829 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1990s
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The Human Shield
District of Columbia ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฏ๐ด Jordan The 1990sThe Human Shield is a 1991 film directed by Ted Post. It stars Michael Dudikoff and Tommy Hinkley. It is about a former government agent who must save his diabetic brother from Iraqi abductors.
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Freeze Frame
Indiana The 1990sThe highly intelligent Lindsay wants to become a reporter; Already in highschool she works for their paper. During her inquiries she discovers a big scandal, which seems to involve even the governor candidate Reinardt. Soon she and her friends are chased by dangerous criminals, but no one believes their accusations
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Lower Level
California The 1990sA young female architect is left stranded in an empty highrise while her secret "admirer" stalks her.
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Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story
Pennsylvania The 1980s The 1990sChronicling the short but eventful life of Hank Gathers (played by Donny B. Lord as a child and Victor Love as a young adult), this fact-based drama chronicles the hoopster's rise from the inner city of Philadelphia to a starring role on Loyola Marymount's basketball team before a heart condition cut his career short. Nell Carter plays Hank's supportive mom, and George Kennedy portrays a neighborhood priest who inspired the boy.
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Willing to Kill: The Texas Cheerleader Story
Texas The 1990sA homemaker is driven by jealousy to conspire against the mother of her daughter's rival.
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The Fisher King
New York The 1980s The 1990sA Modern Day Tale About The Search For Love, Sanity, Ethel Merman And The Holy Grail. โ Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.
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The Silence of the Lambs
Illinois Ohio Tennessee Virginia District of Columbia Maryland The 1990sTo enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a madman. โ Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
California The 1990s The 1980s The 2020sIt's nothing personal. โ Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.
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Boyz n the Hood
California The 1990s The 1980sOnce upon a time in South Central L.A... It ain't no fairy tale. โ Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.
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Hook
California England The 1990sWhat if Peter Pan grew up? โ The boy who wasn't supposed grow upโPeter Panโdoes just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids. During his trip to see Granny Wendy in London, the vengeful Capt. Hook kidnaps Peter's kids and forces Peter to return to Neverland.
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Point Break
California ๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexico ๐ฆ๐บ Australia The 1990s100% Pure Adrenaline! โ In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.
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City Slickers
Colorado New Mexico New York ๐ช๐ธ Spain The 1990sYesterday They Were Businessmen. Today They're Cowboys. Tomorrow They'll Be Walking Funny. โ Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
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Cool as Ice
๐บ๐ธ United States of America The 1990sWhen a girl has a heart of stone, there's only one way to melt it. Just add Ice. โ Johnny, a freewheeling, motorcycle-riding musician, rolls into a small town with his band, and meets Kathy, an honor student who catches his eye. Meanwhile, Kathy's father, after being in the Witness Protection Program, is finally found by the two corrupt cops he escaped from years ago, who claim he owes them a lot of money.
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Cape Fear
North Carolina The 1990sThere is nothing in the dark that isn't there in the light. Except fear. โ Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
California Heaven The 1990s The FutureOnce... they made history. Now... they are history. โ Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Ted, but the two are determined to escape the afterlife, challenging the Grim Reaper to a series of games in order to return to the land of the living.
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L.A. Story
California The 1990sSomething funny is happening in L.A. โ With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.
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Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Nevada California The 1990sWhen the going gets tough... the tough take the law into their own hands. โ It's the lawless future, and renegade biker Harley Davidson and his surly cowboy buddy, Marlboro, learn that a corrupt bank is about to foreclose on their friend's bar to further an expanding empire. Harley and Marlboro decide to help by robbing the crooked bank. But when they accidentally filch a drug shipment, they find themselves on the run from criminal financiers and the mob in this rugged action adventure.
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Highlander II: The Quickening
Scotland ๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐บ๐ธ United States of America The 1990s The 2020sIt's a kind of magic. โ In the year 2024, the ozone layer is believed to have been destroyed. It is up to MacLeod and Rameriz to set things right. Opposition comes from both the planet Ziest (MacLeod and Ramirez's homeworld) and a corporation profiting from the supposed lack of ozone. Also, flashbacks show the story behind MacLeod and Ramirez's exile from Ziest.
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Ricochet
California The 1980s The 1990sHe's a cop accused of murder. And the only man who knows he's innocent is the killer who framed him. โ An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.
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Double Impact
California ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong The 1960s The 1990sTwo brothers separated by the violence. Now together in a mission of revenge. โ Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in Paris, Alex becomes a petty crook in Hong Kong. Seeing a picture of Alex, Chad rejoins him and convinces him that his rival in Hong Kong is also the man who killed their parents. Alex is suspicious of Chad, especially when it comes to his girlfriend.
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Madonna: Truth or Dare
๐ฏ๐ต Japan ๐จ๐ฆ Canada Michigan The 1990sFrom the rain of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday tribute to her father in Detroit, this documentary follows Madonna on her 1990 'Blond Ambition' concert tour. Filmed in black and white, with the concert pieces in glittering MTV color, it is an intimate look at the work of the music performer, from a prayer circle with the dancers before each performance to bed games with the dance troupe afterwards.
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What About Bob?
New Hampshire New York The 1990sBob's a special kind of friend. The kind that drives you crazy! โ Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness and a compendium of phobias, Bob follows Marvin to his family's country house. Dr. Marvin tries to get him to leave; the trouble is, everyone loves Bob. As his oblivious patient makes himself at home, Dr. Marvin loses his professional composure and, before long, may be ready for the loony bin himself.
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Drop Dead Fred
Minnesota The 1970s The 1990sDishes. Relationships. Wind. This guy breaks everything. โ When Elizabeth returns to her mother's home after her marriage breaks up, she recreates her imaginary childhood friend, Fred, to escape from the trauma of losing her husband and her job. In between the chaos and mayhem that Fred creates, Elizabeth attempts to win back her husband and return to normality.
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New Jack City
New York The 1980s The 1990sThey're a new breed of gangster. The new public enemy. The new family of crime. โ A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
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Child's Play 3
Illinois Missouri The 1990sChucky has a new playmate. โ Eight years have passed since the events of the second film. Chucky has been resurrected once again and seeks revenge on Andy, his former owner, who is now a teenager enrolled in military school.
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