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The Best Movies of 1979 - Original Release   (91 Most Notable)

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 RATING    TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
# 1 for 1979, # 43 Overall Apocalypse Now 1979 Coppola, Francis Ford USA BDS
# 2 for 1979, # 163 Overall Manhattan 1979 Allen, Woody USA BD
# 3 for 1979, # 230 Overall Kramer vs. Kramer 1979 Benton, Robert USA BD
# 4 for 1979, # 239 Overall Alien 1979 Scott, Ridley UK BDS
# 5 for 1979, # 314 Overall The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner West Germany D
# 6 for 1979, # 404 Overall All That Jazz 1979 Fosse, Bob USA DS
# 7 for 1979, # 406 Overall Breaking Away 1979 Yates, Peter USA D
# 8 for 1979, # 412 Overall Being There 1979 Ashby, Hal USA / UK / West Germany / Japan BD
# 9 for 1979, # 496 Overall The Tin Drum 1979 Schlöndorff, Volker West Germany / France / Poland / Yugoslavia BDS
# 10 for 1979, # 645 Overall Monty Python's Life of Brian 1979 Jones, Terry UK BD
# 11 for 1979, # 740 Overall The China Syndrome 1979 Bridges, James USA Y
# 12 for 1979, # 807 Overall My Brilliant Career 1979 Armstrong, Gillian Australia BY
# 13 for 1979, # 885 Overall Mad Max 1979 Miller, George Australia BD
# 14 for 1979, # 989 Overall Tess 1979 Polanski, Roman France / UK Y
# 15 for 1979, # 1016 Overall Wise Blood 1979 Huston, John USA / West Germany D
# 16 for 1979, # 1113 Overall The Black Stallion 1979 Ballard, Carroll USA Y
# 17 for 1979, # 1116 Overall Nosferatu the Vampyre 1979 Herzog, Werner West Germany / France D
# 18 for 1979, # 1174 Overall Best Boy 1979 Wohl, Ira USA Y
# 19 for 1979, # 1235 Overall Quadrophenia 1979 Roddam, Franc UK BD
# 20 for 1979, # 1251 Overall Christ Stopped at Eboli 1979 Rosi, Francesco France / Italy D
# 21 for 1979, # 1256 Overall Norma Rae 1979 Ritt, Martin USA D
# 22 for 1979, # 1281 Overall Heartland 1979 Pearce, Richard USA Y
# 23 for 1979, # 1325 Overall The Jerk 1979 Reiner, Carl USA D
# 24 for 1979, # 1353 Overall Hair 1979 Forman, Milos USA / West Germany BD
# 25 for 1979, # 1375 Overall Real Life 1979 Brooks, Albert USA Y
# 26 for 1979, # 1463 Overall Stalker 1979 Tarkovsky, Andrei West Germany / Soviet Union Y
# 27 for 1979, # 1474 Overall Vengeance Is Mine 1979 Imamura, Shohei Japan D
# 28 for 1979, # 1611 Overall Love on the Run 1979 Truffaut, François France D
# 29 for 1979, # 1631 Overall The Muppet Movie 1979 Frawley, James UK / USA D
# 30 for 1979, # 1633 Overall 10 1979 Edwards, Blake USA BD
# 31 for 1979, # 1641 Overall Hardcore 1979 Schrader, Paul USA D
# 32 for 1979, # 1839 Overall The Third Generation 1979 Fassbinder, Rainer Werner West Germany D
# 33 for 1979, # 1862 Overall Going in Style 1979 Brest, Martin USA D
# 34 for 1979, # 1883 Overall The Wanderers 1979 Kaufman, Philip USA DS
# 35 for 1979, # 1890 Overall The Warriors 1979 Hill, Walter USA BD
# 36 for 1979, # 1962 Overall Rock 'n' Roll High School 1979 Arkush, Allan / Dante, Joe / Zucker, Jerry USA BD
# 37 for 1979, # 1970 Overall Oblomov 1979 Mikhalkov, Nikita Soviet Union D
# 38 for 1979, # 1984 Overall North Dallas Forty 1979 Kotcheff, Ted USA Y
# 39 for 1979, # 1985 Overall The Great Santini 1979 Carlino, Lewis John USA Y
# 40 for 1979, # 2030 Overall Angi Vera 1979 Gábor, Pál Hungary
# 41 for 1979, # 2147 Overall The Butterfly Murders 1979 Tsui, Hark Hong Kong
# 42 for 1979, # 2165 Overall Camera Buff 1979 Kieslowski, Krzysztof Poland D
# 43 for 1979, # 2177 Overall Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 1979 Irvin, John UK BD
# 44 for 1979, # 2200 Overall The Europeans 1979 Ivory, James UK Y
# 45 for 1979, # 2201 Overall Over the Edge 1979 Kaplan, Jonathan USA D
# 46 for 1979, # 2203 Overall Siberiada 1979 Konchalovsky, Andrei Soviet Union Y
# 47 for 1979, # 2225 Overall Buffet Froid 1979 Blier, Bertrand France D
# 47 for 1979, # 2225 Overall David 1979 