1960s movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant 1960s movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, intense, dramatic and melancholic films and TV shows about / with friendship, runaway, husband wife relationship, storytelling, mentor, catastrophe, unlikely friendships, dialogue, death and culture clash plots mostly in Drama, Biography and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
1960s
TOP 10 movies tagged as 1960s: Across the Universe (2007), The Help (2011), Jackie (2016), Grace of Monaco (2014), Endeavour (2012), Quadrophenia (1979), Made in Dagenham (2010), The Magdalene Sisters (2002), Hidden Figures (2016), Love & Mercy (2014).
Best films
List of 1960s movies
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in America, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, a rich but sheltered American girl who joins the growing ...
Style:
stylized, surreal, captivating, realistic, intense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
anti war, freedom, political unrest, hippie, protest, vietnam war, cultural difference, fan, friendship, counterculture, romance, lifestyle ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1968
Place:
new york, liverpool, usa, manhattan new york city, california ...
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449K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's ...
Style:
touching, uplifting, thought provoking, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
racism, maid, friendship, master and servant, discrimination, hopes, civil rights, interracial relations, racial issues, social relations, racial segregation, human spirit ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1963
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa
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79K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, France, Chile, China, Germany, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
Style:
emotional, heartbreaking, suspense, disturbing, political ...
Plot:
kennedy assassination, president, assassination, kennedy family, american history, first lady, u.s. president, loss of husband, husband wife relationship, strong female character, female protagonist, widow ...
Time:
60s, year 1963
Place:
usa, washington d.c., america, texas, dallas texas ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early ...
Style:
realistic, stylized, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
state affairs, husband wife relationship, royal family, family relations, royal court, politics, society, political intrigue, supportive spouse, couple relations, teaching the ways of the world, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
monaco, monte carlo, europe, french riviera
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story:
The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
Style:
intellectual, serious, realistic, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
police detective, police investigation, talented, british, investigator, crimes, intelligence, murderer, police, coworker, uncover truth, who done it ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.
Style:
captivating, atmospheric, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
motorcycle, gang, youth, working class, coming of age, buddies, rock, teenage life, weekend, dancing, music, rocker ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1965, 70s
Place:
england, london, europe, scotland, woodstock ...
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
Style:
touching, realistic, semi serious, uplifting, factual ...
Plot:
discrimination, working class, injustice, protest, gender, factory, workplace, fighting the system, idealism, revolution, hopes, rebelliousness ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1970, year 1968, year 1966 ...
Place:
england, europe, london, united kingdom, michigan ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly ...
Style:
bleak, brutal, suspense, disturbing, rough ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
nun, convent, sexual harassment, punishment, sin, life is a bitch, corporal punishment, human spirit, mistreatment, violence against women, sexual abuse, society ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1964
Place:
ireland, europe, dublin ireland, latin america
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into ...
Style:
inspirational, sincere, factual, exciting, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
racism, mathematics, nasa, genius, strong female character, discrimination, space program, african american woman, racial segregation, stereotypes, sexism, prejudice ...
Time:
60s, year 1961, 20th century, year 1962
Place:
usa, virginia, langley virginia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The life of reclusive and eccentric Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson.
Style:
serious, emotional, factual, melancholic, talky ...
Plot:
mental illness, psychotherapist, musician, pop music, music, musician's life, power relations, artists and showbiz, addiction, doctors and patients, showbiz, drug abuse ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 70s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
usa, california, malibu california, los angeles, new jersey
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually elected to the ...
Style:
political, factual, realistic, tense, intense ...
Plot:
politics, civil rights movement, racial issues, usa president, racism, presidential election, civil rights, prejudice, kennedy assassination, african american, vietnam war, election campaign ...
Time:
60s, year 1963
Place:
texas, america, usa, vietnam, dallas texas ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage.
Style:
serious, emotional, rough, suspense, touching ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
sailing, storm at sea, coming of age, adventure, friendship, survival, catastrophe, sailboat, ocean, escapades, disaster, mentor ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1960, year 1961
Place:
jamaica, west indies, south america, cuba, florida ...
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a neighboring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music ...
Style:
feel good, stylized, light, factual, intense ...
Plot:
hippie, music festival, family business, free spirited, lifestyle, fish out of water, artists and showbiz, sexuality, generation gap, americana, small town, musician ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1969, 70s
Place:
woodstock, brooklyn new york city, new york, bangkok thailand, new york state ...
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91K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Civil Rights ...
Style:
serious, thought provoking, uplifting, sincere, factual ...
Plot:
racism, justice, politics, righting the wronged, civil rights movement, civil rights, racial segregation, human spirit, idealism, african american, fighting the system, discrimination ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1965, year 1963, year 1964
Place:
alabama, usa, boston, southern usa, birmingham alabama
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247K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
Style:
sentimental, touching, captivating, emotional, road movie ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
country music, musician's life, music, marriage, rock and roll, accident, musician, rise and fall, rising to stardom, addiction, divorce, loss of sibling ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 70s, 80s, 20th century ...
Place:
memphis, usa, germany, tennessee, arkansas ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. The neighborhood baseball guru Rodriquez takes Smalls under his wing. They fall into adventures involving baseball, treehouse sleep-ins, the ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, sentimental, semi serious, sweet ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
baseball, friendship, dog, team, unlikely friendships, sport, childhood, coming of age, family relations, kids and family, beast, adventure ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1962, 80s, 50s
Place:
utah, usa, california
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50K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Legendary performer Judy Garland arrives in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts.
