876 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1980s
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The Donut King
California The 1970s The 1980s The 2010sThe Donut King, Ted's story is one of fate, love, survival, hard knocks, and redemption. It's the rags to riches story of a refugee escaping Cambodia, arriving in America in 1975 and building an unlikely multi-million dollar empire baking America’s favorite pastry, the donut. Ted sponsored hundreds of visas for incoming refugees and helped them get on their feet teaching them the ways of the donut business. By 1979 he was living the American Dream. But, in life, great rise can come with great falls.
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Summer of Mesa
Massachusetts The 1980sI don't wanna be your "friend." — Summering on Cape Cod in 1985, precocious young Lily befriends an enigmatic girl her age named Mesa. Through their shared time biking the quaint land and exploring the depths of their true selves; they unearth powerful feelings for each other.
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Your Name Engraved Herein
Quebec The 1980s The 2010sWho is the one linger in your heart after all these years? — In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.
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Selena: The Series: Season 1
Texas The 1980s The 1990sAs Mexican-American Tejano singer Selena comes of age and realizes her dreams, she and her family make tough choices to hold on to love and music.
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Zeroville
California 🇵🇭 Philippines The 1970s The 1980s The 1960sSex, cinema and punk rock. 1969 — A young actor arrives in Hollywood in 1969 during a transitional time in the Industry.
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Richard Jewell
Georgia The 1990s The 1980s The 2000sThe world will know his name and the truth. — Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.
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Captain Marvel
California Louisiana The 1980s The 1990s The 2010sHigher. Further. Faster. — The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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The Dirt
California Washington New South Wales The 1980s The 1990s The 1970s The 1960sTheir Music Made Them Famous, Their Lives Made Them Infamous — The story of Mötley Crüe and their rise from the Sunset Strip club scene of the early 1980s to superstardom.
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Pretenders
New York England 🇫🇷 France The 1970s The 1980sA love triangle involving a photographer, a director and an actress.
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The Irishman
Michigan New York Pennsylvania The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 2000sHis story changed history — Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
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Above Suspicion
Kentucky The 1980sThe devil always comes as everything you wanted — The chilling true story of a newly married FBI poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant. She sees in him her means of escape; instead, it's a ticket to disaster for both of them.
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Finding Steve McQueen
Pennsylvania Ohio The 1970s The 1980sInspired By The Outrageous True Story Of The Greatest Bank Heist In U.S. History — In 1972, a gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio attempt to steal $30 million in illegal contributions. Based on the true story of the biggest bank heist in US history.
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Wasp Network
Florida 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇸🇻 El Salvador The 1990s The 1980sTraitors or heroes? — Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Washington Utah Colorado Florida The 1970s The 1980s The 1960sThe story behind America's most notorious serial killer. — A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
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Us
California The 1980s The 2010sWatch yourself — Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.
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It Chapter Two
New York Maine The 1980s The 2010sYou'll Float Again — 27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.
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Joker
New Jersey The 1980sPut on a happy face. — During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
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Anna
🇷🇺 Russia New York The 1980s The 1990sNever make the weapon the target — Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
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Shaft
New York The 1980s The 1990s The 2010s The 2000sMore Shaft than you can handle — JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly.
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3 from Hell
Texas The 1980sThe Evil Returns — After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained. Teaming up with Otis’ half-brother Winslow, the demented Firefly clan escape to unleash a whole new wave of murder, madness and mayhem.
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Doctor Sleep
New Hampshire New Jersey Iowa Colorado Florida The 1980s The 2010sDare to go back. — Still irrevocably scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook, Dan Torrance has fought to find some semblance of peace. But that peace is shattered when he encounters Abra, a courageous teenager with her own powerful extrasensory gift, known as the 'shine'. Instinctively recognising that Dan shares her power, Abra has sought him out, desperate for his help against the merciless Rose the Hat and her followers.
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Rocketman
New York California England 🇫🇷 France The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950sBased on a True Fantasy — The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
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Jumanji: The Next Level
New Hampshire The 1980s The 2010sAs the gang return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown and unexplored in order to escape the world’s most dangerous game.
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Driven
California The 1980s The 1970sHow a lemon became a legend. — FBI informant Jim Hoffman lures troubled automobile magnate John DeLorean to an undercover sting for cocaine trafficking.
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Just Mercy
Alabama The 1980s The 1990sEvery generation has its hero. Meet ours. — The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
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