The best movies 1979 Pagina 11

The true story of successful and respectable Edwardian businessman Roger Ackerley, who managed to conceal the existence of a secret love and the...

Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper, who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using...

Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the...

An adolescent boy feels betrayed by his friends and family when plans are made to drain his beloved marshlands and build a factory.

“A structural work (with humor) that uses indeterminacy to forge an abstract landscape upon which the ‘vision’ of an ox appears. A...

Solo work by Dan Sandin acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in 2021.

Two men meet in Milan for 48 hours. They met for the first time, elsewhere. The voice-over speaks of this first weekend and the images are those of...

Twenty-year old misfit François earns his living by gathering boxes and bottles to resell to local shopkeepers. He lives with his grossly...

Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his...

A group of people converge on a barren Arctic island. They have their reasons for being there but when a series of mysterious accidents and murders...

Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced...

A wife comes to a construction site to find her husband, who does not want to see her. She finds a job there and makes a male friend. Tragedy is in...

A NASA spacecraft proves Einstein right when, traveling faster than light, it ends up near King Arthur's Camelot. On board are big-hearted Tom...

Jewel thieves attempt to recover treasure from piranha infested waters. Mistrust and betrayals happen amongst the gang in the quest for gold.

Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in Arizona.

Latin American children, children of exiles and political prisoners, tell of their experiences of integration in Cuba, sharing their memories from...

“This film began as a view out six windows in a crescendo of evocation. Each window is a layer in a different style of representation. Each...

Albert is being released from a psychatric hospital and goes back to his bavarian hometown. But the people don't accept him and they begin to treat...

Agustín, a school teacher, visits Paco, a former student, whose mother asks him to help her get the boy on the right track.

Sequel to "The Great Family" and "Family and one more". A widower and the godfather of his 16 children, aged two, wistfully contemplate the past. The...

A group of people, blindfolded and fed distorted German dialogue through headphones, sit at a table and feel their way towards the food in the centre.

Pilgrimage to the Christ of the Ausangate snow-capped mountain.

The testimonies of three Argentines: Laura Bonaparte, Carlos González Gartland and Raúl Fonseca, on repression and torture in Argentina...

Recovered Zulueta short.

Andrés, a young provincial who became blind during his childhood, comes to the capital with the possibility of having a transplant and...

A report on the legendary race car driver Arnaldo Alvarado (1911-1998), and a selection of film archive footage of the tournaments in which he...

The circus in which Rocky Carambola and Coco, his chimpanzee friend, work, arrives in a city where strange things happen.

The arrival of a new school-teacher to a small town triggers various large and small upheavals, including the Police Chief's total meltdown into...

Told in a manner more common during the Franco era, this movie tells the story of a man who fought with the Republican forces during the Spanish...

Buenos Aires, 1932. After a series of warning attacks from an enemy, a mafia boss decides to fake his own death and then strike back. Things don't go...

All kinds of crimes are being committed in a frontier settlement; if you blame it on the Chiricahuas afterwards, you can get away with anything. One...

A young man enters an institute for the mentally ill and falls in love with a patient from whom he will distance himself after her rehabilitation.

Adaptation of Ernesto Sábato's work, directed by José Luis Cuerda Juan Pablo Castel, a moderately famous painter, visits Larrea's...

Zorro-type horseman with occult powers faces off against all metaphysical evils.

An actor from the provinces, a soap-opera star, reaches the big city with dreams of success. Partly through sincerity and partly prompted by an...

Rich landowner uses a hired gun to exploit the local peasantry more efficiently. It doesn't end well.