List of American films of 1969

This is a list of American films released in 1969.

Box office

The highest-grossing American films released in 1969, by domestic box office gross revenue as estimated by The Numbers, are as follows:[1]

Highest-grossing films of 1969
Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross
1 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 20th Century Fox $102,308,900
2 The Love Bug Walt Disney $50,576,808
3 Midnight Cowboy MGM $44,785,053
4 Easy Rider Columbia Pictures $41,728,598
5 Hello, Dolly 20th Century Fox $33,208,099
6 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Columbia Pictures $31,897,253
7 Paint Your Wagon Paramount $31,678,778
8 True Grit Paramount $31,132,592
9 Cactus Flower Columbia Pictures $25,889,208
10 Goodbye, Columbus Paramount $22,939,805

January–March

Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref.
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Y 		15 More Dead Than Alive Aubrey Schenck Productions Robert Sparr (director); Clint Walker, Vincent Price, Anne Francis
Riot Paramount Pictures Buzz Kulik (director); Jim Brown, Gene Hackman, Mike Kellin
23 Some Girls Do The Rank Organisation Ralph Thomas (director); Richard Johnson, Daliah Lavi, Beba Lončar
27 The Extraordinary Seaman John Frankenheimer Productions John Frankenheimer (director); David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda
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Y 		5 The Wrecking Crew Columbia Pictures Phil Karlson (director); Dean Martin, Elke Sommer, Sharon Tate
12 The Candy Man Commonwealth United Entertainment Herbert S. Greene (director); George Sanders, Leslie Parrish, Scott Brady
19 The Night of the Following Day Gibraltar Productions Hubert Cornfield (director); Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, Rita Moreno
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11 2000 Years Later Sing Productions Bert Tenzer (director); Terry-Thomas, Edward Everett Horton, Pat Harrington Jr.
12 Where Eagles Dare Winkast Film Productions Brian G. Hutton (director); Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure
13 Charro! National General Pictures Charles Marquis Warren (director); Elvis Presley, Ina Balin, Victor French
The Love Bug Walt Disney Productions Robert Stevenson (director); Dean Jones, Michele Lee, David Tomlinson
26 100 Rifles 20th Century Fox Tom Gries (director); Jim Brown, Raquel Welch, Burt Reynolds
27 Support Your Local Sheriff! Cherokee Productions Burt Kennedy (director); James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan

April–June

Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref.
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L 		1 Model Shop Columbia Pictures Jacques Demy (director); Anouk Aimée, Gary Lockwood, Alexis Smith
Sam Whiskey Universal Pictures Arnold Laven (director); Burt Reynolds, Diana Sands, Keenan Wynn
Sweet Charity Universal Pictures Bob Fosse (director); Shirley MacLaine, John McMartin, Ricardo Montalbán
2 Angel in My Pocket Paramount Pictures Murray Schisgal (director); Andy Griffith, Lee Grant, Barbara Eden
3 Goodbye, Columbus Paramount Pictures Larry Peerce (director); Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman
9 The Wedding Party Cinevista Brian De Palma (director); Jennifer Salt, Brett Halsey, Bill Graham
16 Hook, Line & Sinker Warner Bros. George Marshall (director); Jerry Lewis, Peter Lawford, Tina Louise
17 Salesman Documentary Film Institute Albert Maysles, David Maysles (directors); Paul Brennan, Carmen Brennan, Jack Brennan
24 If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium United Artists Mel Stuart (director); Doris Day, Guy Stockwell, David Janssen
30 The Big Cube Columbia Pictures Wesley Ruggles (director); Lana Turner, George Chakiris, Richard Basehart
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Y 		1 The Mad Room American International Pictures Bernard Girard (director); Shelley Winters, Stella Stevens, Michael Constantine
6 Slaves Avco Embassy Pictures Herbert J. Biberman (director); Beverly Todd, Jimmy Witherspoon, Rosalind Cash
7 Sinful Davey Warner Bros. John Houston (director); John Hurt, Pamela Franklin, Denholm Elliott
10 Mackenna's Gold Columbia Pictures J. Lee Thompson (director); Gregory Peck, Telly Savalas, Camilla Sparv
14 Krakatoa, East of Java Warner Bros. Bernard L. Kowalski (director); Maximilian Schell, Daliah Lavi, Michael Forest
15 Nightmare in Wax AIP Henry Cass (director); Don Rickles, Tina Louise, Martha Hyer
25 Midnight Cowboy United Artists John Schlesinger (director); Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvia Miles
27 Popi Columbia Pictures Arthur Hiller (director); Alan Arkin, Rita Moreno, Lilia Skala
28 The April Fools Paramount Pictures Stuart Rosenberg (director); Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Sabrina Scharf
29 Carry On Camping The Rank Organisation Gerald Thomas (director); Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor
30 Che! Columbia Pictures Richard Fleischer (director); Omar Sharif, Jack Palance, Senta Berger
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E 		8 That Cold Day in the Park Warner Bros. Robert Altman (director); Sandy Dennis, Michael Murphy, Lynne Roth
11 The First Time Paramount Pictures Peter Deuel (director); Robert F. Simon, Beverly Garland, Linda Evans
12 Blue Movie Colorama Films Andy Warhol (director); Viva, Joe Dallesandro, Geri Miller
13 True Grit Paramount Pictures Henry Hathaway (director); John Wayne, Kim Darby, Glen Campbell
18 Eye of the Cat Cinerama Releasing Corporation David Lowell Rich (director); Michael Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Eli Wallach
The Wild Bunch Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Sam Peckinpah (director); William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson, Warren Oates
19 Last Summer Columbia Pictures Frank Perry (director); Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Catherine Burns
24 Chastity Goldwyn Anna Strasberg (director); Cher, Richard S. Castellano, Jack Albertson
25 The Bridge at Remagen Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer John Guillermin (director); George Segal, Robert Vaughn, E.G. Marshall
26 The Chairman Columbia Pictures J. Lee Thompson (director); Sidney Poitier, Henry Silva, Barbara Jefford
27 Hello Down There Columbia Pictures Jack Arnold (director); Tony Randall, Julie Adams, Richard Carlson

