Seeking out the

5000 greatest films

in a century of cinema

Not Yet Seen in 1969

Ådalen 31 - Bo Widerberg

Adelheid - Frantisek Vlacil

The Adjutant of His Excellency (Adyutant ego prevoskhoditelstva) - Yevgeni Tashkov

Aido: Slave of Love - Susumu Hani

Alfred the Great - Clive Donner

All My Compatriots (Vsichni dobri rodaci) - Vojtech Jasny

Angel in My Pocket - Alan Rafkin

Anne of the Thousand Days – Charles Jarrott

The April Fools - Stuart Rosenberg

Aradhana (Worship) - Shakti Samanta

The Arrangement – Elia Kazan

The Assassination Bureau - Basil Dearden

Ballad of Carl-Henning (Balladen om Carl-Henning) - Sven and Lene Grønlykke

Battle of Neretva (Bitka na Neretvi) - Veljko Bulajic

The Bed-Sitting Room - Richard Lester

Before Winter Comes - J. Lee Thompson

The Big Bounce - Alex March

Blue Movie (Fuck) - Andy Warhol

Boy (Shonen) - Nagisa Oshima

The Brain (Le Cerveau) - Gérard Oury

The Bridge at Remagen - John Guillermin

The Brothers Karamazov (Bratya Karamazovy) - Kirill Lavrov / Ivan Pyryev / Mikhail Ulyanov

Burn –Gillo Pontecorvo

The Bushbaby - John Trent

Cactus Flower – Gene Saks

Calcutta - Louis Malle

Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? - Anthony Newley

Captain Nemo and the Underwater City - James Hill

Carry On Camping - Gerald Thomas

The Chairman - J. Lee Thompson

Change of Habit - William A. Graham

Che! - Richard Fleischer

l Commissario Pepe (Police Chief pepe) - Ettore Scola

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes - Robert Butler

The Cremator (Spalovac mrtvol) - Juraj Herz

Dance of Death - David Giles

David Copperfield - Delbert Mann

The Damned (La caduta degli dei) - Luchino Visconti

De Sade (Das Ausschweifende Leben des Marquis De Sade) - Cy Endfield

Dillinger Is Dead (Dillinger è morto) - Marco Ferreri

Don't Drink the Water - Howard Morris

Do Raaste (Two Roads) - Raj Khosla

Doppelgänger - Robert Parrish

Double Suicide (Ten no amijima) - Masahiro Shinoda

The Dragon of Evil Against the Warrior Saint (O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro) - Glauber Rocha

End of a Priest (Far·Yov konec) - Evald Schorm

Eros Plus Massacre (Erosu purasu gyakusatsu) - Yoshishige Yoshida

The Exquisite Cadaver (Las crueles) - Vicente Aranda

The Extraordinary Seaman - John Frankenheimer

El extraño caso del doctor Fausto - Gonzalo Suárez

Eye of the Cat - David Lowell Rich

Flashback - Raffaele Andreassi

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed - Terence Fisher

Fräulein Doktor - Alberto Lattuada

Gaily, Gaily - Norman Jewison

A Gentle Woman (Une femme douce) - Robert Bresson

Gli specialisti (The Specialist / Drop Them or I'll Shoot) - Sergio Corbucci

Goodbye, Mr. Chips – Herbert Ross

Goyokin - Hideo Gosha

The Grasshopper - Jerry Paris

The Great Love (Le grand amour) - Pierre Étaix

The Gypsy Moths - John Frankenheimer

Hamlet - Tony Richardson

Handcuffs (Lisice) -  Krsto Papic

Hannibal Brooks - Michael Winner

The Happy Ending – Richard Brooks

The Hearts Is a Lonely Hunter -

Hello Dolly! – Gene Kelly

Hello Down There - Jack Arnold / Ricou Browning

Hercules in New York - Arthur Allan Seidelman

Honeycomb (La madriguera) - Carlos Saura

Hook, Line & Sinker - George Marshal

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium - Mel Stuart

I Start Counting -

I'm an Elephant, Madame (Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame) - Peter Zadek

In Search of Gregory - Peter Wood

The Italian Job – Peter Collinson

The Illustrated Man - Jack Smight

It's Tough Being a Man (Otoko wa tsurai yo) - Yoji Yamada

Ittefaq - Yash Chopra

Jackal of Nahueltoro (El Chacal de Nahueltoro) - Miguel Littín

John and Mary - Peter Yates

Joy of Learning (Le Gai savoir) - Jean-Luc Godard

Katrina - Jans Rautenbach

Katzelmacher - Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Khamoshi (Silence) - Asit Sen

