Battle of the Commandos

Umberto Lenzi Director

Jack Palance as Col. Charley MacPherson

Curd Jürgens as Gen. von Reilow

Bruno Corazzari as Pvt. Frank Madigan

Aldo Sambrell as Sgt. Karim Habinda

A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for the D-Day landings.

Feast of Friends

♡ 1

A cinematic look at The Doors on the road during their summer '68 tour. Concert performances are intercut with fly-on-the-wall footage of the group in their natural habitat.

Camille 2000

1969

English

♡ 11

14%

63%

Action

based on novel or book

Radley Metzger Director

Massimo Serato as Armand's father

Philippe Forquet as De Varville

Peter Chatel as Marguerite's Friend

Rossana Canghiari as Party Guest

Marguerite, a beautiful woman of affairs, falls for the young and promising Armand, but sacrifices her love for him for the sake of his future and reputation.

Supershow

♡ 1

Supershow was intended to be Britain's first music 'super session', with several famous blues, jazz and rock artists of the time coming together to be filmed whilst performing.

Target: Harry

♡ 1

Pilot Harry Black is hired to fly a man named Carlyle to Istanbul, where he's murdered. Now, mysterious Diane Reed and a local gangster, Rashi, are after Harry believing that he has the priceless plates Carlyle used to counterfeit money.

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

1969

Portuguese

♡ 5

Documentary

“I think my film represents above all the proof to those who want to understand and accept it, that poetry can’t be filmed, that it is useless to try” - João César Monteiro

Orgies of Edo

1969

Japanese

6.1

♡ 22

96%

Teruo Ishii Director

Kichijirô Ueda as

Teruo Yoshida as Gentatsu

Masumi Tachibana as Oito

Michiko Ai as Yumioka

Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic Shogun’s Joy of Torture, the politically incorrect moral lessons paint a trio of tales of tragic heroines caught up in violence, sadomasochism, incest and torture.

The Rite

1969

Swedish

7.0

♡ 16

75%

72%

Action

Drama

Ingmar Bergman Director

Gunnar Björnstrand as Hans Winkelmann

Ingmar Bergman as Priest

Anders Ek as Sebastian Fisher

Ingrid Thulin as Thea Winkelmann

Called to court on obscenity charges, a theatre troupe are forced to expose their neuroses and inner psychological torments.

Age of Consent

1969

English

6.3

♡ 16

100%

48%

Action

artist

based on novel or book

Michael Powell Director

James Mason as Bradley Morahan

Helen Mirren as Cora

Peggy Cass as His Wife

Max Meldrum as TV Interviewer

An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once more. On the island he re-discovers his muse in the form of a young girl.

Che!

1969

English

4.8

♡ 17

23%

Richard Fleischer Director

Paul Picerni as Hector

Abraham Sofaer as Pablo Rojas

Cesare Danova as Ramon Valdez

Perry Lopez as Rolando

Biography of Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who helped Fidel Castro in his struggle against the corrupt Batista regime, eventually resulting in the overthrow of that government and Castro's taking over of Cuba. The film covers Guevara's life from when he first landed in Cuba in 1956 to his death in an ambush by government troops in the mountains of Bolivia in 1967.

The Cow

1969

Persian

7.8

♡ 22

90%

Action

Drama

iranian new wave

Dariush Mehrjui Director

Jamshid Mashayekhi as Abbas

Khosrow Shojazadeh as Boy

Ezzatollah Ramazanifar as Madman

Esmat Safavi as Old woman

An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.

Everything for Sale

1969

Polish

6.8

♡ 4

Action

Drama

Andrzej Wajda Director

Beata Tyszkiewicz as Beata

Daniel Olbrychski as Daniel

Elzbieta Czyzewska as Elzbieta

Malgorzata Potocka as The Little

Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.

Ring of Bright Water

1969

English

7.1

♡ 1

80%

85%

Action

based on memoir or autobiography

Jack Couffer Director

Roddy McMillan as Busdriver

Peter Jeffrey as Colin Wilcox

Archie Duncan as Road mender

Bill Horsley as Timid man

Stuck in a dead-end job, Graham Merrill adopts an otter, Mij, as a pet and then moves to an isolated village in western Scotland. Together they set out to explore the curious and magnificent natural wonders that surround their seaside home. Soon, Graham finds himself falling in love with the beautiful town doctor, Mary. Before long, the three become inseparable friends.

Watch Out, Crimson Bat!

1969

Japanese

6.6

♡ 2

Action

Adventure

Drama

Hirokazu Ichimura Director

Yôichi Numata as

Gajirô Satô as Hanji the Orphan Boy

Yôko Matsuyama as Oichi

Jun Hamamura as Tessai

A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder. An evil clan that is planning to overthrow the Emperor is also after the scroll, and they try to take it from her.

Don't Let the Angels Fall

6.5

George Kaczender Director

Michèle Magny as Diane

Kenny Ireland as Mr. Ferguson

Charmion King as Myrna

Arthur Hill as Robert

The lives of a businessman and his family begin to spiral downward after he has an affair at an insurance convention.

The Battle of Neretva

1969

Serbo-croatian

7.0

♡ 6

65%

Veljko Bulajic Director

Hardy Krüger as Kranzer

Curd Jürgens as Lohring

Franco Nero as Riva

Bozidar Smiljanic as Surgeon

In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river Neretva.

Captain Nemo and the Underwater City

1969

English

5.7

♡ 8

29%

James Hill Director

Robert Ryan as Captain Nemo

Nanette Newman as Helena Beckett

Vincent Harding as Mate Navigator

Shailar Coby as Senator Robert Fraser

Survivors of a sinking ship are rescued by Captain Nemo and his submarine crew. They are taken to an underwater city where they may spend the rest of their lives.

Five for Hell

1969

Italian

5.1

♡ 7

Gianfranco Parolini Director

Andrea Esterhazy as American Officer

Emilio Messina as American Soldier

Mike Monty as Capt. Nixon

Klaus Kinski as SS Col. Hans Mueller

Lt. Glenn Hoffmann is the the fun-loving leader of a bunch of oddball, acrobatic G.I.s whose mission is to steal the German's secret attack plans from a villa behind enemy lines, where they run into a brutal Nazi commander.

The Alphabet

1969

English

6.7

♡ 7

David Lynch Director

Peggy Lynch as Girl

A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.

Pit Stop

1969

English

6.7

♡ 6

68%

Jack Hill Director

Ellen Burstyn as Ellen McLeod

Sid Haig as Hawk Sidney

Beverly Washburn as Jolene

Richard Davalos as Rick Bowman

Rick Bowman, a drag racing street punk, comes to the attention of crafty businessman Grant Willard. Willard bails him out of jail and offers him sponsorship as a stock car driver. Bowman accepts and enters the demolition derby-adjacent world of "figure eight" racing. As Bowman moves up in the ranks, his regard for his friends slips-- giving way to outright obsession with becoming the best.

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Feast of Friends

Camille 2000

Supershow

Target: Harry

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Orgies of Edo

The Rite

Age of Consent

Che!

The Cow

Everything for Sale

Ring of Bright Water

Watch Out, Crimson Bat!

Don't Let the Angels Fall

The Battle of Neretva

Captain Nemo and the Underwater City

Five for Hell

The Alphabet

Pit Stop