3,677 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 20th Century
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Thunder Force
Illinois The 1980s The 2020sNewly super. Almost heroes. — In a world where supervillains are commonplace, two estranged childhood best friends reunite after one devises a treatment that gives them powers to protect their city.
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My Salinger Year
New York The 1990sThe true story of a literary education. — A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.
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Women Is Losers
California The 1960sBased On A True Story — In 1960s San Francisco, bright and talented catholic school girl Celina Guerrera survives a difficult home life by following the rules. That is until an indiscretion creates a series of devastating consequences. As Celina faces the compounded obstacles of being young and alone, she sets out to rise above the oppression of poverty and invest in a future that sets new precedents for the time.
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12 Mighty Orphans
Texas The 1930s The 1920sBased on the true story of the team that inspired a nation. — Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.
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Things Heard & Seen
New York The 1980sMistrust your senses. — Catherine Clare reluctantly trades life in 1980 Manhattan for a remote home in the tiny hamlet of Chosen, New York, after her husband George lands a job teaching art history at a small Hudson Valley college. Even as she does her best to transform the old dairy farm into a place where young daughter Franny will be happy, Catherine increasingly finds herself isolated and alone. She soon comes to sense a sinister darkness lurking both in the walls of the ramshackle property—and in her marriage to George.
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The Mauritanian
New Mexico New York Louisiana 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇲🇷 Mauritania The 2000s The 2010s The 1980sA detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.
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No Sudden Move
Michigan The 1950sTrust is a setup. — A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways.
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Ted K
Montana The 1980s The 1990sIn the woods no one can hear you think. — Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber, wants to destroy modern technology to create a world for himself in the Montana wilderness.
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Jersey
New York 🇮🇳 India The 1980s The 1990s The 2010sThe story is about a thirty six year old cricketer who stopped his cricketing career ten years ago, now aiming to play for Indian team.
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The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
🇨🇦 Canada The 1970sThere's a new witch in town. — A devout community suffering from a plague is torn apart by a beautiful young woman and the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.
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Baggio: The Divine Ponytail
California The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sA chronicle biopic of the 22-year career of soccer star Roberto Baggio, including depictions of his difficult debut as a player, his deep rifts with some of his coaches, his triumph over injuries and personal discovery of Buddism.
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Licorice Pizza
California The 1970sSet in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s, the film follows a high school student who is also a successful child actor.
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The Exchange
Ontario The 1980sA socially awkward but highly enterprising teenager decides to acquire a "mail order best friend"; a sophisticated exchange student from France. Instead, he ends up importing his personal nightmare, a cologne-soaked, chain-smoking, sex-obsessed youth who quickly becomes the hero of his new community.
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Beans
Quebec The 1990sTwelve-year-old Beans is on the edge: torn between innocent childhood and reckless adolescence; forced to grow up fast and become the tough Mohawk warrior she needs to be during the Oka Crisis, the turbulent Indigenous uprising that tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.
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Cry Macho
Ciudad de México The 1970sA story of being lost... and found. — Mike Milo, a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home from Mexico.
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Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
New York The 1960sDuring the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America's history lost—until now.
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Cryptozoo
California Kentucky The 1960sCryptozookeepers try to capture a Baku, a dream-eating hybrid creature of legend, and start wondering if they should display these beasts or keep them hidden and unknown.
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Broadcast Signal Intrusion
Illinois The 1990sFollow the tapes. — In the late 90s, a video archivist unearths a series of sinister pirate broadcasts and becomes obsessed with uncovering the dark conspiracy behind them.
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Madres
California The 1970sFear grows inside. — A Mexican-American couple expecting their first child relocate to a migrant farming community in 1970's California. When the wife begins to experience strange symptoms and terrifying visions, she tries to determine if it's related to a legendary curse or something more nefarious
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Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman
Florida The 1970sAmerica's most notorious female serial killer. — Based on Aileen Wuornos’s early life, America’s most notorious female serial killer, who went on a killing spree in Florida in 1989 and 1990. What few people know, is that back in 1976 a young and beautiful Aileen Wuornos arrived in Florida searching for a new life that would help her escape her tragic past, married a wealthy Yacht Club President and had the chance to start again as part of Florida’s high society….or did she?
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The Blade Runner Phenomenon
California The 1980s The 2020sRidley Scott's cult film Blade Runner, based on a novel by Philip K. Dick and released in 1982, is one of the most influential science fiction films ever made. Its depiction of Los Angeles in the year 2019 is oppressively prophetic: climate catastrophe, increasing public surveillance, powerful monopolistic corporations, highly evolved artificial intelligence; a fantastic vision of the future world that has become a frightening reality.
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Make Me Famous
New York The 1980sA madcap romp through the 1980's NYC art scene amid the colorful career of painter, Edward Brezinski, hell-bent on making it. — An investigation of Edward Brezinski, an ambitious, charismatic Lower East Side painter hell-bent on sucess, who thwarted his own career with antics that roiled NYC’s art elite. Brezinski’s quest for fame gives an intimate portrait of the art world’s attitude towards success and failure, fame and fortune, notoriety and erasure.
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The Sons of Sam: A Descent Into Darkness: Miniseries
New York The 1970sA closed case is only the beginning. — The Son of Sam case grew into a lifelong obsession for journalist Maury Terry, who became convinced that the murders were linked to a satanic cult.
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WandaVision: Season 1
New Jersey The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1990s The 2010s The 2000sExperience a new vision of reality. — Wanda Maximoff and Vision—two super-powered beings living idealized suburban lives—begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.
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Halston: Miniseries
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1970sAmerican fashion designer Halston skyrockets to fame before his life starts to spin out of control.
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