The Land (Al-ard) - Youssef Chahine

La Piscine (The Swimming Pool) - Jacques Deray

Larks on a String (SkYiv·ci na niti) – Jiri Menzel

Last Summer – Frank Perry

Laughter in the Dark (La Chambre obscure) - Tony Richardson

The Learning Tree – Gordon Parks

Leo the Last - John Boorman

The Libertine – Pasquale Festa Campanile

Lock Up Your Daughters! - Peter Coe

Lola (Twinky) - Richard Donne

The Looking Glass War - Frank Piersonr

Lost Flight - Leonard J. Horn

The Love God? - Nat Hiken

Love Is Colder Than Death (Liebe — kälter als der Tod) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Machine Gun McCain (Gli intoccabili) - Giuliano Montaldo

Macunaíma - Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

The Madwoman of Chaillot – Bryan Forbes

The Magic Christian – Joseph McGrath

Marlowe - Paul Bogart

Marooned – John Sturges

Medea - Pier Paolo Pasolini

Midas Run (UK title A Run on Gold) - Alf Kjellin

Metti, una sera a cena (One Night at Dinner / Love Circle) - Giuseppe Patroni Griff

The Milky Way (La Voie Lactée) - Luis Buñuel

Mississipi Mermaid – Francois Truffaut

Mon oncle Benjamin (My Uncle Benjamin) - Edouard Molinaro

Monsieur Hawarden - Harry Kümel

Model Shop – Jacques Demy

More – Barbat Schroeder

Monte Carlo or Bust (Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies) - Ken Annakin

Mosquito Squadron - Boris Sagal

My Night at Maud’s – Eric Rohmer

Number One - Tom Gries

The Oblong Box - Gordon Hessler

Oh! What a Lovely War – Richard Attenboroough

The Passion of Anne – Ingmar Bergman

Pigsty  – Pier Paolo Pasolini

Play Dirty - Andre De Toth

Popi - Arthur Hiller

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodoe – Ronald Meame

The Promise - Aleksei Arbuzov

A Quiet Place in the Country (Un tranquillo posto di campagna) - Elio Petri

The Rain People – Francis Ford Coppola

Rani Radovi (Early Years) - Zelmir Zilnik

The Red Tent (Krasnaya palatka) - Mikhail Kalatozov

La residencia (The Boarding School) - Narciso Ibáñez Serrador

Rider on the Rain (Le Passager de la pluie) - René Clément

Ring of Bright Water - Jack Couffer

Riot - Buzz Kulik

The Rite – Ingmar Bergman

The Royal Hunt of the Sun - Irving Lerner

Sabata (Ehi amico ... c'è Sabata, hai chiuso!) - Gianfranco Parolini

Sam Whiskey - Arnold Laven

Satyakam - Hrishikesh Mukherjee

The Secret of Santa Vittoria - Stanley Kramer

The Sicilian Clan (Le Clan des Siciliens) - Henri Verneuil

Simón Bolívar - Alessandro Blasetti

Some Girls Do - Ralph Thomas

Some Kind of a Nut - Garson Kanin

The Southern Star (L'Étoile du sud) - Sidney Hayers

The Sorrow and the Pity – Marcel Ophuls

Spain Again (España otra vez) - Jaime Camino

Staircase - Stanley Donen

The Sterile Cuckoo – Alan J. Pakula

Support Your Local Sheriff! - Burt Kennedy

A Talent for Loving - Richard Quine

Taste the Blood of Dracula - Peter Sasdy

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here - Abraham Polonsky

That Cold Day in the Park – Robert Altman

This Man Must Die (Que la bête meure) -Claude Chabrol

Three into Two Won't Go - Peter Hall

Till Death Us Do Part - Norman Cohen

A Time for Dying - Budd Boetticher

The Trouble with Girls - Peter Tewksbury

Trilogy (Truman Capote's Trilogy) - Frank Perry

The Undefeated - Andrew V. McLaglen

The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle) - Claude Chabrol

The Valley of Gwangi - Jim O'Connolly

Viimne reliikvia - Grigori Kromanov

Viva Max! - Jerry Paris

The Wanton of Spain (La Celestina) - César Fernández Ardavín

What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? - Lee H. Katzin

Where's Jack? - James Clavell

White Sun of the Desert (Beloye solntse pustyni) - Vladimir Motyl

Winning - James Goldstone

The Witness (A tanu) - Péter Bacsó

The Wrecking Crew - Phil Karlson

Young Billy Young - Burt Kennedy

Z – Costa-Gvras