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Movies Set in the 1960s

Kinora's catalogue lists 54 films set in the 1960s, spanning 1960–2019. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.

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  • 1963

    Italy — 1960s
    Rural · Urbandir. Federico Fellini
  • 1991

    A Brighter Summer Day

    Taipei — 1950s · 1960s
    Urbandir. Edward Yang
  • 1979

    Apocalypse Now

    Vietnam · Cambodia — 1960s
    Wilderness · Ruraldir. Francis Ford Coppola
  • 1966

    Au Hasard Balthazar

    France — 1960s
    Rural · Mountaindir. Robert Bresson
  • 1967

    Belle de Jour

    Paris — 1960s
    Urban · Mountaindir. Luis Buñuel
  • 1966

    Black Girl

    Dakar · France — 1960s
    Urbandir. Ousmane Sembène
  • 1966

    Blow-Up

    London — 1960s
    Urbandir. Michelangelo Antonioni
  • 1960

    Breathless

    Paris · Marseille — 1950s · 1960s
    Urbandir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • 2005

    Brokeback Mountain

    Wyoming · Texas — 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
    Rural · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Ang Lee
  • 2005

    Caché

    Paris — 2000s · 1960s
    Urbandir. Michael Haneke
  • 2002

    Catch Me If You Can

    New York City · France · Miami — 1960s · 1970s
    Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
  • 1988

    Cinema Paradiso

    Sicily · Rome — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1980s
    Rural · Urbandir. Giuseppe Tornatore
  • 2002

    City of God

    Rio de Janeiro — 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
    Urbandir. Fernando Meirelles
  • 1962

    Cléo from 5 to 7

    Paris — 1960s
    Urbandir. Agnès Varda
  • 2000

    Dancer in the Dark

    Washington State — 1960s
    Rural · Suburbandir. Lars von Trier
  • 1964

    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    1960s
    Urban · Wildernessdir. Stanley Kubrick
  • 1993

    Farewell My Concubine

    Beijing — 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
    Urbandir. Chen Kaige
  • 1970

    Five Easy Pieces

    Los Angeles · Washington State — 1960s · 1970s
    Rural · Coastal Sea · Urban · Islanddir. Bob Rafelson
  • 1994

    Forrest Gump

    Alabama · New York City · Washington DC — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
    Rural · Urbandir. Robert Zemeckis
  • 1987

    Full Metal Jacket

    Vietnam — 1960s
    Urban · Ruraldir. Stanley Kubrick
  • 2012

    Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1

    Dhanbad — 1940s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
    Urban · Ruraldir. Anurag Kashyap
  • 1990

    GoodFellas

    New York City — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
    Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
  • 1978

    Halloween

    Haddonfield — 1960s · 1970s
    Suburbandir. John Carpenter
  • 1963

    High and Low

    Yokohama — 1960s
    Urbandir. Akira Kurosawa
  • 1967

    In the Heat of the Night

    Sparta — 1960s
    Rural · Urbandir. Norman Jewison
  • 2000

    In the Mood for Love

    Hong Kong · Singapore — 1960s
    Urbandir. Wong Kar-Wai
  • 2013

    Inside Llewyn Davis

    New York City · Chicago — 1960s
    Urbandir. Joel Coen
  • 1960

    L'Avventura

    Sicily · Rome — 1960s
    Coastal Sea · Island · Urban · Ruraldir. Michelangelo Antonioni
  • 1960

    La Dolce Vita

    Rome — 1950s · 1960s
    Urban · Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Federico Fellini
  • 1967

    Le Samouraï

    Paris — 1960s
    Urbandir. Jean-Pierre Melville
  • 1992

    Malcolm X

    Omaha · Boston · New York City · Chicago — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
    Urbandir. Spike Lee
  • 1968

    Memories of Underdevelopment

    Havana — 1960s
    Urbandir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
  • 1975

    Mirror

    Russia — 1930s · 1940s · 1960s · 1970s
    Rural · Urbandir. Andrei Tarkovsky
  • 2012

    Moonrise Kingdom

    1960s
    Island · Wilderness · Ruraldir. Wes Anderson
  • 1984

    Once Upon a Time in America

    New York City — 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1960s
    Urbandir. Sergio Leone
  • 2019

    Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

    Los Angeles — 1960s
    Urban · Suburbandir. Quentin Tarantino
  • 1975

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    Oregon — 1960s
    Urbandir. Miloš Forman
  • 2019

    Pain and Glory

    Madrid · Valencia — 1960s · 1980s · 2010s
    Urban · Ruraldir. Pedro Almodóvar
  • 1966

    Persona

    1960s
    Urban · Coastal Seadir. Ingmar Bergman
  • 1967

    PlayTime

    Paris — 1960s
    Urbandir. Jacques Tati
  • 1980

    Raging Bull

    New York City · Florida — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
    Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
  • 1968

    Rosemary's Baby

    New York City — 1960s
    Urbandir. Roman Polanski
  • 1978

    The Deer Hunter

    Saigon — 1960s · 1970s
    Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Michael Cimino
  • 1991

    The Double Life of Véronique

    Kraków · Paris · Clermont-Ferrand — 1960s · 1990s
    Urbandir. Krzysztof Kieślowski
  • 1967

    The Graduate

    Los Angeles · Santa Barbara — 1960s
    Suburban · Urbandir. Mike Nichols
  • 2014

    The Grand Budapest Hotel

    1930s · 1960s · 1980s
    Urban · Mountain · Ruraldir. Wes Anderson
  • 2019

    The Irishman

    Philadelphia · Chicago · Detroit — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s · 2000s
    Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
  • 1994

    The Shawshank Redemption

    Maine — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
    Urban · Ruraldir. Frank Darabont
  • 2011

    The Tree of Life

    Waco · Dallas — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 2010s · Far Future
    Suburban · Urban · Off Worlddir. Terrence Malick
  • 1964

    The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

    Cherbourg — 1950s · 1960s
    Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Jacques Demy
  • 1962

    Viridiana

    1960s
    Ruraldir. Luis Buñuel
  • 1971

    Wake in Fright

    Australia — 1960s
    Rural · Desert · Wildernessdir. Ted Kotcheff
  • 1971

    Walkabout

    Australia — 1960s · 1970s
    Wilderness · Desert · Urbandir. Nicolas Roeg
  • 2007

    Zodiac

    San Francisco · California — 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
    Urban · Ruraldir. David Fincher

Frequently asked

How many movies are set in the 1960s?

Kinora's catalogue lists 54 films set in the 1960s, spanning 1960–2019.

What are some movies set in the 1960s?

Films set in the 1960s in our catalogue include 8½ (1963), A Brighter Summer Day (1991), Apocalypse Now (1979), Au Hasard Balthazar (1966), and Belle de Jour (1967).

What is the oldest movie set in the 1960s?

Breathless (1960) is the earliest film set in the 1960s in our catalogue; the most recent is The Irishman (2019).

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