Movies and TV shows set in idaho
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in idaho ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, independent film, touching, humorous, melancholic and sentimental films and TV shows about / with family relations, friendship, catastrophe, redemption, teenager, small town, dialogue, storytelling, love and mentor plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as idaho: Napoleon Dynamite (2004), My Own Private Idaho (1991), Smoke Signals (1998), Game of Thrones (2011), Moving (1988), Idaho Transfer (1973), Georgia Rule (2007), Hot Dog... The Movie (1984), Thousand Pieces of Gold (1990), The Second Civil War (1997).
Best films
New films
| Moonlight (2016) | 7.4 | |
| Sense8 (2015) | 8.2 | |
| Paranormal Prison (2021) | 3.0 | |
| When We Rise (2017) | 7.5 | |
| Wayward Pines (2015) | 7.3 |
List of movies set in idaho
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.
Style:
funny, humorous, laugh out loud, independent film, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
high school, friendship, teenager, small town, adolescence, election, bullying, high school life, nerd, loser, bully, salesman ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
idaho, america, usa, north america, utah ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the ...
Style:
road movie, homoerotic, art house, erotic, touching ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, male prostitute, friendship, homosexual, coming of age, unrequited love, male prostitution, male friendship, lgbt, homoerotic friendship, friendship between men ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1991
Place:
idaho, portland oregon, oregon, italy, rome italy ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Young Indian man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by Arnold. Arnold soon left his family, and Victor hasn't ...
Style:
road movie, touching, feel good, sincere, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
native american, native american reservation, on the road, friendship, father son relationship, self discovery, road trip, native, adolescence, orphan, life, escapades ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 90s, 70s
Place:
idaho, arizona, america, indiana, phoenix arizona ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the ...
Style:
epic, captivating, atmospheric, dramatic, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
dragon, medieval, intrigue, fantasy world, incest, kingdom, power struggle, peril, abuse of power, political intrigue, conflict, rivalry ...
Time:
ancient times, middle ages, medieval times, year 2011, 2000s ...
Place:
idaho, former yugoslavia, hawaii
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.
Style:
entertaining, funny, humorous, slapstick, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
moving, husband and wife, truck, kung fu, dysfunctional family, identical twins, road trip, gangster, love affair, classic car, black, family relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
idaho, usa, new jersey, new orleans
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A crew of young researchers escape into the future to avoid the shutdown of their project. They find that some type of 'eco-crisis' disaster has de-populated the area around their lab (in rural Idaho) and, by implication, the nation or ...
Style:
apocalyptic, independent film, exciting, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, teenager, bare breasts, time travel, dystopian future, apocalypse, time machine, backpacking, secret experiment, distopia, post-apocalyptic future, erotica ...
Time:
future
Place:
idaho, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Georgia Rule follows a rebellious, uncontrollable teenager who is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her grandmother. Her journey will lead all three women to revelations of buried family secrets and an understanding ...
Style:
teen, sincere, stylized, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
small town, mother daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, teenager, family problems, parents and children, rebellious daughter, redemption, drinking, honest, secrets, confession ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
idaho, usa, salt lake city utah, san francisco, new jersey ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When a hopeful young American hot-dogger goes pole-to-pole with an arrogant Austrian pro, the snow really starts to fly! But as hot as it is on the mountain, it gets even hotter off when the pro's ex-girlfriend (Tweed) sets her eyes on the new ...
Style:
sexual, sex comedy, humorous, raunchy comedy, not serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
skiing, oral sex, sex scene, sex, lust, snow, snow skiing, winter, ski, teenager, male nudity, contest ...
Time:
80s
Place:
idaho, usa, california
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 1880's China, young Lalu is sold into marriage by her impoverished father. Rather than becoming a bride, Lalu ends up in an Idaho gold-mining town, the property of a saloon owner who renames her China Polly and plans to sell her as ...
Style:
independent film, period piece, emotional, realistic, serious
Plot:
happy ending, immigrant, prostitute, love and romance, hopes, society, feminism, human spirit, racism, missing person, kidnapping, rich and poor ...
