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Stranger Things(2016-)

4.3/5 (with 8,329 votes)

When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

Everybody Hates Chris(2005-2009)

TV-PG
| 22min per episode | Comedy, Kids & Family, Kids & Family, Drama
4.0/5 (with 450 votes)

Chris is a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s. Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bused to a predominantly white middle school two-hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place while keeping his siblings in line at home and surmounting the challenges of junior high.

Freaks and Geeks(1999-2000)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Drama, Comedy
4.1/5 (with 333 votes)

High school mathlete Lindsay Weir rebels and begins hanging out with a crowd of burnouts (the "freaks"), while her brother Sam Weir navigates a different part of the social universe with his nerdy friends (the "geeks").

The Goldbergs(2013-2023)

TV-14
| 22min per episode | Kids & Family, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 152 votes)

Before there were parenting blogs, trophies for showing up, and peanut allergies, there was a simpler time called the '80s. For geeky 11-year old Adam these were his wonder years and he faced them armed with a video camera to capture all the crazy. The Goldbergs are a loving family like any other, just with a lot more yelling.

Snowfall(2017-2023)

TV-MA
| 42min per episode | Drama, Crime
4.3/5 (with 182 votes)

Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.

The Americans(2013-2018)

TV-MA
| 48min per episode | Crime, Drama
3.9/5 (with 407 votes)

Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty(2022-2023)

TV-MA
| Comedy, Drama
3.9/5 (with 57 votes)

A fast-break series chronicling the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of sports’ most revered and dominant dynasties — a team that defined an era, both on and off the court.

Directed by Adam McKay - With John C. Reilly, Quincy Isaiah, Jason Clarke, DeVaughn Nixon, Sally Field, Hadley Robinson, ...

Family Ties(1982-1989)

TV-PG
| 30min per episode | Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 105 votes)

Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.

Halt and Catch Fire(2014-2017)

TV-14
| 43min per episode | Drama
4.0/5 (with 215 votes)

During the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, an unlikely trio - a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy - take personal and professional risks in the race to build a computer that will change the world as they know it.

Chernobyl(2019)

NR
| Drama
4.3/5 (with 2,848 votes)

The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.

The Transformers(1984-1987)

3.9/5 (with 167 votes)

The Transformers is the first animated television series in the Transformers franchise. The series depicts a war among giant robots that can transform into vehicles and other objects.

Romanzo criminale(2008-2010)

TV-MA
| 50min per episode | Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure
4.1/5 (with 55 votes)

Follows a criminal gang in Rome that has a near monopoly of the city's heroin trade. Besides their internal feuding, the gang has to deal with the Camorra and Sicilian Mafia that both supply its heroin, the police led by Commissioner Scialoja and the Italian secret services.

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Deutschland(2015-2020)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Drama
3.7/5 (with 80 votes)

A gripping coming-of-age story set against the real culture wars and political events of Germany in the 1980s. The drama follows Martin Rauch as the 24 year-old East Germany native is pulled from the world as he knows it and sent to the West as an undercover spy for the Stasi foreign service. Hiding in plain sight in the West German army, he must gather the secrets of NATO military strategy. Everything is new, nothing is quite what it seems and everyone he encounters is harboring secrets, both political and personal.

GLOW(2017-2019)

TV-MA
| 35min per episode | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 168 votes)

In 1980s LA, a crew of misfits reinvent themselves as the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.

Black Monday(2019-2021)

TV-MA
| 30min per episode | Comedy, Crime
3.6/5 (with 27 votes)

Travel back to October 19, 1987 – aka Black Monday, the worst stock market crash in Wall Street history – this is the story of how a group of outsiders took on the blue-blood, old-boys club of Wall Street and ended up crashing the world’s largest financial system, a Lamborghini limousine, Don Henley’s birthday party and the glass ceiling.

Acapulco(2021-)

TV-14
| 29min per episode | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 158 votes)

Twenty-something Máximo Gallardo's dreams comes true when he gets the job of a lifetime as a cabana boy at the hottest resort in Acapulco. He soon realizes the job is far more complicated than he ever imagined and in order to succeed, he must learn to navigate a demanding clientele, a mercurial mentor, and a complicated home life, without losing his way to shortcuts or temptations.

