Best Movies of 1969 by Rank
97
1
William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates
Action / Drama / Western / Crime
USA
English
173
3
Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones
Western / Adventure / Crime / Family / Cult
USA
English
266
4
Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson
Adventure / Drama / Crime / Cult
USA
English
277
5
Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner
Thriller / Drama / Mystery
Algeria / France
French
525
7
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Françoise Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault
Drama / Comedy / Romance
France
French
542
8
Georges Bidault, Matthäus Bleibinger, Charles Braun
Documentary / War / History
France / Switzerland / West Germany
French
623
9
Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Aleksanyan, Vilen Galstyan, Giorgi Gegechkori
Drama / Experimental / Period Film
Soviet Union
Armenian
647
10
Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, Claude Mann
Drama / War
France / Italy
French
656
11
Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young, Red Buttons
Drama / Period Film
USA
English
733
12
Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone
Drama / Period Film / Fantasy / History
Italy / France
Italian
782
13
Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden
Drama / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
904
14
Hsu Feng, Pai Ying, Tien Peng, Roy Chiao, Shih Chun
Action / Adventure / Drama
Taiwan
Mandarin
928
15
Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger
Drama / War
Italy / Switzerland / West Germany
Italian
999
16
Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Michel Duchaussoy, Maurice Ronet
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Post-Noir
Italy / France
French
1004
17
Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne, Anouk Ferjac
Drama / Crime / Thriller
France / Italy
French
1180
18
Jamie Baker, Paul Brennan, Melbourne I. Feltman
Documentary
USA
English
1221
19
John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Jeremy Slate, Robert Duvall
Adventure / Western / Crime
USA
English
1322
20
Maggie Smith, Gordon Jackson, Robert Stephens
Drama
UK
English
1439
22
Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill, Peter Boyle
Drama
USA
English
1457
23
Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1495
24
Peter Schildt, Kerstin Tidelius, Roland Hedlund
Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish
1617
25
Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone
Action / Comedy / Crime / Caper
UK
English
1680
26
Ralph Richardson, Meriel Forbes, Wensley Pithey, Ruth Kettlewell
Musical / War / Comedy
UK
English
1704
27
Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford
Romance / Comedy / Musical / Family
USA
English
1735
28
Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
1773
29
Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, James Broderick, Pete Seeger
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
1859
30
Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison, Catherine Burns
Drama
USA
English
1885
31
John Forsythe, Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, Claude Jade, Michel Subor
Thriller / Crime / Drama / Spy
USA
English
1963
32
Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Harve Presnell
Comedy / Musical / Western
USA
English
2028
33
Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman, Nan Martin
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2069
34
Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv, Karl Michael Vogler
Drama / Sports
USA
English
2082
35
James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan, Harry Morgan
Comedy / Western
USA
English
2195
36
Peter R. Hunt
George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Ilse Steppat
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
2216
37
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Nelly Borgeaud, Martine Ferrière
Crime / Drama / Romance / Mystery / Post-Noir / Detective / Cult
Italy / France
French
2223
38
Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn, Jack Weston
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2291
39
Shima Iwashita, Kichiemon Nakamura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Jun Hamamura
Drama / Period Film / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2309
40
Humberto Solás
Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Núñez, Adela Legrá
Drama / History
Cuba
Spanish
2314
41
Dariush Mehrjui
Ezzatolah Entezami, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, Parviz Fanizadeh, Jamshid Mashayekhi
Drama
Iran
Persian
2317
42
Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake, Susan Clark
Drama / Western / Crime
USA
English
2323
43
Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, André S. Labarthe
Drama
France
French
2335
44
Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre, Claude Ollier
Drama
France
French
2342
45
Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Marlène Jobert
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Mystery
Italy / France
French
2367
46
Stan Gottlieb, Allen Garfield, Archie Russell, Ramon Gordon, Bert Lawrence
Comedy
USA
English
2399
47
Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Antonina Shuranova, Kirill Lavrov
Drama / Biography / Music / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2443
49
Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, Alison Leggatt
Drama / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2452
