1979
Top 10 of the year
The ten highest-voted films and series that premiered in 1979, via TMDB discover rankings.
Movies
- 1
Film
Alien
- “[after the Nostromo explodes, seemingly killing the Alien] I got you... you son of a bitch.”
- “It's a robot! Ash is a goddamn robot!”
- “You... are... my lucky star.”
★ 8.2 · 16,381 votes
- 2
Film
Apocalypse Now
- “Have you ever considered any real freedoms? Freedoms from the opinion of others... even the opinions of yourself?”
- “I love the smell of napalm in the morning”
- “I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare: crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.”
★ 8.3 · 9,093 votes
- 3
Film
Mad Max
- “I am the scales of justice, conductor of the choir of death!”
- “Oh what a day. What a lovely day!”
- “Witness me!”
★ 6.7 · 4,957 votes
- 4
Film
Life of Brian
- “All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”
- “Always look on the Bright Side of Life ... Always look on the Light Side of Life.”
- “Oh! It's blessed are the meek! I'm glad they're getting something, they had a hell of a time...”
★ 7.8 · 4,916 votes
- 5
Film
Rocky II
- “Once he fought for a dream. Now he's fighting for love!”
- “Yeah, to you, it's Thanksgiving; to me, it's Thursday.”
- “Yo, Adrian!!.”
★ 7.3 · 4,794 votes
- 6
Film
Escape from Alcatraz
- “Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island.”
- “No one has ever escaped from Alcatraz… and no one ever will!”
- “San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960.”
★ 7.5 · 3,160 votes
- 7
Film
Manhattan
- “Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.”
- “Manhattan explores how the life of a middle-aged television writer dating a teenage girl…”
- “Woody Allen's New Comedy Hit”
★ 7.7 · 2,616 votes
- 8
Film
Stalker
- “A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.”
- “Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies.”
- “There's no need to speak. You must only...concentrate and recall all your past life. When a man thinks of the past, he becomes kinder.”
★ 8.1 · 2,500 votes
- 9
Film
Kramer vs. Kramer
- “His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him.”
- “Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family.”
- “There are three sides to this love story.”
★ 7.6 · 2,460 votes
- 10
Film
The Warriors
- “At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death.”
- “Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city.”
- “These are the armies of the night. They are 100,000 strong. They outnumber the cops five to one. They could run New York City. Tonight they're all out to get the Warriors.”
★ 7.7 · 2,369 votes
TV shows
- 1
TV
Doraemon
- “Doraemon is an anime TV series created by Fujiko F.”
- “Fujio and based on the manga series of the same name.”
- “This anime is the much more successful successor of the 1973 anime.”
★ 7.7 · 606 votes
- 2
TV
Salem's Lot
- “Ben Mears has returned to his hometown to write a book about the supposedly haunted Marsten House.”
- “The ultimate in terror!”
- “When people around the Marsten House start dying mysteriously, Mears discovers that the owner of the mansion is actually a vampire who is turning them into an army of undead slaves.”
★ 6.8 · 535 votes
- 3
TV
The Dukes of Hazzard
- “Cousins Bo and Luke Duke and their car "General Lee", assisted by Cousin Daisy and Uncle Jesse, have a running battle with the authorities of Hazzard County (Boss Hogg and Sheriff Coltrane), plus a string of ne'er-do-wells often backed by the scheming Hogg.”
- “Cousins Bo and Luke Duke and their car "General Lee", assisted by Cousin Daisy…”
- “You're in Hazzard County where the lawmen are crooks, the good guys are outlaws and ever'body's in-laws!”
★ 7.3 · 336 votes
- 4
TV
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
- “Everyone’s favorite mystery-solving Great Dane is here to find clues, along with a little help from his energetic nephew and four human companions.”
- “Everyone’s favorite mystery-solving Great Dane is here to find clues, along with a little…”
- “to find clues, along with a little help from his energetic nephew and four…”
★ 7.5 · 333 votes
- 5
TV
The Rose of Versailles
- “Her beauty and noble spirit make her a shining figure in the eyes of both men and women but she is torn between her chosen life of service and duty to class and country and her own heart and desires.”
- “Raised from birth as a man, the Lady Oscar commands the palace guards at Versailles in the years before the French Revolution.”
- “She lives as a noble amidst the opulence of Versailles but her keen senses and compassion are not blinded to the poverty of the French people.”
★ 8.3 · 192 votes
- 6
TV
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
- “20th-century astronaut Buck Rogers awakens in the 25th century after a freak accident puts him in suspended animation for 500 years.”
- “The original space man! The ultimate trip! Buck Rogers swings back to earth and lays it on the 25th Century!”
- “Upon returning to Earth and discovering the planet is recovering from a nuclear war, Buck uses his combat skills and ingenuity to protect Earth and fight evil throughout the galaxy alongside starfighter pilot Colonel Wilma Deering and robot companion Twiki.”
★ 7.0 · 138 votes
- 7
TV
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- “It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?”
- “One of Britain's master spies is working for the enemy. Can George Smiley beat him at his deadly game?”
- “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a seven-part BBC2 spy drama written by Arthur Hopcraft, adapted from John le Carré's eponymous 1974 novel.”
★ 7.6 · 127 votes
- 8
TV
Hart to Hart
- “Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.”
- “Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight…”
- “When they met, it was murder.”
★ 6.9 · 127 votes
- 9
TV
The Facts of Life
- “Edna Garrett, housemother and dietitian at the Eastland School, teaches a group of girls in her charge how to solve those problems that every teenager has to face.”
- “Mrs. Edna Garrett, housemother and dietitian at the Eastland School, teaches a group of…”
- “You take the good, you take the bad...”
★ 7.1 · 103 votes
- 10
TV
Spider-Woman
- “As an adult, Jessica works as editor of Justice Magazine but when trouble arises, Jessica slips away to change into her secret identity of Spider-Woman.”
- “When Jessica Drew was bitten by a poisonous spider as a child, her father saved her life by injecting her with an experimental "spider serum," which also granted her superhuman powers.”
- “When Jessica Drew was bitten by a poisonous spider as a child, her father…”
★ 7.6 · 88 votes