10 80s Movie Hidden Gems You Can Watch On Netflix

10. Gorky Park

The 1980s was a great decade for Cold War thrillers. Before the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 tensions between Russia and the West were high, and television and movies reflected this mood with complex thrillers which captured the paranoia of the Communist state in its final stages.

Gorky Park, directed by Michael Apted and starring William Hurt, played less upon the international tensions and focused instead on a triple murder investigation in the titular Moscow public park. Hurt plays the Soviet military officer at the heart of the investigation, while Apted has assembled an exceptional supporting cast, with Americans Lee Marvin and Brian Dennehy joined by stalwarts of 80s British television, including Michael "Boon" Elphick and Alexei Sayle.

Gorky Park offers a tautly executed procedural drama (with an award-winning screenplay from the legendary Dennis Potter), and an unintentionally amusing score from James Horner, which sounds like a warm up for his work on Arnold Schwarzenegger's Commando soundtrack.