July–September

Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref.
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Y 		7 How to Commit Marriage Avco Embassy Pictures Norman Panama (director); Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Jane Wyman
10 Putney Swope Cinema V Robert Downey Sr. (director); Arnold Johnson, Stan Gottlieb, Allen Garfield
11 The Lost Man Universal Pictures Robert Alan Aurthur (director); Sidney Poitier, Joanna Shimkus, Al Freeman Jr.
13 Me, Natalie National General Pictures Fred Coe (director); Patty Duke, James Farentino, Martin Balsam
14 Easy Rider Columbia Pictures Dennis Hopper (director); Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson
18 The Appointment Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Sidney Lumet (director); Omar Sharif, Anouk Aimée, Lotte Lenya
19 The Mighty Gorga Creative Film Enterprises David L. Hewitt (director); Anthony Eisley, Megan Timothy, Scott Brady
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T 		6 The Learning Tree Warner Bros. Gordon Parks (director); Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans
9 The Love God? Universal Pictures Nat Hiken (director); Don Knotts, Anne Francis, Edmond O'Brien
Take the Money and Run Palomar Pictures Woody Allen (director); Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, Marcel Hillaire
18 Alice's Restaurant United Artists Arthur Penn (director); Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, James Broderick
20 What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? ABC Pictures Lee H. Katzin (director); Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth
27 Medium Cool Paramount Pictures Haskell Wexler (director); Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz
28 The Gypsy Moths Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer John Frankenheimer (director); Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman
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R 		3 The Trouble with Girls Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Peter Tewksbury (director); Elvis Presley, Marlyn Mason, Nicole Jaffe
5 The Valley of Gwangi Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Jim O'Connolly (director); James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson
The Bushbaby Twentieth Century-Fox John Trent (director); Margaret Brooks, Louis Gossett Jr., Donald Houston
17 Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice Columbia Pictures Paul Mazursky (director); Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould
29 De Sade American International Pictures Cy Endfield (director); Keir Dullea, Senta Berger, Lilli Palmer

October–December

Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref.
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R 		4 Hail, Hero! Cinema Center Films David Miller (director); Michael Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Teresa Wright
5 A Walk with Love and Death 20th Century Fox John Huston (director); Anjelica Huston, Assi Dayan, Anthony Higgins
6 The Royal Hunt of the Sun Paramount Pictures Irving Lerner (director); Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Nigel Davenport
8 The Good Guys and the Bad Guys Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Burt Kennedy (director); Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, David Carradine
The Monitors Bell and Howell Jack Shea (director); Guy Stockwell, Susan Oliver, Larry Storch
12 The Madwoman of Chaillot Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Bryan Forbes (director); Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Yul Brynner
15 Paint Your Wagon Paramount Pictures Joshua Logan (director); Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg
22 Marlowe Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Paul Bogart (director); James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O'Connor
The Sterile Cuckoo Paramount Pictures Alan J. Pakula (director); Liza Minnelli, Wendell Burton, Tim McIntire
24 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 20th Century Fox George Roy Hill (director); Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
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R 		6 Downhill Racer Paramount Pictures Michael Ritchie (director); Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv
10 Change of Habit Universal Pictures William A. Graham (director); Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara McNair
Flareup Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer James Neilson (director); Raquel Welch, James Stacy, Luke Askew
Marooned Columbia Pictures John Sturges (director); Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen
Don't Drink the Water Avco Embassy Pictures Howard Morris (director); Jackie Gleason, Estelle Parsons, Ted Bessell
15 The Arrangement Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Elia Kazan (director); Kirk Douglas, Faye Dunaway, Deborah Kerr
19 The Comic Columbia Pictures Carl Reiner (director); Dick Van Dyke, Michele Lee, Mickey Rooney
26 Angel, Angel, Down We Go American International Pictures Robert Thom (director); Jennifer Jones, Jordan Christopher, Roddy McDowall
27 The Undefeated 20th Century Fox Andrew V. McLaglen (director); John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Antonio Aguilar
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R 		4 A Boy Named Charlie Brown Cinema Center Films Bill Melendez (director); Peter Robbins, Pamelyn Ferdin, Glenn Gilger
10 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? ABC Pictures Sydney Pollack (director); Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York
14 John and Mary 20th Century Fox Peter Yates (director); Dustin Hoffman, Mia Farrow, Michael Tolan
Generation National General Pictures George Schaefer (director); David Janssen, Kim Darby, Pete Duel
16 Cactus Flower Columbia Pictures Gene Saks (director); Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn
Gaily, Gaily Universal Pictures Norman Jewison (director); Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, Brian Keith
Hello, Dolly! 20th Century Fox Gene Kelly (director); Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford
18 On Her Majesty's Secret Service United Artists Peter R. Hunt (director); George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here Universal Pictures Abraham Polonsky (director); Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake
19 Topaz Universal Pictures Alfred Hitchcock (director); Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Forsythe
24 The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes Buena Vista Distribution Robert Butler (director); Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn
25 The Reivers Cinema Center Films Mark Rydell (director); Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Mitch Vogel

See also

References

  1. ^ "North America (US and Canada) Domestic Movie Chart for 1969". The Numbers. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
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