Top Movies of 1979


The top movies of 1979 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

51. The Frisco Kid

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Robert Aldrich
Actors: Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri, Val Bisoglio, George DiCenzo, Penny Peyser
Plot: A range ridin' cowboy takes an immigrant Polish rabbi under his wing on his way to San Francisco.

52. Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Majel Barrett
Plot: Kirk, Spock and McCoy have to save the planet Earth from V'ger, a massive
space entity destroying everything in it's path.

53. Hardcore

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Schrader
Actors: George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley, Leonard Gaines, Dick Sargent, Dave Nichols
Plot: A religious man from the midwest goes to Los Angeles in search of his runaway daughter, who is starring in pornographic films.

54. The Great Train Robbery

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Crichton
Actors: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Alan Webb, Malcolm Terris, Robert Lang

55. Alexandria... Why? ( Iskanderija... lih? )

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Youssef Chahine
Actors: Ahmed Zaki, Naglaa Fathy, Farid Shawqi, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Ezzat El Alaili, Youssef Wahby

56. All Quiet on the Western Front

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Delbert Mann
Actors: Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Ian Holm, Patricia Neal, Dominic Jephcott
Plot: A young German, along with his classmates, enlist to fight in WWI. Originally the idealistic young men think war with be an adventure, but as the war drags on, and more and more of them die, disillusionment and reality set in.

57. Innocent, The ( innocente, L' )

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luchino Visconti
Actors: Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli, Jennifer O'Neill, Rina Morelli, Massimo Girotti, Didier Haudepin

58. Shock ( Schock )

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mario Bava
Actors: Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr., Ivan Rassimov

59. A Little Romance

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Roy Hill
Actors: Laurence Olivier, Diane Lane, Thelonious Bernard, Arthur Hill, Broderick Crawford, Sally Kellerman
Plot: A teenage girl from the U.S. falls in love with a boy in France and the two of them have to find a way to spend a little time together before the girl moves back to the U.S.

60. The Onion Field

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Harold Becker
Actors: John Savage, James Woods, Franklyn Seales, Ted Danson, Ronny Cox, Christopher Lloyd

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