This is a list of American films released in 1968 .
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Oliver! won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
This is a list of American films released in 1968 .
Oliver! won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers! | Russ Meyer | Anne Chapman, Lavelle Roby | Drama | Independent |
| Flesh | Paul Morrissey | Patti D'Arbanville | Comedy | produced by Andy Warhol |
| In the Year of the Pig | Emile de Antonio | Gerald Ford, Dwight D. Eisenhower | Documentary | |
| Monterey Pop | D. A. Pennebaker | Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Simon & Garfunkel, The Mamas & the Papas, Jefferson Airplane, The Who | Documentary | From the 1967 Monterey Pop music festival |
| The Movie Orgy | Joe Dante | Documentary | ||
| She-Devils on Wheels | Herschell Lewis | Betty Connell | Biker film | |
| Vixen! | Russ Meyer | Erica Gavin | Sexploitation | |
| Walk the Angry Beach | John Hayes | Rue McClanahan | Drama | |
| The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield | Joel Holt | Jayne Mansfield | Documentary | |
| Wild 90 | Norman Mailer | Norman Mailer, Buzz Farbar, Mickey Knox | Experimental | |
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