Best award winning movies with a captivating ending from 1969

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a captivating ending from 1969! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a captivating ending from 1969, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Z (1969)

Amidst a heated political climate, the opposition leader is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. When a magistrate finds evidence of a government cover-up, witnesses start to get targeted. A thinly-fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963, Z captures the outrage about the military junta that ruled Greece at the time.

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1969-02-26 | Thriller / Crime

Cast

Yves Montand, Irene Papas

Rating

rating icon 7.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #36 for
    critically acclaimed
  2. Ranked #50 for
    orwellian
  3. Ranked #51 for
    extraordinary

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2 Goodbye, Columbus (1969)

A Jewish man and a Jewish woman meet, and while attracted to each other, find that their worlds are very different. She is the archetypal Jewish American Princess — very emotionally involved with her parents' world and the world they have created for her, while he is much less dependent on his family. They begin an affair which brings more differences to the surface.

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1969-04-03 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw

Rating

rating icon 5.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #146 for
    great to watch with a loved one
  2. Ranked #148 for
    iconoclast
  3. Ranked #186 for
    head over heels

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3 Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

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1969-12-18 | Drama / History

Cast

Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #33 for
    Period Drama
  2. Ranked #80 for
    critically acclaimed
  3. Ranked #91 for
    Oscar nomination deserving

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4 Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

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1969-05-25 | Drama

Cast

Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman

Rating

rating icon 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #16 for
    scuzzy
  2. Ranked #41 for
    remarkable
  3. Ranked #76 for
    callow

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5 Machine Gun McCain (1969)

After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn of a ruthless mob runt's rebellion against a high level don. When McCain discovers that he's been betrayed and abandoned by his new employer, he retaliates with a high stakes Las Vegas casino heist that erupts into all-out war on the streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Neither blood, nor lust, nor wedding vows can come between McCain and his money ... or his machine gun.

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1969-04-01 | Drama / Action

Cast

John Cassavetes, Britt Ekland

Rating

rating icon 5.962
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #41 for
    professional directing
  2. Ranked #81 for
    colorful cinematography
  3. Ranked #83 for
    like Scarface

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6 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot Sundance Kid. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally catches up to Butch, Sundance and their gang. Chased doggedly by a special posse, the two decide to make their way to South America in hopes of evading their pursuers once and for all. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1998.

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1969-01-15 | Western

Cast

Paul Newman, Robert Redford

Rating

rating icon 7.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #22 for
    sepia tone
  2. Ranked #32 for
    remarkable
  3. Ranked #62 for
    Spaghetti Western

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7 Hello, Dolly! (1969)

Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's intended, and Horace's two clerks to travel to New York City.

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1969-12-12 | Music / Comedy

Cast

Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau

Rating

rating icon 6.913
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #28 for
    bloated
  2. Ranked #63 for
    tuneful
  3. Ranked #66 for
    memorable tune

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8 The Milky Way (1969)

Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.

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1969-02-28 | Comedy / Drama

Cast

Paul Frankeur, Laurent Terzieff

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #30 for
    impressionistic
  2. Ranked #49 for
    eschatological
  3. Ranked #53 for
    blasphemous

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9 The Damned (1969)

In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.

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1969-10-30 | Drama / History

Cast

Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #590 for
    with biblical reference
  2. Ranked #757 for
    diabolical
  3. Ranked #793 for
    Grand-Guignol

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10 Easy Rider (1969)

Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.

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1969-06-26 | Adventure / Drama

Cast

Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper

Rating

rating icon 7.074
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #34 for
    capturing the zeitgeist
  2. Ranked #63 for
    iconoclast
  3. Ranked #122 for
    lumberjack

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