8.8

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

1979, USA

• Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, Peter Mayhew, Kenny Baker, Frank Oz, Alec Guinness, Jeremy Bulloch, John Hollis, Jack Purvis, Des Webb, Clive Revill, Kenneth Colley, Julian Glover, Michael Sheard, Michael Culver, John Dicks, Milton Johns, Mark Jones, Oliver Maguire, Robin Scobey, Bruce Boa, Christopher Malcolm, Denis Lawson, Richard Oldfield, John Morton, Ian Liston
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Irvin Kershner
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Fleeing the evil Galactic Empire, the rebels abandon their new base on Hoth. Princess Leia, Han Solo and the droid C-3P0 escape in the damaged Millenium Falcon, but are later captured by Lord Darth Vader on Bespin. Skywalker and the droid R2-D2, meanwhile, follows Ben Kenobi's posthumous command and receives Jedi training by Yoda on Dagobah. Will Skywalker manage to rescue his friends from the dark lord?

  8.8

"Play for Today" Just a Boys' Game

1979, UK

• Actors: Frankie Miller, Ken Hutchison, Gregor Fisher, Jean Taylor Smith, Hector Nicol, Jim Byars, Peter Davidson, Billy Greenlees, Katherine Stark, Jan Wilson
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): John Mackenzie
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Jake lives in the shadow of his dying grandfather, who was once the town's toughest hard man. Despite their hatred of each other, Jake's sole aim is to be as tough as the old man was. One day in Jake's life, as he drifts, drinks and fights, leads to a bleak realisation.

  8.6

Apocalypse Now

1979, USA

• Actors: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Albert Hall, Harrison Ford, Dennis Hopper, G.D. Spradlin, Jerry Ziesmer, Scott Glenn, Bo Byers, James Keane, Kerry Rossall, Ron McQueen, Tom Mason, Cynthia Wood, Colleen Camp, Linda Carpenter, Jack Thibeau, Glenn Walken, George Cantero, Damien Leake, Herb Rice, William Upton, Larry Carney, Marc Coppola, Daniel Kiewit, Father Elias
• Genre: Action, Drama, War
• Director(s): Francis Ford Coppola
• Available languages:
  • English English.

It is the height of the war in Vietnam, and U.S. Army Captain Willard is sent by Colonel Lucas and a General to carry out a mission that, officially, 'does not exist - nor will it ever exist'. The mission: To seek out a mysterious Green Beret Colonel, Walter Kurtz, whose army has crossed the border into Cambodia and is conducting hit-and-run missions against the Viet Cong and NVA. The army believes Kurtz has gone completely insane and Willard's job is to eliminate him! Willard, sent up the Nung River on a U.S. Navy patrol boat, discovers that his target is one of the most decorated officers in the U.S. Army. His crew meets up with surfer-type Lt-Colonel Kilgore, head of a U.S Army helicopter cavalry group which eliminates a Viet Cong outpost to provide an entry point into the Nung River. After some hair-raising encounters, in which some of his crew are killed, Willard, Lance and Chef reach Colonel Kurtz's outpost, beyond the Do Lung Bridge. Now, after becoming prisoners of Kurtz, will Willard & the others be able to fulfill their mission?

  8.5

The Shining

1979, UK, USA

• Actors: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Philip Stone, Joe Turkel, Anne Jackson, Tony Burton, Lia Beldam, Billie Gibson, Barry Dennen, David Baxt, Manning Redwood, Lisa Burns, Louise Burns, Robin Pappas, Alison Coleridge, Burnell Tucker, Jana Shelden, Kate Phelps, Norman Gay, Vivian Kubrick, Derek Lyons, Glenn Rinker
• Genre: Horror, Thriller
• Director(s): Stanley Kubrick
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A man, his son and wife become the winter caretakers of an isolated hotel where Danny, the son, sees disturbing visions of the hotel's past using a telepathic gift known as "The Shining". The father, Jack Torrance, is underway in a writing project when he slowly slips into insanity as a result of cabin fever and former guests of the hotel's ghosts. After being convinced by a waiter's ghost to "correct" the family, Jack goes completely insane. The only thing that can save Danny and his mother is "The Shining".

  8.5

Alien

1979, USA, UK

• Actors: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Bolaji Badejo, Helen Horton, Eddie Powell
• Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Ridley Scott
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The crew of the deep space mining ship Nostromo are awaken from hypersleep to investigate a strange signal from a nearby planet. While investigating the signal, they discover it was intended as a warning, and not an SOS.

