1980s Movies

Chronicles a single day in the summer of 1989 when the future president of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady on an epic...

In the early 1980s, a teenage girl escapes years of captivity at the hands of her beauty-obsessed mother, leaving a bloody trail of delay 'makeovers'...

It is 1984. Frank is a determined English teenager who runs away from high school to find an alternative gay lifestyle in Amsterdam. He finds a home...

In 1985, reformed outlaws Mercy and Khaos are pulled back into the life they left behind. They’re forced to take on a dangerous job that pits...

A cheap, powerful drug emerges during a recession, igniting a moral panic fueled by racism. Explore the complex history of crack in the 1980s.

Six year old Azad (a Kurd from Iraq) was engaged to his cousin Vian but after that the two kids were separated due to the political situation. At 19,...

Three friends, Robban, Alexander and Kim, have just left the compulsory school, and now they consider themselves grown-up and mature, being 16 years...

During the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, in the legendary match between Argentina and England, Diego Maradona scored two unforgettable goals in a game...

Angel, a young intelligent and kind, aims to be a police inspector. Rafael instead is an expeditious, forceful and arrogant policeman. Meanwhile,...

New Orleans, 1981. Sonny Phillips, just discharged from the Army, returns home. The only life he's known is as a gigolo, working for his mother, but...

A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary trip into the...

Every snapshot unveils the essence of life's fleeting moments, a time capsule woven with laughter and love but this camera will be your last shared...

Tokyo, Japan, 1989. Lucy Fly, a foreigner who works as a translator, begins a passionate relationship with Teiji, a mysterious man obsessed with...

An underprivileged, gifted young black man from Newark reaches Yale University, only for shadows and injustices from his past to threaten his future.

Yangon, 1998. A boy and his mother are waiting for the return of the father, a civil servant, to move out another town at Upper Burma. On the last...

Jackie-O is anxiously awaiting the visit of her brother home for Thanksgiving, but isn't expecting him to bring a friend — and she's even more...

A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership....

China’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.

The majority of the population have been wiped out by a mysterious disease. Angela is roaming the wilderness called The Space, looking for a way into...