Movies and TV shows set in new jersey
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in new jersey ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, sexy and melancholic films and TV shows about / with brutality, dialogue, runaway, storytelling, friendship, catastrophe, betrayal, mentor, violence and chase plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Crime genres shot in USA, Germany, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as new jersey: Don Jon (2013), New Jersey Drive (1995), The Sopranos (1999), 13th Child (2002), Paterson (2016), American Gangster (2007), California Girls (1985), One for the Money (2012), Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009), Now You Know (2002).
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List of movies set in new jersey
254K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A New Jersey guy dedicated to his family, friends, and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love.
Style:
sexy, sexual, emotional, humorous, sex comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
sex, masturbation, nightclub, sex addict, sexuality, womanizer, husband wife relationship, older woman younger man relationship, obsession, looking for sex, sexual relations, male masturbation ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, california, seattle
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
New Jersey Drive is a 1995 film about black youths in Newark, New Jersey, the unofficial "car theft capital of the world". Their favorite pastime is that of everybody in their neighborhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts ...
Style:
hood, melancholic, brutal, serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, brutality, ghetto, police investigation, urban, vengeance, hip hop, murder, lone hero, black, teenage life, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, california
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565K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
The Sopranos is an American television drama created by David Chase. The series revolves around the New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home ...
Style:
serious, dramatic, clever, cynical, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, gangster, dark humor, family life, criminal heroes, mob boss, parents and children, criminal, dysfunctional family, family relations, introspection ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, year 1999, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, north america
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
People are being killed by someone or something using superhuman strength. A clever DA Assistant is sent to investigate. Is this just a way to commit the perfect murder or will the legend of the Jersey Devil prove to be true?
Style:
suspenseful, scary, rough, serious
Plot:
demon, supernatural, deadly creature, danger, law enforcement, gory, devil, brutality, rescue, cryptozoology, folklore, urban legend ...
Place:
new jersey, usa
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95K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A week in the life of a bus driver and poet named Paterson, and his supportive wife Laura.
Style:
philosophical, melancholic, inspirational, existential, art house ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
poetry, bus driver, everyday life, poet, poem, husband wife relationship, notebook, social realism, writers, bus, beer, bulldog ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 90s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When the teenager Mary Elizabeth Steppe, a.k.a. Lola, moves with her mother and two younger twin sisters from New York to the suburb of Dellwood, New Jersey, she has the feeling that her cultural and entertaining world ended. While in school, the ...
Style:
teen, melancholic, romantic, cute, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, pre-teens, kids ...
Plot:
teenager, high school, coming of age, rivalry, mother daughter relationship, happy ending, family relations, fish out of water, girl, love and romance, lifestyle, teenage life ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, new york
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he ...
Style:
tense, realistic, clever, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangster, drug lord, mob boss, drug traffic, heroin, violence, smuggling, crime boss, ghetto, police ...
Time:
60s, 70s, year 1968, year 1970, year 2007 ...
Place:
new jersey, new york, vietnam, brooklyn new york city, cuba ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A New Jersey auto mechanic travels to California to find the girl of his dreams and woos a bikini fashion model while the time quarreling with her high-powered manager and avoiding his New Jersey girlfriend who comes looking for him.
Style:
lighthearted, romantic comedy, teen
Plot:
dream girl, beach, auto mechanic, love triangle, fish out of water, road trip, summer, fashion model, wooing, jealous girlfriend, culture clash, cross country ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, new jersey
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An unemployed lingerie buyer convinces her bail bondsman cousin to give her a shot as a bounty hunter. Her first assignment is to track down a former cop on the run for murder – the same man who broke her heart years before. With the help of some ...
Style:
romantic, exciting, light, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
investigation, couples, strong female character, escapades, strong female lead, missing person, bounty hunter, battle of the sexes, verbal byplay, private investigator, lone hero, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, pittsburgh, usa
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Mild-mannered Paul Blart (Kevin James) has always had huge dreams of becoming a State Trooper. Until then, he patrols the local mall as a security guard. With his closely cropped moustache, personal transporter and gung-ho attitude, only Blart seems ...
Style:
funny, humorous, feel good, hilarious, light ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, girls' night, family friendly, adult
Plot:
security guard, shopping mall, father daughter relationship, fall in love, goofy hero, workplace situations, disorder, one man army, single parent, law enforcement, die hard, save the day ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, boston
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
On the eve of his bachelor party, a man learns his fiancee wants to call off the wedding. The unmarried couple returns to New Jersey to sort out their relationship.
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, melancholic
Audience:
date night
Plot:
wedding, couples, breakup, family relations, love and romance, crumbling marriage, buddies, flirting, male female relationship, father son relationship, prank, teenage boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, las vegas
Is relevant?
114K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade. And ...
Style:
suspenseful, neo noir, sexy, intense, talky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, corruption, nypd, dirty cop, police, police corruption, internal affairs, sheriff, organized crime, justice, investigation, corrupt cop ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with un-attentive parents and bullies at school.
Style:
disturbing, cult classic, black comedy, teen, cynical ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, misfit, dysfunctional family, bullying, childhood, humiliation, social outcast, female protagonist, school, youth, public humiliation, high school life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, near future, year 1995
Place:
new jersey, seattle, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.
Style:
tense, period piece, cerebral, suspense, cynical ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
partners in crime, mafia, scam, fbi, cons and scams, organized crime, fbi investigation, deception, con artists, politics, twists and turns, strip club ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, year 1978, year 2013, 90s ...
Place:
new jersey, usa, boston, atlantic city new jersey, new york ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline ...