  8.5

Ko to tamo peva

1979, Yugoslavia

• Actors: Pavle Vujisic, Dragan Nikolic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic, Aleksandar Bercek, Neda Arneric, Milivoje Tomic, Tasko Nacic, Boro Stjepanovic, Slavko Stimac, Miodrag Kostic, Nenad Kostic, Bora Todorovic, Slobodan Aligrudic, Petar Lupa, Stanojlo Milinkovic, Ljubomir Cipranic, Milovan Tasic
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Slobodan Sijan
• Available languages:
  • Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian.

On April 5, 1941, a date Serbs will recognize, men on a country road board Krstic's bus for Belgrade: two Gypsies who occasionally sing about misery, an aging war vet, a Nazi sympathizer, a dapper singer, a consumptive, and a man with a shotgun. Krstic is a world-weary cynic, out for a buck; the driver is his son, the simple, cheerful Misko. En route they pick up a priest and young newlyweds going to the seaside. Along the way, mis-adventure strikes: a flat tire, a rickety bridge, a farmer who's plowed the road, a funeral, two feuding families, an army detail, and a lost wallet slow the bus and expose rifts among the travelers. On April 6, amid rumors of war, they reach Belgrade...

  7.9

The Blues Brothers

1979, USA

• Actors: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Steve Cropper, Donald Dunn, Murphy Dunne, Willie Hall, Tom Malone, Lou Marini, Matt Murphy, Alan Rubin, Carrie Fisher, Henry Gibson, John Candy, Kathleen Freeman, Steve Lawrence, Twiggy, Frank Oz, Jeff Morris, Charles Napier, Steven Williams, Armand Cerami, Tom Erhart, Gerald Walling, Walter Levine, Alonzo Atkins, Chaka Khan
• Genre: Action, Comedy, Music
• Director(s): John Landis
• Available languages:
  • English English.

After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit "The Penguin", the last of the nuns who raised them in a boarding school. They learn the Archdiocese will stop supporting the school and will sell the place to the Education Authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The Blues Brothers want to help, and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their "mission from God" they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time?

  7.9

Kagemusha

1979, Japan

• Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara, Jinpachi Nezu, Hideji Ôtaki, Daisuke Ryû, Masayuki Yui, Kaori Momoi, Mitsuko Baisho, Hideo Murota, Takayuki Shiho, Kôji Shimizu, Noboru Shimizu, Sen Yamamoto, Shuhei Sugimori, Kota Yui, Yasuhito Yamanaka, Kumeko Otowa, Tetsuo Yamashita, Kai Ato, Takashi Ebata, Hiroshi Shimada, Yu Shimaka, Toshiaki Tanabe, Yoshimitsu Yamaguchi, Eiichi Kanakubo, Akihiko Sugizaki, Yugo Miyazaki, Masatsuga Kuriyama, Norio Matsui
• Genre: Drama, History, War
• Director(s): Akira Kurosawa
• Available languages:
  • English English.

When a powerful warlord in medieval Japan dies, a poor thief recruited to impersonate him finds difficulty living up to his role and clashes with the spirit of the warlord during turbulent times in the kingdom.

  7.8

Airplane!

1979, USA

• Actors: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Julie Hagerty, Robert Hays, Leslie Nielsen, Lorna Patterson, Robert Stack, Stephen Stucker, Otto, Jim Abrahams, Frank Ashmore, Jonathan Banks, Craig Berenson, Barbara Billingsley, Lee Bryant, Joyce Bulifant, Mae E. Campbell, Ted Chapman, Jesse Emmett, Norman Alexander Gibbs, Amy Gibson, Marcy Goldman, Bob Gorman, Rossie Harris, Maurice Hill, David Hollander, James Hong, Howard Honig, Gregory Itzin
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Director(s): Jim Abrahams
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Still craving for the love of his life, Ted Striker follows Elaine onto the flight that she is working on as a member of the cabin crew. Elaine doesn't want to be with Ted anymore, but when the crew and passengers fall ill from food poisoning, all eyes are on Ted.

  7.8

Amator

1979, Poland

• Actors: Jerzy Stuhr, Malgorzata Zabkowska, Ewa Pokas, Stefan Czyzewski, Jerzy Nowak, Tadeusz Bradecki, Marek Litewka, Boguslaw Sobczuk, Krzysztof Zanussi, Andrzej Jurga, Alicja Bienicewicz, Tadeusz Rzepka, Aleksandra Kisielewska, Wlodzimierz Maciudzinski, Roman Stankiewicz, Antonina Barczewska, Feliks Szajnert, Jolanta Brzezinska, Teresa Szmigielówna, Jacek Turalik, Andrzej Warchal, Danuta Wiercinska, Tadeusz Huk, Tadeusz Sobolewski, Krzysztof Wierzbicki
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Krzysztof Kieslowski
• Available languages:
  • Polish Polish.

Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.

  7.6

The Warriors

1979, USA

• Actors: Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright, Brian Tyler, David Harris, Tom McKitterick, Marcelino Sánchez, Terry Michos, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Roger Hill, David Patrick Kelly, Lynne Thigpen, Ginny Ortiz, Mercedes Ruehl, John Snyder, Edward Sewer, Gwynn Press, Jodi Price, Jeffrey Scott, Carl Brown, Ron Ferrell, Fernando Castillo, Hubert Edwards, Larry Sears, Mike James, Gregory Cleghorne, George Lee Miles, Gerald G. Francis, Benny Harding, Eddie Prather
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): Walter Hill
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Cyrus, the leader of the most powerful gang in New York City, the Gramercy Riffs, calls a midnight summit for all the area gangs, with all asked to send nine unarmed representatives for the conclave. A gang called The Warriors are blamed for causing gang violence at theaters, but now it looks as highly stylized and pulpy as Hill intended. The plot finds a New York gang having to cross the territory of rivals in order to get to their own 'hood. And so The Warriors begin their long journey from the Bronx back to Coney Island. The second-in-command, Swan, takes charge, though the hot-headed Ajax openly voices his desire to be acting gang warlord. The Warriors slowly cross the dangerous Bronx and Manhattan territories, narrowly escaping police and other gangs every step of the way.

  7.6

Escape from Alcatraz

1979, USA

• Actors: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau, Fred Ward, Paul Benjamin, Larry Hankin, Bruce M. Fischer, Frank Ronzio, Fred Stuthman, David Cryer, Madison Arnold, Blair Burrows, Bob Balhatchet, Matthew Locricchio, Don Michaelian, Ray K. Goman, Jason Ronard, Ed Vasgersian, Ron Vernan, Regina Baff, Hank Brandt, Candace Bowen, Joe Miksak, Stephen Bradley, Garry Goodrow, Ross Reynolds, Al Dunlap, Denis Berkfeldt, Jim Haynie
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Don Siegel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A group of inmates attempt a daring escape from the notorious Alcatraz prison island, from which no-one had managed to escape before. Based on a true story.

  7.6

Scum

1979, UK

• Actors: Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth, John Blundell, Phil Daniels, John Judd, Philip Jackson, Peter Howell, John Grillo, Ray Burdis, Alan Igbon, John Fowler, Bill Dean, P.H. Moriarty, Nigel Humphreys, Jo Kendall, Patrick Murray, Herbert Norville, George Winter, Alrick Riley, Philip DaCosta, Peter Francis, Andrew Paul, Sean Chapman, Ozzie Stevens, Ricky Wales, James Donnelly, Joe Fordham, Ray Jewers, Ian Liston
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Alan Clarke
• Available languages:
  • English English.

This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders. Luckily the regime has changed since this film was made. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the 'tough' new inmate and the 'old hands'. The film was originally made as a BBC play but it was banned before ever being shown. So 'Alan Clarke' and 'Roy Minton' got it re-made as a film. This is a tough and brutal film and should not be viewed lightly.

  7.5

The Muppet Movie

1979, UK, USA

• Actors: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz, Charles Durning, Austin Pendleton, Edgar Bergen, Milton Berle, Mel Brooks, James Coburn, Dom DeLuise, Elliott Gould, Bob Hope, Madeline Kahn, Carol Kane, Cloris Leachman, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, Telly Savalas, Orson Welles, Paul Williams, Scott Walker, Lawrence Gabriel Jr., Ira F. Grubman, H.B. Haggerty, Bruce Kirby, Tommy Madden, James Frawley, Arnold Roberts
• Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical
• Director(s): James Frawley
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Orson Welles interpreta Lew Lord, potente e famoso produttore cinematografico, contattato per produrre un film con Kermit la Rana e gli altri Muppets, dopo aver trattato con il loro agente.

  7.2

Tess

1979, France, UK

• Actors: John Collin, Tony Church, Nastassja Kinski, Brigid Erin Bates, Jeanne Biras, Peter Firth, John Bett, Tom Chadbon, Rosemary Martin, Geraldine Arzul, Stephanie Treille, Elodie Warnod, Ben Reeks, Leigh Lawson, Lesley Dunlop, Marilyne Even, Jean-Jacques Daubin, Sylvia Coleridge, Jacob Weizbluth, Jacques Mathou, Véronique Alain, Richard Pearson, Fred Bryant, John Barrett, Anne Tirard, Carolyn Pickles, Suzanna Hamilton, Caroline Embling, Josine Comellas, Arielle Dombasle
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Roman Polanski
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A rural clergyman in 19th century England tells Durbeyfield, a simple farmer, that he is descended from the illustrious d'Urberville family -- now extinct. Or maybe not. Durbeyfield sends his daughter Tess to check on a family named d'Uberville living in a manor house less than a day's carriage ride away. Alec d'Urberville is delighted to meet his beautiful "cousin" and seduces her with strawberries and roses. Actually Alec has gotten his illustrious name and coat of arms by purchasing them. Tess too takes up the game of illusion when she finds, loses and finds again her true love Angel.

