Best award winning movies with a deliberate pace from 1979

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a deliberate pace from 1979! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a deliberate pace from 1979, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Tess (1979)

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line, but is left traumatised from her experiences.

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1979-10-06 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #73 for
    like Pride & Prejudice
  2. Ranked #171 for
    like Inside Llewyn Davis
  3. Ranked #179 for
    elegiac

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Tess trailer
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2 Alien (1979)

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

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1979-05-25 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt

Rating

rating icon 8.156
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #25 for
    interplanetary
  2. Ranked #71 for
    lovecraftian
  3. Ranked #90 for
    bloodcurdling

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Alien trailer
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3 Vengeance Is Mine (1979)

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

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1979-04-21 | Crime / Drama

Cast

Ken Ogata, Rentaro Mikuni

Rating

rating icon 7.523
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #29 for
    reverse shot
  2. Ranked #52 for
    implacable
  3. Ranked #60 for
    great story

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Vengeance Is Mine trailer
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4 Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.

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1979-12-07 | Science Fiction / Adventure

Cast

William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy

Rating

rating icon 6.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #55 for
    matte shot
  2. Ranked #56 for
    interplanetary
  3. Ranked #146 for
    Based on TV Series

Trailer

Star Trek: The Motion Picture trailer
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5 Being There (1979)

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

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1979-12-19 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine

Rating

rating icon 7.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #82 for
    with biblical reference
  2. Ranked #89 for
    prosaic
  3. Ranked #221 for
    with political satire

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Being There trailer
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6 The China Syndrome (1979)

While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.

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1979-03-16 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon

Rating

rating icon 7.16
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #22 for
    Disaster Movie
  2. Ranked #43 for
    critically acclaimed
  3. Ranked #73 for
    juicy atmosphere

Trailer

The China Syndrome trailer
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7 Apocalypse Now (1979)

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

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1979-08-15 | Drama / War

Cast

Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall

Rating

rating icon 8.28
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #27 for
    with mercenaries
  2. Ranked #35 for
    critically acclaimed
  3. Ranked #67 for
    extraordinary

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8 Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent, goes to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. Once Jonathan is caught under his evil spell, Dracula travels to Wismar where he meets the beautiful Lucy, Jonathan's wife, while a plague spreads through the town, now ruled by death.

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1979-01-17 | Drama / Horror

Cast

Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani

Rating

rating icon 7.306
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #58 for
    impressionistic
  2. Ranked #155 for
    haunting visual
  3. Ranked #185 for
    haunting imagery

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9 Long Weekend (1979)

When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

Info

1979-03-29 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

John Hargreaves, Briony Behets

Rating

rating icon 6.108
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #88 for
    implacable
  2. Ranked #142 for
    downward spiral
  3. Ranked #145 for
    off balance

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10 Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.

Info

1979-12-07 | Drama

Cast

Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep

Rating

rating icon 7.571
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #37 for
    with marital problems
  2. Ranked #45 for
    Oscar-worthy performance
  3. Ranked #47 for
    deservedly won awards

Trailer

Kramer vs. Kramer trailer
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