Time:
1880s, 19th century
Place:
idaho, china
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho (Beau Bridges, who won an Emmy) defies the president (Phil Hartman) and closes the state's border. News Net Television, a cable news ...
Style:
dark comedy, cynical, biting, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
army vs civilians, u.s. mexico border, american politics, satire, civil war, illegal immigration, journalism, politics, gang violence, extramarital affair, governor, press conference ...
Time:
future, 2000s
Place:
idaho, washington d.c., middle east, usa, pakistan ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Napoleon Dynamite is an American animated sitcom based on the 2004 cult film of the same name. The series was created by Jared and Jerusha Hess and developed by the Hesses and Mike Scully. The series follows the adventures of Napoleon Dynamite in ...
Style:
adult animation, not serious, realistic, humorous, light ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
family relations, friendship, teenage life, socially awkward, disorder, misfit, youth, goofy hero, delusion, eccentric family, high school, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
idaho, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Toxic waste dumping in a small Idaho town turns a young boy into horrible mutant monster. The town's police chief and a government scientist team up to stop the monster, which is quickly killing off the town's citizenry.
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, retro, cult horror, cult classic ...
Plot:
monster, toxic waste, holiday horror, exploitation, creature, creature feature, disfigurement, mutant, paranormal, small town, police, revenge ...
Time:
year 1983
Place:
idaho
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
John H. Groberg, a middle class kid from Idaho Falls, crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan island kingdom during the 1950's. He leaves behind a loving family and the true love of his life, Jean. ...
Style:
touching, sincere, biblical, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
missionary, true love, hopes, life philosophy, friendship, biopic, fish out of water, christianity, church, love and romance, human spirit, rescue ...
Time:
year 2001, 1950s, 20th century, 50s, future
Place:
idaho, usa, hawaii
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.
Style:
sentimental, touching, neo western, funny, spaghetti western ...
Plot:
cowboy, circus, small town, bank robbery, gunfight, horse, modern western, stepmother, hidden treasure, amusement park, carnival, presumed dead ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s, 1930s, 80s
Place:
new york, idaho, montana, usa, new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An absent-minded-professor father and his son take off in an old Pontiac to bond during a symbolic road trip through the Western U.S. This while his wife tries to overcome her neuroses to save the family.
Style:
realistic, serious, uplifting, offbeat
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
road trip, redneck, on the road, national park, moon landing, agoraphobia, snake, moon, waitress, desert, sheriff, fear ...
Time:
year 1994, 60s, year 1969
Place:
idaho, california, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason meets Danny, a sensitive and troubled girl, and their tender ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, dysfunctional family, young lovers, parents and children, troubled teen, desperation, depression, compassion, jail, self discovery, loner, amor ...
Place:
idaho, usa, washington state
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, sentimental, erotic, cute ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, love triangle, wedding, lesbian romance, lesbian couple, lgbtq, sapphic, gays and lesbians, love affair ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
london, idaho, europe, tower bridge london
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
Style:
serious, powerful, dramatic, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
overweight man, religion, gay, caregiver, pizza, food, bible, obesity, domestic drama, father daughter relationship, 17 year old, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s
Place:
idaho, new york state
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three women take a road trip to Santa Barbara in order to deliver the ashes of one of their dead husbands to his resentful daughter. Faced with the decision of a lifetime, Arvilla Holden hijacks her two best friends and sets off in a vintage ...
Style:
touching, humorous, sentimental, semi serious, road movie ...
