Drama Movies of 1979
Roots: The Next Generations
The phenomenal success of the 1977 ABC miniseries Roots all but demanded a sequel to writer Alex Haley's epic story of his African and African-American forebears. Debuting February 18, 1979, Roots: The Next ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
The Champ
Billy (Jon Voight) is on the road with his son T.J. (Ricky Schroder), fighting low-end boxing matches for drinking money before moving on to the next town for another match. When his ex-wife (and T.J.'s mother) Annie (Faye Dunaway) ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
The Rose
Bette Midler stars as Rose in this somber drama loosely based on the life of the late Janis Joplin. She plays an ill-fated singer who succumbs to the pressures ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Kramer vs. Kramer
Robert Benton's Oscar-winning adaptation of Avery Corman's bestseller takes on contemporary problems of divorce and ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Old Boyfriends
Noted screenwriter Joan Tewksbury made her directorial debut with this bittersweet comedy-drama. Diane Cruise (Talia Shire), a psychologist going through a ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Hanover Street
In this WWII romance, Harrison Ford (face-to-face with superstardom from his involvement in Star Wars) is cast as David Halloran, an American bomber pilot stationed in London. During an air raid, Halloran meets and falls in love ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Rocky II
By concentrating on character development with this first of several sequels to his Oscar-winning smash Rocky (1976), writer/director Sylvester Stallone earned critical praise that would desert ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Too Far to Go
A series of 17 short stories by American writer John Updike form ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Klondike Fever
Jeff East stars as writer Jack London in this fictional ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Norma Rae
Norma Rae finds Sally Field cast in the title role, a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill. The factory has taken too much of a toll on the ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Yanks
John Schlesinger directs the war romance Yanks, based on the story by Colin Welland. Set in England at the ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
S.O.S. Titanic
An Anglo-American co-production, S.O.S. Titanic ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Border Cop
The original title of this film was The Border. It tells the story of one border guard's desire to put an end to the practice of hauling truck loads of illegal Mexican workers across the border and into ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Da Dunkerque alla Vittoria
The internationally produced From Hell to Victory is evocative of the works of Erich Maria Remarque. Several close friends of varying nationalities are separated by WW II. German Jurgen Dietrich (Horst ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Therese Raquin
Originally telecast by the BBC in 1979, Therese Raquin was a three-part, ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
The Great Santini
Bull Meechum (Robert Duvall) loves fighting almost as much as he loves the Marine Corps. Profane, cocky, and arrogant, he's a great fighter pilot -- and he knows it. His boss hates his guts, but knows that if he's going to straighten out ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
All That Jazz
"It's showtime!" In this part film à clef, part musical phantasmagoria, director/choreographer Bob Fosse takes a ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Hardcore
"Oh my God, that's my daughter." So read the advertising copy of Hardcore. George C. Scott plays Jake Van Dorn, a man of means and conservative values who discovers that his precious daughter is appearing in ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
North Dallas Forty
In a society in which major league sporting events have replaced Sunday worship as the religion of choice, North Dallas Forty appears like a ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Ice Castles
In this sports melodrama that boldly illustrates the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, Lynn-Holly Johnson plays Iowa farm girl Alexis Winston, who has a God-given talent for ice skating. ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
My Old Man
My Old Man was adapted from Ernest Hemingway's short story of the same name by Jerome Kass. Hemingway's story told of a down-on-his-luck horse trainer who is given a second chance ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
The Ninth Configuration
William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist, proved a workmanlike producer/director ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
The Onion Field
Joseph Wambaugh's The Onion Field is based on an actual 1963 case. L.A. plainclothesmen Karl Hattinger (John Savage) and Ian Campbell (Ted Danson) routinely investigate a pair of suspicious types, Greg Powell (James Woods) and ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
The Black Marble
Adapted for the screen by novelist Joseph Wambaugh himself, The Black Marble stars Robert Foxworth as a burned-out, hard-drinking cop who is teamed with idealistic lady officer Paula Prentiss. These two polar opposites wade their way through a ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
My Brilliant Career
Both actress Judy Davis and director Gillian Armstrong made a big splash on the international scene with this charming Australian film that examines late 19th century ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Saint Jack
After a couple of major studio flops, Peter Bogdanovich returned to his 1960s filmmaking roots with this Roger Corman-produced low ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Tim
Based on a novel by Colleen McCullough (The Thorn Birds), this "May-December romance" stars Piper Laurie as Mary Horton, a ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Based on an autobiographical novel by Carlo Levi, Cristo si e fermato a Eboli stars Gian-Maria Volonte as Levi, a prominent ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Torn Between Two Lovers
Lee Remick is Torn Between Two Lovers in this ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Backstairs at the White House
Based on the best-selling memoirs of Lillian Rogers Parks, the NBC miniseries Backstairs at the White House traces over ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Mysteries
Set in a remote seaside village somewhere in the Netherlands, this drama centers on the increasingly bizarre behavior of ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Dallas: Season 03
Steadily building up its viewership during its first few seasons, Dallas certainly gives its fans their ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Love on the Run
L'Amour en Fuite (Love on the Run) is presented in flashbacks from the previous four movies as Antoine ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
The Lost Boys
Ian Holm starred in this three-part British miniseries as James M. Barrie, the ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Perceval
