330 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1980s
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Reunion
🇩🇪 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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Intergirl
🇸🇪 Sweden 🇷🇺 Russia The 1980sThe action takes place in Leningrad n the time of "perestroika" during the 1980's. Tatyana is a beautiful Russian nurse who is underpaid at her hospital job, so she becomes a prostitute catering to international tourists. She becomes well paid in dollars, and helps her ailing mother survive. Tatyana's international clients tell her about the life in other countries, so she accepts a marriage in order to escape from the grim Soviet reality. Even though she is married to a decent man abroad, she still suffers being labeled an ex-Soviet prostitute, and her new life is full of new troubles.
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The Phantom of the Opera
New York England The 1980s The 1880sOnly love and music are forever. — When Christine Day accidentally discovers a rare piece of music, she brings back to life its composer, Erik Destler. Through her fascination with the music she is transported back to Destler's time, 1889, and is thrust into stardom by singing his opera as no one else can. But against the exciting backdrop of the opera lurks a hideous danger—the Phantom—and Christine soon finds herself the object of his relentless desire.
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Cold Light of Day
England The 1980sFebruary, 1983. Detectives are called to a residential address in the London suburbs following reports that the drains have been clogged by human remains. One of the property’s residents, Dennis Nilsen – a mild-mannered and unassuming civil servant – is brought in for questioning, leading to the discovery of one of the most shocking and disturbing cases of serial murder ever to rock Britain.
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The Big Blue
🇬🇷 Greece New York 🇮🇹 Italy The 1980s The 1960sDanger...Like Passion...Runs Deep — Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood, and who share a passion for the dangerous sport of free diving. Professional diver Jacques opted to follow in the footsteps of his father, who died at sea when Jacques was a boy; to the bewilderment of scientists, Jacques harbors a remarkable ability to adjust his heart rate and breathing pattern in the water, so that his vital signs more closely resemble that of dolphins than men. As Enzo persuades a reluctant Jacques to compete against him in a free diving contest -- determining who can dive deeper and longer without scuba gear -- Jacques meets Johana, a beautiful insurance investigator from America, and he finds that he must choose between his love for her and his love of the sea.
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A Fish Called Wanda
England The 1980sA tale of murder, lust, greed, revenge, and seafood. — A diamond advocate is attempting to steal a collection of diamonds, yet troubles arise when he realizes that he is not the only one after the diamonds.
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Amsterdamned
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1980sThe danger lies just below the surface — A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that both his new girlfriend and twelve-year-old daughter may be closer than he is to finding the killer.
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Red Heat
Illinois 🇭🇺 Hungary 🇷🇺 Russia The 1980sMoscow's toughest detective. Chicago's craziest cop. There's only one thing worse than making them mad. Making them partners. — A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
🇫🇷 France The 1980sNice guys finish last. Meet the winners. — Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can be the first to swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000.
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Cinema Paradiso
🇮🇹 Italy The 1950s The 1940s The 1980sA celebration of youth, friendship, and the everlasting magic of the movies. — A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
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Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
🇫🇷 France 🇧🇴 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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Land of Dreams
🇸🇪 Sweden The 1980s"Land of Dreams" - When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he grow-up in the land of fairy tales and potential prosperity.
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Welcome to Germany
🇩🇪 Germany The 1980s The 1940sAn American filmmaker travels to modern day Berlin to make a film based on a real-life incident from 1942 in which 13 Jewish prisoners from a concentration camp were promised freedom if they appeared in a German propaganda film. Unfortunately, the Germans lied. The psychological process undergone by the modern filmmaker while shooting the story provides the basis of this arty and challenging film.
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Appuntamento a Liverpool
England The 1980sCaterina is a 20-year-old girl whose father died before her eyes in the Heysel Stadium disaster. After several years, she's summoned as an eyewitness by British police as new proof has resurfaced. Caterina recognizes her father's murderer, a Liverpool taxi driver, but doesn't say anything, choosing to track him down and exact her revenge by herself.
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The Living Daylights
🇦🇫 Afghanistan 🇦🇹 Austria 🇨🇿 Czechia 🇬🇮 Gibraltar 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1980sLiving on the Edge — James Bond helps a Russian General escape into the west. He soon finds out that the KGB wants to kill him for helping the General. A little while later the General is kidnapped from the Secret Service leading 007 to be suspicious.
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The Fourth Protocol
Scotland England The 1980sLed by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent it's detonation.
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Hellraiser
England The 1980sHe'll tear your soul apart. — An unfaithful wife encounters the zombie of her dead lover while the demonic cenobites are pursuing him after he escaped their sadomasochistic underworld.
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Assa
🇷🇺 Russia The 1980s The 1800sASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot.
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Mirror for a Hero
🇷🇺 Russia The 1980s The 1940sTwo not quite similar men, our contemporaries, Sergey Pshenichny and Andrew Nemchinov, are walking in the street in their native mining town and found themselves in 1949. It's a common knowledge that real miracles happen without technical devices: time comes miracle happens. They spend in 1949 only one day the next morning they found that it is the same day that was yesterday. All several months, they spent in the past, they spent in one and the same day: the 8th of May, Sunday, the day of heightened coal production. In the morning to the coal mine, in an hour an accident in a coalface, at 10 o'clock wire from the Ministry, after work reunion concerning the Stalins anniversary; robbing of pay desk, death of policeman Ryabenko, in the evening - volunteer Sunday work… and in the morning the same, and so for ever and ever Philosophic fiction, accompanied by music of group Nautilus Pompillius. After a novel of S.Rybasa of the same name.
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Iris
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 1980sA female veterinarian moves to the country side to start her own practice. She encounters a lot a skeptical villagers.
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Clash of the Ash
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1980sPhil Kelly (played by William Heffernan) is the anti-hero; a restless teenager imbued with natural hurling ability and a strong aversion to studying. The location is not fictitious but instead it’s the very real Fermoy in County Cork which is a welcome touch. Like much of 1980s smalltown Ireland it’s a claustrophobic place that drives people away but inexplicably retains a strange sort of hold on them. The latter is exemplified by Gina Moxley’s character, the tempestuous Mary Hartnett who has returned after a stint in London. The other members of their gang are languid Martin (Vincent Murphy), uptight Willy, and mousey Rosie who carries a torch for Phil.
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Highlander
New York Scotland 🇪🇸 Spain The 1980s The 1940s The 16th Century The 18th CenturyThere can be only one. — He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.
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Kin-dza-dza!
🇷🇺 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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Biggles
New York England The 1910s The 1980sFast food executive Jim Ferguson stepped out of his 47th floor office to go to the bathroom... and ended up in the middle of World War I. History will be grateful forever. — Unassuming catering salesmen Jim Ferguson falls through a time hole to 1917 where he saves the life of dashing Royal Flying Corps pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth after his photo recon mission is shot down. Before he can work out what has happened, Jim is zapped back to the 1980s......
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The Sacrifice
🇸🇪 Sweden The 1980sAlexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
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