Top of the Pops

1964

The biggest stars, the most iconic performances, the most outrageous outfits – it’s Britain’s number one pop show.

Countries
United Kingdom

Actors
Richard Bacon

Crew
Andi Peters, Johnnie Stewart, Stanley Appel

TV Shows like Top of the Pops

Discover a curated list of captivating tv shows similar to Top of the Pops. Explore films such as A Beautiful Mind, Blow, and High Fidelity, around the themes of timeframe 1960s, timeframe 1970s, timeframe 1980s, timeframe 1990s, timeframe 2000s.

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A Beautiful Mind

Synopsis: John Nash is a brilliant but asocial mathematician fighting schizophrenia. After he accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer, Josh Lucas
Plot: mathematician, mental illness, schizophrenia, game theory, nobel prize, conspiracy, paranoid schizophrenia, professor, psychiatrist, school ...
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Blow

Synopsis: 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 …
Starring: Johnny Depp, Cliff Curtis, Jordi Mollà
Plot: drug abuse, nosebleed, police officer, drug cartel, cocaine, marijuana, wedding, tragic event, theft, southern california ...
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High Fidelity

Synopsis: When record store owner Rob Gordon gets dumped by his girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn't changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups of all time in an attempt to figure out what went wrong. As Rob seeks out his former lovers to find out why they left, he keeps up his efforts to win Laura back.
Starring: John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Jack Black
Plot: two word title, breaking the fourth wall, talking to the camera, record store, employer employee relationship, based on book, based on novel, man wears eyeglasses, woman moans from pleasure, fantasy sequence ...
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Big Fish

Synopsis: Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Billy Crudup, Ewan McGregor
Plot: storytelling, fish, father son relationship, death of father, flashback, growing up, journey, surrealism, texas, small town ...
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Death Becomes Her

Synopsis: Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once arch-rival Helen's fiance. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to be a great deal more complicated than a mere murder plot.
Starring: Bruce Willis, Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn
Plot: egocentric woman, frenemy, betrayal, eternal life, rejuvenation, murder disguised as accident, manipulative woman, manipulation, nudity, adulterer ...
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Boogie Nights

Synopsis: Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity …
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly, Don Cheadle
Plot: porn industry, 1970s, adult filmmaking, adult entertainment industry, pornography, nightclub, woman initiating sex, cocaine, wife has sex in front of husband, copulation ...
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A Hard Day's Night

Synopsis: Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfathe…
Starring: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
Plot: beatlemania, 1960s, english culture, rock star, rock concert, train station, train ride, signed photograph, adolescence, musician ...
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A Goofy Movie

Synopsis: Though Goofy always means well, his amiable cluelessness and klutzy pratfalls regularly embarrass his awkward adolescent son, Max. When Max's lighthearted prank on his high-school principal finally gets his longtime crush, Roxanne, to notice him, he asks her on a date. Max's trouble at school convinces Goofy that he and the boy need to bond over a cross-country fishing trip like the one he took w…
Starring: Jim Cummings, Rob Paulsen, Kevin Lima
Plot: father son relationship, concert, older actors younger roles, travel, car in water, vacation, last day of school, road trip, on the road, driving ...
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Doctor Who

Synopsis: The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, hel…
Starring: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred
Plot: time travel, space travel, reincarnation, character name as series title, doctor who character, time lord, companion, police box, human alien, multiple actors for one character ...
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Wild at Heart

Synopsis: After serving prison time for a self-defense killing, Sailor Ripley reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune. Lula's mother, Marietta, desperate to keep them apart, hires a hitman to kill Sailor. But he finds a whole new set of troubles when he and Bobby Peru, an old buddy who's also out to get Sailor, try to rob a store. When Sailor lands in jail yet again, the young lovers appear further than ever…
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Crispin Glover, Harry Dean Stanton
Plot: domineering mother, avant garde, surrealism, forbidden love, violence, reference to the wizard of oz, road movie, lovers on the lam, black comedy, murder ...
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The Bodyguard

Synopsis: A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed bodyguard and the self-indulgent diva totally clash. But before long, all that tension sparks fireworks of another sort, and the love-averse tough guy is torn between duty and romance.
Starring: Tomas Arana, Kevin Costner, Ralph Waite
Plot: black woman white man relationship, singer, stalker, white male black female relationship, love, male bodyguard, man with gun, firearm, bodyguard, pop singer ...
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Good Bye Lenin!

