15,016 Films & TV Shows Set In North America
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Black Beauty
New York UtahFind your way home. — Born free in the American West, Black Beauty is a horse rounded up and brought to Birtwick Stables, where she meets spirited teenager Jo Green. The two forge a bond that carries Beauty through the different chapters, challenges and adventures.
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Target Number One
🇨🇦 CanadaUncover the corruption. Discover the truth. — Ex heroin junkie, Daniel Léger, gets involved in a drug deal with the wrong people for the wrong reasons. When the deal goes sour, Daniel gets thrown into a Thai prison and slapped with a 100-year sentence. While he tries to survive his Bangkok incarceration, the news of his conviction captures the attention of Globe and Mail journalist Victor Malarek, who decides to go after the shady undercover cops responsible for wrongly accusing Daniel.
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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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The Way Back
CaliforniaEvery loss is another fight. — A former basketball all-star, who has lost his wife and family foundation in a struggle with addiction attempts to regain his soul and salvation by becoming the coach of a disparate ethnically mixed high school basketball team at his alma mater.
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All Day and a Night
CaliforniaBorn. Gangster. Repeat. — While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
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I Am Woman
New York Nevada District of Columbia California The 1970s The 1980s The 1960sThe Helen Reddy story and the song that inspired a revolution — The story of Helen Reddy, who, in 1966, landed in New York with her three-year-old daughter, a suitcase, and $230 in her pocket. Within weeks, she was broke. Within months, she was in love. Within five years, she was one of the biggest superstars of her time and an icon of the 1970s feminist movement who wrote a song which galvanized a generation of women to fight for change.
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Roald Dahl's The Witches
Alabama The 1960sThey're real! — In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.
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The Tax Collector
CaliforniaPayback comes with interest. — David Cuevas is a family man who works as a gangland tax collector for high ranking Los Angeles gang members. He makes collections across the city with his partner Creeper making sure people pay up or will see retaliation. An old threat returns to Los Angeles that puts everything David loves in harm’s way.
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Run Sweetheart Run
CaliforniaA woman runs for her life though the streets of Los Angeles after her blind date suddenly turns violent.
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Ava
Massachusetts British Columbia 🇸🇦 Saudi ArabiaKill. Or be killed. — A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.
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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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Tigertail
🇹🇼 Taiwan New YorkA man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
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Run
WashingtonYou can't escape a mother's love. — Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.
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Buffaloed
New YorkYou can't always take what you want — Set in the underworld of debt-collecting, homegrown hustler Peg Dahl will do anything to escape Buffalo, NY.
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Shirley
Vermont The 1950sA famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
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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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Synchronic
LouisianaTime is an illusion. — Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.
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Fatale
Nevada CaliforniaOne mistake can change your life. — After a one-night stand, a successful married man finds himself entangled and tricked in a female detective's latest investigation murder scheme.
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Small detective. Big imagination. — An 11-year old boy believes that he is the best detective in town and runs the agency Total Failures with his best friend, an imaginary 1,200 pound polar bear.
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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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The Garden Left Behind
New YorkIt's her life. It's her dream. — Traces the relationship between Tina, a young Mexican trans woman, and Eliana, her grandmother, as they navigate Tina's transition and struggle to build a life for themselves as undocumented immigrants in New York City.
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Honest Thief
MassachusettsNever steal a man's second chance. — A bank robber tries to turn himself in because he's falling in love and wants to live an honest life...but when he realizes the Feds are more corrupt than him, he must fight back to clear his name.
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Endings, Beginnings
CaliforniaAn artist dumps her longtime boyfriend, but her attempt to take a break from dating ends when she quickly finds herself in two passionate romances.
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