Movie List for "1980"

Kill the Messenger (2014)

Journalist Gary Webb, California 1996, started investigating CIA’s role in the 1980s in getting crack cocaine to the black part of LA to get money and weapons to the Contras/freedom fighters in Nicaragua. Year 2014.

Generes: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Michael Cuesta
Writer: Peter Landesman, Gary Webb (book), Nick Schou (book)
Actors: Jeremy Renner, Robert Patrick, Jena Sims, Robert Pralgo

Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)

In 1980, a group of college baseball players navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood. Year 2016.

Generes: Comedy
Director: Richard Linklater
Writer: Richard Linklater
Actors: Blake Jenner, Juston Street, Ryan Guzman, Tyler Hoechlin

So Long, My Son (2019)

Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present. Year 2019.

Generes: Drama
Director: Xiaoshuai Wang
Writer: Mei Ah, Xiaoshuai Wang
Actors: Liya Ai, Jiang Du, Zhao-Yan Guo-Zhang, Jingjing Li

Sing Street (2016)

A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes. Year 2016.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Director: John Carney
Writer: Simon Carmody (story), John Carney (screenplay)
Actors: Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Kelly Thornton, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Jack Reynor

Straight Outta Compton (2015)

The group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood. Year 2015.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Director: F. Gary Gray
Writer: Jonathan Herman (screenplay), Andrea Berloff (screenplay), S. Leigh Savidge (story), Alan Wenkus (story), Andrea Berloff (story)
Actors: O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Neil Brown Jr.

Anna ot 6 do 18 (1994)

Director Nikita Mikhalkov documents the history of Russia from 1980 to 1991 by annually asking his daughter Anna such questions as “What do you love the most?”, “What scares you the most?”,… Year 1994.

Generes: Documentary, Biography
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Writer: Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergei Miroshnichenko
Actors: Nikita Mikhalkov, Anna Mikhalkova, Nadezhda Mikhalkova

Weissensee (2010–)

The lives of two families in East Berlin between 1980 and 1990 as the era of communist DDR slowly comes to an end. Year 2010–.

Generes: Drama
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
Actors: Florian Lukas, Uwe Kockisch, Jörg Hartmann, Ruth Reinecke

Leto (2018)

A love triangle emerges around a rock and roll musician, his protege and his wife in 1980s Russia. Year 2018.

Generes: Biography, Music, Romance
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
Writer: Lily Idov, Michael Idov, Ivan Kapitonov, Natalya Naumenko (memoirs), Kirill Serebrennikov
Actors: Teo Yoo, Irina Starshenbaum, Roman Bilyk, Anton Adasinsky

Lost Boys (2012)

Documentary feature film about the “lost” generation in present-day Russia, who were born in the 1980s, grew up without any ruling ideology, and who feel they are adrift in their own society. Year 2012.

Generes: Documentary
Director: Varvara Obrosova
Writer: Varvara Obrosova
Actors: N/A

Bob Marley Live in Concert (1998)

Recording of a 1980 concert in Dortmund, Germany, less than 1 year before his death. Year 1998.

Generes: Documentary, Music
Director: Stefan Paul
Writer: Stefan Paul
Actors: Bob Marley

Traces in the Snow (2014)

The world’s first documentary about Siberia’s punk rock scene in the 1980s. It was a phenomenon of those times that this music existed thousands of miles away from the movement’s epicentres in New York and London. Year 2014.

Generes: Documentary
Director: Vladimir Kozlov
Writer: Vladimir Kozlov
Actors: N/A

Trouble No More (2017)

The film consists of live footage of Bob Dylan performing gospel music during a 1980 tour. The film also features actor Michael Shannon in the part of evangelical preacher giving sermons that appear between songs throughout the film. Year 2017.

Generes: Documentary, Music
Director: Jennifer Lebeau
Writer: N/A
Actors: Mary Elizabeth Bridges, Tim Drummond, Bob Dylan, Gwen Evans

Hot Summer Nights (2017)

Circa 1980s, a sheltered teenage boy comes of age during a wild summer he spends in Cape Cod getting rich from selling pot to gangsters, falling in love for the first time, partying and eventually realizing that he is in over his head. Year 2017.

Generes: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Director: Elijah Bynum
Writer: Elijah Bynum
Actors: Timothée Chalamet, Maika Monroe, Alex Roe, Emory Cohen

Jackals (2017)

Set in the 1980s, an estranged family hires a cult deprogrammer to take back their teenage son from a murderous cult, but find themselves under siege when the cultists surround their cabin, demanding the boy back. Year 2017.

Generes: Horror, Thriller
Director: Kevin Greutert
Writer: Jared Rivet
Actors: Deborah Kara Unger, Ben Sullivan, Chelsea Ricketts, Nick Roux

Saratoga Lights (2017)

When blood is involved, nothing is simple. Saratoga Lights is a story of crime and vengeance in 1980 rural Texas. Year 2017.

Generes: Crime, Horror, Western
Director: Lisa Marie Mejia
Writer: Randall LaRue
Actors: Jordan Marett, Johnny Bender, Brian Villalobos, Matt Fitzgerald

A Star for Two (1991)

Teenage lovers in the 1940s are separated by World War II and then later reunited in the 1980s, but encounter new complications when they try to rekindle their relationship.. Year 1991.

Generes: Drama, Romance
Director: Jim Kaufman
Writer: Christian Bel, Jim Kaufman
Actors: Lauren Bacall, Anthony Quinn, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Lila Kedrova