31. The Rose
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mark Rydell
Actors: Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, David Keith, Barry Primus
Plot: Rose, a famous singer, lives the word life by drinking, drugs and a lot of sex until she thinks she meets the man of her dreams. But then he tries to change her.
32. Norma Rae
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Martin Ritt
Actors: Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Barbara Baxley, Gail Strickland
33. The Great Santini
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Lewis John Carlino
Actors: Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O'Keefe, Lisa Jane Persky, Julie Anne Haddock, David Keith
34. Richard Pryor Live in Concert
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jeff Margolis
Actors: Richard Pryor
35. North Dallas Forty
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sport
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Actors: Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Charles Durning, Bo Svenson, Dabney Coleman, Dayle Haddon
Plot: Wide-receiver Phil Elliot of the North Dallas Bulls may have the best hands in football but is not considered a team player by his coach. Phil will do anything to keep his battered body in the game but the hard life he is living off the field is beginning to catch up to him.
36. Berlin Alexanderplatz
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Günter Lamprecht, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Karlheinz Braun, Hanna Schygulla, Claus Holm, Franz Buchrieser
Plot: In 1930s Germany, Franz Biberkopf, just out of prison for murdering his girlfriend, struggles to adjust to life on the outside. As he gets more deeply and destructively involved with his best friend -- a pimp -- and various women, the Nazis begin their rise to power. Fassbinder's 16-hour epic was originally shown on German television. Based on the novel by Alfred Doblin.
37. Quadrophenia
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Franc Roddam
Actors: Phil Daniels, Sting, Ray Winstone, Leslie Ash, Philip Davis, Mark Wingett
Plot: A look into 1960's Britain that explores the relationship between Mods and Rockers set to the music of The Who.
38. Phantasm
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Don Coscarelli
Actors: Michael Baldwin, Lynn Eastman, Reggie Bannister, David Arntzen, Angus Scrimm, Bill Cone
Plot: Mike looks up to his older brother who seems to have it all - the looks, the car and the girls. However, the two are thrown into a different world after a funeral when the mortician, The Tall Man, is seen lifting a coffin with ease and taking it with him. Thus begins their quest to bring down The Tall Man.
39. The Amityville Horror
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Actors: James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud, Val Avery, Murray Hamilton
Plot: A family moves into a new dream home, but find that is actually a mass-murder site and the ghosts of the victims may still be there.
40. cage aux folles, La
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Edouard Molinaro
Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Claire Maurier, Rémi Laurent, Carmen Scarpitta, Benny Luke
Plot: A pair of gay men in St. Tropez find themselves in a desperate fight to conceal their relationship - and the transvestite club they run downstairs - when one of their sons announces his marriage and his fiance's parents stop by for a visit.
