330 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1980s
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
My Beautiful Laundrette
England The 1980sA British-Pakistani man renovates a rundown laundrette with his male lover while dealing with drama within his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.
-
National Lampoon's European Vacation
England ๐ฉ๐ช Germany Illinois ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ซ๐ท France The 1980sFor over two thousand years, Europe has survived many great disasters. Now for the real test. Chevy Chase & his family are coming from America! โ The Griswalds win a vacation to Europe on a game show, and so pack their bags for the continent. They do their best to catch the flavor of Europe, but they just don't know how to be be good tourists. Besides, they have trouble taking holidays in countries where they CAN speak the language.
-
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.
-
Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
๐ท๐ด Romania California The 1980sIt's not over yet. โ After his sister is turned into a werewolf and subsequently killed, Ben White decides to help the enigmatic Stefan Crosscoe fight the growing population of lupine monsters, along with the lovely Jenny Templeton. Traveling to Transylvania, Ben, Jenny and Crosscoe attempt to hunt down the powerful werewolf queen, Stirba, and must face her furry followers, as well as other supernatural forces.
-
Westler
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1980sFelix from West-Berlin falls in love with Thomas in East-Berlin. At first they keep their relationship going by regular visits from Felix, but the curfew forces him to return every evening. When the East-German authorities become suspicious, Thomas decides to try and flee to the West.
-
Hey Babu Riba
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1980sIn 1985, four middle-aged Yugoslav emigres return to Belgrade for the funeral of Mariana, their beautiful compatriot. They called her Esther, for Esther Williams, she was the coxswain for their four-man rowing team, and they each loved her. They'd last seen her in 1953, when they rowed her across the Adriatic, pregnant, to join her exiled father in Italy. In flashbacks we learn the story of their youthful baptism into sex, smoking, rock and roll (Hey Ba-ba-re-bop), Hollywood and Swedish films, blue jeans on the black market, and their rivalry with Ristic, the Communist Party youth leader for whom they had instant antipathy.
-
Eleni
๐ฌ๐ท Greece The 1980s The 1940sThe Echo of a Mother's Voice. Fuels a Son's Revenge. โ Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in the civil war years earlier. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as they struggle to survive in the occupied Greek hillside. The plot lines converge as Nick's investigations bring him closer to the answers.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Letter to Brezhnev
England The 1980sA new wave comedy โฆ from Liverpool with Love. โ The factories, pubs, clubs, hotels and streets of 1980s Liverpool form the backdrop for this tale of love, friendship, sex and a letter to the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev. Two Liverpool lasses, Teresa and Elaine meet two Russian sailors, Sergei and Peter and hook up for a night of fun and frolics. Teresa is looking for sex and a smile, Elaine wants love, romance and the dream of a life far away from the grime of the Liverpool docklands. A classic British romantic comedy filled with new wave tunes, 80s fashion, a little politics and a lot of heart.
-
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.
-
Terror at London Bridge
England The 1980s The 1880sLondon Bridge, London, England, 1888: Jack the Ripper dies in the Thames river. London Bridge, Lake Havasu, Arizona, 1985: the last original stone used to rebuild London Bridge is laid and all the city is happy...but then some strange murders start happening. Policeman Don Gregory has some suspects, but when he develops a theory that Jack the Ripper has been resurrected, no one believes him.
-
Top Secret!
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1980sDon't tell anyone. โ Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.
-
Nineteen Eighty-Four
England The 1980sGeorge Orwell's terrifying vision comes to the screen. โ George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
-
Strangler vs Strangler
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1980sWhen it comes to crime, Belgrade is same as any other modern metropolis, except for having its own serial killers. That blank is filled when a flower salesman begins strangling women. A popular, but very disturbed rock star soon becomes telepathically connected with the killer.
-
Threads
England The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sThe closest you'll ever want to come to nuclear war. โ Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
-
Year of the Jellyfish
๐ซ๐ท France The 1980sChris, a sexy teenager who appears mostly bare-breasted on the French Riviera, has a crush on Romain, her mother's lover. In reaction to her inability to attract his attention, she experiments with other risque affairs.
-
Cop in Drag
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1980sRome, Italy, early 1980s. A guy who worked at the Blue Gay, a transvestite cabaret, is found murdered, strangled. Marshal Nico Giraldi (Tomas Milian) is responsible for investigating, infiltrating the Roman Gay community.
-
Cinderella '80
New York ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1980sIn this contemporary retelling of the Cinderella story, a feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her irascible stepmother and vain stepsisters. On the way, she meets, and falls in love with, globetrotting bagpacker Mizio, who eventually turns out to be of Italian nobility. There's a fairy stand-in in the form of a spaced-out astrologer, a dance, and she even loses a shoe at one point. Care to venture a guess how it all turns out?
-
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.
- load more