Complete films screened by NZIFF 1979-1998
by Quinoa_Chris_Kirk | created - 30 Jul 2021 | updated - 6 months ago | PublicThe Wellington Film Festival evolving into the New Zealand International Film Festival Excluding some short and New Zealand films that do not appear on IMDb.
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1. Impasse (1978)
10 min | Animation, Short
An aggressive arrow attempts to remove a little white dot from a space they both share. The dot triumphs, however, through passive resistance and the flexibility which allows it to adapt to other forms.
Directors: Caroline Mouris, Frank Mouris
Votes: 22
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
2. Bruce and His Things (1977)
16 min | Comedy, Short
"Bruce," a materialistic happenin' dude shows us around his swingin' pad, showing off his personal effects.
Director: Michael J. Haller | Star: Bruce Wapen
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
3. Viewmaster (1978)
PG | 3 min | Animation, Short
Inspired by Eadweard Muybridge's series of photographs entitled "Running Man", Griffin creates a whimsical animated poem, using a variety of graphic styles.
Director: George Griffin
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
4. On the Road with Red Mole (1979)
52 min | Documentary
A documentary about the New Zealand theatre troupe "Red Mole".
Director: Sam Neill | Stars: Alan Brunton, John Davies, Martin Edmond, Deborah Hunt
Votes: 13
Red Mole on the Road Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
5. Jack Winter's Dream (1979)
58 min | Drama
Director: David Sims | Stars: Patric Carey, Bernard Kearns, Michael McGrath, Martyn Sanderson
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
6. Providence (1977)
R | 104 min | Drama
A dying writer bases his last book on his own perception of his family.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, John Gielgud, David Warner
Votes: 3,505
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
7. Mao par lui-même (1977)
26 min | Short
Taking rare archives, texts and extracts from speeches, René Viénet shows Mao Tse-tung in an unusual light, the fate of his mythology.
Director: René Viénet
Votes: 14
Mao By Mao Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
8. Den allvarsamma leken (1977)
100 min | Drama
Arvid share the love with a young woman named Lydia, but as is customary at the turn of the century, is not love enough for a fairy tale to come true.
Director: Anja Breien | Stars: Lil Terselius, Stefan Ekman, Katarina Gustafsson, Chatarina Larsson
Votes: 82
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
9. Mountain Music (1976)
9 min | Animation, Short
Mountain Music illustrates what happens when technology gets too advanced too soon.
Director: Will Vinton
Votes: 47
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
10. Paradise Lost (1978)
94 min | Drama
Director: Harry Kümel | Stars: Hugo Van Den Berghe, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Bert André, Gella Allaert
Votes: 130
The Lost Paradise Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
11. Passing Through (1977)
105 min | Drama, Music
A jazz musician joins a revolution upon his release from prison.
Director: Larry Clark | Stars: Nathaniel Taylor, Clarence Muse, Pamela Jones, Johnny Weathers
Votes: 89
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
12. Always for Pleasure (1978)
Not Rated | 58 min | Documentary, Music
A look at the spirit of New Orleans. First a funeral: Allen Toussaint explains that you arrive slow and cut up afterwards. Then it's food, with a lesson in eating crayfish at Frankie and ... See full summary »
Director: Les Blank | Stars: Kid Thomas, Allen Toussaint, Blue Lu Barker, Irma Thomas
Votes: 573
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
13. The Wishing Tree (1976)
107 min | Drama
This film is about psychology of people, about lonesome persons, about terrible mentality and about fantastic dreams...
Director: Tengiz Abuladze | Stars: Lika Kavzharadze, Iosif Jachvliani, Zaza Kolelishvili, Kote Daushvili
Votes: 1,920
Tree of Desire Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
14. Small Is Beautiful: Impressions of Fritz Schumacher (1978)
30 min | Short, Documentary
Up to age forty-five, Fritz Schumacher, economist, technologist and lecturer, was dedicated to economic growth. Then he came to believe that the modern technological explosion had grown out... See full summary »
Directors: Donald Brittain, Barrie Howells, Douglas Kiefer | Star: Donald Brittain
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
15. One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, History
The lives of Pomme, an aspiring singer, and Suzanne, a struggling mother, as they search for their own identity in 1970s France.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, Robert Dadiès, Mona Mairesse
Votes: 2,532 | Gross: $0.02M
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
16. Outrageous! (1977)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
A story about a female impersonator who rooms with a pregnant schizophrenic.
