1969 Top Ten List

  • Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville)
  • Double Suicide (Masahiro Shinoda)
  • Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen)
  • Mississippi Mermaid (François Truffaut)
  • Kes (Kenneth Loach)
  • They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack)
  • My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
  • Law and Order (Frederick Wiseman)
  • Play Dirty (Andre de Toth)
  • Dillinger Is Dead (Marco Ferreri)

    • Additional 1969 Films By Rating

  • Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (Nagisa Oshima)
  • The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
  • Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto)
  • Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler)
  • Z (Costa-Gavras)
  • Salesman (The Maysles Brothers & Charlotte Zwerin)
  • The Cremator (Juraj Herz)
  • Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
  • Muhammad Ali: The Greatest (William Klein)
  • Boy (Nagisa Oshima)
  • Duet for Cannibals (Susan Sontag)
  • Women in Love (Ken Russell)
  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Peter Hunt)
  • Me and My Brother (Robert Frank)
  • Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
  • Model Shop (Jacques Demy)
  • Topaz (Alfred Hitchcock)
  • Antonio das Mortes (Glauber Rocha)
  • The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov)
  • Downhill Racer (Michael Ritchie)
  • Alice's Restaurant (Arthur Penn)
  • The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman)
  • Le Gai Savoir (Jean-Luc Godard)
  • The Magic Christian (Joseph McGrath)
  • The Milky Way (Luis Buñuel)
  • The Damned (Luchino Visconti)
  • Love Is Colder Than Death (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)