This dignified and stylized film, set in the Middle Ages, follows the exploits of Sir Perceval, a legendary ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Sibiriada
Sibiriada was controversial in the Soviet Union, but it received the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, the second most prestigious prize after the Palme d'Or. ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
The Scarlet Letter
This production closely follows Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Producer/director Joseph Strick continues his long cinematic love affair with the works of Irish author James Joyce in Portrait ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Incident at Blood Pass
Japanese screen legend Toshiro Mifune bids farewell to the character he made famous in this tale of death and deception also starring ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
The Europeans
In the middle of the 19th century, the stern and somewhat puritanical values of ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Lillie
Francesca Annis, previously seen on the Masterpiece Theatre presentation of Madame Bovary, ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
The White Shadow: Season 02
All of the regular cast members seen during Season One of The White Shadow are on deck for Season Two, with a pair of new additions. Joining the Carver High School basketball team under aegis of ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Love for Lydia
Adapted from the novel by H.E. Bates, the British miniseries ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Over the Edge
The protagonists of Over the Edge are the teen-aged offspring of the residents of a planned suburban community. This bland little town has been designed with conformity in mind, and with no thought of making the kids' lives ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Tess
In Roman Polanski's adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Nastassja Kinski plays Tess, a poor British ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
The Tin Drum
In Volker Schlöndorff's award-winning adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass' allegorical novel, David Bennent plays Oskar, the young son of a German rural family, circa 1925. On his third birthday, Oskar ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
The Wanderers
The year 1979 saw an epidemic of American street-gang films, including Phil Kaufman's hit period drama The Wanderers. Set in the Bronx in 1963, the ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
The Young Girls of Wilko
Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda directs the psychological drama Panny z Wilka (released in the U.S. as The Young Girls of Wilko), based on the book by ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Fish Hawk
Native American actor Will Sampson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Penitentiary
An innocent man must fight to survive when he's wrongfully imprisoned in this ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Quadrophenia
This film version of the Who's rock opera Quadrophenia makes a few tentative stabs at "explaining" the alienation of 1960s British working-class youth, but its major selling point is its nonstop ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Mountain Family Robinson
Disgusted with city life, the family Robinson decides to chuck it all and head for the Rockies. There they find that rural living can be just as hectic, with hungry bears as well as the ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Crimebusters
The reliable Henry Silva does his best to keep Crimebusters afloat. The plot shifts into gear when the hero's family is kidnapped. No, it isn't the mob who's responsible; ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
El Niño y el Papa
A little Mexican boy who was torn away from his mother during an earthquake sets out in an adventure to meet the only person he believes can find his mother--the Pope. ~ All ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
El Súper
Filmed in the US but acted in Spanish, El Super is a warmhearted spin on the plight of Cuban exiles in old, cold New York. The ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Felicity
This softcore sex romp borrows heavily from Emmanuelle but still has plenty to offer in other areas. Fans of the genre are likely to enjoy Felicity because it takes a lighthearted, ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
O Youth and Beauty
This video tells of one man's attempt to regain his athletic prowess by hurdling furniture in John Cheever's story of a middle age crisis. ~ All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Sorrows of Gin
Based on a short story by John Cheever, this is a movie ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Summer Affair
A hot summer romance forms the basis of this fantasy that follows two defiant young lovers who steal away aboard a sailboat to ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
This made-for-television drama tells of an actual event in 1911 where 145 workers in the Triangle garment factory were killed in a huge industrial fire. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
The Wooden Gun
The Wooden Gun takes place in Tel Aviv in the early 1950s. In a clear-eyed fashion that would have been impossible in a film made by "outsiders", the plot details the conflict between native-born Israelis and ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Schwestern oder die Balance des Glücks
This West German film is a contemporary tale with gloomy overtones of the 19th Century August Strindberg one-act play ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Muqaddar Ka Sikandar
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Solo Sunny
This East German youth film stars Renate Kroessner as Sunny, an ex-factory worker who sings in a band called "The Tornadoes." As the title implies, Sunny wants to go solo, as both a musician and a woman, her independence ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Alexandria ...Why?
Youssef Chahine directed this drama about lovers struggling to find happiness in Egypt during the chaos of World War II. Yehia (Mohsen Mohiedine) is a teenage boy who is fascinated with the glamour of Hollywood movies, and he escapes ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Julio comienza en Julio
A wealthy Chilean landowner is used to having powers within his domain which would not surprise a feudal lord in Spain in the 14th century. In ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
The Old Curiosity Shop
Previously adapted for British television in 1962, Charles Dickens' novel The Old Curiosity Shop was given the BBC miniseries treatment a ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Crime & Punishment
This version of Crime and Punishment is a British television miniseries adaptation of the classic work of literature by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. John Hurt stars as Rodya Raskolnikov, a 19th century Russian ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
Cuando Tejen Las Aranas
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Rising Star
An ailing orphan learns that not all gangs are violent thugs in this musical drama ... [ Drama movie - 1979 ]
