The best movies 1979 Pagina 12

Super 8mm. Colour. Silent. 13 minutes.

A story about a singer/showgirl who poses as a nurse to recover some stolen paintings, which for some reason are hidden in a military insane asylum.

Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the...

The early days of the Fab Four are traced from their bleakest hours as unknowns on Penny Lane in Liverpool to their triumph on "The Ed Sullivan Show."

Two men, one a lowly peon and the other a dutiful nobleman, are betrayed by their master and crippled for life-- One left with no arms and the other...

Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.

Dick Van Dyke stars as a priest accused of murdering a nun. Directed by Stanley Kramer, this 1979 drama also features Kathleen Quinlan, Maureen...

A teenage couple of disparate backgrounds experiences their first romance. She's a girl from a permissive California family; he's from a conservative...

The motel has a special room designed for sexual activities. It also has a habit of photographing sex act engines and extorting the parties...

Danny, whose summer vacation with three friends and some nudists from Norway, turns into a real mess as sexual rivalries and jealousy escalate into...

Raymond Avila is an ex-gang member trying to build a future. His kid brother Chuco is a sullen low-rider still caught up in the life. Despite their...

Dr. Anansa Linderby is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and...

The box from the film strip becomes an arbitrary plot of action relating to the mysterious phenomena taking place in the Bermuda Triangle....

Richard Pryor delivers monologues on race, sex, family and his favorite target—himself, live at the Terrace Theatre in Long Beach, California.

The world's newest kung fu legend, Joe Lewis, takes on evil gangsters and saves the world.

Super 8mm. Details unknown. 3 minutes.

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...

A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to...

Beggar So is trying to keep his two star students, brother and sister team Cheong and Gam Fa, in line and well-trained. But So's old enemy...

A filmmaker engages in a routine series of sexual encounters to pass the time while editing her latest film. When one man refuses to play by her...

An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking...

Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in...

The conflict of a good man fighting between two loves: the violent love for a fascinating woman and the tender love for the little son, orphaned of a...

A visionary pioneer of Mexican video art and videodance, Pola Weiss transforms the boundaries between body, camera, and television into a deeply...

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.

Documentary about the court martial held following the assassination of Melitón Manzanas, commissioner of the Political-Social Brigade of...

When two humble farmers are poisoned by the chemicals they used to fumigate their crops, their families get in action to help them survive despite...

Jose, a taxi driver in Bogotá suffers from the condition of his old vehicle and is almost unable to work.

Pilgrimage to the Christ of the Ausangate snow-capped mountain.

Recovered Zulueta short.

A 1979 short by Rosario Hernández.

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'...

A conversation between Rolando Peña and Iván Loscher during the construction of the Caracas subway. "La Cotorra No. 2" is a very...

In the turbulent Venezuela of the 1950s, ambition and betrayal intertwine in a drama that culminates in a tragic outcome. Rafael Simón Urbina,...

Andrés, a young provincial who became blind during his childhood, comes to the capital with the possibility of having a transplant and...

Rich landowner uses a hired gun to exploit the local peasantry more efficiently. It doesn't end well.

The circus in which Rocky Carambola and Coco, his chimpanzee friend, work, arrives in a city where strange things happen.

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....

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