The best movies 1979 Pagina 6

At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends...

Images and sounds are spliced together in this journey to the heart of the political, economic and cultural oppression of the Quebec people. A...

The investigator Seyfi Ganiyev runs the case of an illegal mercery shop's head Murad Abiyev, who confessed in embezzlement of one million rubles from...

After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are...

Lung is a talented fighter but prefers to spend his time loafing around and picking fights, despite orders from his grandfather not to fight. Unknown...

At a park a listless young man becomes intrigued by a wandering woman in white as she exits an exhibit of torture at a wax museum. He is slowly drawn...

A documentary about the village Kienitz at the river Oder, about the people, their life, their history.

After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him...

The hypnotic empathetic documentary about blind children features quotes from Jacques Lusseryan, who lost his sight as a child and used music by the...

In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a...

A group of migratory rail road workers arrive in a small town in Norway, and cause social conflict. One of the men, Sjugur, stands apart as a strong,...

One of Mark Rappaport's later narratives (which won the Gold Hugo for Best First Feature at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1979),...

The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by...

Penis-shaped men make a joint attempt to push an old carriage down the hill. They manage to remove all the wheels of the carriage, one by one. Then,...

Three and a half years of Jesus' ministry, as told in the Gospel of Luke.

Mexican feature film

Filmed excerpts from the Flashes Rouges rock opera starring Catherine Ringer, future singer of Les Rita Mitsouko. Made for French television.

Believe it or not, even Smalltown USA, those unfulfilled and unrelieved in the midst of plenty reside. Levonna and Lamar could have the perfect...

Portrait of a traditional, rich and decadent family from Bogotá, dominated by evil Brigida "the grandmother" who mistreat her sons and...

A portrait of frivolous youth. Unfortunate events force a group of club-hopping young men and women to face reality and reevaluate their lifestyle.

Film consisting of five stories: "Dios los cría...", dealing with brothers' rivalry for an inheritance; "Negocio redondo", about a lawyer...

'Mastropiero que nunca' was a theatrical humour/music show by Les Luthiers, first performed on Friday 9 September 1977 and last done on Sunday 27...

Visions of an inner world before birth, the stages of life

Volcán captures a raised mound of earth set against a grassy riverbank. A white silhouette in the shape of a female body lies atop of the...

Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.

Four different Alices wander through mazes constructed from 40 years of Spanish history in this post-Franco meditation. Loosely related to the...

A historical epic, cast in the style of a realistic narrative with symbolic overtones, about runaway slaves and their hunters in the mid-nineteenth...

Documentary about a day in the life of a worker who works in a glass blowing factory. It was spread in film universities in Brazil.

The adventures of professor Sócrates Pérez, a bit of a crackpot and terribly clumsy, but appreciated by his students for his purity and...

Boy sees his family murdered in Texas returns to Mexico. Grown up, he goes back to Texas to avenge his parents.

This is the first of Diego Risquez’ trilogy of avant-garde cinematic treatments of historical subjects. Using a painterly style, it features...

Through the humble potter Celso we will know one of the most dramatic events in the history of Mexico in the twentieth century, in which the federal...

Alberto and Jorge are employees of a pharmacy. One day, by mistake, they give a client a bottle of poison in exchange for a medication that she had...

Jorge is a photographer for a newspaper, from which he is fired. He then begins to work in a detective agency, where he is assigned the mission of...

English scholar visits a small Spanish town in the Andalusian mountains to investigate the disappearance of another English scholar long ago. He...

An old gaucho tells his young friend about a time in the big city when he went to the Opera, and narrates to him the whole plot of Gounod's Faust....

A reclusive millionaire puts an ad in the paper looking for seven "seductive and audacious women". Lured by the ad a horde of women descend on a golf...