Alien (1979)
Rating: ★★★★★
Alien Nasty on a Spaceship
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm, John Hurt, Yaphet Kotto, …
Category: Science Fiction
Alison’s Birthday (1979)
Rating: ★
Occult Conspiracy
Director: Ian Coughlan
Actors: Joanne Samuel, John Bluthal, Lou Brown, Bunney Brooke, …
Category: Horror
All That Jazz (1979)
Rating: ★★
Dance Choreographer’s Self-Analysis/Angel of Death
Director: Bob Fosse
Actors: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange
Category: Fantasy
Americathon (1979)
Rating: ★
Future Telethon/1970s Satire
Director: Neil Israel
Actors: John Ritter, Harvey Korman, Peter Riegert, Fred Willard, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Amityville Horror (1979)
Rating: ★
Haunted House/”True Story”
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Actors: James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud, …
Category: Horror
Animalympics (1979)
Rating: ★
Animation/Talking Animal Olympics
Director: Steven Lisberger
Actors: Gilda Radner, Billy Crystal, Harry Shearer, Michael Fremer
Category: Fantasy
Arabian Adventure (1979)
Rating: ★★
Arabian Nights Adventure
Director: Kevin Connor
Actors: Oliver Tobias, Christopher Lee, Puneet Sira, Emma Samms, …
Category: Fantasy
Being There (1979)
Rating: ★★★★
Complete Innocent/Satiric Fable
Director: Hal Ashby
Actors: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Dysart, …
Category: Fantasy
The Bermuda Triangle (1979)
Rating: ★★
Bermuda Triangle and Pseudo-Science Documentary
Director: Richard Friedenberg
Actors: Brad Crandall, Howard W. Bishop, Vince Davis, Steve Farrell, …
Category: Science Fiction
Billion Dollar Threat (1979)
Rating: ½
Spy Film
Director: Barry Shear
Actors: Dale Robinette, Patrick MacNee, Ralph Bellamy, Bill Bryant, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Black Hole (1979)
Rating: ★★
Lost Spaceship/Mad Scientist/Journey into a Black Hole
Director: Gary Nelson
Actors: Maximilian Schell, Robert Forster, Yvette Mimieux, Anthony Perkins, …
Category: Science Fiction
Blue Holocaust (1979)
Rating: ★★★½
Man’s Necrophiliac Obsession
Director: Joe D'Amato
Actors: Kieran Canter, Cinzia Monreale
Category: Horror
Blue Remembered Hills (1979)
Rating: ★★★★
Depiction of Childhood/Adults Play Children
Director: Brian Gibson
Actors: Michael Elphick, Helen Mirren, Colin Jeavons, John Bird, …
Category: Fantasy
The Brood (1979)
Rating: ★★★★
Mutant Children/Radical Psychotherapy
Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Susan Hogan, …
Category: Horror
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
Rating: ★★
Space Opera/Man Unfrozen in the Future
Director: Daniel Haller
Actors: Gil Gerard, Pamela Hensley, Erin Grey, Tim O'Connor, …
Category: Science Fiction
Cannibal Holocaust (1979)
Rating: ★★★★
Italian Cannibal Film
Director: Ruggero Deodato
Actors: Robert Kerman, Gabriel Yorke
Category: Horror
Captain America (1979)
Rating: ★
Comic-Book Superhero
Director: Rod Holcomb
Actors: Reb Brown, Steve Forrest, Heather Menzies, Joseph Ruskin, …
Category: Science Fiction
Captain America II (1979)
Rating: ★
Comic-Book Superhero
Director: Ivan Nagy
Actors: Reb Brown, Christopher Lee, Connie Sellecca, Len Birman, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Capture of Bigfoot (1979)
Rating: 0
Bigfoot
Director: Bill Rebane
Actors: Stafford Morgan, George Buck Flower, Richard Kennedy, Otis Young, …
Category: Horror
The China Syndrome (1979)
Rating: ★★★★
Nuclear Power Plant Accident
Director: James Bridges
Actors: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Wilford Brimley, …
