Movies and TV shows set in wisconsin
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in wisconsin ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, suspense, independent film, suspenseful and captivating films and TV shows about / with small town, friendship, murder, vengeance, society, chase, teenager, friends, runaway and parents and children plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Horror genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as wisconsin: Wisconsin Death Trip (1999), Glory Daze (2010), That '70s Show (1998), Stroszek (1977), Chump Change (2000), Lake Michigan Monster (2018), Revival (2025), The Beast of Bray Road (2005), Feed the Fish (2010), Fort McCoy (2011).
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List of movies set in wisconsin
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Wisconsin Death Trip is an intimate, shocking and sometimes hilarious account of the disasters that befell one small town in Wisconsin during the final decade of the 19th century. The film is inspired by Michael Lesy's book of the same name ...
Style:
disturbing, black and white, sad, controversial, social ...
Plot:
american football, cheerleader, found footage, witchcraft, bride and groom, ouija, infection, magic, mental disorder, hostage, murder, unemployment ...
Time:
19th century, 90s, 1880s, 1890s
Place:
wisconsin, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Glory Daze is an American comedy-drama television series. The one-hour series revolves around a group of college freshmen who pledge a fraternity in 1986. The series aired from November 16, 2010, to January 18, 2011 on TBS.
On February 24, 2011, ...
Style:
realistic, not serious, humorous, suspenseful, sitcom ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
college, buddies, student life, friends, social relations, youth, teenage life, college life, father son relationship, fraternity, party, student ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, wisconsin, indiana
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Crank up the 8-track and flash back to a time when platform shoes and puka shells were all the rage in this hilarious retro-sitcom. For Eric, Kelso, Jackie, Hyde, Donna and Fez, a group of high school teens who spend most of their time hanging out ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, realistic, not serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, kids, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
group of friends, friendship, basement, teenage love, small town, teenager, couples, couple relations, generation gap, parents and children, first love, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
wisconsin, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they ...
Style:
road movie, surreal, dark, dark comedy, depressing ...
Plot:
surrealism, immigrant, on the road, loser, mental disorder, road trip, pimp, bittersweet, culture clash, american dream, misfit, self discovery ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
wisconsin, germany, new york, west germany, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A failed Hollywood actor returns to his home town in Wisconsin and reminisces about his life in L.A. to a potential new girlfriend about his faults, auditions, misadventures, and confrontations with the evils of Hollywood.
Style:
cynical, semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
Plot:
nothing goes right, hollywood, filmmaking, ambition, rise to the top, rise and fall, desire for fame, showbiz, homecoming, looking for love, disorder, downfall ...
Time:
90s
Place:
wisconsin, iceland, los angeles, california, milwaukee wisconsin
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
An eccentric sea captain assembles a motley ship crew in a revenge mission to slay the sea monster lurking in Lake Michigan that killed his father.
Style:
humorous, bleak, psychotronic, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
creature feature, creature, beast, revenge, supernatural power, monster, supernatural, ship captain, supernatural ability, violence, vengeance, good versus evil ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
wisconsin, usa, milwaukee wisconsin
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
On one miraculous day in rural Wisconsin, the recently deceased suddenly rise from their graves. But this is no zombie story, as the 'revived' appear and act just like they once were. When local officer and single mother Dana Cypress is ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, mystical ...
Plot:
resurrection, supernatural, small town, murder mystery, rebirth, investigation, moral ambiguity, female protagonist, police procedural, secrets, macabre, single mother ...
Place:
wisconsin
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Based on actual accounts of werewolf sightings in Walworth County, Wisconsin, the film follows a local sheriff who is finally forced to accept that a string of horrifying deaths is linked to a predator which possesses DNA of both man and wolf.
Style:
serious, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
werewolf, cryptozoology, small town, danger, gory, bar fight, creature, false accusation, sheriff, murder, policewoman, lycanthropy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
wisconsin, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Follows the journey of Joe Peterson, a burned out children's book writer who's approaching a midlife crisis.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
disorder, writer's life, midlife crisis, fish out of water, social relations, unfulfillment, fall in love, artists and showbiz, misfit, lifestyle, parents and children, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, wisconsin, venice california
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Unable to serve in World War II because of a heart condition, a barber moves his family adjacent to a Wisconsin army base and prisoner-of-war camp to provide his services. But even in rural America -- far from the frontline -- the war finds victims.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, historical drama, heartfelt ...
