Year 1980 movies and TV shows – page 4
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List of year 1980 movies
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A reluctant bride to be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. While her friends get whacked one by one, a hard boiled renegade cop whose bride had been killed years before tries to hunt him down before it is ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, wedding, danger, chase, insanity, stalking, law enforcement, woman in danger, police detective, police investigation, killing spree ...
Time:
70s, year 1980
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is harassed by unfriendly locals and a mysterious hearse.
Style:
atmospheric, classic horror, grindhouse, gothic horror, suspense ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, killer car, small town, woman in danger, supernatural, car, cemetery, living dead, reading someone else's diary, witchcraft, seduction ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place:
san francisco
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 219 min.
Story:
Harvard graduate James Averill (Kris Kristofferson) is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners ...
Style:
epic, period piece, controversial, erotic, talky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
violence, immigrant, cattle ranch, epic battle, ranch, skinny dipping, prostitute, brothel, culture clash, gunfight, controversy, female nudity ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s, year 1980, 1800s, 1870s ...
Place:
montana, wyoming, usa, harvard university, america ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Mexico, France, Panama
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.
Style:
rom com, not serious, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
racing, herbie, auto racing, chase, car chase, driving, cruise ship, bus, gold, car, talking car, love affair ...
Time:
year 1980, 80s
Place:
brazil, latin america, mexico, rio de janeiro, spain
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Led by their comedic and pranking leader, Newbomb Turk, the Hollywood Knights car gang raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965. Everything from drag racing to Vietnam to high school love.
Style:
grindhouse, teen sex comedy, humorous, sex comedy, raunchy comedy ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
cheerleader, coming of age, drag racing, teenager, car, high school, culture clash, night, revenge, halloween, two sisters, cruise ...
Time:
60s, year 1980, 70s, 20th century, year 1965 ...
Place:
beverly hills, vietnam, usa, asia, california
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Genre: Action, Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
During his long career, bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson has caught over 5,000 criminals. Now, while he is working on apprehending fugitives in Illinois, Texas and Nebraska, he himself is being hunted by a psychotic killer.
Style:
black comedy, cult classic, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
bounty hunter, chase, car chase, pregnancy, hostage, dog, psychopath, train, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, tough guy, childbirth, ex cop ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
chicago, los angeles, usa
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765
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Beaty, a prostitute, and Emory, a lighting/sound technician, fall in love while working at the same London cabaret, but their relationship isn't easy.
Style:
anime, independent film, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
prostitute, prostitution, female pubic hair, stripper, murder, drug dealing, nightclub, eroticism, cabaret, gangster, immigrant, nudity ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s
Place:
london, england, europe
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Based on the life of rock promoter/producer Bob Marucci, who discovered, among others, Frankie Avalon and Fabian.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, biting, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
music, music business, rock and roll, showbiz, rock music, love and romance, human nature, ambition, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, musician's life, rising to stardom ...
Time:
year 1980, 50s, 60s, 1950s, 80s
Place:
new jersey, new york, memphis, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A naive monk, named Brother Ambrose (Marty Feldman), is sent by the abbot on a mission to raise $5,000 in order to save their monastery from closing. He goes to Hollywood where he encounters a number of eccentric characters.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot:
religion, monk, church, satire, innocence lost, misfit, prostitute, society, obsessive quest, unlikely partners, clergy, fish out of water ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. When Jerry the bartender suddenly finds himself playing basketball for the Golden State Warriors, ...
Style:
independent film, emotional, touching, entertaining, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
basketball, suicide attempt, friendship, depression, redemption, disability, rehabilitation, unrequited love, disabled, hidden treasure, cripple, basketball player ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place:
san francisco, bay area, california, canada
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
David Warner leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation out in the Caribbean. Michael Caine is a reporter who goes out there with his son to investigate the mystery of the disappearing boats. He runs ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, rough, cult classic ...
Plot:
island, kidnapping, pirate, rescue, ship, violence, insanity, father son relationship, brainwashing, captive, boy, escape ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s
Place:
caribbean, miami, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A successful but stressed mathematics professor (Clayburgh) goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with her father's bride's son (Douglas), a prematurely retired pro baseball player. She must choose between him and her current ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
mathematics, destiny, women, feminist, baseball coach, flirting, mathematician, wedding, bittersweet, couples, family relations, power relations ...
Time:
year 1980, future
Place:
chicago, new york, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Libya, USA
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which ...
Style:
epic, exciting, inspirational, historical drama, dramatic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
muslim, desert, islam, bedouin, rebel, resistance, revolution, italian history, medieval, italian fascism, military, battles ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, year 1980, 20th century
Place:
africa, middle east, maghreb, libya, north africa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A married man is turning forty and that's when the midlife crisis hits ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Audience:
date night
Plot:
midlife crisis, cheerleader, architecture, love, family relations, unfulfillment, self discovery, family life, death of father, extramarital affair, sex, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s
Place:
houston texas
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A genius grad student organizes an all-night treasure hunt in which five rival teams composed of colorful oddballs furiously match wits with one another while trying to locate and decipher various cryptic clues planted ingeniously around Los Angeles.
Style:
cult classic, entertaining, sex comedy, not serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
sorority, competition, college, school, teenager, contest, beer, geek, chase, night, college freshman, woman in short shorts ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
Style:
detective, tense, serious, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
murder mystery, whodunit, amateur detective, murder, investigation, private detective, movie star, serial killer, death, unlikely criminals, haunted by the past, actor's life ...
