Top 100 Movies of 1979
Best of Rotten Tomatoes
Movies with 40 or more critic reviews vie for their place in history at Rotten Tomatoes. Eligible movies are ranked based on their Adjusted Scores.
Year:
Sorted by Adjusted Score
| Rank | RatingTomatometer | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | 97% | Alien (1979) |
| 2. | 98% | Apocalypse Now (1979) |
| 3. | 95% | Manhattan (1979) |
| 4. | 95% | Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) |
| 5. | 95% | Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (Nosferatu the Vampyre) (1979) |
| 6. | 94% | Being There (1979) |
| 7. | 93% | Dawn of the Dead (1979) |
| 8. | 90% | Mad Max (1979) |
| 9. | 88% | The Muppet Movie (1979) |
| 10. | 88% | Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) |
| 11. | 85% | All That Jazz (1979) |
| 12. | 73% | Phantasm (1979) |
| 13. | 61% | Moonraker (1979) |
| 14. | 28% | The Amityville Horror (1979) |