1960s American films

The Sound of Music

Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1965 IMDB Rating: 8.1

In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life a...

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Inherit the Wind

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1960 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to brin...

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Cool Hand Luke

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1967 IMDB Rating: 8.1

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admi...

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A Raisin in the Sun

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1961 IMDB Rating: 8

Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets...

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Planet of the Apes

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1968 IMDB Rating: 8

Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a...

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1969 IMDB Rating: 8

In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot Sundance Kid. As the west rapidly b...

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The Graduate

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1967 IMDB Rating: 8

Benjamin, a recent college graduate very worried about his future, finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1966 IMDB Rating: 8

A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload onto their guests the fu...

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Fail Safe

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1964 IMDB Rating: 8

Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little time to prevent an atomic catastrophe from occurrin...

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