Best Drama movies of 1969

Actors : Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Kazuko Inano, Mariko Okada, Yûko Kusunoki,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s' students researching Osugi's theories.

Actors : Roland Hedlund, Stefan Feierbach, Peter Schildt, Kerstin Tidelius,
Directors : Bo Widerberg,

During a strike strike-breakers are being transported to Lunde, where they are assaulted by the strikers. The military are sent in. On the 14th May 1931 there is a confrontation between ...

Actors : Romina Power, Klaus Kinski, Maria Rohm, Rosemary Dexter,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to cope with an endless parade of villains, perverts and degenerates who will claim not only her treasured virtue but also her life.

Actors : Akiko Koyama, Tetsuo Abe, Tsuyoshi Kinoshita, Fumio Watanabe,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

A young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam.

Actors : Robert Blankshine, Darlene Cotton, Rip Torn, Sally Kirkland,
Directors : Milton Moses Ginsberg,

Psychiatrist installs a concealed movie camera in his apartment to record the screwed-up lives of the women who visit him.

Actors : Mickey Rooney, Cornel Wilde, Dick Van Dyke, Michele Lee,
Directors : Carl Reiner,

Story of a brilliant silent-film comic whose talent is overshadowed by his ego.

Actors : Vera Venczel, Zoltán Latinovits, Imre Sinkovits, Márta Fónay,
Directors : Zoltán Fábri,

The Tót family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the armed forces. When his weary major is ordered to take a vacation, the son talks ...

Actors : Sandra Dal Sasso, Pilar Castel, Dada Gallotti, Fred Robsahm,
Directors : Raffaele Andreassi,

Heinz Prulier (Fred Robsahm) is a German soldier stationed as a sniper overlooking his own army from a tree. When he falls asleep, his troops are gone and he is left alone to defend the ...

Actors : Maurício do Valle, Hugo Carvana, Othon Bastos, Odete Lara,
Directors : Glauber Rocha,

Period piece about a Brazil that is no more. This movie is the sequel to "God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun" (Deus e o diabo na terra do sol), and takes place 29 years after Antonio ...

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Farida Jalal, Sujit Kumar, Sharmila Tagore,
Directors : Shakti Samanta,

Dashing pilot Arun romances Vandana Tripathi, and both in love with each other, become very intimate, and as a result Vandana gets pregnant. Arun and Vandana have a quiet temple wedding ...

Actors : David Buck, David McCallum, Charles Gray, Suzanne Neve,
Directors : Boris Sagal,

In WW2, a RAF squadron leader mourns the death of a comrade and receives a bombing mission against a secret Nazi V-2 rocket testing facility in France.

Actors : Luciana Paluzzi, Herbert Lom, Maria Schell, Mercedes McCambridge,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

New inmate Marie arrives at an island prison in the women's sector and receives the number 99. The inmates are controlled by the sadistic lesbian warden Thelma Diaz and Governor Santos and ...

Actors : Riina Hein, Aare Laanemets, Margus Lepa, Arno Liiver,
Directors : Arvo Kruusement,

Semi-autobiographical story by Oskar Luts about friendship, love and life in a small Estonian country boarding school in the late 1800s. Followed by Suvi (1976) and Sügis (1990).

Actors : Colin Blakely, Prunella Ransome, Michael York, David Hemmings,
Directors : Clive Donner,

While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the ninth century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows, to...

Actors : Ezzat El Alaili, Hamdy Ahmed, Yehia Chahine, Tawfik El Deken,
Directors : Youssef Chahine,

A small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local landowner, The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a sense of solidarity among the disinherited.

Actors : Jack Weston, Jack Lemmon, Peter Lawford, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

In New York, the newly-promoted in the Street Broker Howard Brubaker is invited by his boss Ted Gunther to come to his fancy apartment. However, there is a party and the clumsy Howard feels...

Actors : Josef Somr, Evald Schorm, Jana Dítetová, Ludek Munzar,
Directors : Jaromil Jires,

In the 1950's, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years ...

Actors : Philippe Avron, Jirí Sýkora, Míla Beran, Magda Vásáryová,
Directors : Juraj Jakubisko,

Three adolescent war orphans seclude themselves in an anarchic and playful existence of denial and juvenile joy.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûjirô Ishihara, Shintarô Katsu, Yukio Mishima,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

A destitute ronin allies himself with an established clan, but its ruthless leader tries to turn him into a mindless killer.

Actors : Martin Balsam, Elsa Lanchester, Patty Duke, James Farentino,
Directors : Fred Coe,

A young woman struggles for independence.