876 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1980s
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Dark Places
Kansas The 1980s The 2010sIn 1985, her entire family was murdered. 30 years later, the truth emerges. — A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.
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McFarland, USA
Idaho California The 1980sChampions Can Come From Anywhere. — A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders.
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Kung Fury
Florida 🇩🇪 Germany The 1980s The 1940sIt takes a cop from the future to fight an enemy from the past. — During an unfortunate series of events, a friend of Kung Fury is assassinated by the most dangerous kung fu master criminal of all time, Adolf Hitler, a.k.a Kung Führer. Kung Fury decides to travel back in time to Nazi Germany in order to kill Hitler and end the Nazi empire once and for all.
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10,000 Saints
Vermont New York The 1980sRage. Riot. Rebirth. — A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young—and old—are all major elements in this heart-aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture.
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Pixels
New York District of Columbia England 🇬🇺 Guam The 1980s The 2010sGame On. — Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.
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The Boy
Colorado The 1980sEvil Always Begins Somewhere. — An intimate portrait of a 9 year old sociopath as he discovers his taste for killing.
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Love & Mercy
California The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960sThe Life, Love and Genius of Brian Wilson — In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, Wilson, under the sway of a controlling therapist, finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter.
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Joy
New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Texas The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sA story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.
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Straight Outta Compton
California The 1980s The 1990sThe Story of N.W.A. — In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.
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The Final Girls
Louisiana The 1980s The 2010sA young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.
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Mojin: The Lost Legend
New York Inner Mongolia The 1980s The 1960sAt the beginning of the 1990s, famous tomb explorer Hu Bayi decided to retire and move to the United States with his girlfriend Shirley. But before his wedding, Bayi discovers his first love Ding Shitian, who supposedly had died in the "One Hundred Cave" 20 years ago, is actually still alive. Together with Shirley and his old exploration partner, Bayi unravels a terrible millennium-old secret...
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Steve Jobs
California The 1980s The 1990sCan a great man be a good man? — Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
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A Sort of Homecoming
Louisiana The 1980s The 2010sIn this round, you make your own destiny. — A Sort of Homecoming tells the story of Amy, a New York news producer who thought she left her high school experiences long in the past. She unexpectedly returns to Louisiana at the request of her high school debate coach. Their strained reunion brings back memories of her tumultuous senior year of high school.
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Everybody Leaves
🇨🇺 Cuba The 1980sIn Cienfuegos in the 1980s, a poetic young girl tries to make sense of her parents' volatile separation while keenly observing the reality of Cuba's dilemmas.
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The Cokeville Miracle
Wyoming The 1980sBased on actual events. — On May 9, 1986, a small ranching community in Wyoming experiences a divine intervention when a couple detonates a bomb inside a crowded classroom.
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90 Minutes in Heaven
Texas Heaven The 1980sHope lives — A man involved in a horrific car crash is pronounced dead, only to come back to life an hour and a half later, claiming to have seen Heaven.
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Bloodied But Unbowed
British Columbia The 1970s The 1980sCost of rebellion set against the first wave of Canadian punk rock - a bunch of rebels from a backwater town who gained notoriety in the late 70s and have never lived it down. Music. Punk. Rebellion. Sex. Drugs. Death.
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El Crazy Che
🇦🇷 Argentina California The 1970s The 1980sSpying is not what you were led to believe it is — 'Bill Gaede: El Crazy Che' is a documentary about the most amazing case of industrial espionage: the incredible story of an argentine engineer born in Lanús, programmer, and cold war spy who worked at AMD and Intel. While at AMD, he provided the Cuban Government with technical information from the semiconductor industry which the Cubans passed on to the Soviet bloc, primarily to the Soviet Union and East Germany.
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Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp: Season 1
Maine The 1980sThey're younger. They're hotter. They're wetter. — First love, first job, first kiss or first, you know, something. There's nothing like the first day of camp, 1981-style.
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The Americans: Season 3
District of Columbia The 1980sIn season three, Philip and Elizabeth find themselves at odds over their daughter’s future now that the KGB is determined to recruit her and FBI Agent Stan Beeman has rededicated himself to uncovering the identities of the Russian spies.
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Foxcatcher
Pennsylvania District of Columbia Florida 🇫🇷 France 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1980s The 1990sBased on the shocking true story — The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.
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The Normal Heart
New York The 1980sTo win a war, You have to start one — The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.
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Guardians of the Galaxy
Missouri The 1980s The 2010sAll heroes start somewhere. — Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Ronan the Accuser.
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Decoding Annie Parker
California The 1980sEveryone thought they were crazy, until they proved everyone wrong. — The lives of a breast-cancer patient and a researcher who is trying to prove a genetic link to cancer intersect in a groundbreaking study.
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American Sniper
Texas The 1980s The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sThe most lethal sniper in U.S. history. — U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle takes his sole mission—protect his comrades—to heart and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. His pinpoint accuracy not only saves countless lives but also makes him a prime target of insurgents. Despite grave danger and his struggle to be a good husband and father to his family back in the States, Kyle serves four tours of duty in Iraq. However, when he finally returns home, he finds that he cannot leave the war behind.
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