Time:
1950s, year 1980, 20th century, 50s, year 1953 ...
Place:
england, scotland, united kingdom, europe, scotland yard
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A hunted man breaks into the castle at Oberwald to kill the Queen, but faints before doing so. He is Sebastian, the splitting image of the King who was assassinated on his wedding day. The Queen discovers that Sebastian once wrote a subversive poem ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, psychological, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
tall woman, nobility, fortress, fort, chaos, violent content, wedding, couples, love and romance, unfulfillment, couple relations, state affairs ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 20th century, 19th century
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Farmer Vincent kidnaps unsuspecting travellers and is burying them in his garden. Unfortunately for his victims, they are not dead. He feeds his victims to prepare them for his roadside stand. His motto is: It takes all kinds of critters...to make ...
Style:
parody, gothic, dark comedy, scary, spoof ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibalism, cannibal, murder, psychopath, backwoods, violence, trap, butcher, rural setting, female nudity, farmer, satire ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980, 70s
Place:
california, texas
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three girls discover that two men are willing to do anything to impress Mother and what impresses Mother is watching her sons commit acts of rape and murder. Now these women are prisoners and lowered to pawns in the game of checkers between two dim ...
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, suspenseful, disturbing, rough ...
Plot:
woods, psychopath, rape and revenge, dark humor, serial killer, rape, murder, kidnapping, sexual assault, redneck, backwoods, revenge ...
Time:
year 1980, 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
new jersey, chicago, new york, beverly hills
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days of the fur-trapping era. The plot begins when Running Moon runs away from her abusive husband Heavy Eagle and comes across the two seedy fur ...
Style:
perverse, action adventure, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mountain man, american indian, native american, wilderness, mountain, survival, wild west, cowboy, violence, native american attack, vigilantism, camping ...
Time:
19th century, year 1980, 1830s
Place:
wyoming, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
feature film written, produced by, and starring Ralph Waite (best known as John Walton, Sr., on the long-running CBS television series, "The Waltons"). The film tells the story of Sam (Donald Moffat), a recovering alcoholic who feels ...
Style:
independent film, melancholic, emotional, art house, existential ...
Plot:
slum, homelessness, street life, alcoholism, friendship, character study, urban, male protagonist, identity crisis, social realism, poverty, survival ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
los angeles
Is relevant?
490
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the true life prison riot at Bathurst Jail in 1974 and its subsequent Royal Commission into New South Wales Prisons.
Style:
independent film, f word
Plot:
prison, gay, nudity, bare chested male, male nudity, sadism, radical, lgbt, riot, gay sex, bare butt, barber ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
australia
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
While on the run from the police, Steve Railsback hides in a group of moviemakers where he pretends to be a stunt man. Both aided and endangered by the director (Peter O'Toole) he avoids both the police and sudden death as a stuntman. The ...
Style:
psychological, black comedy, suspense, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
stuntman, showbiz, filmmaking, police investigation, mistaken identity, on the run, femme fatale, twists and turns, danger, fish out of water, disorder, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place:
california, holland, korea, guatemala, amsterdam ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A teenager with cerebral palsy attempts to become pen pals with her idol, Elvis Presley.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
cerebral palsy, disability, mentally challenged, best friend, doctors and patients, human spirit, hopes, social misfits, youth, misfit, artists and showbiz, friends ...
Time:
year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place:
canada
Is relevant?
897
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A shallow Broadway press agent learns he is dying just as his son by his ex-wife arrives for a visit.
Style:
poignant, realistic, serious, uplifting, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, dying father, agent, dying, old people, aging, couples, family problems, estrangement, prostitute, life is a bitch, couple relations ...
Time:
year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Le Boum is the story of a 13-year-old French girl dealing with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
couple relations, fall in love, crumbling marriage, teenage love, family problems, love and romance, relationships, love story, first love, teenage life, friends, youth ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, normandy, tokyo, germany
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in love, and she, knowing that it is her brother who is writing, ...
Style:
melancholic, art house, tension, psychological, period piece
Plot:
loneliness, tenderness, disability, character study, correspondence, siblings, mature, bittersweet, revelation, moral dilemma, unrequited love, awkwardness ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
france, brittany
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, who's wife has just left him. The ultimate NZ roadtrip adventure.
Style:
road movie, cult classic, semi serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
car chase, racing, on the road, road trip, partner, nudity, adventurer, obsessive quest, escapades, chase, chases and races, heist ...
Time:
future, year 1980, 80s, 20th century
Place:
new zealand
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Dave Speed is no ordinary Miami cop--he is an irradiated Miami cop who has developed super powers. Unfortunately, he doesn't quite know how to use them and this gets him in trouble with his long-suffering partner. Red powder from a nuclear ...
Style:
parody, fast, semi serious, humorous, spoof ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
superhero, superhuman powers, law enforcement, heroes, buddy cop, nuclear, flying man, nuclear missile, supernatural power, humour, police, truck ...
Time:
year 1980, 20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
miami, china
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young woman arrives at her grandmother's house, which used to be a funeral home, to help her turn the place into a bed-and-breakfast inn. After they open, however, guests begin disappearing or turning up dead.
Style:
slasher, classic horror, sad, suspense, gothic horror ...
Plot:
funeral, zombie, imaginary friend, cat, serial killer, small town, black cat, psycho killer, grandfather, maniac, grandmother, female psychopath ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s, 80s
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