1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: George Roy Hill
Actors: Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, George Furth, Cloris Leachman
Plot: A pair of bank robbers flee the country because of the law, and try to start a new in South America. Western.
2. The Wild Bunch
Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: William Holden, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Ben Johnson, Warren Oates, Edmond O'Brien
Plot: A group of old gunfighters are looking for the last score before they retire in the old west.
3. Midnight Cowboy
Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Schlesinger
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Ruth White
Plot: A lonely male prostitute finds an unwanted friend who both try to survive life on the streets in urban New York City.
4. Z
Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Costa-Gavras
Actors: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner, François Périer
Plot: Costa-Gavras chronicles the overthrow of the democratic government in Greece. When a liberal politician is murdered in an attack during a peace demonstration, the right wing established figures in the military and the police try and hide not only their parts in it, but try to cover up the murder as well. The magistrate must act as a detective in order to go through the cover up. While historically accurate, it is told as a combination mystery and thriller
5. True Grit
Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Western
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Henry Hathaway
Actors: John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper, Jeremy Slate
Plot: A grizzled and often-times drunk U.S. Marshal joins a Texas Ranger to help a stubborn young girl track down her fathers' killers in Indian territory.
6. Easy Rider
Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dennis Hopper
Actors: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Phil Spector, Jack Nicholson, Luke Askew, Karen Black
Plot: A pair of hippie bikers make the trek across America while searching for commonalities between themselves and those that live around them.
7. Army of Shadows ( armée des ombres, L' )
Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Actors: Paul Meurisse, Lino Ventura, Simone Signoret, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Mann, André Dewavrin
Plot: A leader of the French resistance is betrayed and captured. After surviving his tormentors and escaping, he returns to Marseilles to find and execute the traitor.
8. Pierrot le fou
Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani
Plot: A disaffected Parisian and his lover travel across the French countryside, on the lam from some criminals who are after her in this breezy, brightly colored crime caper from Godard.
9. Simon of the Desert ( Simón del desierto )
Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Claudio Brook, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Hortensia Santoveña, Francisco Reiguera, Luis Aceves Castañeda, Enrique del Castillo
Plot: Simon is living in the 4th century and is deeply religious. He wants to be as close to God as possible, and thus climbs a column. The devil tries to lure him back down, but Simon recognizes him every time and refuses to leave his heights. So the devil transports him to a New York nightclub circa 1960s.
10. Where Eagles Dare
Year of Release: 1969
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/War
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Brian G. Hutton
Actors: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Donald Houston, Patrick Wymark, Michael Hordern
Plot: A group of soldiers must rescue a important General held in a German Castle but all is not what it seems.
