| In Cold Blood (1967) | 7.9 | |
| The Lookout (2007) | 6.9 | |
| Casino (1995) | 8.2 | |
| The Day After (1983) | 7.0 | |
| My One and Only (2009) | 6.5 |
Movies and TV shows set in kansas city
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in kansas city ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, independent film, suspenseful, tense and visually appealing films and TV shows about / with family relations, culture clash, betrayal, corruption, murder, small town, friendship, dialogue, redemption and brutality plots mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as kansas city: My Sweet Holiday (2020), The Kansas City Massacre (1975), Prime Cut (1972), Kansas City (1996), Going to Kansas City (1998), The Royal (2022), Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990), American Honey (2016), Top Coat Cash (2017), Asteroid (1997).
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List of movies set in kansas city
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When Sadie's (Malone Thomas) boyfriend cancels their holiday plans, she decides to spend Christmas with her parents back in her hometown, only to find out they've sold the family's beloved chocolate store to a stranger who knows ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
christmas eve, christmas, family business, homecoming, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, getting home, love story, love affair, male female relationship, in love ...
Place:
kansas city
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Gangsters free one of their colleagues being escorted to prison and kill several FBI agents and local police officers in the attempt. FBI agent Melvin Purvis puts together a special squad to track down and capture the men responsible.
Style:
brutal, suspenseful, tense, grim, dark ...
Plot:
shootout, fbi, gangster, law enforcement, manhunt, organized crime, investigation, violent, true crime, justice, prohibition era, police procedural ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
kansas city, midwest
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Chicago mob enforcer is sent to Kansas City to settle a debt with a cattle rancher who not only grinds his enemies into sausage, but sells women as sex slaves.
Style:
independent film, tense, serious, exciting, grindhouse ...
Plot:
murder, organized crime, slaughterhouse, violence, gangster, chase, revenge, hotel, rape victim, vengeance, mafia, redheaded woman ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1972, 1930s
Place:
chicago, kansas, usa, kansas city, new jersey
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Robert Altman's story is a riff on race, class, and power cross-cuts between the two kidnappings and the background of corrupt politics and virtuoso jazz music. It all takes place in Kansas City in 1934.
Style:
atmospheric, talky, neo noir, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
jazz, women, music, loneliness, addiction, gangster, politics, jazz musician, political corruption, violence, corruption, kidnapped wife ...
Time:
1930s, year 1996, 20th century, year 1934
Place:
missouri, kansas city, usa, kansas
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An exchange student from Finland arrives in Kansas City. He is expecting to spend a year in the city, but ends up living on a farm in a small town. He falls in love with the sheriff’s daughter and soon finds himself in trouble.
Style:
emotional, dramatic, serious, intense, independent film
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
exchange student, small town, culture clash, fish out of water, coming of age, forbidden love, teenage love, family conflict, loss of innocence, friendship, sheriff, jealousy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
kansas city, midwest, kansas
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Genre: Biography, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The promising career of former Kansas City Royal slugger Willie Mays Aikens quickly turned disastrous because of drug addiction.
Style:
psychological, captivating, intense, spiritual, period drama
Plot:
drug abuse, baseball, addiction, social problems, life is a bitch, athlete's life, career, drug addiction, baseball player, drug use, baseball team, drug ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
kansas city
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
It's about a five member family. The father is a conservative and traditional person who directs the family. The mother is at home, she tries to hold together the family, while Mr. Bridge works as a lawyer. The children have just grown up, and ...
Style:
talky, melancholic, realistic, sentimental, family saga ...
Plot:
lawyer, culture clash, cancan dance, family problems, human nature, society, introspection, parents and children, sorority, family relations, dysfunctional family, bittersweet ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1939
Place:
usa, kansas city, missouri, kansas, cleveland ohio ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
Style:
road movie, disturbing, talky, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
road trip, teenage girl, first love, misfit, teenage boy, supermarket, van, sex scene, on the road, adolescence, naked in public, motel ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2017, 90s
Place:
oklahoma city, kansas city, america, oklahoma, nebraska ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After losing a major fight, a professional MMA fighter returns home from Vegas, where he reunites with various individuals from his past - including a father/son duo who recruit him to engage in their daring bank heists.
