Movies Using the English Language and Released in 1979
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The list below includes all films using the English language, including movies using other languages as well.
Note: Since we are still actively researching languages, we consider this chart to be in beta mode.
While we make every effort to collect all available data, there are inevitably omissions and errors. Please help us by sending corrections to corrections@the-numbers.com.
| Movie | Language(s) | Genre | Production
Budget | Worldwide
Box Office
to Date | Trailer |
|---|
| Moonraker |
English |
Action |
$31,000,000 |
$210,300,000 |
|
| Rocky 2 |
English |
Action |
|
$200,182,160 |
|
| Alien |
English |
Horror |
$10,700,000 |
$188,034,787 |
|
| Star Trek: The Motion Picture |
English |
Adventure |
$35,000,000 |
$139,000,000 |
|
| Kramer vs. Kramer |
English |
Drama |
|
$106,260,000 |
|
| 1941 |
English,
German,
Japanese |
Comedy |
$32,000,000 |
$94,875,000 |
|
| The Amityville Horror |
English |
Horror |
|
$86,432,520 |
|
| Apocalypse Now |
English |
Drama |
$31,500,000 |
$86,043,465 |
|
| The Muppet Movie |
English |
Adventure |
$8,000,000 |
$76,657,000 |
|
| The Jerk |
English |
Comedy |
|
$73,691,419 |
|
| Dawn of the Dead |
English |
Horror |
$1,500,000 |
$55,000,000 |
|
| 10 |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$52,134,699 |
|
| Escape from Alcatraz |
English |
Drama |
$8,000,000 |
$43,000,459 |
|
| Manhattan |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$40,053,595 |
|
| The In-Laws |
English |
Comedy |
|
$38,200,000 |
|
| Starting Over |
English |
Comedy |
|
$38,200,000 |
|
| All That Jazz |
English |
Drama |
|
$37,823,676 |
|
| The Black Stallion |
English |
Adventure |
$2,700,000 |
$37,799,643 |
|
| The Main Event |
English |
Romantic Comedy |
|
$37,198,813 |
|
| The Black Hole |
English |
Action |
$20,000,000 |
$35,841,901 |
|
| The China Syndrome |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$35,708,161 |
|
| ...And Justice For All |
English |
Drama |
|
$33,300,000 |
|
| The Champ |
English |
Drama |
|
$30,441,738 |
|
| Being There |
English |
Comedy |
|
$30,177,606 |
|
| Chapter Two |
English |
Comedy |
|
$30,000,000 |
|
| Going in Style |
English |
Comedy |
|
$29,900,000 |
|
| The Rose |
English |
Drama |
$8,500,000 |
$29,200,000 |
|
| The Wanderers |
English |
Drama |
|
$23,017,811 |
|
| Prophecy |
English |
Horror |
$12,000,000 |
$22,673,340 |
|
| Norma Rae |
English |
Drama |
|
$22,228,000 |
|
| The Bermuda Triangle |
English |
Horror |
|
$22,200,000 |
|
| Dracula |
Dutch,
English,
Romanian,
Russian |
Horror |
|
$21,000,000 |
|
| Life of Brian |
English |
Comedy |
$4,000,000 |
$20,548,593 |
|
| A Force of One |
English |
Action |
|
$20,200,000 |
|
| Breaking Away |
English |
Drama |
|
$20,000,000 |
|
| North Dallas Forty |
English |
Comedy |
|
$19,010,710 |
|
| The Seduction of Joe Tynan |
English |
Drama |
|
$19,000,000 |
|
| Hair |
English |
Comedy |
|
$13,100,000 |
|
| Time After Time |
English |
Adventure |
|
$13,000,000 |
|
| The Concorde: Airport ’79 |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$13,000,000 |
|
| The Frisco Kid |
English |
Comedy |
|
$12,000,000 |
|
| Dirt |
English |
Documentary |
|
$9,200,000 |
|
| Mad Max |
English |
Action |
$200,000 |
$8,774,637 |
|
| Meteor |
English,
Russian |
Action |
$16,000,000 |
$8,400,000 |
|
| More American Graffiti |
English |
Comedy |
|
$8,100,000 |
|
| Agatha |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$7,500,000 |
|
| When a Stranger Calls |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$1,262,052 |
|
| Roller Boogie |
English |
Comedy |
|
$775,133 |
|
| Killer of Sheep |
English |
Drama |
|
$499,649 |
|
| The First Great Train Robbery |
English |
Action |
$6,000,000 |
$391,942 |
|
| ABBA: The Movie |
English,
Swedish |
Documentary |
|
$223,413 |
|
| Winter Kills |
English |
Drama |
|
$77,587 |
|
| Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro |
English,
Japanese |
Adventure |
|
$69,506 |
|
| Hostsonaten |
English,
Swedish |
Drama |
|
$29,892 |
|
| Voices |
English |
Drama |
|
$27,445 |
|
| Scum |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$5,405 |
|
| Quadrophenia |
English |
Drama |
|
$282 |
|
| Wise Blood |
English |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| The Runner Stumbles |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| A Man, a Woman and a Bank |
English |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| City on Fire |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| The Human Factor |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| The Villain |
English |
Western |
|
$0 |
|
| Players |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Wanda Nevada |
English |
Adventure |
|
$0 |
|
| Phantasm |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Yanks |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Glory Days |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Skatetown, U.S.A. |
English |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Home Before Midnight |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Killer Fish |
English,
Portuguese |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Racquet |
English |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Long Weekend |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| The Brood |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| The Driller Killer |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Scavenger Hunt |
English |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Starcrash |
English,
Italian |
Adventure |
|
$0 |
|
| Escape to Athena |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| On the Yard |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Chilly Scenes of Winter |
English |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| The Great Monkey Rip-Off |
English |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| No Maps on my Taps |
English |
Documentary |
|
$0 |
|
| Do it in the Dirt |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| Human Experiments |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$0 |
|
| Seven |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| The War at Home |
English |
Documentary |
|
$0 |
|
| Sarah T. Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires |
English,
Mandarin |
|
|
$0 |
|
| The Prize Fighter |
English |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| Arabian Adventure |
English |
Adventure |
|
$0 |
|
| Rock ‘n’ Roll High School |
English |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| The Europeans |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Murder by Decree |
English |
Thriller/Suspense |
|
$0 |
|
| Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Town Bloody Hall |
English |
Documentary |
|
$0 |
|
| Tourist Trap |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Promises in the Dark |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| The Dark |
English |
Horror |
|
$0 |
|
| Battlestar Galactica |
English |
Action |
|
$0 |
|
| Hardcore |
English,
Spanish |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Over the Edge |
English |
Drama |
|
$0 |
|
| Beyond the Poseidon Adventure |
English |
Adventure |
|
$0 |
|
| Joi Baba Felunath |
Bengali,
English |
|
|
$0 |
|
| Io sto con gli ippopotami |
English,
Italian |
Comedy |
|
$0 |
|
| The Who: The Kids Are Alright |
English |
Documentary |
|
$0 |
|
