Films set in the 1960s

1994 film directed by Robert Zemeckis

1994 American drama film directed by Frank Darabont

2001 film by Ron Howard

2005 film directed by Ang Lee

Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film dramatizes Oppenheimer's studies, his direction of the Los Alamos Laboratory and his 1954 security hearing. Cillian Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, alongside Robert Downey Jr. as the United States Atomic Energy Commission member Lewis Strauss. The ensemble supporting cast includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.

2002 film by Steven Spielberg

1962 film by Terence Young

2012 film directed by Ang Lee

Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of Pileggi's 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy. Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino, the film narrates the rise and fall of Mafia associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980.

2002 film directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund

Annie Hall is a 1977 American satirical romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen from a screenplay written by Allen and Marshall Brickman, and produced by Allen's manager, Charles H. Joffe. The film stars Allen as Alvy Singer, who tries to figure out the reasons for the failure of his relationship with the eponymous female lead, played by Diane Keaton in a role written specifically for her.

2014 film directed by James Marsh

2008 film by David Fincher

1987 film by Stanley Kubrick

1987 film by Bernardo Bertolucci

1995 film directed by Joe Johnston

2011 film directed by Tate Taylor

1980 film directed by Martin Scorsese

2007 film by Ridley Scott

1989 film directed by Bruce Beresford

1983 film directed by James L. Brooks

2003 film by Tim Burton

2019 film directed by Martin Scorsese

1987 film by Barry Levinson

1991 film directed by Oliver Stone

2007 film directed by Olivier Dahan

1987 film directed by Emile Ardolino

2005 film by James Mangold

2016 film directed by Theodore Melfi

1994 film directed by Edward Zwick

2022 film directed by Baz Luhrmann

2005 film directed by Bennett Miller

2006 American fantasy comedy film directed by Frank Coraci

2011 film by Clint Eastwood

2002 film directed by Randall Wallace

2004 American biographical musical drama film

2013 film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski

Serpico is a 1973 American crime drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Al Pacino in the title role. The screenplay was adapted by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler from the book written by Peter Maas, with the assistance of its subject Frank Serpico. The story details Serpico's struggle with corruption within the New York City Police Department during his eleven years of service, and his work as a whistleblower which led to the investigation by the Knapp Commission.

2013 film directed by John Lee Hancock

2006 film by Bill Condon

2019 film directed by Pedro Almodóvar

2019 film directed by Dexter Fletcher

2001 film directed by Michael Mann

2011 film by Zack Snyder

2018 film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski

1978 film by John Landis

1992 film by Richard Attenborough

2006 film directed by Robert De Niro

2016 US film by John Lee Hancock

2014 film directed by Ava DuVernay

1992 film by Spike Lee

2000 US film directed by Julian Schnabel

1996 film directed by Scott Hicks

2002 film directed by Steve Beck

1991 film by Rachel Talalay

2024 film directed by James Mangold

2002 film directed by George Clooney

2000 film directed by Roger Donaldson

1995 film directed by Oliver Stone

2018 film directed by Adam McKay