Movies released in 1979| ...And Your Name Is Jonah | Richard Michaels |
| 1941 | Steven Spielberg |
| 36 Deadly Styles, The | Joseph Kuo |
| Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi, The | Nobuhiko Ōbayashi |
| Agatha | Michael Apted |
| Aim for the Ace! The Movie | Osamu Dezaki |
| Alien | Ridley Scott |
| All That Jazz | Bob Fosse |
| Amityville Horror, The | Stuart Rosenberg |
| Anatomy of a Seduction | Steven Hilliard Stern |
| Angels' Brigade | Greydon Clark |
| Ape Girl, The | Chen Chi-Hwa |
| Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Asparagus | Suzan Pitt |
| Avalanche Express | Mark Robson |
| Beauty and the Beast | Juraj Herz |
| Being There | Hal Ashby |
| Beyond the Darkness | Joe D'Amato |
| Beyond the Poseidon Adventure | Irwin Allen |
| Black Hole, The | Gary Nelson |
| Bloodline | Terence Young |
| Bog | Don Keeslar |
| Boulevard Nights | Michael Pressman |
| Breaking Away | Peter Yates |
| Brood, The | David Cronenberg |
| Bruce and the Iron Finger | To Lo Po |
| Bubble Bath | György Kovásznai |
| Buck Rogers in the 25th Century | Daniel Haller |
| Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales | Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng |
| Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet | Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson, David Detiege, Friz Freleng |
| Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie, The | Chuck Jones, Phil Monroe |
| Butterfly Murders, The | Tsui Hark |
| C.H.O.M.P.S. | Don Chaffey |
| California Dreaming | John D. Hancock |
| Caligula | Tinto Brass |
| Captain America | Rod Holcomb |
| China Syndrome, The | James Bridges |
| Concorde... Airport '79, The | David Lowell Rich |
| Concrete Cowboys | Burt Kennedy |
| Crippled Masters, The | Law Chi |
| Crocodile | Sompote Sands, Lee Won-se |
| Crossfire | Bruce Lood |
| Crystal Fist | Hua Shan |
| Dance of the Drunk Mantis | Yuen Woo-ping |
| Daredevils, The | Chang Cheh |
| Dark, The | John 'Bud' Cardos |
| Day of the Assassin | Brian Trenchard-Smith, Carlos Vasallo |
| Dead Mountaineer's Hotel | Grigori Kromanov |
| Deadly Breaking Sword, The | Sun Chung |
| Death Car on the Freeway | Hal Needham |
| Death Duel of Kung Fu | Chi Chang |
| Delirium | Peter Maris |
| Demon Strike | Mun Yiu-Wa |
| Dirty Ho | Liu Chia-Liang |
| Disaster on the Coastliner | Richard C. Sarafian |
| Disco Beaver from Outer Space | Joshua White |
| Disco Godfather | J. Robert Wagoner |
| Don't Go in the House | Joseph Ellison |
| Double McGuffin, The | Joe Camp |
| Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde | William Crain |
| Dracula | John Badham |
| Dragon Fist | Lo Wei |
| Dragon, the Hero, The | Godfrey Ho |
| Driller Killer, The | Abel Ferrara |
| Duke of Earl | Ed Morales |
| Effects | Dusty Nelson |
| Elvis | John Carpenter |
| Encounters in the Deep | Tonino Ricci |
| Escape from Alcatraz | Don Siegel |
| Evictors, The | Charles B. Pierce |
| Execution Game, The | Tōru Murakawa |
| Exodus Towards Light | Sabin Bălașa |
| Face with Two Left Feet, The | Neri Parenti |
| Fang in the Hole, The | Seijun Suzuki |
| Fårö Document 1979 | Ingmar Bergman |
| Fascination | Jean Rollin |
| Fast Company | David Cronenberg |
| Fearless Hyena | Jackie Chan |
| Fearless Young Boxer, The | Jimmy Shaw |
| Firepower | Michael Winner |
| Fists and Guts | Lau Kar-Wing |
| Five Superfighters | John Law Ma |
| Flying Masters of Kung Fu | Artis Chow |
| Force of One, A | Paul Aaron |
| French Postcards | Willard Huyck |
| Fright Before Christmas | Friz Freleng |
| Full Moon Scimitar | Chor Yuen |
| Galaxy Express 999: The Movie | Rintaro |
| Gas Pump Girls | Joel Bender |
| Giallo in Venice | Mario Landi |
| Glove, The | Ross Hagen |
| Going Steady | Boaz Davidson |
| Gold Connection, The | Kuei Chih-Hung |
| Goldengirl | Joseph Sargent |
| H.O.T.S. | Gerald Seth Sindell |
| Halloween That Almost Wasn't, The | Bruce Bilson |
| Harpy | Raoul Servais |
| Horse Boxing Killer | Chester Wong Chung Gwong |
| Hot Stuff | Dom DeLuise |
| House of Flames | Kihachiro Kawamoto |
| Human Experiments | Gregory Goodell |
| Hunter in the Dark | Hideo Gosha |
| Immortal Kamen Rider Special | |
| Incredible Kung Fu Master, The | Joe Cheung |
| Incredible Kung Fu Mission | Cheung San-Yee |
| Inferno, The | Tatsumi Kumashiro |
| Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet | Clive A. Smith |
| Invincible Enforcer | Cheng Kang |
| Island of the Fishmen | Sergio Martino |
| Jack Frost | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. |
| Jade Fox, The | Kao Pao-shu |