Plot:
world war two, family relations, wartime life, life is a bitch, parents and children, family in crisis, against humanity, couple relations, family problems, couples, family drama, empathy ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
usa, wisconsin
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A Minute with Stan Hooper, also known as Stan Hooper, is an American sitcom starring Norm Macdonald. The series was a Carsey-Werner production in association with Paramount Television and aired on Fox. The series was canceled after six of the ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, realistic, not serious, offbeat ...
Plot:
fish out of water, small town, society, social relations, misfit, journalism, small town life, wife, relocation, culture clash, satire, married couple ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
wisconsin, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Inspired by the true story of one of the most gruesome killers in American history. Now, years after inspiring "Psycho's" Norman Bates, "The Silence Of The Lambs'" Buffalo Bill and "The Texas Chainsaw ...
Style:
disturbing, scary, slasher, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, true crime, murder, psychopath, law enforcement, violence spree, police investigation, stalking, mind game, danger, criminal, cannibal ...
Time:
50s
Place:
usa, wisconsin, texas
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
These smokers are definitely bad for your health! A group of outcast prep school girls decide to turn the tables on some obnoxious guys by sexually humiliating them at gunpoint! A black comedy in the mold of Heathers, The Smokers stars Dominique ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, witty, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
girl power, teenage girl, rape, vengeance, looking for sex, teenage life, dark humor, youth, prank, high school, women, bad girl ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
wisconsin, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Having lived his entire life under the watchful eye of his overbearing mother, Albert must fend for himself when an unidentified automobile suddenly kills her. Free for the first time, Albert quickly responds to the bait dangling in front of him, ...
Style:
serious, realistic, offbeat, suspense, dark comedy
Plot:
family relations, social misfits, misfit, mentally challenged, parents and children, dysfunctional family, small town, death of mother, con artists, mental illness, inheritance, transvestism ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
wisconsin, milwaukee wisconsin, minnesota, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A glimpse inside the mind of one of America's most notorious murderers set to a unique musical score.
Style:
parody, scary, slasher, bleak, psychotronic ...
Plot:
murder, killer, serial killer, butcher, killing spree, psychopath, serial murder, obsession, violent, homicidal maniac, brutality, death ...
Time:
year 1950
Place:
wisconsin
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When Will decides to tell his daughter the story of how he met her mother, he discovers that a second look at the past might also give him a second chance at the future.
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, rom com, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
father daughter relationship, love story, single father, true love, storytelling, daughter, father, love, best friends in love, fall in love, male female friendship, relationships ...
Time:
year 2008, year 1994, year 1992, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, new york state, wisconsin, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A sixties psychedelic counterculture clash occurs during the "Summer of Love" when an aspiring hippie from New York dupes the son of a Swedish dairy farmer into smuggling illegal margarine into butter-rich Wisconsin
Style:
romantic, funny, captivating, psychedelic, offbeat ...
Plot:
counterculture, smuggling, summer of love, hippie, escapades, love and romance, con trick, dairy farm, farm, deception, fish out of water, culture shock ...
Time:
60s
Place:
wisconsin, new york
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
When the Roberts family heads to Wisconsin for a hot air balloon festival, Stacie finds herself caught in between – too young for the adult activities and too old to play with the littles. But when Barbie and Skipper have a mishap, Stacie has the ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, captivating, funny, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, family outing, teens
Plot:
puppy, teamwork, female protagonist, barbie, sister sister relationship, rescue, children, doll, cartoon dog, adventure hero, sisterhood, pets ...
Place:
wisconsin
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Battleground is a mockumentary comedy-drama television series created by J. D. Walsh streamed on Hulu. The show follows a group of political campaign staffers working to elect a dark horse candidate to the U.S. Senate in the battleground state of ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
politics, election, ambition, workplace, campaign, senator, state affairs, workplace situations, hopes, media circus, underdog, backstage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
wisconsin, usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A local legend turns into a horrifying reality for a group of young grad students seeking to debunk a Wisconsin haunted house.
