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Cuba
Cuba (1979) on 21 december 1979
, 2h2
Directed by Richard Lester
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Sean Connery, Brooke Adams, Chris Sarandon, Héctor Elizondo, Martin Balsam, Jack Weston
Rating56% 2.800242.800242.800242.800242.80024
The film's sense of historical accuracy is marred by the opening scene which shows an airliner landing in Havana with the wrong date ("1959") superimposed on the screen. It should read "1958", the last year of the revolution. Cuban President Batista fled the capital when Fidel Castro and his guerrillas entered Havana on New Year's Day 1959.
Baby Snakes
Baby Snakes (1979) on 21 december 1979
, 2h46
Directed by Frank Zappa
Genres Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Actors Roy Estrada, Frank Zappa, Diva Zappa
Rating79% 3.976363.976363.976363.976363.97636
Baby Snakes est un film qui comprend des images du concert d'Halloween de Frank Zappa en 1977 au Palladium Theatre de New York, des ébats de l'équipe et des animations en stop motion clay de l'animateur primé Bruce Bickford.
Casper's First Christmas
Casper's First Christmas (1979) on 18 december 1979
, 30minutes
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Christmas films, Ghost films, Children's films
Actors Julie McWhirter, Daws Butler, Don Messick, John Stephenson, Hal Smith
Rating66% 3.333423.333423.333423.333423.33342
Casper and his friend Hairy Scary are in a house about to be demolished on Christmas Eve and go out to look for a new place to move to after Christmas in California. Then Yogi and his friends get lost and arrive at Casper and Hairy's house and clean and decorate it to celebrate Christmas. Then Casper befriends Yogi and company only for Hairy to try to ruin the party with Casper and his new friends. Then Hairy has a change of heart and celebrates Christmas with Casper and his new friends and ending with Santa Claus saving the house and turning it into Hairy's Haunting Lodge.
I... For Icarus
I... For Icarus (1979) on 19 december 1979
, 2h2
Directed by Henri Verneuil, Philippe Lopes-Curval
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Mafia films, Monde imaginaire, Politique, Political films, Gangster films
Actors Yves Montand, Michel Albertini, Roland Amstutz, Maurice Bénichou, Jean-Pierre Bagot, Georges Beller
Rating78% 3.9420153.9420153.9420153.9420153.942015
The film's plot is based on the Kennedy assassination and subsequent investigation. The film begins with the assassination of President Marc Jarry, who is about to be inaugurated for a second six-year term of office. Henri Volney, state attorney and member of the commission charged with investigating the assassination (based on the Warren Commission) refuses to agree to the commission's final findings. The film portrays the initial controversy about this, as well as Volney and his staff's reopening of the investigation.
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed (1979) on 20 december 1979
, 6h
Directed by Stanislav Govoroukhine
Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Vladimir Konkine, Vladimir Vysotsky, Zinovi Gerdt, Leonid Kouravliov, Armen Djigarkhanian, Alexander Belyavsky
Rating86% 4.341994.341994.341994.341994.34199
The film is set in post-WWII Moscow. Lieutenant Vladimir Sharapov (Vladimir Konkin) is a young reconnaissance officer and a decorated war hero who has just returned from the war and is assigned to peacetime service with the famous MUR (Moscow Department of Criminal Investigations). There he becomes part of an elite detective team led by the brilliant, tough, no-nonsense Captain Gleb Zheglov (Vysotsky). The duo becomes embroiled in two seemingly separate investigations: that of the murder of young aspiring actress Larisa Gruzdeva, and the hunt for a vicious gang of armed robbers that calls itself "Black Cat" and constantly manages to evade capture.
Kramer vs. Kramer
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) on 19 december 1979
, 1h45
Directed by Robert Benton
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander, Howard Duff, George Coe
Rating77% 3.898293.898293.898293.898293.89829
Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) is a workaholic advertising executive who has just been assigned a new and very important account. Ted arrives home and shares the good news with his wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) only to find that she is leaving him. Saying that she needs to find herself, she leaves Ted to raise their son Billy (Justin Henry) by himself. Ted and Billy initially resent one another as Ted no longer has time to carry his increased workload and Billy misses his mother's love and attention. After months of unrest, Ted and Billy learn to cope and gradually bond as father and son.
C.H.O.M.P.S.
C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979) on 21 december 1979
, 1h31
Directed by Don Chaffey, Burt Topper
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Children's films, Robot films
Actors Wesley Eure, Red Buttons, Valerie Bertinelli, Conrad Bain, Jim Backus, Chuck McCann
Rating49% 2.4599152.4599152.4599152.4599152.459915
Brian Foster (Wesley Eure), a young inventor, creates a robotic dog for use as part of a home protection system. C.H.O.M.P.S. is an acronym for "Canine HOMe Protection System." Ralph Norton (Conrad Bain) is his boss who he constantly argues with. Norton's daughter Casey (Valerie Bertinelli) and Foster develop a relationship. A rival company wants the dog and sends a few petty criminals to dognap "C.H.O.M.P.S."
