Best award winning movies with tough acting from 1969

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

1 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 #78 for
    callow

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2 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 7.082
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #34 for
    Period Drama
  2. Ranked #80 for
    critically acclaimed
  3. Ranked #91 for
    Oscar nomination deserving

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3 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 7.831
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #36 for
    critically acclaimed
  2. Ranked #51 for
    orwellian
  3. Ranked #52 for
    extraordinary

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4 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.

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1969-09-23 | Western / Comedy

Cast

Paul Newman, Robert Redford

Rating

rating icon 7.618
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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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5 Burn! (1969)

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.

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1969-12-21 | History / Drama

Cast

Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez

Rating

rating icon 6.791
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #143 for
    fey
  2. Ranked #167 for
    social realism
  3. Ranked #171 for
    gun-for-hire

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6 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 6.965
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #27 for
    bloated
  2. Ranked #63 for
    tuneful
  3. Ranked #66 for
    memorable tune

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7 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 7.075
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #34 for
    capturing the zeitgeist
  2. Ranked #61 for
    iconoclast
  3. Ranked #123 for
    lumberjack

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8 True Grit (1969)

The murder of her father sends a teenage tomboy on a mission of 'justice', which involves avenging her father's death. She recruits a tough old marshal, 'Rooster' Cogburn because he has 'true grit', and a reputation of getting the job done.

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1969-06-11 | Western

Cast

John Wayne, Glen Campbell

Rating

rating icon 7.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #105 for
    Spaghetti Western
  2. Ranked #113 for
    cantankerous
  3. Ranked #117 for
    horse opera

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9 Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)

Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth Oscar-nomination for this performance, is joined by '60s pop star Petula Clark and fellow Oscar-nominee Michael Redgrave.

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1969-11-05 | Drama / Music

Cast

Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #108 for
    soulful music
  2. Ranked #140 for
    vaudevillian
  3. Ranked #150 for
    memorable tune

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10 Salesman (1969)

This documentary from Albert and David Maysles follows the bitter rivalry of four door-to-door salesmen working for the Mid-American Bible Company: Paul "The Badger" Brennan, Charles "The Gipper" McDevitt, James "The Rabbit" Baker and Raymond "The Bull" Martos. Times are tough for this hard-living quartet, who spend their days traveling through small-town America, trying their best to peddle gold-leaf Bibles to an apathetic crowd of lower-middle-class housewives and elderly couples.

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1969-04-17 | Documentary

Cast

Paul Brennan, Charles McDevitt

Rating

rating icon 7.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #40 for
    cinema verite
  2. Ranked #127 for
    museum piece
  3. Ranked #150 for
    low-key approach

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