355 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1960s
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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
England Nevada The 1960s The 1990sIf he were any cooler, he'd still be frozen, baby! โ As a swingin' fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy, baby! But can he stop megalomaniac Dr. Evil after the bald villain freezes himself and unthaws in the '90s? With the help of sexy sidekick Vanessa Kensington, he just might.
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Prefontaine
Oregon ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970s The 1960sHe beat the odds... And became a legend! โ It's the true-life story of legendary track star Steve Prefontaine, the exciting and sometimes controversial "James Dean of Track," whose spirit captured the heart of the nation! Cocky, charismatic, and tough, "Pre" was a running rebel who defied rules, pushed limits ... and smashed records ...
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The Fix
England The 1960sThe story of the British betting scandal of 1964, uncovered by journalist Mike Gabbert which saw a number of British professional footballers were jailed and banned from football for life for conspiring to fix the results of matches. Prominent among those jailed and banned were the Sheffield Wednesday F.C. stars Peter Swan, Tony Kay and David Layne.
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Shine
England Western Australia The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950sA true story of the mystery of music and the miracle of love โ Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
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Mother Night
New York ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1960s The 1940s The 1930sThe truth is more shocking than the uniform he wears... HE WAS AN AMERICAN SPY. โ An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.
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Small Faces
Scotland The 1960sYou are now entering Tongland โ Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Alan are beginning to experience the power of raging hormones, the story focuses on Lex, who begins a downward spiral after he accidentally shoots the leader of Bobby's gang. Lex's cockiness and immaturity unfortunately prevent him from understanding the effect his subsequent crimes will have on both himself, and on those around him.
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The Boy from Mercury
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1960sSet in 1960s Dublin, a fatherless eight-year-old boy who feels alienated by his family, escapes his reality by deciding he's been sent from Mercury to study life on Earth. His fantasies mirror the life of his hero, Flash Gordon, from the serial he watches each week at the local cinema. His escapades result in dilemmas that drive his mother to such distraction that she turns to the boy's strange uncle for help.
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The Promise
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1960sA love, a hope, a wall. โ East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for the next 28 years, Konrad and Sophie will attempt to meet again, in spite of the Iron Curtain. Konrad, who has become a reputed Astrophysicist, tries to take advantage of scientific congresses outside Eastern Germany to arrange encounters with Sophie. But in a country where the political police, the Stasi, monitors the moves of all suspicious people (such as Konrad's sister Barbara and her husband Harald), preserving one's privacy, ideals and self-respect becomes an exhausting fight, even as the Eastern block begins its long process of disintegration.
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England, My England
England The 1960s The 17th CenturyThe story of Henry Purcell.
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Fatherland
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1960sFictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.
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Backbeat
England ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1960sChronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses primarily on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe, John Lennon, and Sutcliffe's girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr.
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A Man of No Importance
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1960sAn extraordinary tale of an ordinary hero โ Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.
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The Sexual Life of the Belgians
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sJan Bocquoy narrates the story of his sexual life to age 28, imagining his conception (parents drunk, the encounter lasting ten seconds) and reporting his first orgasm (at the hands of Eddy, in a beach-side caravan, as they watch Laurel and Hardy), his comparative experiences with girls, and his move from Harelbeck to Brussels. There he meets Greta, bartender at a Bohemian cafe, who teaches him the Kama Sutra, the naked Esther, who reads him stories, and Thรฉrรจse, his wife for three years. They split after two children; he moves to a small flat, writes pornography to pay the bills, works sporadically on a novel, espouses anarchism, and meets more women. His self-confidence grows.
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Three Tickets to Hollywood
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1960sThe story of three boys who, fascinated with seventh art magic, decide to escape from their remote village straight to Hollywood. In the same time, a local policeman frantically organizes a reception for the president of the state. His "strictly controlled" citizens, under the influence of events in Cuba, in 1962. start dividing in two parties, resolved to succeed where Khruschev and J.F.K. have failed.
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Alex
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1960sAlex has to great loves. To win one, she must lose the other. โ It is New Zealand 1959. Teen swimmer Alex Archer has to battle set backs, intense rivalry and personal tragedy in her bid to win selection for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.
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The Northerners
๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands The 1960sA black comedy set in the 1960s in a small Netherlands community, populated by a cast of eccentrics, all of whom hold a range of sexual obsessions and frustrated desires.
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Chaplin
California England ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890sEveryone has a wild side. Even a legend. โ An elderly Charlie Chaplin discusses his autobiography with his editor, recounting his amazing journey from his poverty-stricken childhood to world-wide success after the ingenious invention of the Little Tramp.
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The Big Exchange
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1960sUSSR. The time of the monetary reform of 1961. One hundred rubles turned into ten overnight. But the reform did not affect copper money. Enterprising administrator of the Park of culture and recreation Prokhor Ignatievich, wanting to increase his capital, tries to exchange a big amount of money for small copper with the help of simple-minded driver Zhora Grakin and ex-convict Roland Babaskin...
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A Brief History of Time
England The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sThis shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and unable to speak without the use of a computer. Hawking's friends, family, classmates, and peers are interviewed not only about his theories but the man himself.
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The Doors
California Florida ๐ซ๐ท France The 1960s The 1970sThe Ultimate Story of Sex, Drugs & Rock 'N' Roll โ The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
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The Hours and Times
๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1960sA fictionalized account of what may have happened when John Lennon and Brian Epstein went on holiday together to Spain in 1963.
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Buddy's Song
England The 1960sBuddy is an aspiring teenager who is a very good musician and has pressure to go further than his Dad's teddy boy rocker days...
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The Tango Player
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1960sWinter 1968. Historian Dr. Dallow is released from prison. He is still trying to cope with and understand why he was put behind bars for 21 months for defamation of the state. His supposed "crime:" for five minutes he accompanied a cabaret chanson on the piano. The film shows what "ordinary socialism" was like, letting the audience feel the threat under which the people in the GDR had to live over many years.
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The Original of the Forgery
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1940sThe plot lasts from 1945 until today's day. Pavle, Stojan and Dragisa, the three war friends are taking different positions within the society immediately after the war. Pavle, a former war commissar, is now a school teacher. Thanks to him, Stojan, who was a bakery assistant before the war, does the job of a district committee's secretary, while Dragisa works in the state's secret police. The reason of conflict between Pavle and Stojan in 1947 was Stojan's fiancรฉe Lena, who loves Pavle, marries him and gets pregnant, right when Pavle is taken to the state prison. Stojan accepts his wife and kid again, but the avalanche of political events will make all them unable to stop the inevitable catastrophe.
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May Fools
๐ซ๐ท France The 1960sAn eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother.
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