Synopsis: Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
Starring: Daniel Brühl, Florian Lukas, Katrin Sass
Plot: coma, german democratic republic, capitalism, political activism, german reunification, berlin wall, fall of communism, spartak young pioneers organization, waking up from a coma, charade ...

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The Lizzie McGuire Movie

Synopsis: Lizzie McGuire has graduated from middle school and takes a trip to Rome, Italy with her class. And what was supposed to be only a normal trip, becomes a teenager's dream come true.
Starring: Clayton Snyder, Alex Borstein, Hilary Duff
Plot: actress, princess, rome italy, colosseum rome, character name as title, lizzie mcguire character, live action and animation, europe, italy, italian ...
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Love Actually

Synopsis: 'Love Actually' follows the lives of eight very different couples dealing with their love lives, in various loosely and interrelated tales, all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.
Starring: Colin Firth, Bill Nighy, Liam Neeson
Plot: christmas, adultery, unrequited love, love at first sight, prime minister, stand in, marriage, romantic kiss, aging rocker, dysfunctional marriage ...
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Sleepers

Synopsis: 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.
Starring: Billy Crudup, Robert De Niro, Minnie Driver
Plot: child molestation, sexual abuse, sexual predator, sadistic rape, pedo, gore, revenge, rape, confession booth, physical assault ...
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The Producers

Synopsis: Broadway producer, Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom plan to make money by charming little old ladies to invest in a production many times over what it will actually cost, and then put on a sure-fire flop, so nobody will ask for their money back – and what can be a more certain flop than a tasteless musical celebrating Hitler.
Starring: Kenneth Mars, William Hickey, Gene Wilder
Plot: joseph goebbels character, national film registry, neo screwball comedy, has been, cult classic, directorial debut, adolf hitler character, adolf hitler spoof, hermann goering character, timeframe 1960s ...
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Days of Our Lives

Synopsis: The Horton and Brady broods endure the romantic trials of life in Salem, a Midwestern hamlet filled with evil geniuses, star-crossed lovers and a rich family history.
Starring: Arianne Zucker, Josh Taylor, John Aniston
Plot: husband wife relationship, soap opera, columbia tristar, nbc, soap opera drama, timeframe 1960s, timeframe 1970s, timeframe 1980s, timeframe 1990s, timeframe 2000s ...
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The Hurricane

Synopsis: The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
Starring: Denzel Washington, David Paymer, Clancy Brown
Plot: toronto ontario canada, reference to fyodor dostoyevsky, reference to w.e. b. dubois, reference to richard wright, reference to victor hugo, timeframe 1940s, timeframe 1950s, timeframe 1960s, timeframe 1970s, timeframe 1980s ...
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What a Girl Wants

Synopsis: An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, she learns the love of her mom's life is an uptight politician. The only problem now is that her long-lost dad is engaged to a fiercely territorial social climber with a daughter who makes Daphne's life miserable.
Starring: Colin Firth, Jonathan Pryce, Amanda Bynes
Plot: queen elizabeth ii character, gender in title, girl in jeans, new york city, scene during opening credits, flashback, flash forward, manhattan new york city, chinatown manhattan new york city, slimehouse ...
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GoodFellas

Synopsis: The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Ray Liotta
Plot: gangster, mafia, organized crime, sadistic psychopath, rise and fall, mob, robbery, gang violence, adultery, infidelity ...