Best Drama movies of 1969

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 : David Chiang, Ching Lee, Lung Ti, Miao Ching,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Ying Ke-Feng, head of Peerless Manor, is an expert swordsman whose escort business transports 200,000 taels of silver to the capital each year. This year, however, he is afflicted with an ...

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.

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 : 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 : Daniel Olbrychski, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Andrzej Lapicki, Beata Tyszkiewicz,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

The disappearance of the leading actor from the film's set worries its director Andrzej. He embarks on a journey to look out for the actor with a young actor and missing actor's wife and mistress.

Actors : Robin Phillips, Judy Geeson, Hal Frederick, Ester Anderson,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.

Actors : Cher, Steve Whittaker, Tom Nolan, Barbara London,
Directors : Alessio de Paola,

Addendum to summary: Chastity is Bipolar manic who was sexually abused as a child.

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Robert Hossein, Enrico Maria Salerno, Nino Manfredi,
Directors : Luigi Magni,

Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola (Tognazzi) and colonel Nardoni (Salerno) are in charge to suppress liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia (Manfredi) got the information that the liberal ...

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 : Scott Brady, Jim Davis, Robert Dix, John Carradine,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Yôko Mutô, Ken Yoshizawa, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Carroll Baker, Colette Descombes, Tino Carraro, Lou Castel,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A rich and lonely American widow befriends two young people whose motives become suspect.