Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Chilly Scenes of Winter (Head Over Heels) (1979)
- Dir. Joan Micklin Silver
Feat. John Heard, Mary Beth Hurt, Peter Riegert… - A celebrated early rom–com from writer–director Joan Micklin Silver (CROSSING DELANCEY) with a likable John Heard playing a hopeless…
Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)- Dir. Francesco Rosi
Feat. Gian Maria Volente, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny - A writer is exiled to the remote South in the mid 1930s. Based on the autobiography of Carlos Levi, this film in four parts contrasts his political…
Days of Heaven (1979)
- Dir. Terrence Malick
Feat. Sam Shepard, Richard Gere, Brooke Adams… - The mid–western wheat–fields provide a magnificent backdrop for this poignant tale of two disparate bachelors who vie for the same woman.…
Design For Living / Mrs. Capper's Birthday / What Mad Pursuit (The Noel Coward Collection - Disc 3) (1979-1985)- Dir. Philip Saville, Mike Ockrent
Feat. Dandy Nichols, Patricia Hayes, Hugh Laurie… - –Design For Living (79') Contrived comedy set in a Paris apartment where a woman and the two men she loves all live together in an awkward…
Dick Turpin (TV Series) (1979)- Feat. Richard O'Sullivan, Alfie Bass
- Historical adventure series about the real–life 18th century highwayman Dick Turpin and his "Robin Hood" thieving of the rich to give to the…
Elvis (1979)- Dir. John Carpenter
Feat. Kurt Russell, Shelley Winters, Bing Russell… - Made just two years after Elvis's death, the king of rock 'n' roll's life is traced from dirt poor beginnings to becoming the most loved entertainer…
Europeans, The (1979)- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Lee Remick, Wesley Addy, Lisa Eichhorn - Possibly the best of the early Merchant–Ivory productions develops Henry James' novel of 19th century New England into a subtle study of family…
Great Santini, The (1979)- Dir. Lewis John Carlino
Feat. Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O'Keefe - Exploring the internal contradictions of ex–fighter pilot Robert Duvall, stranded in post WWll peacetime with his long–suffering family,…
Hardcore (1979)- Dir. Paul Schrader
Feat. George C. Scott, Peter Boyle - Paul Schrader, rehashing his script of TAXI DRIVER, pits a Catholic mid–westerner against the seedy, amoral underworld of California's adult…
Heartbeat (1979)- Dir. John Byrum
Feat. Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek - From the bomb to the pill as seen through the eyes of beatnik poet Jack Kerouac with Neal and Carolyn Cassady.
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