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, interesting, harsh, dramatic and talky films and TV shows about / with storytelling, mentor, runaway, friendship, culture clash, dialogue, husband wife relationship, unlikely friendships, destiny and drinking plots mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, Italy and other countries.
1960s
TOP 10 movies tagged as 1960s: The Help (2011), Hidden Figures (2016), Grace of Monaco (2014), Walk the Line (2005), White Squall (1996), Girl, Interrupted (1999), Green Book (2018), The Paperboy (2012), Mad Men (2007), Aquarius (2015).
Best films
List of 1960s movies
388K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, India, United Arab Emirates
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, master and servant, friendship, maid, discrimination, hopes, against the rules, social relations, interracial relations, exploitation, racial issues, storytelling ...
Time:
60s, 1960s, 20th century, year 1963
Place:
mississippi, usa
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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:
factual, touching, inspirational, light, sincere ...
Plot:
mathematics, discrimination, nasa, racism, scientist, space program, prejudice, african american woman, ends with biographical notes, friendship between women, strong female character, single mother ...
Time:
1960s, year 1961
Place:
langley virginia, virginia
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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:
stylized, sentimental, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
royal family, mother daughter relationship, royal court, family relations, couple relations, politics, society, state affairs, husband wife relationship, supportive spouse, cinderella story, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time:
1960s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
monte carlo, europe, french riviera
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211K
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:
musician's life, marriage, country music, music, couple relations, accident, rising to stardom, rise and fall, addiction, artists and showbiz, performer's life, loss of sibling ...
Time:
1960s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
usa, arkansas, germany, memphis, tennessee ...
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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:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, survival, friendship, sailing, danger, adventure, escapades, ocean or sea, mentor, catastrophe, life & death, male bonding ...
Time:
1960s, 20th century, 60s, year 1961, year 1960
Place:
caribbean, jamaica, west indies, cuba, connecticut ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
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, emotional, captivating, gloomy ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
mental illness, friendship, suicide, suicide attempt, psychiatrist, mentally unstable, coming of age, nurse, insanity, patient, teenage life, diary ...
Time:
1960s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
usa
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139K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
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:
road movie, feel good, uplifting, captivating, funny ...
Plot:
racism, friendship, musician, travel, prejudice, racial slur, black american, italian american, on the road, chauffeur, friend, violence ...
Time:
1960s, year 1962, 60s, 2010s
Place:
america, southern usa, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city, kentucky
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
death row, investigation, small town, dangerous attraction, reporter, prison, crimes, newspaper man, injustice, journalism, uncover truth, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1960s, contemporary, 60s, 20th century, 21st century ...
Place:
florida, usa
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177K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
Story:
Mad Men is set in the 1960s, initially at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City, and later at the newly created firm, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, located nearby in the Time-Life Building, at 1271 ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, stylized, clever, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
family problems, womanizer, workplace, advertising agency, ambition, career, office, advertising, sexism, workplace intrigue, cigarette smoking, urban ...
Time:
60s, 1960s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
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10K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
Story:
In the late 1960s, a Los Angeles police sergeant with a complicated personal life starts tracking a small-time criminal and budding cult leader seeking out vulnerable women to join his “cause.” The name of that man is Charles Manson.
Style:
stylized, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cult, missing person, police detective, police investigation, crimes, murder, hippie, policewoman, nickname, police, interrogation, party ...
Time:
1960s, 20th century, 60s, year 1969, year 1967 ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle, and nothing is ever the same for anyone in the Houseman family. Not only are the ...
Style:
romantic, entertaining, light, sweet
Plot:
love story, fall in love, forbidden love, adaptation, secret love, sister sister relationship, guilty pleasure, stereotypes, dance performance, unlikely couple, dancing, singing ...
Time:
1960s
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14K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
Anthology series of famous feuds with the first season based on the legendary rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford which began early on their careers, climaxed on the set of "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" and evolved into an ...
Style:
sincere, humorous, melancholic, thought provoking, factual
Plot:
feud, hollywood, filmmaking, movie star, woman, aging, actress, jealousy, glory, awards show, family problems, workplace problem ...
Time:
1960s
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
incest, sexuality, sexual relations, love and romance, friends, rebelliousness, lovers, rebellion, desire, protest, youth, strong sexual content ...
Time:
1960s, 60s, 20th century, year 1968
Place:
france, europe, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
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, rough, suspense, depressing, brutal ...
Plot:
sexual harassment, convent, nun, sexual abuse, human spirit, punishment, irish, life is a bitch, clergy, rebellion, humiliation, convent school ...
Time:
1960s, 20th century, 60s, year 1964
Place:
ireland, europe, latin america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
radio, car race, small town, friendship, coming of age, car, love at first sight, airplane, vandalism, robbery, radio station, innocence lost ...
