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What movies were popular in 1979?

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What movies were popular in 1979?

Feature Film, Released between 1979-01-01 and 1979-12-31 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)

  • Alien (1979) R | 117 min | Horror, Sci-Fi.
  • Apocalypse Now (1979) R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, War.
  • Caligula (1979)
  • Mad Max (1979)
  • The Warriors (1979)
  • Stalker (1979)
  • Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979)
  • Breaking Away (1979)

What was the No 1 movie in 1979?

Kramer vs. Kramer
Top 1979 Movies at the Domestic Box Office

Rank Movie Max Theater Count
1 Kramer vs. Kramer 898
2 The Amityville Horror 868
3 Rocky 2 780
4 Apocalypse Now 105

What was the biggest movie in 1979?

The highest-grossing film of 1979, with a total box-office take of just over $106 million, was Kramer vs. Kramer, a movie about two New Yorkers getting a divorce and fighting over custody of their son.

What was the #1 movie in August 1979?

Domestic Box Office For August 1979

Rank Release Distributor
1 Apocalypse Now Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
2 North Dallas Forty Paramount Pictures
3 The Seduction of Joe Tynan Universal Pictures
4 Monty Python’s Life of Brian Warner Bros.

What was invented in the 1979?

A major invention of 1979 was the personal computer, described in US 4 136 359 by Stephen Wozniak and Apple Computers Inc. of Cupertino, California, which claims a microcomputer with a video generator and timing device to enable colour and high resolution graphics on a standard cathode ray tube (see Fig. 1).

What films come out in 1977?

Feature Film, Released between 1977-01-01 and 1977-12-31 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)

  • Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
  • Saturday Night Fever (1977)
  • Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
  • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
  • Eraserhead (1977)
  • Suspiria (1977)
  • Annie Hall (1977)
  • The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)