354 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1990s
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Trainspotting
England Scotland The 1990sChoose life. โ Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.
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Mission: Impossible
๐จ๐ฟ Czechia England Virginia ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine The 1990sExpect the Impossible. โ When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the No. 1 suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
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Children of the Revolution
๐ท๐บ Russia New South Wales The 1950s The 1990sA red comedy about the ultimate party animals. โ A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin seduced in 1951.
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The Van
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1990sA comedy About Friends, Family and Fish. โ In a working-class quarter of Dublin, 'Bimbo' Reeves gets laid off from his job and, with his redundancy payout, buys a van and sells fish and chips with his buddy, Larry. Due to Ireland's surprising success at the 1990 FIFA World Cup, their business starts off well, but the relationship between the two friends soon becomes strained as Bimbo behaves more like a typical boss.
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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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Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1990sIn the opening stages of the Bosnian War, a small group of Serbian soldiers are trapped in a tunnel by a Muslim force.
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The Eighth Day
๐ง๐ช Belgium The 1990sWhat a difference a day makesโฆ โ Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife or his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from the institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him, whose mother is dead. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person.
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Haircut
๐ต๐น Portugal The 1990sThe film is set in Lisbon, and tells the story of a day in the life of Rita and Paulo, a Portuguese young couple of the 90's. The fast changing city around them makes them wish to break with all traditions and live the day the get married (only civil marriage) like it is an ordinary day.
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Before Sunrise
๐ฆ๐น Austria The 1990sCan the greatest romance of your life last only one night? โ On his way to Vienna, American Jesse meets Cรฉline, a student returning to Paris. After long conversations forge a surprising connection between them, Jesse convinces Celine to get off the train with him in Vienna. Since his flight to the U.S. departs the next morning and he has no money for lodging, they wander the city together, taking in the experiences of Vienna and each other.
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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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French Twist
๐ซ๐ท France The 1990sA scorned wife. An outrageous affair. The perfect revenge. โ After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.
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Underground
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1990s The 1940sONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A COUNTRY โ Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually abandons Blacky and steals his girlfriend. After a lengthy stay in a below-ground shelter, the couple reemerges during the Yugoslavian Civil War of the 1990s as Marko realizes that the situation is ripe for exploitation.
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The Infiltrator
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1990sIt was an assignment that could make him a hero... or cost him his life. โ In the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction intent on bringing Nazism back to the forefront in Germany.
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See You in the Obituary
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1990sMade in the form of an extended news report and narrated by journalist Dina ฤoliฤ-Anฤelkoviฤ, the film presents a snapshot of the chaotic Belgrade criminal underworld in the early 1990s which sprung up against the backdrop of Yugoslav wars. The film is composed of fragments from interviews with individuals directly involved with criminal activities either through perpetrating them or through trying to stop them.
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Premeditated Murder
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1990sMen, women, and war. Jelena Panic is a young woman in Belgrade in the early 1990s, during Serbia's war with Croatia; she's making a book of her grandmother's diaries from the end of World War II. She takes up with Bogdan, a young soldier recovering from war wounds. He helps her with her grandmother's story, a tragic triangle involving her effete and well-educated husband and an uneducated major, a Chekist who has, perhaps, the power to save a political prisoner who is the grandmother's friend. As Jelena wonders which man was her grandfather (the Chekist or the husband), Bogdan recovers from his wounds and must decide whether to return to the front. Jelena pleads; duty calls.
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Marble Ass
๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1990sA transvestite couple from 1990s Belgrade beholds their profession as a pacifistic mission, curbing the urges of rapists, gamblers and horny young men during turbulent periods in war-torn country.
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Highlander III: The Sorcerer
New York Scotland ๐ฏ๐ต Japan ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco The 1990s The 18th Century The 16th CenturyThroughout time they have hunted each other fulfilling the prophecy, that there can be only one. โ Starts off in the 15th century, with Connor McLeod training with another immortal swordsman, the Japanese sorcerer Nakano. When an evil immortal named Kane kills the old wizard, the resulting battle leaves him buried in an underground cave. When Kane resurfaces in the 20th century to create havoc, it's up to McLeod to stop him.
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Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1990sJust when we thought the Cold War was over, leave it to these guys to heat it up again. โ The Russians seek help in dealing with the Mafia from the veterans of the Police Academy. They head off to Moscow, in order to find evidence against Konstantin Konali, who marketed a computer game that everyone in the world is playing.
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Pentathlon
California Georgia ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sJust do it... or die! โ When East German Eric Brogar wins a gold medal in the pentathlon, he escapes to freedom in the west with the help of a beautiful American athlete. But his demanding coach, Heinrich Mueller vows revenge and Eric's best friend and his father pay the ultimate price for his freedom when they are killed by the Secret Police. In Los Angeles, Eric starts to train for the gold again. But when Mueller comes to America, Eric must win the most deadly game of allโฆ the fight for his life.
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Aftermath
๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1990sWhen the others leave for the night, the last mortician begins to fondle the corpses. He quickly moves to the corpse of a young woman who died in a car crash.
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Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story
Oregon ๐ซ๐ท France The 1990sBased on the true story of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, rivals for the USA Olympic Ice Skating team. When Kerrigan is savagely attacked, people begin to wonder if the intense rivalry between the two was motivation for someone.
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Each Time We Part Away
๐ญ๐ท Croatia The 1990sAfter his wife's murder and house burnt, a young soldier is in search for new home for his daughter. But coming to chaotic at the beginning of the war Zagreb is no place for hope...
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An Impossible Job
England ๐ณ๐ด Norway ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1990sDo I Not Like That โ A fly-on-the-wall documentary following England manager Graham Taylor and the team through the 18 months leading to the failure to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup
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The Visitors
๐ซ๐ท France The 1990s The 12th CenturyThey Weren't Born Yesterday! โ This outrageous time-travel comedy follows the misadventures of a wacky medieval knight (Jean Reno) and his faithful servant when they are accidentally transported to contemporary times by a senile sorcerer. Mayhem rules as these 12th-century visitors try adapting to the wildly confusing modern world. To avoid being stuck here for good, however, they soon begin an all-out cosmic assault on their former castle -- now a luxury hotel -- in their quest to return to the past.
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The Snapper
๐ฎ๐ช Ireland The 1990sShe's got a little secret and a lot of explaining to do. โ Sharon Curley is a 20-year-old living with her parents and many brothers and sisters in Dublin. When she gets pregnant and refuses to name the father, she becomes the talk of the town.
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