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.

81. Good Guys Wear Black

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ted Post
Actors: Chuck Norris, Anne Archer, James Franciscus, Lloyd Haynes, Dana Andrews, Jim Backus

82. Airport '79 The Concorde

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: David Lowell Rich
Actors: Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner, Sylvia Kristel, George Kennedy, Charo

83. Moonraker

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Actors: Roger Moore, Richard Kiel, Michael Lonsdale, Lois Chiles, Corinne Clery, Geoffrey Keen
Plot: It's Bond in space as the secret agent is on the trail of a missing space shuttle that leads to a plot to no less than global genocide by Hugo Drax, who has his own plans for civilization.

84. Germany in Autumn ( Deutschland im Herbst )

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Documentary/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Various
Actors: Wolf Biermann, Hannelore Hoger, Horst Mahler, Angela Winkler, Vadim Glowna, Katja Rupé
Plot: Co-directed by several leading German filmmakers, this documentary/fiction hybrid examines the terrorist acts of the Red Army Faction in the 1970s, and the repercussions of that violence in German society.

85. City on Fire

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Actors: Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Shelley Winters, Leslie Nielsen, Ava Gardner, Henry Fonda

86. Bear Island

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Don Sharp
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Barbara Parkins, Lloyd Bridges

87. Long Weekend

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Colin Eggleston
Actors: John Hargreaves, Briony Behets, Mike McEwen, Roy Day, Michael Aitkens, Sue Kiss von Soly
Plot: A suburban couple decide to spend the weekend camping at a remote beach but what is supposed to be a calm, relaxing vacation turns into something sinister when nature decides not to play nice.

88. Saint Jack

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Actors: Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers, Joss Ackland, George Lazenby, Peter Bogdanovich

89. Starting Over

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Actors: Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, Mary Kay Place, Frances Sternhagen
Plot: A recently-divorced man embarks cautiously on a new relationship. Then his
ex-wife returns and says she wants him back.

90. The Black Hole

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Gary Nelson
Actors: Robert Forster, Anthony Perkins, Maximilian Schell, Ernest Borgnine, Roddy McDowall, Yvette Mimieux
Plot: A small research ship is at the outskirts of a black hole in which they discover a long missing ship manned by a scientist who's vessel is run by robots.

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