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The Best Movies of 1979
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Movie: Alien ( 1979 )
The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounter a deadly lifeform after investigating an unknown transmission.
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Movie: Apocalypse Now ( 1979 )
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
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Movie: Caligula ( 1979 )
Details the graphic and shocking, yet undeniably tragic story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius Germanicus Caligula.
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Movie: Mad Max ( 1979 )
In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
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Movie: Stalker ( 1980 )
A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
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Movie: Moonraker ( 1979 )
James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.
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Movie: The Warriors ( 1979 )
A street gang known as The Warriors must fight their way from the Bronx to their home turf on Coney Island when they are falsely accused of assassinating a respected gang leader.
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Movie: The North Avenue Irregulars ( 1979 )
When crooks set up operations in a traditional town, a minister and a group of church ladies are willing to do anything, no matter how wacky, to get them out.
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Movie: All That Jazz ( 1979 )
Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.
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Movie: Meatballs ( 1979 )
Wacky hijinks of counselors and campers at a less-than-average summer camp.
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Movie: Kramer vs. Kramer ( 1979 )
Ted Kramer's wife leaves him, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.
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Movie: Life of Brian ( 1979 )
Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.
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Movie: Salem's Lot ( 1979 )
A novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires.
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Movie: 10 ( 1979 )
A Hollywood composer goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy, newly married woman.
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Movie: The China Syndrome ( 1979 )
A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.
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Movie: Escape from Alcatraz ( 1979 )
Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possible successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.
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Movie: Zombie ( 1979 )
Strangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.
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Movie: Hair ( 1979 )
Claude Bukowski leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly embraced into the hippie group of youngsters led by Berger, yet he's already been drafted. He soon falls in love with Sheila Franklin, a rich girl but still a rebel inside.
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Movie: Star Trek: The Motion Picture ( 1979 )
When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of the overhauled USS Enterprise in order to intercept it.
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Movie: The Black Hole ( 1979 )
A research vessel finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole.
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Movie: Breaking Away ( 1979 )
A working-class Indiana teen obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl while searching for life goals with his friends.
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Movie: 1941 ( 1979 )
Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor.
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Movie: The Jerk ( 1979 )
A simpleminded, sheltered country boy suddenly decides to leave his family home to experience life in the big city, where his naivete is both his best friend and his worst enemy.
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Movie: Rocky II ( 1979 )
Rocky Balboa is enjoying life. He has a lovely wife, Adrian, had a successful fight with Apollo Creed and is able to enjoy the money he earned from the fight and a new endorsement deal. Unfortunately, Rocky becomes embarrassed when failing to complete an advert and ends up working in a meat packing company. He believes that he will no longer have a career as a boxer. Apollo wants to rematch with Rocky to prove all his critics wrong that he can beat Rocky. Can Rocky once again have a successful fight?
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Movie: Manhattan ( 1979 )
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
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Movie: The Concorde... Airport '79 ( 1979 )
A supersonic airborne disaster. In order to survive a flight headed for the Moscow Olympics, passengers of the Concorde must endure aerial acrobatics to dodge missiles and survive a device that decompresses the plane.
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Movie: The Muppet Movie ( 1979 )
Kermit and his newfound friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog legs merchant is after Kermit.
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Movie: Quadrophenia ( 1979 )
Jimmy Cooper loathes his dead-end job and his working-class parents. He seeks solace with his mod clique, scooter riding, and drugs, only to be disappointed.
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Movie: The Brood ( 1979 )
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
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Movie: Phantasm ( 1979 )
A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a lethal arsenal of terrible weapons with him.
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Movie: Nosferatu the Vampyre ( 1979 )
Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.
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Movie: Tourist Trap ( 1979 )
A group of young friends stranded at a secluded roadside museum are stalked by a masked assailant who uses his telekenetic powers to control the attraction's mannequins.
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Movie: The Amityville Horror ( 1979 )
Newlyweds move into a large house where a mass murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations which drive them away.
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Movie: Being There ( 1980 )
After the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.
