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Best Movies of 1969, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
83 films from 1969 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ('1969), at 8.0 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.4. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Battle of Britain, 7.0 on IMDb against 44 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid '1969 | Western / Crime / Drama | 8.0 | 89% | 66 | 7.6 | George Roy Hill |
| 2 | Z '1969 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 8.1 | 94% | 86 | 7.8 | Costa-Gavras |
| 3 | The Diamond Arm '1969 | Comedy / Crime | 8.3 | - | - | 7.7 | Leonid Gaidai |
| 4 | Army of Shadows '1969 | Drama / Thriller | 8.1 | 97% | 99 | 7.9 | Jean-Pierre Melville |
| 5 | The Wild Bunch '1969 | Western | 7.9 | 91% | 98 | 7.6 | Sam Peckinpah |
| 6 | Midnight Cowboy '1969 | Drama | 7.8 | 89% | 79 | 7.5 | John Schlesinger |
| 7 | The Cremator '1969 | Horror / Drama / Crime / Comedy | 8.0 | 89% | - | 7.8 | Juraj Herz |
| 8 | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? '1969 | Drama | 7.8 | 82% | 72 | 7.6 | Sydney Pollack |
| 9 | My Night at Maud's '1969 | Romance / Comedy / Drama | 7.8 | 96% | - | 7.6 | Éric Rohmer |
| 10 | Winnie-the-Pooh '1969 | Animation | 8.2 | - | - | 7.4 | Fyodor Khitruk |
| 11 | The Color of Pomegranates '1969 | Drama | 7.6 | 95% | - | 7.4 | Sergei Parajanov |
| 12 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie '1969 | Drama | 7.6 | 81% | - | 7.0 | Ronald Neame |
| 13 | True Grit '1969 | Western / Drama | 7.4 | 87% | 83 | 7.3 | Henry Hathaway |
| 14 | The Passion of Anna '1969 | Drama | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.4 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 15 | Funeral Parade of Roses '1969 | Drama | 7.7 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Toshio Matsumoto |
| 16 | The White Sun of the Desert '1969 | Action / Drama / War | 7.6 | - | - | 7.2 | Vladimir Motyl |
| 17 | The Bremen Town Musicians '1969 | Animation / Drama / Fantasy | 7.9 | - | - | 7.1 | Inessa Kovalevskaya |
| 18 | Salesman '1969 | Documentary | 7.6 | 100% | 80 | 7.2 | David Maysles |
| 19 | Support Your Local Sheriff! '1969 | Comedy / Western | 7.4 | 80% | 56 | 6.9 | Burt Kennedy |
| 20 | The Damned '1969 | Drama | 7.4 | 82% | - | 7.3 | Luchino Visconti |
| 21 | This Man Must Die '1969 | Thriller / Drama / Crime | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Claude Chabrol |
| 22 | The Sicilian Clan '1969 | Crime / Drama | 7.4 | - | - | 7.6 | Henri Verneuil |
| 23 | Frosty the Snowman '1969 | Animation | 7.3 | 73% | - | 6.9 | Jules Bass |
| 24 | Anne of the Thousand Days '1969 | Drama / Romance | 7.4 | 43% | - | 7.2 | Charles Jarrott |
| 25 | Easy Rider '1969 | Drama | 7.2 | 84% | 85 | 7.0 | Dennis Hopper |
| 26 | Gena the Crocodile '1969 | Animation | 7.8 | - | - | 7.7 | Roman Kachanov |
| 27 | The Italian Job '1969 | Crime / Comedy / Thriller | 7.2 | 82% | 70 | 6.9 | Peter Collinson |
| 28 | Take the Money and Run '1969 | Comedy / Crime | 7.2 | 91% | 67 | 7.1 | Woody Allen |
| 29 | The Milky Way '1969 | Comedy / Drama | 7.3 | 95% | - | 7.1 | Luis Buñuel |
| 30 | The Unfaithful Wife '1969 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.4 | 86% | - | 6.9 | Claude Chabrol |
| 31 | A Boy Named Charlie Brown '1969 | Animation / Comedy / Drama | 7.3 | 95% | 57 | 7.0 | Bill Melendez |
| 32 | Cactus Flower '1969 | Comedy / Romance | 7.2 | 85% | 67 | 7.2 | Gene Saks |
| 33 | Naked Childhood '1969 | Drama | 7.4 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Maurice Pialat |
| 34 | Hello, Dolly! '1969 | Comedy / Romance | 7.1 | 43% | 51 | 7.0 | Gene Kelly |
| 35 | The Swimming Pool '1969 | Drama / Thriller | 7.1 | 95% | 76 | 7.0 | Jacques Deray |
| 36 | Women in Love '1969 | Drama / Romance | 7.1 | - | - | 6.6 | Ken Russell |
| 37 | Burn! '1969 | Drama / War | 7.1 | 80% | 72 | 6.8 | Gillo Pontecorvo |
| 38 | The Book of Stone '1969 | Horror / Thriller | 7.2 | - | - | 7.8 | Carlos Enrique Taboada |
| 39 | Battle of Britain '1969 | War / Action / Drama | 7.0 | 67% | 44 | 6.8 | Guy Hamilton |
| 40 | Return of the One-Armed Swordsman '1969 | Action | 7.1 | - | - | 6.6 | Chang Cheh |
| 41 | Pippi Longstocking '1969 | - | 7.0 | 43% | - | 6.8 | Olle Hellbom |
| 42 | Blind Beast '1969 | Thriller / Horror | 7.0 | 100% | - | 6.5 | Yasuzō Masumura |
| 43 | The Rite '1969 | Drama | 7.0 | 75% | - | 6.9 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 44 | Antonio das Mortes '1969 | Western | 7.0 | - | - | 6.8 | Glauber Rocha |
| 45 | Dillinger Is Dead '1969 | Drama | 6.9 | 75% | - | 7.1 | Marco Ferreri |
| 46 | Pippi Goes on Board '1969 | - | 6.9 | - | - | 6.6 | Olle Hellbom |
| 47 | Medea '1969 | Drama / Fantasy | 6.9 | 73% | - | 6.7 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 48 | Bambi Meets Godzilla '1969 | Comedy / Animation | 6.9 | - | - | 6.5 | Marv Newland |
| 49 | Sweet Charity '1969 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 6.9 | 82% | 53 | 6.9 | Bob Fosse |
| 50 | Mississippi Mermaid '1969 | Romance / Drama / Crime / Thriller | 6.9 | 83% | - | 6.6 | François Truffaut |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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