Style:
feel good, light, clever, humorous, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
mistaken identity, amnesia, fish out of water, farce, obsession, female protagonist, magician's assistant, adultery, locker, intrigue, feminist, magic show ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, atlantic city new jersey, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper apartment in New Jersey with his girlfriend, Bud longs for his former Manhattan glory. In an effort to get back in the game, he makes a ...
Style:
neo noir, crime drama, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
boxer, boxing, murder, restaurant, revenge, character study, moral ambiguity, rivalry, danger, ethical dilemma, ambition, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, manhattan new york city, usa
Is relevant?
19K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, Mexico
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A Texas cop (Kevin Kline), whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth (Cesar Ramos) to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian woman who ...
Style:
sexy, rough, detective, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
human trafficking, kidnapping, missing child, sexual abuse, child molestation, sex slavery, slavery, child rape, rescue, child molester, forced prostitution, humiliation ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, mexico city, poland, texas, el paso texas ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A medical school dropout loses his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident and decides to bring her back to life. Unfortunately, he was only able to save her head, so he goes to the red light district in the city and lures prostitutes into a hotel ...
Style:
horror comedy, grindhouse, dark comedy, black comedy, psychotronic ...
Plot:
prostitute, hooker, frankenstein, killed during sex, female objectification, brain transplant, man hits a woman, exploitation, monster, female monster, pimp, cocaine ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, australia
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128K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job as a barmaid at ...
Style:
entertaining, sexy, romantic, rom com, sensual ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
dancing, music, nightclub, ambition, dancer's life, love affair, father daughter relationship, nightlife, parents and children, hopes, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, employer employee relationship ...
Time:
2000s, year 2000, y2k, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
16K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A high school social outcast and the popular girl bond through a shared love of music.
Style:
romantic, teen, humorous, semi serious, light ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, high school, music, teenage love, hopes, friends, love and romance, rock and roll, rock, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, adolescence ...
Time:
year 2009, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, california, texas, canada
Is relevant?
13K
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Clerks is an American animated sitcom based on Kevin Smith's 1994 comedy of the same name. It was developed for television by Smith, Smith's producing partner Scott Mosier and former Seinfeld writer David Mandel with character designs by ...
Style:
adult animation, humorous, adult cartoon, not serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
satire, friendship, escapades, save the day, buddies, master villain, everyday life, disorder, partner, goofy hero, workplace, millionaire ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An unemployed slacker (Lange) inspires his softball teammates to improve their game so they won't get kicked out of the local league.
Style:
not serious, realistic, humorous, exciting, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
baseball, stripper, bet, buddies, contests and competitions, partner, against the odds, small town, underdog, softball, dumb, friendship ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Mark and Tony may be adopted, but they're as tight as brothers can be. They even have the same occupation: They're double-dealing hit men, one for the mob, the other for the CIA. When a scheme to embezzle money from the government ...
Style:
suspense, realistic, semi serious, tense, touching ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, dark humor, murder, law enforcement, siblings relations, danger, gangster, dishonesty, chases and races, adoption, cia, organized crime ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
new jersey, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop of his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, scary, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, family friendly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, apocalypse, disaster, survival, end of the world, alien, invasion, space and aliens, evil alien, extraterrestrial, catastrophe, humanity in peril ...
Time:
year 2005, future, jurassic, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, boston, los angeles ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Lou, a small time gangster who thinks he used to be something big, meets and falls for a sexy casino employee named Sally. She needs his help realizing her dream of going to Monte Carlo, a symbol of the glamorous life that she has been looking for ...
Style:
cult classic, neo noir, realistic, aesthetic, cynical ...
Plot:
casino, gangster, gambling, murder, older man younger woman relationship, drug, voyeurism, mafia, mobster, cocaine, passion, redemption ...
Time:
year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new jersey, philadelphia, atlantic city new jersey, atlantic city, california ...
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107K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
Style:
touching, inspirational, factual, thought provoking, sociological ...
Plot:
boxing, prison, prison life, racism, courtroom, legal, injustice, death penalty, african american, discrimination, justice, lawyer ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 60s, 70s, 1940s ...
Place:
new jersey, africa, canada, toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Charles in Charge is an American sitcom series starring Scott Baio as Charles, a 19-year-old student at the fictional Copeland College in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who worked as a live-in babysitter in exchange for room and board. Baio directed ...
Style:
sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
college, dating, college student, family relations, love and romance, teenage life, family life, adolescence vs adulthood, young adult, youth, buddies, babysitting ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
While attempting to seduce gorgeous lawyer Diane Lightson, wealthy gadabout Chris Thorne agrees to drive her to Atlantic City, N.J. But, when some reckless driving draws the attention of a deeply critical cop, they and the flamboyant ...
Style:
humorous, dark comedy, disturbing, melancholic, not serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
chase, dark humor, small town, justice, dysfunctional family, on the run, hip hop, eccentric family, disorder, danger, nothing goes right, buddies ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new jersey, usa, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
Is relevant?
573
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Teachers is an American television sitcom that aired on NBC. The show ran for six episodes until its cancellation on May 2, 2006. Loosely based upon a UK series of the same name, it was developed by Matt Tarses, co-executive producer of the medical ...
Style:
humorous, sitcom, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Plot:
high school, friendship, school teacher, teachers and students, lifestyle, workplace, hardcase students, workplace situations, youth, promotion, loser, studying ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The film is set in a small coastal community in New Jersey where the only action in town is a nightclub called The Pavilion. The owner, Pete (played by Jackson Sims), can barely make the payroll so in an effort to bring in more business, he hires a ...
Style:
neo noir, independent film, grim, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
gossip, murder, small town, infidelity, jealousy, betrayal, love triangle, desperation, sexual tension, nightclub, exotic dancer, revenge ...
Time:
year 1989
Place:
new jersey
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