The Movies That Made Us(2019-2021)

TV-MA
| 45min per episode | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 48 votes)

These blockbusters brought us together and gave us the time of our lives. Meet the actors, directors and industry insiders who made them happen.

Shenmue the Animation(2022)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Animation, Drama, Action & Adventure
3.6/5 (with 9 votes)

After he witnesses his father’s murder at the family dojo, Ryo Hazuki dedicates his life to finding the man responsible — a mission that takes him from the streets of Yokosuka, Japan to the sprawling metropolis of Hong Kong, and beyond. Soon he’ll learn that larger, mystical forces are at play as he trains to become the ultimate martial artist in his quest for revenge.

Narcos: Mexico(2018-2021)

TV-MA
| Drama, Crime
4.0/5 (with 608 votes)

See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.

Deadly Class(2019)

TV-MA
| 43min per episode | Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure
3.7/5 (with 125 votes)

Follow a disillusioned teen recruited into a storied high school for assassins. Maintaining his moral code while surviving a ruthless curriculum, vicious social cliques, and his own adolescent uncertainties may prove fatal.

Pose(2018-2021)

TV-MA
| 42min per episode | Drama
4.1/5 (with 231 votes)

A dance musical that explores the juxtaposition of several segments of 1980s life and society in New York: the ball culture world, the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe and the downtown social and literary scene.

The Carrie Diaries(2013-2014)

TV-14
| 42min per episode | Drama, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 104 votes)

Before she was a fashion icon, before her column in the New York Star, before Mr. Big, Carrie Bradshaw was an innocent 16-year-old girl living in suburban Connecticut.

Secretos en el jardín(2013-2014)

50min per episode | Crime, Mystery, Drama
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A series of crimes occur in Viña del Mar during the 80s. The detective Ramiro Opazo and the journalist Javier Montes will investigate those responsible for the murders and robberies.

The Haunting of Bly Manor(2020)

TV-MA
| Mystery, Drama
3.8/5 (with 516 votes)

After an au pair’s tragic death, Henry Wingrave hires a young American nanny to care for his orphaned niece and nephew who reside at Bly Manor with the estate’s chef Owen, groundskeeper Jamie and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose. But all is not as it seems at the manor, and centuries of dark secrets of love and loss are waiting to be unearthed in this chilling tale.

Ashes to Ashes(2008-2010)

3.8/5 (with 46 votes)

Crime drama series featuring Life On Mars' DCI Gene Hunt. After being shot in 2008, DI Alex Drake lands in 1981, where she finds herself in familiar company.

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp(2015)

TV-MA
| 30min per episode | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 87 votes)

It's the first day of camp in this outrageous prequel to the hilarious 2001 cult classic movie. And at Camp Firewood, anything can happen.

The Hot Zone(2019-2021)

TV-14
| 50min per episode | Drama
3.6/5 (with 56 votes)

In this anthology series, heroic scientists risk all to deal with deadly outbreaks.

Sacred Games(2018-2019)

TV-MA
| 50min per episode | Drama, Crime, Action & Adventure
3.9/5 (with 93 votes)

A link in their pasts leads an honest cop to a fugitive gang boss, whose cryptic warning spurs the officer on a quest to save Mumbai from cataclysm.

Seksenler(2012-2021)

1h per episode | Kids & Family, Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 6 votes)

Turkey's series about the events experienced in the 1980s

Yacht Rock(2005-2010)

NR
| Comedy
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

What can be said about Yacht Rock that hasn't been said by various magazines, newspapers and disc jockeys across the country? J.D. Ryznar and Hunter Stair's saga detailing the unknown mythical origins of a previously obscure genre of music struck the audience like a lightning bolt on its first episode, much like fellow 101 breakout House of Cosbys. Unlike HoC, however, Yacht Rock was never sued by its iconic characters' real life counterparts. In fact, it is said that at one time or another, just about every musician lovingly portrayed in the series has witnessed and enjoyed it behind closed doors. Yacht Rock enjoyed success on levels and in ways previously unattained by 101 shows, its title becoming a household phrase at radio stations, a bin at your local record store and a category on iTunes. But beneath its pop cultural triumph was an artistic one that often went undescribed: Yacht Rock's stories were always clever and sometimes downright genius in their assembly, weaving trivi...

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