Director: Richard Benner | Stars: Craig Russell, Hollis McLaren, Richert Easley, Allan Moyle
Votes: 1,027
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
17. The Stepford Wives (1975)
PG | 115 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
Director: Bryan Forbes | Stars: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman
Votes: 19,557 | Gross: $8.72M
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
18. The Consequence (1977)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Romance
Thomas, the son of a prison warden, falls for and seduces inmate Martin. When Martin is released from jail, they try to build a relationship and a life together but no one will let them alone.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Jürgen Prochnow, Ernst Hannawald, Werner Schwuchow, Hans-Michael Rehberg
Votes: 1,035
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
19. The Importance of Keeping Perfectly Still (1977)
20 min | Short
An extravagantly produced exercise in slapstick in a turn-of-the-century setting, as the careers of a lovelorn, bumbling assistant photographer, and a drunken Governor-General cross paths.
Director: Michael Pattinson | Stars: Debbie Beckfeld, Susan Cameron, Liddy Clark, Michelle Hicks
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
20. Le Crabe-Tambour (1977)
120 min | Adventure, Drama, War
A dying mariner, full of regret, is looking for his longtime colleague somewhere on the high seas.
Director: Pierre Schoendoerffer | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Claude Rich, Jacques Perrin, Aurore Clément
Votes: 927
The Crab Drum Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
21. Das Brot des Bäckers (1976)
123 min | Drama
A young apprentice, Werner Wild, arrives in a small village in Bavaria to work in the bakery of Georg Baum.
Director: Erwin Keusch | Stars: Bernd Tauber, Günter Lamprecht, Maria Lucca, Silvia Reize
Votes: 93
The Baker's Bread Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
22. Elisa, My Life (1977)
125 min | Drama
Elisa has not seen her father Luis for nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister Isabel in a moment of crisis of her marriage with Antonio telling that her father is ill and ... See full summary »
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Fernando Rey, Isabel Mestres, Joaquín Hinojosa
Votes: 974
Elisa My Love Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
23. Remember My Name (1978)
R | 94 min | Drama, Thriller
Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life", but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.
Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Perkins, Moses Gunn, Berry Berenson
Votes: 1,670
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
24. Chinois, encore un effort pour être révolutionnaires (1977)
120 min | Documentary
A Shakespearian story full of noise and fury, but that means something. In the role of the "Grand Helmsman", Mao ZeDong himself, in the role of Madame Mao, famous actress Lan Ping, aka Jian... See full summary »
Directors: Francis Deron, Jean-Paul Tchang, René Viénet
Votes: 18
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
25. Camouflage (1977)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama
A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the ... See full summary »
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi | Stars: Piotr Garlicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Christine Paul, Mariusz Dmochowski
Votes: 1,730
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
26. Új lakók (1978)
9 min | Short
The arrival of a family of centaurs upsets the equanimity of the occupants of an apartment block.
Director: Liviusz Gyulai
Votes: 13
New Tenants Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
27. The Irishman (1978)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Romance
The Doolan family are trying to make a go in the freight-hauling business in Queensland, Australia. The problem is that it's the 1920s; the Doolans use horses, and motorized vehicles can do... See full summary »
Director: Donald Crombie | Stars: Michael Craig, Robyn Nevin, Simon Burke, Gerard Kennedy
Votes: 131
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
28. Le pilier de cristal (1978)
16 min | Documentary, Short
Climbers of the Quebec Mountain Federation scale a vertical ice face.
