Best Movies of 1969 by Rank
84
1
Sam Peckinpah
William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates
Action / Drama / Western / Crime
USA
English
164
3
George Roy Hill
Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones
Western / Adventure / Crime / Family / Cult
USA
English
246
4
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson
Adventure / Drama / Crime / Cult
USA
English
290
5
Costa-Gavras
Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner
Thriller / Drama / Mystery
Algeria / France
French
529
7
Eric Rohmer
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault
Drama / Comedy / Romance
France
French
531
8
Marcel Ophüls
Georges Bidault, Matthäus Bleibinger, Charles Braun
Documentary / War / History
France / Switzerland / West Germany
French
615
9
Sergei Parajanov
Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Aleksanyan, Vilen Galstyan, Giorgi Gegechkori
Drama / Experimental / Period Film
Soviet Union
Armenian
637
10
Sydney Pollack
Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young, Red Buttons
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
672
11
Jean-Pierre Melville
Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, Claude Mann
Drama / War
France / Italy
French
730
12
Federico Fellini
Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone
Drama / Period Film / Fantasy / History
Italy / France
Italian
766
13
Ken Russell
Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
882
14
King Hu
Hsu Feng, Pai Ying, Tien Peng, Roy Chiao, Shih Chun
Action / Adventure / Drama
Taiwan
Mandarin
911
15
Luchino Visconti
Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger
Drama / War
Italy / Switzerland / West Germany
Italian
967
16
Claude Chabrol
Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Michel Duchaussoy, Maurice Ronet
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Post-Noir
Italy / France
French
1001
17
Claude Chabrol
Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne, Anouk Ferjac
Drama / Crime / Thriller
France / Italy
French
1241
18
David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, Albert Maysles
Jamie Baker, Paul Brennan, Melbourne I. Feltman
Documentary
USA
English
1261
19
Henry Hathaway
John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Jeremy Slate, Robert Duvall
Adventure / Western / Crime / Comedy
USA
English
1280
20
Ronald Neame
Maggie Smith, Gordon Jackson, Robert Stephens
Drama
UK
English
1469
22
Paul Mazursky
Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1492
23
Haskell Wexler
Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill, Peter Boyle
Drama
USA
English
1665
24
Peter Collinson
Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone
Action / Comedy / Crime / Caper
UK
English
1675
25
Bo Widerberg
Peter Schildt, Kerstin Tidelius, Roland Hedlund
Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
1786
26
Richard Attenborough
Ralph Richardson, Meriel Forbes, Wensley Pithey, Ruth Kettlewell
Musical / War / Comedy
UK
English
1787
27
Charles Jarrott
Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
1813
28
Gene Kelly
Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford
Romance / Comedy / Musical / Family
USA
English
1840
29
Arthur Penn
Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, James Broderick, Pete Seeger
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1870
30
Frank Perry
Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison, Catherine Burns
Drama
USA
English
1936
31
Alfred Hitchcock
John Forsythe, Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, Claude Jade, Michel Subor
Thriller / Crime / Drama / Spy
USA
English
2007
32
Joshua Logan
Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Harve Presnell
Comedy / Musical / Western
USA
English
2069
33
Burt Kennedy
James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Harry Morgan
Comedy / Western
USA
English
2096
34
Larry Peerce
Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman, Nan Martin
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2157
35
Peter R. Hunt
George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Ilse Steppat
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
2169
36
François Truffaut
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Nelly Borgeaud, Martine Ferrière
Crime / Drama / Romance / Mystery / Post-Noir / Detective / Cult
Italy / France
French
2267
37
Jacques Rivette
Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, André S. Labarthe
Drama
France
French
2279
38
Gene Saks
Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn, Jack Weston
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2293
39
Humberto Solás
Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Núñez, Adela Legrá
Drama / History
Cuba
Spanish
2299
40
Dariush Mehrjui
Ezzatolah Entezami, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Parviz Fanizadeh, Jamshid Mashayekhi
Drama
Iran
Persian
2307
41
Michael Ritchie
Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv, Karl Michael Vogler
Drama / Sports
USA
English
2320
42
Robert Bresson
Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre, Claude Ollier
Drama
France
French
2335
43
Masahiro Shinoda
Shima Iwashita, Kichiemon Nakamura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Jun Hamamura
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2358
44
René Clément
Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Marlène Jobert
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Mystery
Italy / France
French
2390
45
Abraham Polonsky
Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake, Susan Clark
Drama / Western / Crime
USA
English
2418
46
Robert Downey Sr.
