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A list of the films produced in Mexico in 1979 (see 1979 in film):
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A list of the films produced in Mexico in 1979 (see 1979 in film):
The year 1979 in film involved many significant events.
10 is a 1979 American romantic comedy film written, produced and directed by Blake Edwards and starring Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, Robert Webber and Bo Derek. It was considered a trendsetting film at the time of its release and became one of the year's biggest box-office hits. The film follows a middle-aged man who becomes infatuated with a young woman whom he has never met, leading to a comic chase and an encounter in Mexico.
Jaime Humberto Hermosillo Delgado was a Mexican film director, often compared to Spain's Pedro Almodóvar.
Roberto Gavaldón was a Mexican film director.
Jimmy Santiago Baca is an American poet, memoirist, and screenwriter from New Mexico.
Jorge Fons Pérez was a Mexican film director.
Jorge Rivero is a Mexican actor, with a career spanning two continents, primarily in Spanish-language media. He has been also credited as George Rivers and George Rivero.
René Cardona Jr. was a Mexican filmmaker and actor, son of Mexican director René Cardona, and the father of René Cardona III.
¡Que viva México! is a film project begun in 1930 by the Russian avant-garde director Sergei Eisenstein (1898–1948) under contract to socialist author Upton Sinclair and other supporters in the United States. It would have been an episodic portrayal of Mexican culture and politics from pre-Conquest civilization to the Mexican Revolution. Production was beset by difficulties and was eventually abandoned. Jay Leyda and Zina Voynow call it Eisentein's "greatest film plan and his greatest personal tragedy".
Pedro Muñoz Romero, known as Pedro Damián, is a Mexican actor, television producer and director, executive producer of popular teen telenovelas. His works include Clase 406, Lola, Erase Una Vez, Mis XV,Rebelde, Like La Leyenda and RBD: La Familia, distributed within and outside Mexico. He has worked with musical actsRBD and Eiza Gonzalez.
Enrique Álvarez Félix was a Mexican actor, known for his roles in telenovelas and in films, such as The Monastery of the Vultures and The House of the Pelican.
El Año de la Peste is a Mexican film categorized as drama, thriller and sci-fi. It was filmed in 1978 and released in 1979. The production counted with the famous Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez for the adapted screenplay from the novel of Daniel Defoe A Journal of the Plague Year published in March 1722.
Tina Romero is an American actress. A native of New York City, Romero moved to Mexico in her youth, and later established a career there as an actress. Her early film roles included The Divine Caste (1973) and the title character in the horror film Alucarda (1977). She has also appeared in American films, including Missing (1982), opposite Sissy Spacek and Jack Lemmon.
Carlos López Moctezuma Pineda was a Mexican film actor. He appeared in more than 210 films between 1938 and 1980. He starred in the film Happiness, which was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival.
Ramón Bravo was a Mexican diver, photographer and underwater filmmaker. Bravo was the person who made the phenomenon of Sleeping sharks known to the world.
Michel Franco is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for his film After Lucia that won the Prize Un Certain Regard at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
Rafael Portillo (1916–1995) was a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film editor.
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