| Jerk, The | Carl Reiner |
| Kid with the Golden Arm | Chang Cheh |
| Killer Fish | Antonio Margheriti |
| Killer Nun | Giulio Berruti |
| King Frat | Ken Wiederhorn |
| Kings of Fists and Dollars, The | Chen Ming-Hua |
| Knockabout | Sammo Hung |
| Kramer vs. Kramer | Robert Benton |
| Kung Fu Instructor, The | Sun Chung |
| Kung Fu on Sale | Su Jen-ping |
| Last Embrace | Jonathan Demme |
| Last Hurrah for Chivalry | John Woo |
| Legend of the Mountain | King Hu |
| Life of Brian | Terry Jones |
| Long Weekend | Colin Eggleston |
| Lost Kung Fu Secrets, The | Law Chi |
| Love and Bullets | John Huston, Stuart Rosenberg |
| Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro | Hayao Miyazaki |
| Mad Max | George Miller |
| Mad Monkey Kung Fu | Liu Chia-Liang |
| Magnificent Butcher, The | Yuen Woo-ping |
| Magnificent Ruffians, The | Chang Cheh |
| Manhattan | Woody Allen |
| Meatballs | Ivan Reitman |
| Meteor | Ronald Neame |
| Monkey Kung Fu | John Law Ma |
| Moonraker | Lewis Gilbert |
| Muppet Movie, The | James Frawley |
| Murder by Decree | Bob Clark |
| Murder Plot | Chor Yuen |
| Mystery in the Bermuda Triangle | Gilberto Martínez Solares |
| Mystery of Chess Boxing, The | Joseph Kuo |
| Nezha Conquers the Dragon King | Shuchen Wang, Yan Ding Xian, Jingda Xu |
| Nightwing | Arthur Hiller |
| Ninth Heart, The | Juraj Herz |
| No One Can Touch Her | Ting Shan-Hsi |
| Nosferatu the Vampyre | Werner Herzog |
| Nutcracker Fantasy | Takeo Nakamura |
| Odd Angry Shot, The | Tom Jeffrey |
| Odd Couple | Lau Kar-Wing |
| Old Master, The | Joseph Kuo |
| Outer Touch | Norman J. Warren |
| Over the Edge | Jonathan Kaplan |
| Parts: The Clonus Horror | Robert S. Fiveson |
| Passage, The | J. Lee Thompson |
| Pay or Die | Bobby A. Suarez |
| Penitentiary | Jamaa Fanaka |
| Phantasm | Don Coscarelli |
| Plumber, The | Peter Weir |
| Poodle | Bigas Luna |
| Prophecy | John Frankenheimer |
| Proud Twins, The | Chor Yuen |
| Racquet | David Winters |
| Raining in the Mountain | King Hu |
| Reckless Cricket, The | Kuei Chih-Hung |
| Ring of Darkness | Pier Carpi |
| Rock 'n' Roll High School | Allan Arkush |
| Rocky II | Sylvester Stallone |
| Roller Boogie | Mark L. Lester |
| Rose, The | Mark Rydell |
| Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. |
| Saint Jack | Peter Bogdanovich |
| Salem's Lot | Tobe Hooper |
| Satan War | Bart La Rue |
| Savage Weekend | David Paulsen |
| Scavenger Hunt | Michael Schultz |
| Scooby Goes Hollywood | Ray Patterson |
| Scorching Sun, Fierce Wind, Wild Fire | Sun Sheng-Yuan |
| Screams of a Winter Night | James L. Wilson |
| Search and Destroy | William Fruet |
| Seven | Andy Sidaris |
| Seven Steps of Kung Fu | Chester Wong Chung Gwong, Chung Ting |
| Shaolin Abbot | Ho Meng-Hua |
| Shaolin Rescuers | Chang Cheh |
| Shape of Things to Come, The | George McCowan |
| She's Dressed to Kill | Gus Trikonis |
| Silent Scream | Denny Harris |
| Six Thousand Dollar Nigger, The | Rene Martinez Jr. |
| Skatetown, U.S.A. | William A. Levey |
| Smokey and the Hotwire Gang | Anthony Cardoza |
| Snake in the Monkey's Shadow | Cheung Sum |
| Snapshot | Simon Wincer |
| Space Battleship Yamato: The New Voyage | Toshio Masuda, Yoshinobu Nishizaki, Takeshi Shirado |
| Stalker | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Star Odyssey | Alfonso Brescia |
| Star Trek: The Motion Picture | Robert Wise |
| Stranger in Our House | Wes Craven |
| Supersonic Man | Juan Piquer Simón |
| Swap Meet | Brice Mack |
| Taro the Dragon Boy | Kirio Urayama |
| Ten Tigers of Kwangtung | Chang Cheh |
| Tess | Roman Polanski |
| Thirst | Rod Hardy |
| Tigress of Shaolin, The | Law Chi |
| Time After Time | Nicholas Meyer |
| To Kill A Mastermind | Sun Chung |
| Tourist Trap | David Schmoeller |
| Twice a Woman | George Sluizer |
| Undersea Super Train: Marine Express | Satoshi Dezaki |
| Up from the Depths | Charles B. Griffith |
| Van Nuys Blvd. | William Sachs |
| Vengeance Is Mine | Shōhei Imamura |
| Villain, The | Hal Needham |
| Visitor, The | Giulio Paradisi |
| Wanderers, The | Philip Kaufman |
| Warriors, The | Walter Hill |
| When a Stranger Calls | Fred Walton |
| Whip vs. Satan, The | Alfredo B. Crevenna |
| White Hole | Toshio Matsumoto |
| White Spot on the Back of the Head, A | Viðar Víkingsson |
| Winter Kills | William Richert |
| Wizard of Speed and Time, The | Mike Jittlov |
| Woman with Red Hair, The | Tatsumi Kumashiro |
| World of Drunken Master, The | Joseph Kuo |
| Your Children Come Back to You | Alile Sharon Larkin |
| Zombie Flesh Eaters | Lucio Fulci |
| Zulu Dawn | Douglas Hickox |