355 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1960s
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The Wrecking Crew
England 🇩🇰 Denmark California The 1960sMatt Helm Is Alive And Well And Swinging In Copenhagen--So Far! — When Count Contini attempts to destroy the world's economy by masterminding the theft of $1 billion in U.S. gold, ICE chief MacDonald summons secret agent Matt Helm to stop him.
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House of Cards
🇫🇷 France 🇮🇹 Italy The 1960sThe Blood-Hot Diary of the People Who Fight the War of Intrigue Across the Face of the Globe! — In 1960s Paris, an American boxer stumbles upon an international fascist conspiracy that aims to create a new world order.
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The Girl on a Motorcycle
🇩🇪 Germany The 1960sShe's always naked under leather — Newly-married Rebecca leaves her husband's Alsatian bed on her prized motorbike - symbol of freedom and escape - to visit her lover in Heidelberg. En route she indulges in psychedelic reveries as she relives her changing relationship with the two men.
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The Day of the Owl
🇮🇹 Italy The 1960sWhat are 'friends' for...? Why, for murder, terror, extortion, violence and other profitable enterprises! — Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself.
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Bandits in Milan
🇮🇹 Italy The 1960sThe Bank Bandits... Gunning a City to it's Knees — A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
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Rocky Road to Dublin
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1960sRocky Road to Dublin is a 1968 documentary film by Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon and French cinematographer Raoul Coutard, examining the contemporary state of the Republic of Ireland, posing the question, “what do you do with your revolution once you’ve got it?” It argues that Ireland was dominated by cultural isolationism, Gaelic and clerical traditionalism at the time of its making.
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Tuset Street
🇪🇸 Spain The 1960sBarcelona 1967. The pop culture revolution. Jordi (Patrick Bauchau) is a rich playboy who runs around with a bunch of high-end hippies, smoking, drinking, dancing and daydreaming about Tuset Street, an effort to develop a popular street in the newer section of Barcelona after the models of Haight Ashbury Street in San Francisco and Carnaby Street in London. Jordi and his gang represent the new Barcelona, wealthy, artificial and striving for imported sophistication. On the older side of the city is El Paralelo, the theater district. At El Molino, one of its many music halls, performs Violeta (Sara Montiel), a showgirl in the old style tradition who supplements her singing income with prostitution. Somehow Violeta represents the old values, the "real world" living along side an artificial creation such as Tuset.
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Sweden: Heaven and Hell
🇸🇪 Sweden The 1960sSweden... where the facts of life are stranger than fiction! — Nine scenes about sexuality and morals in Sweden in the late sixties.
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Fanny Hill
🇸🇪 Sweden The 1960sI'm there with sex and love all the way! — The classic tale of a young woman's erotic awakening is transplanted to swinging '60s Stockholm...
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Tell Me Lies
England The 1960sPeter Brook’s provocative anti-Vietnam War 1960s protest piece. — Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in London in 1967 and released only briefly in the UK and New York at the height of the Vietnam War – remains both thought-provoking and disturbing. A theatrical and cinematic social comment on US intervention in Vietnam, Brook’s film also reveals a 1960s London where art, theatre and political protest actively collude and where a young Glenda Jackson and RSC icons such as Peggy Ashcroft and Paul Scofield feature prominently on the front line. Multi-layered scenarios staged by Brook combine with newsreel footage, demonstrations, satirical songs and skits to illustrate the intensity of anti-war opinion within London’s artistic and intellectual community.
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13 Days in France
🇫🇷 France The 1960sThis colorful documentary chronicles the events of the 1968 Winter Olympics in France. The events made international celebrities of skater Peggy Fleming and skier Jean-Claude Killy for their gold-medal performances. The camera accurately catches the speed of bobsleds and downhill racers and ski jumpers as they race for the gold. President Charles DeGaulle is shown observing the action over 13 days, which saw France earn the best performance to date in the winter games.
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Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
Scotland The 1960sIn the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply.