Style:
creepy, sinister, dark, psychological horror, independent film ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, paranormal investigation, local legend, isolation, folklore, skepticism, found footage, paranoia, claustrophobia, slow burn ...
Place:
wisconsin
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Two researchers in a green alternative energy project are put on the run when they are framed for murder and treason.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, frame up, chase, fugitive, murder, disaster, conspiracy theory, fbi, on the run, hacking, cia, paranoia ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
chicago, usa, wisconsin, langley virginia, washington d.c. ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A woman who lives in deer-hunting country in rural Wisconsin is possessed by the spirit of a Japanese samurai warrior.
Style:
slasher, christmas horror, bloody, psychotronic, slasher horror ...
Plot:
christmas, xmas, supernatural horror, holiday horror, occult, female nudity, supernatural power, psychic power, haunted, backwoods, serial killer, fear ...
Place:
wisconsin
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of a small-town football star, who defies society, morals and his God and gets into so much trouble that he is expelled from school. Told in flashbacks, usually in confession to the priest, Chris sets the tone early in the opening scene ...
Style:
psychotronic
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, football team, high school football, juvenile delinquent, guilt, father son relationship, priest, choir, seduction, confession, drinking, police raid ...
Time:
60s
Place:
wisconsin
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A mutated monster terrorizes campers in the woods of 1950's Wisconsin.
Style:
retro, parody, humorous, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
monster, lake monster, creature feature, respect, cold war, terror, genetic mutation, human versus monster, supernatural, mutant, supernatural being, creature ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
wisconsin
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A young woman returns home to Wisconsin for her best friend's wedding and the one year anniversary of her father's death.
Style:
reflective, emotional, melancholic, realistic, independent film
Plot:
female protagonist, bereavement, grief, loss, small town, friendship, slice of life, family drama, homecoming, memory, bittersweet, personal growth ...
Place:
midwest, wisconsin
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
The true story of a woman who is sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her husband's ex-wife.
Style:
dramatic, emotional, tension, suspenseful, tragic
Plot:
serial killer, true crime, police corruption, wrongful conviction, investigation, murder mystery, biopic, female protagonist, controversy, courtroom, scandal, defense attorney ...
Place:
milwaukee wisconsin, wisconsin, canada, ontario canada
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Katherine, a high-powered executive who believes men are intimidated by her career, is persuaded by her friend to create an internet dating profile claiming she is an executive assistant.
Style:
romantic, sentimental, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
online dating, dating service, romantic triangle, love and romance, doctors and patients, opposites attract, self fulfillment, lie, lifestyle, looking for love, fall in love, loneliness ...
Place:
wisconsin
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Since the sudden and highly suspicious death of his parents, 12-year-old Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle (Lee Grant and William Holden). Widely feared to be the Antichrist, Damien relentlessly plots to seize control of ...
Style:
religious horror, scary, grindhouse, slasher, demonic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
devil, killer child, 666, boy, antichrist, black magic, evil child, supernatural, evil wins, supernatural horror, raven, demon ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, wisconsin, israel
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181K
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When a sleazy TV exec offers Wayne and Garth a fat contract to tape their late-night public access show at his network, they can't believe their good fortune. But they soon discover the road from basement to big-time is a gnarly one, fraught ...
Style:
funny, cult classic, spoof, parody, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night, date night
Plot:
rock and roll, heavy metal, music, musician, dumb, satire, rock, basement, hard rock, stoner, sarcasm, rock music ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
chicago, illinois, milwaukee wisconsin, seattle, wisconsin ...
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104K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Party animal Tommy Callahan is a few cans short of a six-pack. But when the family business starts tanking, it's up to Tommy and number-cruncher Richard Hayden to save the day.
Style:
road movie, humorous, slapstick, cult classic, clever ...
Audience:
teens, manly, kids
Plot:
road trip, father son relationship, dumb, stupidity, nothing goes right, odd couple, death of father, skinny dipping, twists and turns, on the road, entrepreneurship, immaturity ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, wisconsin, chicago, ohio, seattle
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