# List of French films of 1979

A list of films produced in France in 1979.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| The Adolescent | Jeanne Moreau | Laetitia Chauveau, Simone Signoret, Edith Clever | | |
| The Associate | René Gainville | Michel Serrault, Claudine Auger | Comedy | |
| The Bronte Sisters | André Téchiné | Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert, Marie-France Pisier | | |
| Buffet froid | Bertrand Blier | Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet | Comedy | |
| Clair de femme | Costa-Gavras | Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Romollo Valli | Drama | French–Italian–West German co-production |
| Collections privées | Walerian Borowczyk, Just Jaeckin, Shuji Terayama | | Drama | French–Japanese co-production |
| Coup de tête | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Patrick Dewaere, France Dougnac, Jean Bouise | | |
| The Dogs | Alain Jessua | Victor Lanoux, Nicole Calfan, Gérard Depardieu | Horror | |
| Don Giovanni | Joseph Losey | Ruggero Raimondi, Kiri Te Kanawa, Edda Moser | Musical | Italian–French–West German co-production |
| Et la tendresse?... Bordel! | Patrick Schulmann | Jean-Luc Bideau, Bernard Giraudeau, Evelyne Dress | Comedy | |
| Flic ou Voyou | Georges Lautner | Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie Laforêt, Georges Géret | Thriller | |
| The Hussy | Jacques Doillon | Madeleine Desdevises, Claude Hebert | Comedy-drama | |
| The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting | Raúl Ruiz | Jean Rougeul, Anne Debois, Chantal Palay | | |
| I as in Icarus | Henri Verneuil | Yves Montand, Michel Etcheverry, Pierre Vernier | Thriller | |
| Lady Oscar | Jacques Demy | Catriona MacColl, Barry Stokes, Christina Böhm | | Japanese-French co-production |
| Laura | David Hamilton | James Mitchell, Maud Adams, Dawn Dunlap | Adult, drama | |
| Le cavaleur | Philippe de Broca | Jean Rochefort, Nicole Garcia, Catherine Alric | Comedy | |
| Le gendarme et les extra-terrestres | Jean Girault | Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch | | |
| Les Bronzés font du ski | Patrice Leconte | Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc, Marie-Anne Chazel | | |
| Les Égouts du paradis | José Giovanni | Francis Huster, Jean-François Balmer, Lila Kedrova | Crime | |
| Love on the Run | François Truffaut | Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Marie-France Pisier | Drama | |
| Lovers and Liars | Mario Monicelli | Goldie Hawn, Giancarlo Giannini, Claudine Auger | Romance | Italian–French co-production |
| The Medic | Pierre Granier-Deferre | Véronique Jannot, Bernard Giraudeau, Alain Delon | Drama | |
| Memoirs of a French Whore | Daniel Duval | Miou-Miou, Maria Schneider, Daniel Duval | Comedy-drama | |
| Moonraker | Lewis Gilbert | Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michel Lonsdale | Action | British–French–American co-production |
| Nosferatu the Vampyre | Werner Herzog | Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz | Horror | West German–French co-production |
| Série noire | Alain Corneau | Patrick Dewaere, Myriam Boyer, Bernard Blier | Crime | |
| Tess | Roman Polanski | Nastassja Kinski, Leigh Lawson, Peter Firth | Drama | French–British co-production |
| The Tin Drum | Volker Schlöndorff | David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler | | West German–French co-production |
| Us Two | Claude Lelouch | Jacques Dutronc, Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Villeret | Crime, romance | |