269 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 1980s
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Kin-dza-dza!
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1980sTwo Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-da galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.
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Courier
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1980sIvan Mirosnikov, a cheeky young man in the Gorbachev era, is trying to figure out what to do with his life (he's not in college, and the 2-year mandatory military service is looming large ahead of him). Meanwhile, he lives with his divorced mother, and works as a courier at a Russian newspaper. Through his job, he meets patronizing Professor Kuznetzov and his rebellious daughter Katya. To annoy the professor, Ivan claims to have an affair with Katya. To his surprise, Katya backs his story up.
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The Big Parade
Beijing The 1980sArmy volunteers train for places in China's 1984 National Day parade, where they are expected to be a perfect marching unit.
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Big Joys, Small Sorrows
Nagasaki Prefecture Hokkaido Prefecture Hiroshima Prefecture The 1980sA lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.
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A View to a Kill
California England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1980sHas James Bond finally met his match? โ A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear explosion has landed in the hands of the KGB. James Bond must find out how and why. His suspicions soon lead him to big industry leader Max Zorin.
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Rambo: First Blood Part II
๐ป๐ณ Vietnam ๐น๐ญ Thailand The 1980sWhat most people call hell, he calls home. โ John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
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Rocky IV
Pennsylvania Nevada ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1980sHe's facing the ultimate challenge. And fighting for his life. โ After iron man Drago, a highly intimidating 6-foot-5, 261-pound Soviet athlete, kills Apollo Creed in an exhibition match, Rocky comes to the heart of Russia for 15 pile-driving boxing rounds of revenge.
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Spies Like Us
๐ท๐บ Russia ๐น๐ฏ Tajikistan District of Columbia ๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan The 1980sWith spies like these who needs enemies? โ Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.
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Tampopo
Tokyo Prefecture The 1980sThe first Japanese Noodle Western. โ A pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside fast food stop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle soup making".
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Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1970s The 1980sChuck Norris is back! A one-man time bomb set to explode! โ Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
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Gymkata
Asia - General The 1980sThe skill of gymnastics, the kill of karate. โ U.S. agents send a gymnastic martial artist to secure a missile-base site in the savage country of Parmistan.
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White Nights
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1980sAfter his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the Kirov Academy of Ballet again. Determined to escape, he befriends a black American expatriate and his pregnant Russian wife, who agree to help him escape to the American Embassy.
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Godzilla 1985
Virginia Tokyo Prefecture Shizuoka Prefecture The 1980sPrepare yourself: the greatest star of all has returned. โ Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves as a direct follow-up to the 1956 "Godzilla King of the Monsters", which also featured scenes with Burr edited into 1954's "Godzilla". This film restores the darker tone of the original, as we witness the nuclear destruction of giant lizard terrorizing Japan.
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Perfect
California ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1980sJohn Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis work up a sweat together! โ A female aerobics instructor meets a male reporter doing a story on health clubs, but it isn't love at first sight.
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Naan Sigappu Manithan
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1980sA young man turns into a vigilante to fight injustice after his loved ones are killed.
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Dangerous for Your Life!
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1980sA funny comedy about a very adventurous day in a life of Stepan Molodtsov - a very responsible youn man.
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Taipei Story
๐น๐ผ Taiwan The 1980sA young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.
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This Is Spinal Tap
California Georgia Illinois New York North Carolina Ohio Tennessee Washington Tokyo Prefecture The 1980sPrepare to crank those amps up to eleven โ "This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.
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Best Defense
๐ฐ๐ผ Kuwait The 1980sUnfortunately, they're both on our side. โ Wylie is a lazy engineer. Landry is a Sergeant specialising in Armour. They have never met but their lives become entangled when Landry must take the tank Wylie designed into combat. Wylie is waiting for his employer to go out of business when he meets another engineer who gives him a disk with the plans for a system that will save his employer. The other engineer is dead moments later leaving Wylie with the disk and credit for the design. Suddenly Wylie is no longer a hack, but the saviour of his company and finds his life is no longer the same.
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Sunstroke
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1980sLast summer before the army... Last summer altogether โ A movie about a last summer in the life of four friends just before they go to the army during early 1980's Tel-Aviv summer before the war in Lebanon.
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The Owl vs Bombo
๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong The 1980sSammo (Bumbo) and George Lam (Owl) are partners in crime and they scam some triad big shot out of a load of money and decide to retire. Three years later they both receive letters from Stanley Fung, in which he informs them that he has proof of all their criminal activity and unless they do exactly what he saysโhe will turn it over to the cops. Fung is an ex-cop himself and is trying to get the goods on the same triad leader that Sammo and George scammed.
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Octopussy
England ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐ณ India ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1980sJames Bond's all time high. โ James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow โ00โ agent is found dead with a priceless Fabergรฉ egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.
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Diary
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ง๐ท Brazil The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1950s The 2000sA film diary in which Perlov films the minutiae of his and his family's day-to-day life. From these small bits, he builds up a broad picture of life in Israel in the '70s and '80s.
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Firefox
Alaska England ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1980s...the most devastating killing machine ever built... his job... steal it! โ The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weaponโas there are rumours that it is undetectable by radarโthe British send ex-Vietnam War pilot, Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.
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Personal Best
Oregon ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1980sWhen you run into yourself you run into feelings you never thought you had โ Chris Cahill is a young athlete who competes unsuccessfully in the 1976 U.S. Olympic trials. She meets a more experienced lesbian track and field competitor, Tory Skinner, and their friendship evolves into a romantic relationship.
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