Director: Marc Hébert | Stars: Claude Bérubé, Monique Saint-Martin, Climbers of the Quebec Mountain Federation
Votes: 9
Ice Birds Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
29. Padre Padrone (1977)
Not Rated | 114 min | Biography, Drama
The son of a shepherd embarks in the quest of emancipating himself from a tough lifestyle that his condition and his father force on him.
Directors: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani | Stars: Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi, Marcella Michelangeli, Fabrizio Forte
Votes: 4,363
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
30. Küzdök (1977)
2 min | Animation, Short
A short animation about a sculptor and his sculpture.
Director: Marcell Jankovics
Votes: 313
Fight Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
31. Sun of the Hyenas (1977)
104 min | Drama
The quick-witted jump on the bandwagon with the development's German financiers, the others tag behind as employees, deserting their boats to sell tinned sardines and hawk postcards to the overweight foreign tourists who crowd the beaches.
Director: Ridha Behi | Stars: Salah Benmoussa, Hélène Catzaras, Larbi Doghmi, El Ghazi
Votes: 39
Sun of the Hyenas Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
32. Dawn Flight (1976)
G | 23 min | Short
Haunted by a mysterious super-pilot, a young glider pilot first flees, then confronts his challenger. Nominated for an Academy Award.
Director: Larry Lansburgh | Star: Denis Arndt
Votes: 43
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
33. The Left-Handed Woman (1977)
119 min | Drama
After returning from a business trip in Finland, Bruno (Bruno Ganz) find that his wife Marianne (Edith Clever) wants her husband to leave her alone with their son. A struggle with loneliness and adapting to the new situation ensues.
Director: Peter Handke | Stars: Edith Clever, Markus Mühleisen, Bruno Ganz, Michael Lonsdale
Votes: 368
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
34. Gravity Is My Enemy (1977)
26 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
A look at artist Mark Hicks of Manhattan Beach, California, a quadriplegic since falling out of a tree at age 14. His work is examined, along with a discussion of his being a student at ... See full summary »
Director: John C. Joseph | Stars: Mark Hicks, Jan Stussy
Votes: 50
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
35. Nine Months (1976)
88 min | Drama
A village-girl (Juli Kovács) arrives in the city to work in a factory. The work manager (János Bodnár) sets his eye on her, but at first the girl refuses his advance.
Director: Márta Mészáros | Stars: Lili Monori, Jan Nowicki, Gyula Szersén, Tibor Kristóf
Votes: 354
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
36. Teach Me to Dance (1978)
29 min | Short, Drama, Family
Director: Anne Wheeler | Stars: Nadia Ostashewski, Christine Lilge, Ivan Horsky, Lilea Wolansky
Votes: 17
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
37. Dossier 51 (1978)
108 min | Crime, Drama
An unnamed French intelligence service spies on and analyzes a French diplomat code name '51' to identify a method to control him.
Director: Michel Deville | Stars: François Marthouret, Claude Marcault, Philippe Rouleau, Nathalie Juvet
Votes: 1,033
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
38. Labyrinth (II) (1979)
21 min | Short, Adventure, Mystery
A Nazi spy in wartime England realises that he's been discovered. A superb exercise in film noir.
Director: Craig Lahiff | Stars: Andrew Clark, Dieter Going, Edwin Hodgeman, Brian James
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
39. Iphigenia (1977)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama
To appease offended gods before going to war, a commander must sacrifice his favorite daughter to them but does so under the pretext of marrying her off.
Director: Michael Cacoyannis | Stars: Irene Papas, Kostas Kazakos, Kostas Karras, Tatiana Papamoschou
Votes: 2,140
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
40. Ain't Misbehavin' (1974)
83 min | Drama
An artful assemblage of jazz and blue movie archive footage, from the first 40 years of the century; a wealth of extravagant behaviour, often in the least extravagant of settings.
Directors: Peter Neal, Anthony Stern | Stars: Lou Abelardo, Elsie Carlisle, Nat 'King' Cole, George Formby
Votes: 12
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
41. Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel (1978)
57 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary examining the life and career of producer/director Roger Corman. Clips from his films and interviews with actors and crew members who have worked with him are featured.
