3,352 Films & TV Shows Set In United States of America During The 20th Century
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Don't Worry, Darling
California The 1950sA housewife living in a utopian community in the California desert uncovers a disturbing truth about her seemingly perfect life.
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Apollo 10½: A Space Age Adventure
Texas The 1960sA coming-of-age story set in the suburbs of Houston, Texas in the summer of 1969, against the backdrop of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing. The story will be told from two interwoven perspectives, capturing the astronaut and mission control view of the triumphant moment, alongside the lesser-seen, bottom-up perspective of what it was like from an excited kid's perspective, living near NASA but mostly watching it on TV like hundreds of millions of others.
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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
New York 🇵🇪 Peru The 1990sThe origin story for Optimus Prime and how he became the leader of the Autobots, and introduces the Maximals, the Predacons, and the Terrorcons.
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The Black Phone
Colorado The 1970sNever talk to strangers. — Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.
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F9
California Scotland England 🇬🇪 Georgia 🇩🇪 Germany Tokyo Prefecture Space - General The 1980s The 1990s The 2020sJustice is coming. — Dominic Toretto and his crew battle the most skilled assassin and high-performance driver they've ever encountered: his forsaken brother.
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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
Massachusetts Connecticut The 1980sThe demonic case that shocked America. — Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren encounter what would become one of the most sensational cases from their files. The fight for the soul of a young boy takes them beyond anything they'd ever seen before, to mark the first time in U.S. history that a murder suspect would claim demonic possession as a defense.
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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
Missouri The 1990sOnce the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.
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Black Widow
Ohio New York 🇳🇴 Norway 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇭🇺 Hungary 🇷🇺 Russia 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1990s The 2010sHer world. Her secrets. Her legacy. — Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow, confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.
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West Side Story
New York The 1950sTwo youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
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The Courier
Virginia England 🇷🇺 Russia The 1960sBased on the incredible true story of a Welsh businessman turned spy. — Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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The Many Saints of Newark
New Jersey The 1970s The 1960sSet in Newark during the 1960s race riots between the African-American and Italian communities. The war between the cultural mobs turns especially lethal. Prequel to the TV series The Sopranos.
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This Is the Night
New York The 1980sIn the summer of 1982, as all of Staten Island anticipates the opening of a blockbuster boxing movie, an Italian-American family must confront its greatest challenges.
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Bad Hair
California The 1980sTerror takes root. — In 1989, an ambitious young woman gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career may come at a great cost when she realizes that her new hair may have a mind of its own.
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Passing
Illinois The 1920sNothing is black and white. — In 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who's passing as white.
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Candyman
Illinois The 1970s The 1990s The 2010sDare to say his name. — Anthony and his partner move into a loft in the now gentrified Cabrini-Green, and after a chance encounter with an old-timer exposes Anthony to the true story behind Candyman, he unknowingly opens a door to a complex past that unravels his own sanity and unleashes a terrifying wave of violence.
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The United States vs. Billie Holiday
New York The 1950s The 1940sHer voice would not be silenced. — Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940's, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
California 🇲🇴 Macao The 1990sYou can't outrun your destiny. — Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.
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Judas and the Black Messiah
Illinois The 1960sYou can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill the revolution. — Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
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Fear Street: 1994
Ohio The 1990sFace the evil. — In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events which have haunted their town for generations are all connected — and that they may be the next targets.
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Fear Street: 1978
Ohio The 1970s The 1990sFind the truth. — In 1978, two rival groups at Camp Nightwing must band together to solve a terrifying mystery when horrors from their towns' history come alive.
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Fear Street: 1666
Ohio The 17th Century The 1990sEnd the curse. — In 1666, a colonial town is gripped by a hysterical witch-hunt that has deadly consequences for centuries to come, and it's up to teenagers in 1994 to finally put an end to their town's curse, before it's too late.
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Respect
Michigan New York California Alabama The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sThe queen arrives. — The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
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The Little Things
California The 1990sSome things never let us go. — Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.
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Halloween Kills
Illinois The 1970s The 2010sEvil dies tonight. — Minutes after Laurie Strode, her daughter Karen and granddaughter Allyson leave the masked monster Michael Myers caged and burning in Laurie's basement, Laurie is rushed to the hospital with fatal injuries, believing she has finally killed her algorithm. But when Michael manages to free himself from Laurie's trap, his bloodbath ritual begins again. As Laurie fights her pain and prepares to defend against it, she inspires everyone in Haddonfield to rise up against her unstoppable monster. But when a group of other survivors of Michael's first wave of violence decide to take matters into their own hands, a mob of vigilantes gathers to hunt Michael down.
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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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