Best award winning movies with ratcheting up tension from 1979
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with ratcheting up tension from 1979! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with ratcheting up tension from 1979, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 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
8.156
2 The China Syndrome (1979)
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.
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- 1979-03-16 | Drama / Thriller
Cast
- Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon
Rating
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7.16
3 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
4 When a Stranger Calls (1979)
A student babysitter has her evening disturbed when the phone rings. So begins a series of increasingly terrifying and threatening calls that lead to a shocking revelation.
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- 1979-09-28 | Horror / Thriller
Cast
- Carol Kane, Charles Durning
Rating
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6.1
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5 The Brood (1979)
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.
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- 1979-05-25 | Horror / Science Fiction
Cast
- Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar
Rating
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6.711
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.
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- 1979-12-07 | Drama
Cast
- Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep
Rating
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7.571
7 Phantasm (1979)
A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.
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- 1979-03-28 | Horror / Science Fiction
Cast
- Angus Scrimm, A. Michael Baldwin
Rating
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6.553
8 Vengeance Is Mine (1979)
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
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- 1979-04-21 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Ken Ogata, Rentaro Mikuni
Rating
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7.523
9 Mad Max (1979)
In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them.
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- 1979-04-12 | Adventure / Action
Cast
- Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel
Rating
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6.691
10 Time After Time (1979)
Writer H. G. Wells pursues Jack the Ripper to modern day San Francisco after the infamous serial killer steals his time machine to escape the 19th century.
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- 1979-09-28 | Adventure / Drama
Cast
- Malcolm McDowell, David Warner
Rating
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6.833