50
Liza Minnelli, Wendell Burton, Tim McIntire, Elizabeth Harrower, Jawn McKinley
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2453
51
Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Chita Rivera, Paula Kelly, Stubby Kaye
Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2578
52
Don Siegel, Robert Totten
Richard Widmark, Lena Horne, Carroll O'Connor, David Opatoshu, Kent Smith
Western
USA
English
2599
53
Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff, Alain Cuny, Edith Scob, Bernard Verley
Comedy / Drama / Religion
France / West Germany / Italy
French
2599
53
Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Ruth White, Michael Constantine, Clifton James
Comedy / Drama / Adventure
USA
English
2615
54
Yul Brynner, Hardy Krüger, Franco Nero, Orson Welles
Drama / War / Epic
Yugoslavia / USA / Italy / West Germany
Serbo-Croatian
2615
54
Ivan Pyryev, Kirill Lavrov, Mikhail Ulyanov
Mikhail Ulyanov, Lionella Pyryeva, Kirill Lavrov, Andrei Myagkov
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2623
55
Martin Priest, Ben Lang, Maxine Woods, Henry Nemo
Comedy / Crime
USA
English
2633
56
Maurício do Valle, Odete Lara, Othon Bastos
Drama / Western / Adventure
France / Brazil / West Germany
Portuguese
2638
57
Peter Robbins, Pamelyn Ferdin, Glenn Gilger, Andy Pforsich, Sally Dryer
Animation / Comedy / Drama / Family / Comic
USA
English
2638
57
François Simon, Marcel Robert, Marie-Claire Dufour, André Schmidt
Drama / Comedy
Switzerland
French
2638
57
Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Grünberg, Heinz Engelmann, Michel Chanderli, Henry Wolf
Drama / Romance / Crime
West Germany / France / Luxembourg
English
2638
57
Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, Marcel Hillaire, Jacquelyn Hyde, Lonny Chapman
Comedy / Crime / Caper
USA
English
2645
58
Jean-Luc Godard, Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Experimental
France / West Germany
French
2655
59
Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Harry Andrews, Curd Jürgens
War / Drama / Action / Epic
UK
English
2655
59
Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Jeffrey, Jameson Clark
Comedy / Drama / Family / Adventure
UK
English
2671
60
Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans, Dana Elcar
Drama
USA
English
2671
60
Larry Jordan
Experimental / Animation / Short
USA
English (No Dialogue)
2693
61
Toshio Matsumoto
Pītâ, Osamu Ogasawara, Yoshimi Jô, Koichi Nakamura, Flamenco Umeji
Drama / Romance / Experimental
Japan
Japanese
2693
61
Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi, Hardy Krüger
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2700
62
Milja Vujanovic, Bogdan Tirnanic, Cedomir Radovic, Marko Nikolic
Comedy / Drama
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
2705
63
James Caan, Shirley Knight, Robert Duvall, Marya Zimmet, Tom Aldredge
Drama
USA
English
2712
64
Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curd Jürgens
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Sci-Fi / Thriller
UK
English
2712
64
Bomba Tzur, Nissim Azikri, Shraga Friedman, Gideon Singer
Comedy
Israel / USA / West Germany
Hebrew
2712
64
Sean Connery, Peter Finch, Claudia Cardinale, Hardy Krüger
Adventure / Drama
Italy / Soviet Union
English
2713
65
Chadi Abdel Salam
Ahmed Marei, Ahmad Hegazi, Nadia Lutfi, Ahmad Anan, Shafik Nour El Din
Drama
Egypt
Arabic
2718
66
Anecy Rocha, Ênio Gonçalves, Hélio Fernando, Iracema de Alencar
Drama / Sci-Fi / Comedy
Brazil
Portuguese
2718
66
Peter Zadek
Heinz Baumann, Wolfgang Schneider, Guido Baumann, Margot Trooger
Drama / Comedy
West Germany
German
2718
66
Johan Bergenstråhle
Lena Granhagen, Per Myrberg, Max von Sydow, Karl-Birger Blomdahl
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2727
67
Gianfranco Parolini
Lee Van Cleef, William Berger, Ignazio Spalla, Aldo Canti, Franco Ressel
Western
Italy
Italian
2733
68
James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran, Neva Carr-Glynn, Andonia Katsaros
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Romance
Australia
English
2733
68
Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, Martin Balsam, David Carradine, Tina Louise
Western / Comedy
USA
English
2733
68
Pierre Étaix
Pierre Étaix, Annie Fratellini, Nicole Calfan, Alain Janey, Ketty France
Comedy / Romance
France
French
2733
68
Anouk Aimée, Gary Lockwood, Alexandra Hay, Carol Cole, Tom Holland
Drama
France / USA
English
2758
69
Timothy Leary, Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, John Lennon
Documentary / Experimental
USA
English
2762
70
Tetsuo Abe, Fumio Watanabe, Akiko Koyama, Tsuyoshi Kinoshita
Drama / Crime
Japan
Japanese
2766
71
Rita Tushingham, Ralph Richardson, Peter Cook, Harry Secombe
Comedy
UK
English
2766
71
Hanna Schygulla, Lilith Ungerer, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Elga Sorbas
Drama
West Germany
German
2766
71
Delphine Seyrig, John Abbey, Donald Pleasence, Jean-Claude Drouot
Comedy / Fantasy
France
French
2766
71
Audie Murphy, Anne Randall, Burt Mustin, Bob Random, Richard Lapp
Western / Fantasy
USA
English
2771
72
Hugo Santiago
Olga Zubarry, Lautaro Murúa, Juan Carlos Paz, Martín Adjemián
Drama / Sci-Fi / Experimental
Argentina
Spanish
2780
73
Juraj Herz
Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlasta Chramostová, Jana Stehnová
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2791
74
Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Norman Hill
Drama
Italy / France
English
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