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales (1972) on 19 december 1979
, 1h58
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Erotic, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Themes Poésie, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Adaptation d'un poème, LGBT-related film
Actors Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Laura Betti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Hugh Griffith, Alan Webb
Rating63% 3.198513.198513.198513.198513.19851
Near London, Oxford and Canterbury in the Middle Ages, stories and adventures of peasants, noblemen, clergy and demons are interwoven. In the first vignette of the film, the merchant Sir January loses his sight, allowing the bride to join with her young lover in secret. In the second story, the Devil ensures that two young peasants are killed by the arm of the Inquisition for their libertine pleasures. In the third, the fool Perkin is involved in an intrigue; he tries to find work, but his attempts ultimately wreak havoc in the city of Oxford. In the fourth story of two youths, Nicolas and Alison, seduce the wife of a carpenter, and when in danger of being caught, they pretend to be two visionaries who predicted the arrival of the new Flood. In the fifth, in the village of Bath, a matron marries Giannozzo; however, their happiness is short-lived. In the sixth story in Cambridge, two students spend fabulous nights with Molly, the wife of a miller. One night Molly, waiting to make love with each of the two boys, goes to bed believing that she is conversing with one of the youths, disclosing their secret. In fact, the one who is on the bed is the consort! In the seventh story three students, cruel in their actions, are achieved by an old man who predicts them to a bad end. Young guys do not get scared, but when the three ingest a poisoned wine, soon find themselves in the company of Gloomy Grim Reaper. In the eighth and final story, a pleasure-loving monk is trying to earn as much food in exchange for extreme unction to a dying man. That same night in the man's convent comes an angel, which leads him to Hell, to show him the terrible punishments that belong to the friars that subvert the message of Christ.
All That Jazz
All That Jazz (1979) on 20 december 1979
, 2h
Directed by Bob Fosse
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Films about angels, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer, Ann Reinking, Max Wright, Gwen Verdon
Rating77% 3.897633.897633.897633.897633.89763
Joe Gideon is a theater director and choreographer trying to balance work on his latest Broadway musical with editing a Hollywood film he has directed. He is a workaholic who chain-smokes cigarettes, and without a daily dose of Vivaldi, Visine, Alka-Seltzer, Dexedrine, and sex, he wouldn't have the energy to keep up the biggest "show" of all — his life. His girlfriend Katie Jagger, his ex-wife Audrey Paris, and daughter Michelle try to pull him back from the brink, but it is too late for his exhausted body and stress-ravaged heart. In his imagination, he flirts with an angel of death named Angelique.
The Black Hole
The Black Hole (1979) on 21 december 1979
, 1h38
Directed by Gary Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Psychologie, Dans l'espace, Films set in the future, Space opera, Children's films, Robot films, Lobotomie
Actors Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Robert Forster, Joseph Bottoms, Yvette Mimieux, Ernest Borgnine
Rating58% 2.9497452.9497452.9497452.9497452.949745
Nearing the end of a long mission exploring deep space, the spacecraft USS Palomino is returning to Earth. The crew consists of Captain Dan Holland, First Officer Lieutenant Charlie Pizer, journalist Harry Booth, ESP-sensitive scientist Dr. Kate McCrae, the expedition's civilian leader Dr. Alex Durant and the robot V.I.N.CENT ("Vital Information Necessary CENTralized").
I Am Maria
I Am Maria (1979) on 20 december 1979
, 1h34
Genres Drama
Actors Peter Lindgren, Helena Brodin, Frej Lindqvist, Anita Ekström, Stig Engström
Rating65% 3.264793.264793.264793.264793.26479
Marie est une fillette de 12 ou 13 ans qui vit en ville avec sa mère divorcée. Mais celle-ci décide un jour de tenter une nouvelle vie de couple et elle envoie sa fille chez son oncle et sa tante, dans la campagne suédoise. Marie part seule en train, le cœur serré.
The Electric Horseman
The Electric Horseman (1979) on 21 december 1979
, 2h2
Directed by Sydney Pollack
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Films about animals, Transport films, Films about horses, Road movies, Chase films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine, John Saxon, Willie Nelson, Allan Arbus
Rating63% 3.1979053.1979053.1979053.1979053.197905
Norman "Sonny" Steele is a former championship rodeo rider who has sold out to a business conglomerate and is now reduced to making public appearances to sell a brand of breakfast cereal. Prior to making a Las Vegas promotional appearance to ride the $12 million champion thoroughbred race horse who responds to the name of Rising Star, Sonny discovers to his horror that the horse has been drugged and is injured.
