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

## April–June

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

## July–September

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

## October–December

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