Movies Set in 1969

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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny(2023)

PG-13

3.3/5 (with 1,034 votes)

Finding himself in a new era, and approaching retirement, Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival, Indy must don his hat and pick up his whip once more to make sure an ancient and powerful artifact doesn't fall into the wrong hands.

Directed by James Mangold - With Harrison Ford, John Rhys-Davies, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelsen, Antonio Banderas, Boyd Holbrook, ...

Forrest Gump(1994)

2h 22min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

4.3/5 (with 12,194 votes)

A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.

Directed by Robert Zemeckis - With Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Sally Field, Robin Wright, Mykelti Williamson, Haley Joel Osment, ...

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Sneakers(1992)

PG-13

| 2h 6min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

3.4/5 (with 377 votes)

When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his 'sneakers' must save themselves and the world economy by retrieving the box from their blackmailers.

Directed by Phil Alden Robinson - With Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, ...

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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me(1999)

PG-13

| 1h 35min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Science Fiction

3.2/5 (with 1,533 votes)

When diabolical genius Dr. Evil travels back in time to steal superspy Austin Powers's ‘mojo,’ Austin must return to the swingin' '60s himself - with the help of American agent, Felicity Shagwell - to stop the dastardly plan. Once there, Austin faces off against Dr. Evil's army of minions to try to save the world in his own unbelievably groovy way.

Directed by Jay Roach - With Heather Graham, Seth Green, Robert Wagner, Rob Lowe, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Hurley, ...

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Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood(2019)

| 2h 42min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

3.7/5 (with 5,896 votes)

Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski….

Directed by Quentin Tarantino - With Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt, Zoë Bell, Kurt Russell, Burt Reynolds, ...

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Men in Black 3(2012)

PG-13

| 1h 46min | Action, Comedy, Science Fiction

3.3/5 (with 4,768 votes)

Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K never told him - secrets that will reveal themselves as he teams up with the young Agent K to save his partner, the agency, and the future of humankind.

Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld - With Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement, Michael Stuhlbarg, Bill Hader, David Rasche, ...

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Zodiac(2007)

| 2h 37min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

3.8/5 (with 4,569 votes)

A cartoonist teams up with an ace reporter and a law enforcement officer to track down an elusive serial killer.

Directed by David Fincher - With Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Elias Koteas, ...

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Apocalypse Now(1979)

2h 27min | Drama, War

4.1/5 (with 3,606 votes)

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola - With Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Dennis Hopper, Francis Ford Coppola, ...

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Twister(1996)

PG-13

| 1h 53min | Action, Adventure, Drama

3.2/5 (with 1,368 votes)

An unprecedented series of violent tornadoes is sweeping across Oklahoma. Tornado chasers, headed by Dr. Jo Harding, attempt to release a groundbreaking device that will allow them to track them and create a more advanced warning system. They are joined by Jo's soon to be ex-husband Bill, a former tornado chaser himself, and his girlfriend Melissa.

Directed by Jan de Bont - With Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Jami Gertz, Cary Elwes, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lois Smith, ...

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service(1969)

| 2h 22min | Adventure, Action, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 849 votes)

James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco, and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld.

Directed by Peter R. Hunt - With George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Bernard Lee, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lois Maxwell, ...

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Inherent Vice(2014)

| 2h 29min | Drama, Mystery, Comedy

3.3/5 (with 1,105 votes)

In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson - With Benicio del Toro, Jeannie Berlin, Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Kevin J. O'Connor, Martin Short, ...

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning(2006)

| 1h 31min | Horror, Thriller

3.1/5 (with 752 votes)

Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills one of the bikers and brings Chrissie's friends to the Hewitt homestead, where young Leatherface is learning the tools of terror.

Directed by Jonathan Liebesman - With Andrew Bryniarski, Jordana Brewster, R. Lee Ermey, Matt Bomer, Taylor Handley, Diora Baird, ...

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Drag Me to Hell(2009)

PG-13

| 1h 39min | Horror, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 1,589 votes)

After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is skeptical. Her only hope seems to lie in a psychic who claims he can help her lift the curse and keep her soul from being dragged straight to hell.

Directed by Sam Raimi - With Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao, David Paymer, Adriana Barraza, ...

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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story(2009)

| 1h 26min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 248 votes)

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a movie based on the life story of world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987.