Director: Christian Blackwood | Stars: Allan Arkush, Paul Bartel, David Carradine, Roger Corman
Votes: 72
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
42. Lumiere (1976)
R | 95 min | Drama, Romance
Sarah, an actress nearing 40, has invited the woman who has been her best friend for 16 years and two younger women to her vacation retreat in Provence. There are the simple pleasures of ... See full summary »
Director: Jeanne Moreau | Stars: Lucia Bosè, Francine Racette, Caroline Cartier, Jeanne Moreau
Votes: 163
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
43. The Shooting Party (1978)
105 min | Drama, Romance
A romantic drama in which a beautiful but poor young woman has to choose between three suitors: an old widower, a decadent nobleman and a handsome but poor young man.
Director: Emil Loteanu | Stars: Galina Belyaeva, Oleg Yankovskiy, Kirill Lavrov, Leonid Markov
Votes: 1,190
The Hunting Accident Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
44. The Getting of Wisdom (1977)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama
Oscar-nominated director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies) crafts a tender coming-of-age tale that introduces one of Australian literature's most beloved characters to ... See full summary »
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Susannah Fowle, Dorothy Bradley, Patricia Kennedy, Sheila Helpmann
Votes: 558
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
45. Juvenile Liaison (1976)
101 min | Documentary
Banned for 15 years and referred to as 'The Film the Police Arrested', Broomfield's scathing account of the Lancashire Police Force Liaison Division's handling of young, sometimes pre-teen,... See full summary »
Directors: Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill | Stars: Lillian Brooks, Bill Chynoweth, George Ray
Votes: 116
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
46. Prisoners (1977)
27 min | Documentary, Short
Personal testimony and statistics condemn the prison practices in New South Wales in the mid 1970s.
Director: Mark Stiles
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
47. The Green Room (1978)
PG | 94 min | Drama
A French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne is a journalist whose wife Julie died a decade ago. He gathered in the green room all Julie's objects. When a fire destroys ... See full summary »
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: François Truffaut, Nathalie Baye, Jean Dasté, Patrick Maléon
Votes: 3,307
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
48. Oh My Darling ... (1978)
7 min | Animation, Short
The pure and unconditional love that parents have for a child is admirable, but, in this case, there is also value in letting go.
Director: Børge Ring
Votes: 202
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
49. Manimals (1978)
29 min | Short
An alternately humorous and disturbing documentary about city dwellers who keep exotic pets that are clearly at odds with such an environment, and how the animals' adverse reactions often go unnoticed by their obtuse owners.
Director: Robin Lehman
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
50. Stunde Null (1977)
108 min | Drama, Romance, War
Leipzig area in 1945. The American occupying forces withdraw to the Elbe river, leaving the territory to the Russians.
Director: Edgar Reitz | Stars: Kai Taschner, Herbert Weissbach, Günter Schiemann, Anette Jünger
Votes: 117
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
51. Paradistorg (1977)
113 min | Drama
A merchant's house in the Stockholm archipelago. Katha, an old woman comes here every year. So does her father, who once built the house. She wants the family, her children and their ... See full summary »
Director: Gunnel Lindblom | Stars: Marianne Aminoff, Maria Blomkvist, Anna Borg, Margaretha Byström
Votes: 154
Paradise Place Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
53. Les enfants du placard (1977)
105 min | Drama
Nicolas has an appointment with his sister Juliette. They are bound by a heavy secret of childhood: their mother committed suicide while their father had charged Nicolas to keep her. Since ... See full summary »
Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Brigitte Fossey, Lou Castel, Jean Sorel, Georges Marchal
Votes: 82
The Closet Children Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
54. A Night Full of Rain (1978)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A communist journalist and an American liberal photographer try to cohabit with their different perspectives of love and life.
Director: Lina Wertmüller | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Candice Bergen, Michael Tucker, Mario Scarpetta
Votes: 342
Night Full of Rain Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
55. Afterlife (1978)
7 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
A psychedelic new-age short about what a spiritual human being might find after death.
