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The Best Movies Of 1969
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Movie: True Grit ( 1969 )
A drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian Territory.
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Movie: Midnight Cowboy ( 1969 )
A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.
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Movie: Easy Rider ( 1969 )
Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.
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Movie: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( 1969 )
Wyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Their solution - escape to Bolivia.
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Movie: On Her Majesty's Secret Service ( 1969 )
George Lazenby steps into the role of James Bond and is sent on his first mission. For help with Marc-Ange Draco (Gabriele Ferzetti), he must become very close friends with his daughter, Teresa "Tracy" (Dame Diana Rigg), and heads off to hunt down Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas) one more time. This takes him to Switzerland, where he must pose as Sir Hilary Bray to find out the secret plan of Blofeld. The facility is covered with Blofeld's guards, as well as his henchwoman, Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat). What does Blofeld have in mind this time? Can Bond keep up this act for much longer? Are any Bond Girls safe?
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Movie: Cactus Flower ( 1969 )
A dentist pretends to be married to avoid commitment, but when he falls for his girlfriend and proposes, he must recruit his lovelorn nurse to pose as his wife.
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Movie: The Wild Bunch ( 1969 )
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
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Movie: Women in Love ( 1969 )
Two best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.
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Movie: The Italian Job ( 1969 )
Comic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam.
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Movie: Sweet Charity ( 1969 )
Taxi dancer Charity continues to have Faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and Hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her away from her sleazy life. Maybe, just maybe, handsome Oscar will be the one to do it.
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Movie: Battle of Britain ( 1969 )
In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K.
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Movie: Age of Consent ( 1969 )
A grizzled Australian painter decides to jolt his stale creativity in a remote island on the Great Barrier Reef, where he meets an alluring young islander who becomes his enchanting model. Could the untamed girl be his long-awaited muse?
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Movie: The Swimming Pool ( 1969 )
Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa on the French Riviera near St-Tropez. Marianne invites her former lover, Harry, and his teenage daughter to stay. Tension rises between them, especially when Jean-Paul seduces Penelope.
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Movie: Paint Your Wagon ( 1969 )
Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town.
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Movie: The Undefeated ( 1969 )
After the Civil War, ex-Confederate soldiers heading for a new life in Mexico run into ex-Union cavalrymen selling horses to the Mexican government but they must join forces to fight off Mexican bandits and revolutionaries.
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Movie: Mackenna's Gold ( 1969 )
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.
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Movie: More Dead Than Alive ( 1969 )
Released from prison after 18 years, notorious gunslinger 'Killer' Cain is a peaceful reformed man but the Old West has died and he cannot adapt to the modern West where some unpaid moral debts and old troubles resurface.
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Movie: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice ( 1970 )
A light-hearted picture of middle-aged love and friendship.
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Movie: They Shoot Horses, Don't They? ( 1970 )
Gloria is a young woman of the Depression. She has aged beyond her years and feels her life is hopeless, having been cheated and betrayed many times in her past. While recovering from a suicide attempt, she gets the idea from a movie magazine to head for Hollywood to make it as an actress. Robert is a desperate Hollywood citizen trying to become a director, never doubting he'll make it. Robert and Gloria meet and decide to enter a dance marathon, one of the crazes of the 1930's. The grueling dancing takes its toll on Gloria's already weakened spirit, and she tells Robert that she'd be better off dead, that her life is hopeless - all the while acting cruelly and bitterly, alienating those around her, trying to convince him to shoot her and put her out of her misery. After all, they shoot horses, don't they?
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Movie: The Love Bug ( 1969 )
A race car driver becomes a champion with a Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own.
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Movie: Hello, Dolly! ( 1969 )
Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for "half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece's intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way.
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Movie: Paranoia ( 1969 )
A rich, alcoholic widow assuages her loneliness through a ménage à trois with two seductive step-siblings, whose true motives threaten her sanity and life.
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Movie: The Color of Pomegranates ( 1982 )
The life of the Armenian poet Sayat-Nova, from childhood to death, his spiritual journey, artistic endeavors and inner conflicts within the cultural and historical context of Armenia, hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
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Movie: Kes ( 1970 )
A working-class English boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet kestrel.
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Movie: Marooned ( 1970 )
Three American astronauts are stranded in space when their retros won't fire. Can they be rescued before their oxygen runs out?
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Movie: Support Your Local Sheriff! ( 1969 )
In the old west, a man becomes a Sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough. In the end, he uses ingenuity instead.
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Movie: The Rain People ( 1969 )
When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions.