Directed by Thomas Carter - With Cuba Gooding Jr., Kimberly Elise, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

The Bye Bye Man(2017)

PG-13

| 1h 36min | Horror, Thriller

2.6/5 (with 578 votes)

When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping The Bye Bye Man's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.

Directed by Stacy Title - With Douglas Smith, Lucien Laviscount, Doug Jones, Carrie-Anne Moss, Faye Dunaway, Michael Trucco, ...

Apollo 13(1995)

| 2h 20min | History, Drama, Adventure

3.7/5 (with 2,401 votes)

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.

Directed by Ron Howard - With Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan, ...

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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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Blow(2001)

| 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, ...

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Mirror(1975)

1h 47min | Drama, History

4.0/5 (with 394 votes)

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - With Margarita Terekhova, Oleg Yankovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Larisa Tarkovskaya, Alla Demidova, Nikolai Grinko, ...

Awakenings(1990)

PG-13

| 2h | Drama

3.9/5 (with 1,054 votes)

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.

Directed by Penny Marshall, Alain Cuniot - With Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller, Max von Sydow, ...

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Hamburger Hill(1987)

| 1h 52min | War, Action, Drama

3.3/5 (with 183 votes)

The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was, the way it really was. It's a raw, gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst, men at their best.

Directed by John Irvin - With Dylan McDermott, Steven Weber, Courtney B. Vance, Don Cheadle, Michael Boatman, Anthony Barrile, ...

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Universal Soldier(1992)

| 1h 42min | Thriller, Action, Science Fiction, Crime

3.1/5 (with 763 votes)

An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he begins to experience flashbacks that are forcing him to recall his past.

Directed by Roland Emmerich - With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Ally Walker, Ed O'Ross, Jerry Orbach, Ralf Moeller, ...

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Bad Times at the El Royale(2018)

| 2h 21min | Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Crime

3.4/5 (with 1,573 votes)

Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

Directed by Drew Goddard - With Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm, Cailee Spaeny, Lewis Pullman, ...

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Detroit(2017)

| 2h 23min | Crime, Drama, Thriller, History

3.7/5 (with 737 votes)

A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow - With John Boyega, Will Poulter, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell, Hannah Murray, Kaitlyn Dever, ...

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Mojin: The Lost Legend(2015)

PG-13

| 2h 7min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

3.1/5 (with 93 votes)

At the beginning of the 1990s, famous tomb explorer Hu Bayi decided to retire and move to the United States with his girlfriend Shirley. But before his wedding, Bayi discovers his first love Ding Shitian, who supposedly had died in the "One Hundred Cave" 20 years ago, is actually still alive. Together with Shirley and his old exploration partner, Bayi unravels a terrible millennium-old secret...

Directed by Wu Ershan - With Huang Bo

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Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood(2022)

PG-13

| 1h 37min | Animation, Science Fiction, Kids & Family, Adventure, Comedy

3.6/5 (with 94 votes)

A man narrates stories of his life as a 10-year-old boy in 1969 Houston, weaving tales of nostalgia with a fantastical account of a journey to the moon.

Directed by Richard Linklater

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Secretariat(2010)

| 2h 3min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 249 votes)

Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin - manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.

Directed by Randall Wallace - With Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Margo Martindale, AJ Michalka, Dylan Walsh, Scott Glenn, ...

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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 First Wives Club(1996)

| 1h 42min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 343 votes)

After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!

Directed by Hugh Wilson - With Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, Stephen Collins, Dan Hedaya, Victor Garber, ...

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Judas and the Black Messiah(2021)

| 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, ...

Movies Set in 1969

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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny(2023)

Forrest Gump(1994)

Sneakers(1992)

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me(1999)

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood(2019)

Men in Black 3(2012)

Zodiac(2007)

Apocalypse Now(1979)

Twister(1996)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service(1969)

Inherent Vice(2014)

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning(2006)

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Drag Me to Hell(2009)

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story(2009)

The Bye Bye Man(2017)

Apollo 13(1995)

First Man(2018)

Blow(2001)

Mirror(1975)

Awakenings(1990)

Hamburger Hill(1987)

Universal Soldier(1992)

Bad Times at the El Royale(2018)

Detroit(2017)

Mojin: The Lost Legend(2015)

Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood(2022)

Secretariat(2010)

JFK(1991)

The First Wives Club(1996)

Judas and the Black Messiah(2021)

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