355 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1960s
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The Women on the 6th Floor
๐ซ๐ท France The 1960sParis, in the early 1960s. Jean-Louis Joubert is a serious but uptight stockbroker, married to Suzanne, a starchy class-conscious woman and father of two arrogant teenage boys, currently in a boarding school. The affluent man lives a steady yet boring life. At least until, due to fortuitous circumstances, Maria, the charming new maid at the service of Jean-Louis' family, makes him discover the servants' quarter on the sixth floor of the luxury building he owns and lives in. There live a crowd of lively Spanish maids who will help Jean-Louis to open to a new civilization and a new approach of life. In their company - and more precisely in the company of beautiful Maria - Jean-Louis will gradually become another man, a better man.
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Brighton Rock
England The 1960sLove. Murder. Revenge. โ Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
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Boxhagener Platz
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1960sFeature adaptation of adaptation of Torsten Schulz's novel set in East Berlin in 1968.
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Risen
Wales The 1960sAs one of the rising talents of amateur boxing, Howard Winstone, a young Welsh boy from Merthyr Tydfil, was fast making a name for himself with his knock out right hand. A long professional fighting career surely beckoned? Then disaster strikes. An industrial accident results in Winstone losing three fingers on his right hand. Through sheer determination, and despite only being able to make a fist with one hand, Winstone develops a dynamic new style and begins boxing his way back up the amateur ranks eventually turning pro. Supported by his family and guided by new trainer, Eddie Thomas, Winstone becomes the Champion of Britain and then Europe. Now, with the hopes of an entire nation on his shoulders, he is stood poised to challenge for the crown of Featherweight Champion of 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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Nine
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sThis Holiday Season, Be Italian. โ Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother.
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Hilde
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sA biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
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Sister Smile
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950sA biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the church and her true self.
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The Boat That Rocked
England The 1960sOn air. Off shore. Out of control. โ The Boat That Rocked is an ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government that wanted control of popular culture via the British Broadcasting Corporation. Loosely based on the events in Britain in the 60's when the Labour government of Harold Wilson, wanted to bring the pirate radio stations under control, enough to see the passage of the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act on 15 August 1967. Also known as "Pirate Radio".
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The Damned United
England The 1970s The 1960sThey love me for what I'm not... ...they hate me for what I am. โ Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing right-hand man Peter Taylor.
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An Education
England The 1960sAn education isn't always by the book. โ Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile, Jenny gets a taste of adult life that she won't soon forget.
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Hellsinki
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland The 1970s The 1960sHappiness, jail or the grave? โ In the mid-1960s, three small-time Finnish bootleggers seize control of their Helsinki neighborhood's black-market liquor business.
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Telstar: The Joe Meek Story
England The 1960sSet against a backdrop of early '60s London, Telstar is the story of the world's first independent record producer, Joe Meek. A maverick genius who enjoyed phenomenal success with Telstar โ the biggest selling record of it's time โ before bad luck, depression, heartbreak and paranoia led to his downfall.
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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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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
New York Louisiana Florida ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 2000sLife isn't measured in minutes, but in moments. โ I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans, from the end of World War I in 1918 into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, Benjamin Button, is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
๐ธ๐ช Sweden ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฏ๐ด Jordan The 1970s The 1960s'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The story centers on the leadership of the self named anti-fascist resistance to state violence: Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin.
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The Reader
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950sBehind the mystery lies a truth that will make you question everything you know. โ The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
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Admiral
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1960s The 1920s The 1910sThe Highest Command โ This is a story of a great love facing the greatest drama of the history of Russia. Admiral Kolchak is a true war hero and beloved husband and father. One day he meets Anna, the love of his life and the wife of his best friend. The revolution in his heart faces the revolution in his own country His destiny is to become the Supreme Rules of Russia.
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Mesrine: Killer Instinct
๐ซ๐ท France ๐จ๐ฆ Canada Arizona ๐ฉ๐ฟ Algeria The 1970s The 1960sJacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder.
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Rally Chicks
๐ธ๐ช Sweden The 1960sFollows two girls living in Sweden in the 1960s who both dream about becoming rally drivers.
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Adam Resurrected
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1960sBefore the war, in Berlin, Adam was an entertainer- cabaret impresario, magician, musician-loved by all until he finds himself in a concentration camp, confronted by Commandant Klein. Adam survives the camp by becoming the Klein's "dog", entertaining him while his wife and daughter are sent off to die. "Adam Resurrected" is the story of a man who once was a dog who meets a dog who once was a boy.
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Little Moscow
๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1960sDuring the Cold War, a local Polish officer and a young Soviet woman wedded to a Soviet officer are drawn together by music.
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Of Time and the City
England The 1950s The 1960s The 1940sA love song and a eulogy โ A heart-stirring meditation on time, memory and mortality, โOf Time and the Cityโ is Terence Daviesโ poetic, conflicted ode to his birthplace of Liverpool, England. The visual content of the film consists largely of archival clips of the city from the 1940s to the 1960s, their nostalgic charm darkened by accompanying music and the counterpoint of Daviesโ dry, at times dyspeptic, voice-over narration. His voice thickens with emotion as he recalls the delights of juvenile movie-going or the ritual of a holiday trip to New Brighton, across the River Mersey, and hardens with contempt when he turns his gaze on the hoopla surrounding Queen Elizabethโs coronation in 1953. The film is a powerful evocation of the director's youth in post-war Britain and a reflection on how his home city has changed over the years.
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Eight Miles High
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1960s The 1970sAchim Bornhak's movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi is bored by her job in a photo lab, but soon becomes the "it girl" of Munich's club scene. When she gets to know Rainer Langhans, they move to Berlin and live in "Kommune 1", the first politically-motivated commune in Germany. While the other occupants claim she isn't political enough, Uschi just wants to have fun, works as fashion model and leads international music stars in temptation.
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La Vie en Rose
๐ซ๐ท France California New York The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sThe Extraordinary Story of Edith Piaf. โ From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.
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