Best Drama movies of 1969

Actors : Ashok Kumar, Rabi Ghosh, Sharmila Tagore, Dharmendra,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

The tale begins in the final days of the British Raj in India. A cohort of engineering students graduate a few months before Independence. Satyapriya and Naren are among the graduate ...

Actors : Régis Vallée, Loren Ewing, Laura Antonelli, Renate Kasché,
Directors : Massimo Dallamano,

Based on the infamous novel by Leopold Sacher-Masoch this fine film follows the perverted passions of a young couple as Severin watches the beautiful Wanda writhing naked amongst furs. His ...

Actors : Angela Winkler, Michael Strixner, Martin Sperr, Else Quecke,
Directors : Peter Fleischmann,

Abram returns to his small village and although his repairing skills are needed, people's suspicion about his sexual preferences make his life hard.

Actors : Önder Somer, Filiz Akin, Kartal Tibet, Ilker Inanoglu,
Directors : Türker Inanoglu,

Yumurcak is a very naughty boy living with his father Nihat. His parents are separated. His mother Selma is a member of a very well-off family. Selma's step mother has wanted Selma to marry...

Actors : Bernadette Lafont, Henri Czarniak, Georges Géret, Claire Maurier,
Directors : Nelly Kaplan,

An oppressed and exploited young woman (Marie) begins charging for her sexual favors and completely disrupts the smug patriarchal capitalist society of the village of Tellier.

Actors : Anjelica Huston, Assi Dayan, John Hallam, Anthony Higgins,
Directors : John Huston,

In a story set during the Hundred Years War, a student who has abandoned his studies in Paris, pairs with a young noblewoman with whom he has fallen in love.

Actors : Michael Rennie, Frederick Stafford, George Hilton, Marco Guglielmi,
Directors : Giorgio Ferroni,

June 1942 El Alamein: Rommel swept towards the River Nile. The fall Egypt and the all important Suez Canal seems inevitable. Italian and German scouts race towards Alexandria. Mussolini has...

Actors : Scott Brady, Jim Davis, John Carradine, Robert Dix,
Directors : Al Adamson,

A former Civil War soldier returns to take revenge from a Yaqui chief who killed his wife in the marriage night. Death plays with both men, plus gun-runners and gold-runners, as her emissaries on Earth, to do a large harvest of souls.

Actors : Tom Baker, Julian Beck, Judith Malina, Jim Anderson,

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a ...

Actors : Ken Yoshizawa, Yôko Mutô, Hatsuo Yamaya, Rokkô Toura,
Directors : Kôji Wakamatsu,

During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hiding in the house of his brother - a police officer.

Actors : William Holden, Virna Lisi, Bourvil, Madeleine Damien,
Directors : Terence Young,

Since the death of his mother, Pascal, ten years old, spends his holidays with his father, the rich Laurent Segur. One day, when diving near the shores of Corse, an aircraft falls into the ...

Actors : Nigel Davenport, Robert Shaw, Leonard Whiting, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Irving Lerner,

The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire for ...

Actors : Kirill Lavrov, Lionella Pyryeva, Mikhail Ulyanov, Andrey Myagkov,

Three brothers, one spiritual and living at a monastary, one a gambler, and one an intellectual, work out their problems in 19th century Russia.

Actors : Hans Bendrik, Daniel Harle, Arthur Pentelow, Frederick Danner,
Directors : Peter Watkins,

Some time in the future, East and West have stopped maintaining standing armies and nuclear weapons. Instead, to settle their differences they pit different teams of crack combat specialists against each other.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Mike Kellin, Jim Brown,
Directors : Buzz Kulik,

A riot in a state prison is staged to cover up an escape attempt, during which many inmates and guards are killed. Shot on location at Arizona State Prison.

Actors : Lilli Palmer, Burgess Meredith, James Coburn, Lee Remick,
Directors : S. Lee Pogostin,

A cold hearted American hit man goes to Europe for 'one last score'. His encounter with a beautiful young woman casts self doubt on his lifeblood, and influences him to resist carrying out the contract

Actors : Tadanori Yokoo, Rie Yokoyama, Moichi Tanabe, Tetsu Takahashi,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

Story of a bookstore thief named Birdey who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.

Actors : Adrienne Larussa, Georges Wilson, Mavie, Tomas Milian,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

A young Italian noblewoman plots with her lover and her family to murder her abusive father leading to an uproar in the community and the Roman Catholic church set in 16th Century Italy.

Actors : Dimitris Papamichael, Angelos Antonopoulos, Aliki Vougiouklaki, Pantelis Zervos,
Directors : Dinos Dimopoulos,

Mirto, a progressive teacher, is assigned to a backward village, where her ideas find opposition from the parents. She falls in love with Stephanos, the mayor's son, whom she marries. As ...

Actors : Francisco Rabal, Van Johnson, Frederick Stafford, Ida Galli,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

In World war 2, a German undercover unit infiltrates British lines during the evacuation of Dunkirk, 1939. The film revolves around their successes and failures in disrupting R.A.F. operations during the Battle of Britain.