Category Archives: 1969

Pippi Longstocking

IMDB Rating: 6.80
467 votes

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Pippi Longstocking, a child of incredible strength, moves by herself to a Swedish town with her monkey, horse, and a bag full of gold coins. She befriends two children, Annika and Tommy, shocks the adults of the town, defends herself from bandits, and has a reunion with her seafaring father.
Actors
Pippi LångstrumpInger Nilsson
AnnikaMaria Persson
TommyPär Sundberg
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Easy Rider

IMDB Rating: 7.30
27007 votes

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The partners and friends Wyatt and Billy buy drugs in Mexico and deal in Los Angeles, raising money to travel to the Mardi Grass in New Orleans in their bikes. They cross their country disclosing a period of counterculture and intolerance through spectacular landscapes.
Actors
WyattPeter Fonda
BillyDennis Hopper
JesusAntonio Mendoza
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The Italian Job

IMDB Rating: 7.40
10280 votes

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Charlie has just left prison, and now wants to do a 'big job'. The job is to steal $4m of gold arriving in Italy from China. Charlie's job needs financing, so he goes to Mr Bridger (a Mafia-type boss) who is in prison (Charlie has to break in !). In Italy, a clever plan is used to distract the authorities, while the raiders make their get-away in three Minis. This leads to an excellent car chase sequence through Italian streets, buildings, rivers, sewers,
Actors
Charlie CrokerMichael Caine
Mr. BridgerNoel Coward
Professor Simon PeachBenny Hill
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Moon Zero Two

IMDB Rating: 3.10
400 votes

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A space salvage expert and his partner become involved with a group of criminals intent on hijacking a small asteroid made of sapphire and crashing it into the moon for later recovery. The only place that they can bring the asteroid down without drawing attention to themselves is a far side mining claim. But first they must dispose of the miner. Little known to them, however, is the fact that the miners sister has hired the same salvage team to help her locate her missing brother.
Actors
Capt. William H. KempJames Olson
Clementine TaplinCatherine Schell
J.J. HubbardWarren Mitchell
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The Illustrated Man

IMDB Rating: 5.70
819 votes

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A man, whose body is almost completely covered in tattoos, is looking for the woman who drew all the intricate designs on him. Each tattoo hides a futuristic story, which you experience when you stare at it.
Actors
CarlRod Steiger
FeliciaClaire Bloom
WillieRobert Drivas
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They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

IMDB Rating: 7.80
4463 votes

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Gloria (Jane Fonda) is a young woman of the Depression. She has aged beyond her years and feels her life is hopeless, having been cheated and betrayed many times in her past. Fantasizing about movies, she sees herself as an actress and decides to head for Hollywood, having got the idea from a movie magazine while recuperating in the hospital from a suicide attempt which resulted from another unhappy love affair. Robert (Michael Sarrazin), a desperate Hollywood citizen unsuccessfully trying to become a director, never doubting that he'll eventually make it. Robert and Gloria meet and decide to enter a dance marathon, one of the crazes of the thirties. The grueling dancing takes its toll on Gloria's already weakened spirit, and she tells Robert that she'd be better off dead, that her life is hopeless - all the while acting cruel and bitter, alienating those around her, trying to convince him to shoot her and put her out of her misery. After all, they shoot horses, don't they?
Actors
Gloria BeattyJane Fonda
Robert SyvertonMichael Sarrazin
Alice LeBlancSusannah York
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The Assassination Bureau

IMDB Rating: 6.30
590 votes

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For her first assignment a lady journalist tracks down the head of an organisation offering to kill, for money, people deserving of such a fate. She thinks herself very clever when he agrees to take a contract with himself as the target. What she doesn't know is that her paper's owner is second-in-command in the Bureau and has his own reasons for supporting her challenge.
Actors
Ivan DragomiloffOliver Reed
Sonya WinterDiana Rigg
Lord BostwickTelly Savalas
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Hello, Dolly!

IMDB Rating: 6.70
3440 votes

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Film adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical. Concerns itself with Dolly Levi, a New York-based matchmaker who merrily arranges things... like furniture and daffodils and lives. A widow, she has found herself in love with a "half-a-millionaire" Yonkers merchant named Horace Vandergelder. So she proceeds to weave a web of romantic complications involving him, his two clerks, a pretty milliner and her assistant. Eventually, of course, all is sorted out, and everyone ends up with the right person.
Actors
Dolly LeviBarbra Streisand
Horace VandergelderWalter Matthau
Cornelius HacklMichael Crawford
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Rascal

IMDB Rating: 6.50
82 votes

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A comedy filled with tenderness as a baby raccoon snuggles his way into the life of a lonely boy. He becomes the boy's only companion during his father's frequent absences. Because of Rascal, both father and son realize their responsibility to each other.
Actors
Willard NorthSteve Forrest
Sterling NorthBill Mumy
Theo NorthPamela Toll
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The Wild Bunch

IMDB Rating: 8.10
16695 votes

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A few months before World War I, an aging band of outlaws led by Pike Bishop rob a Texas bank intent on using the money to retire. When the robbery goes wrong, the gang is forced to flee to Mexico with Bishop's reformed ex-partner, Deke Thornton, in hot pursuit. With nothing to show for the failed robbery, Bishop's gang agrees to steal a shipment of guns for General "Mapache" Juerta, to restore their fortunes. With Thornton closing in, and their association with the evil Juerta trying their conscience, Bishop and co. prepare for their lawless past to catch up with them.
Actors
Pike BishopWilliam Holden
Dutch EngstromErnest Borgnine
Deke ThorntonRobert Ryan
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