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Movie: Anne of the Thousand Days ( 1969 )
King Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Catharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
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Movie: Moon Zero Two ( 1969 )
A space salvage expert and his partner become involved with a group of criminals intent on hijacking a small asteroid made of sapphire and crashing it into the moon for later recovery. The only place that they can bring the asteroid down without drawing attention to themselves is a far side mining claim. But first they must dispose of the miner. Little known to them, however, is the fact that the miners sister has hired the same salvage team to help her locate her missing brother.
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Movie: The Damned ( 1969 )
The dramatic collapse of a wealthy, industrialist/Junker family during the reign of the Third Reich.
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Movie: Army of Shadows ( 1970 )
An account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
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Movie: The Bridge at Remagen ( 1969 )
In the last days of World War II, the Allied Army desperately searched for a bridgehead across the impenetrable Rhine River, in order to launch a major assault into the center of Germany. "Bridge at Remagen" tells the true story of the battle for this last bridgehead, from both the German and American perspective.
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Movie: Carry On Camping ( 1969 )
Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea. The boys suggest a camping holiday, secretly intending to take them to a nudist camp. Of course they end up in the wrong place, and meet up with the weirdest bunch of campers you can imagine! Coach loads of sex-starved schoolgirls and bands of hippies all add to the laughs.
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Movie: Sam Whiskey ( 1969 )
A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where they had been stolen by her dead husband.
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Movie: Z ( 1969 )
Following the murder of a prominent leftist, an investigator tries to uncover the truth while government officials attempt to cover up their roles.
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Movie: Pippi Longstocking ( 1969 )
Pippi Longstocking, a super-strong redheaded little girl, moves into her father's house Villa Villekulla, and has adventures with her next-door neighbors Tommy and Annika in this compilation film of the classic European TV series.
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Movie: Burn! ( 1970 )
The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.
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Movie: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1969 )
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.
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Movie: The Magic Christian ( 1969 )
The world's richest man and his adopted hobo son set out to test the limits of human vanity and greed through a series of "money games".
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Movie: The Assassination Bureau ( 1969 )
A woman causes a group of assassins to face their greatest challenge.
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Movie: Topaz ( 1969 )
A French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
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Movie: My Night at Maud's ( 1969 )
The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.
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Movie: The Good Guys and the Bad Guys ( 1969 )
Marshal Flagg, an aging lawman about to be retired, hears that his old nemesis, the outlaw McKay, is back in the area and planning a robbery. Riding out to hunt down McKay, Flagg is captured by McKay's gang and finds out that McKay is no longer the leader of the gang, but is considered just an aging relic by the new leader, a youngster named Waco. Waco orders McKay to shoot Flagg, and when McKay refuses Waco abandons both of them. Flagg then takes McKay back to town only to find out that he has been "retired," and when he sees how clueless and incompetent the new marshal and the city fathers are, he persuades McKay that it is up to the two of them to stop Waco and his gang from ravaging the town.
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Movie: Charro! ( 1969 )
Vince Hackett's gang steals a prized victory canon from Mexico and blames the deed on ex-gang member Jess Wade who wants to go straight.
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Movie: Marlowe ( 1969 )
A young woman from Kansas hires LA private detective Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother.
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Movie: Last Summer ( 1969 )
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
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Movie: Medium Cool ( 1970 )
A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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Movie: The Illustrated Man ( 1969 )
In 1930s, a psychotic drifter who's after the mystery woman who covered his whole body in illustrations that foresee distant future shows three of them (The Veldt, The Long Rain and The Last Night of the World) to a mesmerized traveler.
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Movie: Goodbye, Mr. Chips ( 1969 )
A shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher falls for a flashy showgirl.
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Movie: Goodbye, Columbus ( 1969 )
An intelligent graduate and working-class army veteran has an affair and clashes with a 'nouveau riche' young woman, who does not care about birth control or the use any other precautions to avoid pregnancy.
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Movie: 100 Rifles ( 1969 )
In 1912 Sonora, Mexico, native revolutionary Yaqui Joe (Burt Reynolds) robs a bank to buy arms for his oppressed people, but finds himself sought by an American lawman and the Mexican Army.
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Movie: Fellini Satyricon ( 1969 )
A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome.
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Movie: The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes ( 1969 )
At Medfield College, an accident with a donated computer gives Dexter Riley the ability to remember any knowledge learned instantly and perfectly.
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Movie: The Laughing Woman ( 1969 )
Doctor Sayer, esteemed director of a philanthropic institution, hides a misogynistic and sexophobic personality to which he gives vent to weekends, dedicating himself in his isolated villa to sadistic games in the company of professionals expert in satisfying similar inclinations and staging their death in ways more imaginative. Taking advantage of the visit of one of his employees, Mary, decides to move from fiction to reality, imprisoning the woman and subjecting her to physical and psychological torture.
