Notable Films Released in 1969
U.S.A. unless stated
- A
- Ådalen 31, directed by Bo Widerberg - (Sweden)
- Adelheid, directed by František Vláčil - (Czechoslovakia)
- The Adjutant of His Excellency (Adyutant ego prevoskhoditelstva) - (U.S.S.R.)
- Age of Consent, starring James Mason and Helen Mirren - (Australia)
- Alfred the Great, starring David Hemmings - (U.K.)
- Alice's Restaurant, directed by Arthur Penn, starring Arlo Guthrie
- All Monsters Attack (Gojira Minira Gabara Ōru Kaijū Daishingeki), directed by Ishirō Honda - (Japan)
- All My Compatriots (Všichni dobří rodáci) - (Czechoslovakia)
- Andrei Rublev - by Andrei Tarkovsky - (screening in Moscow and at the Cannes Film Festival 1969 / Official USSR release, 20 min. shorter, in 1971) - (U.S.S.R.)
- Angel in My Pocket, starring Andy Griffith
- Anne of the Thousand Days, starring Richard Burton and Geneviève Bujold - winner of 4 Golden Globes - (U.K.)
- The April Fools, starring Jack Lemmon and Catherine Deneuve
- Aradhana (Worship) - (India)
- Army of Shadows (L'armée des ombres), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, starring Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret - (France)
- The Arrangement, directed by Elia Kazan, starring Kirk Douglas
- Arthur! Arthur!, starring Shelley Winters, Terry-Thomas, Tammy Grimes
- The Assassination Bureau, directed by Basil Dearden, starring Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas - (U.K.)
- B
- Ballad of Carl-Henning (Balladen om Carl-Henning) - (Denmark)
- Bambi Meets Godzilla (very short cult film)
- Battle of Britain, starring Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard, Michael Caine, Christopher Plummer - (U.K.)
- Battle of Neretva (Bitka na Neretvi), starring Sergei Bondarchuk and Yul Brynner - (Yugoslavia)
- The Bed-Sitting Room, directed by Richard Lester, starring Rita Tushingham - (U.K.)
- Before Winter Comes, starring David Niven - (U.K.)
- The Big Bounce, starring Ryan O'Neal and Leigh Taylor-Young
- Blue Movie, directed by Andy Warhol
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, directed by Paul Mazursky, starring Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon
- Boy (Shonen), directed by Nagisa Oshima - (Japan)
- A Boy Named Charlie Brown
- The Brain (Le Cerveau), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil, David Niven - (France/Italy)
- The Bridge at Remagen, starring George Segal and Ben Gazzara
- The Brothers Karamazov (Bratya Karamazovy) - (U.S.S.R.)
- Burn! (Queimada), directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, starring Marlon Brando - (Italy)
- The Bushbaby, directed by John Trent and starring Margaret Brooks and Lou Gossett
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, directed by George Roy Hill, starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
- C
- Cactus Flower, starring Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn
- Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?, starring Anthony Newley and Joan Collins
- Captain Nemo and the Underwater City, starring Robert Ryan
- Carry On Camping, starring Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor - (U.K.)
- Castle Keep, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Peter Falk
- The Chairman, starring Gregory Peck
- Change of Habit, starring Elvis Presley and Mary Tyler Moore
- Che!, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Omar Sharif
- Il Commissario Pepe (Police Chief pepe), starring Ugo Tognazzi - (Italy)
- The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, starring Kurt Russell
- The Cremator (Spalovač mrtvol) - (Czechoslovakia)
- D
- The Damned (La caduta degli dei), directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Dirk Bogarde and Ingrid Thulin - (Italy/West Germany)
- De Sade, starring Keir Dullea, Senta Berger, John Huston - (U.S./West Germany)
- Dillinger Is Dead (Dillinger è morto), starring Michel Piccoli and Anita Pallenberg - (Italy)
- Don't Drink the Water, directed by Howard Morris, starring Jackie Gleason, Estelle Parsons, Ted Bessell
- Do Raaste (Two Roads) - (India)
- Doppelganger, starring Roy Thinnes, Lynn Loring, Herbert Lom
- Double Suicide (Shinjū: Ten no amijima) - (Japan)
- Downhill Racer, starring Robert Redford and Gene Hackman
- The Dragon of Evil Against the Warrior Saint (O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro), directed by Glauber Rocha - (Brazil)
- E
- Easy Rider, directed by and starring Dennis Hopper, with Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson
- End of a Priest (Farářův konec) - (Czechoslovakia)
- Eros Plus Massacre (Erosu purasu gyakusatsu) - (Japan)
- The Exquisite Cadaver (Las crueles), starring Capucine - (Spain)
- The Extraordinary Seaman, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda
- Eye of the Cat, starring Michael Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Eleanor Parker
- F
- Fellini Satyricon, directed by Federico Fellini - (Italy)
- Flashback, directed by Raffaele Andreassi - (Italy)
- Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, directed by Terence Fisher, starring Peter Cushing - (U.K.)