Category: Science Fiction
C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979)
Rating: 0
Robot Dog/Children’s Film
Director: Don Chaffey
Actors: Valerie Bertinelli, Red Buttons, Larry Bishop, Chuck McCann, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Dark (1979)
Rating: 0
Alien Monster
Director: John 'Bud' Cardos
Actors: William Devane, Richard Jaeckel, Cathy Lee Crosby, Keenan Wynn, …
Category: Science Fiction
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Rating: ★★★★
Zombies
Director: George A. Romero
Actors: Ken Foree, Gaylen Ross, Tom Savini, David Emge, …
Category: Horror
Demon Pond (1979)
Rating: ★★★★
Haunted Pond/Japanese Legend
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Actors: Tamasaburo Bando, Go Kato, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yatsuko Tanami
Category: Fantasy
Destination Moonbase-Alpha (1979)
Rating: ★★
Space: 1999 Movie
Director: Tom Clegg
Actors: Martin Landau, Catherine Schell, Barbara Bain, Tony Anholt, …
Category: Science Fiction
Don’t Go in the House (1979)
Rating: ★★
Flamethrower-Wielding Psycho
Director: Joseph Ellison
Category: Horror
Don’t Go Near the Park (1979)
Rating: ★
Flesh-Eating Immortals
Director: Lawrence D. Foldes
Actors: Tamara Taylor, Aldo Ray, Linnea Quigley, Meeno Peluce
Category: Horror
Dracula (1979)
Rating: ★★½
Dracula Adaptation
Director: John Badham
Actors: Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Kate Nelligan, Donald Pleasence, …
Category: Horror
Dracula Blows His Cool (1979)
Rating: ½
Vampire Sex Comedy
Director: Carl Schenkel
Actors: Gianni Garko
Category: Horror
The Driller Killer (1979)
Rating: ★★★½
Power Drill Psycho
Director: Abel Ferrara
Actors: Abel Ferrara
Category: Horror
The Evictors (1979)
Rating: ★★½
Sinister Attacks
Director: Charles B. Pierce
Actors: Vic Morrow, Jessica Harper, Michael Parks, Sue Ann Langdon
Category: Horror
The Fall of the House of Usher (1979)
Rating: 0
Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation
Director: James L. Conway
Actors: Martin Landau, Robert Hays, Charlene Tilton, Ray Walston, …
Category: Horror
Fascination (1979)
Rating: ★★★
Erotic Horror/Blood-Drinking Lesbians
Director: Jean Rollin
Actors: Jean-Marie Lamaire, Brigitte Lahaie
Category: Horror
Galaxy Express 999 (1979)
Rating: ★★★
Anime Space Opera
Director: Rintaro
Actors: Saffron Henderson, Kathleen Barr, Janyse Jaud, Terry Klassen, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Great Alligator (1979)
Rating: ★
Giant Alligator
Director: Sergio Martino
Actors: Claudio Cassinelli, Barbara Bach, Mel Ferrer, Richard Johnson, …
Category: Horror
The Humanoid (1979)
Rating: ★★
Italian Space Opera
Director: Aldo Lado
Actors: Richard Kiel, Barbara Bach, Leonard Mann, Corinne Clery, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (1979)
Rating: ★★
Animation/Epic Fantasy Adventure/Magical Otherworld
Director: Bill Melendez
Actors: Rachel Warren, Simon Adams, Victor Spinetti, Liz Proud
Category: Fantasy
Love at First Bite (1979)
Rating: ★★★
Dracula Spoof
Director: Stan Dragoti
Actors: George Hamilton, Susan St James, Richard Benjamin, Arte Johnson, …
Category: Horror
Mad Max (1979)
Rating: ★★★½
Near Future Road Rage
Director: George Miller
Actors: Mel Gibson, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Joanne Samuel, Steve Bisley, …
Category: Science Fiction
Meteor (1979)
Rating: ★★
Meteor Collision/Disaster Movie
Director: Ronald Neame
Actors: Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, …
Category: Science Fiction
Monster (1979)