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Movie: Tess ( 1979 )
A strong-willed young peasant girl attracts the affection of two men.
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Movie: More American Graffiti ( 1979 )
Told in four different New Year's Eves in the mid 1960s, John, Terry, Debbie, Steve and Laurie deal with adulting, the Vietnam war, peace-rallies, and relationships.
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Movie: Scum ( 1979 )
An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the 70's.
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Movie: The Wanderers ( 1979 )
The Wanderers is a teenage, Italian gang in Bronx, NYC, 1963. They have their confrontations with other gangs. Drugs and weapons are uncool. Adult life awaits them.
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Movie: ...and justice for all. ( 1979 )
A lawyer is forced to defend a guilty judge, while defending other innocent clients, and trying to find punishment for the guilty and provide justice for the innocent.
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Movie: North Dallas Forty ( 1979 )
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional (American-style) football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
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Movie: The Electric Horseman ( 1979 )
A rodeo star past his prime steals his company's horse and rides into the desert, accompanied by a feisty reporter.
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Movie: Hardcore ( 1979 )
A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter who is making porno films in California's porno pits.
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Movie: The Black Stallion ( 1979 )
While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion who is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a desert island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued, both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once-successful trainer. Together they begin training the stallion to race against the fastest horses in the world.
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Movie: The Tin Drum ( 1979 )
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
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Movie: Time After Time ( 1979 )
It's 1893 London. Futurist H.G. Wells believes that the future holds a Utopian society. He also believes in time travel. He has just built a time machine which he is displaying to a group of skeptical friends, including surgeon Dr. John Leslie Stevenson. Unbeknown to Wells or anyone else among that circle, Stevenson is better known to the public as Jack the Ripper. Just as the police are about to capture Stevenson, he uses the time machine to escape, with Wells being the only one who knows what happened to him. Not telling anyone except his trusting housekeeper, Wells follows Stevenson in order to capture and bring him back to face justice. Where Stevenson has gone is 1979 San Francisco. There, Wells is dismayed to find that the future is not Utopia as he had predicted. But Wells is also picked up by a young woman named Amy Robbins. As Wells and Amy search for Stevenson, Stevenson conversely is after Wells to obtain the master key to the time machine. As Stevenson continues his murderous ways, he will stop at nothing to achieve his desires, which places Amy in danger.
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Movie: Rock 'n' Roll High School ( 1990 )
A group of rock-music-loving students, with the help of the Ramones, take over their school to combat its newly installed oppressive administration.
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Movie: Dracula ( 1979 )
In 1913, the charming, seductive and sinister vampire Count Dracula travels to England in search of an immortal bride.
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Movie: Scavenger Hunt ( 1979 )
To inherit a fortune, various addressees of a will must compete in a wild scavenger hunt to collect selected items, but cannot be simply bought.
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Movie: The Champ ( 1979 )
Billy Flynn is an ex-champion boxer who was KO'd by booze and gambling. When the wealthy, estranged mother of his young son begins trying to lure the boy away from him, Flynn must return to the ring to provide for his child.
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Movie: When a Stranger Calls ( 1979 )
A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
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Movie: The Great Santini ( 1979 )
As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated Marine pilot.
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Movie: The Rose ( 1979 )
The tragic life of a self-destructive female rock star who struggles to deal with the constant pressures of her career and the demands of her ruthless business manager.
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Movie: Elvis ( 1979 )
Biographical movie about the famous rock singer Elvis Presley.
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Movie: The Villain ( 1979 )
Facing hanging, a bank robber makes a deal with the corrupt banker to avoid execution in exchange for a dirty assignment.
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Movie: Norma Rae ( 1979 )
A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved.
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Movie: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century ( 1979 )
A 20th century astronaut emerges out of 500 years of suspended animation into a future time where Earth is threatened by alien invaders.
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Movie: Over the Edge ( 1979 )
A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada after the death of one of their own.