- Funeral Parade of Roses (Bara no Sōretsu), by Toshio Matsumoto - (Japan)
- G
- Gaily, Gaily, directed by Norman Jewison, starring Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, George Kennedy, Margot Kidder
- A Gentle Woman (Une femme douce), directed by Robert Bresson, starring Dominique Sanda - (France)
- Goodbye, Columbus, starring Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark
- Goyokin, directed by Hideo Gosha - (Japan)
- The Grasshopper, directed by Jerry Paris, starring Jacqueline Bisset and Jim Brown
- The Great Love (Le grand amour) - (France)
- The Gypsy Moths, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Bonnie Bedelia
- H
- Hamlet, directed by Tony Richardson, starring Nicol Williamson, Marianne Faithfull, Anthony Hopkins - (U.K.)
- Handcuffs (Lisice) - (Yugoslavia)
- Hannibal Brooks, starring Oliver Reed
- Hello, Dolly!, directed by Gene Kelly, starring Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford
- Hello Down There, starring Tony Randall, Janet Leigh, Jim Backus, Charlotte Rae, Ken Berry
- Honeycomb (La madriguera), directed by Carlos Saura, starring Geraldine Chaplin - (Spain)
- Hook, Line & Sinker, starring Jerry Lewis and Peter Lawford
- How to Commit Marriage, starring Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Jane Wyman, Tina Louise, Maureen Arthur
- I
- If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, starring Suzanne Pleshette and Ian McShane
- I'm an Elephant, Madame (Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame) - (West Germany)
- The Italian Job, directed by Peter Collinson, starring Michael Caine and Noël Coward - (U.K.)
- It's Tough Being a Man (Otoko wa tsurai yo) - (Japan)
- Ittefaq, starring Rajesh Khanna - (India)
- J
- Jackal of Nahueltoro (El Chacal de Nahueltoro) - (Chile)
- John and Mary, starring Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow
- K
- Katrina - (South Africa)
- Katzelmacher, directed by and starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder with Hanna Schygulla - (West Germany)
- Kes, directed by Ken Loach - (U.K.)
- Khamoshi (Silence) - (India)
- L
- The Land (Al-ard), directed by Youssef Chahine - (Egypt)
- La Piscine, aka The Swimming Pool, starring Alain Delon and Romy Schneider - (France)
- Larks on a String (Skřivánci na niti), directed by Jiří Menzel - (Czechoslovakia) - banned until 1990
- Last Summer, starring Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison, Catherine Burns
- Laughter in the Dark (La Chambre obscure), directed by Tony Richardson, starring Nicol Williamson and Anna Karina - (France/U.K.)
- The Learning Tree, directed by Gordon Parks
- Lock Up Your Daughters, starring Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, Glynis Johns
- Lost Flight, starring Anne Francis, Lloyd Bridges, Billy Dee Williams
- The Love God?, directed by Nat Hiken, starring Don Knotts, Anne Francis, Maureen Arthur
- Love Is Colder Than Death (Liebe — kälter als der Tod), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder - (West Germany)
- M
- Machine Gun McCain, starring John Cassavetes and Peter Falk
- Macunaíma - (Brazil)
- The Madwoman of Chaillot, starring Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Yul Brynner, Charles Boyer, John Gavin, Danny Kaye
- The Magic Christian, starring Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Raquel Welch - (U.K.)
- Marlowe, directed by Paul Bogart, starring James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Rita Moreno, Carroll O'Connor, Bruce Lee
- Marooned, directed by John Sturges, starring Gregory Peck, David Janssen, Richard Crenna, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman
- Medea, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring Maria Callas - (Italy/France/West Germany)
- Medium Cool, directed by Haskell Wexler, starring Robert Forster
- Midas Run, starring Richard Crenna, Anne Heywood, Fred Astaire
- Midnight Cowboy, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman
- The Milky Way (La Voie Lactée), directed by Luis Buñuel - (France/Italy/West Germany)
- Mississippi Mermaid (La sirène du Mississipi), directed by François Truffaut, starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo - (France)
- Mon oncle Benjamin (My Uncle Benjamin) - (France)
- Monsieur Hawarden - (Belgium/Netherlands)
- Monte Carlo or Bust, aka Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies, starring Tony Curtis, Peter Sellers and Dudley Moore - (U.K./France/Italy)
- Mosquito Squadron, starring David McCallum - (U.K.)
- My Night at Maud's (Ma nuit chez Maud), directed by Éric Rohmer - (France)
- N
- Number One, starring Charlton Heston, Jessica Walter, Bruce Dern
- O
- Oh! What a Lovely War, directed by Richard Attenborough, starring Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Mills - (U.K.)
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service, starring George Lazenby (as James Bond), with Diana Rigg and Telly Savalas - (U.K.)