Ride of the Valkyrie
Ride of the Valkyrie (1979) on 21 december 1979

Directed by Peter Brook
Genres Comedy
Actors Zero Mostel, Julia Foster, Frank Thornton
Rating58% 2.918452.918452.918452.918452.91845
Roller Boogie
Roller Boogie (1979) on 21 december 1979
, 1h43
Directed by Mark L. Lester
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Musical films
Actors Linda Blair, Dick Van Patten, Roger Perry, Kimberly Beck, James Van Patten, Stoney Jackson
Rating47% 2.363692.363692.363692.363692.36369
Bobby James and his friends (Phones, Hoppy, Gordo, and several others) skate to work on the Venice, California boardwalk. Meanwhile in Beverly Hills, Terry Barkley, genius flautist is also heading towards the beach in her Excalibur Phateon car. She also is joined by her stuck-up girlfriend Lana.
Scavenger Hunt
Scavenger Hunt (1979) on 21 december 1979
, 1h56
Directed by Michael Schultz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Richard Benjamin, James Coco, Scatman Crothers, Cloris Leachman, Cleavon Little, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Rating58% 2.9004052.9004052.9004052.9004052.900405
Milton Parker (Vincent Price), an elderly and eccentric game inventor, dies after losing a video game with his seductive nurse (Carol Wayne). Following his funeral, Parker's greedy and estranged relatives show up at his mansion for the reading of his will. They learn from lawyer Charles Bernstein (Robert Morley) that the winner of an elaborate scavenger hunt will inherit his $200 million estate. The (potential) beneficiaries form five teams and get involved in various misadventures.
The Man in the Santa Claus Suit
The Man in the Santa Claus Suit (1979) on 23 december 1979
, 1h44
Directed by Corey Allen
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Christmas films
Actors Fred Astaire, Gary Burghoff, John Byner, Bert Convy, Tara Buckman, Brooke Bundy
Rating64% 3.2405253.2405253.2405253.2405253.240525
The mysterious owner of a New York costume store (Astaire) sells Santa suits to three different men. He later shows up in various roles to help the men change their lives. (chauffeur, policeman, jeweler, hot dog vendor, taxi driver, floor walker, and choral director) Bob Willis (Burghoff) is a math teacher who is madly in love with a young fashion model and prominent figure in the disco scene, Polly Primer (Buckman). Polly, however, is already engaged to marry wealthy and handsome Rod Sanborn (Greenan). He hopes to impress her by showing up in a santa suit, but withdraws when he learns of Rod's marriage proposal to her. Polly is not sure to marry Rod and hints to Bob that she longs for being swept away by another guy, but Bob is too shy to act on it. Realizing he would lose her forever to Rod, he interrupts her at a fashion show and tells her he loves her. Polly then reveals having fallen in love with him ever since he first spoke about math, and she accepts his marriage proposal.
Scooby Goes Hollywood
Scooby Goes Hollywood (1979) on 23 december 1979
, 47minutes
Directed by Ray Patterson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Comedy horror films, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Hal Smith, Don Messick, Casey Kasem, Rip Taylor, Frank Welker, Heather North
Rating59% 2.9702752.9702752.9702752.9702752.970275
Scooby and Shaggy are filming a mystery episode of their cartoon as they are running from "The Crabby Creature Of Creepy Crag" while Daphne and Velma are discussing the script outside. After Scooby and Shaggy fall on the ground after going through a catapult, they start getting tired of doing the same routine, and decide to become real movie stars ("The Name to Remember is Scooby-Doo"). They show the president of film, C.J., a pilot film called How Scooby Won the West, where Sheriff Scooby and Deputy Shaggy undergo the ornery Jesse Rotten. C.J. believes the film is a joke, and throws Shaggy and Scooby out, laughing. After the gang finds out Scooby is leaving the show, they protest while Shaggy tells how Scooby will become famous.
