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, talky, dramatic and intense films and TV shows about / with runaway, storytelling, friendship, mentor, unlikely friendships, dialogue, catastrophe, husband wife relationship, drinking and culture clash plots mostly in Drama, Biography and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as 1960s: The Help (2011), FEUD (2017), Grace of Monaco (2014), 11.22.63 (2016), Mad Men (2007), Aquarius (2015), The Troops of St. Tropez (1964), Hawaii Five-O (1968), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Brokeback Mountain (2005).

Best films

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Mad Men
Mad Men (2007)
Drama
USA
47 min.
 8.6
11.22.63
11.22.63 (2016)
Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
USA
60 min.
 8.2

New films

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Wildlife
Wildlife (2018)
Drama
USA
104 min.
 7.1
Cold War
Cold War (2018)
Drama, Music, Romance
Poland, France, UK
88 min.
 8.0

List of 1960s movies

The Help (2011)
 8.1
 377K
The Help
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, inspirational, uplifting, thought provoking, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: racism, maid, friendship, against the rules, exploitation, prejudice, master and servant, unlikely friendships, racial issues, adaptation, storytelling, justice ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 60s, year 1963
Place: mississippi, usa
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FEUD (2017)
 8.6
 13K
FEUD
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, melancholic, humorous, factual, thought provoking
Plot: feud, filmmaking, hollywood, woman, movie star, aging, actress, workplace problem, glory, family problems, awards show, jealousy ...
Time: 1960s
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Grace of Monaco (2014)
 5.7
 16K
Grace of Monaco
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy
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: sentimental, realistic, sincere, stylized, serious ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, supportive spouse, family relations, royal court, royal family, couple relations, politics, society, state affairs, mother daughter relationship, teaching the ways of the world, cinderella story ...
Time: 20th century, 1960s, 60s
Place: monte carlo, europe, french riviera
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11.22.63 (2016)
 8.2
 56K
11.22.63
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: An English teacher travels back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but discovers he is attached to the life he has made in a bygone era.
Style: stylized, suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: time travel, assassination, period piece, kennedy assassination, conspiracy, historical event, changing the past or future, surveillance, time, twists & turns, conspiracy theory, murder ...
Time: 20th century, 1960s, future, 50s, year 1963
Place: usa, dallas texas
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Mad Men (2007)
 8.6
 171K
Mad Men
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, captivating, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ambition, family problems, advertising agency, career, workplace, workplace intrigue, womanizer, crumbling marriage, boss and employee, sexism, urban, adultery ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 60s
Place: usa, new york
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Aquarius (2015)
 7.1
 9K
Aquarius
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, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police investigation, cult, missing person, hippie, police detective, crimes, policewoman, nickname, police, interrogation, working undercover, murder ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 60s, year 1968, year 1967 ...
Place: usa
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The Troops of St. Tropez (1964)
 7.2
 9K
The Troops of St. Tropez
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The ambitious police officer Cruchot (Louis de Funès) is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling ...
Style: humorous, funny, realistic, satirical, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: goofy hero, comedy of errors, incompetent police, gendarme, father daughter relationship, crime, fighting crime, rebellious daughter, overbearing, beach, nudist, art theft ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 60s
Place: france, french riviera, saint tropez, southern france, riviera ...
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Hawaii Five-O (1968)
 7.4
 5K
Hawaii Five-O
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant ...
Style: captivating, stylized, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: crimes, law enforcement, police detective, partners against crime, investigation, fighting crime, police investigation, multiple suspects, police protagonist, workplace, irish, suspect ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place: hawaii, usa
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Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
 7.7
 142K
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Fortune hunter Holly Golightly finds herself captivated by aspiring writer Paul Varjak, who's moved into her building on a wealthy woman's dime. As romance blooms between Paul and Holly, Doc Golightly shows up on the scene, revealing ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, sweet, witty, colourful ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: eccentricity, looking for love, romance, woman, love affair, fashion, life philosophy, jazz, love story, love triangle, loneliness, stereotypes ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 60s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, brazil
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
 8.7
 792K
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
Style: dramatic, compassionate, bleak, psychological, tragicomedy ...
Plot: mental institution, fighting the system, human spirit, freedom, friendship, troublemaker, character study, mental illness, dehumanization, doctors and patients, unlikely friendships, philosophy ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 60s
Place: oregon
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Brokeback Mountain (2005)
 7.7
 290K
Brokeback Mountain
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflicting with the lives they are supposed to live.
Style: touching, captivating, melancholic, sad, sexy ...
Plot: homosexuality, gay romance, gay relationship, gays and lesbians, love story, love, adultery, forbidden love, character study, stereotypes, life philosophy, depression ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 60s, 70s, 80s ...
Place: texas, usa, wyoming, mexico
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Hidden Figures (2016)
 7.8
 156K
Hidden Figures
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: dramatic, factual, inspirational, interesting, light ...
Plot: nasa, racism, mathematics, space program, segregation, prejudice, women, race issues, workplace, space travel, mentor, science ...
Time: 1960s, year 1961
Place: langley virginia, virginia
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American Graffiti (1973)
 7.5
 72K
American Graffiti
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, sentimental, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: small town, innocence lost, friendship, radio, coming of age, teenager, high school, dance, oldies, college, geek, buddies ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 60s, 1950s, year 1962
Place: california, usa
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Quadrophenia (1979)
 7.3
 15K
Quadrophenia
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, stylized, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: working class, motorcycle, music, coming of age, rock, rock and roll, rebellion, drug abuse, adolescence, drugs, hotel, estrangement ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 60s, year 1965
