The best movies 1979 Pagina 6

After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him...

A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also...

The main character of this TV drama is a musician and prominent citizen Dimkovic who wants to stay out of the war. Only when his daughter’s...

A visual review of the importance of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in the life of the nation from the conquest to the present...

French Postcards rings both comic and true. The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their...

A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalised wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.

A twisted fairytale drama about the world and the characters that surround the doll Barbie.

Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the...

After the death of his master, martial arts student Tong Huo-wan travels with his adoptive family to seek redress from the man responsible but finds...

Piero Cappuccilli and Shirley Verrett lead Verdi’s sombre masterpiece, drawn from one of Shakespeare’s most celebrated tragedies. Filmed...

Boy adopts an orphaned mountain lion and they grow up together. Fifteen years later, local farmers decid theey don't like having that critter around...

A leader of a crew tries to survive after robbing a bank.

After one is arrested - possibly unjustly - for murder, the lives of two brothers spiral out of control.

A group of children fleeing from a cruel stone age society with violence, exploitation and sexual abuse.

Writer H. G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to modern day San Francisco after the infamous serial killer steals his time machine to escape the 19th...

Stephen, living in a troubled family, breaks into a grocery store and wreaks vandalism. He is sent to a reform school. Later he works in a cleaning...

Made for Roger Reynolds's Voicescapes performance, containing elements from Emshwiller's previous film "Sunstone."

Ten-graders Gosha and Zosya are in love with each other. The last school waltz has been played and it seems nothing stands any longer in the way of...

A 1979 production from BBC2 Playhouse by Denis Cannan

A three part story about the plague, religion and revolt in Northern Europe in the period 1349 to 1542.

A filmmaker engages in a routine series of sexual encounters to pass the time while editing her latest film. When one man refuses to play by her...

Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running...

A taxi driver finds Marlene, a provincial woman, lost in a brothel. Immediately he decides to help her out and take her at his place. Little by...

Documentary about Tarahumara religious observances around Easter time.

A touring theatre travelling through Uruguay soon turns into a melodrama, which in turn degenerates into an incredible police affair.

Juan, before the economic problems arising as a result of the arrival of democracy in Spain, decides to go to Venezuela, with Jaime, his brother, who...

In this sexy romantic comedy from Mexico, the life of a college professor is turned upside down when he falls for a former student, who is already...

Friends, co-workers and clients reminisce about a recently-deceased sex-worker.

Marcela, a former film star, seeks tranquility in the suburbs after marrying a wealthy industrialist. Her past haunts her with admirers and daily...

Héctor and María meet again after eight years of not seeing each other. She works as a magician in cabarets and he robs houses....

This is the first of Diego Risquez’ trilogy of avant-garde cinematic treatments of historical subjects. Using a painterly style, it features...

Biopic about a General in the Mexican Revolution. Sequel: Persecucion y muerte de Benjamin Argumedo.

The arrival of a new school-teacher to a small town triggers various large and small upheavals, including the Police Chief's total meltdown into...

A veteran policeman named Fernando feels a lot of hatred against Ángel because the boy ran him over with a car leaving him lame. Now Fernando...

1870. Agnes, of the wealthy family of Villalonga, enter as a novice in a cloistered convent. He soon falls in love with James, a soldier brother of...

Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.

Pinín and his small group of friends discover that the river they frequent is being polluted, affecting all the animals and plants in the...

Widow becomes professional singer to meet expenses. Love complications come along with the territory.

Four different Alices wander through mazes constructed from 40 years of Spanish history in this post-Franco meditation. Loosely related to the...

A look at the ceramics of the ancient Peruvians and cinema today.