The Human Factor
The Human Factor (1979) on 18 december 1979
, 1h54
Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Spy, Politic
Themes Spy films, Politique, Political films
Actors Richard Attenborough, Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, Iman, Nicol Williamson, Robert Morley
Rating60% 3.048743.048743.048743.048743.04874
Maurice Castle (Nicol Williamson) is a mid-level bureaucrat in MI6 whose life seems completely without peculiarity, peccadillo, or any highlighting quality to suggest he’s anything but a dull bureaucrat, except for the interesting, casually introduced detail that he has an African wife, Sarah (Iman), and son, Sam (Gary Forbes). Meanwhile, the company regime, represented by corpulent, bluffly cheery Dr. Percival (Robert Morley), who’s actually an expert in assassinations and biological toxins, and grey eminence Sir John Hargreaves (Richard Vernon), advise newly appointed security chieftain Daintry (Richard Attenborough) that, thanks to a source they have cultivated in their Moscow enemy headquarters, they believe they have a traitor at the MI6 African desk. The duo determine that the mole must be quietly killed, rather than be allowed publicity in a trial or a flight to Moscow. They determine quickly that the most likely candidate for the traitor is Arthur Davis (Derek Jacobi), Castle’s playboy office partner. Actually, Castle is the mole, but the information he leaks is entirely unimportant financial documents. He became involved in leaking to the Soviets when he was an MI6 agent in South Africa, seven years earlier: he met and fell in love with Sarah, and when their affair was discovered by the authorities, Castle was all but thrown out of the country, and he entrusted Sarah’s smuggling out of the country to a mutual communist acquaintance. Ever since, he’s been repaying the favor by filtering insignificant data to the Soviets. Castle makes one last informational drop to his communist handlers and he is summarily whisked off to Moscow for protection. However, Castle's primary problem is that he is not a communist, is not a communist sympathizer, and has absolutely no interest in politics, socialism, the Russian language, Slavic history or culture, geopolitical power plays, Moscow nor the Soviet Union. His only interest is in his wife and his son, who are left in London — where they will remain separated from him.
The White Bus
The White Bus (1967) on 21 december 1979
, 46minutes
Directed by Lindsay Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Transport films
Actors Arthur Lowe, John Sharp, Stephen Moore, Anthony Hopkins, Ronald Lacey
Rating63% 3.1907153.1907153.1907153.1907153.190715
Une jeune femme s'ennuie à son travail à Londres et songe même à se suicider. Elle décide d'aller à Manchester et va se trouver passagère d'un bus blanc un peu particulier.
Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident
Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident (1979) on 21 december 1979
, 1h37
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson, Cesare Canevari
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Peter Graves, Curd Jürgens, Karin Schubert, Michael Dante, Frank Braña, Michael Constantine
Rating31% 1.5697251.5697251.5697251.5697251.569725
The story concerns an experimental nuclear cruise missile which is stolen from a Soviet military site in the USSR. An international terrorist group, under the command of a European power-crazed man known only as the Baron is responsible. The Baron plots to use the stolen Soviet missile to destroy an international peace conference in one week located on an island in the Persian Gulf. When the U.S. counsul to Iran is murdered by the Baron's henchmen, Alec Franklin, an US intelligence agent, is ordered to travel to Iran to take over as counsul as well as investigate the murder. Upon arrival in Tehran, Alec is followed by two of the Baron's henchmen whom attempt to kill him, but Alec manages to escape.
Being There
Being There (1979) on 19 december 1979
, 2h10
Directed by Hal Ashby
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about television, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films about autism
Actors Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard A. Dysart, Richard Basehart
Rating78% 3.948023.948023.948023.948023.94802
Chance (Peter Sellers) is a middle-aged man who lives in the townhouse of an old, wealthy man in Washington, D.C. He is simple-minded and has lived there his whole life, tending the garden. Other than gardening, his knowledge is derived entirely from what he sees on television. When his benefactor dies, Chance naively says he has no claim against the estate, and is ordered to move out. Thus he discovers the outside world for the first time.
Laura
Laura (1979) on 20 december 1979
, 1h35
Directed by David Hamilton
Origin France
Genres Drama, Erotic, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Maud Adams, Dawn Dunlap, James Mitchell, Maureen Kerwin, Pierre Londiche, Anja Schüte
Rating56% 2.800592.800592.800592.800592.80059
James Mitchell plays Paul Wyler, a successful sculptor best known for sculpting nude young girls. When he encounters an old flame, Sarah (Maud Adams), he is so smitten by her beautiful daughter Laura that he asks Sarah if she will pose for him. Sarah, married but still jealous of the fact that her former lover is more attracted to her daughter, tells Paul that Laura is not interested, even though she is actually quite enthusiastic about doing it. As an alternative to live posing, Sarah takes photos of Laura posing nude and gives them to Paul so that he can sculpt Laura. After a fire at an art exhibit, though, Paul goes blind and cannot complete the sculpture. In the end, Laura, when going to say goodbye to Paul, allows him to finish his work by feeling her body and sculpting by feeling. This leads to a sexual encounter between the two, and the next morning Laura's mother comes to take her away.
Allegro with Fire
Allegro with Fire (1979) on 22 december 1979

Genres Drama, War, Adventure
Themes Political films
Actors Vladimir Zamansky
Rating63% 3.1946953.1946953.1946953.1946953.194695
The film is set in June 1941, when Nazi troops were blocking the Soviet Black Sea fleet with new top-secret magnetic-acoustic naval mines. Seeking to neutralize these fearsome weapons, a special group of professional bomb disposal combat engineers was assembled by Soviet military commanders — a group that would carry out their task at the price of their lives.