Year by Year - 1979 Ranked

By: Brad S.

1-4: Five Stars
5-20: Four Stars
21-36:Three Stars
37 -41: Two Stars
42: One Star

• 01
  Apocalypse Now
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 02
  The Muppet Movie
  James Frawley
• 03
  Manhattan
  Woody Allen
• 04
  Alien
  Ridley Scott
• 05
  Monty Python's Life of Brian
  Terry Jones
• 06
  10
  Blake Edwards
• 07
  Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night
  Werner Herzog
• 08
  The China Syndrome
  James Bridges
• 09
  Real Life
  Albert Brooks
• 10
  The Frisco Kid
  Robert Aldrich
• 11
  Phantasm
  Don Coscarelli
• 12
  Being There
  Hal Ashby
• 13
  Camera Buff
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 14
  All That Jazz
  Bob Fosse
• 15
  Stalker
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 16
  Family Nest
  Béla Tarr
• 17
  The Black Stallion
  Carroll Ballard
• 18
  The Kids Are Alright
  Jeff Stein
• 19
  Norma Rae
  Martin Ritt
• 20
  Escape from Alcatraz
  Don Siegel
• 21
  Love at First Bite
  Stan Dragoti
• 22
  The Jerk
  Carl Reiner
• 23
  Hair
  Miloš Forman
• 24
  Star Trek: The Motion Picture
  Robert Wise
• 25
  The Great Santini
  Lewis John Carlino
• 26
  The Onion Field
  Harold Becker
• 27
  Dirty Ho
  Liu Chia-Liang
• 28
  Time After Time
  Nicholas Meyer
• 29
  Dracula
  John Badham
• 30
  1941
  Steven Spielberg
• 31
  Kramer vs. Kramer
  Robert Benton
• 32
  Moonraker
  Lewis Gilbert
• 33
  Meatballs
  Ivan Reitman
• 34
  The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
  Vincent McEveety
• 35
  Rocky II
  Sylvester Stallone
• 36
  The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
  Raúl Ruiz
• 37
  Wise Blood
  John Huston
• 38
  The Seduction of Joe Tynan
  Jerry Schatzberg
• 39
  Prophecy
  John Frankenheimer
• 40
  Meteor
  Ronald Neame
• 41
  Disco Godfather
  J. Robert Wagoner
• 42
  The Prisoner of Zenda
  Richard Quine