329 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1970s
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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexico New York Massachusetts Pennsylvania California ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sSome things are better left top secret. โ Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
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Baader
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970sAndreas Baader starts out as a small-time criminal. In Berlin, he is recruited by a revolutionary cell. They plan to overthrow the state.
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Solino
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970s The 1980s The 1960sThe movie portrays the story of an Italian family emigrated in Germany in the 1970s. Romano (Gigi Savoia), the father, decides to open a pizzeria which, by mutual decision with the wife Rosa (Antonella Attili), will call Solino, leaving his sons Gigi and Giancarlo to work there. A hostile relationship comes to life between the father and his sons, which will end up in the escape of the boys from family.
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The Master of Disguise
Pennsylvania District of Columbia ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1970s The 2000sHe can get into any disguise... getting out is another story. โ A sweet-natured Italian waiter named Pistachio Disguisey at his father Fabbrizio's restaurant, who happens to be a member of a family with supernatural skills of disguise. But moments later the patriarch of the Disguisey family is kidnapped Fabbrizio's former arch-enemy, Devlin Bowman, a criminal mastermind in an attempt to steal the world's most precious treasures from around the world. And it's up to Pistachio to track down Bowman and save his family before Bowman kills them!
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Anita and Me
England The 1970sMeena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of Anita Rutter and her dysfunctional family.
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The Revolution on Two Horses
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ต๐น Portugal The 1970sIt's the dawn of April 25, 1974, when Marco, a 25-year old Italian and his Portuguese friend Victor leave Paris on a yellow Citroen 2CV. The goal of their trip is Lisbon, which on that night was freed from Europe's longest dictatorship. The two are joined by Claire, Victor's former girlfriend and University classmate, who wants to take a break from her everyday life, leaving behind her husband and baby son, to form again, even for a few days, the traveling trio with her friends.
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Amรฉlie
๐ซ๐ท France The 2000s The 1970s The 1990sOne person can change your life forever. โ At a tiny Parisian cafรฉ, the adorable yet painfully shy Amรฉlie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?
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Spy Game
Jiangsu Province ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sIt's not how you play the game. It's how the game plays you. โ On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protรฉgรฉ has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.
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The 51st State
England California The 1970s The 2000sNice Wheels. Dirty Deals. And One Mean Mother In A Kilt. โ An American master chemist plans to score big on a once in a lifetime drug deal. All does not go as planned and he is soon entangled in a web of deceit.
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The Invisible Circus
California ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ต๐น Portugal ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970sA story of friendship, freedom and fate that could only happen in the Sixties. โ After learning that her sister, Faith (Cameron Diaz), has committed suicide in Portugal, Phoebe (Jordana Brewster), an 18-year-old hippie, decides to uproot from her San Francisco home to travel to Europe. Phoebe hopes to discover and experience the life that led to her sister's death by retracing her footsteps, which eventually leads to Wolf (Christopher Eccleston) -- Faith's boyfriend. However, as Phoebe's journey continues, a series of visions of Faith pushes her mind to the brink.
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CQ
๐ซ๐ท France The 1970s The 1960sEvery picture tells a story. โ A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.
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Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ซ๐ท France The 1970sIn the 70s, there was Merckx and there were the others. Ghislain Lambert was one of the others. This is his story, a quite simple one. The story of a modest Belgian bike racer. His greatest ambition in life? To become a champion. His greatest tragedy? Not having the legs his heart deserves.
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Vizontele
๐น๐ท Turkey The 1970sThe story takes place in a small town (called Hakkari) in Turkey at the beginning of the 70's. The time has come to bring technology into that small town. The first Television (or called Visiontele by the citizens) arrives and the chaos begins.
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The Legend of Rita
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1970s The 1980sRita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German secret service. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, which unavoidably happens after the German re-unification.
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Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
England The 1970sIt's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker.
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Captains of April
๐ต๐น Portugal The 1970sStory of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship--which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar--and of two young army captains who were involved in it.
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Sun Alley
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970sA group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The antics of these kids, their families, of the "West German" friends and relatives who come to visit, and of the East German border guards, all serve to illustrate the absurdity of everyday life on the Sonnenallee, and therefore throughout the former East Germany.
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End of Days
New York ๐ป๐ฆ Holy See The 1970s The 1990sPrepare for the end. โ On 28 December 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, Satan decides to crash the party by coming to the city, inhabiting a man's body, and searching for his chosen brideโa 20-year-old woman named Christine York. The world will end, and the only hope lies within an atheist named Jericho Cane.
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Ratcatcher
Scotland The 1970sJames Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne, a vulnerable 14 year old expressing a need for love in all the wrong ways, and befriends Kenny, who possesses an unusual innocence in spite of the harsh surroundings.
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One Day in September
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970s1972. The Munich Olympic Games. 121 Nations. 7,123 Competitors. Over a billion vieweres ... and 8 Palestinian Terrorists. For the first time in 25 years, the truth is revealed. โ The full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli revenge operation 'Wrath of God.' The 1972 Munich Olympics were interrupted by Palestinian terrorists taking Israeli athletes hostage. Besides footage taken at the time, we see interviews with the surviving terrorist, Jamal Al Gashey, and various officials detailing exactly how the police, lacking an anti-terrorist squad and turning down help from the Israelis, botched the operation
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The Debt Collector
Scotland The 1970sSome debts can never be paid. โ Mean, gritty, dirty and low, and that's just the policeman Gary Keltie, out for retribution for the horrendous crimes against the helpless people of Edinburgh during the 1970s, by notorious, torturous, and killer, debt collector Nickie Dryden.
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Velvet Goldmine
New York England ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970s The 1980sThe secret of becoming a star is knowing how to behave like one โ Almost a decade has elapsed since Bowiesque glam-rock superstar Brian Slade escaped the spotlight of the London scene. Now, investigative journalist Arthur Stuart is on assignment to uncover the truth behind the enigmatic Slade. Stuart, himself forged by the music of the 1970s, explores the larger-than-life stars who were once his idols and what has become of them since the turn of the new decade.
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Without Limits
Oregon ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970s The 1960sPRE. The way he competed. The way he lived his life. โ The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to the University of Oregon where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman, later to Olympics in Munich and his early death at 24 in a car crash.
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City of Glass
England The 1970s The 1990sThe story of man and ex-girlfriend found dead after a car crash and how their children come together to retell the story.
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The Scent of the Night
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1970sA former policeman turns full-time robber and goes on a downward spiral of crime in 1970s Rome.
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