| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Genre |
Notes
|
| 1979
|
| Agatha |
Michael Apted |
Dustin Hoffman, Vanessa Redgrave |
Mystery |
|
| Alien |
Ridley Scott |
Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt |
Sci-fi |
Co-production with the US
|
| Anti-Clock |
Jane Arden |
|
Drama |
|
| Arabian Adventure |
Kevin Connor |
Christopher Lee, Oliver Tobias, Milo O'Shea |
Fantasy/adventure |
|
| Bear Island |
Don Sharp |
Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave |
Adventure |
Co-production with Canada
|
| The Bitch |
Gerry O'Hara |
Joan Collins, Kenneth Haigh |
Drama |
|
| Bloody Kids |
Stephen Frears |
Derrick O'Connor, Gary Holton |
Drama |
|
| The Cat and the Canary |
Radley Metzger |
Honor Blackman, Michael Callan |
Thriller |
|
| Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair |
Willy Roe |
Alan Lake, Glynn Edwards |
Comedy |
|
| Derek and Clive Get the Horn |
Russell Mulcahy |
Peter Cook, Dudley Moore |
Documentary |
|
| Dracula |
John Badham |
Frank Langella, Kate Nelligan, Laurence Olivier |
Horror |
|
| Eagle's Wing |
Anthony Harvey |
Martin Sheen, Sam Waterston, Harvey Keitel |
Western |
|
| Escape to Athena |
George P. Cosmatos |
Roger Moore, Telly Savalas |
World War II/adventure |
|
| The Europeans |
James Ivory |
Lee Remick, Robin Ellis |
Literary drama |
Entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival
|
| Firepower |
Michael Winner |
Sophia Loren, James Coburn |
Action |
|
| The First Great Train Robbery |
Michael Crichton |
Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down |
Crime/adventure |
|
| A Game for Vultures |
James Fargo |
Richard Harris, Joan Collins, Richard Roundtree |
Thriller |
|
| The Golden Lady |
José Ramón Larraz |
Ina Skriver, Suzanne Danielle |
Thriller |
|
| The Great Riviera Bank Robbery |
Francis Megahy |
Ian McShane, Warren Clarke |
Crime/thriller |
|
| Hanover Street |
Peter Hyams |
Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down |
World War II/romance |
|
| The Human Factor |
Otto Preminger |
Richard Attenborough, Nicol Williamson |
Thriller |
|
| Jesus |
Peter Sykes, Peter Heyman |
Brian Deacon, Yosef Shiloach |
Biblical |
|
| The Kids Are Alright |
Jeff Stein |
The Who |
Documentary |
|
| The Lady Vanishes |
Anthony Page |
Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd |
Mystery |
|
| Le Pétomane |
Ian MacNaughton |
Leonard Rossiter, Graham Stark |
Comedy |
|
| Licensed to Love and Kill |
Lindsay Shonteff |
Gareth Hunt, Fiona Curzon |
Spy/action |
|
| Lost and Found |
Melvin Frank |
George Segal, Glenda Jackson |
Romance/comedy |
|
| Meetings with Remarkable Men |
Peter Brook |
Terence Stamp, Athol Fugard |
Drama |
Entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival
|
| Monty Python's Life of Brian |
Terry Jones |
The members of Monty Python, Gwen Taylor, Charles McKeown |
Comedy |
Number 28 in the BFI Top 100 British films
|
| Moonraker |
Lewis Gilbert |
Roger Moore, Michael Lonsdale, Lois Chiles |
Spy/action |
Filmed in French studios
|
| Murder by Decree |
Bob Clark |
Christopher Plummer, James Mason |
Mystery |
|
| The Music Machine |
Ian Sharp |
Gerry Sundquist, Patti Boulaye |
Musical |
|
| North Sea Hijack |
Andrew McLaglen |
Roger Moore, Anthony Perkins, James Mason |
Action |
|
| The Passage |
J. Lee Thompson |
Anthony Quinn, James Mason |
World War II |
|
| The Plank |
Eric Sykes |
Eric Sykes, Arthur Lowe |
Comedy |
|
| Quadrophenia |
Franc Roddam |
Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Philip Davis, Mark Wingett |
Musical |
|
| The Quatermass Conclusion |
Piers Haggard |
John Mills, Barbara Kellerman |
Sci-fi |
Based on the TV series Quatermass
|
| Quincy's Quest |
Robert Reed |
Tommy Steele, Mel Martin |
Family |
|
| Radio On |
Christopher Petit |
David Beames |
Mystery/road |
|
| The Riddle of the Sands |
Tony Maylam |
Michael York, Jenny Agutter |
Adventure |
|
| Scum |
Alan Clarke |
Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth |
Prison drama |
|
| A Sense of Freedom |
John Mackenzie |
David Hayman, Fulton Mackay |
Drama |
|
| Sunburn |
Richard C. Sarafian |
Farrah Fawcett, Charles Grodin |
Crime/comedy |
Co-production with the US
|
| Tarka the Otter |
David Cobham |
Henry Williamson, Gerald Durrell |
Family |
|
| The Tempest |
Derek Jarman |
Heathcote Williams, Toyah Willcox |
Shakespearean |
|
| Tess |
Roman Polanski |
Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth |
Literary drama |
|
| That Summer |
Harley Cokeliss |
Ray Winstone, Tony London |
Drama |
|
| The World Is Full of Married Men |
Robert Young |
Anthony Franciosa, Carroll Baker |
Drama |
|
| Yanks |
John Schlesinger |
Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave, Lisa Eichhorn |
World War II |
|
| Yesterday's Hero |
Neil Leifer |
Ian McShane, Suzanne Somers |
Drama |
|
