Movies and TV shows set in oklahoma
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in oklahoma ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, interesting, touching, sentimental and humorous films and TV shows about / with friendship, redemption, dialogue, family relations, small town, mentor, runaway, death, storytelling and profanity plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Western genres shot in USA, Japan, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as oklahoma: To the Stars (2019), Silkwood (1983), Where the Heart Is (2000), Twisters (2024), Far and Away (1992), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Oklahoma! (1999), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), August: Osage County (2013), Bill Tilghman and the Outlaws (2019).
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List of movies set in oklahoma
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Under small-town scrutiny, a withdrawn farmer’s daughter forges an intimate friendship with a worldly but reckless new girl in 1960s Oklahoma.
Style:
sexy, romantic, psychological, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lesbian, closeted lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, abusive father, sexual confusion, skinny dipping, lesbian sex, young lovers, lesbianism, gay love, lovers ...
Time:
60s, year 1961
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city
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24K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
Style:
sad, touching, serious, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
whistleblower, working class, conspiracy, nuclear power plant, fighting the system, workplace, labor union, radiation, women, environmental, radioactivity, environment ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s, year 1974
Place:
oklahoma, usa, washington d.c., california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Novalee Nation is a 17-year-old Tennessee transient who has to grow up in a hurry when she's left pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend on a roadside in Sequoyah, Okla., and takes refuge in the friendly aisles of Wal-Mart. In short order, ...
Style:
touching, feel good, sentimental, sweet, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot:
pregnancy, starting over, coming of age, small town, single parent, friendship, teenage pregnancy, power of love, down on your luck, youth, love and romance, happy ending ...
Time:
90s, year 2000, 20th century
Place:
oklahoma, tennessee, california, usa, maine ...
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191K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
As storm season intensifies, the paths of former storm chaser Kate Carter and reckless social-media superstar Tyler Owens collide when terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed. The pair and their competing teams find themselves squarely ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, hilarious, epic, psychotronic ...
Plot:
tornado, hurricane, disaster, twister, teamwork, destruction, danger, risk, rainstorm, man versus nature, scientific experiment, flood ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
oklahoma, new york, north america
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A young man (Cruise) leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter (Kidman) after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893. When they get to the new land, they find jobs and begin saving ...
Style:
sentimental, period piece, intense, serious, rom com ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love, love and romance, enemies to lovers, boxing, ambition, love story, immigrant, boxer, obsessive quest, against the odds, american dream, rise and fall ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, turn of the century, 1800s ...
Place:
usa, ireland, oklahoma, oklahoma city, europe ...
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Bonnie and Clyde is based on the true stories of the gangster pair Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow who in the 1930s began robbing banks in U.S. cities until they were eventually killed. The film is a major landmark in the aesthetic movement known as ...
Style:
road movie, controversial, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
lovers on the run, on the run, heist, bank robbery, fugitives, gang, true crime, bank robber, shootout, great depression, love and romance, crime spree ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place:
texas, oklahoma, missouri, midwest, usa ...
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Genre: Musical, Romance, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
London stage reproduction of the classic Broadway musical.
Style:
feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
fall in love, love triangle, ballet, friendship, lifestyle, couples, artists and showbiz, musician's life, couple relations, performer's life, opposites attract, enemies to lovers ...
Time:
90s
Place:
oklahoma, west end london, usa, england, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 206 min.
Story:
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, detective, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, native american, courtroom, genocide, fbi, interracial marriage, greed, true crime, serial murder, american indian, oil, oil field ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, washington d.c.
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Style:
touching, melancholic, black comedy, independent film, depressing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
suicide, dysfunctional family, cancer, funeral, mother daughter relationship, family secret, family in crisis, incestuous relationship, family drama, suicide of father, pills, addiction ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
oklahoma, peru, oklahoma city, southern usa, midwest ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A movie company comes to Oklahoma to convince legendary lawmen Bill Tilghman to star in a bank robbery silent film featuring real outlaws. Tilghman reluctantly agrees, not realizing everyone's lives will never be the same.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
filmmaking, marshal, sheriff, gunslinger, deputy sheriff, historical figure, robbery, lawman, outlaw, heist, cinema, criminal ...
Time:
1920s, 19th century
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil companies to sell her land.
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
oil, woman with a gun, drifter, painting, great depression, business, father, partner, violent content, rivalry, ambition, underdog ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century
Place:
oklahoma, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In Tate, Oklahoma a popular coach, Pete Nash, is accused of having a sexual relation with 14 years old Amy, one of his school's pupils.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teacher student relationship, virgin, cheerleader, male teacher female student affair, teachers and students, courtroom, high school, statutory rape, teacher student sex, teacher student romance, girl man relationship, teenage sexuality ...
Time:
90s
Place:
oklahoma, usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A lonely waitress with a tragic past, Agnes rooms in a run-down motel, living in fear of her abusive, recently paroled ex-husband. But when Agnes begins a tentative romance with Peter, an eccentric, nervous drifter, she starts to feel hopeful again ...
Style:
psychological, cult classic, suspenseful, mind bending, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
insanity, paranoia, obsession, losing-it hero, mental illness, psychosis, couples, nudity, conspiracy theory, addiction, schizophrenia, violent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma, usa, louisiana
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bringing Up Bobby is the story of a European con-artist and her son Bobby, who find themselves in Oklahoma in an effort to escape her past and build a better future. Olive and Bobby blithely charm their way from one adventure to another until ...
