Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1979

L’Adolescente – Jeanne Moreau

Ah! Nomugi Toge (Nomugi Pass) - Satsuo Yamamoto

Agatha – Michael Apted

An Almost Perfect Affair - Michael Ritchie

Americathon – Neal Israel

An Almost Perfect Affair – Michael Ritchie

Anti-Clock - Jane Arden

The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again - Vincent McEveety

Arabian Adventure - Kevin Connor

Ashanti (Ashanti, Land of No Mercy) - Richard Fleischer

Autumn Marathon (Osenniy marafon) - Georgiy Daneliya

Baby Snakes - Frank Zappa

Ball Lightning (Kulový blesk) - Ladislav Smoljak / Zdeněk Podskalský

Ballad of Tara (Tcherike-ye Tara) - Bahram Bayzai

Bear Island - Don Sharp

The Bell Jar - Larry Peerce

Best Boy – Ira Wohl

Beyond The Poseidon Adventure – Irvin Allen

Birth of the Beatles - Richard Marquand

The Bitch - Gerry O'Hara

Bloodline – Terence Young

Bloody Kids - Stephen Frears

Boardwalk - Stephen Verona

Boulevard Nights - Michael Pressman

Breakthrough - Andrew V. McLaglen

The Bronte Sisters (Les Sœurs Brontë) – Andre Techine

Les Bronzés font du ski (French Fried Vacation 2) - Patrice Leconte

The Brood - David Cronenberg

Buffet froid – Bertrand Blier

Butch and Sundance: The Early Days - Richard Lester

The Butterfly Murders (Die bian) - Tsui Hark

Bye Bye Brasil – Carlos Diegues

Il cacciatore di squali (The Shark Hunter / Guardians of the Deep) - Enzo G. Castellari

C.H.O.M.P.S. - Don Chaffey

California Dreaming - John D. Hancock

Camera Buff – Krzysztof Kieslowski

The Castle of Cagliostro (Kariosutoro no shiro) - Hayao Miyazaki

The Cat and the Canary - Radley Metzger

The Champ - Franco Zeffirelli

Chapter Two – Robert Moore

Christ Stopped at Eboli (Cristo si è fermato a Eboli) - Francesco Rosi

The Children of Sanchez – Hall Bartlett

Clair de femme (Womanlight) - Costa-Gavras

Coup de tête (Hothead) Jean-Jacques Annaud

Cuba - Richard Lester

David – Peter Lilienthal

Derek and Clive Get the Horn - Russell Mulcahy

Dirty Ho (Lan tou He) - Lau Kar-leung

Don Giovanni - Joseph Losey

Dracula – John Badham

Un dramma borghese (Mimi) - Florestano Vancini

Dreamer - Noel Nosseck

The Driller Killer – Abel Ferrara

Eagle's Wing - Anthony Harvey

Ekipazh (Air Crew) – Alexander Mitta

The Electic Horseman – Sydney Pollack

Escape to Athena – George P. Cosmatos

The Europeans – James Ivroy

Fast Break - Jack Smight

Felicity - John D. Lamond

The Fifth Musketeer – Ken Annakin

Firepower - Michael Winner

First Case, Second Case (Qazieh, Shekl-e Avval, Shekl-e Dovom) - Abbas Kiarostami

The First Great Train Robbery – Michael Crichton

From Corleone to Brooklyn (Da Corleone a Brooklyn) – Umberto Lenzi

From Hell to Victory (De l'enfer à la victoire / De Dunkerke a la victoria) - Umberto Lenzi

A Force of One - Paul Aaron

French Postcards - Willard Huyck

Gal Young 'Un - Victor Nuñez

Game for Vultures - James Fargo

The Genealogy (Jokbo) - Im Kwon-taek

Going in Style - Martin Brest

Gol Maal (Confusion) - Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Goldengirl - Joseph Sargent

The Great Riviera Bank Robbery - Francis Megahy

Hanover Street – Peter Hyams

Heart of the Forest (El corazón del bosque) - Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón

Heartland – Richard Pearce

Hot Stuff - Dom DeLuise

The Human Factor – Otto Preminger

Hurricane - Jan Troell

The Hussy (La drôlesse) - Jacques Doillon

The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (L'Hypothèse du tableau volé) - Raúl Ruiz

