The best movies 1979 Pagina 14

After being cheated out of some money, two small time crooks convince a martial arts expert to take them on as students.

When a comrade is captured by a hostile warlord, five martial arts masters confront the villain's foot soldiers, valiantly battling through their...

The president, who believes that he caused an unjust execution because he complied with the presiding judge in the first death sentence he...

Made for Roger Reynolds's Voicescapes performance, containing elements from Emshwiller's previous film "Sunstone."

A film consisting of two short stories. The protagonist of the first one is a polytechnic graduate who works in a factory. The second short story is...

At the height of the military dictatorship, an abandoned mansion in the center of São Paulo is occupied by militants, hippies, maniacs,...

Mexican feature film

The late 19th century Christiania (Oslo) could offer a rich variety of entertainment. There were several variety theatres and brothels, and poor...

Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper, who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using...

Father and son are members of a decadent circus. Tired of being constantly criticized by the owner of the circus, Trombada, the ventriloquist, makes...

From dawn till dusk in the bohemian heart of London’s West End. This 1979 portrait of the people and places of Soho catches the neighbourhood...

A television production of a Renaissance comedy by N. Machiavelli. A sharp criticism of society, a sharp satire on the wickedness of the clergy and...

An evil caliph offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to a prince if he can complete a perilous quest for a magical rose. Helped by a young boy...

An ex-professional boxer gets a new start when teaming up with an ageing hoodlum and an ex-call girl.

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the...

Little boy Stepan loved listening to fairy tales his mother made up before bedtime. One day, she told him about the river near where they lived. It...

After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a...

Andy lives with his parents on a small farm in Lower Bavaria. He rides his "Schluchtenflitzer", a moped, to discos with his friends. He meets...

A man and his daughter, tired of fights and routines, miss school and work the same day.

The action takes place in the course of three days. It is the story of people who survived in the “torture house” of chilean...

Feature film by Armando Arce.

Mexican feature film

Due to a love conflict, two friends challenge each other to swim in a rough sea.

A tribute to Virginia, a 23-year-old girl who apparently committed suicide in Ibiza. Excerpts from her letters to Narcisa, written on the walls,...

Documentary on Cuban prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso and her company the Ballet Nacional de Cuba.

Heist and double-crosses.

Mexican feature film

Documentary about Bolivia's 100 years of being landlocked after the war with Chile.

Fetos is an allegory of the process of life. What would happen if a fetus became conscious in its mother's womb? It would interpret its'...

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...

First sandinist noticiero

This film chronicles a meeting: that of the Tarahumara Indians and a camera that looks at the people that are etymologically called "foot runners." ...

This film is the testimony of men speaking to their own image. Each man, alone in a dark space, speaks to himself while watching his own projection....