1969

Academy winnerMidnight Cowboy poster

Midnight Cowboy

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Should have wonButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid poster

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid poster

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

🎬 Nominee⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #1

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Dir. George Roy Hill · Paul Newman · Robert Redford · Katharine Ross · Strother Martin

IMDb 8.0 (238,456 votes) · TMDB 7.616

As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.

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#2
The Wild Bunch poster

The Wild Bunch (1969)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Sam Peckinpah · William Holden · Ernest Borgnine · Robert Ryan · Jaime Sánchez

IMDb 7.9 (94,262 votes) · TMDB 7.6

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

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#3
Midnight Cowboy poster

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

🏆 Winner⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #4

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Dir. John Schlesinger · Dustin Hoffman · Jon Voight · Sylvia Miles · John McGiver

IMDb 7.8 (130,970 votes) · TMDB 7.52

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.

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#4
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Z (1969)

🎬 Nominee⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Costa-Gavras · Yves Montand · Irene Papas · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Jacques Perrin

IMDb 8.1 (34,102 votes) · TMDB 7.781

A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined to not to let them get away with it.

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#5
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Army of Shadows (1969)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville · Lino Ventura · Paul Meurisse · Jean-Pierre Cassel · Simone Signoret

IMDb 8.1 (29,308 votes) · TMDB 7.892

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.

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#6
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The Diamond Arm (1969)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Leonid Gaidai · Yuriy Nikulin · Nina Grebeshkova · Nonna Mordyukova · Svetlana Svetlichnaya

IMDb 8.2 (18,004 votes) · TMDB 7.752

A diamond smuggling operation goes wrong when an ordinary Soviet citizen becomes unwittingly involved, and the criminals are forced to court him to retrieve their diamonds.

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#7
The Witness poster

The Witness (1969)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Péter Bacsó · Ferenc Kállai · Lajos Őze · Zoltán Fábri · Béla Both

IMDb 8.6 (8,535 votes) · TMDB 8.148

Hungary, 1950s. József Pelikán, who works as a dam keeper on the Danube, meets by chance Zoltán Dániel, an old friend whom he saved from death years before and who is now a powerful politician.

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#8
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Kes (1969)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Ken Loach · David Bradley · Freddie Fletcher · Lynne Perrie · Colin Welland

IMDb 7.9 (25,995 votes) · TMDB 7.4

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.

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#9
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Sydney Pollack · Jane Fonda · Michael Sarrazin · Susannah York · Gig Young

IMDb 7.8 (21,787 votes) · TMDB 7.6

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.

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#10
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True Grit (1969)

⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #5

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Dir. Henry Hathaway · John Wayne · Kim Darby · Glen Campbell · Jeremy Slate

IMDb 7.4 (54,066 votes) · TMDB 7.3

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.

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#11
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The Cremator (1969)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Juraj Herz · Rudolf Hrušínský · Vlasta Chramostová · Jana Stehnová · Miloš Vognič

IMDb 8.0 (12,946 votes) · TMDB 7.8

In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.

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#12
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My Night at Maud's (1969)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Éric Rohmer · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Françoise Fabian · Marie-Christine Barrault · Antoine Vitez

IMDb 7.8 (16,089 votes) · TMDB 7.7

The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, morality and Blaise Pascal's life and writings on philosophy, faith and mathematics. Jean-Louis ends up spending a night at Maud's. Jean-Louis' Catholic views on marriage, fidelity and obligation make his situation a dilemma, as he has already, at the very beginning of the film, proclaimed his love for a young woman whom, however, he has never yet spoken to.

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#13
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Easy Rider (1969)

⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #3

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Dir. Dennis Hopper · Peter Fonda · Dennis Hopper · Jack Nicholson · Antonio Mendoza

IMDb 7.2 (122,675 votes) · TMDB 7.054

Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.

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#14
The Italian Job poster

The Italian Job (1969)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Peter Collinson · Michael Caine · Noël Coward · Benny Hill · Margaret Blye

IMDb 7.2 (54,458 votes) · TMDB 6.9

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.

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#15
Take the Money and Run poster

Take the Money and Run (1969)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Woody Allen · Woody Allen · Janet Margolin · Marcel Hillaire · Jacquelyn Hyde

IMDb 7.2 (32,961 votes) · TMDB 7.1

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

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#16
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Cactus Flower (1969)

💰 Box office #9

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Dir. Gene Saks · Walter Matthau · Ingrid Bergman · Goldie Hawn · Jack Weston

IMDb 7.2 (13,296 votes) · TMDB 7.2

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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#17
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Hello, Dolly! (1969)

🎬 Nominee💰 Box office #6

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Dir. Gene Kelly · Barbra Streisand · Walter Matthau · Michael Crawford · Marianne McAndrew

IMDb 7.1 (18,588 votes) · TMDB 7.0

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.

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#18
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Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

🎬 Nominee

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Dir. Charles Jarrott · Richard Burton · Geneviève Bujold · Irene Papas · Anthony Quayle

IMDb 7.4 (8,819 votes) · TMDB 7.1

Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

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#19
On Her Majesty's Secret Service poster

On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

💰 Box office #2

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Dir. Peter R. Hunt · George Lazenby · Diana Rigg · Telly Savalas · Gabriele Ferzetti

IMDb 6.7 (109,079 votes) · TMDB 6.552

With the help of Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Unione Corse crime syndicate, and Draco's troubled daughter Tracy, James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Stravro Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss Alps, where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women.

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#20
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Mississippi Mermaid (1969)

💰 Box office #10

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Dir. François Truffaut · Jean-Paul Belmondo · Catherine Deneuve · Michel Bouquet · Nelly Borgeaud

IMDb 6.9 (8,090 votes) · TMDB 6.623

A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a French woman he does not know. The woman that arrives does not look like the picture he received, but he marries her anyway.

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#21
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Paint Your Wagon (1969)

💰 Box office #7

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Dir. Joshua Logan · Lee Marvin · Clint Eastwood · Jean Seberg · Ray Walston

IMDb 6.6 (16,217 votes) · TMDB 6.3

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.

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#22
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Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)

💰 Box office #8

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Dir. Paul Mazursky · Natalie Wood · Robert Culp · Elliott Gould · Dyan Cannon

IMDb 6.7 (8,242 votes) · TMDB 6.302

After returning to Los Angeles from a group therapy session, documentary filmmaker Bob Sanders and his wife, Carol, find themselves becoming vigilante couples counselors, offering unsolicited advice to their best friends, Ted and Alice Henderson. Not wanting to be rude, the Hendersons play along, but some latent sexual tension among the four soon comes bubbling to the surface, and long-buried desires don't stay buried for long.

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