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Movie: H.O.T.S. ( 1979 )
College exploitation film focusing on the wild escapades of the women of H.O.T.S. Sorority. The antics include but are certainly not limited to a wet t-shirt contest, a sky-diving episode, plenty of fraternity boys and even a house-keeping robot. Can the girls of H.O.T.S. overcome the scrutiny of their unliberated student counterparts and the University Administration...Read all
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Movie: All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1979 )
A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
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Movie: Prophecy ( 1979 )
A government health inspector is dispatched to assess the damage a logging company is causing to a patch of forest claimed by Native Americans, and comes face to face with true terror wreaking havoc in the woods.
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Movie: Killer Nun ( 1979 )
A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, whilst presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is the head nurse/nun in a general hospital, whose increasingly psychotic behavior endangers the staff and patients around her.
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Movie: The Frisco Kid ( 1979 )
A Polish rabbi wanders through the Old West on his way to lead a synagogue in San Francisco. On the way he is nearly burnt at the stake by Indians and almost killed by outlaws.
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Movie: Escape to Athena ( 1979 )
A World War II adventure involving a group of Allied P.O.W.s, Nazis, black market priceless art treasures, Greek resistance, a Greek monastery, and a secret German rocket base.
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Movie: The Visitor ( 1980 )
John Huston stars as an intergalactic warrior who joins a cosmic Christ figure in battle against a demonic 8-year-old girl and her pet hawk, while the fate of the universe hangs in the balance. Multi-dimensional warfare, pre-adolescent profanity, and brutal avian attacks combine to transport viewers to a state unlike anything they've experienced--somewhere between Hell and the darkest reaches of outer space.
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Movie: Don't Go in the House ( 1980 )
A disturbed young man who was burned as a child by his sadistic mother stalks women with a flamethrower.
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Movie: Tim ( 1979 )
A somewhat mentally handicapped 20-year-old man works as a laborer, but everyone abuse his naiveté. A nice 40-year-old American woman hires him one day and they become close. However, the town and his family see her as predatory.
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Movie: Cuba ( 1979 )
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train General Batista's Army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
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Movie: Quintet ( 1979 )
During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called "Quintet." For one small group, this obsession is not enough; they play the game with living pieces ... and only the winner survives.
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Movie: Killer Fish ( 1979 )
Jewel thieves attempt to recover treasure from piranha infested waters. Mistrust and betrayals happen amongst the gang in the quest for gold.
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Movie: S.O.S. Titanic ( 1979 )
On her maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable R.M.S. Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Movie: My Brilliant Career ( 1979 )
A young independent woman who lives with her grandmother and aunt in the countryside rebels against being pressured into marriage and chooses to solely focus on having a career as a writer. Nevertheless, two suitors propose to her.
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Movie: The In-Laws ( 1979 )
On the eve of their children's marriage, NYC in-laws Sheldon Kornpett and Vince Ricardo embark on a series of misadventures involving the CIA, the Treasury Department and Central American dictators.
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Movie: Beyond the Poseidon Adventure ( 1979 )
An extension of the previous film, wherein a group of adventurers return to the overturned ship to seek several fortunes.
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Movie: The Driller Killer ( 1979 )
An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.
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Movie: Zulu Dawn ( 1979 )
A dramatization of the Battle of Isandlwana, where the British Army met its match against the Zulu nation.
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Movie: Love at First Bite ( 1979 )
This vampire spoof has Count Dracula moving to New York to find his Bride, after being forced to move out of his Transylvanian castle. There with the aid of assistant Renfield, he stumbles through typical New York city life situations while pursuing Cindy Soundheim. But her boyfriend, Doctor Jeff Rosenberg, realizes she is under the influence of a vampire, and tries his bumbling best to convince police Lt Ferguson of what is going on, and to help him stop Dracula.
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Movie: Meteor ( 1979 )
The U.S. must join forces with the U.S.S.R. in order to destroy a gigantic asteroid heading straight for Earth.