Rating: 0
Monster Movie
Director: Kenneth Hartford, Herbert L. Strock
Actors: John Carradine, James Mitchum, Anthony Eisley, Philip Carey, …
Category: Horror
Monty Python’s The Life of Brian (1979)
Rating: ★★★★★
Accidental Messiah Absurdist Comedy
Director: Terry Jones
Actors: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, …
Category: Fantasy
Moonraker (1979)
Rating: ★
James Bond in Space
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Actors: Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Kiel, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Muppet Movie (1979)
Rating: ★★★★
Muppet Movie
Director: James Frawley
Actors: Charles Durning, Mel Brooks, Orson Welles, Paul Williams, …
Category: Fantasy
Murder By Decree (1979)
Rating: ★★★
Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper
Director: Bob Clark
Actors: Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Donald Sutherland, Genevieve Bujold, …
Category: Horror
Nightwing (1979)
Rating: ★★
Killer Vampire Bats
Director: Arthur Hiller
Actors: Nick Mancuso, David Warner, Kathryn Harrold, Steven Macht, …
Category: Horror
The Ninth Configuration (1979)
Rating: ★★★
Military Asylum Black Comedy
Director: William Peter Blatty
Actors: Stacy Keach, Jason Miller, Scott Wilson, Ed Flanders, …
Category: Horror
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Rating: ★★★★
Dracula Adaptation
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor
Category: Horror
Outer Touch (1979)
Rating: ★
Alien Women Abduct Men/Sex Comedy
Director: Norman J. Warren
Actors: Barry Stokes, Tony Maiden, Glory Annen, Ava Cadell
Category: Science Fiction
Parts: The Clonus Horror (1979)
Rating: ★★★
Secret Cloning Program
Director: Robert S. Fiveson
Actors: Peter Graves, Dick Sargent, Keenan Wynn, Lurene Tuttle, …
Category: Science Fiction
Phantasm (1979)
Rating: ★★★★
Dream Horrors/Other-Dimensional Grave Robbers
Director: Don Coscarelli
Category: Horror
Prophecy (1979)
Rating: 0
Mutant Bear Amok
Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Robert Foxworth, Talia Shire, Armand Assante, Richard Dysart, …
Category: Horror
Quatermass (1979)
Rating: ★★★
Alien Megalithic Artefacts Reactivated
Director: Piers Haggard
Category: Science Fiction
Quintet (1979)
Rating: ★
Frozen Future/Enigmatic Game
Director: Robert Altman
Actors: Paul Newman, Fernando Rey, Bibi Andersson, Vittorio Gassman, …
Category: Science Fiction
Ravagers (1979)
Rating: ★★
Post-Holocaust
Director: Richard Compton
Actors: Richard Harris, Art Carney, Ernest Borgnine, Ann Turkel, …
Category: Science Fiction
Salem’s Lot (1979)
Rating: ★★★★
Town of Vampires/Stephen King Adaptation
Director: Tobe Hooper
Actors: David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia, …
Category: Horror
Salvage (1979)
Rating: ★★★
Junk Collector Mounts a Trip to The Moon
Director: Lee Philips
Actors: Andy Griffith, Joel Higgins, Trish Stewart, Richard Jaeckel, …
Category: Science Fiction
Screams of a Winter Night (1979)
Rating: ★
Horror Anthology
Director: James L. Wilson
Actors: Matt Borel, Gil Glasgow, Ray Gaspard, Beverly Allen, …
Category: Horror
The Shape of Things to Come (1979)
Rating: ½
Space Opera
Director: George McCowan
Category: Science Fiction
The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid (1979)
Rating: 0
Child Alien Visitor Slapstick Comedy
Director: Michele Lupo
Actors: Bud Spencer, Cary Guffey, Raimund Harmstorf, Joe Bugner, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Silent Scream (1979)
Rating: ★★★
Slasher/Family Secrets
Director: Denny Harris