Stan Gottlieb, Allen Garfield, Archie Russell, Ramon Gordon, Bert Lawrence
Comedy
USA
English
2447
47
Bob Fosse
Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Chita Rivera, Paula Kelly, Stubby Kaye
Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2502
48
Alan J. Pakula
Liza Minnelli, Wendell Burton, Tim McIntire, Elizabeth Harrower, Jawn McKinley
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2511
50
Igor Talankin
Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Antonina Shuranova, Kirill Lavrov
Drama / Biography / Music / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2550
51
Herbert Ross
Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, Alison Leggatt
Drama / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2605
52
Luis Buñuel
Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny, Edith Scob, Bernard Verley
Comedy / Drama / Religion
France / West Germany / Italy
French
2605
52
Mark Rydell
Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Ruth White, Michael Constantine, Clifton James
Comedy / Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2659
53
Michael Roemer
Martin Priest, Ben Lang, Maxine Woods, Henry Nemo
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2676
54
Don Siegel, Robert Totten
Richard Widmark, Lena Horne, Carroll O'Connor, David Opatoshu, Kent Smith
Western
USA
English
2682
55
Glauber Rocha
Maurício do Valle, Odete Lara, Othon Bastos
Drama / Western / Adventure
France / Brazil / West Germany
Portuguese
2689
56
Bill Melendez
Peter Robbins, Pamelyn Ferdin, Glenn Gilger, Andy Pforsich, Sally Dryer
Animation / Comedy / Drama / Family / Comic
USA
English
2689
56
Alain Tanner
François Simon, Marcel Robert, Marie-Claire Dufour, André Schmidt
Drama / Comedy
Switzerland
French
2689
56
Barbet Schroeder
Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Grünberg, Heinz Engelmann, Michel Chanderli, Henry Wolf
Drama / Romance / Crime
West Germany / France / Luxembourg
English
2689
56
Woody Allen
Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, Marcel Hillaire, Jacquelyn Hyde, Lonny Chapman
Comedy / Crime / Caper
USA
English
2691
57
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard, Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Experimental
France / West Germany
French
2709
58
Veljko Bulajic
Yul Brynner, Hardy Krüger, Franco Nero, Orson Welles
Drama / War / Epic
Yugoslavia / USA / Italy / West Germany
Serbo-Croatian
2709
58
Ivan Pyryev, Kirill Lavrov, Mikhail Ulyanov
Mikhail Ulyanov, Lionella Pyryeva, Kirill Lavrov, Andrei Myagkov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2740
59
Guy Hamilton
Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Curd Jürgens
War / Drama / Action / Epic
UK
English
2740
59
Jack Couffer, Charles Lamont
Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Jeffrey, Jameson Clark
Comedy / Drama / Family / Adventure
UK
English
2756
60
Robert M. Fresco, Denis Sanders
Alexander Dubcek
Documentary / Short
USA
English
2756
60
Gordon Parks
Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans, Dana Elcar
Drama
USA
English
2756
60
Larry Jordan
Experimental / Animation / Short
USA
English (No Dialogue)
2773
61
Stanley Kramer
Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi, Hardy Krüger
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2775
62
Gianfranco Parolini
Lee Van Cleef, William Berger, Ignazio Spalla, Aldo Canti, Franco Ressel
Western
Italy
Italian
2780
63
Toshio Matsumoto
Pītâ, Osamu Ogasawara, Yoshimi Jô, Koichi Nakamura, Flamenco Umeji
Drama / Romance / Experimental
Japan
Japanese
2783
64
Francis Ford Coppola
James Caan, Shirley Knight, Robert Duvall, Marya Zimmet, Tom Aldredge
Drama
USA
English
2789
65
Basil Dearden
Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curd Jürgens
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Sci-Fi / Thriller
UK
English
2789
65
Ephraim Kishon
Bomba Tzur, Nissim Azikri, Shraga Friedman, Gideon Singer
Comedy
Israel / USA / West Germany
Hebrew
2789
65
Nagisa Oshima
Tetsuo Abe, Fumio Watanabe, Akiko Koyama, Tsuyoshi Kinoshita
Drama / Crime
Japan
Japanese
2789
65
Mikhail Kalatozov
Sean Connery, Peter Finch, Claudia Cardinale, Hardy Krüger
Adventure / Drama
Italy / Soviet Union
English
2792
66
Richard Lester
Rita Tushingham, Ralph Richardson, Peter Cook, Harry Secombe
Comedy
UK
English
2792
66
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Hanna Schygulla, Lilith Ungerer, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Elga Sorbas
Drama
West Germany
German
2792
66
William Klein
Delphine Seyrig, John Abbey, Donald Pleasence, Jean-Claude Drouot
Comedy / Fantasy
France
French
2792
66
Budd Boetticher
Audie Murphy, Anne Randall, Burt Mustin, Bob Random, Richard Lapp
Western / Fantasy
USA
English
2801
67
Chadi Abdel Salam
Ahmed Marei, Ahmad Hegazi, Nadia Lutfi, Ahmad Anan, Shafik Nour El Din
Drama
Egypt
Arabic
2807
68
Michael Powell
James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran, Neva Carr-Glynn, Andonia Katsaros
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Australia
English
2807
68
Burt Kennedy
Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, Martin Balsam, David Carradine, Tina Louise
Western / Comedy
USA
English
2807
68
Pierre Étaix
Pierre Étaix, Annie Fratellini, Nicole Calfan, Alain Janey, Ketty France
Comedy / Romance
France
French
2807
68
Jacques Demy
Anouk Aimée, Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay, Carol Cole, Tom Holland
Drama
France / USA
English
2830
69
Jonas Mekas
Timothy Leary, Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, John Lennon
Documentary / Experimental
USA
English
2842
70
Hugo Santiago
Olga Zubarry, Lautaro Murúa, Juan Carlos Paz, Martín Adjemián
Drama / Sci-Fi / Experimental
Argentina
Spanish
2860
71
Gillo Pontecorvo
Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Norman Hill
Drama
Italy / France
English
