Movies Set in 1966

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The Shawshank Redemption(1994)

| 2h 22min | Drama, Crime

4.4/5 (with 12,480 votes)

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.

Directed by Frank Darabont - With Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler, James Whitmore, Clancy Brown, ...

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Ford v Ferrari(2019)

PG-13

| 2h 33min | Drama, Action, History

4.0/5 (with 3,260 votes)

American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.

Directed by James Mangold - With Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal, Caitríona Balfe, Noah Jupe, Josh Lucas, ...

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Hulk(2003)

PG-13

| 2h 18min | Science Fiction, Adventure, Action

2.8/5 (with 2,648 votes)

Bruce Banner, a genetics researcher with a tragic past, suffers massive radiation exposure in his laboratory that causes him to transform into a raging green monster when he gets angry.

Directed by Ang Lee - With Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott, Josh Lucas, Nick Nolte, Cara Buono, ...

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Last Night in Soho(2021)

| 1h 56min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror

3.7/5 (with 1,458 votes)

A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it seems, and time seems to be falling apart with shady consequences.

Directed by Edgar Wright - With Thomasin McKenzie, Anya Taylor-Joy, Matt Smith, Terence Stamp, Diana Rigg, Rita Tushingham, ...

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark(2019)

PG-13

| 1h 48min | Horror, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 1,184 votes)

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella 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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Life of Pi(2012)

| 2h 7min | Adventure, Drama

3.7/5 (with 6,246 votes)

The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

Directed by Ang Lee - With Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Gérard Depardieu, Tabu, Adil Hussain, ...

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The Reader(2008)

| 2h 4min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 1,312 votes)

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.

Directed by Stephen Daldry - With Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, David Kross, Alexandra Maria Lara, Lena Olin, Bruno Ganz, ...

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An American Crime(2007)

| 1h 37min | Crime, Drama, Horror

3.7/5 (with 279 votes)

The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.

Directed by Tommy O'Haver - With Elliot Page, Catherine Keener, Hayley McFarland, Ari Graynor, Scout Taylor-Compton, James Franco, ...

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Rosemary's Baby(1968)

| 2h 18min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

3.9/5 (with 1,689 votes)

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.

Directed by Roman Polanski - With Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy, ...

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Only Yesterday(1991)

1h 58min | Animation, Drama, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 443 votes)

It's 1982, and Taeko is 27 years old, unmarried, and has lived her whole life in Tokyo. She decides to visit her family in the countryside, where she begins to reconnect to forgotten longings. In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

Directed by Isao Takahata

The Post(2017)

PG-13

| 1h 56min | Drama, History

3.5/5 (with 2,074 votes)

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.

Directed by Steven Spielberg - With Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, ...

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First Man(2018)

PG-13

| 2h 21min | History, Drama

3.5/5 (with 2,472 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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Godzilla vs. Megaguirus(2000)

| 1h 45min | Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Horror

3.4/5 (with 70 votes)

In an alternate timeline the original Godzilla is never defeated and repeatedly reemerges to feed on Japan's energy sources. A new inter-dimensional weapon called the Dimension Tide is created with the intent of eliminating Godzilla. However, the new weapon might also serve as a gateway to something far more sinister.

Directed by Masaaki Tezuka - With Shōsuke Tanihara, Kōichi Yamadera, Tsutomu Kitagawa, Masatō Ibu, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Yuriko Hoshi, ...

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JFK(1991)

| 3h 9min | Drama, Thriller, History

3.8/5 (with 949 votes)

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

Directed by Oliver Stone - With Kevin Costner, Joe Pesci, Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Sissy Spacek, Laurie Metcalf, ...

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The Time Machine(1960)

| 1h 43min | Thriller, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Romance / Love

3.7/5 (with 373 votes)

A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.

Directed by George Pal - With Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot, Whit Bissell, Tom Helmore, ...

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Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan(2019)

| 1h 59min | War, Action, Drama, History

3.5/5 (with 130 votes)

Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a ruthless battle among the trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tân. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them.

Directed by Kriv Stenders - With Travis Fimmel, Luke Bracey, Richard Roxburgh, Nicholas Hamilton, Daniel Webber, Myles Pollard, ...

The Hurricane(1999)

| 2h 26min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 604 votes)

The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.

Directed by Norman Jewison - With Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger, Liev Schreiber, John Hannah, Dan Hedaya, ...

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The Boat That Rocked(2009)

| 2h 15min | Drama, Comedy

3.6/5 (with 947 votes)

An ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government that wanted control of popular culture via the British Broadcasting Corporation. Loosely based on the events in Britain in the 60's when the Labour government of Harold Wilson, wanted to bring the pirate radio stations under control, enough to see the passage of the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act on 15 August 1967. Also known as "Pirate Radio".

Directed by Richard Curtis - With Tom Sturridge, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Talulah Riley, ...

