1979 Toronto International Film Festival

• ...And Justice for All. by Norman Jewison[1]
• Black Jack by Ken Loach[7]
• Fish Hawk by Donald Shebib[7]
• The Heritage by Anders Refn[7]
• Legend of the Mountain by King Hu[7]
• Linus and the Mysterious Red Brick House by Vilgot Sjöman[7]
• Magicians of the Silver Screen by Jiří Menzel[7]
• The Magician of Lublin by Menahem Golan[7]
• A Man, a Woman, and a Bank by Noel Black[1]
• The Marriage of Maria Braun by Rainer Werner Fassbinder[7]
• The Onion Field by Harold Becker[1]
• Orchestra Rehearsal by Federico Fellini[7]
• Quadrophenia by Franc Roddam[7]
• Something Short of Paradise by David Helpern[1]
• The Tempest by Derek Jarman[8]
• Time After Time by Nicholas Meyer[1]
• Us Two by Claude Lelouch[1]

• 50/50 by Uwe Brandner[7]
• Bastien, Bastienne by Michel Andrieu[7]
• Drugstore Romance by Paul Vecchiali[7]
• Germany in Autumn by Alf Brustellin, Hans Peter Cloos, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alexander Kluge, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Maximiliane Mainka, Edgar Reitz, Katja Rupé, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Schubert and Bernhard Sinkel[7]
• Knife in the Head by Reinhard Hauff[7]
• Northern Lights by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson[7]
• To an Unknown God by Jaime Chávarri[7]
• To Be Sixteen by Jean Pierre Lefebvre[7]

• America's Sweetheart: The Mary Pickford Story by John Edwards[7]
• Arthur Miller on Home Ground by Harry Rasky[7]
• Blue Winter by André Blanchard[7]
• Radio On by Christopher Petit[7]
• The Sailor's Return by Jack Gold[7]
• Scum by Alan Clarke[7]
• Summer's Children by Julius Kohanyi[7]
• Title Shot by Les Rose[7]

• Best Boy by Ira Wohl[9]
• Chiefs by Richard Leacock[7]
• Chronicle of a Summer by Jean Rouch[7]
• The Drugstore by Joris Ivens[7]
• The Football Incident by Joris Ivens[7]
• The Handmaidens of God by Diane Létourneau[7]
• Juvenile Court by Frederick Wiseman[7]
• Juvenile Liaison by Nick Broomfield[7]
• La La, Making It in L.A. by Frank Mouris and Caroline Mouris[7]
• Les Raquetteurs by Michel Brault and Gilles Groulx[7]
• Salesman by Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin[7]
• Solzhenitsyn's Children Are Making a Lot of Noise in Paris by Michael Rubbo[7]
• This Will Do for Today by Martin Lavut[7]

• Dinner for Adele by Oldřich Lipský[7]
• Let's Talk About Love by Jean-Claude Lord[7]
• Molière by Ariane Mnouchkine[7]
• Stone Cold Dead by George Mendeluk[7]
• Tierra y libertad by Maurice Bulbulian[7]

• The Confessions of Amans by Gregory Nava[7]
• Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! by Russ Meyer[7]
• The Friends of Eddie Coyle by Peter Yates[7]
• The Green Wall by Armando Robles Godoy[7]
• Night Moves by Arthur Penn[7]
• Ruby by Dick Bartlett[7]
• The Scenic Route by Mark Rappaport[7]
• The Super Inframan by Hua Shan[7]
• Who's That Knocking at My Door by Martin Scorsese[7]

• The Man on the Roof by Bo Widerberg[7]
• Men Can't Be Raped by Jörn Donner[7]
• Near and Far Away by Marianne Ahrne[7]
• One and One by Erland Josephson, Sven Nykvist and Ingrid Thulin[7]
• A Respectable Life by Stefan Jarl[7]
• The Score by Christer Dahl[7]
• Sven Klang's Combo by Stellan Olsson[7]
• A Walk in the Sun by Hans Dahlberg[7]
• The Walls of Freedom by Marianne Ahrne[7]

• Bye-Bye Bavaria! by Herbert Achternbusch[7]
• The Expulsion from Paradise by Niklaus Schilling[7]
• The Main Actor by Reinhard Hauff[7]
• Moritz, Dear Moritz by Hark Bohm[7]
• On the Move by Adolf Winkelmann[7]

A tribute program to Canadian actress and filmmaker Luce Guilbeault, featuring both films in which she performed and films she directed.

• Denyse Benoît, comedienne by Luce Guilbeault[7]
• D'abord ménagères by Luce Guilbeault[7]
• Passages by Nesya Shapiro Blue[7]
• Réjeanne Padovani by Denys Arcand[7]
• Some American Feminists by Luce Guilbeault[7]

Films directed by Marguerite Duras.

• Destroy, She Said[7]
• India Song[7]
• The Lorry[7]
• La Musica[7]
• Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert[7]