Drama Movies of 1969
The Arrangement
Kirk Douglas has an extreme case of mid-life crisis in Elia Kazan's turgid melodrama (adapted from his best-selling novel). Douglas ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
The Gypsy Moths
John Frankenheimer directed this low-key drama about three men who stage a ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
A total of nine Academy Award nominations went to this wildly acclaimed, allegorical drama ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Mississippi Mermaid
A rare mid-career flop for director François Truffaut when it was released, Mississippi Mermaid has become a cult favorite, thanks in part to the availability of the original French version, which added 13 ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Midnight Cowboy
Based on a James Leo Herlihy novel, British director John Schlesinger's first American film dramatized the small hopes, dashed dreams, and unlikely friendship of two late '60s lost ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Winning
Successful racecar driver Capua (Paul Newman) falls in love with Elora (Joanne Woodward). The two marry and settle down with Elora's 13-year-old son ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
The Big Bounce
Jack Ryan (Ryan O'Neal) is a cucumber picker who is fired after a fight with a Mexican-American ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Women in Love
Women in Love is set in 1920s England, where free-spirited artist Gudrun (Glenda Jackson) and her schoolteacher sister Ursula ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
The Night of the Following Day
A pair of desperate men plan to kidnap a wealthy heiress upon her arrival in France. Bud (Marlon Brando) and Leer (Richard Boone) grab the gorgeous girl (Pamela Franklin) ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
The Damned
In 1969, The Damned (La caduta degli dei) was director Luchino Visconti's most controversial film to date. Set in the 1930s, the film ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Army of Shadows
In this war drama set during the French Resistance of WW II, a courageous fighter escapes Gestapo headquarters and returns to ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Play Dirty
Captain Douglas (Michael Caine) is the British army leader who is ordered to lead a band of mercenaries into the desert. Their mission is to knock out an enemy fuel reserve. The ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Easy Rider
Tossing wristwatches away, two bikers hit the road to find America in Dennis Hopper's ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Based on the novel by Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie stars Maggie Smith in the title role. Smith won an Academy Award for her delicately ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
John and Mary
John and Mary attracted a great deal of press coverage in 1969 ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
The Big Cube
“The Big Cube” of the title is slang for a sugar cube dipped in LSD, which is omnipresent ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Gods of the Plague
Gods of the Plague (Gotter der Pest) is one of several German films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder under his pseudonym of Franz Walsch. That's ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
The Proud and the Damned
Will (Chuck Connors) leads a group of American Civil War veterans into San Carlos, Columbia. The local mayor (Cesar Romero) welcomes the quintet, unaware they are scouting out the town for Columbian General Martinez (Andre Maruis). ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
De Sade
Keir Dullea dives into a bevy of babes with an open wine bottle as the ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Queimada!
Sir William Walker (Marlon Brando) is the aristocratic secret agent sent by Britain to secure a profitable Portuguese sugar cane plantation for the Crown. When he ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Change of Habit
Dr. John Carpenter (Elvis Presley) helps the economically disadvantaged in an inner-city medical clinic. Three nuns are assigned to help out at the facility and are allowed to wear regular clothes instead of the traditional ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Rascal
Rascal, the Sterling North novel that has been a longtime fixture of Scholastic Magazine book clubs, was given Tiffany treatment by the Disney studios in 1969. ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Medium Cool
"I love to shoot film" is the sanguine motto of TV lensman John Cassellis (Robert Forster) in Haskell Wexler's 1969 Medium Cool, a semi-documentary investigation of image-making and politics. ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
My Side of the Mountain
Thirteen-year old Teddy Eccles is a devotee of Thoreau, as most everybody else was in 1969. Eccles decides to spend a one-year sabbatical in the Canadian woods. His immediate companion is his pet raccoon; his spiritual companion ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Katzelmacher
Jorgos (Rainer Werner Fassbinder) is a Greek ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Samurai Banners
Furin Kazan (AKA Samurai Banners) is based on the bestselling Japanese novel of the same name, written by Yasushi Inove. Toshiro Mifune ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
The Mod Squad: Season 02
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Chastity
This road movie features Cher in her first title role. The story, written and produced by her husband Sonny, is the tale of Chastity, a wandering girl who goes hitchhiking across the U.S ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Submarine X-1
A special group of navy divers is created when a disabled Nazi warship ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Hell's Angels '69
Chuck (Tom Stern) and his brother Wes (Jeremy Slate) are the ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Nest of the Gentry
After suffering artistically at the hands of Russian censors (his Asya's Happiness wound up ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Amore e Rabbia
This obscure film is directed by five well-known cinematographers. "Apathy" is directed by ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Double Suicide
A masterpiece of Japanese New Wave cinema, renowned filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
More
A young man from Germany (Klaus Grunberg) leaves home and travels to Paris. Hooking up with a group of hippies, he is enamored by an American girl ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Awakenings of the Beast
Brazilian horror icon Jose Mojica Marins explores the drug ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Fellini Satyricon
Federico Fellini makes his most decadent, undisciplined work in this free adaptation of Petronius' famous farcical chronicle of ancient Roman life. The film opens with Encolpio (Martin Potter) vying with ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Red Lion
In this samurai tale, a brave warrior is told by the newly restored emperor that he must return to his home village and announce that there has been a tax cut. Unfortunately, it is a government ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
La Vida Sigue Igual
When a law student is involved in a horrible car accident, he discovers that the crash has left him paralyzed. Forsaken by his friends and ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Vuelta Al Paraiso
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Portrait of Hell
In this Japanese historical drama, a hard-headed painter refuses to allow his daughter to be with his Korean protege and ends up throwing the lad from his house. The girl then ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
That Tender Touch
Following a near rape, a deeply traumatized orphan girl has a sexual liaison with an aging lesbian. The relationship goes well until the confused girl meets a kind young man who proves that not all of his ilk are contemptible. ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
The Joke
A man who has been drummed out of the Communist Party for telling a joke seeks revenge by seducing the wife of a prominent official. He is sent to be rehabilitated but believes ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
A Touch of Zen
An influential martial arts film and an acknowledged ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Santo Contra los Cazadores de Cabezas
Prolific Mexican filmmaker Rene Cardona (Santo Contra el Estrangulador) returned to the popular masked-wrestling fantasy series with this stereotype-filled tale of a mad scientist named Dr. Mathus, who uses human blood to ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
Rosas Blancas Para Mi Hermana Negra
The simmering relationship between a racist singer named Laura (Libertad Lamarque) and her longtime black friend Angustias (Eusebia Cosme) ... [ Drama movie - 1969 ]
