Best award winning movies with a multiple interpretations from 1979

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a multiple interpretations from 1979! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a multiple interpretations from 1979, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Apocalypse Now (1979)

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

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1979-08-15 | Drama / War

Cast

Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall

Rating

rating icon 8.28
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #27 for
    with mercenaries
  2. Ranked #35 for
    critically acclaimed
  3. Ranked #67 for
    extraordinary

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2 Tess (1979)

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line, but is left traumatised from her experiences.

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1979-10-06 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #73 for
    like Pride & Prejudice
  2. Ranked #171 for
    like Inside Llewyn Davis
  3. Ranked #179 for
    elegiac

Trailer

Tess trailer
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3 Being There (1979)

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

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1979-12-19 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine

Rating

rating icon 7.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #82 for
    with biblical reference
  2. Ranked #89 for
    prosaic
  3. Ranked #221 for
    with political satire

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Being There trailer
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4 The Tin Drum (1979)

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.

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1979-05-02 | Drama / History

Cast

Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler

Rating

rating icon 6.927
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #80 for
    freak show
  2. Ranked #100 for
    waggish
  3. Ranked #133 for
    eschatological

Trailer

The Tin Drum trailer
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5 Legend of the Mountain (1979)

A travelling scholar, intent on translating a Buddhist sutra, loses his way in the mountains. Time and space collapse around him as he continues his journey, encountering ghostly visitations amid a haunting fantasia of color, light and landscape.

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1979-10-04 | Horror / Fantasy

Cast

Shih Chun, Hsu Feng

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #22 for
    plangent sound
  2. Ranked #162 for
    Occult
  3. Ranked #197 for
    gun fu

Trailer

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6 Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.

Info

1979-12-07 | Drama

Cast

Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep

Rating

rating icon 7.571
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #37 for
    with marital problems
  2. Ranked #45 for
    Oscar-worthy performance
  3. Ranked #47 for
    deservedly won awards

Trailer

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7 Hair (1979)

Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.

Info

1979-03-15 | Music / Drama

Cast

John Savage, Treat Williams

Rating

rating icon 7.299
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #122 for
    jukebox musical
  2. Ranked #140 for
    tuneful
  3. Ranked #161 for
    museum piece

Trailer

Hair trailer
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8 Dracula (1979)

Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.

Info

1979-07-20 | Horror / Romance

Cast

Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier

Rating

rating icon 6.359
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #75 for
    like Pride & Prejudice
  2. Ranked #110 for
    matte shot
  3. Ranked #116 for
    canonical

Trailer

Dracula trailer
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9 Stalker (1979)

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.

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1979-05-25 | Science Fiction / Drama

Cast

Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Rating

rating icon 8.155
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #18 for
    sepia tone
  2. Ranked #166 for
    opaque
  3. Ranked #171 for
    introspective

Trailer

Stalker trailer
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10 Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent, goes to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. Once Jonathan is caught under his evil spell, Dracula travels to Wismar where he meets the beautiful Lucy, Jonathan's wife, while a plague spreads through the town, now ruled by death.

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1979-01-17 | Drama / Horror

Cast

Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani

Rating

rating icon 7.306
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #58 for
    impressionistic
  2. Ranked #155 for
    haunting visual
  3. Ranked #185 for
    haunting imagery

Trailer

Nosferatu the Vampyre trailer
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