Lilienthal, Peter West Germany V
# 47 for 1979, # 2225 Overall Gal Young 'Un 1979 Nunez, Victor USA
# 47 for 1979, # 2225 Overall In for Treatment 1979 Kok, Marja / van Zuylen, Erik Netherlands
# 48 for 1979, # 2226 Overall Saint Jack 1979 Bogdanovich, Peter USA Y
# 49 for 1979, # 2229 Overall Bye Bye Brazil 1979 Diegues, Carlos France / Brazil / Argentina D
# 50 for 1979, # 2276 Overall A Little Romance 1979 Hill, George Roy France / USA DS
# 51 for 1979, # 2297 Overall Winter Kills 1979 Richert, William USA D
# 52 for 1979, # 2302 Overall Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears 1979 Menshov, Vladimir Soviet Union Y
# 53 for 1979, # 2322 Overall Mama Turns 100 1979 Saura, Carlos Spain / France Y
# 53 for 1979, # 2322 Overall The Nest 1979 de Armiñán, Jaime Spain / Argentina
# 53 for 1979, # 2322 Overall To Forget Venice 1979 Brusati, Franco France / Italy
# 53 for 1979, # 2322 Overall Young Girls of Wilko 1979 Wajda, Andrzej Poland / France Y
# 54 for 1979, # 2326 Overall Free Radicals 1979 Lye, Len UK
# 55 for 1979, # 2334 Overall The Seduction of Joe Tynan 1979 Schatzberg, Jerry USA V
# 55 for 1979, # 2334 Overall Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1979 Wise, Robert USA BDS
# 56 for 1979, # 2340 Overall Time After Time 1979 Meyer, Nicholas USA Y
# 57 for 1979, # 2346 Overall Meatballs 1979 Reitman, Ivan Canada BD
# 58 for 1979, # 2349 Overall The Rose 1979 Rydell, Mark USA Y
# 59 for 1979, # 2354 Overall Yanks 1979 Schlesinger, John USA / West Germany / UK Y
# 60 for 1979, # 2358 Overall The Whole Shootin' Match 1979 Pennell, Eagle USA D
# 61 for 1979, # 2359 Overall 1941 1979 Spielberg, Steven USA YS
# 62 for 1979, # 2362 Overall Escape from Alcatraz 1979 Siegel, Don USA D
# 63 for 1979, # 2375 Overall The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse, Part IV: Charmed Particles 1979 Noren, Andrew USA
# 63 for 1979, # 2375 Overall Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens 1979 Meyer, Russ USA
# 63 for 1979, # 2375 Overall Doomed Love 1979 de Oliveira, Manoel Portugal
# 63 for 1979, # 2375 Overall From the Clouds to the Resistance 1979 Huillet, Danièle / Straub, Jean-Marie Italy / West Germany / UK / France
# 63 for 1979, # 2375 Overall Richard Pryor: Live in Concert 1979 Margolis, Jeff USA Y
# 63 for 1979, # 2375 Overall Ticket of No Return 1979 Ottinger, Ulrike West Germany
# 64 for 1979, # 2378 Overall French Postcards 1979 Huyck, Willard France / West Germany / USA D
# 64 for 1979, # 2378 Overall L'Adolescente 1979 Moreau, Jeanne France / West Germany
# 65 for 1979, # 2382 Overall The In-Laws 1979 Hiller, Arthur USA D
# 65 for 1979, # 2382 Overall A Perfect Couple 1979 Altman, Robert USA D
# 66 for 1979, # 2389 Overall Peanuts Holiday: Ultimate Collection Edition 1979 Melendez, Bill / Roman, Phil USA B
# 67 for 1979, # 2397 Overall ...And Justice for All 1979 Jewison, Norman USA BD
# 68 for 1979, # 2402 Overall Love at First Bite 1979 Dragoti, Stan USA DS
# 68 for 1979, # 2402 Overall Moonraker 1979 Gilbert, Lewis UK / France / USA BDS
# 68 for 1979, # 2402 Overall Murder by Decree 1979 Clark, Bob UK / Canada D
# 68 for 1979, # 2402 Overall The Onion Field 1979 Becker, Harold USA D
# 68 for 1979, # 2402 Overall Rocky II 1979 Stallone, Sylvester USA BDS
# 68 for 1979, # 2402 Overall Starting Over 1979 Pakula, Alan J. USA D
# 68 for 1979, # 2402 Overall Zulu Dawn 1979 Hickox, Douglas USA / South Africa / Netherlands DS
# 69 for 1979, # 2405 Overall The Bogeyman 1979 Aravindan, Govindan India
# 69 for 1979, # 2405 Overall Tale of Tales 1979 Norstein, Yuri Soviet Union
NR The Great Train Robbery 1979 Crichton, Michael UK D
 RATING    TITLE   YEAR   DIRECTOR  COUNTRY MEDIA
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T   Theaters (US)
B   Blu-ray Disc
D   DVD
V   VHS
Y   Yes (DVD or VHS, unspecified)
S   Soundtrack
 
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