Movies and TV shows set in pennsylvania
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in pennsylvania ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, suspense, interesting, cult classic and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with small town, dialogue, chase, catastrophe, culture clash, mentor, runaway, storytelling, murder and police officer plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Israel and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as pennsylvania: Amish Grace (2010), Banshee (2013), My Girl (1991), That Thing You Do! (1996), Trading Places (1983), The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988), At Close Range (1986), The Village (2004), Prisoners (2013), Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020).
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List of movies set in pennsylvania
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006, the world media attention rapidly turned from the tragic events to the extraordinary forgiveness demonstrated ...
Style:
disturbing, emotional, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
amish, faith, hopes, murder, forgiveness, death in the family, religions or cults, dealing with death, introspection, child murder, hate, mass murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Is relevant?
144K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Banshee is an American drama television series set in a small town in Pennsylvania Amish country and features an enigmatic ex-con posing as a murdered sheriff who imposes his own brand of justice while also cooking up plans that serve his own ...
Style:
sexy, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ex convict, sheriff, tough heroes, shooting, female nudity, organized crime, cop, gory, hidden identity, law enforcement, hacker, criminal ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, pittsburgh
Is relevant?
97K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, crying, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, kids, date night, family friendly ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, childhood, father daughter relationship, first love, children, single father, single parent, small town, kids and family, grief, teenager ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1972, year 1991, 20th century ...
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
Style:
sexy, sentimental, humorous, period piece, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, date night, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
music, rock and roll, drummer, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, recording studio, fictional band, small town, showbiz, rock band, dentist, music industry, breakup ...
Time:
60s, year 1996, 90s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, los angeles, wisconsin, illinois, pittsburgh ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Style:
funny, cult classic, black comedy, dark comedy, laugh out loud ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prostitute, stock market, revenge, fish out of water, rags to riches, social satire, manipulation, wrongful arrest, beggar, wager, poverty, christmas ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
pennsylvania, philadelphia, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city, arizona ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
There's nothing wrong with the Marshetta family that a little felony can't cure. Rupert doesn't want to follow in his father's blue-collar footsteps, so he and his quirky friend kidnap his father for ransom, only nobody wants him ...
Style:
retro, independent film, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot:
kidnapping, older woman younger man relationship, kidnapper, age-gap relationship, motorcycle, mine, family relations, dysfunctional family, missing person, buddies, youth, family problems ...
Time:
80s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Based upon the true story of Bruce Johnston Sr., his son, and his brothers; together, they constituted one of suburban Philadelphia's most notorious crime families during the 1970's. Their criminal activities ranged from burglary, theft... ...
Style:
neo noir, disturbing, harsh, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
rape, organized crime, small town, father son relationship, sociopath, violence, psychopath, revenge, violent, sexualized violence, gang, murder ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978, 80s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, california
Is relevant?
295K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
Style:
surprise ending, atmospheric, suspense, psychological thriller, creepy ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
plot twist, isolation, forest, twists and turns, psychology, village life, village, utopia, mysterious place, woods, autumn, small town ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 1890s, 19th century, 18th century ...
Place:
pennsylvania, philadelphia, new england
Is relevant?
920K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
Style:
twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, investigation, revenge, serial killer, torture, twists and turns, vigilantism, police investigation, plot twist, brutality, vigilante, cop ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, bolivia, georgia, usa, boston
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.
Style:
meditative, sad, rough, serious, crying ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
abortion, pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, teenage girl, female protagonist, teenage pregnancy, abortion clinic, 17 year old, teenager, sexual abuse, adolescence, cousin cousin relationship ...
Time:
year 2019, 2020s, 2010s
Place:
pennsylvania, new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a young boy turns up dead in a sleepy Pennsylvania town, a local sanitation truck driver, Donald, plays detective, embarking on a precarious and obsessive investigation to prove the boy was murdered.
Style:
thought provoking, bleak, dark, crying
Plot:
missing child, amateur detective, dead child, small town, child molester, investigation, child abuse, mental disorder, drowning, parent child relationship, injustice, garbage collector ...
Place:
pennsylvania
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Style:
grindhouse, classic horror, creepy, dark, splatter ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, infection, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, chaos, epidemic, virus, living dead, siege, shopping mall, gory, isolation ...
Time:
70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, bolivia, philadelphia, usa
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734K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer and mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Style:
feel good, romantic, philosophical, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family outing ...
