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Movies: Popular Movies of 1969

Movies in chronological context: 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade. ()

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969)

PG
| 1h 51min | Western
3.8/5 (with 999 votes)

In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot Sundance Kid. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally catches up to Butch, Sundance and their gang. Chased doggedly by a special posse, the two decide to make their way to South America in hopes of evading their pursuers once and for all. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1998.

Directed by George Roy Hill - With Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Henry Jones, Cloris Leachman, Ted Cassidy, ...
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Easy Rider(1969)

R
| 1h 35min | Adventure, Drama
3.5/5 (with 856 votes)

A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices.

Directed by Dennis Hopper - With Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Phil Spector, Karen Black, Toni Basil, ...
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service(1969)

PG
| 2h 22min | Adventure, Action, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 849 votes)

James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco, and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld.

Directed by Peter R. Hunt - With George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Bernard Lee, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lois Maxwell, ...
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Midnight Cowboy(1969)

NC-17
| 1h 53min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 616 votes)

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

Directed by John Schlesinger - With Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, Brenda Vaccaro, Bob Balaban, John McGiver, ...
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The Wild Bunch(1969)

R
| 2h 25min | Western
3.8/5 (with 538 votes)

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.

Directed by Sam Peckinpah - With William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, ...
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Take the Money and Run(1969)

NR
| 1h 25min | Comedy, Crime
3.6/5 (with 329 votes)

Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.

Directed by Woody Allen - With Janet Margolin, Louise Lasser, Woody Allen, Mark Gordon, Mike O'Dowd, Dan Frazer, ...

True Grit(1969)

G
| 2h 8min | Western
3.7/5 (with 325 votes)

The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.

Directed by Henry Hathaway - With John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Robert Duvall, Jeff Corey, Dennis Hopper, ...
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The Italian Job(1969)

G
| 1h 39min | Action, Crime, Comedy, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 298 votes)

Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose of the mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far, so Charlie takes over the 'job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars, and a bus, he hopes to bring Torino to a standstill, steal a fortune in gold and escape in the chaos.

Directed by Peter Collinson - With Noël Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone, Rossano Brazzi, Graham Payn, Renato Romano, ...
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Army of Shadows(1969)

2h 25min | War, Drama, Thriller
4.0/5 (with 260 votes)

Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.

Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville - With Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Serge Reggiani, Paul Crauchet, ...
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Hibernatus(1969)

1h 22min | Comedy, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 196 votes)

The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the 1960s. His descendants take care of him: to spare him the cultural shock they behave so to make believe it's 1905 and they are his cousins, uncle...

Directed by Édouard Molinaro - With Louis de Funès, Claude Gensac, Michael Lonsdale, Bernard Alane, Olivier de Funès, Claude Piéplu, ...

The Swimming Pool(1969)

PG
| 2h | Crime, Drama
3.5/5 (with 193 votes)

Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his beautiful teenage daughter to spend a few days with them. From the first moment, a certain uneasiness and tension begin to develop between the four, which soon escalates in a dangerous love-game.

Directed by Jacques Deray - With Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin, Paul Crauchet, Maddly Bamy, ...

Z(1969)

2h 7min | Thriller, History, Drama
3.9/5 (with 181 votes)

Amidst a heated political climate, the opposition leader is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. When a magistrate finds evidence of a government cover-up, witnesses start to get targeted. A thinly-fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963, Z captures the outrage about the military junta that ruled Greece at the time.

Directed by Costa-Gavras - With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner, François Périer, ...
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Hello, Dolly!(1969)

G
| 2h 26min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Music
3.5/5 (with 155 votes)

Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.

Directed by Gene Kelly - With Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, J. Pat O'Malley, Louis Armstrong, David Hurst, ...
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Topaz(1969)

PG
| 2h 1min | Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 153 votes)

Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon, Karin Dor, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, ...
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Frosty the Snowman(1969)

25min | Kids & Family, Animation, TV Movie
3.5/5 (with 142 votes)

A discarded silk top-hat becomes the focus of a struggle between a washed-up stage magician and a group of schoolchildren, after it magically brings a snowman to life. Realizing that newly-living Frosty will melt in spring unless he takes refuge in a colder climate, Frosty and Karen, a young girl who he befriends, stow away on a freight train headed for the north pole. Little do they know that the magician is following them, and he wants his hat back!

