1979 Movies

Tom Waits live: Chicago, IL, USA, PBS Soundstage 1975 & London, UK, BBC Studios, "Live in Person" TV Show

PX, short for Paula Xavier (Vilma Santos) was an illegal alien in New York City. She’s broke and waiting for her fiancé to fulfill his promise of marr...

After becoming notorious world-wide for a bloody killing, Nguyen Ngoc Loan, former general and chief of the South Vietnamese police, moved to the Unit...

Scientists who worked for the allies on the development of the atom bomb in World War II are revealed to be Russian agents.

Cpl. George Hunn's sentry post is knocked over and he wakes to find he is suffering from frost bite of the face. Sent to hospital he is put on a ward...

A satire on modern housing and tiny apartment architecture.

Love and jealousy within a group of teenage friends.

The Apollo Theater, Glasgow, Scotland - December 31, 1979. This concert video was originally broadcast live by the BBC on the OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST p...

This performance of Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier (1979) features the vocal talents of Gwyneth Jones in the lead role; recorded at the Nati...

This is a crime drama centered around Police Chief Lee, who plots to become the "Godfather" of criminal organizations involved in prostitution, gambli...

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi

1979 film

The events of a dynamic, action-packed film take place in the 20s. The main character of the picture is the red commander Rude, a man unrestrainedly b...

In the winter of 1977 Schaubühne staged texts from Hölderlin's "Hyperion" in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, associating with historical, political eve...

After one horse racing Sunday the body of a jockey is found on the racetrack. Was it an accident or a murder connected to bet fixing?

Zbigniew Rybczynski's experimental short film of a bottle of wine, a parrot in a cage, and a television with news.

A motel manager pushes his unmotivated son to get some good positions, greasing in the right places.

Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea. One day, someone leaves behind a s...

About the difficult political situation in the world related to the arms race.