I as in Icarus (I... comme Icare) - Henri Verneuil

Jaguar - Lino Brocka

Jesus - Peter Sykes / John Krisch

Just You and Me, Kid - Leonard Stern

Kaala Patthar (Black Stone) - Yash Chopra

Kassbach – Ein Porträt (Kassbach - A Portrait) - Peter Patzak

The Kids Are Alright - Jeff Stein

Knockabout (Za jia xiao zi) - Sammo Hung

Lady Oscar - Jacques Demy

The Lady Vanishes - Anthony Page

Last Embrace – Jonathan Demme

The Last of the Knucklemen - Tim Burstall

Lost and Found - Melvin Frank

Love and Bullets - Stuart Rosenberg

Laura (Laura, les ombres de l'été) – David Hamilton

Love at First Bite - Stan Dragoti

Lovers and Liars (Viaggio con Anita) - Mario Monicelli

La Luna – Bernardo Bertolucci

The Magician of Lublin - Menahem Golan

Magnificent Butcher (Lin shi rong) - Yuen Woo-ping

The Main Event - Howard Zieff

Mamá cumple cien años (Mama Turns 100) - Carlos Saura

A Man, a Woman, and a Bank - Noel Black

The Marriage of Maria Braun – Fassbinder

Mattie the Goose-boy (Lúdas Matyi) - Attila Dargay

Maula Jatt - Younis Malik

Meetings with Remerkable Man – Peter Brook

Moscow Does not Believe in Tears – Vladimir Menshov

Nauker – Ismail Memon

Nightwing - Arthur Hiller

The North Avenue Irregulars - Bruce Bilson

North Dallas Forty – Ted Kotcheff

North Sea Hijack (Ffolkes / Assault Force) - Andrew V. McLaglen

The Odd Angry Shot – Tom Jeffrey

The Odd Couple (Bo ming chan dao duo ming qiang) - Lau Kar Wing

The Onion Field - Harold Becker

Operación Ogro - Gillo Pontecorvo

The Passage - J. Lee Thompson

Peruvazhiyambalam - P. Padmarajan

Les petites fugues (The Little Fugitives) - Yves Yersin

Il prato (The Meadow) - Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

The Prisoner of Zenda - Richard Quine

The Plumber - Peter Weir

Portrait of a Hitman - Allan A. Buckhantz

The Prize Fighter - Michael Preece

Prophecy - John Frankenheimer

Quadrophenia - Franc Roddam

Richard Pryor: Live in Concert – Jeff Margolis

Rich Kids - Robert M. Young

Rock 'n' Roll High School - Allan Arkush

Rocky II – Sylvester Stallone

Running - Steven Hilliard Stern

Saint Jack - Peter Bogdanovich

Scavenger Hunt - Michael Schultz

Scum - Alan Clarke

A Scream from Silence (Mourir à tue-tête) - Anne Claire Poirier

A Sense of Freedom - John Mackenzie

Série Noire (Black Series) – Alain Corneau

Siberiade – Andrei Konchalovsky

Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness (Schwestern oder Die Balance des Glücks) - Margarethe von Trotta

Something Out of Nothing - Nikola Rudarov

Starting Over – Alan J. Pakula

Suhaag (Sign of Marriage) - Manmohan Desai

Sunburn - Richard C. Sarafian

The Survivors (Los sobrevivientes) - Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Take Down - Kieth Merrill

Tarka the Otter - David Cobham

Telokhranitel (The Bodyguard) – Ali Khamraev

That Summer! - Harley Cokeliss

The Theme (Тема) – Gleb Panfilov

The Third Generation (Die Dritte Generation) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Those Wonderful Movie Cranks (Báječní muži s klikou) - Jiří Menzel

La Tía Alejandra (Aunt Alejandra) - Arturo Ripstein

Tim - Michael Pate

The Tin Drum – Volker Schlondroff

To Forget Venice (Dimenticare Venezia) - Franco Brusati

Tourist Trap - David Schmoeller

Ultraman (Jissouji Akio Kantoku Sakuhin Urutoraman) - Akio Jissoji

Uncle Marin, the Billionaire (Nea Mărin miliardar) - Sergiu Nicolaescu

Vengeance is Mine (fukushū suru wa ware ni ari) – Shohei Imamura

The Villain - Hal Needham

Wanda Nevada - Peter Fonda

The Warriors - Walter Hill

When a Strange Calls – Fred Walton

Woman Between Wolf and Dog (Femme entre chien et loup) - André Delvaux

Yanks - John Schlesinger

Yesterday's Hero - Neil Leifer

Zulu Dawn - Douglas Hickox