Movies Set in 1968

103 movies found (page 1/4):

Roald Dahl's The Witches(2020)

FSK: 12+ years

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

3.2/5 (with 1,305 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)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 52min | Horror, Thriller

3.8/5 (with 5,178 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 Wan - With Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor, Mackenzie Foy, Joey King, ...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)

FSK: 12+ years

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

3.8/5 (with 5,674 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. 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, ...

A Bronx Tale(1993)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 1min | Drama, Crime

3.9/5 (with 915 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, ...

Elvis(2022)

FSK: 6+ years

| 2h 39min | Drama, Music

3.8/5 (with 1,427 votes)

The life story of Elvis Presley as seen through the complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker.

Directed by Baz Luhrmann - With Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Yola, Luke Bracey, Kelvin Harrison Jr., ...

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Elvis(2021)

2h 37min | Drama, Music

A biopic about Elvis Presley, with focus on his early years.

Directed by Baz Luhrmann - With Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Yola, Luke Bracey, Kelvin Harrison Jr., ...

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The Grand Budapest Hotel(2014)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 40min | Comedy, Drama

4.0/5 (with 6,965 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 Anderson - With Ralph Fiennes, Saoirse Ronan, Edward Norton, Jude Law, Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton, ...

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Annabelle(2014)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 39min | Horror

2.9/5 (with 2,761 votes)

A couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists.

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

Once Upon a Time in America(1984)

FSK: 16+ years

| 3h 49min | Drama, Crime

4.2/5 (with 2,468 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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Minions(2015)

FSK: 0+ years

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

3.2/5 (with 5,015 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, ...

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark(2019)

FSK: 16+ years

| 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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Sister Act(1992)

FSK: 6+ years

| 1h 40min | Music, Comedy

3.4/5 (with 1,399 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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Marrowbone(2017)

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

3.6/5 (with 616 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, ...

Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro(1979)

FSK: 6+ years

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

3.8/5 (with 427 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

First Man(2018)

FSK: 12+ years

| 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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The Dreamers(2003)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 52min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 1,267 votes)

When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.

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

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Blow(2001)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 4min | Crime, Drama

3.7/5 (with 1,917 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, ...

Sleepers(1996)

FSK: 16+ years

| 2h 27min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

3.8/5 (with 1,526 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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Girl, Interrupted(1999)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 7min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 1,639 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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Big George Foreman(2023)

2h 9min | Drama, History

3.8/5 (with 77 votes)

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.

Directed by George Tillman, Jr. - With Forest Whitaker, John Magaro, Khris Davis, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Sonja Sohn

The Deer Hunter(1978)

FSK: 16+ years

| 3h 4min | Drama, War

4.0/5 (with 1,727 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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Vice(2018)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 12min | Comedy, Drama

3.5/5 (with 1,482 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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Judas and the Black Messiah(2021)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 5min | Drama, History

3.7/5 (with 618 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 - With Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback, Ashton Sanders, Darrell Britt-Gibson, ...

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The Trial of the Chicago 7(2020)

2h 10min | Drama, History

3.9/5 (with 1,311 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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Scrooged(1988)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 41min | Fantasy, Comedy, Drama

3.4/5 (with 640 votes)

Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing staff member Eliot Loudermilk on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.

Directed by Richard Donner - With Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bobcat Goldthwait, David Johansen, ...

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The Butler(2013)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 12min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 1,331 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, ...

The Wife(2018)

FSK: 6+ years

| 1h 40min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 499 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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Rose Island(2020)

2h | Comedy, Adventure

3.5/5 (with 578 votes)

In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The Italian authorities did not take it well because the micronation was seen as an expedient to not pay taxes on the revenues obtained thanks to the arrival of numerous tourists and curious people.

Directed by Sydney Sibilia - With Elio Germano, Matilda De Angelis, Leonardo Lidi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Luca Zingaretti, François Cluzet, ...

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Palm Trees in the Snow(2015)

FSK: 12+ years

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

3.7/5 (with 245 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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The Classic(2003)

2h 7min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 74 votes)

Ji-hae's friend is having problems expressing her feelings to the boy she loves, so she asks Ji-hae to write e-mails to him in her name. As the boy falls in love with her letters, Ji-hae discovers the story of her mother's romance which is remarkably similar to her own circumstances.

Directed by Kwak Jae-yong - With Son Ye-jin

Movies Set in 1968

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Roald Dahl's The Witches(2020)

The Conjuring(2013)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)

A Bronx Tale(1993)

Elvis(2022)

Elvis(2021)

The Grand Budapest Hotel(2014)

Annabelle(2014)

Once Upon a Time in America(1984)

Minions(2015)

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark(2019)

Sister Act(1992)

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Marrowbone(2017)

Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro(1979)

First Man(2018)

The Dreamers(2003)

Blow(2001)

Sleepers(1996)

Girl, Interrupted(1999)

Big George Foreman(2023)

The Deer Hunter(1978)

Vice(2018)

Judas and the Black Messiah(2021)

The Trial of the Chicago 7(2020)

Scrooged(1988)

The Butler(2013)

The Wife(2018)

Rose Island(2020)

Palm Trees in the Snow(2015)

The Classic(2003)

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