Actors: Rebecca Balding, Barbara Steele, Yvonne de Carlo, Cameron Mitchell, …
Category: Horror
Snapshot (1979)
Rating: ★
Stalker Psycho-Thriller
Director: Simon Wincer
Actors: Sigrid Thornton, Chantal Contouri, Robert Bruning, Hugh Keays-Byrne, …
Category: Horror
Spider-Man Strikes Back (1979)
Rating: ★★
Comic-Book Superhero
Director: Ron Satlof
Actors: Nicholas Hammond, JoAnna Cameron, Robert Alda, Robert F. Simon, …
Category: Science Fiction
Star Trek – The Motion Picture (1979)
Rating: ★★★½
AI Encounter
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Stephen Collins, …
Category: Science Fiction
Stone Cold Dead (1979)
Rating: ★
Detective Thriller/Serial Killer
Director: George Mendeluk
Actors: Richard Crenna, Paul Williams, Linda Sorensen, Belinda J. Montgomery, …
Category: Horror
Taro, The Dragon Boy (1979)
Rating: ★★★
Anime/Young Boy’s Adventures
Director: Kirio Urayama
Category: Fantasy
The Tempest (1979)
Rating: ★★★★
Shakespeare Adaptation
Director: Derek Jarman
Actors: Heathcote Williams, Toyah Willcox, Jack Birkett, Karl Johnson, …
Category: Fantasy
Test Pilot Pirx (1979)
Rating: ★★★
Soviet SF/Android Saboteur Aboard a Space Mission
Director: Marek Piestrak
Category: Science Fiction
The Haunting of M. (1979)
Rating: ★
Ghost Story
Director: Anna Thomas
Actors: Nini Pitt, Sheelagh Gilbey, Evie Garratt, Alan Hay, …
Category: Horror
The Thief of Baghdad (1979)
Rating: ★
Arabian Nights Adventure
Director: Clive Donner
Actors: Roddy McDowall, Terence Stamp, Kabir Bedi, Peter Ustinov, …
Category: Fantasy
Thirst (1979)
Rating: ★★½
Medical Vampires
Director: Rod Hardy
Actors: Chantal Contouri, David Hemmings, Rod Mullinar, Max Phipps, …
Category: Horror
Time After Time (1979)
Rating: ★★★½
Time Travelling H.G. Wells vs Jack the Ripper
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen, David Warner
Category: Science Fiction
The Tin Drum (1979)
Rating: ★★★½
Boy Who Refuses to Grow Up/Nazi Allegory
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Actors: David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Daniel Olbrychski, …
Category: Fantasy
Tourist Trap (1979)
Rating: ★★★
Psychokinetic Psycho
Director: David Schmoeller
Actors: Chuck Connors, Tanya Roberts, Jocelyn Jones, Jon Van Ness, …
Category: Horror
The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979)
Rating: ★★
Time Travel Romance
Director: Frank De Felitta
Actors: Lindsay Wagner, Marc Singer, Linda Gray, Henry Wilcoxon
Category: Fantasy
Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979)
Rating: ★★
Astronaut in King Arthur’s Court/Disney Comedy
Director: Russ Mayberry
Actors: Dennis Dugan, Jim Dale, Sheila White, Kenneth More, …
Category: Science Fiction
Up from the Depths (1979)
Rating: ½
Killer Fish
Director: Charles B. Griffith
Actors: Sam Bottoms, Susanne Reed, Kedric Wolfe, Virgil Frye, …
Category: Horror
Vampire (1979)
Rating: ★★
Vampire Film
Director: E.W. Swackhamer
Actors: Jason Miller, Richard Lynch, E.G. Marshall, Kathryn Harrold, …
Category: Horror
The Visitor (1979)
Rating: ★
Satan is an Alien/Impregnation
Director: Guilio Paradisi
Actors: Joanne Nail, Lance Henriksen, Glenn Ford, John Huston, …
Category: Science Fiction
When a Stranger Calls (1979)
Rating: ★★½
Babysitter Stalker
Director: Fred Walton
Actors: Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Tony Beckley, Colleen Dewhurst
Category: Horror
Zombie – Flesh Eaters (1979)
Rating: ★★½
Italian Zombie Splatter
Director: Lucio Fulci
Actors: Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson, Al Cliver, …
Category: Horror