Barbara the Fair with the Silken Hair

1969 85 min Soviet Union 7.3

• Director: Aleksandr Rou
• Actors: Mikhail Pugovkin,Georgiy Millyar,Anatoli Kubatsky,Lidiya Korolyova
• Genres: Comedy,Drama,Family

A Czar who attempts to trick a creature that demands tribute from him into taking a fisherman's baby instead of his newborn heir. Complications arise when the daughter of the creature, Barbara, requests a human suitor to find true love.

Hamlet

1969 117 min UK 7.1

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Nicol Williamson takes the lead role in this star-studded 1969 version of William Shakespeare's tragedy. Prince Hamlet mourns both his father's death and his mother's marriage to Claudius. ...

A Gentle Woman

1969 88 min France 7.7

• Director: Robert Bresson
• Actors: Dominique Sanda,Guy Frangin,Jeanne Lobre,Claude Ollier
• Genres: Drama,Romance

A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to...

Anne of the Thousand Days

1969 145 min UK 7.6

• Director: Charles Jarrott
• Actors: RichardBurton,GenevièveBujold,IrenePapas,AnthonyQuayle
• Genres: Biography,Drama,History

Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

Funeral Parade of Roses

1969 107 min Japan 8.2

• Director: Toshio Matsumoto
• Actors: Pîtâ,Osamu Ogasawara,Yoshimi Jô,Koichi Nakamura
• Genres: Drama

The trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in Japan.

A Walk with Love and Death

1969 90 min USA 6.3

• Director: John Huston
• Actors: Anjelica Huston,Assi Dayan,Anthony Higgins,John Hallam
• Genres: Drama

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.

Invocation of My Demon Brother

1969 12 min USA 6.7

• Director: Kenneth Anger
• Actors: Kenneth Anger,Bobby Beausoleil,Bill Beutel,Harvey Bialy
• Genres: Short,Horror

Experimental short, featuring strobe-like erotic imagery with several shots of the Rolling Stones in performance and an original synthesizer score by Mick Jagger.

Diary of a Shinjuku Thief

1969 96 min Japan 6.5

• Director: Nagisa Ôshima
• Actors: Tadanori Yokoo,Rie Yokoyama,Moichi Tanabe,Tetsu Takahashi
• Genres: Comedy,Drama

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

Republikata vo plamen

1969 102 min Yugoslavia 7.8

• Director: Ljubisa Georgijevski
• Actors: Dragi Kostovski,Risto Siskov,Dragomir Felba,Ilija Dzuvalekovski
• Genres: War

Records one of the most important events in the history of the Macedonian people: about the Ilenden Uprising and the Krusevo Republic of 1903.

Sweet Charity

1969 149 min USA 7

• Director: Bob Fosse
• Actors: Shirley MacLaine,John McMartin,Ricardo Montalban,Sammy Davis Jr.
• Genres: Comedy,Drama,Music

Taxi dancer Charity continues to have Faith in the human race despite apparently endless disappointments at its hands, and Hope that she will finally meet the nice young man to romance her ...

Mother's Heart

1969 92 min Italy 6.3

• Director: Salvatore Samperi
• Actors: Carla Gravina,Beba Loncar,Philippe Leroy,Yorgo Voyagis
• Genres: Drama

Lorenz has three young children who are victims of a media who wishes to turn out terrorists. She contends with her monstrous offspring and student revolts until she can't take it anymore.

Sartana the Gravedigger

1969 102 min Italy 6.6

• Director: Giuliano Carnimeo
• Actors: GianniGarko,FrankWolff,EttoreManni,SalBorgese
• Genres: Mystery,Western

Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name.