Movie List for "1980 20"

Miss Lovely (2012)

A Hindi feature film set in the lower depths of Bombay’s “C” grade film industry. Miss Lovely follows the devastating story of two brothers who produce sleazy horror films in the mid-1980s. Year 2012.

Generes: Crime, Drama, Romance
Director: Ashim Ahluwalia
Writer: Ashim Ahluwalia (story), Uttam Sirur
Actors: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Niharika Singh, Anil George, Zeena Bhatia

Under the Shadow (2016)

As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home. Year 2016.

Generes: Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Director: Babak Anvari
Writer: Babak Anvari
Actors: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Arash Marandi

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.

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

In the 1980s the X-Men must defeat an ancient all-powerful mutant, En Sabah Nur, who intends to thrive through bringing destruction to the world. Year 2016.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Director: Bryan Singer
Writer: Simon Kinberg (screenplay by), Bryan Singer (story by), Simon Kinberg (story by), Michael Dougherty (story by), Dan Harris (story by)
Actors: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult

Emiler Goenda Bahini (1980)

The only boy of a widow, went for a train trip to Dhaka to receive prize & visit his aunt’s house. On this trip, he lost his money & suspected two men. He left the train & followed them. On… Year 1980.

Generes: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Director: Badal Rahman
Writer: Erich Kästner (novel), Badal Rahman (dialogue), Badal Rahman (screenplay)
Actors: Partho Shahid, Momtajuddin Ahmed, Sharmili Ahmed, Syed Akhtar Ali

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

Ghuddi (1980)

The movie revolves around the protagonist Asad, a freedom fighter who still struggles to get out of the trauma of war. He meets Ghuddi at a film theatre and later falls in love. Year 1980.

Generes: Drama
Director: Syed Salahuddin Zaki
Writer: Syed Salahuddin Zaki
Actors: Raisul Islam Asad, Suborna Mustafa, Nasiruddin Yousuff, Golam Mustafa

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