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Jersey Boys(2014)

| 2h 14min | Music, Drama

3.4/5 (with 308 votes)

A musical biopic of the Four Seasons—the rise, the tough times and personal clashes, and the ultimate triumph of a group of friends whose music became symbolic of a generation. Far from a mere tribute concert, it gets to the heart of the relationships at the centre of the group, with a special focus on frontman Frankie Valli, the small kid with the big falsetto.

Directed by Clint Eastwood - With John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Michael Lomenda, Vincent Piazza, Christopher Walken, Kathrine Narducci, ...

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Blood: The Last Vampire(2000)

PG-13

| 48min | Animation, Fantasy, Horror

3.4/5 (with 132 votes)

In Japan, the vampire-hunter Saya, who is a powerful original, is sent by her liaison with the government, David, posed as a teenage student to the Yokota High School on the eve of Halloween to hunt down vampires. Saya asks David to give a new katana to her. Soon she saves the school nurse Makiho Amano from two vampires disguised of classmates and Makiho witnesses her fight against the powerful demon.

Directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo

Gorillas in the Mist(1988)

PG-13

| 2h 9min | Drama, History

3.5/5 (with 244 votes)

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

Directed by Michael Apted - With Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, Iain Glen, Constantin Alexandrov, Iain Cuthbertson, ...

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The Ward(2010)

| 1h 28min | Horror, Thriller

2.9/5 (with 532 votes)

Kristen, a troubled young woman, is captured by the police after burning down a farmhouse and is locked in the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital. Soon, she begins to suspect that the place has a dark secret at its core and she's determined to find out what it is.

Directed by John Carpenter - With Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Danielle Panabaker, Lyndsy Fonseca, Mika Boorem, Jared Harris, ...

The Last Full Measure(2020)

| 1h 50min | War, Drama

3.7/5 (with 190 votes)

The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting Huffman to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman.

Directed by Todd Robinson - With Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Ed Harris, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Irvine, ...

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

| 1h 58min | Drama, Music, History

3.5/5 (with 118 votes)

Singer Tina Turner rises to stardom while mustering the courage to break free from her abusive husband Ike.

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

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Things to Come(1936)

| 1h 40min | Drama, Science Fiction

3.3/5 (with 77 votes)

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

Directed by William Cameron Menzies - With Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardwicke, Margaretta Scott, Derrick De Marney, Ann Todd, ...

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The Best of Youth(2003)

| 6h 6min | Drama, History, Romance / Love

4.0/5 (with 241 votes)

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lives of two brothers from a middle-class family take different directions, crossing some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.

Directed by Marco Tullio Giordana - With Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Sonia Bergamasco, Fabrizio Gifuni, Adriana Asti, Maya Sansa, ...

Superman: Red Son(2020)

1h 24min | Science Fiction, Animation, Action

3.6/5 (with 355 votes)

Set in the thick of the Cold War, Red Son introduces us to a Superman who landed in the USSR during the 1950s and grows up to become a Soviet symbol that fights for the preservation of Stalin’s brand of communism.

Directed by Sam Liu

Amityville: A New Generation(1993)

1h 30min | Horror, Thriller, Drama

2.0/5 (with 34 votes)

Photographer Keyes is given an old mirror from an homeless person he photographs on the street, takes it home and gives it a friend. He doesn't know yet that people see horrible things happen to themselves in the mirror and later these things come true. Are these really suicides or is there a demonic force behind the mirror?

Directed by John Murlowski - With Julia Nickson-Soul, Lala Sloatman, David Naughton, Richard Roundtree, Terry O'Quinn, Robert Rusler, ...

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Love & Mercy(2015)

PG-13

| 2h | Drama, Music, History

3.6/5 (with 309 votes)

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, under the sway of a controlling therapist, he finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter.

Directed by Bill Pohlad - With Brett Davern, Elizabeth Banks, Graham Rogers, John Cusack, Kenny Wormald, Paul Dano, ...

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Madadayo(1993)

2h 14min | Drama, Comedy

3.7/5 (with 45 votes)

Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with him resigning his job as a German professor at the onset of WWII. The story is told mostly in vignettes as he is cared for by former students in his old age.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa - With Akira Terao, Kyōko Kagawa, Hisashi Igawa, George Tokoro, Noriko Honma, Takeshi Kusaka, ...

Movies Set in 1966

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The Shawshank Redemption(1994)

Ford v Ferrari(2019)

Hulk(2003)

Last Night in Soho(2021)

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark(2019)

Life of Pi(2012)

The Reader(2008)

An American Crime(2007)

Rosemary's Baby(1968)

Only Yesterday(1991)

The Post(2017)

First Man(2018)

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Godzilla vs. Megaguirus(2000)

JFK(1991)

The Time Machine(1960)

Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan(2019)

The Hurricane(1999)

The Boat That Rocked(2009)

Jersey Boys(2014)

Blood: The Last Vampire(2000)

Gorillas in the Mist(1988)

The Ward(2010)

The Last Full Measure(2020)

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

Things to Come(1936)

The Best of Youth(2003)

Superman: Red Son(2020)

Amityville: A New Generation(1993)

Love & Mercy(2015)

Madadayo(1993)

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