1979 movies

Being There (1979)

Friday, February 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sellers, Peter | MacLaine, Shirley | Douglas, Melvyn | Warden, Jack | Dysart, Richard | Basehart, Richard | Attaway, Ruth | Clennon, David | Brill, Fran | DuBarry, Denise | Burbridge, Oteil | Keller III, Ravenell | Corrigan, Brian | Brown, Alfredine P. | Jacob, Donald
Directors: Ashby, Hal
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A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.

Dracula (1979)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Horror | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Oldman, Gary | Ryder, Winona | Hopkins, Anthony | Reeves, Keanu | Grant, Richard E. | Elwes, Cary | Campbell, Bill | Frost, Sadie | Waits, Tom | Bellucci, Monica | Bercu, Michaela | Kendrick, Florina | Robinson, Jay | Hobson, I.M. | Franks, Laurie
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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When a schooner is wrecked off Whitby the only survivor is Count Dracula who has arrived with large amounts of Transylvanian soil to take up residence in Carfax Abbey. He takes the life or Lucy, who is engaged to Dr. Seward, who runs the local asylum. Lucy’s friend Mina, and her fiancé Jonathan Harker, a solicitor, also make contact with Dracula. But almost immediately, Lucy dies from loss of blood, and just possibly this may not be a coincidence. The group calls on the aid of Prefessor Van Helsing, noted supernatural expert, and together they pursue the vampire.

007 Moonraker (1979)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Moore, Roger | Chiles, Lois | Lonsdale, Michael | Kiel, Richard | Clery, Corinne | Lee, Bernard | Keen, Geoffrey | Llewelyn, Desmond | Maxwell, Lois | Suga, Toshirô | Bolton, Emily | Ravalec, Blanche | Bochenko, Irka | Marshall, Mike | Shenna, Leila
Directors: Gilbert, Lewis
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A Boeing 747 carrying a US space shuttle on loan to the UK crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. When the British examine the wreckage they can find no trace of the spacecraft and send agent James Bond to the shuttle’s manufacturers, Drax Industries, to investigate.

Alien (1979)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Skerritt, Tom | Weaver, Sigourney | Cartwright, Veronica | Stanton, Harry Dean | Hurt, John | Holm, Ian | Kotto, Yaphet | Badejo, Bolaji | Horton, Helen
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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While returning from a deep-space mission, the crew of the commercial spaceship Nostromo is awakened by a supposed SOS call from a system they are passing through. Descending to the planet’s surface, they discover a strange derelict spaceship - the apparent source of the transmission - and one of the crew descends into the hold. What he finds are thousands of strange alien eggs. While examining one of the eggs, it hatches and the parasite inside attacks him. After returning to the Nostromo the crew takes off again to head for Earth. The alien parasite subsequently dies and all seems well again. But what no one knows is that another alien is quietly forming within its host - and when it emerges, the crew finds itself in serious trouble…

Caligula (1979)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: McDowell, Malcolm | Savoy, Teresa Ann | Mirren, Helen | O'Toole, Peter | Steiner, John | Mannari, Guido | Bonacelli, Paolo | Trieste, Leopoldo | Badessi, Giancarlo | D'Angelo, Mirella | Di Lorenzo, Anneka | Wagner, Lori | Asti, Adriana | Gielgud, John | Brive, Bruno
Directors: Brass, Tinto | Guccione, Bob
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The rise and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the violent methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the subsequent insanity of his reign - he gives his horse political office and humiliates and executes anyone who even slightly displeases him. He also sleeps with his sister, organises elaborate orgies and embarks on a fruitless invasion of England before meeting an appropriate end. There are various versions of the film, ranging from the heavily- truncated 90-minute version to the legendary 160-minute hardcore version which leaves nothing to the imagination (though the hardcore scenes were inserted later and do not involve the main cast members).

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Duvall, Robert | Brando, Marlon | Sheen, Martin | Forrest, Frederic | Fishburne, Laurence | Bottoms, Sam | Hopper, Dennis | Hall, Albert | Ford, Harrison | Spradlin, G.D. | Ziesmer, Jerry | Glenn, Scott | Byers, Bo | Keane, James | Rossall, Kerry
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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Based on Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness, this is a controversial addition to the multitude of Vietnam war movies in existence. Set in 1969 Vietnam, we follow U.S. Special Forces Captain Willard on his mission up a river into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.