  7.2

The Black Stallion

1979, USA

• Actors: Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr, Clarence Muse, Hoyt Axton, Michael Higgins, Ed McNamara, Doghmi Larbi, John Burton, John Buchanan, Kristen Vigard, Fausto Tozzi, John Karlsen, Leopoldo Trieste, Frank Cousins, Donald Hodson, Marne Maitland, Tom Dahlgren, Cass-Olé, Junior, Star, Fae-Jur, Olympic, Rex, Daniel Henning
• Genre: Adventure, Family, Sport
• Director(s): Carroll Ballard
• Available languages:
  • English English.

While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When the ship tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. Alec befriends the horse, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training The Black to race against the fastest horses in the world.

  7.2

The Lathe of Heaven

1979, USA, West Germany

• Actors: Bruce Davison, Peyton E. Park, Niki Flacks, Kevin Conway, Vandi Clark, Bernadette Whitehead, Jo Livingston, Jane Roberts, Tom Matts, Frank Miller, Joye Nash, Gena Sleete, Margaret Avery, Ben McKinley III, R.A. Mihailoff, James Bodean, Ben Stephenson
• Genre: Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Fred Barzyk
• Available languages:
  • English English.

George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift with drugs. Dr. Haber, an assigned psychiatrist, discovers the gift to be real and hypnotically induces Mr. Orr to change reality for the benefit of mankind --- with bizarre and frightening results.

  7.0

Easy Money

1979, USA

• Actors: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Catlin Adams, Mabel King, Richard Ward, Dick Anthony Williams, Bill Macy, M. Emmet Walsh, Dick O'Neill, Maurice Evans, Helena Carroll, Ren Woods, Pepe Serna, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Jackie Mason, David Landsberg, Domingo Ambriz, Richard Foronjy, Lenny Montana, Carl Gottlieb, Clete Roberts, Frances E. Williams, Lydia McGhee, Niko Denise Holmes, Shawn Harris, Nyles Harris, Susan Denise Harrison, Douglas S. Close, Sharon Johansen
• Genre: Comedy, Music
• Director(s): Carl Reiner
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Navin is an idiot. He grew up in Mississippi as adopted son of a black family but on his 18th birthday he feels he wants to discover the rest of the world and sets out to St. Louis. There everyone exploits his naivety, but then a simple invention brings him a fortune.

  6.9

Mad Max

1979, Australia

• Actors: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns, Roger Ward, Lisa Aldenhoven, David Bracks, Bertrand Cadart, David Cameron, Robina Chaffey, Stephen Clark, Mathew Constantine, Jerry Day, Reg Evans, Howard Eynon, Max Fairchild, John Farndale, Peter Felmingham, Sheila Florance, Nic Gazzana, Hunter Gibb, Vincent Gil, Andrew Gilmore, Jonathan Hardy, Brendan Heath, Paul Johnstone, Nick Lathouris, John Ley, Steve Millichamp
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): George Miller
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A vision of an apocalyptic future set in the wastelands of Australia. Total social decay is just around the corner in this spectacular cheap budget gang orientated road movie. Where the cops do their best to lay down the law and the outlaw gangs try their hardest to defy the system. Leather clad Max Rockatansky husband, father and cop turns judge, juror and executioner after his best friend, wife and baby are killed. Here we see the final days of normality of a man who had everything to live for, and his slip into the abyss of madness. Mad Max is the antihero on the road to vengeance and oblivion.

  6.9

The First Great Train Robbery

1979, UK

• Actors: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Alan Webb, Malcolm Terris, Robert Lang, Michael Elphick, Wayne Sleep, Pamela Salem, Gabrielle Lloyd, George Downing, James Cossins, John Bett, Peter Benson, Janine Duvitski, Brian de Salvo, André Morell, Donald Churchill, Brian Glover, Noel Johnson, Peter Butterworth, Patrick Barr, Hubert Rees, Agnes Bernelle, Frank McDonald, Joe Cahill, Cecil Nash, Susan Hallinan, Oliver Smith, John Altman
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Michael Crichton
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Sutherland and Connery wish to rob a moving train's safe in Victorian England. They need wax impressions of keys, coffins, dead cats, and a great deal of planning in order to pull it off.