330 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1980s
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California Scotland England 🇬🇪 Georgia 🇩🇪 Germany Tokyo Prefecture Space - General The 1980s The 1990s The 2020sJustice is coming. — Dominic Toretto and his crew battle the most skilled assassin and high-performance driver they've ever encountered: his forsaken brother.
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The Souvenir Part II
England The 1980sIn the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.
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Chernobyl 1986
🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1980sThe aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.
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Caught by a Wave
🇮🇹 Italy The 1980sA summer fling born under the Sicilian sun quickly develops into a heartbreaking love story that forces a boy and girl to grow up too quickly.
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Bem Bom
🇵🇹 Portugal The 1970s The 1980sIt is 1979. Four young ladies are hired to form a girl band. They can sing, they shine with their dancing, and they shock the country. They become a big hit. They are DOCE.
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The Last Execution
🇩🇪 Germany The 1980sBased on the true story of the secret death penalty in East Germany — The ambitious scientist Franz Walter doesn't hesitate when he is promised a professorship at the university. He immediately accepts, pledges absolute loyalty to the system and agrees to work for the GDR's foreign intelligence service until he can take up his new position. Together with his colleague Dirk, he is sent on foreign assignments to West Germany. Franz soon has to use blackmail to get innocent people to talk. But his superiors go even further: GDR refugees and their relatives are targeted to be psychologically destroyed, forged letters, medical diagnoses, surveillance and wiretapping are on the agenda. However, this is more than Franz can bear: he feels powerless and increasingly isolates himself. When he then decides to steal secret documents for a later defection to the West, this results in an unfortunate chain reaction leading to his arrest and ultimately to his execution...
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Princess
🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1980s The 2020sA Story of Addiction and Redemption — When his younger sister, a single parent, moves into the second apartment with her 5-year-old daughter Nina, an unexpected friendship develops between Josef and the uncared-for little girl.
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Adolf Muschg – The Other
🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sIn his exploration of the cultural dynamic between East and West, Adolf Muschg, the most significant Swiss writer since Frisch and Dürrenmatt, searched for the other in himself in order to understand otherness.
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Queer You Are: Season 1
🇪🇸 Spain The 1980s The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sIt shows the life trajectory of a gay village boy in search of his own identity.
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Wonder Woman 1984
District of Columbia Virginia England 🇷🇺 Russia 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇨🇳 China Tokyo Prefecture The 1980sA new era of wonder begins. — A botched store robbery places Wonder Woman in a global battle against a powerful and mysterious ancient force that puts her powers in jeopardy.
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Radioactive
Ohio Nevada 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇫🇷 France 🇵🇱 Poland 🇺🇦 Ukraine Hiroshima Prefecture The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1870sPioneer. Genius. Rebel. — The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
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Sputnik
🇷🇺 Russia The 1980sThe only survivor did not come back alone — At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him…
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The Best Years
🇮🇹 Italy The 1980s The 1990s The 2000s The 2010s The 2020sThe story of four friends Giulio, Gemma, Paolo, Riccardo, told over forty years, from 1980 to today, from adolescence to adulthood. Their hopes, their disappointments, their successes and failures are the intertwining of a great story of friendship and love through which Italy and the Italians are also told. A large fresco that tells who we are, where we come from and also where they will go and who our children will be. It is the great circle of life that repeats itself with the same dynamics despite the fact that years and even different periods pass in the background.
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The Macaluso Sisters
🇮🇹 Italy The 1980sMaria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella are five sisters who live in an apartment in Palermo. They make a living by renting doves for ceremonies. On a normal day at the beach, tragedy strucks.
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Superman: Red Son
🇩🇪 Germany 🇷🇺 Russia 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sSet in the thick of the Cold War, Red Son introduces us to a Superman who landed in the USSR during the 1950s and grows up to become a Soviet symbol that fights for the preservation of Stalin’s brand of communism.
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The Ties
🇮🇹 Italy The 1980s The 2010sNaples, early 1980’s. Aldo and Vanda go through a separation, after he reveals his affair. Their two young children are torn between their parents, in a whirlwind of resentment. But the ties that keep people together are inescapable, even without love. Now, 30 years later, Aldo and Vanda are still married.
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Summer of 85
🇫🇷 France The 1980sWhat do you dream of when you're 16-years-old and in a seaside resort in Normandy in the 1980s? A best friend? A lifelong teen pact? Scooting off on adventures on a boat or a motorbike? Living life at breakneck speed? No. You dream of death. Because you can't get a bigger kick than dying. And that's why you save it till the very end. The summer holidays are just beginning, and this story recounts how Alexis grew into himself.
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Por Detrás da Moeda
🇵🇹 Portugal The 1980sThe first documentary about street musicians in the city of Porto and the Pippermint Twist project of the 80's. PORTO. Days accelerated to the sound of the music of the street artists. We dropped a coin, we went on, but what stories hide "behind the coin"!? From the streets to the stage, from the limelight to the streets. Souls seeking food, bodies seeking sustenance, but in the end only music survives.
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Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight
🇵🇱 Poland The 1980s The 2010s The 2020sThe movie begins innocently enough - a group of technology addicted teenagers finds themselves in an off-line camp. However hiking in the woods with no smartphone in sight will not go as planned. They will have to fight for their lives against things they never have seen before, even in the darkest reaches of the Internet. Faced against the dangers lurking in the forest, they will find true friendship, love and sacrifice. Will they come out of it in one piece, or in bloody bits?
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The Crown: Season 4
England The 1970s The 1980sAs the 1970s are drawing to a close, Queen Elizabeth and her family find themselves preoccupied with safeguarding the line of succession by securing an appropriate bride for Prince Charles, who is still unmarried at 30.
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Pretenders
New York England 🇫🇷 France The 1970s The 1980sA love triangle involving a photographer, a director and an actress.
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The Souvenir
England 🇮🇹 Italy The 1980sThe past never stays in focus. — A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.
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Anna
🇷🇺 Russia New York The 1980s The 1990sNever make the weapon the target — Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
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A Translator
🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1980sA Russian Literature professor at the University of Havana is ordered to work as a translator for child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when they are sent to Cuba for medical treatment. Based on a true story.
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Rocketman
New York California England 🇫🇷 France The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950sBased on a True Fantasy — The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
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