Movies Set in California in the 1960s

Kinora's catalogue lists 24 films set in California in the 1960s, spanning 1962–2022. 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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• 2000

  Almost Famous

  San Diego · San Francisco · New York City — 1960s · 1970s
  Urbandir. Cameron Crowe
• 1973

  American Graffiti

  Modesto — 1960s
  Urbandir. George Lucas
• 1968

  Bullitt

  San Francisco — 1960s
  Urbandir. Peter Yates
• 1980

  Coal Miner's Daughter

  Kentucky · Nashville · Los Angeles — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Ruraldir. Michael Apted
• 1979

  Escape from Alcatraz

  San Francisco — 1960s
  Island · Coastal Seadir. Don Siegel
• 2019

  Ford v Ferrari

  Le Mans · Los Angeles — 1960s
  Urbandir. James Mangold
• 1967

  Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

  San Francisco — 1960s
  Urbandir. Stanley Kramer
• 1963

  It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

  California — 1960s
  Desert · Ruraldir. Stanley Kramer
• 2019

  Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

  Los Angeles — 1960s
  Urbandir. Quentin Tarantino
• 1967

  Point Blank

  Los Angeles · San Francisco — 1960s
  Urbandir. John Boorman
• 1966

  Seconds

  Scarsdale · Malibu — 1960s
  Suburban · Coastal Seadir. John Frankenheimer
• 1992

  Sneakers

  San Francisco — 1960s · 1990s
  Urbandir. Phil Alden Robinson
• 1996

  That Thing You Do!

  Erie · Los Angeles — 1960s
  Urbandir. Tom Hanks
• 1963

  The Birds

  Bodega Bay — 1960s
  Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 2022

  The Fabelmans

  New Jersey · Phoenix · Los Angeles — 1950s · 1960s
  Suburban · Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
• 2016

  The Founder

  Illinois · California — 1950s · 1960s
  Suburbandir. John Lee Hancock
• 1967

  The Graduate

  Los Angeles — 1960s
  Suburbandir. Mike Nichols
• 1968

  The Party

  Los Angeles — 1960s
  Suburbandir. Blake Edwards
• 1983

  The Right Stuff

  California · Space — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Desert · Off Worlddir. Philip Kaufman
• 1993

  The Sandlot

  Los Angeles — 1960s
  Suburbandir. David Mickey Evans
• 2005

  The World's Fastest Indian

  Invercargill · Los Angeles · Utah — 1960s
  Rural · Desert · Urbandir. Roger Donaldson
• 1962

  What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

  Los Angeles — 1960s · 1910s · 1930s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. Robert Aldrich
• 1993

  What's Love Got to Do with It

  St. Louis · Los Angeles · Tennessee — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Brian Gibson
• 2007

  Zodiac

  San Francisco — 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. David Fincher