- P
- Paint Your Wagon, directed by Joshua Logan, starring Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, with songs by Lerner and Loewe
- The Passion of Anna, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson - (Sweden)
- Pigsty (Porcile), directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini - (Italy)
- La Piscine (The Swimming Pool), starring Alain Delon and Romy Schneider - (France)
- Play Dirty, starring Michael Caine - (U.K.)
- Popi, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring Alan Arkin and Rita Moreno
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, directed by Ronald Neame, starring Maggie Smith (Academy Award winner) - (U.K.)
- The Promise, starring John Castle and Ian McKellen - (U.K.)
- Putney Swope, directed by Robert Downey Sr.
- Q
- A Quiet Place in the Country (Un tranquillo posto di campagna), starring Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave - (Italy/France)
- R
- The Rain People, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring James Caan, Robert Duvall, Shirley Knight
- Rani Radovi (Early Years) - Golden Bear winner - (Yugoslavia)
- Rascal, starring Bill Mumy and Steve Forrest
- The Red Tent (Krasnaya palatka) - (U.S.S.R./Italy/U.K.)
- The Reivers, starring Steve McQueen
- La residencia (The Boarding School), starring Lilli Palmer - (Spain)
- Rider on the Rain (Le Passager de la pluie), directed by René Clément, starring Charles Bronson and Marlène Jobert - (France)
- Ring of Bright Water, starring Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna - (U.K.)
- Riot, starring Jim Brown and Gene Hackman
- The Royal Hunt of the Sun, starring Robert Shaw and Christopher Plummer - (U.K./U.S.)
- S
- Sabata, starring Lee Van Cleef - (Italy)
- Sam Whiskey, starring Burt Reynolds and Angie Dickinson
- Satyakam, starring Dharmendra and Ashok Kumar - (India)
- The Secret of Santa Vittoria, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Anthony Quinn and Anna Magnani - Golden Globe for best comedy film
- The Sicilian Clan (Le Clan des Siciliens), starring Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura - (France)
- Sinful Davey, directed by John Huston, starring John Hurt
- Some Girls Do, starring Richard Johnson and Daliah Lavi
- Some Kind of a Nut, starring Dick Van Dyke, Rosemary Forsyth, Angie Dickinson
- The Southern Star, starring George Segal, Orson Welles, Ursula Andress
- Staircase, directed by Stanley Donen, starring Rex Harrison and Richard Burton
- The Sterile Cuckoo, starring Liza Minnelli
- Stiletto, starring Alex Cord, Britt Ekland, Joseph Wiseman, Patrick O'Neal
- Support Your Local Sheriff!, starring James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Harry Morgan
- Sweet Charity, directed by Bob Fosse, starring Shirley MacLaine
- T
- Take the Money and Run, directed by and starring Woody Allen, with Janet Margolin
- A Talent for Loving, directed by Richard Quine, starring Richard Widmark, Cesar Romero, Topol, Fran Jeffries
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Jane Fonda, Gig Young, Michael Sarrazin, Red Buttons
- Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here, starring Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake
- This Man Must Die (Que la bête meure), directed by Claude Chabrol - (France/Italy)
- Three Into Two Won't Go, starring Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Peggy Ashcroft
- Till Death Us Do Part, starring Warren Mitchell and Dandy Nichols - (U.K.)
- A Time for Dying, starring Audie Murphy and Anne Randall
- Topaz, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Frederick Stafford, John Forsythe, John Vernon, Roscoe Lee Browne
- The Trouble with Girls, directed by Peter Tewksbury, starring Elvis Presley, Vincent Price, Dabney Coleman, Sheree North
- True Grit, directed by Henry Hathaway, starring John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell, Jeff Corey, Robert Duvall
- U
- Ultraman, Ultraseven: Great Violent Monster Fight - (Japan)
- The Undefeated, starring John Wayne and Rock Hudson
- The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle), directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran - (France)
- V
- The Valley of Gwangi, starring James Franciscus and Gila Golan
- Viva Max!, directed by Jerry Paris, starring Peter Ustinov, Pamela Tiffin, John Astin, Jonathan Winters
- W
- What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?, starring Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth
- Where's Jack?, starring Stanley Baker and Tommy Steele - (U.K.)
- White Sun of the Desert (Beloye solntse pustyni) - (U.S.S.R.)
- The Wild Bunch, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Jaime Sánchez
- Winning, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Richard Thomas, Robert Wagner
- The Witness (A tanu) - (Hungary)
- Women in Love, directed by Ken Russell, starring Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson - (U.K.)
- The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots (Nagagutsu o Haita Neko) - (Japan)
- The Wrecking Crew, starring Dean Martin (as Matt Helm), Elke Sommer, Nancy Kwan, Tina Louise, Sharon Tate
- Y
- Young Billy Young, starring Robert Mitchum and Angie Dickinson
- Z
- Z, directed by Costa Gavras, starring Yves Montand and Irene Pappas - (France/Algeria)
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