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Movie: That Cold Day in the Park ( 1969 )
A rich but lonely woman, Frances Austen, one day invites a homeless young man from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him live there. However, she has no intention of ever letting him leave again.
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Movie: The Reivers ( 1969 )
In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
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Movie: Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here ( 1969 )
In 1909, when young Paiute Indian Willie Boy returns to his California reservation to be with Lola, whose father disapproves of him, a killing in self defense takes place, triggering a massive man hunt for Willie.
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Movie: 12 + 1 ( 1970 )
Young philanderer inherits 13 ratty antique chairs and decides to sell them off to get some money. Later he learns that one of them contains jewels worth a lot of money, so he begins an adventurous trip to regain possession of the chair. On the way he meets many strange people, some who want to help and some who want to swindle him.
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Movie: Sabata ( 1969 )
A master gunfighter sides with a banjo-playing drifter and a Mexican tramp to foil the dignitaries of Daugherty, who want to use stolen army money to buy land that the railroad will cross.
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Movie: Putney Swope ( 1969 )
Dark satire in which the token black man on the executive board of an advertising firm is accidentally put in charge. Renaming the business "Truth and Soul, Inc.", he replaces the tight regime of monied white ad men with his militant brothers. Soon afterwards, however, the power that comes with its position takes its toll on Putney...
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Movie: The April Fools ( 1969 )
A married man enters his boss' apartment to sign papers for a promotion and finds a party of 200 instead. He doesn't fit in, leaves with a woman, spends all night with her, falls in love with her--and finds out she's his boss' wife.
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Movie: Change of Habit ( 1970 )
An incognito nun tries to help a doctor clean up an inner city ghetto, with the pair growing closer as time goes on.
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Movie: Alice's Restaurant ( 1969 )
A cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic song story.
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Movie: Castle Keep ( 1969 )
During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.
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Movie: Venus in Furs ( 1969 )
After musician finds the corpse of a beautiful woman on the beach, the woman returns from the dead to take revenge on those responsible for her death.
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Movie: Mississippi Mermaid ( 1969 )
Louis Mahe is a tobacco planter at Reunion Island. He is waiting for Julie Roussel to marry her. He only knows her by mail. The woman that comes does not like the picture he got, but he marries her anyway. Soon, she flees with Louis' money. She was not the real Julie Roussel but Marion. Louis tries to find her... Another Truffaut's film about passion.
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Movie: Take the Money and Run ( 1970 )
The life and times of Virgil Starkwell, inept bank robber.
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Movie: If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium ( 1969 )
The humorous adventures of a group of American tourists taking an eighteen-day guided bus tour of nine European countries.
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Movie: Shark ( 1969 )
A gunrunner loses his cargo near a small coastal Sudanese town so he's stuck there. When a woman hires him to raid a sunken ship in the shark-infested waters, he sees a chance to compensate for his losses. He's not the only one.
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Movie: The Night of the Following Day ( 1969 )
Two men kidnap a girl off the streets, take her to a beach house owned by a drug-addicted stewardess, and hold her for ransom.
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Movie: The Trouble with Girls ( 1969 )
A traveling Chautauqua show. an educational and entertainment troupe, pitch their tents in a small American town with an ensemble of speakers, lecturers, teachers, musicians, and actors as manager Walter Hale must deal with a myriad of problems, including small town prejudice and politics, nepotism, union problems, and a murder.
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Movie: The Arrangement ( 1969 )
A suicidal advertising executive is forced to re-evaluate his life while dealing with his unhappy marriage, his mistress, and his aging father.
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Movie: Guns of the Magnificent Seven ( 1969 )
A Mexican revolutionary hires an American gunslinger to organize the rescue of their leader from a brutal Army prison.
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Movie: Pendulum ( 1969 )
On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality Matthews escapes in search of the man he believes to be the real killer.
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Movie: Winning ( 1969 )
Frank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one--the Indianapolis 500. But to get there he runs the risk of losing his wife Elora to his rival, Luther Erding, and strains the relationship with his stepson.
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Movie: My Side of the Mountain ( 1969 )
As young Sam Gribley runs away he learns about nature.
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Movie: Journey to the Far Side of the Sun ( 1969 )
The European Space Exploration Council sends two astronauts to explore a planet similar to the Earth but located on the opposite side of the sun.
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Movie: Oh! What a Lovely War ( 1969 )
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
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Movie: Play Dirty ( 1969 )
During World War II in North Africa, a group of British commandos disguised in Italian soldiers must travel behind enemy lines and destroy a vital Nazi oil depot.
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Movie: What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? ( 1969 )
An aging widow hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to keep buried.
