1969 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1969

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)