# List of Italian films of 1979

A list of films produced in Italy in 1979 (see 1979 in film):
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Gli anni struggenti | Vittorio Sindoni | Gabriele Ferzetti | comedy | |
| Assassinio sul Tevere | Bruno Corbucci | Tomas Milian, Marina Ripa Di Meana | poliziottesco-comedy | |
| Beyond the Darkness | Joe D'Amato | Kieran Canter, Cinzia Monreale, Franca Stoppi | Horror | |
| Caligula | Tinto Brass, Bob Guccione | Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Peter O'Toole | Adult, Drama, History | |
| Christ Stopped at Eboli | Elio Petri | Gian Maria Volonté, Lea Massari, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Irene Papas | Political drama | Golden Prize at Moscow, David di Donatello for Best Film, BAFTA Award for Best Film |
| Cindy's Love Games | Aldo Grimaldi | Cindy Leadbetter | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| Il corpo della ragassa | Pasquale Festa Campanile | Lilli Carati, Enrico Maria Salerno | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| A Dangerous Toy | Giuliano Montaldo | Nino Manfredi, Marlène Jobert, Vittorio Mezzogiorno | crime drama | |
| Dear Father | Dino Risi | Vittorio Gassman, Andrée Lachapelle, Aurore Clément | drama | Entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival |
| Don Giovanni | Joseph Losey | Ruggero Raimondi, John Macurdy, Kiri Te Kanawa | Opera | |
| Don't Trust the Mafia | Mario Bianchi | Gabriele Tinti, Paola Senatore, Pino Mauro | Crime | |
| Un dramma borghese | Florestano Vancini | Franco Nero, Dalila Di Lazzaro | drama | |
| Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot | Steno | Paolo Villaggio, Edwige Fenech | Comedy | |
| Encounters in the Deep | Italo Zingarelli | Andrés García, Gianni Garko, Gabriele Ferzetti | science fiction | |
| Ernesto | Salvatore Samperi | Virna Lisi, Michele Placido, Turi Ferro | drama | Entered into the 29th Berlin International Film Festival |
| The Finzi Detective Agency | Bruno Corbucci | Renato Pozzetto, Enzo Cannavale | crime-comedy | |
| From Corleone to Brooklyn | Umberto Lenzi | Maurizio Merli, Mario Merola, Laura Belli | Crime | |
| From Hell to Victory | Umberto Lenzi | George Peppard, George Hamilton, Horst Buchholz | war | |
| From the Clouds to the Resistance | Straub–Huillet | Olimpia Carlisi | drama | |
| The Gang That Sold America | Bruno Corbucci | Tomas Milian, Asha Puthli | poliziottesco-comedy | |
| Gardenia | Domenico Paolella | Franco Califano, Martin Balsam, Robert Webber | — | |
| Giallo a Venezia | Mario Landi | Leonora Fani | giallo | |
| The Great Alligator River | Sergio Martino | Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Mel Ferrer | Horror | |
| Happy Hobos | Sergio Citti | Vittorio Gassman, Philippe Noiret, Gigi Proietti | comedy | |
| Hot Potato | Steno | Renato Pozzetto, Edwige Fenech | comedy | |
| The House by the Edge of the Lake | Enzo G. Castellari | Vincent Gardenia, Leonora Fani, Wolfango Soldati | horror | |
| How to Seduce Your Teacher | Mariano Laurenti | Lino Banfi, Gloria Guida, Alvaro Vitali | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| Hunted City | Stelvio Massi | Maurizio Merli, Mario Merola | poliziottesco | |
| Hurricane Rosy | Mario Monicelli | Gérard Depardieu, Faith Minton | sport comedy | |
| Images in a Convent | Joe D'Amato | Paola Senatore, Marina Hedman | sexploitation | |
| L'imbranato | Pier Francesco Pingitore | Pippo Franco, Laura Troschel | comedy | |
| I'm for the Hippopotamus | Tonino Ricci | Terence Hill, Bud Spencer | adventure-comedy | |
| L'insegnante balla... con tutta la classe | Giuliano Carnimeo | Lino Banfi, Nadia Cassini, Alvaro Vitali | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| Island of the Fishmen | Sergio Martino | Claudio Cassinelli, Barbara Bach, Richard Johnson, Joseph Cotten | adventure-fantasy | |
| La liceale, il diavolo e l'acquasanta | Nando Cicero | Lino Banfi, Gloria Guida, Alvaro Vitali | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| Life Is Beautiful | Grigory Chukhray | Giancarlo Giannini, Ornella Muti | Drama | |
