330 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1980s
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The Crimson Permanent Assurance
England The 1980sOur Short Feature Presentation — A group of down-and-out accountants mutiny against their bosses and sail their office building onto the high seas in search of a pirate's life.
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L'Argent
🇫🇷 France The 1980sA forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is - which will have devastating consequences on his life, causing him to turn to crime and murder.
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Gramps Is in the Resistance
🇫🇷 France The 1940s The 1980sThe movie that cost more than the D-Day Landings — It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
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Grace Kelly
🇲🇨 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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Hostage
🇩🇪 Germany New South Wales The 1980sA living nightmare — Set in 1980's Australia, this is the true story of a woman whose husband eventually reveals to her that he is an active member of the Nazi party. A real nightmare begins for her.
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The Passerby
🇫🇷 France The 1930s The 1980sDuring an interview, Max Baumstein (Piccoli), respected chairman of a humanitarian organisation, shoots the Paraguayan ambassador dead, in cold blood. Tried for first-degree murder, he explains himself: the ambassador was a former Nazi official, responsible for the extermination of his family.
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Trail of the Pink Panther
🇫🇷 France England The 1980sThe Newest and Funniest 'Panther' of them all. — The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau.
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Firefox
Alaska England 🇷🇺 Russia The 1980s...the most devastating killing machine ever built... his job... steal it! — The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are rumours that it is undetectable by radar—the British send ex-Vietnam War pilot, Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.
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Espion, lève-toi
🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1980sSebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how one of their own secret agents was found out and executed in broad daylight.
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Xtro
England The 1980sSome extra-terrestrials aren't friendly. — Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't trust Sam, and Rachel can't quite decide what her feelings are for her two men. Sam is not the same as when he left, and he begins affecting Tony in frightening ways.
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Personal Best
Oregon 🇷🇺 Russia The 1980sWhen you run into yourself you run into feelings you never thought you had — Chris Cahill is a young athlete who competes unsuccessfully in the 1976 U.S. Olympic trials. She meets a more experienced lesbian track and field competitor, Tory Skinner, and their friendship evolves into a romantic relationship.
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SportLotto - 82
🇷🇺 Russia The 1980sAdventurous comedy about a bunch of people hunting the winning lottery ticket.
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A Nameless Band
🇧🇬 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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Man of Iron
🇵🇱 Poland The 1980sIn Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.
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An American Werewolf in London
England The 1980sBeware the Moon. — Two American tourists in England are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
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Teheran '43
🇫🇷 France 🇮🇷 Iran The 1980s The 1940sDocuments reveal in 1980 that the Germans planned to kill the Big Three in Teheran in 1943.This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin (Igor Kostolevsky), a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi officer developed a plan to assassinate the three world leaders in order to undermine the Allied forces. He commissioned the German agent Max Richard (Armen Dzhigarkhanian) to carry out his plan, but it failed miserably due to the quick action and thinking of Andrei. While in Teheran, Andrei met a French woman, Marie Louni (Natalia Belokhvostikova), living in the city and they had a brief but intense affair. Nearly four decades later, the Nazi officer has been captured - but not for long. Freed by terrorists, the officer is hunting down the German agent who failed to carry out the planned assassinations. Max lives at Françoise (Claude Jade), a young French woman, who hides him.
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Stripes
🇨🇿 Czechia 🇩🇪 Germany Kentucky New York The 1980sThe story of a man who wanted to keep the world safe for democracy...and meet girls. — John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the U.S. Army after losing his job, his girlfriend and his apartment.
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The Great Muppet Caper
England The 1980sKermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.
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Nighthawks
New York England 🇫🇷 France The 1980sA terrorist holds New York in a grip of fear - and only Stallone can take him on. — An international terrorist has New York in a grip of panic and it's up to Det. Sgt. Deke DaSilva to take him down.
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The Formula
California 🇩🇪 Germany The 1980s The 1940sBig Oil. Big Money. Big Mystery. Everyone’s out to make a killing. — A detective uncovers a formula that was devised by the Nazis in WW II to make gasoline from synthetic products, thereby eliminating the necessity for oil--and oil companies. A major oil company finds out about it and tries to destroy the formula and anyone who knows about it.
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Virus
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan 🇩🇪 Germany Tokyo Prefecture 🇦🇶 Antarctica The 1980sAutumn 1982: Mankind has been wiped out except 863 persons on Antarctica. Who will inherit the earth? — Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
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O Sport, You Are Peace!
🇷🇺 Russia The 1980sA 1981 documentary film directed by Yuri Ozerov. It showed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow. The director was awarded the State Prize of the USSR in 1982. The film was selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 54th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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A Step Away
🇷🇺 Russia The 1980sThe only and official movie of the VIII Puerto Rico 1979 PanAmerican Games — Focuses on the performance of various elite athletes during the PanAmerican Games held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1979. Athletes showcased in the documentary include USA team swimmer of Puerto Rican origin Jesse Vassallo; legendary Cuban track and field athlete Alberto Juantorena; Mexican diver Carlos Girón; American diver Greg Louganis; and the Puerto Rico national basketball team, among others. At the end of the film, the athletes expressed their hopes of being "a step away" from the 1980 Olympics Games; however, these hopes were shattered by the political crisis and the eventual USA-led boycott to the Olympic Games held in Moscow in 1980.
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Siberiade
🇷🇺 Russia The 1960s The 1940s The 1930s The 1910s The 1900s The 1920s The 1950s The 1970s The 1980sThe history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. — The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till early 80s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil. The oil is found but the destruction of the old cemetry and everything the people of the village cared for followed to get the 'black treasure' of Siberia.
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Goldengirl
🇷🇺 Russia The 1980sThese five men have developed, trained and programmed this stunning blonde to accomplish feats no human being has ever done before. They all stand to make a fortune, if they can just keep her together. — A neo-Nazi Doctor tries to make a superwoman of his daughter who has been specially fed, exercised & Conditioned since she was a child to run in the Olympics.
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