Style:
crime thriller, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
heist, mixed martial arts, father son relationship, family drama, violent, criminal underworld, cat and mouse, betrayal, fbi investigation, redemption, moral ambiguity, bookies ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
kansas city, las vegas
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
With the discovery of an incoming asteroid, the government of America formulate a plan to destroy it. When the plan fails, all the world can do is wait. The main impact zone is revealed to be Dallas, Texas. Generally, the plot follows the lives and ...
Style:
apocalyptic, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, asteroid, asteroids and comets, apocalypse, space and aliens, post apocalypse, astronomy, meteorite, climate, post apocalyptic, distopia ...
Time:
future, 90s
Place:
kansas city, usa, kansas, texas, dallas texas
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Malcolm & Eddie is an American television sitcom that premiered August 26, 1996 on the UPN Network, and ran for four seasons, airing its final episode on May 22, 2000. This series starred Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Eddie Griffin in the lead roles. ...
Style:
sitcom, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
black, african american, black sitcom, urban, friendship, male friendship, twentysomething life, friends, disorder, odd couple, buddies, partner ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
kansas city, missouri, kansas, usa
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother, while Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
deaf, sign language, switched at birth, mute or deaf, relatives, friends, teenage life, mother daughter relationship, parents and children, family relations, deaf girl, high school student ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, kansas city
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
New York writer Tom grew up an only child and is a loner by nature. He's a man who takes pride in refusing to learn the names of his neighbors. But his life is destined for change when he marries Susan, a gregarious social butterfly from the ...
Style:
sitcom, feel good, humorous, family comedy, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
fish out of water, family life, eccentric family, couples, couple relations, family relations, suburbs, parents and children, friendship, relocation, culture clash, in laws ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kansas, usa, kansas city
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Uptight Millie Haven has always followed the rules, but when she has doubts before her big Kansas City wedding, her attitude-prone little sister Emma, the least likely of heroes, comes to the rescue. They embark on a spontaneous roadtrip to their ...
Style:
feel good, romantic comedy, uplifting, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot:
road trip, small town, sisters, self discovery, heartwarming, female empowerment, female friendship, family drama, independent woman, identity, escapism, grandmother ...
Place:
kansas city, midwest, missouri, kansas
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Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Alice, a young and talented sous chef at NY's top restaurant, receives an invitation to judge a food competition for a prestigious annual fundraiser.
Style:
culinary, emotional, romantic, melancholic, touching ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
couples, fall in love, love, love and romance, love affair, lovers, young lovers, couple relations, relationships, true love, cooking competition, personal growth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, kansas city
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The true story of serial killer Henry Lee Lucas.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, law enforcement, life is a bitch, violence spree, biopic, true crime, criminal psychology, investigation, drifter, killer ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
texas, kansas city
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A 1967 film based on Truman Capote's book of the same name. After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their ...
Style:
neo noir, black and white, disturbing, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
murder, true crime, execution, serial killer, home invasion, trial, killer, death sentence, death row, u.s. mexico border, cell mate, murder of family ...
Time:
50s, year 1967, year 1965, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place:
kansas, kansas city, america, usa, las vegas ...
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Roller-derby skater K. C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom.
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, exciting, rough
Plot:
roller derby, american football, rivalry, single mother, on the road, skating, friendship, sexy girls, tough girl, strong female lead, extreme sports, contests and competitions ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
missouri, kansas city, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Duke Johnson visits a small Southern town, intent on burying his brother. After the funeral, he learns that he must stay for 60 days, for the estate to be processed. A few locals convince Duke to reopen his late brother's nightclub, and soon ...