Plot:
friendship, on the road, family relations, parents and children, elderly, death in the family, mother daughter relationship, promise, road trip, longing, stepmother, female leader ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
idaho, utah, california, nevada, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Against the ardent wishes of his wife, eleven-year-old son, and sixteen-year-old daughter, ALBERT SNIDER (Judge Reinhold) is determined to have a festive family holiday. Albert doesn't seem to realize that his kids would rather stick needles in ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, touching, semi serious, offbeat
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
thanksgiving, american football, disorder, eccentric family, family life, nothing goes right, family relations, suburban life, family gatherings, misfit, high school, hippie ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
idaho
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The story of a man's struggle to claim his future by confronting his past. The road is not an easy one as old demons resurface to threaten everything Eden has fought to overcome.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
small town, redemption, starting over, haunted by the past, family relations, lifestyle, hopes, homecoming, parents and children, going straight, social relations, male protagonist ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
idaho, america, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The story is located in Los Angeles in the sixties. An energetic widow, Frances Lacey, with her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. Therefore they leave Los Angeles and head for the countryside, while ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
single parent, christmas, family relations, corporal punishment, heartwarming, widow, biopic, youth, coming of age, family problems, children, parenthood ...
Time:
year 1993, 1900s, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles, idaho, usa, salt lake city utah
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Feeling pressured to become more sexually experienced before she goes to college, Brandy Klark makes a list of things to accomplish before hitting campus in the fall.
Style:
sexy, teen, humorous, erotic, teen sex comedy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
virginity, female sexuality, sex, teenage girl, happy ending, looking for sex, first sex, teenage love, loss of virginity, youth, love and romance, teenage life ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, 20th century, year 1993, 80s
Place:
idaho, usa, california
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Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In late 1955 and early 1956, the citizens of Boise, Idaho believed there was a menace in their midst. On Halloween, investigators arrested three men on charges of having sex with teenage boys. The investigators claimed the arrests were just the tip ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, gay slur, witch hunt, halloween, justice, prison, interview, police, homosexual, sex scandal, homosexual history ...
Time:
year 1956, year 1955, 1950s, 50s
Place:
idaho
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Francis and Blake Falls are Siamese twins who live in a neat little room in a rundown hotel. While sharing some organs, Blake is always fit and Francis is very sickly. Into their world comes a young lady, who turns their world upside down. She gets ...
Style:
touching, emotional, compassionate, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
siamese twins, twins, loneliness, impossible love, existentialism, freak, fall in love, eccentric family, dealing with death, brother brother relationship, bittersweet, lookalikes ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place:
idaho, utah
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Teacher Sara has always played by the rules and has never thought of herself as one who's attracted to the "bad boy" type. That all changes when tattoo artist Virgil takes part in a classroom show-and-tell session and Sara reluctantly ...
Style:
humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, offbeat ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
tattoo artist, love affair, fall in love, unlikely couple, school teacher, looking for love, couples, couple relations, lifestyle, love and romance, fiance fiancee relationship, marriage proposal ...
Place:
idaho, mexico
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Lori Vallow gained national attention when her children, JJ and Tylee, were reported missing from their Idaho home.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, missing child, true crime, child abduction, family relations, uncover truth, partners against crime, escapades, who done it, kidnapping, law enforcement, police investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, idaho, arizona
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When a beauty pageant creator is found dead, a savvy hairdresser works with a detective and risks everything to clear the names of those she loves.
Style:
detective, serious, suspenseful, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
murder mystery, investigation, beauty pageant, homicide detective, murder investigation, villainess, whodunit, small town, crime investigation, beauty salon, murder, police detective ...
Place:
idaho
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Pursued by 2,000 US soldiers and cavalry, Chief Joseph leads his tribe of 800 Nez Perce on a 1,700 mile journey across the West and towards Canada. Based on the true story of the westward expansion of the United States and the military force used to ...
Style:
historical drama, educational, melancholic, bleak, reflective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
native american, american indian, starvation, pursuit, survival, resistance, surrender, colonialism, racism, tragedy, u.s. army, sacrifice ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s
Place:
oregon, idaho, canada, america
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief ...
Style:
black comedy, ambiguous ending, dark comedy, crime drama, psychological ...
Plot:
small town, revenge, rape, small town life, loss of daughter, billboard, police brutality, regret, death of daughter, anger, violence, guilty conscience ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place:
missouri, idaho, persia, america, usa
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