21 Films & TV Shows Set In Mexico During The 1960s
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The Queen's Gambit: Limited Series
Kentucky Nevada New York Ohio 🇲🇽 Mexico 🇷🇺 Russia The 1950s The 1960sIn a Kentucky orphanage in the 1950s, a young girl discovers an astonishing talent for chess while struggling with addiction.
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The Mongolian Conspiracy
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1960sCan the Mexican police avoid the assassination of the President of the US? — 1963, the Soviet Union intercepts a rumor that China pretends to assassinate the president of the US in his visit to Mexico. Filiberto Garcia, a local policeman, has 72 hours to investigate the Mongolian Conspiracy. Damn International Intrigue!
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Lupin III: The First
🇲🇽 Mexico 🇫🇷 France 🇧🇷 Brazil The 1960s The 1940sThe iconic "gentleman thief" Lupin III returns in an action-packed, continent-spanning adventure, as Lupin III and his colorful underworld companions race to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Bresson Diary, before it falls into the hands of a dark cabal that will stop at nothing to resurrect the Third Reich.
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I Dream in Another Language
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave The 2010s The 1960sAn indigenous language is in peril, as its last two speakers had a quarrel in the past and haven't spoken to each other in over 50 years. Martín, a young linguist, will undertake the challenge of bringing the old friends back together and convincing them to speak once again so he can obtain a recorded registration of the language and study it.
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The Similars
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1960s7 billion people in the world or just one? — A science fiction thriller that takes place in 1968's Mexico and deals with identity in a metaphorical way, as the plot involves a mysterious condition that makes all persons locked inside a bus station on a rainy night to adopt the same face and features.
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Jungle Shuffle
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1960sIn this turbulent jungle adventure an outcast coati male has to team up with a quirky spider monkey to save a coati princess from the hands of a human poacher and his mysterious client.
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Tlatelolco, Summer of 68'
Ciudad de México The 1960sAs Mexico prepares to host the 1968 Olympics, students and civilians are uniting on the streets to protest the authoritarian government. Tensions are running high and the eyes of the world are on Mexico and President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz. Ana Maria, a student photographer and daughter of a high-ranking official, finds herself embroiled in the movement and is swept off her feet by Félix, a working-class architecture student. This film remembers the events that led to one of the darkest chapters in Mexico’s recent history: the massacre at Tlatelolco, 10 days before the opening of the Olympic Games.
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A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures
🇲🇽 Mexico California 🇦🇶 Antarctica 🇳🇨 New Caledonia The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 2000sHe's Turtly Amazing — A sea turtle who was hatched in 1959 spends the next 50 years traveling the world while it is being changed by global warming. Born on a Baja, California beach in 1959, new hatchling Sammy must do what his fellow newborn sea turtles are doing: race across the beach to the ocean before they are captured by a seagull or crab. Thus begins Sammy's incredible fifty-year ocean journey. Along the way he meets his best friend, a fellow turtle named Ray, and overcomes obstacles both natural and man-made while trying to fulfill his dream of travelling around the world. Throughout his voyage, Sammy never forgets about Shelly - the turtle he saved on his first day and loves passionately from afar. Based on the actual trajectory of a sea turtle's life, the film illustrates the dangers humans pose to the species' survival. The film combines entertainment with an important environmental message.
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Salute
Ciudad de México The 1960sThe story behind the image — The black power salute by Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Mexico Olympics was an iconic moment in the US civil rights struggle. Far less known is the part in that episode in history played by Peter Norman, the white Australian on the podium who had run second — and the price paid afterward by all three athletes.
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
🇲🇽 Mexico New York Massachusetts Pennsylvania California 🇫🇮 Finland 🇩🇪 Germany The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sSome things are better left top secret. — Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
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The Shawshank Redemption
Maine 🇲🇽 Mexico The 1940s The 1950s The 1960sFear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free. — Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
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Born on the Fourth of July
Florida New York Texas 🇲🇽 Mexico 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1960s The 1970sA story of innocence lost and courage found — The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
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Buster
🇲🇽 Mexico England The 1960sBuster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can't contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom.
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Losin' It
Baja California The 1960sThe last word about the first time. — Set in 1965, four Los Angeles school friends -- Woody, Dave, Spider and Wendell -- go on a series of misadventures when they head to Tijuana, Mexico, for a night of cruisin', causing trouble, and to lose their virginity.
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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 Olympics in Mexico
Ciudad de México The 1960sDocumentary about the XIX Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968
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Tarzan and the Valley of Gold
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1960sAll New High Adventure! — The international criminal Vinaro enjoys sending explosive wristwatches to his enemies.
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The Brainiac
Ciudad de México The 1960sThe most bizarre horror movie. Ever. — In 1661 Mexico, the Baron Vitelius of Astara is sentenced to be burned alive by the Holy Inquisition of Mexico for witchcraft, necromancy, and other crimes. As he dies, the Baron swears vengeance against the descendants of the Inquisitors. 300 years later, a comet that was passing overhead on the night of the Baron's execution returns to earth, bringing with it the Baron in the form of a horrible, brain-eating monster that terrorizes the Inquisitor's descendants
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The Singer Not the Song
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1960sA New and Powerfully Different Kind of Motion Picture Story... — A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.
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The Pied Piper of Guadalupe
Nuevo León The 1960sSylvester the cat imitates the Pied Piper of Hamelin to lure a group of mice into a jug that he seals with a cork. But Speedy Gonzales won't be hypnotized by Sylvester's flute and gradually rescues his friends from Sylvester's clutches.
