330 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1980s
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An Everlasting Piece
Northern Ireland The 1980sPiece on Earth. โ Colin (Barry McEvoy) is a Catholic and George (Brian O'Byrne) is a poetry-loving Protestant. In Belfast in the 1980s, they could have been enemies, but instead they became business partners. After persuading a mad wig salesman, known as the Scalper (Billy Connolly), to sell them his leads, the two embark on a series of house calls
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The Envy of Gods
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1980sSonia is a television editor, she is married to successful Soviet writer Sergey and they have a son in a high school. Their life was almost perfect... until the moment they meet Bernard from France and his translator Andrรฉ.
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The Craic
Northern Ireland The 1980sWhen Fergus and Wesley get in the bad books of a local rough in their home town in Northern Ireland they decide to flee to Australia. After making a new life for themselves in Sydney they soon outstay their visas and must go on the run again, this time from the immigration officials.
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Excellent Cadavers
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1980sPalermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.
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A Long Hot Summer
๐ซ๐ฎ Finland The 1980sThey were young. They were beautiful. They were born to win. โ The story of a rock band "Kalle Pรครคtalo" in the 1980s.
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๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1980sThe movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to bulletin boards to discuss conspiracy theories inspired by his favorite novel, R.A. Wilson's "Illuminatus", but soon he and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers. Pepe, one of Karl's rather criminal acquaintances senses that there is money in computer cracking - he travels to east Berlin and tries to contact the KGB.
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I Stand Alone
๐ซ๐ท France The 1980sIn the bowels of France โ The Butcher has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Now he wants to start a new life. He leaves his daughter in an institution and moves to Lille suburbs with his mistress. She promised him a new butcher shop. She lied. The butcher decides to go back to Paris and find his daughter.
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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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The General
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1980s The 1990sThe extraordinary true story of the rise and fall of the gangster, Martin Cahill. โ In a twenty-year career marked by obsessive secrecy, brutality and meticulous planning, Cahill netted over ยฃ40 million. He was untouchable - until a bullet from an IRA hitman ended it all.
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World War III
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ต๐ฑ Poland ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1980sThis mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation into a nuclear war. In this feature, tension in East Germany, and an uprising triggered by a visit by Gorbachev sees a successful military coup taking place in the USSR. Western actions against brutal crack-downs on civilians involved increases tension between the sides, finally resulting in nuclear war.
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Fever Pitch
England The 1980sLife Gets Complicated When You Love One Woman And Worship Eleven Men โ A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby's best selling autobiographical novel, Fever Pitch. English teacher Paul Ashworth believes his long standing obsession with Arsenal serves him well. But then he meets Sarah. Their relationship develops in tandem with Arsenal's roller coaster fortunes in the football league, both leading to a nail biting climax.
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The Full Monty
England The 1990s The 1970s The 1980sThe year's most revealing comedy. โ Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.
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The Assignment
Quebec ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 1980sJack Shaw has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos "The Jackal" Sanchez for over twenty years and barely survived Carlos' devastating bombing of a Parisian cafe. Now, he finally gets a break when he discovers Carlos' dead ringer: American naval officer and dedicated family man Annibal Ramirez.
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To Die for Tano
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1980sShot in his butcher shop by a rival clan during the Mafia wars of 1988, the Palermo Mobster Tano Guarrasi is mourned by his wife, four unmarried sisters and his daughter. But in truth, his death represents a kind of liberation for the women.
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Carla's Song
Scotland The 1980sA dream called freedom. A nightmare called Nicaragua. โ A Glasgow man visits war-torn Nicaragua with a refugee tormented by her memories.
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Shine
England Western Australia The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950sA true story of the mystery of music and the miracle of love โ Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.
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Citizen X
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1980s The 1990sBased on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of the detective in charge of the case.
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True Blue
England The 1980sTo be second is to be last. โ The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.
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Hillsborough
England The 1980sDrama based on the real life events of April 1989, when ninety-six Liverpool supporters were crushed to death during an F.A. Cup Semi-Final match against Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough Stadium. This movie follows three Liverpudlian families before the match, during the tragedy and at the ensuing court battles which tried to decide who was to blame and what went wrong.
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Some Mother's Son
Northern Ireland The 1980sBetween love and loyalty... Between life and death... Lies a choice no mother should have to make. โ Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
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Camping Cosmos
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1980sLa vie sexuelle des Belges II โ On a Belgian beach at Camping Cosmos. The delegate send by the Ministry is confronted with sex and murder. The residents enjoy their holidays in a peculiar way...
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GoldenEye
๐จ๐บ Cuba ๐ฒ๐จ Monaco ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1990s The 1980sNo limits. No fears. No substitutes. โ When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond can save the world from an awesome space weapon that -- in one short pulse -- could destroy the earth! As Bond squares off against his former compatriot, he also battles Trevelyan's stunning ally, Xenia Onatopp, an assassin who uses pleasure as her ultimate weapon.
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Good Old Daze
๐ซ๐ท France The 1970s The 1980sTen years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They remember their teenage, their laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... a description of the French youth in the middle of the seventies. Part of ARTE's series "The high school years".
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Interview with the Vampire
California Louisiana ๐ซ๐ท France The 18th Century The 1870s The 1980sDrink from me and live forever โ A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
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Barcelona
๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1980sAmericans. Anti Americans. In Love. โ During the 1980s, uptight Ted Boynton is a salesman working in the Barcelona office of a Chicago-based company. He receives an unexpected visit from his cousin Fred, a naval officer who has come to Spain on a public relations mission for a U.S. fleet. Not exactly friends in the past, Ted and Fred strike up relationships with women in the Spanish city and experience conflicts -- Ted with his employer, and Fred with the Barcelona community.
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