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Movie: Sunburn ( 1979 )
After a rich old man dies in a suspicious car accident in Acapulco, Mexico, his widow wants his insurance company to pony up five million dollars. Hotshot investigator Jake Decker (Charles Grodin) and charming model Ellie (Farrah Fawcett-Majors) come in to check it out.
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Movie: The Bitch ( 1980 )
The owner of a trendy disco starts having problems with the men in her life and the Mafia, which is trying to move in on her place.
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Movie: Starting Over ( 1979 )
A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This affects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel.
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Movie: Bloodline ( 1979 )
When her father is murdered, a pharmaceutical heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.
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Movie: The Onion Field ( 1980 )
An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survivor's guilt.
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Movie: Yanks ( 1979 )
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the lonely British girls, some whose boyfriends are also away for the war. One Yank/Brit relationship that develops is between married John, an Army Captain, and the aristocratic Helen, whose naval husband is away at war. Helen does whatever she needs to support the war effort. Helen loves her husband, but Helen and John are looking for some comfort during the difficult times. Another relationship develops between one of John's charges, Matt, a talented mess hall cook, and Jean. Jean is apprehensive at first about even seeing Matt, who is persistent in his pursuit of her. Jean is in a committed relationship with the kind Ken, her childhood sweetheart who is also away at war. But Jean is attracted to the respect with which Matt treats her. Despite Ken and Jean getting engaged during one of his leaves, Jean and Matt continue to see each other and fall in love. Beyond the issue of Jean's mother's disdain for Yanks and Ken and Jean's engagement, Matt and Jean still have to overcome the differences between the two worlds in which they live. Regardless, the goings-on of the war may override any of their immediate wishes.
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Movie: Hanover Street ( 1979 )
Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.
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Movie: Malibu High ( 1979 )
When a high school senior is dumped by her boyfriend, her grades fall drastically...to avoid failing, she begins seducing her male teachers. Thus begins her downward spiral into drug addiction and prostitution, and ultimately assassinations for a kingpin mob boss.
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Movie: Skatetown U.S.A. ( 1979 )
At a roller-disco competition, two rivals find themselves becoming good friends while competing for a prize of $1000 in cash.
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Movie: The Main Event ( 1979 )
A bankrupt entrepreneur attempts to recoup some of her losses by getting a washed-out boxer she picked up as a tax loss back into the ring - an idea her protégé isn't fond of.
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Movie: Roller Boogie ( 1979 )
Skaters band together to keep their roller-disco open.
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Movie: California Dreaming ( 1979 )
A nerd from Chicago tries desperately to fit in with the California surfing crowd, blind to the fact that their lives are even more boring and empty than his.
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Movie: Home Movies ( 1980 )
Keith Gordon is a creative young man who films the oddball doings of his family and peers. "The Maestro" appears frequently to give him pointers on his techniques. It's almost a film about a young man making the film.
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Movie: Firepower ( 1979 )
A merc is hired by the F.B.I. to track down a powerful recluse criminal. A woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.
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Movie: Going in Style ( 1979 )
Joe, Al, and Willie are three old men who have resigned themselves to dying. One night, Joe hatches a scheme to put a bit of excitement back into their lives: robbing a bank.
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Movie: Bear Island ( 1979 )
On the remote Norwegian Bear Island, used as a submarine base by the Germans during World War II, U.N. scientist Larsen sends a distress signal using an emergency N.A.T.O. frequency, and is received by scientific vessel Morning Rose.
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Movie: Alligator ( 1979 )
Tourists on a tropical island anger an island god, who turns himself into a giant alligator and stalks them.
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Movie: Hot Stuff ( 1979 )
Miami police fence stolen goods at a storefront-sting operation equipped with a two-way mirror.
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Movie: The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again ( 1979 )
The adventures of two idiotic outlaw wannabees, Amos and Theodore.
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Movie: The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Movie ( 1979 )
Bugs Bunny reflects on his past cartoon exploits.
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Movie: Dragon Fist ( 1979 )
Tong Huo-wan (Jackie Chan) seeks redress from the man responsible for his master's death, but becomes entangled in a feud between a local clan and gangsters.