The year 1979 in film involved many significant events. The top ten 1979 released films by North American gross are as follows: March 2 – Buena Vista release...

David is a 1979 West German film by director Peter Lilienthal. It tells the story of a rabbi's son in Germany during the Holocaust, who tries to raise...

Cochise, a young gang member, in the 1979 film The Warriors. He appeared as a supporting actor in a number of films and television series, and commonly...

10 is a 1979 American romantic comedy film written, produced and directed by Blake Edwards and starring Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, Robert Webber, and...

(French: Laura, les ombres de l'été) is a 1979 French erotic romantic drama film directed by photographer David Hamilton. It stars Dawn Dunlap as the title...

David Abraham Cheulkar (21 June 1909 – 2 January 1982), popularly known as David, was an Indian Hindi film actor. In a career spanning four decades, he...

Stalker (Russian: Сталкер, IPA: [ˈstaɫkʲɪr]) is a 1979 Soviet science fiction film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky with a screenplay written by Arkady and...

Hardcore is a 1979 American neo-noir thriller crime drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader. The film stars George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Season...

Tess is a 1979 epic drama film directed by Roman Polanski and starring Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, and Leigh Lawson. It is an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's...

is a 1979 American action comedy film starring Alan Arkin and Peter Falk, written by Andrew Bergman and directed by Arthur Hiller. It was filmed on various...

Warriors is a 1979 American action thriller film directed by Walter Hill. Based on Sol Yurick's 1965 novel of the same name, the film centers on a fictitious...

Fast Company is a 1979 Canadian action film directed by David Cronenberg and starring William Smith, John Saxon, Claudia Jennings and Nicholas Campbell...

Thirst is a 1979 Australian horror film directed by Rod Hardy and starring Chantal Contouri, Max Phipps, and David Hemmings. It has been described as a...

Real Life is a 1979 American comedy film starring Albert Brooks (in his directorial debut), who also co-authored the screenplay alongside Monica Johnson...

The Visitor (Italian: Stridulum) is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Giulio Paradisi (credited as Michael J. Paradise) and based on a story...

1979 American science fiction film written and directed by Nicholas Meyer and starring Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, and Mary Steenburgen. Filmed in...

The Promise is a 1979 American romantic drama film released by Universal Pictures which starred Kathleen Quinlan, Stephen Collins, and Beatrice Straight...

Dominique (also released as Dominique Is Dead) is a 1979 British psychological horror film directed by Michael Anderson, and featuring Cliff Robertson...

Ashanti (also called Ashanti, Land of No Mercy) is a 1979 action adventure film directed by Richard Fleischer and starring Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov...

co-founded the Hemdale Film Corporation. From the late 1970s on, he worked mainly as a character actor and occasionally as director. David Hemmings was born...

David Paul Cronenberg CC OOnt (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a principal originator of the...

American films released in 1979. The highest-grossing American films released in 1979, by domestic box office gross revenue, are as follows: List of 1979 box...

Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon, based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. It follows...

JESUS (also known as The Jesus Film) is a 1979 American Biblical drama film directed by Peter Sykes and John Krish, and produced by John Heyman. In Jesus...

Gol Maal (transl. Twisty-Turvy) is a 1979 Indian Hindi-language comedy film directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and written by Rahi Masoom Raza and Sachin...

Manhattan is a 1979 American romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen and produced by Charles H. Joffe from a screenplay written by Allen and Marshall...

Hurricane is a 1979 American romantic adventure film featuring Mia Farrow and Jason Robards, produced by Dino De Laurentiis with Lorenzo Semple Jr. (who...

film Magnum Force. His breakthrough came when he portrayed Detective Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson on Starsky & Hutch, a role he played from 1975 until 1979...

Mad Max is a 1979 Australian dystopian action film directed by George Miller, who co-wrote the screenplay with James McCausland, based on a story by Miller...

The Rose is a 1979 American musical drama film directed by Mark Rydell, and starring Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Barry...