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.
J A N U A R 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
F E B R U A R 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
M A R C H	5	The Big Bounce	Warner Bros.	Alex March (director); Ryan O'Neal, Leigh Taylor-Young, Van Heflin
	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.
A P R I 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); Suzanne Pleshette, Guy Stockwell, David Janssen
	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
	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
J U N 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); Gregory Peck, 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.
J U L 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
A U G U S 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
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
	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.
O C T O B E 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
N O V E M B E 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
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
	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

• 1969 in the United States