15,016 Films & TV Shows Set In North America
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Leylak
New York The 2020sIn present-day Queens, a Turkish gravedigger (Nadir Saribacak) is unable to face a shattering truth and risks losing the dearest connection left in his life.
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Ape vs. Monster
District of ColumbiaThe Greatest of All Time! — An ape crash-lands on Earth, which creates a sludge that makes him and a passing lizard grow to giant-size, resulting in a fight for dominance.
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Good on Paper
California The 2010sIf he checks all your boxes, check again. — After years of putting her career ahead of love, stand-up comic Andrea Singer has stumbled upon the perfect guy. On paper, he checks all the boxes but is he everything he appears to be?
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Bo Burnham: Inside
California The 2020sStuck in COVID-19 lockdown, US comedian and musician Bo Burnham attempts to stay sane and happy by writing, shooting and performing a one-man comedy special.
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Dawn, her Dad & the Tractor
Nova ScotiaDawn returns home to Nova Scotia to mourn the death of her mother and repair the estrangement with her father, John Andrew. An ancient tractor becomes the focus for the mechanically-minded Dawn, but her father’s long-simmering resentments heighten tensions. Watching his daughter work to restore the tractor, he realises that reclaiming this relationship depends on his own coming out: supporting Dawn publicly and fighting malicious small-town transphobia.
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Storm Lake
Iowa The 2020sA newspaper. A family. A community. — A dogged family-run paper in Iowa gives citizens the scoop on forces threatening to overwhelm their precarious small-town existence.
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The Corruption of Divine Providence
ManitobaWhen a teenage girl becomes a battleground for good and evil, only pure faith can broker peace.
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Beautiful Losers
🇲🇽 MexicoA boy and a girl who have just met transport a corpse on request to the north of Mexico. When the police discover them at a routine check, they are forced to flee. Forced to team up, they will abandon their secrecy and mistrust while trying to assert his only heritage: a dead man who they only know is worth money if they manage to take him to his destination.
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La Civil
🇲🇽 MexicoCielo is a mother whose teenage daughter is kidnapped in Northern Mexico. When the authorities offer no support in the search, Cielo takes matters into her own hands and transforms from housewife into a vengeful militant.
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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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This Is Not a War Story
New YorkA ragtag group of veterans in New York deal with the aftermath of war by creating unusual art.
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Scarborough
OntarioThree kids in a low-income neighborhood who find friendship and community in an unlikely place.
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Wildhood
Nova ScotiaLink and his brother flee their abusive father and embark on a journey where Link discovers his sexuality and rediscovers his Mi’kmaw heritage.
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Alia's Birth
New Yorkdrama — A rocky relationship between a female couple forces them to spend the night apart.
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Drunken Birds
QuebecA drug-cartel worker runs afoul of his boss and migrates to Canada, in Ivan Grbovic’s timely tale of star-crossed love and starting over.
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Lean on Me
New JerseyLean on Me tells the story of a broken relationship between a father and son who have recently encountered a terrible family tragedy. The two loggerheads are at constant odds but learn that the only way through this is together.
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Bagdad Cafe
CaliforniaSmack bang in the middle of nowhere (or was it somewhere on the legendary Route 66?) two women are thrown together by chance. Stranded tourist Jasmin stumbles out of her unhappy marriage and finds herself at Brenda’s remote cafe and motel. Ordinarily, no one would choose to stay at the Bagdad Cafe but in the dust and isolation, unexpected and extraordinary friendships begin to blossom. The lost are found as individuals transform into an eclectic community bound by music, magic and some very strong coffee.
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Mare of Easttown: Miniseries
Pennsylvania The 2020sAll truths come to light. — A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.
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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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Q: Into the Storm: Season 1
🇵🇭 Philippines District of Columbia The 2010sWho controls QAnon? — A three-year investigation chronicles the evolution of “Q” in real time, with access to key players, along with an examination of how the anonymous character uses conspiracy theories and information warfare to influence politics.
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Dexter: New Blood: Season 1
New York10 years after Dexter went missing in the eye of Hurricane Laura, we find him living under an assumed name in the small town of Iron Lake, New York. Dexter may be embracing his new life, but in the wake of unexpected events in this close-knit community, his Dark Passenger beckons.
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What We Do in the Shadows: Season 3
New York The 2020sIn season 3, the vampires are elevated to a new level of power and will encounter the vampire from which all vampires have descended, a tempting Siren, gargoyles, werewolf kickball, Atlantic City casinos, wellness cults, ex-girlfriends, gyms and supernatural curiosities galore. Plus, Colin Robinson is turning 100. And Nandor, faced with his own eternal-life crisis, tries to inject his life with more meaning.
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