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When Sweet Moonlight Is Sleeping in the Hills

Based on a book by Eric Malpass and directed by Kurt Hoffmann, the film focuses on the everyday life of a German family perceived through the eyes of its youngest member — six-year-old Gaylord.

NR

5

1969 Comedy 98 min Play

6.5

Charles, Dead or Alive

On the 100th anniversary of the founding of a watchmaking company in Geneva, Charles Dé the founder's 50-year-old grandson has had it: he speaks eccentrically to a reporter, recognizing his grandfather as a craftsman and his son as a businessman, but is evasive about himself. He gives his family the slip and moves in with a young couple he meets by chance, doing the cooking, reading, drinking, and engaging in philosophical discussions with them. The young couple comes to love Charles. In ...

NR

6.5

1969 Drama 93 min Play

7.2

That Cold Day in the Park

Frances Austen, whose well-appointed apartment overlooks a park in Vancouver, one cold day, observes a rain-soaked young man on a park bench whom she assumes is homeless. Hoping to repress her loneliness, Frances invites ‘the boy’ inside her home to get warm and ends up encouraging him to stay. The young man accepts her every hospitality—food, clothes, profuse conversation, and a room of his own. Little does she realize that her guest is not the person he appears to be. Nor, for that ...

R

7.2

1969 Drama 113 min Play

5.5

The Challenges

Los desafíos presents three separate stories that are linked by an American presence in Spain in the 1960s, with Dean Selmier playing the role of the American male in all three.

NR

5.5

1969 Drama 102 min Play

3.6

It’s Alive!

A farmer traps three people in a cave with his pet prehistoric monster.

NR

3.6

1969 Horror 80 min Play

7.3

The Man with the Glass Eye

A pool-hall is used as the front for a white slavery ring.

NR

7.3

1969 Crime 87 min Play

7.3

Winter

While working on a documentary about the city of Bruges, an artistically frustrated filmmaker must deal with the increasing difficulties in his marriage.

NR

7.3

1969 Drama 78 min Play

5.9

Destroy, She Said

In a secluded hotel circumscribed by a dense forest Max and Alissa Thor meet Stein and Elisabeth. Max, a professor of future history and an aspiring author, is immediately attracted to the brooding wife of industrialist Bernard Alione, Elisabeth, who is recovering from a miscarriage. Stein, a German Jew and potential writer, is infatuated by Alissa, Max's young wife and former student. During their sojourn the guests' identities gradually meld. While playing cards, for example, each guest ...

NR

5.9

1969 Drama 94 min Play

6.5

Coming Apart

A psychiatrist secretly films his female patients as an experiment; he pushes both him and his customers in ways that induce his own mental breakdown.

NR

6.5

1969 Drama 110 min Play

5

Sisters in Leather

A husband is blackmailed by 3 lesbian bikers after they spot him having sex with another woman in a convertible. They then take the man's wife out for a picnic and some nude motorcycle riding. The husband finds some male bikers and together they try to save his wife from becoming a lesbian biker.

NR

5

1969 Action 64 min Play

5

The Flaming Rocks Treasure

A very creative young boy Fedka is telling o his friends the story - with everything in it: pirates, exotic islands and a lot of adventures...

NR

5

1969 Adventure 80 min Play

7.1

Till Death Us Do Part

The film version of 'Till Death Do Us Part' tells the story of Alf Garnett, his wife Else, and their newborn daughter Rita, living through the London Blitz and beyond.

PG-13

7.1

1969 Comedy 100 min Play

7

A Touch of Love

Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the British Museum, becomes pregnant after a brief affair with a television newsreader. Against the advice of her best friend, Lydia, Rosamund chooses to keep the baby and adjusts her life to include both her studies and her pregnancy. However, when the baby is born, an unforeseen complication threatens the self-sufficient life Rosamund plans for herself.

NR

7

1969 Drama 107 min Play

5.9

The Tough and the Mighty

Based on the story of real life Sardinian bandit Graziano Mesina.

NR

5.9

1969 Action 0 min Play

7.1

Double Suicide

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.

NR

7.1

1969 Drama 105 min Play

6.5

The Master of Taiga

Based on the story of Boris Mozhayev “The Power of the Taiga”. In the taiga village, where everyone is in sight, almost unbelievable happens — a local store is robbed. One of the rafters of the forest is recognized as a hacker. But some “inconsistencies” haunt the young precinct Vasily Seryozhkin. And in the end, he goes on the trail of the true participants in the crime...

NR

6.5

1969 Crime 79 min Play

7.6

Umka

White little bear hides from his mother friendship with a human who smells smoke.

NR

7.6

1969 Animation 10 min Play

6

Old Man Made in Spain

A widow shepherd who lives at the Aragonese Pyrenees sees how his three young daughters, Cándida, Visi, and Nieves, go to Madrid to find a better life and leave him alone. There they all get married, have sons and forget their father. One day, Marcelino receives a letter from Cándida, who wants him to stay with her family for some time. What she really wants is some help from her father, as she's not able to take care of her ten daughters and her upcoming child. Marcelino goes to Madrid, ...

NR

6

1969 Comedy 90 min Play

6

The Devil by the Tail

In this comedy, a run-down hotel drums up customers by sabotaging passing cars. The stuck motorists are then obliged to stay. Unfortunately, one of the sabotaged cars belongs to a bank robber. The hotel staff wants the robber out, but they also want to keep his ill-gotten money.

NR

6

1969 Comedy 90 min Play

5.8

That Splendid November

In the most traditional Sicilian, a 18 year old is in full arousal. His relationship with breathtaking mature woman will create a great controversy in the retrograde Sicilian society.

NR

5.8

1969 Drama 95 min Play

5.3

The Over-the-Hill Gang

Capt. Oren Hayes, a retired Texas Ranger, while visiting his daughter, finds that her husband is running for mayor against corrupt town boss, Nard Lundy. Lundy has no intention of allowing the free election of an honest man, so he has his henchmen do some dirty dealing. Hayes then calls for the help of some of his old buddies in the Rangers. Upon arriving in town, they realize quickly that age has caught up with them and they must rely on their sheer wits, and even some underhandedness, to ...

PG-13

5.3

1969 Comedy 75 min Play

6.2

79 Springs

This film memorializes the leader of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, on the occasion of his death. It narrates the story of a life which is also the story of a nation-recounting his important accomplishments in the struggle against colonialism and imperialism.

NR

6.2

1969 Documentary 25 min Play

7.2

Larks on a String

Set in the late 1940s, the film concerns the treatment of suspect "bourgeois elements", a professor, a saxophonist, and a milkman, who are put to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation.

NR

7.2

1969 Drama 94 min Play

6.9

The Arch

A widow upholds feudal virtue by suppressing her love for a cavalry captain in favor of her daughter.

NR

6.9

1969 Drama 103 min Play