Director: Ishu Patel
Votes: 175
Apres la vie Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
57. Tell Her That I Love Her (1977)
107 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A man is desperately attaining beloved woman, despite her husband and child.
Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou, Claude Piéplu, Jacques Denis
Votes: 664
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
58. The American Friend (1977)
Not Rated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain
Votes: 18,533
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
59. Ballad of Orin (1977)
109 min | Drama
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed while she tours the country, even though the modern world imposes changes on people's behavior.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Shima Iwashita, Yoshio Harada, Tomoko Naraoka, Kirin Kiki
Votes: 644
Melody in Grey Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
60. Blowhard (1978)
10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A businessman discovers a town with a large reserve of dragons but no energy, no power, and subsequently no heat.
Directors: Brad Caslor, Christopher Hinton | Stars: Wayne Finucan, Maara Haas
Votes: 59
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
61. To an Unknown God (1977)
104 min | Drama
José, a homosexual magician of 50 years, lived his childhood in Granada (Spain). His father was a gardener in the Buendía house. There he once saw Federico García Lorca. One night of July ... See full summary »
Director: Jaime Chávarri | Stars: Héctor Alterio, Xabier Elorriaga, María Rosa Salgado, Mirta Miller
Votes: 177
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
62. Várostérkép (1979)
16 min | Short, History
This region for an airman is just a map', however, whosoever looks closer will discover a thousand secrets of a thousand lives on each Budapest corner or balcony. Memories of peacetime ... See full summary »
Director: István Szabó
Votes: 17
City Map Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
63. In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama
A transgender woman tries to salvage something from the wreckage love has made of her life by confronting her anguished past, hoping to find ultimate acceptance among former acquaintances and herself.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Volker Spengler, Ingrid Caven, Gottfried John, Elisabeth Trissenaar
Votes: 4,733
In a Year of 13 Moons Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
64. The Last Supper (1976)
120 min | Drama, History
A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea | Stars: Nelson Villagra, Silvano Rey, Luis Alberto García, José Antonio Rodríguez
Votes: 689
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
65. Men Can't Be Raped (1978)
99 min | Crime, Drama
A woman is raped. She starts to follow and study her rapist.
Director: Jörn Donner | Stars: Anna Godenius, Gösta Bredefeldt, Toni Regner, Nils Brandt
Votes: 474
Men Can't Be Raped Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
66. The Rubber Gun (1977)
86 min | Crime, Drama
A communal drug family begins to dissolve from within while a University student watches and records it all.
Director: Allan Moyle | Stars: Joe Mattia, Armand Monroe, Allan Moyle, Bill Booth
Votes: 68
Rubber Gun Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
67. The Innocent (1976)
R | 112 min | Drama, Romance
Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful, he becomes enamored of her again.
Director: Luchino Visconti | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli, Rina Morelli, Massimo Girotti
Votes: 4,266
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
68. Special Delivery (1979)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A hapless husband neglects to clear the icy walk, which leads to the mailman slipping and breaking his neck. A comedy of errors results from his attempts to hide the body.
Directors: Eunice Macaulay, John Weldon | Stars: Sandy Sanderson, Jean Marchand
Votes: 1,128
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
69. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976)
116 min | Drama
A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties.
Director: Alain Tanner | Stars: Myriam Boyer, Jean-Luc Bideau, Miou-Miou, Jacques Denis
Votes: 1,183
Eighth Wellington Film Festival 1979
70. A Walk Through H (1979)
Not Rated | 41 min | Short
An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the mysterious Tulse Luper and the keeper of the bird house at the Amsterdam Zoo.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Colin Cantlie, Jean Williams
Votes: 639
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
71. Morris Loves Jack (1980)
26 min | Short, Drama
Jack hates her job as a cop, but loves Morris, whom she supports.
