Movies 1969 Page 44

A group of gangsters escape from prison and attempt to destroy a rival organisation holed up in a convent in Mexico.

When the Gang decide to be helpful, something is bound to go wrong. They borrow a ladder unknowingly from a decorator, who attempts to climb out of...

Captures the work of completely modernising and remodelling the track and signal approaches to Paddington Station in five weeks, showing the...

Frugality can be a virtue, but for Schneider Nörig this virtue seems to have turned into avarice. For him, pancakes with two kinds of jam are a...

Following his car crash, Wanda and Greta kidnap the semi-conscious Sylvester into their place. He is then tied up to a bed, hypnotized, whipped and...

Frankie McCoy (Ken Shorter) is a born loser from the Sydney suburb of Newtown, and a gambler and a bit of an SP bookie. When he's conscripted into...

A woman has several lovers, her husband discovers her with one of them, and both men are mistaken for robbers.

In a fancy villa, a young man and a nude youth cruise each other but never touch.

All could have gone smoothly if George, the man Jane, a beautiful library assistant, met in a park, had not been bitten by a dog. But the sight of...

A married man with mother expected every day and especially forward to the arrival of the night to let off steam in a nightclub and escape from the...

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front...

The Rehearsal is a 1969 short comedy, written and directed by Stephen F. Verona. It is a humorous short where a director becomes frustrated with a...

The uneven gait of one soldier forces the entire army to conform to his unusual way of marching.

Produced through a grant at the American Film Institute, an adaptation of the Chekhov short story set in contemporary New York.

Two friends who used to study physics together are forced to make tough decisions as their lives take different paths.

1969 documentary looking at the fortunes of two football managers, at opposite ends of the football league - Bertie Mee of First Division title...

A man escapes from a city to the bosom of nature. The problem is that he takes a lot of things with him. He would like to be free as a bird, but the...

A “Cinéastes de notre temps” series episode directed by french film critic André S. Labarthe, originally aired 12 May 1969.

This short film by Les Blank with Skip Gerson features the charismatic legendary blues icon Lightnin' Hopkins sing a beautiful song about a...

Sexual satire about a young farmer who has had many bad experiences with women. He showers love and affection upon his pet pig, Amanda, saying she...

A girl, Carol Lee, adopts a mischievous crow, but has to work hard to keep it from being shot by a farmer who hates crows.

The adventures of a cat who endures the indignation of a busy family and the dangers of being lost in a big city.

A scientist develops an unusual pair of eyeglasses which allows the wearer's mind to see things objectively rather than the usual subjective manner.

‘625' operates with changing blurs of TV screen rasters, filmed off the TV set and negatively reproduced, and made up of 625 lines. The sound is...

Aardvark's computer contraption that he consults for advice on how to catch the Ant only guides the Aardvark through an exercise of painful futility.

Experimental film, Polke plays Polke, Christof Kohlhöfer is behind the camera. Together, the artists present abstruse scenarios and breathe a secret...

An observational slice of life with two boys in a Japanese American community, quietly charting routine, play, and friendship.

The game of the false lion is a custom dating back more than a century. It is believed that only the people who have been touched by the lion can...

This last gasp of the grindhouse "Olga" series is a tossed off shrug of a movie that nonetheless entertains in a tacky, surreal style. Audrey...

"Two repetitive, banal rhythmic acts - as it were from the observe and reverse of a phenakistiscope disk - factored and expanded into a cinema...

Cruel, conniving Norma Sue returns to her backwoods hometown with her stud lover to wreak havoc on the local denizens. Her main target is her...

A pioneering documentary in 1969, looking at the situation of gay men in the UK two years after the 1967 Reform Act, and revealing how attitudes have...

A psycho sex-fiend keeps his infantile girlfriend Vicky in Submission with candy bars, toys and, yes, hot wax. But when they plan on killing a...

A bowl of blueberries in milk, changing light radiant on the berries and on the glazed bowl, the ever more radiant orb of milk transforming into...

A nerdy guy mixes up a magic formula and becomes invisible whenever he sneezes. He uses his power of invisibility to sneak into his neighbors'...

A harrowing, gorgeous, in-your-face-and-mind 45-minute black-and-white film by Marty Topp, produced by Ira Cohen for Universal Mutant. “Marty...

Edith Head exhibits her process for the costume design for "Sweet Charity" (1969)