Movies Set in 1968

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Roald Dahl's The Witches(2020)

1h 46min | Kids & Family, Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy, Horror

3.4/5 (with 759 votes)

In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.

Directed by Robert Zemeckis - With Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Chris Rock, Jahzir Bruno, Codie-Lei Eastick, ...

The Conjuring(2013)

| 1h 52min | Horror, Thriller

3.8/5 (with 4,074 votes)

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.

Directed by James - With Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor, Mackenzie Foy, Joey King, ...

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Judas and the Black Messiah(2021)

| 2h 5min | Drama, History

3.8/5 (with 183 votes)

Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.

Directed by Shaka King

Annabelle Comes Home(2019)

| 1h 46min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery

3.2/5 (with 1,145 votes)

Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target—the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.

Directed by Gary Dauberman - With Mckenna Grace, Madison Iseman, Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Katie Sarife, Steve Coulter, ...

First Man(2018)

PG-13

| 2h 21min | History, Drama

3.5/5 (with 1,989 votes)

A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

Directed by Damien Chazelle - With Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Corey Stoll, Kyle Chandler, Jason Clarke, Patrick Fugit, ...

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Annabelle(2014)

| 1h 39min | Horror

2.9/5 (with 2,343 votes)

John Form has found the perfect gift for his expectant wife, Mia - a beautiful, rare vintage doll in a pure white wedding dress. But Mia's delight with Annabelle doesn't last long. On one horrific night, their home is invaded by members of a satanic cult, who violently attack the couple. Spilled blood and terror are not all they leave behind. The cultists have conjured an entity so malevolent that nothing they did will compare to the sinister conduit to the damned that is now... Annabelle.

Directed by John R. Leonetti - With Alfre Woodard, Annabelle Wallis, Brian Howe, Tony Amendola, Ward Horton, Joseph Bishara, ...

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The Trial of the Chicago 7(2020)

| 2h 10min | Drama, History

3.9/5 (with 869 votes)

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.

Directed by Aaron Sorkin - With Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Keaton, Frank Langella, John Carroll Lynch, ...

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark(2019)

PG-13

| 1h 48min | Horror, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 903 votes)

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Sarah and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

Directed by André Øvredal - With Austin Abrams, Gabriel Rush, Dean Norris

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)

PG-13

| 2h 46min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 4,813 votes)

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.

Directed by David Fincher - With Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Tilda Swinton, Mahershala Ali, ...

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Minions(2015)

| 1h 31min | Kids & Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 4,337 votes)

Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world.

Directed by Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda - With Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud, Jennifer Saunders, Michael Keaton, ...

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The Grand Budapest Hotel(2014)

| 1h 40min | Comedy, Drama

4.0/5 (with 5,525 votes)

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

Directed by Wes Coxlong Anderson - With Ralph Fiennes, Saoirse Ronan, Edward Norton, Jude Law, Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton, ...

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Palm Trees in the Snow(2015)

2h 44min | Drama, History, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 211 votes)

Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.

Directed by Fernando González Molina - With Mario Casas, Adriana Ugarte, Macarena García, Laia Costa, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Celso Bugallo Aguiar, ...

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Once Upon a Time in America(1984)

| 3h 49min | Drama, Crime

4.3/5 (with 1,793 votes)

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Directed by Sergio Leone - With Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Burt Young, Tuesday Weld, ...

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A Bronx Tale(1993)

| 2h 1min | Drama, Crime

3.9/5 (with 676 votes)

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.

Directed by Robert De Niro - With Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato, Taral Hicks, Francis Capra, Kathrine Narducci, ...

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Marrowbone(2017)

| 1h 51min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Horror

3.6/5 (with 480 votes)

A young man and his three younger siblings are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

Directed by Sergio G. Sánchez - With George MacKay, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Mia Goth, Kyle Soller, Tom Fisher, ...

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The Deer Hunter(1978)

| 3h 4min | Drama, War

4.0/5 (with 1,289 votes)

A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.

Directed by Michael Cimino - With Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage, John Cazale, Meryl Streep, George Dzundza, ...

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Sleepers(1996)

| 2h 27min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

3.8/5 (with 1,100 votes)

Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.

Directed by Barry Levinson - With Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Vittorio Gassman, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt, ...

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Blow(2001)

| 2h 4min | Crime, Drama

3.7/5 (with 1,631 votes)

A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.

Directed by Ted Demme - With Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Franka Potente, Ray Liotta, Rachel Griffiths, Paul Reubens, ...

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Girl, Interrupted(1999)

| 2h 7min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 1,296 votes)

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.

Directed by James Mangold - With Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Tambor, Vanessa Redgrave, ...

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The Wife(2018)

| 1h 40min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 399 votes)

A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Directed by Björn Runge - With Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater, Max Irons, Annie Starke, Elizabeth McGovern, ...