Style:
tragic ending, sad, emotional, factual, stylized ...
Plot:
actress, female singer, singer, life is a bitch, life & death, hollywood, drug addict, ex husband ex wife relationship, custody battle, uptight character, older woman younger man relationship, mother child relationship ...
Time:
60s, 1930s, year 1969, year 1968
Place:
london
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The origin story of Bruce Wayne's legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth, a former British SAS soldier who forms a security company and goes to work with Thomas Wayne, Bruce's billionaire father, in 1960s London.
Style:
exciting, tense, bleak
Plot:
cia agent, secret society, ex special forces, murder, coup d'etat, good versus evil, loss of loved one, violence, crimes, chase, army, military officer ...
Time:
60s
Place:
england, london, britain, east end london, united kingdom
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
Style:
inspirational, uplifting, touching, stylized, compassionate ...
Plot:
gay lead character, gay relationship, lgbt, homosexual, gay slur, pianist, rising to stardom, singer, rock music, pop star, rock star, debauchery ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century, year 1970, year 1969 ...
Place:
los angeles, california, new york, london, australia ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, Denmark, Mexico, Germany, Switzerland, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous Wayuu family get involved in a booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thought provoking, factual, tense ...
Plot:
revenge, marijuana, murder, marriage, wealth, corruption, death, baby, money, humiliation, drug trade, smuggling ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 70s, year 1979, year 1968 ...
Place:
south america, colombia
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463K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, China
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line relied on ...
Style:
uplifting, feel good, road movie, captivating, funny ...
Plot:
friendship, racism, interracial friendship, road trip, prejudice, friend, journey, driver, racial prejudice, travel, blacks and whites, racial slur ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1962, 2010s
Place:
bronx new york city, southern usa, america, pittsburgh, birmingham alabama ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel "Incident at Muc Wa." It tells the story about U.S. Army military advisers during the early part of the Vietnam War. Led my Major Asa Barker, these ...
Style:
rough, serious, bleak, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
vietnam war, military life, haunted by the past, battles, military, idealism, political unrest, hopes, war, soldier, mercenary, death of protagonist ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s, year 1964
Place:
vietnam, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The unforgettable friendship between three people: an English teacher who travels to Almería when he hears that John Lennon is making a film there, a 16-year-old boy who has run away from home and a young girl who also seems to be running away from ...
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, road movie, gloomy ...
Plot:
on the road, on the run, hitchhiker, english teacher, escapades, introspection, teenage life, the beatles, road trip, coming of age, friendship, father son relationship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1966
Place:
spain, europe, madrid
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A recent high school graduate is faced with two options, either go to a business school where his father wants him to go to, or get a full time job. However he decides to defy his father and go to Hawaii. Trouble is he has no money. Along the way he ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sentimental, touching, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids
Plot:
coming of age, school, friendship, family relations, looking for sex, fall in love, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, high school life, teenage love, lifestyle, youth ...
Time:
60s, year 1962, 80s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, hawaii, new jersey, california
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style:
psychological, serious, captivating, emotional, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
mental illness, suicide, suicide attempt, psychiatrist, borderline personality disorder, psychiatric ward, coming of age, friendship, mental institution, mentally unstable, self harm, patient ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Depicts a heist of old bills, retired from circulation and destined by the government to be "money to burn". However, more broadly, it addresses the issues of Black Americans' involvement in the Vietnam War and their subsequent ...
Style:
tense, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
heist, vietnam war, militant, urban ghetto life, redemption, soldier, friendship, mercy killing, crimes, post traumatic stress disorder, civil rights, society ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, new york, bronx new york city, usa, asia ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often ...
Style:
serious, captivating, factual, intense, talky ...
Plot:
sex addict, friendship, filmmaking, tv show, hollywood, infidelity, rise and fall, adultery, addiction, crumbling marriage, showbiz, couple relations ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century, year 1964, year 1965
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, arizona
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103K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, twists and turns, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
private investigator, investigation, conspiracy, missing person, crimes, uncover truth, dishonesty, woman in danger, private detective, paranoia, obsession, drug abuse ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century, year 1967, year 1970
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, southern california
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Cowabunga! Catch a perfect wave of fun in the sun, splashed with excitement, surprises and budding romance. Life's a beach for surfers Brady (Ross Lynch) and McKenzie (Maia Mitchell) – until a rogue wave magically transports them inside the ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, light, sentimental
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
teenage life, teenage love, summer, rivalry, surfer, parallel world, time travel, self confidence, disorder, getting home, escapades, fish out of water ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century, year 1962
Place:
usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 231 min.
TV show
Story:
Burning Bush is a three-part mini-series created for HBO by world-renowned Polish director Agnieszka Holland. Based on real characters and events, this haunting drama focuses on the personal sacrifice of a Prague history student, Jan Palach, who set ...
Style:
bleak, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
rebellion, lawyer, european history, journalism, suicide, student, self sacrifice, russian, protest, revolution, rebelliousness, communism ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1969
Place:
czechoslovakia, europe, czech republic, central europe, prague
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