354 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 1990s
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The Breath
๐น๐ท Turkey The 1990sA small task force of the Turkish army have to defend a relay station in the middle of nowhere against a possible terrorist raid.
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Double Identity
๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria The 1990sIn Chechnya, an American doctor takes a detour in life when he helps a mysterious woman escape from her would-be assailant.
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Sergio
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon ๐น๐ฑ Timor-Leste ๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sCharismatic, charming and complex, Sรฉrgio Vieira de Mello was the world's go-to guy, a man who could descend into the most dangerous places, charm the worst war criminals, and somehow protect the lives of the ordinary people to whom he'd devoted his life. The documentary tells the story of his most treacherous mission ever... a mission in which his own life hangs in the balance.
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Margaret
England The 1970s The 1990sA detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Then, long-serving politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns over Thatcher's attitude to Europe. His resignation speech sparks a chain of events that leads to the overthrow of Britain's first woman prime minister. This modern dramatic tragedy illustrates the strengths and fatal flaws of this iconic woman more clearly than ever before and reveals how the very aspects of her character that helped her secure power are the ones that ensured her downfall. Drama starring Lindsay Duncan.
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Ordinary People
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1990sThe story of a soldier faced with mission of executing prisoners in an unspecified place and time. The film follows a hot summer day in the life of Dลพoni, a twenty-year-old recruit, who is sent to an abandoned farm on an unknown mission. The soldiers wait to battle unnamed terrorists, but instead, a bus full of prisoners arrives to the barracks. The commander orders the soldiers to execute the prisoners. At first, Dลพoni is shocked by the cruel killings, but as more prisoners arrive, he begins to enjoy the executions.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
New York Louisiana Florida ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 2000sLife isn't measured in minutes, but in moments. โ I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans, from the end of World War I in 1918 into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, Benjamin Button, is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
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The Reader
๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950sBehind the mystery lies a truth that will make you question everything you know. โ The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
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Il Divo
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1990sItaly, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.
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Made of Honor
Scotland The 1990s The 2000sHe'll do anything to get the groom out of the picture. โ Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her 'maid' of honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her.
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The Oxford Murders
England The 1990sThere is no way of finding a single absolute truth โ At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols
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The Tour
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1990sYear 1993, the bleakest time of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A group of actors from Belgrade, utterly unaware of what they're setting themselves up for, embark on a search for quick earnings - on a "tour" around the Serbian Krajina. However, there they are thrust into the heart of war and begin to wander from war front to war front, from one army to the next.
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Fifty Dead Men Walking
Northern Ireland The 1980s The 1990sWhen you cross the line there's no going back. โ It's 1989, and in a Belfast torn apart by conflict and terrorism, petty criminal Marty McGartland is recruited by the British police to infiltrate the IRA. Guided by Special Forces officer 'Fergus', McGartland gains unparalleled insight into the organisation's dealings, providing his British handler with priceless, life-saving information. Based on a true story.
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Bronson
England The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sThe Man. The Myth. The Celebrity. โ A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.
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The Sicilian Girl
๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1990sWhat would drive a seventeen-year-old girl to betray her family? And if that family was the mafia? โ Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the first time that such a young woman from a Mafia family rebels and betrays the Mafia. From that moment on, Rita's days are numbered. She only has nine months to live...
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Until the Light Takes Us
๐ณ๐ด Norway The 1980s The 1990sChronicles the history, ideology and aesthetic of Norwegian black metal, a musical subculture infamous as much for a series of murders and church arsons as it is for its unique musical and visual aesthetics. This is the first film to truly shed light on a movement that has heretofore been shrouded by rumor and obscured by inaccurate and shallow depictions. Featuring exclusive interviews with the musicians themselves, Until the Light Takes Us explores every aspect of the controversial movement that has captured the attention of the world.
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Snow
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990sThe daily hardships of a war-scarred Bosnian village, where all that remains are widows and orphans, are painstakingly documented in this first feature from director Aida Begic. Snow offers insight about the psychological aftereffects of the 1992-95 civil war from a distinctively female point of view without showing any of the brutality or carnage.
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Ara
๐น๐ท Turkey The 1990s The 2000sAra is the story of four people and an empty house. These people are stuck between their past and stormy relationships, between Istanbul and the "homes" they can't get back, between their innermost secrets and the lies they tell, between east and west. They are stuck in the "space between". The whole action takes place in an almost empty flat which is belong to one of the characters. The camera goes out only once. But various other visuals from commercials, TV series' that has been shot in the same flat, sneak into the film. Spanning around 10 years, the story is told between intervals of these visuals. Turkey has been through a huge change in the last 20-30 years. The modest country of the recent past is a faded memory compared to the consumerist life style of modern day. It is the time of ambitious people who can do anything to "live well", to "break through". This is the story of a small group of people who manage to "live well" but can't help getting lost in a spiritual vacuum.
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Scotland England The 1990sEvil Must Be Confronted. โ The rebellion begins! Lord Voldemort has returned, but the Ministry of Magic is doing everything it can to keep the wizarding world from knowing the truth โ including appointing Ministry official Dolores Umbridge as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts. When Umbridge refuses to teach practical defensive magic, Ron and Hermione convince Harry to secretly train a select group of students for the wizarding war that lies ahead. A terrifying showdown between good and evil awaits in this enthralling film version of the fifth novel in J.K. Rowlingโs Harry Potter series. Prepare for battle!
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Persepolis
๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฎ๐ท Iran The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sIn 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
๐ซ๐ท France The 1990sLet your imagination set you free. โ The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
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The Hunting Party
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ท๐ธ Serbia The 1990s The 2000sHow can they find the world's most wanted war criminal when the C.I.A. can't... By actually looking? โ A young journalist, an experienced cameraman and a discredited reporter find their bold plan to capture Bosnia's top war criminal quickly spiraling out of control when a UN representative mistakes them for a CIA hit squad.
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Closing the Ring
Michigan Northern Ireland The 1990s The 1940sDiscover the love of a lifetime. โ During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
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California Dreamin'
๐ท๐ด Romania The 1990sCristian Nemescu's comedy unfolds against the backdrop of the Kosovo War, 1999. A NATO train rolls through a Romanian hamlet, transporting a plethora of weapons across the country -- without official documents, and equipped only with the verbal consent of the Romanian authorities. The transport thus grows intensely vulnerable.
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In Bar
๐น๐ท Turkey The 1990sA horror film featuring Nejat ฤฐลler as the head of a gang which brutalizes, murders and rapes a group of young friends, which was based on a real life event that happened in Ankara, Turkey in 1997 and marketed as the most violent Turkish film ever made.
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The Living and the Dead
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina The 1990s50 years apart, two armies will fight to the same death... โ In 1943, group of Croatian soldiers overtake a strategically important point in western Bosnia with a goal to destroy a group of communist partisans. On the way they met some supernatural phenomena, and the action itself went very badly because the partisans ambushed them. The main character Martin inherits silver cigarette case from a dying soldier. This act connects to the story in 1993 when we meet Martins grandson Tomo. He is one of six soldiers of the Croatian army who have come to the same place in Bosnia to meet the same phenomena and similar fate.
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