1979 Movies

Shelly, a young American girl, is attracted to two men for their idealism. One is a missionary, out to change the world through the power of God's word. The other is a terrorist, who plans to change the world through bombs.

Filmed in 16mm during 1978 - to highlight the sophisticated social, medical, educational infrastructure that the PLO built during the 70ies in the refugee camps in Lebanon. The documentary is a cinematographic testimony of the Palestinian effort to build a sec...

A Strange Tale of the Strange People

Between fiction and documentary, this film shows a portrait of the persona of a transsexual that goes far beyond simplistic voyeurism. The film offers a respectful image of masculine sexuality, with a character ahead of its time, through the telling of Betty a...

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The lives of Velu, a rowdy, and Malathi, a prostitute, get complicated after they marry and decide to turn over a new leaf. However, the demons from their past lives keep haunting them at every step.

Documentary filmed in the Jari Project area – multinational enclave, located between Pará and the then Federal Territory of Amapá, on the occasion of the visit made to the Project by the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry about the devastation of the Amazon....

A virtuosic study of sync-sound cinema, Cagean organizational strategies, and montage. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.

A busty girl gets naked in the shopping centers to attract attention and thus allow her accomplice to perform some small theft.

A sophisticated computer named IFR (the film's title is its nickname) supervises an organization dedicated to correcting wrongs against the defenseless and assigns human operatives to track down the evildoers and bring them to justice non-violently.

A college student is raped by an acquaintance, and struggles with reporting the incident.

Takes place around Alfhild's café in a thinly populated area in Sweden.

The adventures of Russian souvenirs on the eve of the opening of the 1980 Olympics. The main character of the film is Misha the mascot who greets the guests of the Olympics together with his souvenir friends.