Movies Set in the 1980s

Kinora's catalogue lists 47 films set in the 1980s, spanning 1980–2024. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.

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• 2007

  4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

  1980s
  Urbandir. Cristian Mungiu
• 1992

  A League of Their Own

  Chicago · Rockford · Racine · Cooperstown — 1940s · 1980s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Penny Marshall
• 2000

  Billy Elliot

  London — 1980s
  Urbandir. Stephen Daldry
• 1985

  Blood Simple

  Texas — 1980s
  Ruraldir. Joel Coen
• 1986

  Blue Velvet

  1980s
  Suburbandir. David Lynch
• 1981

  Body Heat

  1980s
  Coastal Sea · Suburbandir. Lawrence Kasdan
• 1997

  Boogie Nights

  Los Angeles — 1970s · 1980s
  Urban · Suburbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson
• 2005

  Brokeback Mountain

  Wyoming — 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Rural · Mountaindir. Ang Lee
• 2005

  C.R.A.Z.Y.

  Quebec — 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Jean-Marc Vallée
• 2017

  Call Me by Your Name

  Italy — 1980s
  Ruraldir. Luca Guadagnino
• 1995

  Casino

  Las Vegas — 1970s · 1980s
  Desert · Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 1988

  Cinema Paradiso

  Rome · Sicily — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1980s
  Rural · Urbandir. Giuseppe Tornatore
• 1990

  Close-Up

  Tehran — 1980s
  Urbandir. Abbas Kiarostami
• 1989

  Do the Right Thing

  New York City — 1980s
  Urbandir. Spike Lee
• 1982

  E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

  California — 1980s
  Suburbandir. Steven Spielberg
• 1996

  Fargo

  Minneapolis · North Dakota · Minnesota — 1980s
  Rural · Urbandir. Joel Coen
• 1994

  Forrest Gump

  Alabama · Vietnam · Washington, D.C. · New York City — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Rural · Urban · Coastal Seadir. Robert Zemeckis
• 1991

  Fried Green Tomatoes

  Alabama · Birmingham · Valdosta — 1980s · 1920s
  Ruraldir. Jon Avnet
• 2012

  Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1

  Dhanbad — 1940s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Anurag Kashyap
• 1990

  GoodFellas

  New York City · Tampa — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 1986

  Hannah and Her Sisters

  New York City — 1980s
  Urbandir. Woody Allen
• 2008

  Let the Right One In

  1980s
  Suburbandir. Tomas Alfredson
• 2016

  Lion

  Calcutta · Hobart · Melbourne · Khandwa — 1980s · 2000s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Garth Davis
• 2003

  Memories of Murder

  South Korea — 1980s · 2000s
  Ruraldir. Bong Joon Ho
• 2021

  Minari

  Arkansas — 1980s
  Ruraldir. Lee Isaac Chung
• 1989

  Mystery Train

  Memphis — 1980s
  Urbandir. Jim Jarmusch
• 2007

  No Country for Old Men

  Texas — 1980s
  Desert · Ruraldir. Joel Coen
• 2003

  Oldboy

  1980s · 2000s
  Urbandir. Park Chan-wook
• 1980

  Ordinary People

  Chicago — 1980s
  Suburbandir. Robert Redford
• 2019

  Pain and Glory

  Madrid · Valencia — 1960s · 1980s · 2010s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Pedro Almodóvar
• 1984

  Paris, Texas

  Los Angeles · Houston — 1980s
  Desert · Urbandir. Wim Wenders
• 2007

  Persepolis

  Tehran · Paris · Vienna — 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Vincent Paronnaud
• 1980

  Pixote

  Rio de Janeiro — 1980s
  Urbandir. Héctor Babenco
• 1987

  Raising Arizona

  Tempe — 1980s
  Desertdir. Joel Coen
• 1985

  Runaway Train

  1980s
  Wildernessdir. Andrei Konchalovsky
• 1989

  Sea of Love

  New York City — 1980s
  Urbandir. Harold Becker
• 1985

  Tampopo

  1980s
  Urbandir. Jūzō Itami
• 2024

  The Brutalist

  Philadelphia · New York City · Venice — 1940s · 1950s · 1980s
  Urbandir. Brady Corbet
• 2006

  The Lives of Others

  Berlin — 1980s
  Urbandir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
• 1985

  The Official Story

  Buenos Aires — 1980s
  Urbandir. Luis Puenzo
• 2009

  The Secret in Their Eyes

  Buenos Aires — 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Juan José Campanella
• 1982

  The Thing

  1980s
  Wildernessdir. John Carpenter
• 2013

  The Wolf of Wall Street

  New York City — 1980s · 1990s
  Urbandir. Martin Scorsese
• 2007

  This Is England

  England — 1980s
  Suburban · Coastal Seadir. Shane Meadows
• 1987

  Where Is The Friend's House?

  1980s
  Ruraldir. Abbas Kiarostami
• 1987

  Wings of Desire

  Berlin — 1980s
  Urbandir. Wim Wenders
• 2007

  Zodiac

  San Francisco — 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. David Fincher