| Lobster for Breakfast | Giorgio Capitani | Enrico Montesano, Claude Brasseur | comedy | |
| Lovers and Liars (Viaggio con Anita) | Mario Monicelli | Goldie Hawn, Giancarlo Giannini | Romantic comedy | |
| La luna | Bernardo Bertolucci | Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Renato Salvatori, Alida Valli, Tomas Milian, Franco Citti, Roberto Benigni | Drama | |
| Malabimba – The Malicious Whore | Andrea Bianchi | | — | |
| Il malato immaginario | Tonino Cervi | Alberto Sordi, Laura Antonelli, Bernard Blier, Giuliana De Sio | comedy | |
| A Man on His Knees | Damiano Damiani | Giuliano Gemma, Michele Placido, Eleonora Giorgi | crime-drama | |
| The Meadow | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | Michele Placido, Saverio Marconi, Isabella Rossellini | drama | |
| Neapolitan Mystery | Sergio Corbucci | Marcello Mastroianni, Ornella Muti, Renato Pozzetto, Michel Piccoli | Giallo comedy | |
| Night Nurse | Nando Cicero | Lino Banfi, Gloria Guida, Alvaro Vitali | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| The Nurse in the Military Madhouse | Mariano Laurenti | Nadia Cassini, Lino Banfi, Alvaro Vitali | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| Ogro | Gillo Pontecorvo | Gian Maria Volonté, José Sacristán, Eusebio Poncela, Ángela Molina | Drama | Spanish co-production. David di Donatello winner |
| Il piccolo Archimede | Gianni Amelio | Laura Betti, John Steiner | poliziottesco | |
| A Policewoman on the Porno Squad | Michele Massimo Tarantini | Edwige Fenech, Lino Banfi, Alvaro Vitali | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| Porci con la P 38 | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | Marc Porel, Laura Belli | poliziottesco | |
| Play Motel | Mario Gariazzo | Anna Maria Rizzoli, Ray Lovelock | giallo | |
| Ratataplan | Maurizio Nichetti | Maurizio Nichetti, Angela Finocchiaro | Comedy |
| Le rose di Danzica | Alberto Bevilacqua | Franco Nero, Helmut Berger, Olga Karlatos | war drama | |
| Saturday, Sunday and Friday | Castellano & Pipolo, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Sergio Martino | Adriano Celentano, Edwige Fenech, Barbara Bouchet, Lino Banfi | Comedy |
| Scusi lei è normale? | Umberto Lenzi | Renzo Montagnani, Ray Lovelock, Anna Maria Rizzoli | Commedia sexy all'italiana |
| Seeking Asylum (Chiedo asilo) | Marco Ferreri | Roberto Benigni, Dominique Laffin | Comedy | Berlin Award |
| The Shark Hunter | Enzo G. Castellari | Franco Nero, Werner Pochath | Adventure | filmed in Mexico |
| The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid | Michele Lupo | Bud Spencer, Cary Guffey | Comedy |
| Le strelle nel fosso | Pupi Avati | Lino Capolicchio, Gianni Cavina, Carlo Delle Piane | — | |
| Supersonic Man | Juan Piquer Simón | Cameron Mitchell | superhero | |
| Terror Express | Ferdinando Baldi | Silvia Dionisio, Werner Pochath | rape and revenge | |
| Tigers in Lipstick | Luigi Zampa | Ursula Andress, Monica Vitti, Roberto Benigni, Sylvia Kristel | Comedy |
| Together? | Armenia Balducci | Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell, Terence Stamp, Monica Guerritore | romance drama | |
| To Forget Venice | Franco Brusati | Erland Josephson, Mariangela Melato, Erland Josephson | Drama | David di Donatello Best Film winner. Academy Award nominee. Gay interest |
| Traffic Jam | Luigi Comencini | Gérard Depardieu, Ugo Tognazzi, Marcello Mastroianni, Stefania Sandrelli, Alberto Sordi | drama | |
| Velvet Hands | Castellano & Pipolo | Adriano Celentano, Eleonora Giorgi | comedy | |
| The Visitor | Giulio Paradisi | Mel Ferrer, Glenn Ford, John Huston, Franco Nero, Sam Peckinpah | psychological thriller | |
| I viaggiatori della sera | Ugo Tognazzi | Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Vanoni, Corinne Cléry | science fiction-drama | |
| Where Can You Go Without the Little Vice? | Marino Girolami | Renzo Montagnani, Paola Senatore, Alvaro Vitali | Commedia sexy all'italiana | |
| Zombi 2 | Lucio Fulci | Tisa Farrow | Horror | |
| Zombie Holocaust | Marino Girolami | Ian McCulloch | Horror | |