Place: england, london, europe, scotland, brighton ...
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Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
 7.8
 280K
Moonrise Kingdom
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: stylized, surreal, atmospheric, witty, offbeat ...
Audience: kids
Plot: island, adolescence, childhood, coming of age, children, runaway, first love, orphan, surrealism, social misfits, storytelling, deadpan ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 60s, year 1965
Place: new england, usa
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Love & Mercy (2014)
 7.4
 31K
Love & Mercy
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, offbeat, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot: mental illness, music, genius, schizophrenia, drug abuse, psychology, friendship, loneliness, drinking, death, mentor, rock and roll ...
Time: 1960s, 80s, 20th century, 60s, 70s ...
Place: california, usa, new jersey, malibu california
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A Single Man (2009)
 7.6
 97K
A Single Man
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: touching, stylized, gloomy, serious, psychological ...
Plot: gay, death, loneliness, depression, suicide, homosexuality, friendship, drinking, transformation, redemption, life & death, male nudity ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 60s, year 1962, 1940s
Place: california, usa, los angeles, denver colorado, santa monica california
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Scandal (1989)
 6.5
 4K
Scandal
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: betrayal, politics, british, rise and fall, political, runaway, corruption, social differences, political corruption, pornography, drinking, world politics ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, 1950s
Place: england, europe, california, london
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Made in Dagenham (2010)
 7.2
 13K
Made in Dagenham
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, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: idealism, workplace, working class, rebellion, fighting the system, discrimination, revolution, politics, feminism, justice, drinking, friendship ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 60s, year 1966, year 1968 ...
Place: england, europe, london, michigan
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Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
 8.4
 263K
Once Upon a Time in America
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA, Canada
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: epic, atmospheric, serious, melancholic, enigmatic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: crime, gangsters, prohibition, friendship, rape, organized crime, gangster, gunfight, violence, brutality, betrayal, mafia ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 1960s, 20s, 30s ...
Place: new york, usa
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Across the Universe (2007)
 7.4
 99K
Across the Universe
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: stylized, surreal, offbeat, serious, lyrical ...
Audience: date night
Plot: music, idealism, romance, rebellion, artist, anti war, loneliness, young lovers, rock, drugs/alcohol, protest, revolution ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 60s
Place: new york, usa, seaport, california, manhattan new york city ...
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Animal House (1978)
 7.6
 101K
Animal House
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, realistic, witty, not serious, funny ...
Audience: teens, teen comedy
Plot: college, rebellion, drinking, beer, revenge, road trip, virginity, buddies, rebelliousness, fraternity, chase, looking for sex ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 60s, year 1962
Place: pennsylvania
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Doubt (2008)
 7.5
 110K
Doubt
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, dramatic ...
Plot: school, sexual abuse, guilt, teacher, morality, religion, storytelling, clergy, catholicism, sisters, moral ambiguity, child abuse ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 60s, year 1964
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
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All the Way (2016)
 7.3
 11K
All the Way
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: dramatic, factual, intense, melancholic, interesting ...
Plot: politics, political, president, racism, race issues, assassination, assassin, mentor, corruption, surveillance, conspiracy, courage ...
Time: 1960s
Place: new jersey, california, vietnam, texas, usa ...
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Zodiac (2007)
 7.7
 370K
Zodiac
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are ...
Style: tense, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, mystery, investigation, crime, murder, police, murder mystery, uncover truth, paranoia, obsession, violence, code ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 60s, 70s, year 1979 ...
Place: california, san francisco, usa, oakland california
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That Thing You Do! (1996)
 6.9
 55K
That Thing You Do!
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
Style: touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: music, radio, music band, music business, jazz, rock and roll, buddies, creativity, rags to riches, mentor, musician's life, rising to stardom ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 60s
Place: pennsylvania, ohio, usa
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White Squall (1996)
 6.6
 19K
White Squall
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage.
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, rough, dramatic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: coming of age, adventure, friendship, survival, ocean or sea, mentor, adolescence, unlikely friendships, coming-of-age, danger, childhood, courage ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 60s, year 1960, year 1961
Place: caribbean, jamaica, west indies
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In the Mood for Love (2000)
 8.1
 99K
In the Mood for Love
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A melancholy story about the love between a woman and a man who live in the same building and one day find out that their husband and wife had an affair with each other. More and more the two meet during their daily lives as they determine that they ...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, melancholic, serious, meditative ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, loneliness, romance, marriage, neighbor, newspaper, love, relationships, love story, love affair, urban ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 60s, year 1966, year 1962
Place: hong kong, asia, shanghai, singapore, cambodia ...
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A Driver for Vera (2004)
 7.2
 2K
A Driver for Vera
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The film is set during 1962 in Sevastopol, Crimea, then a secret Navy Base in the Soviet Union. General Serov hires Viktor, a cadet from the Kremlin Guard to work as his private chauffeur. In a jet-black "ZIM" limo, Viktor is chauffeuring ...
Style: dramatic, realistic, suspenseful, serious, brutal
Plot: unwanted pregnancy, father daughter relationship, kgb, social relations, family relations, young soldier, outcast, stranded, tragedy, driver, young man, handicapped ...
Time: 1960s
Place: soviet union
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Selma (2014)
 7.5
 75K
Selma
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: realistic, serious, sincere, dramatic, factual ...
Plot: racism, president, politics, idealism, courage, tragedy, violence, death, leadership, segregation, slavery, race issues ...
Time: 1960s, 20th century, 60s, year 1964, year 1965 ...
Place: alabama, usa
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