Paramount Pictures Films of 1979
by LuminousCarcass | created - 12 Jul 2013 | updated - 13 Jul 2013 | PublicThis list contains the films produced and distributed by Paramount Pictures in 1979. List in order of when films were released in the United States.
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1. The Warriors (1979)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A street gang known as the Warriors must fight its way from the Bronx to its home turf on Coney Island when its members are falsely accused of assassinating a respected gang leader.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright, Brian Tyler
Votes: 110,607 | Gross: $22.49M
Written and Directed by Walter Hill; Box office: $22,490,039
2. Real Life (1979)
PG | 99 min | Comedy
A film crew sets out to record a year in the life of an average family, but things quickly start going wrong.
Director: Albert Brooks | Stars: Dick Haynes, Albert Brooks, Matthew Tobin, J.A. Preston
Votes: 3,798
Box office: $364,642
3. Hurricane (1979)
PG | 120 min | Adventure, Drama
The desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and an American painter, against the will of her father. Amid this man-made tension comes a hurricane so devastating, the lives of the lovers and the entire island are imperiled.
Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Jason Robards, Mia Farrow, Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard
Votes: 700
4. An Almost Perfect Affair (1979)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
A smalltime US filmmaker goes to Cannes to try to get his movie in the limelight. A wife of one of the producers there gets interested in his story and they begin an affair.
Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Keith Carradine, Monica Vitti, Raf Vallone, Christian De Sica
Votes: 361
5. Players (1979)
PG | 120 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
A rising tennis star falls for an older woman engaged with a wealthy man she doesn't love. Will he become the next John McEnroe? Will she choose love over financial security?
Director: Anthony Harvey | Stars: Ali MacGraw, Dean Paul Martin, Maximilian Schell, Pancho González
Votes: 323
6. The Kirlian Witness (1978)
R | 75 min | Thriller
Laurie believes that it's possible to communicate with plants via telepathy and devotes all her time and love to them. Her plants do warn her of her sister Rilla's new boyfriend Robert. ... See full summary »
Director: Jonathan Sarno | Stars: Nancy Snyder, Nancy Boykin, Joel Colodner, Ted Le Plat
Votes: 137
7. Prophecy (1979)
PG | 102 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A government health inspector is dispatched to assess the damage a logging company is causing to a patch of forest claimed by Native Americans, and comes face to face with true terror wreaking havoc in the woods.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, Armand Assante, Richard Dysart
Votes: 6,134 | Gross: $18.39M
Budget: $12 million; Box office: $54 million
8. Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
PG | 112 min | Action, Biography, Crime
Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possibly successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom, Jack Thibeau
Votes: 147,365 | Gross: $43.00M
Budget: $8 million; Box office: $43 million
9. Meatballs (1979)
PG | 94 min | Comedy
Wacky hijinks of counselors and campers at a less-than-average summer camp.
Director: Ivan Reitman | Stars: Bill Murray, Harvey Atkin, Kate Lynch, Russ Banham
Votes: 23,848 | Gross: $43.05M
Starring Bill Murray; Budget: $1.6 million; Box office: $43,046,003
10. Bloodline (1979)
R | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When her father is murdered, a pharmaceutical heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Claudia Mori
Votes: 1,914
Budget: $12 million; Box office: $8,218,695
11. The Dance of Death (1969)
G | 149 min | Drama
A filmed record of Laurence Olivier's farewell theatrical performance as the canny, psychotic captain of the August Strindberg play.
Director: David Giles | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Geraldine McEwan, Carolyn Jones, Maggie Riley
Votes: 116
Released in U.S. July 13, 1979
12. North Dallas Forty (1979)
R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
A satire of American professional football in which a veteran pass-catcher's individuality and refusal to become part of the team family are bitterly resented by his disciplinarian coaches.
Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Nick Nolte, Charles Durning, Mac Davis, Dayle Haddon
Votes: 5,988 | Gross: $26.08M
Box office: $26,079,312
13. Sunburn (1979)
PG | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
After a rich old man dies in a suspicious car accident in Acapulco, Mexico, his widow wants his insurance company to pony up five million dollars. Hotshot investigator Jake Decker (Charles Grodin) and charming model Ellie (Farrah Fawcett-Majors) come in to check it out.
Director: Richard C. Sarafian | Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Charles Grodin, Art Carney, Joan Collins
Votes: 831
14. Starting Over (1979)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
A divorced man falls in love, but somehow he can't get over his ex-wife. This affects his love life in comic ways. Based on Dan Wakefield's novel.
Director: Alan J. Pakula | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen, Charles Durning
Votes: 3,240 | Gross: $41.64M
Directed Alan J. Pakula; Budget: $10 million; Box office: $35,649,012
15. French Postcards (1979)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The believable, fresh-faced characters are naive American college students; armed with their French-English dictionaries they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love.
Director: Willard Huyck | Stars: Miles Chapin, Blanche Baker, David Marshall Grant, Valérie Quennessen
Votes: 853
16. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
G | 143 min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of the overhauled USS Enterprise in order to intercept it.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Votes: 96,572 | Gross: $82.26M
Budget: $46 million; Box office: $139 million
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