1979 Movies

By testifying to living and working conditions in working-class areas, this militant documentary already denounced rampant urbanism while proposing al...

Short film about Berlin

The first two in a series of in-camera edited films by Marjorie Keller. ANCIENT PARTS portrays the symbolic differentiation and mock conquest of a boy...

In the middle of the 18th Century, the Ruster family immigrates to America. The father, a former farm laborer, leads a hard life as a settler along wi...

A haunting Santerían morsel of mysticism, ritual, and artist-as-subject from the towering Cuban-American.

An underworld kingpin's daughter is kidnapped by his own men. So, he calls in Cleopatra Wong, a beautiful karate queen. She brings a team with her - a...

Auntie tries to make her Nephew smile by doing goofy things, but none of it seems to work.

Writer Colin Ward sets out to discover the truth about Britain’s New Towns. He visits Harlow, Letchworth, Peterlee, Runcorn and the youngest and big...

A documentary portrait of Egyptian artist Hassan Soliman, exploring the relationship between artistic creation, manual labor, and the natural world. T...

Television essay about Jean Renoir and his films, in which, among other things, the filming conditions of Partie de campagne are discussed.

In the chaotic border town of Thon Thong, a man witnesses his close friend getting gunned down right in front of him. Seeking revenge, the man begs fo...

Philippine Kung fu movie from 1979

After waiting for a bus at Fern Tree that never arrives, a clown takes refuge under the snowy rocks of Mount Wellington and frolics on the wintery bea...

This is a documentary about the situation of an indigenous Bribri family living near Salitre in Buenos Aires, Puntarenas. The film tells how this Brib...

Not to be confused with her longer film from 1981, this is an earlier film about Ellis Island made by Meredith Monk.

An Italian boy with an aversion to water and unable to speak English is forced into a swimming lesson with the boys at an Australian school

1979 German super 8 short work