Director: Sonia Hofmann | Stars: John Hargreaves, Bill Hunter, Kris McQuade
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
72. La La, Making It in L.A. (1979)
58 min
Directors: Caroline Mouris, Frank Mouris | Stars: Anna Thea Bogdanovich, Nancy Lee, Harvey Lewis, Philip Michael Thomas
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
73. Asparagus (1979)
Not Rated | 20 min | Animation, Short
An animated, surreal, visually stunning as well as rather uniquely imaginative candy-colored nightmare from indie artist Suzan Pitt.
Director: Suzan Pitt
Votes: 1,450
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
74. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A worried husband finds a lover for his depressed wife, but she falls in love with a bullied thirteen-year-old math prodigy and wants to have the boy's baby.
Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Carole Laure, Patrick Dewaere, Michel Serrault
Votes: 4,279
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
76. Northern Lights (1978)
95 min | Drama, History
NORTHERN LIGHTS has the feel of an old black and white photograph discovered in an attic. The bitter-sweet story of young lovers caught up in an political struggle waged by farmers against ... See full summary »
Directors: John Hanson, Rob Nilsson | Stars: Robert Behling, Susan Lynch, Joe Spano, Ray Ness
Votes: 214 | Gross: $0.01M
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
77. The Crying Woman (1979)
90 min | Drama
Jacques has a child with Dominique: Lola. His mistress is Haydée and they are having a child.
Director: Jacques Doillon | Stars: Dominique Laffin, Haydée Politoff, Jacques Doillon, Lola Doillon
Votes: 171
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
78. Travel Log (1979)
10 min | Short
Diary entries and photographs trace a couple's separation.
Director: Donald Winkler | Stars: Marguerite McDonald, Donald Winkler
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
79. The Night, the Prowler (1978)
90 min | Drama, Comedy
From the Director of 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' Jim Sharman and Nobel Prize winning author Patrick White A haunting tale of obsession and possession.
Director: Jim Sharman | Stars: Ruth Cracknell, John Frawley, Kerry Walker, John Derum
Votes: 236
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
80. Mandarin Oranges (1979)
G | 3 min | Short
"Mandarin Oranges" uses dozens of them, suitably garbed, to dance an amusing homage to Busby Berkeley.
Director: John T. Brister
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
81. Marx for Beginners (1979)
7 min | Animation, Short
In order to understand the works and ideas of Karl Marx, this animation takes an ordinary man through several different periods of history, from the cavemen to the philosophers of the world... See full summary »
Directors: Kevin Attew, Bob Godfrey, Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton, Marcus Parker-Rhodes
Votes: 15
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
82. Newsfront (1978)
PG | 110 min | Drama, History
In post-war Australia the men and women of Cinetone struggle to produce the weekly news reels for the movie-going public.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Bill Hunter, Gerard Kennedy, Wendy Hughes, Chris Haywood
Votes: 902
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
83. Jimmy the C (1979)
4 min | Animation, Short
President Jimmy Carter "sings" Ray Charles' "Georgia on my Mind", while thinking about his home state.
Director: Jimmy Picker
Votes: 157
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
84. Just Out of Reach (1979)
62 min | Drama
This short feature film begins with a suicide attempt by Cathy, and then follows by telling her story in flashbacks. Cathy is a neurotic young woman who retreats from cold British parents ... See full summary »
Director: Linda Blagg | Stars: Lorna Lesley, Sam Neill, Martin Vaughan, Judi Farr
Votes: 17
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
85. Conman Harry and the Others (1979)
31 min | Short
Director: Stephen Wallace | Stars: Bryan Brown, Sally Edwards, Clive Marshall, Louis McManus
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
86. The Desert of the Tartars (1976)
PG | 140 min | Drama, History, War
Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.
Director: Valerio Zurlini | Stars: Jacques Perrin, Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Griem
Votes: 2,626
Desert of Tartars 9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
87. Dear Inspector (1977)
PG | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Parisian detective Lise meets her childhood sweetheart Antoine by chance. Extremely happy about the reunion, the two arrange to meet. But Lise's duties as an inspector thwart their plans.
Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Alric, Hubert Deschamps
Votes: 1,140
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
88. Step by Step (1978)
11 min | Animation, Short
Animator Faith Hubley contributed her depiction of brutality to children in the past, and children's rights today to International Year of the Child.
