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The most successful movies, first aired in 1979 year
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Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) USATed Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 106 260 000 IMDb: 7.8/10 (157 224) User Rating: /10 Votes: 5 |
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1941 (1979) USA Watching this director's cut, it's finally possible to see why the studio made Spielberg mercilessly hack up this comedy: it's a screaming movie (everyone screams a lot), and screaming movies do not need character development... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 92 455 742 IMDb: 5.8/10 (36 739) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Apocalypse Now (1979) USA A U.S... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 91 968 688 IMDb: 8.4/10 (721 150) |
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The Amityville Horror (1979) USA Based on a true story that was claimed by writer Jay Anson, The Amityville Horror is about a large house on the coast of Long Island where newlyweds George and Kathy Lutz and their three children move into the house that they hope will be their dream house which ends up in terror... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 86 432 000 IMDb: 6.2/10 (45 496) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Rocky II (1979) USA Rocky struggles in family life after his bout with Apollo Creed, while the embarrassed champ insistently goads him to accept a challenge for a rematch... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 85 182 160 IMDb: 7.3/10 (234 991) |
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10 (1979) USA Forty-two year old famed composer/playwright George Webber is going through a midlife crisis... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 74 865 517 IMDb: 6.1/10 (19 545) |
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Meatballs (1979) CanadaSummer Camp highjinks centered around a camp counselor with a wacky sense of humor... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 43 046 003 IMDb: 6.2/10 (24 410) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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All That Jazz (1979) USA Choreographing and picking dancers for his current show whilst editing his feature film about a stand-up comedian is getting to Joe Gideon... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 37 823 676 IMDb: 7.8/10 (36 358) |
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The Black Stallion (1979) USA While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion who is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 37 799 643 IMDb: 7.4/10 (14 288) User Rating: /10 Votes: 11 |
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Starting Over (1979) USA A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 35 649 012 IMDb: 6.4/10 (3 322) |
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The Champ (1979) USA Billy Flynn, an ex box champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 30 441 738 IMDb: 6.8/10 (9 402) User Rating: /10 Votes: 11 |
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The Rose (1979) USA Bette Midler plays The Rose, a female rock star strikingly similar to Janis Joplin... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 29 174 648 IMDb: 6.9/10 (9 399) |
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Going in Style (1979) USA Three friends who are living on the dole decide to organize a bank robbery... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 26 869 286 IMDb: 7.1/10 (4 171) |
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North Dallas Forty (1979) USA A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 26 079 312 IMDb: 6.9/10 (6 108) |
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When a Stranger Calls (1979) USA High school student Jill Johnson is traumatized over an evening of babysitting by a caller who repeatedly asks, "Have you checked the children lately?" After notifying the police, Jill is told that the calls are coming from inside the house..... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 21 411 158 IMDb: 6.4/10 (14 646) |
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Prophecy (1979) USA A Savage beast, grown to monstrous size and driven mad by toxic wastes that are poisoning the waters, spreads terror and death on a Maine countryside... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 18 389 402 IMDb: 5.6/10 (6 287) |
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Phantasm (1979) USA Mike, a young teenage boy who has just lost his parents, is afraid to lose his brother... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 11 988 469 IMDb: 6.6/10 (41 901) |
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Mad Max (1979) AustraliaThe Road Warrior is already a classic, sans condescending genre distinctions like "sci-fi" or "action." But the story of Mel Gibson's stately antihero begins in Mad Max, George Miller's low-budget debut in which Max is a "Bronze" (cop) in an unspecified postapocalyptic future with a buddy-partner and family... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 8 771 757 IMDb: 6.8/10 (233 628) User Rating: /10 Votes: 2 |
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Running (1979) Canada American marathon runner Michael Andropolis sets his heart on representing his country at the Olympic games... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 6 012 556 IMDb: 5.9/10 (838) |
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Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979) USA A prequel of sorts to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) which chronicles the two outlaws' lives in the years before the events portrayed in the 1969 movie... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 5 136 913 IMDb: 5.7/10 (1 736) |
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The Great Santini (1979) USA In 1962, the Marine Corps family, the Meechums - parents Lieutenant Colonel Wilbur "Bull" Meechum and Lillian Meechum, and their four children Ben Meechum, Mary Anne Meechum, Karen Meechum and Matthew Meechum - are moving like they do most years, this time to Beaufort, South Carolina... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 4 702 575 IMDb: 7.1/10 (7 108) |
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Guyana: Crime of the Century (1979) Spain,  Panama,  MexicoThis horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a highly charismatic, but profoundly paranoid clergyman, who after years of evangelism and good deeds, begins his own church in the mid-western United States... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 3 798 102 IMDb: 5.5/10 (594) User Rating: /10 Votes: 2 |
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Hanover Street (1979) United KingdomDuring the Second World War, an American Pilot stationed in England meets a young British nurse during an air raid on London... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 3 000 000 IMDb: 6.0/10 (6 060) |
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Wanda Nevada (1979) USA Romantic drama following the fortunes of a drifter named Beaudray Demerille (Peter Fonda) who wins a young orphan named Wanda (14 year old Brooke Shields) in a poker game and takes her gold prospecting in the Grand Canyon... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 2 411 145 IMDb: 5.5/10 (1 550) User Rating: /10 Votes: 2 |
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Rich Kids (1979) USA Two ultra-precocious Upper West Side twelve-year-olds, Franny and Jamie, are best friends... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 1 856 122 IMDb: 6.5/10 (688) |
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Walk Proud (1979) USA A young Chicano gang member in Los Angeles comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 1 675 040 IMDb: 5.4/10 (379) |
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Goldengirl (1979) USA A neo-Nazi doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised, and conditioned since she was a child in preparation of the Olympics... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 1 247 376 IMDb: 4.9/10 (532) |
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Beyond the Reef (1979) USA Tikoyo lives by the Bora Bora lagoon in the South Pacific, where he found a man-eating tiger shark when it was an orphaned baby, just a foot long... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 547 525 IMDb: 4.7/10 (232) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Stalker (1979) Soviet UnionNear a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, an alien place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 303 806 IMDb: 8.0/10 (147 195) User Rating: /10 Votes: 2 |
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An Almost Perfect Affair (1979) USA A smalltime US filmmaker goes to Cannes to try to get his movie in the limelight... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 85 493 IMDb: 5.3/10 (371) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (1979) Italy,  FranceIn the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 74 349 IMDb: 7.7/10 (2 826) User Rating: /10 Votes: 7 |
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The Wanderers (1979) USA The Wanderers is a teenage, Italian gang in Bronx, NYC, 1963... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 14 492 IMDb: 7.3/10 (12 578) |
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Die Blechtrommel (1979) West Germany, France,  Poland,  YugoslaviaDanzig in the 1920s/1930s... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 6 881 IMDb: 7.5/10 (26 205) User Rating: /10 Votes: 27 |
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Scum (1979) United Kingdom This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 6 461 IMDb: 7.6/10 (13 380) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Série noire (1979) France Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 5 633 IMDb: 7.3/10 (3 585) User Rating: /10 Votes: 1 |
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Sibiriada (1979) Soviet Union This ambitious 1979 Russian film attempts no less a feat than the encapsulation of the tumultuous history of Russia in the 20th century... Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $ 1 753 IMDb: 7.9/10 (2 348) User Rating: /10 Votes: 13 |
