Movies Like

Inspector George Gently (2008) TV Show

7.9 66 votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 8

Episodes: 25

Audience: TV-G

Story: Crime drama set in the 1960s about an old-school detective trying to come to terms with a time when the lines between the police and criminals have become blurred.

Plot: detective, period drama

Time: 1960s

Cast

Andrew Scott

Dakota Fanning

Johnny Flynn

RIPLEY (2024) TV Show

7.9 405 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Switzerland, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A grifter in 1960s New York is hired to convince a wealthy man's son to return home from Italy and begins a life of deceit, fraud and murder.

Style: psychological, suspenseful

Plot: based on novel or book, fraud, miniseries, black and white, grifter, con game, thriller

Time: 1960s

Place: italy

Cast

Robert De Niro

Chazz Palminteri

Lillo Brancato

Francis Capra

A Bronx Tale (1993)

7.9 2.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.

Plot: italian american, gambling, funeral, italian, parent child relationship, gangster, loyalty, molotow cocktail, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Neil Armstrong

Buzz Aldrin

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Michael Collins

Walter Cronkite

Apollo 11 (2019)

7.9 712 votes

Genre: Documentary, Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: G

Story: A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin.

Plot: moon, nasa, based on true story, moon landing, space, space race, usa history, apollo program, ...

Time: 1960s

Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler (2019) TV Show

7.8 382 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The origin story of Bruce Wayne's legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth, a former British SAS soldier who forms a security company in 1960s London and goes to work with young billionaire Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha, before they become Bruce Wayne’s parents.

Plot: based on comic, alternate timeline, origin story, батман

Time: world war ii, 1960s

Cast

Heath Ledger

Jake Gyllenhaal

Michelle Williams

Anne Hathaway

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

7.8 7.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

Plot: secret love, wyoming, usa, countryside, homophobia, marriage crisis, intolerance, in the closet, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Jared Gilman

Kara Hayward

Bruce Willis

Edward Norton

Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

7.7 6.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.

Plot: camping, hurricane, pen pals, coming of age, camp, orphan, first love, eye patch, ...

Time: 1960s

Place: new england

Cast

Eddie Redmayne

Sacha Baron Cohen

Mark Rylance

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

7.7 3.4K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: R

Story: What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

Plot: chicago, illinois, right and justice, political activism, black panther party, based on true story, black activist, counter-culture, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Denzel Washington

Angela Bassett

Albert Hall

Al Freeman Jr.

Malcolm X (1992)

7.6 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America, Netherlands Antilles

Duration: 202 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.

Plot: prison, new york city, police brutality, beach, assassination, muslim, police, ku klux klan, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Alain Cuny

Rosanna Schiaffino

Jacques Perrin

Isa Miranda

Corruption (1963)

7.6 26 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: France, Italy

Duration: 82 min.

Story: Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich Milanese publisher, who had the ambition to see his son succeed him, refuses and takes him on a cruise with a young woman to take this idea out of his mind...

Plot: suicide, love triangle, seduction, materialism, loss of virginity, older man younger woman relationship, publisher, chastity, ...

Time: 1960s

JFK (1991)

7.6 2.4K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Thriller

Country: United States of America, France

Duration: 189 min.

Audience: R

Story: Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

Style: shocking

Plot: central intelligence agency (cia), assassination, usa president, government, politics, homophobia, new orleans, louisiana, ...

Time: vietnam war, 1960s

Place: texas, america

Cast

Denzel Washington

Russell Crowe

Josh Brolin

Chiwetel Ejiofor

American Gangster (2007)

7.6 6.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 157 min.

Audience: R

Story: Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.

Style: provocative, suspenseful, intense

Plot: new york city, drug smuggling, society, gangster, drug trafficking, heroin, junkie, ghetto, ...

Time: 1960s

Place: vietnam

Cast

Robert De Niro

Al Pacino

Joe Pesci

Harvey Keitel

The Irishman (2019)

7.6 7.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 209 min.

Audience: R

Story: Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

Plot: chicago, illinois, philadelphia, pennsylvania, based on novel or book, hitman, war veteran, pennsylvania, ...

Time: 1970s, 1950s, 1960s

Cast

Khris Davis

Forest Whitaker

Sullivan Jones

Deion Smith

Big George Foreman (2023)

7.6 368 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Fueled by an impoverished childhood, George Foreman channeled his anger into becoming an Olympic Gold medalist and World Heavyweight Champion, followed by a near-death experience that took him from the boxing ring to the pulpit. But when he sees his community struggling spiritually and financially, Foreman returns to the ring and makes history by reclaiming his title, becoming the oldest and most improbable World Heavyweight Boxing Champion ever.

Plot: adultery, sports, biography, based on true story, family, boxing, inspirational, hopeful

Time: 1970s, 1980s, 1960s

Place: texas

Cast

Tom Guiry

Mike Vitar

Patrick Renna

Chauncey Leopardi

The Sandlot (1993)

7.6 1.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG

Story: During a summer of friendship and adventure, one boy becomes a part of the gang, nine boys become a team and their leader becomes a legend by confronting the terrifying mystery beyond the right field wall.

Plot: sports, baseball, tree house, dog, fourth of july, san fernando valley, fence, mastiff, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Winona Ryder

Angelina Jolie

Clea DuVall

Brittany Murphy

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

7.6 4.2K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: R

Story: Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

Plot: based on novel or book, escape, suicide attempt, identity, insanity, female friendship, based on true story, borderline personality disorder, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Jake Gyllenhaal

Mark Ruffalo

Anthony Edwards

Robert Downey Jr.

Zodiac (2007)

7.5 11.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 157 min.

Audience: R

Story: Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer. However, as time runs its course, interest in the case dwindles in the eyes of the professionals. The Killer stops interacting with the public. However, believing he has the answers, an amateur cartoonist from the initial sightings races against time to prevent what he believes is another murder.

Plot: newspaper, journalist, based on novel or book, police, san francisco, california, killing, detective, ...

Time: 1970s, 1960s

Place: california

Cast

Dustin Hoffman

Jon Voight

Sylvia Miles

John McGiver

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

7.5 1.6K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

Style: cynical, provocative

Plot: new york city, friendship, prostitute, rape, based on novel or book, shower, hustler, homelessness, ...

Time: 1960s

Place: texas

Cast

Masami Nagasawa

Junichi Okada

Keiko Takeshita

Yuriko Ishida

From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)

7.5 2.0K votes

Genre: Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the 1964 Olympics—and the mood is one of both optimism and conflict as the young generation struggles to throw off the shackles of a troubled past. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi and Shun—but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart.

Plot: high school, students' movement, romance, based on manga, period drama, teenage love, dead father, clubhouse, ...

Time: 1960s, 20th century

Cast

Zac Efron

Russell Crowe

Kyle Allen

Bill Murray

The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022)

7.5 919 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War

Country: United States of America, Thailand

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: R

Story: Chickie wants to support his friends fighting in Vietnam, so he does something wild—personally bring them American beer. What starts as a well-meaning journey quickly changes Chickie's life and perspective.

Plot: based on novel or book, war correspondent, beer, based on true story, aftercreditsstinger

Time: vietnam war, 1960s

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