List of Italian films of 1979

A list of films produced in Italy in 1979 (see 1979 in film):

Title	Director	Cast	Genre	Notes
Gli anni struggenti	Vittorio Sindoni	Gabriele Ferzetti	comedy
Assassinio sul Tevere	Bruno Corbucci	Tomas Milian, Marina Ripa Di Meana	poliziottesco-comedy
Beyond the Darkness	Joe D'Amato	Kieran Canter, Cinzia Monreale, Franca Stoppi	Horror	[1]
Caligula	Tinto Brass, Bob Guccione	Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole	Adult, Drama, History	[2]
Christ Stopped at Eboli	Elio Petri	Gian Maria Volonté, Lea Massari, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Irene Papas	Political drama	Golden Prize at Moscow, David di Donatello for Best Film, BAFTA Award for Best Film
Cindy's Love Games	Aldo Grimaldi	Cindy Leadbetter	Commedia sexy all'italiana
Il corpo della ragassa	Pasquale Festa Campanile	Lilli Carati, Enrico Maria Salerno	Commedia sexy all'italiana
A Dangerous Toy	Giuliano Montaldo	Nino Manfredi, Marlène Jobert, Vittorio Mezzogiorno	crime drama
Dear Father	Dino Risi	Vittorio Gassman, Andrée Lachapelle, Aurore Clément	drama	Entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival
Don Giovanni	Joseph Losey	Ruggero Raimondi, John Macurdy, Kiri Te Kanawa	Opera
Don't Trust the Mafia	Mario Bianchi	Gabriele Tinti, Paola Senatore, Pino Mauro	Crime	[3]
Un dramma borghese	Florestano Vancini	Franco Nero, Dalila Di Lazzaro	drama
Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot	Steno	Paolo Villaggio, Edwige Fenech	Comedy	[4] [5]
Encounters in the Deep	Italo Zingarelli	Andrés García, Gianni Garko, Gabriele Ferzetti	science fiction
Ernesto	Salvatore Samperi	Virna Lisi, Michele Placido, Turi Ferro	drama	Entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival
The Finzi Detective Agency	Bruno Corbucci	Renato Pozzetto, Enzo Cannavale	crime-comedy
From Corleone to Brooklyn	Umberto Lenzi	Maurizio Merli, Mario Merola, Laura Belli	Crime	[6] [7]
From Hell to Victory	Umberto Lenzi	George Peppard, George Hamilton, Horst Buchholz	war
From the Clouds to the Resistance	Straub–Huillet	Olimpia Carlisi	drama
The Gang That Sold America	Bruno Corbucci	Tomas Milian, Asha Puthli	poliziottesco-comedy
Gardenia	Domenico Paolella	Franco Califano, Martin Balsam, Robert Webber	—	[8]
Giallo a Venezia	Mario Landi	Leonora Fani	giallo
The Great Alligator River	Sergio Martino	Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Mel Ferrer	Horror
Happy Hobos	Sergio Citti	Vittorio Gassman, Philippe Noiret, Gigi Proietti	comedy
Hot Potato	Steno	Renato Pozzetto, Edwige Fenech	comedy
The House by the Edge of the Lake	Enzo G. Castellari	Vincent Gardenia, Leonora Fani, Wolfango Soldati	horror	[9]
How to Seduce Your Teacher	Mariano Laurenti	Lino Banfi, Gloria Guida, Alvaro Vitali	Commedia sexy all'italiana
Hunted City	Stelvio Massi	Maurizio Merli, Mario Merola	poliziottesco
Hurricane Rosy	Mario Monicelli	Gérard Depardieu, Faith Minton	sport comedy
Images in a Convent	Joe D'Amato	Paola Senatore, Marina Hedman	sexploitation
L'imbranato	Pier Francesco Pingitore	Pippo Franco, Laura Troschel	comedy
I'm for the Hippopotamus	Tonino Ricci	Terence Hill, Bud Spencer	adventure-comedy
L'insegnante balla... con tutta la classe	Giuliano Carnimeo	Lino Banfi, Nadia Cassini, Alvaro Vitali	Commedia sexy all'italiana
Island of the Fishmen	Sergio Martino	Claudio Cassinelli, Barbara Bach, Richard Johnson, Joseph Cotten	adventure-fantasy
La liceale, il diavolo e l'acquasanta	Nando Cicero	Lino Banfi, Gloria Guida, Alvaro Vitali	Commedia sexy all'italiana
Life Is Beautiful	Grigory Chukhray	Giancarlo Giannini, Ornella Muti	Drama
Lobster for Breakfast	Giorgio Capitani	Enrico Montesano, Claude Brasseur	comedy
Lovers and Liars (Viaggio con Anita)	Mario Monicelli	Goldie Hawn, Giancarlo Giannini	Romantic comedy
La luna	Bernardo Bertolucci	Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Renato Salvatori, Alida Valli, Tomas Milian, Franco Citti, Roberto Benigni	Drama
Malabimba – The Malicious Whore	Andrea Bianchi		—	[10]
Il malato immaginario	Tonino Cervi	Alberto Sordi, Laura Antonelli, Bernard Blier, Giuliana De Sio	comedy
A Man on His Knees	Damiano Damiani	Giuliano Gemma, Michele Placido, Eleonora Giorgi	crime-drama
The Meadow	Paolo and Vittorio Taviani	Michele Placido, Saverio Marconi, Isabella Rossellini	drama
Neapolitan Mystery	Sergio Corbucci	Marcello Mastroianni, Ornella Muti, Renato Pozzetto, Michel Piccoli	Giallo comedy
Night Nurse	Nando Cicero	Lino Banfi, Gloria Guida, Alvaro Vitali	Commedia sexy all'italiana
The Nurse in the Military Madhouse	Mariano Laurenti	Nadia Cassini, Lino Banfi, Alvaro Vitali	Commedia sexy all'italiana
Ogro	Gillo Pontecorvo	Gian Maria Volonté, José Sacristán, Eusebio Poncela, Ángela Molina	Drama	Spanish co-production. David di Donatello winner
Il piccolo Archimede	Gianni Amelio	Laura Betti, John Steiner	poliziottesco
A Policewoman on the Porno Squad	Michele Massimo Tarantini	Edwige Fenech, Lino Banfi, Alvaro Vitali	Commedia sexy all'italiana
Porci con la P 38	Paolo and Vittorio Taviani	Marc Porel, Laura Belli	poliziottesco
Play Motel	Mario Gariazzo	Anna Maria Rizzoli, Ray Lovelock	giallo
Ratataplan	Maurizio Nichetti	Maurizio Nichetti, Angela Finocchiaro	Comedy
Le rose di Danzica	Alberto Bevilacqua	Franco Nero, Helmut Berger, Olga Karlatos	war drama
Saturday, Sunday and Friday	Castellano & Pipolo, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Sergio Martino	Adriano Celentano, Edwige Fenech, Barbara Bouchet, Lino Banfi	Comedy
Scusi lei è normale?	Umberto Lenzi	Renzo Montagnani, Ray Lovelock, Anna Maria Rizzoli	Commedia sexy all'italiana
Seeking Asylum (Chiedo asilo)	Marco Ferreri	Roberto Benigni, Dominique Laffin	Comedy	Berlin Award
The Shark Hunter	Enzo G. Castellari	Franco Nero, Werner Pochath	Adventure	filmed in Mexico
The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid	Michele Lupo	Bud Spencer, Cary Guffey	Comedy
Le strelle nel fosso	Pupi Avati	Lino Capolicchio, Gianni Cavina, Carlo Delle Piane	—	[11]
Supersonic Man	Juan Piquer Simón	Cameron Mitchell	superhero
Terror Express	Ferdinando Baldi	Silvia Dionisio, Werner Pochath	rape and revenge
Tigers in Lipstick	Luigi Zampa	Ursula Andress, Monica Vitti, Roberto Benigni, Sylvia Kristel	Comedy
Together?	Armenia Balducci	Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell, Terence Stamp, Monica Guerritore	romance drama
To Forget Venice	Franco Brusati	Erland Josephson, Mariangela Melato, Erland Josephson	Drama	David di Donatello Best Film winner. Academy Award nominee. Gay interest
Traffic Jam	Luigi Comencini	Gérard Depardieu, Ugo Tognazzi, Marcello Mastroianni, Stefania Sandrelli, Alberto Sordi	drama
Velvet Hands	Castellano & Pipolo	Adriano Celentano, Eleonora Giorgi	comedy
The Visitor	Giulio Paradisi	Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, John Huston, Franco Nero, Sam Peckinpah	psychological thriller
I viaggiatori della sera	Ugo Tognazzi	Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Vanoni, Corinne Cléry	science fiction-drama
Where Can You Go Without the Little Vice?	Marino Girolami	Renzo Montagnani, Paola Senatore, Alvaro Vitali	Commedia sexy all'italiana
Zombi 2	Lucio Fulci	Tisa Farrow	Horror	[12]
Zombie Holocaust	Marino Girolami	Ian McCulloch	Horror

