650 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1970s
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On the Basis of Sex
Colorado Massachusetts New York The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sHer story made history — Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.
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Suspiria
Ohio 🇩🇪 Germany The 1970sGive your soul to the dance. — A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe's artistic director, an ambitious young dancer and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare, others will finally wake up.
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The House That Jack Built
Washington The 1970s The 1980sBrokeback Wayne — Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.
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Yardie
England 🇯🇲 Jamaica The 1970s The 1980sChoose your own path — Jamaica, 1973. When a young boy witnesses his brother’s assassination, a powerful Don gives him a home. But 10 years later, when he’s sent to London, his past catches up to him.
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Bohemian Rhapsody
New York Scotland Wales England 🇩🇪 Germany 🇧🇷 Brazil The 1970s The 1980sFearless lives forever — 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 soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.
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Roma
Ciudad de México The 1970sThere are periods in history that scar societies and moments in life that transform us as individuals. — In 1970s Mexico City, two domestic workers help a mother of four while her husband is away for an extended period of time.
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Vice
Wyoming Virginia Maryland District of Columbia The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 2000s The 2010sThe Untold True Story That Changed The Course Of History — George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and defense secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.
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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Oregon The 1970s The 1980sOn the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
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If Beale Street Could Talk
New York 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico The 1970sTrust Love All The Way — After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.
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Abducted in Plain Sight
Idaho The 1970sEvery parent's worst nightmare — In 1974, 12-year-old Jan Broberg is abducted from a small church-going community in Idaho by a trusted neighbour and close family friend.
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BlacKkKlansman
Colorado The 1970sInfiltrate hate. — Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
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Blaze
Texas The 1970s The 1980sBased on a true Texas love story — Re-imagining the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting Texas legend.
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Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Pennsylvania The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sA little kindness makes a world of difference. — Fred Rogers used puppets and play to explore complex social issues: race, disability, equality and tragedy, helping form the American concept of childhood. He spoke directly to children and they responded enthusiastically. Yet today, his impact is unclear. Have we lived up to Fred's ideal of good neighbors?
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Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
California The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sA funny, intimate and heartbreaking portrait of one of the world’s most beloved and inventive comedians, Robin Williams, told largely through his own words. Celebrates what he brought to comedy and to the culture at large, from the wild days of late-1970s L.A. to his death in 2014.
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Studio 54
New York The 1970sNothing this fabulous could last forever — Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism - a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolize an entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind of New York society. Now, 39 years after the velvet rope was first slung across the club's hallowed threshold, a feature documentary tells the real story behind the greatest club of all time.
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Yours in Sisterhood
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1970s The 2010sWhat might be revealed in the process of inviting strangers to act out and respond to 1970s feminism forty years later? Between 2015 and 2017, hundreds of strangers in communities all over the US were invited to read aloud and respond to letters from the 70s sent to the editor of Ms. Magazine–the first mainstream feminist magazine in the US. The intimate, provocative, and sometimes heartbreaking conversations that emerge from these spontaneous performances make us think critically about the past, present, and future of feminism.
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Bullitt County
Kentucky The 1970sSome things are meant to stay buried — An action/thriller set in 1977 about four friends who reunite for a bachelor party to hunt for buried Prohibition money on Kentucky's Bluegrass Bourbon Trail, only to become ripped apart by greed, corruption, and murder.
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Watergate
District of Columbia The 1970sA comprehensive chronicle of the Watergate case, one of the greatest criminal conspiracies of modern politics; from the break-in of the Democratic Party National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel complex in Washington, the center of power in the United States of America, on January 17th, 1972; to the resignation of the Republican President Richard Nixon (1913-1994), on August 8th, 1974; and even far beyond the best-known facts.
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A Man of Dance
New York Quebec The 1960s The 1970sFrom Norman McLaren to the Grands Ballets Canadiens, to Igor Stravinsky and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Vincent Warren has made history. Inhabited by the importance of culture in a society, he worked all his life as a 'bearer of beauty'. A MAN OF DANCE is the story of this living legend and its memorable era.
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5-25-77
Illinois The 1970sSome days are just better than others. — Alienated, hopeful-filmmaker Pat Johnson's epic story growing up in rural Illinois, falling in love, and becoming the first fan of the movie that changed everything.
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Amityville: The Awakening
New York The 1970s The 2010sEvery house has a history. This one has a legend. — Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother's expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her Mother isn't telling her everything and soon realizes they just moved into the infamous Amityville house.
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Kong: Skull Island
Illinois District of Columbia 🇹🇭 Thailand 🇻🇳 Vietnam Pacific Ocean The 1970s The 1940sAll hail the king — Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.
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Free Fire
Massachusetts The 1970sAll guns. No control. — A crime drama set in 1970s Boston, about a gun sale which goes wrong.
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American Made
Arkansas Louisiana 🇨🇴 Colombia The 1970s The 1980sBased on a True Lie — The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.
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The Tiger Hunter
Illinois The 1970sA young Indian man comes to 1970s America on a quest for success, only to end up concocting an elaborate farce with a group of misfit roommates in order to woo his childhood crush.
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