355 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1960s
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Siberiade
🇷🇺 Russia The 1960s The 1940s The 1930s The 1910s The 1900s The 1920s The 1950s The 1970s The 1980sThe history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. — The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil. The oil is found but the destruction of the old cemetry and everything the people of the village cared for followed to get the 'black treasure' of Siberia.
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Without Anesthesia
🇵🇱 Poland The 1960sA famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being "unwanted" parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding is reduced to silence.
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Out of It
🇫🇷 France The 1960sThe lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.
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The Greatest
🇮🇹 Italy The 1970s The 1960sThe story you only think you knew. — The Greatest is a 1977 film about the life of boxer Muhammad Ali, in which Ali plays himself. It was directed by Tom Gries and Monte Hellman. The song "Greatest Love of All", later remade by Whitney Houston, was written for this film and sung by George Benson. The movie follows Ali's life from the 1960 Olympics to his regaining the heavyweight crown from George Foreman in their famous "Rumble in the Jungle" fight in 1974.
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Peppermint Soda
🇫🇷 France The 1960sIn the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father. School starts. A turbulent year awaits them both.
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Mirror
🇷🇺 Russia The 1960s The 1940s The 1930sA dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
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The Odessa File
🇦🇹 Austria 🇩🇪 Germany The 1960sHamburg, Germany. 1963. Peter Miller is going inside the dreaded Odessa. More than a few people hope he doesn't get out... ever. — After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting of a former SS-Captain who commanded a concentration camp during World War II. Miller eventually finds himself involved with the powerful organisation of former SS members—called ODESSA—as well as with the Israeli secret service. Miller probes deeper and eventually discovers a link between the SS-Captain, ODESSA and his own family.
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We All Loved Each Other So Much
🇮🇹 Italy The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970sA many splendored thing. — Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
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The Missiles of October
New York Connecticut District of Columbia 🇷🇺 Russia The 1960sThe most powerful docudrama ever produced on The Cuban Missile Crisis — Based in part on Robert F. Kennedy's book, "Thirteen Days," this film profiles the Kennedy Administration's actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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The Day of the Jackal
England 🇫🇷 France 🇦🇹 Austria 🇮🇹 Italy The 1960sNameless, faceless... relentlessly moving towards the date with death that would rock the world. — An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
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Lucky Luciano
New York 🇮🇹 Italy The 1960s The 1950sThe real story behind Lucky Luciano, the high priest of crime — Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins becoming one of the chief of the Mafia. The US Army seems to refrain from interfering.
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The Merchant of Four Seasons
🇩🇪 Germany The 1960s The 1950sHans is a street fruit peddler and born-loser. His choice of career upsets his bourgeois family, causing him to turn to drinking and violence. After recovering from a debilitating heart attack, his business finally begins to take off. However the more he becomes a credit to his family, the more depressed he becomes.
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Roma
🇮🇹 Italy The 1930s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1940sThe fall of the Roman Empire 1931-1972. — A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
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The Mattei Affair
🇮🇹 Italy The 1960s The 1950sEnrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalists explore other plausible reasons for Mattei's untimely death.
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The Kremlin Letter
🇷🇺 Russia 🇫🇷 France 🇲🇽 Mexico California District of Columbia The 1970s The 1960sA network of older spies from the West recruits a young intelligence officer with a photographic memory to accompany them on a mission inside Russia. They must recover a letter written by the CIA that promises American assistance to Russia if China gets the atomic bomb.
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The Games
England 🇮🇹 Italy The 1960sThe spectacle behind the spectacle — From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the world. They are also the pawns of powerful nations, the victims of dangerous drugs and the object of many men's ambitions. Once every four years they come together... for the Olympic Games.
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Loot
England The 1960sWe knock off anything - bodies, banks and birds! — Two bank robbers, Dennis and Hal, are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they stash the cash in Hal's recently-deceased mother's coffin. Taking the coffin, they turn to Hal's father and hide it in the bathroom of his hotel. Before long the hotel is host to the eccentric Inspector Truscott.
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The Breaking of Bumbo
England The 1960sThe hilarious adventures of young Bumbo Bailey, who enlists in the Brigade of Guards and is based in the prestigious Wellington Barracks in London in the Swinging Sixties. He regards his social life as important as his military.
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By the Lake
🇷🇺 Russia The 1960sThe film is a reflection on the responsibility of man to other people, native nature and the world around us, the problem of preserving Lake Baikal, on the banks of which a large construction project has unfolded. The first half of the 60s of the XX century, the story of the love of young Lena Barmina to an adult respectable person, bearing on his shoulders a heavy burden of responsibility for the activities of a huge enterprise. Construction engineer Chernykh and Lena, the daughter of a scientist, are doing everything to save the lake from harmful and unjustified plums. A difficult relationship develops between them and soon Lena realizes that she is in love. But after learning that Chernykh is married, the girl leaves...
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The Sixties
🇩🇪 Germany The 1960sBraverman presents a collage of the events and personalities of the 1960's, both political and social. Includes President Kennedy on the Berlin Wall, Martin Luther King on racism, Vietnam demonstrations, and the Beatles
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
🇵🇹 Portugal 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1960sFar up! Far out! Far more! James Bond 007 is back! — James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco, and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld.
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Z
🇬🇷 Greece The 1960sHe is alive! — Repression is the rule of the day in this film that skewers Greek governance of the 1960s. Z, a leftist rabble rouser, is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. But given the political climate, the death of such a prominent activist raises troubling questions. Though it's too late to save Z's life, a postmortem examination suggests that the ruling party was behind his death. As the facts leak out, those who tell the truth pay the price for their honesty.
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Till Death Us Do Part
England The 1960s The 1940s The 1930sYer Never Saw Alf Like This Before! — The film version of 'Till Death Do Us Part' tells the story of Alf Garnett, his wife Else, and their newborn daughter Rita, living through the London Blitz and beyond.
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Love and Anger
🇮🇹 Italy The 1960sFive short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.
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Czechoslovakia 1968
🇨🇿 Czechia 🇸🇰 Slovakia The 1960sShort documentary about 50 years of history of Czechoslovakia, with archive images.
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