Best award winning movies with a refreshing take from 1979
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a refreshing take from 1979! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a refreshing take from 1979, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 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.
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- 1979-07-20 | Horror / Romance
Cast
- Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier
Rating
6.359
2 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.
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- 1979-12-07 | Drama
Cast
- Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep
Rating
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7.571
3 Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.
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- 1979-12-07 | Science Fiction / Adventure
Cast
- William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy
Rating
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6.5
4 Manhattan (1979)
Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
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- 1979-04-25 | Comedy / Drama
Cast
- Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
Rating
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7.727
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5 All That Jazz (1979)
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.
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- 1979-12-16 | Drama
Cast
- Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange
Rating
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7.452
6 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
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8.28
7 Alien (1979)
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
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- 1979-05-25 | Horror / Science Fiction
Cast
- Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt
Rating
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8.156
8 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
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7.306
9 Thirst (1979)
The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.
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- 1979-09-28 | Horror / Romance
Cast
- Chantal Contouri, Max Phipps
Rating
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6.102
10 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
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7.6