References

Footnotes

1. Curti 2017, p. 201.
2. William Hawes (2008). Caligula and the Fight for Artistic Freedom: The Making, Marketing and Impact of the Bob Guccione Film. McFarland. p. 195. ISBN   978-0-7864-5240-8.
3. Curti 2013, p. 257.
4. Curti 2017, p. 205.
5. Curti 2017, p. 206.
6. Curti 2013, p. 258.
7. Curti 2013, p. 259.
8. Curti 2013, p. 261.
9. Curti 2017, p. 211.
10. Curti 2017, p. 208.
11. Curti 2017, p. 214.
12. 2012 DVD liner notes, pp. 10–11.

Sources

• Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland. ISBN   978-0786469765.
• Thrower, Stephen; Waddell, Calum; Karlatos, Olga; Lapper, Craig; Slater, Jay (2012). Zombie Flesh Eaters (Media notes). Arrow Films.
• Curti, Roberto (2017). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970-1979. McFarland. ISBN   978-1476629605.
• Brizio-Skov, Flavia (2011). Popular Italian Cinema: Culture and Politics in a Postwar Society. I.B.Tauris. ISBN   978-1848855724.
• Shipka, Danny (2011). Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960–1980. McFarland. ISBN   978-0-7864-4888-3.

External links

• Italian films of 1979 at the Internet Movie Database