Keep the films in alphabetical order, ignoring leading articles (The, A or An).
Please keep number of cast members down to 3 or 4.
Entries in the 'Notes' column should be outstanding details about this film in
relation to other films in the same period. Anything about the film itself can
be discovered by following the link to the film.
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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| 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 |
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>| 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 |