Topic: 1960s

Direction Fernando Meirelles · Kátia Lund

Cast Alexandre Rodrigues · Leandro Firmino · Phellipe Haagensen · Douglas Silva

Synopsis City of God (2002) follows the lives of two boys growing up in the violent, poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Rocket, an aspiring photographer, dreams of escaping the chaos, while Li'l Zé, a ruthless drug dealer, rises to power...

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Robert De Niro · James Woods · Elizabeth McGovern · Tuesday Weld

Synopsis Once Upon a Time in America (1984) is an epic crime drama spanning decades, following the lives of Jewish gangsters in New York City. The story intertwines past and present, exploring themes of friendship, betrayal, and the consequences of ambition....

Direction Edgar Reitz

Cast Henry Arnold · Salome Kammer · Frank Röth · Noemi Steuer

Synopsis The movie consist of 13 separate episodes each handling a period between 1960 and 1970. The length of these periods varies from one day to some years. It tells the story of a group of people in Munich (mostly music...

Direction Robert Zemeckis

Cast Tom Hanks · Robin Wright · Gary Sinise · Mykelti Williamson

Synopsis Forrest Gump (1994) follows the extraordinary life of a kind-hearted man with a low IQ, who unintentionally influences several pivotal moments in 20th-century American history. From his humble beginnings in Alabama, Forrest becomes a football star, a Vietnam War hero,...

Direction Mario Camus

Cast Alfredo Landa · Francisco Rabal · Juan Diego · Terele Pávez

Synopsis In the 60s, somewhere in the Spanish countryside, Paco and his wife Régula are poor. Their lives are resignation, sacrifice and obedience as they work for a very wealthy landowner. Their fates are marked unless some unexpected event frees them.

Direction Marco Tullio Giordana

Cast Luigi Lo Cascio · Alessio Boni · Jasmine Trinca · Adriana Asti

Synopsis The Best of Youth (TV Miniseries) (2003) follows the lives of two Italian brothers, Nicola and Matteo, from the 1960s to the 2000s. Their bond is tested by personal struggles, political turmoil, and societal changes. Nicola, the idealistic younger brother,...

Direction Matthew Weiner · Phil Abraham · Michael Uppendahl · Jennifer Getzinger

Cast Jon Hamm · Elisabeth Moss · Vincent Kartheiser · January Jones

Synopsis Mad Men (TV Series) (2007) follows the life of Don Draper, a brilliant but enigmatic advertising executive in 1960s New York. Set against the backdrop of a changing America, the show explores the glamorous yet cutthroat world of Madison Avenue,...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Gong Li · Ge You · Jiang Wu · Niu Ben

Synopsis Fugui is the father of a once-wealthy family whose addiction to gambling and chronic bad luck causes him to lose his home in a game of dice with Long'er. Fugui's wife abandons him, and he finds himself working as a...

Direction Jamila Wignot

Cast Isaac Hayes · Steve Cropper · Otis Redding · Booker T. Jones

Synopsis In 1960s Memphis, an audacious set of interracial collaborators dared to make their own music on their own terms, forming Stax Records, one of America's most influential creators of Black music.

Direction Emir Kusturica

Cast Miki Manojlovic · Lazar Ristovski · Mirjana Jokovic · Slavko Stimac

Synopsis 'Underground' takes a look at the modern history of Yugoslavia through the often absurd misadventures of two friends over several decades. The film begins in Belgrade in 1941, establishing the friendship between the gregarious Blacky and the more intellectual Marko...

Direction Martin Scorsese

Cast Bob Dylan · Joan Baez · Allen Ginsberg · Pete Seeger

Synopsis Renowned director Martin Scorsese's documentary No Direction Home: Bob Dylan chronicles the career of the singer and songwriter during the tumultuous years between 1961 and 1966. Dylan allowed Scorsese to have access to hours of footage that had never before...

Direction Wong Kar-Wai

Cast Tony Leung Chiu-Wai · Maggie Cheung · Rebecca Pan · Siu Ping-Lam

Synopsis In the Mood for Love (2000) is a poignant tale set in 1960s Hong Kong, where two neighbors, Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan, discover their spouses are having an affair. As they grapple with betrayal, they form a deep, unspoken...

Direction Claire Denis

Cast Alice Houri · Jessica Tharaud · Grégoire Colin · Martine Gautier

Synopsis It is Denis' contribution to "Tous les garçons et les filles de leur age", a remarkable French television commission that invited nine different directors to reflect upon their adolescence and the music that was important to them. A quasi-autobiographical work...

Direction Robert De Niro

Cast Robert De Niro · Chazz Palminteri · Lillo Brancato · Francis Capra

Synopsis A Bronx Tale (1993) follows the life of Calogero, a young boy growing up in the 1960s Bronx, torn between two influential father figures. His hardworking, moral bus driver father, Lorenzo, represents a life of integrity and discipline. In contrast,...

Direction Ryan Murphy · Gwyneth Horder-Payton · Helen Hunt · Liza Johnson

Cast Jessica Lange · Susan Sarandon · Alfred Molina · Judy Davis

Synopsis TV Miniseries (2017). 8 Episodes. Tells the story of the legendary rivalry between Joan Crawford (Jessica Lange) and Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon) during their collaboration on the Academy Award®-nominated thriller What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and after the cameras...

Direction Edward Yang

Cast Chang Chen · Lisa Yang · Elaine Jin · Wang Chuan

Synopsis Based on the director's adolescent memories and focusing on one central male protagonist, an idealistic student who refuses to compromise his moral standards, looks at growing up in Taiwan during the early 1960's and the problems of military dictatorship, unemployment...

Direction Steven Zaillian

Cast Andrew Scott · Johnny Flynn · Dakota Fanning · Maurizio Lombardi

Synopsis Ripley (2024) follows the cunning and enigmatic Tom Ripley, a small-time grifter in 1960s New York who is hired to retrieve a wealthy man's wayward son from Italy. What begins as a simple task spirals into a web of deception,...

Direction Chantal Akerman

Cast Circé Lethem · Julien Rassam · Joëlle Marlier · Cynthia Rodberg

Synopsis At 15 Michèle decides to quit school. She writes endless absentee slips and then goes to the movies. At the movies she meets Paul, a Parisian army deserter, who makes advances. They leave the movies and walk the streets for...

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Clint Eastwood · Patrick McGoohan · Roberts Blossom · Jack Thibeau

Synopsis San Francisco, january 1960. Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood), a hardened con with a history of prison breaks, is sent to serve the rest of his life sentence at Alcatraz -- America's most infamously brutal and inescapable maximum security prison. Morris...

Direction Mary Dore

Synopsis Tells the story of the brilliant, often outrageous women who founded the feminist movement of the 1960s. They said 'the personal is political' and made a revolution: in the bedroom, in the workplace, in all spheres of life. Called threatening...