Best more appropriate award winning movies from 1979
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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
8.28
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 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
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 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
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7.0
6 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
7 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
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 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
10 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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7.116
