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1980s Nostalgia Movies

Name: 1980s Nostalgia Movies
Creator: TMDB / IMDB

Movies set in the 1980s capturing the era's culture, fashion, music, and spirit.

1980s Nostalgia Movies is a structured movies dataset with 56 entries. Its fields include Title, Year, Director. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.

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Source:TMDB / IMDB

Updated:3/8/2026

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Dataset details

Table scope: 40-row preview of 56
Fields: 8 columns
Source: TMDB / IMDB
Data updated: Mar 8, 2026

Included fields: Title, Year, Director, IMDB Rating, Genre, and 3 more.

Sorting and filtering apply to the 40 loaded preview rows. CSV, JSON, and Excel downloads contain all 56 records.

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Year span: 1985 to 2023; Across 40 preview rows
IMDB Rating range: 6.8 to 8.1; Across 40 preview rows

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
Joker	2019	Todd Phillips	8.1	Crime, Thriller, Drama	Canada	122	During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Call Me by Your Name	2017	Luca Guadagnino	8.1	Romance, Drama	Brazil	132	In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.
Memories of Murder	2003	Bong Joon Ho	8.1	Crime, Drama, Thriller	South Korea	131	A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.
The Wolf of Wall Street	2013	Martin Scorsese	8	Crime, Drama, Comedy	United States of America	180	A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Bohemian Rhapsody	2018	Bryan Singer	8	Music, Drama	United Kingdom	135	Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen ...
A Taxi Driver	2017	Jang Hoon	8	Action, Drama, History	South Korea	138	May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.
Dallas Buyers Club	2013	Jean-Marc Vallée	7.9	Drama, History	United States of America	117	Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.
Just Mercy	2019	Destin Daniel Cretton	7.9	Drama, Crime, History	United States of America	137	The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked aga...
Sing Street	2016	John Carney	7.9	Romance, Drama, Music, Comedy	Ireland	105	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.
Donnie Darko	2001	Richard Kelly	7.8	Fantasy, Drama, Mystery	United States of America	114	After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Straight Outta Compton	2015	F. Gary Gray	7.8	Drama, Music, History	United Kingdom	147	In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of ho...
The Breakfast Club	1985	John Hughes	7.7	Comedy, Drama	United States of America	98	Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a...
The Traitor	2019	Marco Bellocchio	7.7	Drama, Crime, Thriller	Brazil	151	Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change ...
Pride	2014	Matthew Warchus	7.7	Drama, Comedy	France	120	In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.
Mysterious Skin	2005	Gregg Araki	7.7	Drama	United States of America	105	A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off	1986	John Hughes	7.6	Comedy	United States of America	103	After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.
Billy Elliot	2000	Stephen Daldry	7.6	Drama, Comedy, Music	France	111	County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles ...
Tetris	2023	Jon S. Baird	7.6	Thriller, History, Drama	United Kingdom	118	In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of lies and corruption behind the Iron Curtain.
The Hand of God	2021	Paolo Sorrentino	7.5	Drama	Italy	130	In 1980s Naples, Italy, an awkward Italian teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.
This Is England	2007	Shane Meadows	7.5	Drama, Crime	United Kingdom	101	A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends, even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
The Iron Claw	2023	Sean Durkin	7.5	History, Drama	United Kingdom	132	The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the bigges...
American Psycho	2000	Mary Harron	7.4	Thriller, Drama, Crime	Canada	102	A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
The Dirt	2019	Jeff Tremaine	7.4	Drama, Music, Comedy	United States of America	108	The story of Mötley Crüe and their rise from the Sunset Strip club scene of the early 1980s to superstardom.
Bad Education	2004	Pedro Almodóvar	7.4	Drama, Crime	Spain	105	When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school.
Argo	2012	Ben Affleck	7.3	Drama, Thriller	United Kingdom	120	As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
Air	2023	Ben Affleck	7.3	Drama, History	United States of America	112	Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and culture with the Air Jordan brand.
Minari	2021	Lee Isaac Chung	7.3	Drama	United States of America	115	A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
Precious	2009	Lee Daniels	7.3	Drama	United States of America	110	In Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father, and at home she must wait hand and foot on her mother, an angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School...
Big Trouble in Little China	1986	John Carpenter	7.2	Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure	United States of America	100	Truck driver Jack Burton gets embroiled in a supernatural battle when his best friend Wang Chi's green-eyed fiancée is kidnapped by henchmen of the sorcerer Lo Pan, who must marry a girl with green eyes in order to return to the human realm.
Monster	2003	Patty Jenkins	7.2	Crime, Drama	United States of America	109	In 1989, prostitute Aileen Wuornos befriends and enters a relationship with a young woman named Selby. Determined to straighten out her life, Aileen's limited education lands her back on the corner. She's raped by a trick, who she kills. A string of murder and robbery follows that ultimately lead...
Eddie the Eagle	2016	Dexter Fletcher	7.2	Comedy, Drama, History, Adventure	United Kingdom	106	The feel-good story of Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself—even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports f...
Wall Street	1987	Oliver Stone	7.2	Crime, Drama	United States of America	126	A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider, whom takes the youth under his wing.
Hunger	2008	Steve McQueen	7.2	Drama, History	Ireland	96	The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
The Lost Boys	1987	Joel Schumacher	7.1	Horror, Comedy, Thriller, Drama, Romance	United States of America	97	When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlikely heroes gear up to rescue him.
Bones and All	2022	Luca Guadagnino	7	Horror, Romance, Drama	Italy	131	Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survi...
American Made	2017	Doug Liman	6.9	Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama	United States of America	115	The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.
Summer of 84	2018	Yoann-Karl Whissell	6.9	Drama, Horror, Mystery	Canada	106	After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous.
Borg vs McEnroe	2017	Janus Metz	6.9	Drama, History	Finland	108	The Swedish Björn Borg and the American John McEnroe, the best tennis players in the world, maintain a legendary duel during the 1980 Wimbledon tournament.
The Squid and the Whale	2005	Noah Baumbach	6.9	Comedy, Drama	United States of America	81	Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
Let Me In	2010	Matt Reeves	6.8	Drama, Horror, Mystery	Sweden	116	A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.

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The complete dataset contains 56 entries. This page loads the first 40 rows as a fast preview, so on-page sorting and filtering apply to that preview. Downloads contain all 56 rows.

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