Time:
1960s, 20th century, 60s, year 1962, 1950s
Place:
california, usa
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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:
bleak, serious, stylized, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, motorcycle, rocker, working class, music, youth, gang, rock, estrangement, music festival, crimes, urban ...
Time:
1960s, 20th century, 60s, year 1965
Place:
england, london, europe, brighton, woodstock ...
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14K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The true story of how the Parkes Radio Telescope was used to relay the live television of man's first steps on the moon, during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
Style:
touching, humorous, feel good, factual, suspense ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
nasa, space travel, outer space, moon landing, moon, small town, ambition, underdog, hopes, social relations, human spirit, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, 1960s, 60s
Place:
australia
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, 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:
surreal, stylized, offbeat, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
anti war, protest, freedom, vietnam war, university, police arrest, riot, cultural difference, artist, political unrest, music, friendship ...
Time:
1960s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
liverpool, new york, usa, seaport, greenwich village manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, road movie, epic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
treasure hunt, treasure, chase, race, money, car chase, on the road, desert, adventure, competition, nothing goes right, disorder ...
Time:
1960s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
california, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them ...
Style:
atmospheric, surreal, sentimental, humorous, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
childhood sweetheart, orphan, island, social misfits, teenage love, first love, camp, disappearance, search, search party, small town sheriff, depression ...
Time:
60s, 1960s, 20th century, year 1965
Place:
new england, usa, england
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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:
gloomy, serious, realistic, offbeat, melancholic ...
Plot:
mental illness, psychotherapist, nervous breakdown, pop music, therapist, musician, songwriter, music, showbiz, musician's life, doctors and patients, addiction ...
Time:
1960s, 20th century, 80s, 60s, 70s ...
Place:
usa, california, malibu california, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties she and her friend meet and date members of the Conservative Party. ...
Style:
clever, sexual, sexy, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
sex scandal, scandal, political corruption, betrayal, politics, rise and fall, member of parliament, social differences, social decay, dishonesty, society, state affairs ...
Time:
1960s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, 1950s
Place:
england, europe, california, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Adapted from a 1964 novel of the same name, the film follows a day in the life of George Falconer, a British college professor reeling with the recent and sudden loss of his longtime partner. This traumatic event makes George challenge his own will ...
Style:
psychological, touching, stylized, gloomy, serious ...
Plot:
gays and lesbians, haunted by the past, gay, tragic love, love and romance, homosexual, death, loneliness, teacher student relationship, depression, gender, suicidal ...
Time:
1960s, 20th century, 60s, year 1962, 1940s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, santa monica california, denver colorado
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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:
clever, touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
discrimination, working class, sewing machine, factory, injustice, idealism, gender, protest, feminism, workplace, rebellion, human spirit ...
Time:
1960s, 20th century, 60s, year 1968, year 1966 ...
Place:
england, europe, michigan, london
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 229 min.
Story:
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Style:
rough, atmospheric, sadistic, captivating, enigmatic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prohibition, gangsters, friendship, organized crime, torture, murder, rape, childhood friends, regret, corruption, criminal heroes, gangster ...
Time:
1930s, 30s, 1920s, 1960s, 60s ...
Place:
new york, usa
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104K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.
Style:
humorous, funny, witty, not serious, light ...
Audience:
teens, teen comedy
Plot:
college, rebelliousness, college freshman, looking for sex, chaos and mayhem, sex, rivalry, youth, probation, revenge, party, college campus ...
Time:
1960s, 20th century, 60s, year 1962, 80s
Place:
pennsylvania
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
Style:
erotic, serious, realistic, enigmatic, stylized ...
Plot:
opera, betrayal, culture clash, transvestism, communism, politics, romance, fall in love, opera singer, espionage, actor's life, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
1960s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
china, asia, europe, france, paris france ...
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243K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1971, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, suspense, factual, clever ...
Audience:
family outing, boys' night
Plot:
space travel, spacecraft, survival, race against time, rescue, nasa, space program, astronaut, moon, courage, against the odds, mission gone awry ...
Time:
1960s, 20th century, 60s, 70s, year 1969 ...
Place:
usa, florida, houston texas, wisconsin
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113K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In 1964, a Catholic school nun questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, suspecting him of abuse. He denies the charges, and much of the film's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality, and ...
Style:
realistic, clever, sincere, serious, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
clergy, nun, pedophile, school, boy, guilt, compassion, wine, tolerance, janitor, gift, singing ...
Time:
1960s, 20th century, 60s, year 1964
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
"Monica Z" is a biopic about the Swedish singer and actress Monica Zetterlund focusing on her journey from a job as a telephone operator in a small town in Sweden to stardom in the clubs of New York and Stockholm.
Style:
emotional, realistic, factual, uplifting, motivational ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
jazz singer, single mother, rising to stardom, ambition, nightclub singer, fame, follow your dream, father daughter relationship, drinking problem, jazz, relationship problems, family problems ...
Time:
1960s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
sweden, europe, usa, new york, stockholm sweden
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