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The Night of the Generals
🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇵🇱 Poland The 1960s The 1940sA unique manhunt across the capitals of Europe... across three decades up to today! — An unusual World War II crime thriller about a Nazi investigation into the murder of a prostitute. Major Grau finds himself focusing on three suspects: the Generals Tanz, Kahlenberg and Seydlitz-Gabler – all three of whom, it seems, are also involved in a plot to kill Hitler
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Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
England The 1960sSwinging London 66-67 — Peter Whitehead’s disjointed Swinging London documentary, subtitled “A Pop Concerto,” comprises a number of different “movements,” each depicting a different theme underscored by music: A early version of Pink Floyd’s “Interstellar Overdrive” plays behind some arty nightclub scenes, while Chris Farlowe’s rendition of the Rolling Stones’ “Out of Time” accompanies a young woman’s description of London nightlife and the vacuousness of her own existence. In another segment, the Marquess of Kensington (Robert Wace) croons the nostalgic “Changing of the Guard” to shots of Buckingham Palace’s changing of the guard, and recording act Vashti are seen at work in the studio. Sandwiched between are clips of Mick Jagger (discussing revolution), Andrew Loog Oldham (discussing his future) – and Julie Christie, Michael Caine, Lee Marvin, and novelist Edna O’Brien (each discussing sex). The best part is footage of the riot that interrupted the Stones’ 1966 Royal Albert Hall concert.
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Woman Times Seven
🇫🇷 France The 1960sAs Naughty As A Black Lace Nightgown! — Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out of revenge; "Two Against One," seemingly prudish girl turns out otherwise; "Super Simone," wife vainly attempts to divert her over-engrossed writer husband; "At the Opera," a battle over a supposedly exclusive dress; "Suicides," a death pact; "Snow," would-be suitor is actually a private detective hired by jealous husband.
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Heißes Pflaster Köln
🇩🇪 Germany The 1960sExploitation movie about a war between pimps in Cologne, Germany, in the Sixties.
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See You at the Pillar
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1960sA short film about Dublin City using a mixture of contemporary footage, folk music and quotations from past residents, Shaw, Wilde and Behan etc. Narrated in a "conversation" by Anthony Quayle and Norman Rodway.
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Blow-Up
England The 1960sMichelangelo Antonioni's first British film — A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he accidentally captures on film the commission of a murder. The fact that he has photographed a murder does not occur to him until he studies and then blows up his negatives, uncovering details, blowing up smaller and smaller elements, and finally putting the puzzle together.
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The War Is Over
🇪🇸 Spain 🇫🇷 France The 1930s The 1960sFrance, 1965. A man with many names, an exiled Spanish Communist in his forties, begins to accept the futility of his long struggle against the dictatorship of General Franco, who has suffocated his country with an iron hand since the end of the Civil War in 1939, when he learns that some of his comrades who work undercover in Spain are being cornered by the authorities. (Followed by “Roads to the South,” 1978.)
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Torn Curtain
🇳🇴 Norway 🇩🇰 Denmark 🇩🇪 Germany The 1960sIt tears you apart with suspense! — During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution, but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.
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Made in USA
🇫🇷 France The 1960sPaula Nelson (Anna Karina), a female version of Humphrey Bogart's hard boiled detectives, goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, at an unknown point in the future (maybe 1969). Once there, she learns that Richard is dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis (Yves Afonso), a writer. Paula is arrested and interrogated. From then on, she encounters many gangsters.
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Modesty Blaise
England 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇮🇹 Italy The 1960sNothing can faze Modesty Blaise, the world's deadliest and most dazzlingly female agent! — Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, Gabriel, the diamond thief has his own plans for Blaise and Garvin.
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Georgy Girl
England The 1960sGeorgy Girl is BIG! — A traditional girl resists the advances of a swinger who wants her as his mistress in 1960s London.
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A Man and a Woman
🇫🇷 France The 1960sSee it with someone you love! — A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that each is a widow.
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A Man Could Get Killed
🇵🇹 Portugal The 1960sAn American businessman visiting Lisbon gets mistaken for a British secret agent who stole some diamonds. As a result, he has everybody in Lisbon after him.
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