Style:
grindhouse, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, exploitation, black, african american, redneck, martial arts, brother, prostitute, betrayal, interracial relations, racism, police corruption ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s
Place:
kansas city, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An intentionally campy film designed to capitalize on Linda Lovelace's sudden fame following "Deep Throat", this film centers around Linda's fictional grass roots campaign to run for president. Touring the country with a rag-tag ...
Style:
sex comedy, cult classic, independent film, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
female pubic hair, sexpot, female nudity, presidential candidate, porn star, bare breasts, porn actress, presidential campaign, assassination attempt, farce, looking for sex, media satire ...
Time:
70s
Place:
kansas city, america, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Carrie, Mitzie, and Chicago get in trouble a lot in the women's prison, but are offered early parolement if they agree to become subjects of a study on human aggression and antisocial behavior at a Kansas City college. Dr. Blalock, the ...
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, psychotronic
Plot:
voyeur, female nudity, skinny dipping, women's prison, sexploitation, sexual arousal, sex scene, nudity, girl fight, motive, going crazy, voyeurism ...
Time:
70s
Place:
kansas city
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Thelma Harper and her spinster sister Fran open their home to Thelma's recently divorced son Vinton and his teenage son and daughter. It's quite an adjustment for everyone, especially the cranky, argumentative Thelma.
Style:
sitcom, game show, slapstick, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
women, family relations, dysfunctional family, strong female presence, couples, friends, family problems, parents and children, teenage life, family life, adult virgin, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
kansas city, usa, florida
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, ...
Style:
futuristic, harsh, apocalyptic, serious, psychotronic ...
Plot:
cold war, nuclear war, apocalypse, catastrophe, nuclear explosion, disaster, nuclear bomb, nuclear holocaust, post apocalypse, dystopia, radiation, nuclear threat ...
Time:
80s, future, distant future, 20th century
Place:
usa, kansas, soviet union, kansas city, ussr ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
hospital, doctor, disability, politics, medicine, surgery, patient, physician, die hard, psychiatric ward, medical, intern ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s, 70s
Place:
kansas city, usa, kansas, iraq, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Ride with the Devil follows four people who are fighting for truth and justice amidst the turmoil of the American Civil War. Director Ang Lee takes us to a no man's land on the Missouri/Kansas border where a staunch loyalist, an ...
Style:
sexy, bloody, erotic, gothic, realistic ...
Plot:
american civil war, civil war, making love, revolution, u.s. civil war, cavalry charge, sex scene, modern western, conflict, modern west, military, revenge ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, year 1999, 1860s, victorian era
Place:
missouri, kansas city, germany, kansas, texas ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Through the eyes of a British "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War.
Style:
mockumentary, disturbing, satirical, political, independent film ...
Plot:
racism, american civil war, politics, alternate reality, slavery, civil war, african american, alternate history, runaway, satire, interracial relations, journalism ...
Time:
year 1912, 1930s
Place:
canada, south america, kansas city, montreal, new york ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of the mass murderer Jeffrey Dahmer, the events within the family behind, and leading up to, his capture
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, family relations, psychopath, human nature, family problems, parents and children, haunted by the past, biopic, father son relationship, gay, cannibal ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century, 60s, 70s ...
Place:
usa, kansas city
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he's mysteriously vanished.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
missing girl, hospital, female protagonist, race against time, danger, uncover truth, rivalry, investigation, confined, intrigue, doctors and patients, mind game ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kansas city, los angeles
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A criminology professor becomes a target herself when she tries to establish the innocence of her star student in a murder.
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
college life, amateur detective, investigation, murder, deception, police, courtroom, seduction, danger, campus, wrestling, fight club ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kansas city
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The story of a desperate young couple on the run, who seek refuge in Kansas City.
Plot:
brother sister relationship, abduction, cockfight, redheaded woman, on the run, house, pizzeria, accidental killing, surveillance camera, uncle nephew relationship, poverty, abusive boyfriend ...
Place:
kansas city, missouri
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