1,570 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 21st Century
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Valley Girl
California The 1980s The 2010sThe awesomest love story ever told. — Set to a new wave '80s soundtrack, a pair of young lovers from different backgrounds defy their parents and friends to stay together.
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Cut Throat City
Louisiana The 2000sDesperate times. Dangerous measures. — Four boyhood friends return to New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, to find their home decimated and prospects for work swept away. Turning to a local gangster for employment, the crew is hired to pull off a daring casino heist, right in the heart of the city.
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Aline
Quebec The 1980s The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sThe life story of Canadian singing sensation Céline Dion.
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Bill & Ted Face the Music
California Louisiana England 🇦🇹 Austria 🇨🇳 China Africa - General The 1960s The 1920s The 2020s The 2030s The 2060s The 18th CenturyThe future awaits — Yet to fulfill their rock and roll destiny, the now middle-aged best friends Bill and Ted set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they are helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures and a few music legends—to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe.
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Happiest Season
Pennsylvania The 2020sThis holiday, everyone's secrets are coming out. — A young woman's plans to propose to her girlfriend while at her family's annual holiday party are upended when she discovers her partner hasn't yet come out to her conservative parents.
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Superintelligence
Washington The 2020sSingle. Unemployed. Likes James Corden. — When an all-powerful Superintelligence chooses to study the most average person on Earth, Carol Peters, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. As the A.I. decides to enslave, save or destroy humanity, it’s up to Carol to prove that people are worth saving.
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Still Here
New York The 2010sChristian Baker, a young New York journalist from The Chronicle, gets assigned to a social story about the disappearance of Monique Watson, a 12 years old African-American girl from Brooklyn. Trying to get the assignment behind, he quickly and poorly researches the story and goes with the first lead. This brings down a series of pains. Christian with guilt decides to finally do his work properly finding himself in a race against time to help the family find the girl
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Spinster
Nova Scotia The 2020sRomance is cancelled — It’s the story of a woman who, after being unceremoniously dumped on her 39th birthday, faces her fear of becoming a pathetic, lonely spinster.
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Kajillionaire
California The 2020sKnow your worth. — Two con artists have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam and steal at every turn. During a desperate and hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining them, only to have their entire world turned upside down.
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Color Out of Space
Massachusetts The 2010sThe Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.
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Percy
District of Columbia Saskatchewan Ontario The 1990s The 2000sPercy Schmeiser, a third-generation farmer, gets sued by a corporate giant for allegedly using their patented seeds. With little resources to fight a legal battle, Percy joins forces with up-and-coming attorney Jackson Weaver and environmental activist Rebecca Salcau for a monumental case that leads all the way to the Supreme Court.
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Charm City Kings
Maryland The 2010sMouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence.
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To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You
Oregon Virginia The 2010sFollow your heart like never before — Lara Jean and Peter have just taken their romance from pretend to officially real when another recipient of one of her love letters enters the picture.
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Vampires vs. the Bronx
New York The 2020sThree gutsy kids from a rapidly gentrifying Bronx neighborhood stumble upon a sinister plot to suck all the life from their beloved community.
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The Invisible Man
California The 2020sWhat You Can't See Can Hurt You — When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
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Run This Town
Ontario The 2010sAfter graduation, Bram gets his dream job at a local newspaper. In his mind he’s the next Woodward (but he’s probably more of a Bernstein). A year in, he realizes that maybe the paper business is no longer what he’d seen in the movies. Instead of investigative journalism, he is writing easily consumable Top 10 Lists - Best Hot Dogs in the City! Ten Ways to Tell You Grew Up in the 90s! After the paper is hit with another round of layoffs, Bram stumbles upon a potentially explosive story involving the city’s controversial mayor. But he needs to beat the mayor’s smooth talking aide, Kamal, to the punch. This could be Bram’s big break — if he had any idea how to be a real journalist.
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The King of Staten Island
New York The 2010sScott has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys — Oscar, Igor and Richie — and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey. But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter named Ray, it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.
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Promising Young Woman
Ohio The 2020sRevenge never looked so promising. — A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.
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The Kissing Booth 2
California The 2020sRules can be broken...but so can hearts. — With college decisions looming, Elle juggles her long-distance romance with Noah, changing relationship with bestie Lee and feelings for a new classmate.
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Palm Springs
California Texas The 2020sLive like there's no tomorrow — When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.
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My Spy
Illinois Virginia District of Columbia 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 2020sAlmost Totally in Control — A hardened CIA operative finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.
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Hillbilly Elegy
Connecticut Ohio Kentucky The 1990s The 2010sInspired by a true story three generations in the making. — An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.
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Never Rarely Sometimes Always
New York Pennsylvania The 2020sHer journey. Her choice. — A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.
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The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee
California 🇦🇺 Australia The 2020sHe's back, whether he likes it or not. — Paul tries to restore his sullied reputation on the eve of being knighted.
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Hubie Halloween
Massachusetts The 2020sFear. Less. — Hubie Dubois, despite his devotion to his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts (and its legendary Halloween celebration), is a figure of mockery for kids and adults alike. But this year, something really is going bump in the night, and it’s up to Hubie to save Halloween.
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