205 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 1960s
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Get on Up
Georgia New York Massachusetts ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam ๐ซ๐ท France The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sThe Funk Don't Quit โ A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
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In the Crosswind
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940s The 1950s The 1960sJune 14, 1941, 3 a.m. Over 40000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are deported by Soviets to Siberia. Among them is a philosophy student Erna, a happily married mother of a little girl. Separated from her husband Erna and her daughter are dispatched together with other women and children to remote Siberian territories. Despite hunger, fear and brutal humiliation Erna never in next fifteen years loses her sense of freedom and hope of returning to homeland. The story is inspired by real events.
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The Look of Silence
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1960sA family that survives the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.
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Paradise in Service
๐น๐ผ Taiwan The 1970s The 1960sSet in the island Kinmen, often seen as the most dangerous military base because itโs geographically close to China, "Paradise in Service" follows the adventure of a boy who serves his military service in Unit 831 from 1969 to 1972, in preparation for a war that could erupt anytime. Through an unlucky lottery draw result, Pao, a twenty-something young man from Southern Taiwan has to serve the military in the remote and perilous Kinmen. Moreover, he is assigned to the Sea Dragon (ARB), a unit noted for the toughest physical training. It never occurs to Pao, however, that the greatest challenge in his military service lies not in the Sea Dragon but in Unit 831, a special task he is later appointed toโฆ In this peculiar assignment, Pao vows to keep his virginity against all odds.
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Phantom
๐ท๐บ Russia Pacific Ocean The 1960sYou will never see it coming. โ The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.
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Legend No. 17
๐ท๐บ Russia Quebec ๐ช๐ธ Spain Hokkaido Prefecture The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sBiopic of Russian ice hockey legend Valeri Kharlamov from early childhood, rising to the pinnacle of the sport and his untimely death
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Gagarin: First in Space
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1960sThe film is dedicated to the first steps of mankind on the path of space exploration and direct the fate of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The main motif - the fight for the right to be first: the competition in the first cosmonaut, competition in missile technology, the confrontation of superpowers - the USSR and the USA. In the first group of astronauts were selected from three thousand fighter pilots across the country. In twenty of the legendary got the best of the best. Which of them will fly first, no one knew. In this way, had to contend not only with the pull of the earth ...
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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan ๐ฎ๐น Italy Victoria The 1960s The 1950sNow you will see his Real Story. โ The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes.
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Friend: The Great Legacy
๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 1960s The 2010sThe unfinished story of a fateful day โ A sequel to Kwak Kyeong-taek's "Friend" in 2001, "Friends 2" is about three men who are gangsters based in the background of the year 1963 and 2010.
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For Love's Sake
๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 1970s The 1960sFor Love's Sake is a faith-based drama based on a true story. After the tragic death of her husband, Mary Walker falls into a spiral of suicidal depression and subsequently loses custody of her two boys. Through the intervention of her church community and a caring therapist, Mary regains her faith, experiences emotional healing, and finds the strength to fight a skeptical bureaucracy for custody of her children.
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Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States: Specials
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐บ๐ธ United States of America ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sOliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.
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My Way
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt ๐ซ๐ท France The 1970s The 1960sA biopic of French pop star Claude Francois, most famous for co-writing the song 'My Way'. Tracing his life from his childhood in Egypt through his success in France to his untimely death in Paris in 1978.
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The Sapphires
๐ป๐ณ Vietnam ๐ฆ๐บ Australia The 1960sFollow your heart. Discover your soul. โ It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when they entertain the US troops in Vietnam as singing group The Sapphires.
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Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sTERI KEH KE LUNGA ! โ Shahid Khan is exiled after impersonating the legendary Sultana Daku in order to rob British trains. Now outcast, Shahid becomes a worker at Ramadhir Singh's colliery, only to spur a revenge battle that passes on to generations. At the turn of the decade, Shahid's son, the philandering Sardar Khan vows to get his father's honor back, becoming the most feared man of Wasseypur.
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Always - Sunset on Third Street 3
Tokyo Prefecture The 1960sThe Tokyo Olympics are about to open, and Rynosuke Chagawa is excited to receive a new TV set to watch the upcoming events. His wife Hiromi is pregnant and he has built a second level on his shop to provide his adopted son Junnosuke with a private space to study for entrance to Tokyo University to set up a career with a major company. He dreams of sparing Junnosuke the struggles that he has faced as a writer. The family continues to rely upon Hiromi's income from her bar. Meanwhile a rival story, The Virus, by a new writer has appeared in the periodical that has been publishing his stories "Boy's Adventure Book" and he fears the new competition. Norifumi Suzuki also receives a new TV, but more of a deluxe model. Mutsuko Hoshino (Roku) is still the principal mechanic in the Suzuki family's auto repair shop, but she dresses up some mornings to go to a nearby street with the hope of a "chance" meeting with Dr...
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A Werewolf Boy
๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 1960s The 2010sYour hands are very warm. โ An unexpected phone call brings an elderly woman to her childhood country cottage, and memories of an orphan boy she knew 47 years ago come flooding back to her.
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Illinois District of Columbia ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong ๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia Africa - General The 1960s The 2010sThe invasion we always feared. An enemy we never expected. โ The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes apparent to Optimus Prime that the United States government has been less than forthright with them.
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X-Men: First Class
Nevada Virginia District of Columbia Florida England ๐จ๐บ Cuba ๐ต๐ฑ Poland ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ฆ๐ท Argentina The 1960s The 1940sWitness the moment that will change our world. โ Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.
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From Up on Poppy Hill
Kanagawa Prefecture The 1960sI look up as I walk... โ A group of Yokohama students fight to save their school's clubhouse from the wrecking ball during preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. While working there, Umi and Shun gradually become attracted to each other but have to face a sudden trial. Even so, they keep going without fleeing the difficulties of reality.
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The Matchmaker
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1960s The 2000sDuring the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.
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Norwegian Wood
Tokyo Prefecture The 1960sSet in the 1960s, high school student Toru Watanabe loses his only friend Kizuki after he commits suicide. Toru, now looking for a new life, enters a university in Tokyo. By chance, Toru meets Kizuki's ex-girlfriend Naoko in the university. They grow close because they both share the same loss. As Toru and Naoko grow even closer, Naoko's sense of loss also grows. After Naoko's 20th birthday, she leaves for a sanitarium in Kyoto. Watanabe, devastated by the situation, meets pure-hearted Midori during the spring semester. Midori looks like a small animal that just came into the world ...
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Shadows and Faces
๐จ๐พ Cyprus The 1960sShadows and Faces tells the story of a young girl who is separated from his shadow puppetry performer father during the ethnic conflict between Cypriot Greeks and Cypriot Turks in 1963.
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Watchmen
New York District of Columbia Mars ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam ๐ฆ๐ถ Antarctica The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sJustice is coming to all of us. No matter what we do. โ In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.
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The Athlete
๐ช๐น Ethiopia Tokyo Prefecture ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sRunning the streets of Rome in 1960, an unknown, barefooted Ethiopian man stunned the world by winning Olympic gold in the marathon. Overnight, Abebe Bikila became a sports legend. A hero in his own country and to the continent, Bikila was the first African to win a gold medal, and four years later in Tokyo would become the first person in history to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the marathon.
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21 and a Wake-Up
๐ป๐ณ Vietnam ๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia The 1970s The 1960sA story of Vietnam. โ "I learn that Chris McIntyre served in Vietnam and that "21 and a Wakeup," set in an Army hospital in the waning days of the war, is based on events that he experienced and heard about." - Roger Ebert
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