her child w...

During the time of the Peasants' Wars, the free knight Götz von Berlichingen gets into all kinds of private and political entanglements when he defend...

A high school student is infatuated with his beautiful tutor. This beautiful tutor, whose perversions are hidden from the outside world, is married t...

Zoran is a graduate student of psychology and she gets a motorcycle as a present from his father. Being an unskilled driver, he stumbles upon a girl B...

Part of the Wu Tang Chess Boxing Collection, Seven Commandments stars Li Yi Min as the protege of Chang Yi, who teaches him the seven commandments of...

16mm, bw, sound, 11m There are two soundtrack versions of this film, referred to as the “Barbara Bode track” and the “John Fernie track”. Both versio...

A dedicated social worker organizes a train trip for a group of slum orphans in 1894, taking them from New York City to the Midwest in search of new f...

They are in their thirties. They have now children, an appartment, a work, cars... and still have loves, dreams and passions. They will meet each othe...

A self-made man finds his building firm in trouble as a new office block nears completion.

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A point-of-video film about Larry Hoki's journey to buy a car, a sincerely reali...

Darmi, an unfaithful married woman, uses a magical charm to preserve her youth. Once her husband finds out what she's been up to (which includes screw...

Jan Plummer, a policewoman recently transferred from the NYPD to a beach patrol unit, spots a fugitive drug kingpin on the beach and becomes a target...

The norwegian Montreux contribution of 1979. Norwegians ridiculing themselves, with the help from John Cleese.