Director: Faith Hubley
Votes: 13
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
89. Siberiade (1979)
190 min | Drama, History, Romance
In the Siberian wilderness in the village of Yelan, two families live, who have long been at war with each other: the «kulaks» of Solomina and the «poor people» of Ustyuzhanina.
Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Vitali Solomin, Sergey Shakurov, Natalya Andreychenko
Votes: 2,316
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90. Man of Marble (1977)
160 min | Drama
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Jacek Lomnicki
Votes: 4,778
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91. Oi tembelides tis eforis koiladas (1978)
118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A father moves with his three sons and their beautiful, hard working servant in a big, old house in the countryside, where a weird drowsiness seems to occupy the four men. Will it be possible for one of them to break free?
Director: Nikos Panayotopoulos | Stars: Olga Karlatos, George Dialegmenos, Dimitris Poulikakos, Nikitas Tsakiroglou
Votes: 867
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92. Knife in the Head (1978)
113 min | Drama
During a police raid on a youth center, the biogeneticist Hoffmann is shot in the head. When he awakes from a coma, he can't remember anyting. The police accuse him of being a terrorist.
Director: Reinhard Hauff | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Angela Winkler, Hans Christian Blech, Heinz Hoenig
Votes: 722
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93. Insiang (1976)
TV-14 | 95 min | Drama
The life of a young girl living with her mother in the slums of Manila becomes unbearable when her mother's young boyfriend moves in with them.
Director: Lino Brocka | Stars: Hilda Koronel, Mona Lisa, Rez Cortez, Marlon Ramirez
Votes: 2,132
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
94. Teenage Father (1978)
25 min | Short
This film explores the life of a 17-year-old senior boy who is a soon to be father with his girlfriend, a 15 year old sophomore. They evaluate the decisions about how they got here, and the decisions on what they will do next.
Director: Taylor Hackford | Stars: Jeannie Dimter Barton, Susan Cronkite, Suzanne Crough, Gary Mathew
Votes: 95
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95. The Inheritance (1976)
R | 120 min | Drama
Rome, 1880. Gregorio has decided to close the family business. Then he tells his children that they will have to fend for themselves, but his beautiful, calculating, ambitious young daughter-in-law, will do anything for the inheritance.
Director: Mauro Bolognini | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi, Gigi Proietti
Votes: 1,012
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96. Every Child (1979)
6 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
An abandoned baby is repeatedly left on a series of doorsteps in a well-to-do community, only to be rejected by each in turn until the infant arrives at the one social group that shows any concern and compassion.
Director: Eugene Fedorenko | Stars: Bernard Carez, Sophie Cowling, Raymond Pollender
Votes: 1,009
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
97. Mouth to Mouth (1978)
96 min | Drama
Mouth to Mouth follows the lives of four young people, trying to improve their lives in a harsh and unforgiving city.
Director: John Duigan | Stars: Kim Krejus, Sonia Peat, Ian Gilmour, Serge Frazzetto
Votes: 89
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98. Hungarian Rhapsody (1979)
103 min | Drama, History
The first chapter of a two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century, to World War II.
Director: Miklós Jancsó | Stars: György Cserhalmi, Lajos Balázsovits, Gábor Koncz, Udo Kier
Votes: 253
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99. The Man You Loved to Hate (1979)
PG | 78 min | Documentary
Erich von Stroheim was an director of silent movies, as well as an actor in both silents and talkies. Uncompromising and rigid, he battled the studio system for control over his pictures' ... See full summary »
Director: Patrick Montgomery | Stars: Edward Binns, Paul Kohner, Marcel Dalio, Leonard Spigelgass
Votes: 210
9th Wellington Film Festival 1980
100. The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979)
R | 120 min | Drama
Maria marries Hermann Braun in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. Alone, Maria puts to use her beauty and ambition in order to find prosperity during Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1950s.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch, Ivan Desny, Gisela Uhlen
Votes: 14,906
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