Style:
touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
troubled past, starting over, family relations, parents and children, haunted by the past, hopes, boyhood, christianity, mother son relationship, european, rich man, cons and scams ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
In a conservative small town, a young man's wish to coach high school basketball are tweaked by a school board decision that makes him the new coach of the girls' team.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, inspirational, spiritual
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
hopes, athlete and trainer, small town, youth, underdog, ambition, rivalry, contests and competitions, prodigy, against the odds, dedicated educator, human spirit ...
Time:
60s, year 2006
Place:
oklahoma, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
This comedy follows the exploits of four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma who steal, rob and save in order to get to the exotic, mysterious and faraway land of California.
Style:
humorous, satirical, captivating, entertaining, anime ...
Plot:
native american, coming of age, satire, teenager, gang, indians, native american reservation, friend, pain, juvenile delinquency, bandit, criminal gang ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city
Is relevant?
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the ...
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, date night, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, tornado, catastrophe, twister, weatherman, divorce, survival, nature, hurricane, forces of nature, storm ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, north america, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local drug lord.
Style:
cynical, dark comedy, black comedy, intense, stylized ...
Plot:
twins, dysfunctional family, weed, brutality, profanity, drug, marijuana, character study, road trip, twin brother, gangster, drug dealing ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
oklahoma, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In six months, the population of Cromwell, Oklahoma, has climbed from 500 to 10,000. Boom times have come to the oil-rich town. So has a new breed of criminal. You Know My Name is the fact-based story of Bill Tilghman, a lawman and former partner of ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, neo western, thought provoking
Plot:
nothing goes right, gangster, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, fighting the system, ambition, hollywood, disorder, filmmaking, against the odds, main character dies, death of protagonist ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
oklahoma, california
Is relevant?
108K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When two poor greasers, Johnny, and Ponyboy are assaulted by a vicious gang, the socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of events.
Style:
teen, homoerotic, melancholic, intense, hood ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, pre-teens, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
coming of age, gang, teen angst, dysfunctional family, street gang, teenager, book, brother brother relationship, small town, friendship, juvenile delinquent, rebellious teenager ...
Time:
60s, year 1964, 1900s, 1950s, future ...
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, usa, north america
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with the nine men on his hit list and ...
Style:
spaghetti western, stylized, suspenseful, realistic, epic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
judge, revenge, u.s. marshal, court, vigilante, guilt, justice, hanging, wild west, false accusation, cowboy, death sentence ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
oklahoma, usa, california
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Frankie is dying. Irene hasn't forgiven him. And they are racing against time to find their way home. Frankie needs help and Irene is the one he turns to. He must go home one last time. And, like so many times before, Irene is extending herself ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, psychological, road movie ...
Plot:
rehabilitation, love and romance, one last chance, hospital, hopes, road trip, memories, memory, self discovery, indigenous people, tribe, native ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Brian is a 16 year-old who can't play basketball, but he still wants to play like his hero, Kevin Durant. At an Oklahoma City Thunder game, Brian gets chosen to shoot a half court shot which he misses and hits the mascot in the process. Later ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, sincere, light
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, teen fantasy
Plot:
basketball, disorder, switching roles, supernatural, athlete's life, wish come true, life turned upside down, down on your luck, unsuccessful, teenage life, youth, body swapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
In the middle of real, everyday America, Rodney Hamilton's life revolves around two things: His family and his thankless job at a fiberglass plant..
Style:
sitcom, humorous, light, feel good, entertaining ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, relationship vs career, against the odds, parents and children, father, family man, everyday life, love, friendship, couple relations, social relations ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, oklahoma
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Saving Grace is an American television crime drama series which premiered on TNT on July 23, 2007 and ran until June 21, 2010. The show stars Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter in her first television series, as well as Leon Rippy, Kenny Johnson, ...
Style:
serious, captivating, sincere, emotional, detective ...
Plot:
redemption, police detective, faith, sex addict, police investigation, sexual activity, religions or cults, guardian angel, female detective, law enforcement, fighting crime, self destructing ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, usa
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Genre: Short
Country: USA
Duration: 20 min.
Story:
He played with some of the great pioneers of country music in some of the raunchiest honky-tonks from California to Oklahoma. Now in his final days, a beloved guitar picker whispers a final request to his wife.
Style:
reflective, poignant, emotional, sentimental, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
guitarist, country music, memory, mortality, last wish, nostalgia, legacy, aging, grief, intimate, live performance, wife ...
Place:
oklahoma, california
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44K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, War
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
"Hair" is a 1979 musical war comedy-drama film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical "Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" about a Vietnam War draftee, Claude, who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on ...
Style:
stylized, thought provoking, psychedelic, cult classic, feel good ...
Plot:
hippie, nudity, counterculture, vietnam war, broadway, anti war, music, rock and roll, dancing, male nudity, commune, lsd ...
Time:
60s, year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place:
oklahoma, vietnam, new york, manchester, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.
Style:
cult classic, surreal, black and white, cerebral, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, street gang, brother brother relationship, gang, biker, motorcycle, alcoholic father, juvenile delinquent, teenage protagonist, homoerotic friendship, teen angst, character study ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century, 70s
Place:
oklahoma, california, oklahoma city, usa, pacific ocean
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A Cherokee boy is a haemophiliac in a culture obsessed with blood identity.
Style:
serious, psychological, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, native american, society, lifestyle, youth, parents and children, dysfunctional family, homecoming, american indian, deer hunting ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of America's working class.
Style:
period piece, road movie, compassionate, talky, sentimental ...
Plot:
music, biopic, great depression, character study, friendship, depression, artists and showbiz, musician's life, couple relations, love and romance, musician, labor union ...
Time:
1930s, year 1976, 20th century, 70s
Place:
texas, california, oklahoma, usa, los angeles ...
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