Best award winning movies with super talented director from 1979
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with super talented director from 1979! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with super talented director from 1979, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 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
7.462
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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7.572
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
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7.618
4 Breaking Away (1979)
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-hearted Mike. Now, Dave enjoys racing bikes and hopes to race the Italians one day, and even takes up the Italian culture, much to his friends and parents annoyance.
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- 1979-05-24 | Drama / Comedy
Cast
- Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern
Rating
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7.113
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5 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
6 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
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6.356
7 The Champ (1979)
Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright spot in his existence — his young son, T.J. Although Billy has had custody of T.J. since his wife, Annie, left the family years ago, her return prompts a new struggle for the former fighter. Determined to hold on to his son, Billy gets back into the ring to try and recapture his past success.
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- 1979-07-07 | Drama
Cast
- Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway
Rating
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7.0
8 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
9 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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8.3
10 The Muppet Movie (1979)
A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there he meets his future muppet crew while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!
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- 1979-06-22 | Comedy / Adventure
Cast
- Jim Henson, Frank Oz
Rating
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7.2
