Films Released in 1979

February 2
The First Great Train Robbery

February 9
Agatha
Hardcore
Murder by Decree
The North Avenue Irregulars
The Warriors

February 23
Fast Break

March 2
Norma Rae
Real Life

March 7
Starcrash

March 9
The Passage

March 14
Hair
Tourist Trap
Voices

March 16
California Dreaming
The China Syndrome

March 17
The Story of Heidi

March 18
Fast Company

March 21
The Bell Jar

March 28
Phantasm

April 4
The Champ

April 6
A Perfect Couple

April 12
Mad Max

April 13
Love at First Bite

April 25
Manhattan

April 27
Dreamer
A Little Romance
Saint Jack

May 3
Winds of Change

May 4
Last Embrace

May 7
The Ballad of the Daltons

May 15
Zulu Dawn

May 17
Winter Kills

May 18
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Over the Edge

May 25
Alien
The Prisoner of Zenda
Wanda Nevada

June 6
Escape to Athena

June 15
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
The In-Laws
Prophecy
Rocky II
The Water Babies

June 22
Escape from Alcatraz
The Main Event
The Muppet Movie
Nightwing

June 27
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again
The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

June 29
Bloodline
Meatballs
Moonraker
Up from the Depths

July 6
Nutcracker Fantasy

July 13
Breaking Away
Dracula
The Frisco Kid
The Wanderers

July 26
Unidentified Flying Oddball

July 27
The Amityville Horror
The Villain

August 3
The Concorde… Airport ’79
More American Graffiti
North Dallas Forty

August 5
Meetings with Remarkable Men

August 10
Hot Stuff

August 15
Apocalypse Now

August 17
Monty Python’s Life of Brian
The Prisoner of Zenda
Rich Kids
The Seduction of Joe Tynan

August 24
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School

August 31
City on Fire

September 7
Patrick

September 14
Love and Bullets
Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle

September 19
The Onion Field
Yanks

September 21
Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video

September 28
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
A Man, a Woman, and a Bank
Time After Time
Wise Blood

October 5
10
Starting Over

October 17
The Black Stallion

October 19
…And Justice for All.
Jesus
Meteor

October 26
When a Stranger Calls

November 2
Promises in the Dark
Quadrophenia
Running

November 6
Don Giovanni

November 9
The Rose

November 21
Mountain Family Robinson

November 23
Birth of the Beatles

December 7
Star Trek: The Motion Picture

December 14
1941
Chapter Two
The Jerk

December 19
Being There
Kramer vs. Kramer

December 20
All That Jazz

December 21
Baby Snakes
The Black Hole
Cuba
C.H.O.M.P.S.
The Electric Horseman
Scavenger Hunt