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Movie: Hannibal Brooks ( 1969 )
In WW2, captured British soldier Stephen Brooks is on a prison train to Germany.On the train he meets an American prisoner, Packy, who's obsessed with escaping.Brooks tries to temper Packy and reminds him that escaped prisoners are shot if recaptured.Packy is insistent despite Brooks' warnings. On arrival at the POW camp Stalag 7A, Brooks and other fellow POWs are sent to work at the local Munich zoo, to care for the animals.Brooks is assigned to care for Lucy the elephant.The German caretaker in charge of Lucy is asked to train Brooks in his new job.At first, Brooks hates the assignment, considering the large amount of animal waste to be cleaned daily.However, he eventually becomes attached to Lucy the elephant.After a devastating bombing raid that kills some of the animals and zoo staff it is decided to evacuate the surviving animals.Lucy is scheduled to be transported by train to Innsbruck, Austria.On the departure day, the train is commandeered by a moody SS Colonel, for his troops.The colonel jokes that Brooks can walk the elephant all the way to Austria, if he wishes.The joke gives Brooks the idea of walking the elephant to Austria, with two armed guards and a Polish maid as cook.The Munich Zoo director, worried for Lucy's safety, agrees to evacuate her and send her to Austria on foot.Two soldiers provide the armed guard.One is Willy,a friendly Austrian soldier, and the other is Kurt,a brutal German soldier who gets drunk often, insults everyone and threatens to shoot the elephant.The group leaves Munich on a sunny day but the voyage to Austria isn't a promenade in the park when they start running into trouble.
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Movie: The Body Stealers ( 1969 )
In Britain, bodies of NATO paratroopers are being snatched during routine jumps by a mysterious red-beam of alien origin.
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Movie: Hello Down There ( 1969 )
A marine scientist volunteers to have his family live in a prototype underwater home to prove it's practical.
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Movie: The Red Tent ( 1969 )
The commander of a failed 1928 Arctic airship expedition is remembering the events of the "Italia" airship flight, crash and subsequent rescue efforts. The "ghosts" of people involved in the events appear in his memories to assist him in determining his guilt in the affair. The reminiscences are mixed with the real action: the flight of the "Italia", the air rescue operation from Kings Bay airfield, the expedition of the "Krassin" ice-breaker. A sort of human touch is added by the ever beautiful C.C. playing Malmgren's girlfriend.
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Movie: The Gypsy Moths ( 1969 )
Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.
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Movie: The Sterile Cuckoo ( 1969 )
Two students from neighboring colleges in upstate New York are swept up in a tragic romantic interlude calling for a maturity of vision beyond their experience of capabilities. Pookie Adams - a kooky, lonely misfit with no family and no place to go, insists on calling all those who won't participate in her world, "weirdos," clings to a quiet studious Jerry, who has the ability to make a choice of living in Pookie's private little world or be accepted by the society that Pookie rejects. Unwittingly, it is through their awkward relationship that Pookie actually prepares Jerry for the world of "weirdos" that she doesn't fit into or wish to be apart of.
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Movie: The Passion of Anna ( 1969 )
A recently divorced man meets an emotionally devastated widow and they begin a love affair.
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Movie: Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed ( 1969 )
Baron Frankenstein is once again working with illegal medical experiments. Together with a young doctor, Karl and his fiancée Anna, they kidnap the mentally sick Dr. Brandt, to perform the first brain transplantation ever.
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Movie: The Oblong Box ( 1969 )
Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Sir Edward occasionally escapes and causes havoc around the town.
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Movie: Young Billy Young ( 1969 )
In New Mexico, looking for his son's murderer, Ben Kane takes a deputy marshal's job and runs into young Billy Young who's on the lam.
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Movie: The Comic ( 1970 )
Story of a brilliant silent-film comic whose talent is overshadowed by his ego.
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Movie: A Boy Named Charlie Brown ( 1969 )
Charlie Brown makes his way to the national spelling bee finals.
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Movie: Heaven with a Gun ( 1969 )
In the small western town Vinegarroon the conflict between cattle and sheep breeders escalates. When a stranger appears in the town, the ranchers suspect he's a gun man, hired by the sheep breeders. But Jim Killian turns out to be a priest - a tough one however, who soon shall make unscrupulous rancher Esa Beck's life quite harder.
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Movie: The Wedding Party ( 1969 )
See Robert DeNiro in his first starring role in Brian DePalma's wildly comic first feature The Wedding Party!
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Movie: Sax Rohmer's The Castle of Fu Manchu ( 1969 )
An evil Chinese mastermind plots to freeze the Earth's oceans.
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Movie: Angel in My Pocket ( 1969 )
A homespun minister (Andy Griffith) and his family move to a small town where he tries to win the support and trust of his new congregation.