Directed by Jules Bass
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Fellini Satyricon(1969)

R
| 2h 4min | Drama, Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 140 votes)

After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a chance to do so. Now wandering around Rome in the time of Nero, Encolpio encounters one bizarre and surreal scene after another.

Directed by Federico Fellini - With Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Salvo Randone, Max Born, Magali Noël, Capucine, ...

The Sicilian Clan(1969)

NR
| 2h 5min | Crime
3.8/5 (with 134 votes)

An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.

Directed by Henri Verneuil - With Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura, Irina Demick, Amedeo Nazzari, Sydney Chaplin, ...
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They?(1969)

PG
| 2h | Drama
3.9/5 (with 127 votes)

In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a failed actress, a middle-aged sailor, a delusional blonde and a pregnant girl.

Directed by Sydney Pollack - With Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Gig Young, Susannah York, Red Buttons, Bonnie Bedelia, ...

Battle of Britain(1969)

G
| 2h 12min | Action, Drama, History, War
3.4/5 (with 120 votes)

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.

Directed by Guy Hamilton - With Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard, Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Michael Caine, Edward Fox, ...

My Night at Maud's(1969)

1h 51min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama
3.9/5 (with 115 votes)

The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.

Directed by Éric Rohmer - With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault, Antoine Vitez, Leonid Kogan

The Brain(1969)

PG
| 1h 55min | Crime, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 115 votes)

Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.

Directed by Gérard Oury - With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil, David Niven, Eli Wallach, Silvia Monti, Jacques Balutin, ...

The Color of Pomegranates(1969)

1h 20min | Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 101 votes)

The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova's dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.

Directed by Sergei Parajanov - With Sofiko Chiaureli, Vilen Galstyan, Spartak Bagashvili, Gogi Gegechkori, Medea Japaridze

Paint Your Wagon(1969)

PG-13
| 2h 44min | Drama, Action, Comedy, Western, Music
3.2/5 (with 99 votes)

A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining.

Directed by Joshua Logan - With Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Harve Presnell, Ray Walston, Alan Dexter, ...
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The Alphabet(1969)

4min | Horror, Animation
3.3/5 (with 92 votes)

A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.

Directed by David Lynch

Cactus Flower(1969)

PG
| 1h 43min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 88 votes)

Distraught when her middle-aged lover breaks a date with her, 21-year-old Toni Simmons attempts suicide. Impressed by her action, her lover, dentist Julian Winston reconsiders marrying Toni, but he worries about her insistence on honesty. Having fabricated a wife and three children, Julian readily accepts when his devoted nurse, Stephanie, who has secretly loved Julian for years, offers to act as his wife and demand a divorce.

Directed by Gene Saks - With Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn, Jack Weston, Vito Scotti, Irene Hervey, ...
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The Cremator(1969)

1h 40min | Comedy, Horror, Drama
3.8/5 (with 84 votes)

Mr. Kopfrkingl enjoys his job at a crematorium in Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s. He likes reading the Tibetan book of the dead and espouses the view that cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world. There may be another idealogy that fits snugly with his existing worldview.

Directed by Juraj Herz - With Rudolf Hrušínský, Vlasta Chramostová, Helena Anýžová, Míla Myslíková, Vladimír Menšík, Ilja Prachař, ...

Mississippi Mermaid(1969)

R
| 2h 3min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 83 votes)

A man orders a mail-order bride but receives instead a con woman.

Directed by François Truffaut - With Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Bouquet, Marcel Berbert, Albert Ramassamy, Alexandra Stewart, ...
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The Damned(1969)

2h 36min | War, Drama
3.7/5 (with 82 votes)

In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.

Directed by Luchino Visconti - With Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger, Renaud Verley, Umberto Orsini, ...

Mackenna's Gold(1969)

2h 8min | Adventure, Action, Western
3.3/5 (with 72 votes)

A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.

Directed by J. Lee Thompson - With Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif, Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv, Keenan Wynn, Julie Newmar, ...
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Funeral Parade of Roses(1969)

1h 45min | Drama, Crime
3.7/5 (with 71 votes)

An electrifying journey into the nether regions of the late-‘60s Tokyo underground. A loose adaptation of Oedipus Rex in which a gay son kills his mother and sleeps with his father.

Directed by Toshio Matsumoto - With Peter, Yoshio Tsuchiya
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