329 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1970s
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Dear Sarah
Northern Ireland The 1970sGiuseppe Conlon and his son Gerry are convicted of an IRA bombing as part of the Maguire Seven in 1976. Giuseppe diligently writes his wife Sarah as she works to free her family members from prison.
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Violent Shit
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970sExperience A Lesson In Real Bad Taste โ A demented, wicked, deformed, cannibalistic killer named K. The Butcher Shitter, escapes from the police and slaughters people in many gory, bloody ways.
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Reunion
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970s The 1930s The 1980sAttorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the rise of the Third Reich. Still wondering about what happened to his boyhood friend Konradin Von Lohenburg, Strauss travels back to Germany for the first time since he was a young man, bringing up some painful memories.
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Vampire in Venice
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1970sProfessor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampire Nosferatu during the carnival of 1786.
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Hรดtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ง๐ด Bolivia The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1940sWinner of a Best Documentary Academy Award, Marcel Ophuls' riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed "The Butcher of Lyon." Responsible for over 4,000 deaths in occupied France during World War II, Barbie would escape--with U.S. help--to South America in 1951, where he lived until a global manhunt led to his 1983 arrest and subsequent trial.
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84 Charing Cross Road
New York England The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sA true story โ When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.
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Sid and Nancy
England New York The 1970sLove Kills. โ January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious is forced by his band mates to travel without his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who will meet him in New York. When the band breaks up and Sid begins his solo career in a hostile city, the turbulent couple definitely falls into the depths of drug addiction.
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The Baader-Meinhof Gang on Trial
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970sBased on the research for his non-fiction book "Der Baader-Meinhoff-Komplex", "Spiegel" journalist Stefan Aust wrote the screen play to Reinhard Hauffโs controversial feature film that re-narrates the startling trial against the RAF terrorists Baader, Meinhoff, Ensslin, and Raspe. The trial that started in May 1975 in the Stammheim maximum-security prison extended over 192 days and ended with a lifetime sentence for all defendants.
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The Moro Affair
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1970sOn March 16 1978, the Red Brigade kidnap the Chief of the Christian Democraty, the party in power in Italy since the end of the war. Fifty-five days later, his corpse was found in the trunk of a red Renault.
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Die Reise
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970s The 1960sAn unusual family story about two father and son generations, beginning on a German country side and ending in the students' revolt in Berlin.
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Wild Geese II
England ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970s The 1980sThey're back in the most spectacular rescue mission ever filmed! โ A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.
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Mesrine
๐ซ๐ท France The 1970sMesrine was the foremost criminal, public enemy Nยฐ1, the man most wanted in France, guilty of 39 crimes. "In the police or newspaper history, Mesrine broke all records". The film begins with his escape on May 8, 1978. Mesrine was the only man to escape from La Santรฉ. We relive the 18 crazy months he spent on the run and his encounter with Sylvia who is swept into his madness.
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Nadia
๐ท๐ด Romania Quebec The 1970sStory about gymnast Nadia Comaneci from her childhood beginning as a gymnast and how she was discovered by Belya Karolyi. Nadia received 7 perfect 10's in the Montreal Olympics.
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Pope John Paul II
๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1940sBio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world.
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Grace Kelly
๐ฒ๐จ Monaco The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950sThe fairy tale story of the actress who became a princess is told in this biography that traces her rise from Philadelphia socialite to Hollywood movie star.
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Night Crossing
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970sTwo men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
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A Nameless Band
๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria The 1970s The 1980sThe misfortunes of a couple of guys who form a music group and think they can get rich and famous easy.
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Half a Life
๐ซ๐ท France The 1960s The 1970sMichel Recanati was a militant leader in the May, 1968 riots in Paris, organizing many groups to meet, discuss, and act on leftist principles both before and after the disturbances. He was imprisoned for a short while in 1973. Disillusioned after the failure of the demonstrations and the death of the only woman he had loved, his life seems to have changed from a period of hope and activism to one of bottomless despair. His friend, Romain Goupil wrote and directed this biographical documentary. Death at 30 received the 1982 Cannes Film Festival's Golden Camera Award for "Best First Feature-Length Film."
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Variola Vera
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1970sAn Albanian pilgrim, infected with an unknown disease, is on his way back to Belgrade from the Middle East. When doctors realize that it is a disease that has been considered eradicated, it is already too late - variola vera begins to languish and the hospital is quarantined.
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Chariots of Fire
Scotland England ๐ซ๐ท France The 1970s The 1920s The 1910sThis is the story of two men who run, not to run, but to prove something to the world. They will sacrifice anything to achieve their goals... except their honor. โ In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.
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Turumba
๐ต๐ญ Philippines ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970sSet in a tiny Philippine village, the inimitable Kidlat Tahimik's film focuses on a family that makes paper-mache animals to sell during the traditional Turumba festivities. One year, a department store buyer purchases all their stock. When she returns with an order for 500 more (this time with the word "Oktoberfest" painted on them), the family's seasonal occupation becomes year-round alienated labor.
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The Long Good Friday
England The 1970sWho lit the fuse that tore Harold's world apart? โ In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
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Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1970s The 1950sThis is a life story of three girlfriends from youth to autumn ages. Their dreams and wishes, love, disillusions...
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Rising Damp
England The 1970sStingy landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers John, an art student, and Philip, an African medical student, making both pay for a room they must share. However Rigsby's favorite lodger, Miss Jones, flirts with Philip rather than him, despite his pitiful attempts at seduction.
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Maledetti vi amerรฒ
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1970sYoung radical Riccardo returns home after hiding out in South America for years, only to find out that he has no "home" left: his former comrades in arms have now either bourgeoisified or turned to drugs, all they fought for seems to have set the stage for near anarchy and nothing is as he imagined.
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