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Vice(2018)

| 2h 12min | Drama, History, Comedy

3.6/5 (with 1,209 votes)

George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and defense secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.

Directed by Adam McKay - With Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Alison Pill, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Bill Pullman, ...

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Sister Act(1992)

| 1h 40min | Music, Comedy

3.4/5 (with 1,157 votes)

A Reno singer witnesses a mob murder and the cops stash her in a nunnery to protect her from the mob's hitmen. The mother superior does not trust her, and takes steps to limit her influence on the other nuns. Eventually the singer rescues the failing choir and begins helping with community projects, which gets her an interview on TV—and identification by the mob.

Directed by Emile Ardolino - With Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes, Bill Nunn, ...

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I'm Not There(2007)

| 2h 15min | Drama, Music

3.4/5 (with 239 votes)

Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.

Directed by Todd Haynes - With Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw, ...

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Recess: School's Out(2001)

| 1h 22min | Science Fiction, Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family

3.3/5 (with 123 votes)

It's the most exciting time of year at Third Street Elementary-- the end of the School Year! But boredom quickly sets in for protagonist TJ Detweiler, as his friends are headed for Summer Camp. One day, while passing by the school on his bike, he notices a green glow coming from the school's auditorium. This is the work of the insidious ex-principal of Third Street, Phillium Benedict and his gang of ninjas and secret service look-alikes! Benedict is planning to get rid of Summer Vacation using his newly-acquired Tractor Beam, which he stole from the US Military Base in an effort to raise US Test Scores, and it's up to the Recess Gang to stop him!

Directed by Chuck Sheetz

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The Dreamers(2003)

NC-17

| 1h 52min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 1,063 votes)

A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister.

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci - With Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Anna Chancellor, Robin Renucci, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, ...

What's Love Got to Do with It(1993)

| 1h 58min | Music, Drama

3.6/5 (with 87 votes)

Based on the life of the legendary soul singer, Tina Turner -- born Anna Mae Bullock -- discovers her love of singing in her Tennessee church choir. She moves to St. Louis to pursue a career, and there she meets the charismatic Ike Turner, who rechristens her Tina and offers to help her succeed. As a musical team, Ike and Tina take the charts by storm. But as his physical abuse worsens, Tina has to make the tough decision to leave Ike and set out on her own.

Directed by Brian Gibson - With Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Khandi Alexander, Jenifer Lewis, Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly, Chi McBride, ...

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Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro(1979)

| 1h 42min | Kids & Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime

3.8/5 (with 315 votes)

After a successful robbery leaves famed thief Lupin the Third and his partner Jigen with nothing but a large amount of expertly crafted counterfeit bills, he decides to track down the forgers responsible—and steal any other treasures he may find in the Castle of Cagliostro, including the 'damsel in distress' he finds imprisoned there.

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

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The Butler(2013)

PG-13

| 2h 12min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 1,168 votes)

A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.

Directed by Lee Daniels - With Forest Whitaker, Alex Pettyfer, John Cusack, Robin Williams, Terrence Howard, James Marsden, ...

Sparkle(2012)

PG-13

| 1h 56min | Drama, Music

3.1/5 (with 37 votes)

Musical prodigy, Sparkle struggles to become a star while overcoming issues that are tearing her family apart. From an affluent Detroit area and daughter to a single mother, she tries to balance a new romance with music manager Stix while dealing with the unexpected challenges her new life will bring as she and her two sisters strive to become a dynamic singing group during the Motown-era.

Directed by Salim Akil - With Jordin Sparks, Whitney Houston, Derek Luke, Carmen Ejogo, Tika Sumpter, Mike Epps, ...

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being(1988)

| 2h 51min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama

3.6/5 (with 139 votes)

Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet invasion occurs, all three flee to Switzerland. Sabina begins an affair, Tom continues womanizing, and Tereza, disgusted, returns to Czechoslovakia. Realizing his mistake, Tomas decides to chase after her.

Directed by Philip Kaufman - With Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint, Erland Josephson, Donald Moffat, ...

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Movies Set in 1968

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Roald Dahl's The Witches(2020)

The Conjuring(2013)

Judas and the Black Messiah(2021)

Annabelle Comes Home(2019)

First Man(2018)

Annabelle(2014)

The Trial of the Chicago 7(2020)

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark(2019)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)

Minions(2015)

The Grand Budapest Hotel(2014)

Palm Trees in the Snow(2015)

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Once Upon a Time in America(1984)

A Bronx Tale(1993)

Marrowbone(2017)

The Deer Hunter(1978)

Sleepers(1996)

Blow(2001)

Girl, Interrupted(1999)

The Wife(2018)

Vice(2018)

Sister Act(1992)

I'm Not There(2007)

Recess: School's Out(2001)

The Dreamers(2003)

What's Love Got to Do with It(1993)

Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro(1979)

The Butler(2013)

Sparkle(2012)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being(1988)

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