285 Films & TV Shows Set In Europe During The 2000s
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Dheepan
🇫🇷 France 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka The 2000sWhen the war continues to rage in your heart and mind — Three people who have lost everything, a soldier tired of fighting, a young woman and a little girl, pose as a family to escape the civil war in Sri Lanka. They emigrate to France and settle in a chaotic neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris, where apparently the law no longer exists; but they, who barely know each other, struggle to survive there, even when the ghosts of war begin to haunt them again.
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London Road
England The 2000sLondon Road is a musical drama that documents the events of 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and kerb-crawling on their street. When a local resident was charged and then convicted of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicentre of this tragedy.
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Standing Tall
🇫🇷 France The 2000s The 2010sThe film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirelessly to try to save the young offender.
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Amy
England The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sThe girl behind the name. — A documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, the immensely talented yet doomed songstress. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs.
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The High Sun
🇭🇷 Croatia The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sThree decades. Two nations. One love. — Three different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighbouring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred: this is a film about the dangers – and the enduring strength – of forbidden love.
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April and the Extraordinary World
🇫🇷 France The 2000s The 1940s The 1930s The 1870sA Film By Christian Desmares And Franck Ekinci — France asleep in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon VI, where scientists vanish mysteriously, a girl, Avril, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
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A Song for Jenny
England The 2000sA Song For Jenny is the true story of Julie Nicholson's response to her daughter Jenny’s murder in the July 7th bombing at Edgware Road tube station. Starring Emily Watson as Julie, A Song For Jenny details the dramatic and profound impact of violence on one woman and a family.
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Michigan Pennsylvania District of Columbia England 🇷🇺 Russia 🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000s The 2010sTrust no one. — Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
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Rosewater
England 🇮🇷 Iran The 1980s The 2000sIn 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.
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Futuro Beach
🇩🇪 Germany 🇧🇷 Brazil The 2000s The 2010sA hero split in half. — Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep coming after him.
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One Night in Istanbul
England 🇹🇷 Turkey The 2000sFour fanatical fans. One cup final... Only one outcome! — Two down on their luck Liverpool cabbies, Tommy and Gerry, strike an unusual deal with a local gangster to take their sons on a trip of a lifetime, to watch their beloved football team play in the European Cup Final in Istanbul. Hoping to use the trip as a chance to bond with their sons, big trouble awaits them in the form of a sexy hotel chambermaid, two ruthless crooks on a mission and a bag of counterfeit cash. It is 3-0 down at half time and things could not be more desperate both on and off the pitch. Stevie G and the boys in red are trying to launch the most amazing football comeback in history, and Tommy is in deep water, being held hostage. With the clock ticking and time running out, a miracle is needed fast. In the end a bit of faith, and Gerry’s lucky underpants may be the only thing that can get them and the cup back home in one piece.
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Three Windows and a Hanging
🇽🇰 Kosovo The 2000sIn a traditional village in Kosova, a year after the war (2000) when people are rebuilding their lives, the female school teacher Lushe is driven by her inner conscience to give an interview to an international journalist, telling her that she and three other women from the village were raped by Serbian forces. A critical view of a society which survived the war, won its independence but still struggles with human equality. An insightful portrait of a Balkan village, of a patriarchal microcosm, and of its mayor who desperately wants to control the village life. Of husbands who feel forced to behave strong, but act against their own emotional interest. A reflection of rituals which not only show gender inequality, but also the absence of freedom of expression within the male community.
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Simshar
🇲🇹 Malta The 2000sInspired by true events — Young Theo is sent on his first trip with his Maltese sea faring family, but things go terribly wrong when the 'Simshar' sinks, leaving the crew stranded in the Mediterranean... Simultaneously, Alex - a medic reluctantly dispatched onto a Turkish Merchant vessel which has rescued a group of stranded African boat people between Malta and Italy - gets stuck on the boat as the countries wage a bureaucratic war over who should take in the migrants... The stories unravel in parallel and culminate tragically when the fishermen are traced down, but by that time there's only one survivor.
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What a Wonderful World
🇲🇩 Moldova The 2000sAfter two years spent as a student in Boston, a 22-year-old visits his native Moldova. It is April 2009. People gather in the streets of Chisinau, the call having spread through social networking sites. They are demonstrating against the communist authorities who falsified the election results. They seize and plunder the parliament and presidential buildings. The demonstrators carry away documents, furniture and office equipment. Our protagonist is coming from a friend's home carrying his own computer monitor. He is mistaken for a demonstrator, brutally beaten up by the police and taken to the police station. His interrogator is an experienced major. The authorities can do anything. Based on real events, the film asks questions about freedom, justice and the price of human life.
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Iron Man 3
Tennessee California Florida Kentucky 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sUnleash the power behind the armor. — When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
🇹🇷 Turkey 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇵🇭 Philippines 🇨🇱 Chile The 2000sTerror has two faces. — In New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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The Fifth Estate
District of Columbia England 🇩🇪 Germany The 2000s The 2010sYou can't expose the world's secrets without exposing yourself — A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
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11.6
🇫🇷 France The 2000s The 2010sIn November 2009, French security van driver Toni Musulin makes off with nearly 12 million euros, then turns himself over to the authorities a week later.
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The Selfish Giant
England The 2000sA hyperactive boy and his best friend, a slow-witted youth with an affinity for horses, start collecting scrap metal for a shady dealer.
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Philomena
District of Columbia England 🇮🇪 Ireland The 2000s The 1950sThese two unlikely companions are on a journey to find her long lost son. — A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
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The French Minister
🇫🇷 France New York The 2000sAlexandre Taillard de Vorms is a force to be reckoned with. With his silver mane and tanned, athletic body, he stalks the world stage as Minister of Foreign Affairs for France, waging his own war backed up by the holy trinity of diplomatic concepts: legitimacy, lucidity, and efficacy. Enter Arthur Vlaminck. Hired to write the minister's speeches, Arthur must contend with the sensibilities of his boss and the dirty dealings within the Quai d'Orsay, the ministry's home.
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One Chance
Wales 🇮🇹 Italy The 2000sThe incredible true story of an underdog who never gave up — This film follows the remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night.
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Life Feels Good
🇵🇱 Poland The 1900s The 1980s The 2000sMateusz is an intelligent, romantic young man tragically trapped inside his own body, suffering from severe cerebral palsy that makes speech and controlled movement nearly impossible. Born into a loving family, Mateusz’s protected world is shattered when circumstances place him in an institution where he is misunderstood and mistreated. Featuring an astonishing, virtuoso lead performance, Life Feels Good beautifully recounts the true story of one man’s extraordinary efforts to endure in the face of impossible odds.
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The Move of the Penguin
🇮🇹 Italy The 2000sAn unlikely handful of heroes — Two precarious workers, a pensioner and an old bully discover the sport of curling by chance and convinced of their potential they plan to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics held in Turin.
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Battleship
New York District of Columbia Hawaii Scotland England 🇭🇰 Hong Kong Tokyo Prefecture Pacific Ocean The 2000s The 2010sThe Battle for Earth Begins at Sea — When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential that his brother, and his fiancée's father—an Admiral—expect of him.
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