829 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 1990s
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City of Lies
California The 1990s The 2010sThe only thing more notorious than the crime, was the cover up. — Los Angeles Police Department detective Russell Poole has spent years trying to solve his biggest case -- the murders of The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur -- but after two decades, the investigation remains open. Jack Jackson, a reporter desperate to save his reputation and career, is determined to find out why. In search of the truth, the two team up and unravel a growing web of institutional corruption and lies.
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mid90s
California The 1990sfall. get back up. — Stevie is a sweet 13-year-old about to explode. His mom is loving and attentive, but a little too forthcoming about her romantic life. His big brother is a taciturn and violent bully. So Stevie searches his working-class Los Angeles suburb for somewhere to belong. He finds it at the Motor Avenue skate shop.
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My Dinner with Hervé
California The 1990sHis Real Life Was The Biggest Fantasy Of All. — An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both
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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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The Mule
Illinois Texas The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sNobody Runs Forever — Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.
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When Love Digs a Hole
Quebec The 1990sMontreal, June 1995. Miron is a young delinquent who parties instead of going to school. His parents, both university professors, force him to move to the countryside in the hope that the remoteness of the city's distractions would allow him to concentrate and eventually succeed in high school. After a week at the cottage, Miron meets Florence, a 73-year-old neighbor. It's love at first sight between the two. Strongly in disagreement with this romance, Miron's parents forbid her to see her beloved 56 years older. But Miron, determined to live this love story to the end, will make every effort to see Florence again.
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Little Italy
Ontario England The 1990s The 2010sLove is an acquired taste. — Former childhood pals Leo and Nikki are attracted to each other as adults—but will their feuding parents' rival pizzerias put a chill on their sizzling romance?
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Boarding School
New York The 1990sJacob is having a bad day at school. — When troubled 12-year-old Jacob Felsen is sent away to boarding school, he enters every kid’s worst nightmare: a creepy old mansion, deserted except for six other teenage misfits and two menacing and mysterious teachers. As events become increasingly horrific, Jacob must conquer his fears to find the strength to survive.
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I Am Paul Walker
California The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sExplore the life and legacy of actor Paul Walker, the Southern California native who cut his teeth as a child actor before breaking out in the blockbuster Fast and Furious movie franchise.
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Commando Ninja
California 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1980s The 1990s The 1960sJohn Hunter is Vietnam Green Beret Veteran, Half Commando, Half Ninja, whose daughter has been abducted by a secret Ninja Organization, led by a Central-American dictator, who wants to create a new-world order - through time.
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The Looming Tower: Season 1
New York 🇾🇪 Yemen The 1990s The 2000sWhile Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda become a global threat, the rivalry between the CIA and FBI inadvertently sets the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the Iraq War.
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Convergence
Georgia The 1990s The 2010sWhere the path to heaven meets the road to hell. — Detective Ben Walls finds himself in a modern day Dante world, passing back and forth between the present and the future. Surrounded by the residents seeking redemption, Ben is left with the task to find a way out.
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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
New Hampshire The 1990s The 2010sThe game has evolved. — The tables are turned as four teenagers are sucked into Jumanji's world - pitted against rhinos, black mambas and an endless variety of jungle traps and puzzles. To survive, they'll play as characters from the game.
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The Disaster Artist
California The 2000s The 1990sI did naaaht! Oh, hi Mark — An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.
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A Dog's Purpose
Michigan Illinois The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 2000sEvery dog happens for a reason. — A dog goes on quest to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes with multiple owners.
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I, Tonya
Michigan Oregon 🇳🇴 Norway 🇫🇷 France The 1990s The 1970s The 1980s The 2000sFitting in is overrated — Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
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All Eyez on Me
New York Nevada Maryland California The 1970s The 1990s The 1980sLegends never die — All Eyez on Me chronicles the life and legacy of Tupac Shakur, including his rise to superstardom as a hip-hop artist, actor, poet and activist, as well as his imprisonment and prolific, controversial time at Death Row Records. Against insurmountable odds, Tupac rose to become a cultural icon whose career and persona both continue to grow long after his passing.
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Kings
California The 1990sDon't let your family get caught in the crossfire — A foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.
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Landline
New York The 1990s1995. When people were harder to reach. — A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
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Sandy Wexler
California The 1990sWhen a hapless but dedicated talent manager signs his first client who actually has talent, his career finally starts to take off.
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Crown Heights
New York The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sWhen Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.
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Strong Island
New York The 1990sExamining the violent death of the filmmaker’s brother and the judicial system that allowed his killer to go free, this documentary interrogates murderous fear and racialized perception, and re-imagines the wreckage in catastrophe’s wake, challenging us to change.
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Dolores
California The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sRebel. Activist. Feminist. Mother. — Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions by starting the country's first farm worker's union with fellow organizer Cesar Chavez. What starts out as a struggle for racial and labor justice, soon becomes a fight for gender equality within the same union she is eventually forced to leave. As she wrestles with raising 11 children, three marriages, and is nearly beaten to death by a San Francisco tactical police squad, Dolores emerges with a vision that connects her new found feminism with racial and class justice.
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Gook
California The 1990sEli and Daniel, two Korean American brothers who own a struggling women's shoe store, have an unlikely friendship with 11-year-old Kamilla. On the first day of the 1992 L.A. riots, the trio must defend their store—and contemplate the meaning of family, their personal dreams and the future.
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LA 92
California The 1990sThe past is prologue — Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, LA 92 immerses viewers in that tumultuous period through stunning and rarely seen archival footage.
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