Films set in the 1980s

Inspector Zende is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language comedy thriller film directed and written by Chinmay Mandlekar and produced by Jay Shewakramani and Om Raut. The film stars Manoj Bajpayee as Inspector Madhukar Zende and Jim Sarbh as Carl Bhojraj, a character inspired by the infamous serial killer Charles Sobhraj. It was released on 5 September 2025 on Netflix.

1994 film directed by Robert Zemeckis

2005 film directed by Ang Lee

2007 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

1990 film by Francis Ford Coppola

1983 film directed by Brian De Palma

2014 film directed by James Marsh

2008 film by David Fincher

2019 film directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck

2006 film by Gabriele Muccino

2014 film directed by Clint Eastwood

2005 film directed by Andrew Niccol

2013 film by Jean-Marc Vallée

1983 film directed by James L. Brooks

2003 film by Tim Burton

2019 film directed by Martin Scorsese

2011 film directed by Phyllida Lloyd

1985 film directed by Sylvester Stallone

It Chapter Two is a 2019 American supernatural horror film directed by Andy Muschietti from a screenplay by Gary Dauberman. It is the sequel to It (2017) and the second of a two-part adaptation of the 1986 novel It by Stephen King. The film stars James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, and Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Set 27 years after the events of the first film, the story centers on the Losers Club and their relationships as they reunite to destroy It once and for all.

1982 film directed by Sylvester Stallone

1998 film directed by Nancy Meyers

2017 film directed by Craig Gillespie

1997 film directed by Peter Cattaneo

1989 film directed by Ivan Reitman

2009 film by Lee Daniels

2015 film directed by Danny Boyle

2006 American fantasy comedy film directed by Frank Coraci

2004 American biographical musical drama film

2015 film directed by David O. Russell

2016 film directed by Gavin O'Connor

1997 film by Paul Thomas Anderson

2007 film directed by Mike Nichols

1996 film directed by Miloš Forman

2008 American film directed by David Frankel

1992 film by David Lynch

1996 film by Jan Svěrák

2013 film directed by Joshua Michael Stern

2003 film directed by Bong Joon-ho

2019 film directed by Dexter Fletcher

2021 film directed by Ridley Scott

2011 film by Gary McKendry

2000 US film directed by Julian Schnabel

1991 film directed by Jon Avnet

1996 film directed by Scott Hicks

2007 film directed by Marc Forster

2002 film directed by George Clooney

2015 film directed by F. Gary Gray

Gia is a 1998 American biographical drama television film about the life and times of one of the first supermodels, Gia Carangi. The film stars Angelina Jolie as Gia and Faye Dunaway as Wilhelmina Cooper, with Mercedes Ruehl and Elizabeth Mitchell. It was directed by Michael Cristofer and written by Cristofer and Jay McInerney. The original music score was composed by Terence Blanchard. The film premiered on January 31, 1998, on HBO.

1999 film by Miloš Forman

1994 film by Phillip Noyce

2018 film directed by Adam McKay

2013 film directed by Lee Daniels

1988 film directed by Dwight H. Little

2011 film directed by Lone Scherfig

1999 film directed by Norman Jewison

Michael is a 2026 biographical film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by John Logan. It follows the life of American singer Michael Jackson, covering his involvement in the Jackson 5 in the 1960s to the Bad tour in the late 1980s. Jackson is portrayed by his nephew Jaafar Jackson and as a child by Juliano Krue Valdi, both in their film debuts. The supporting cast includes Nia Long, KeiLyn Durrel Jones, Laura Harrier, Jessica Sula, Mike Myers, Miles Teller, and Colman Domingo.

1982 film directed by Tommy Lee Wallace

1988 film directed by Luc Besson

2016 film directed by Pedro Almodóvar

Kin-dza-dza! (, ) is a 1986 Soviet film released by the Mosfilm studio and directed by Georgiy Daneliya, with a story by Georgiy Daneliya and Revaz Gabriadze. It is a dystopian science-fiction comedy, in which two men from the Soviet Union accidentally travel through space, meeting two aliens from the Kin-dza-dza star system and their post-apocalyptic world.