Plot:
time loop, existentialism, small town, redemption, time travel, groundhog day, life & death, life philosophy, time warp, fall in love, time, destiny ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1993, future
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, america, persia, pittsburgh
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
On Saturday, May 17th, 2008, police responded to a residence in a remote area of Bucks County, Pennsylvania for the report of a missing person. Upon their arrival, a routine investigation was performed and it was determined that the situation did ...
Style:
serious, bleak, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
found footage, vampire, danger, woods, survival, manhunt, violence, murder, massacre, travel, serial killer, creature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, philadelphia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When Sarah Cain, a self-involved big-city newspaper columnist, travels to Pennsylvania for the funeral of her Amish sister, she soon discovers that she is the legal guardian of her five Amish nieces and nephews. Rather than choose to move to ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, captivating, tense
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
amish, orphan, female protagonist, siblings, redemption, fish out of water, christian, journalism, family life, family problems, betrayal, custody ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, portland oregon
Is relevant?
96K
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After bowler Roy Munson swindles the wrong crowd and is left with a hook for a hand, he settles into impoverished obscurity. That is, until he uncovers the next big thing: an Amish kid named Ishmael. So, the corrupt and the hopelessly naïve hit the ...
Style:
humorous, funny, feel good, light, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bowling, road trip, buddies, on the road, older woman younger man, dark humor, dumb, culture clash, mentor, sexy woman, fish out of water, success ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1969, year 1979 ...
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, nevada, usa, reno nevada
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Ivan Bibic returns to his Pittsburgh PA suburb after surviving a Japanse POW camp, causing regular nightmares. All the time he remained faithfully devoted to his childhood love, fellow ethnic Yugoslavian virgin Maria Bosic. She dates him again, thus ...
Style:
erotic, emotional, sincere, sexual, sentimental ...
Plot:
marital problem, world war two, couples, soldier, fall in love, human nature, homecoming, love affair, small town, passion, husband and wife, wedding ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the TV station's lotto ball girl to rig the state lottery drawing. The numbers come up right, but ...
Style:
dark comedy, clever, stylized, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
lottery, murder, profanity, crime gone awry, dark humor, snow, blackmail, femme fatale, murder investigation, financial crisis, voice over narration, small town ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, year 1988, 80s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, florida, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
A group of working-class friends decides to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in ...
Style:
depressing, epic, psychological, emotional, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, russian roulette, hunting, anti war, suicide, friendship, small town, wedding, u.s. army, gambling, drunkenness, war crime ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, post world war two, 60s
Place:
vietnam, pennsylvania, pittsburgh, asia, usa ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Story:
A comet hits Ireland, and a bigger one is on its way towards the U.S. where 900 million people have to be evacuated.
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
comet, chaos, nasa, catastrophe, disaster, evacuation, astronomer, danger, forces of nature, escapades, save the day, natural disaster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, ireland, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, inspirational, talky, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot:
american football, high school, football, college, cheerleader, small town, coming of age, high school football, student athlete, friendship, coach, male pubic hair ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, future
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa, north america, new jersey ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
In the piano-making town of Grand, Pennsylvania, Janice Pasetti keeps house for factory owner Harris Weldon, his newlywed niece and her husband, while raising her teenage daughter.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, touching, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
factory, small town, working class, everyday life, blue collar, slice of life, friendship, social class, mother and daughter, family drama, female protagonist, generation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, culture clash, love and romance, society, pregnancy, youth, hopes, coming of age, road not taken, small town, wooing, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
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272K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
No one would take his case until one man was willing to take on the system. Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and ...
Style:
touching, thought provoking, emotional, sad, tear jerker ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
aids, courtroom drama, hiv, lawyer, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, discrimination, gay interest, homosexual, lawsuit, medical ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1993, 80s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Lifelong platonic friends Zack and Miri look to solve their respective cash-flow problems by making an adult film together. As the cameras roll, however, the duo begin to sense that they may have more feelings for each other than they previously ...
Style:
sexy, feel good, sex comedy, funny, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
porn, sex scene, sex, porn actor, porn star, strip club, female nudity, filmmaking, sex worker, nudity, best friends in love, stripper ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa, new jersey
Is relevant?
113K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, ...
Style:
sexy, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
witnessing a crime, police, amish, police corruption, forbidden love, female nudity, police detective, twists and turns, witness, childhood, corruption, train ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, year 1985
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Citizens of a small town are infected by a biological weapon that causes its victims to become violently insane. As uninfected citizens struggle to survive, the military readies its own response.
Style:
grindhouse, intense, medical horror, scary, creepy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
epidemic, infected, virus, plague, infection, quarantine, zombie, disaster, isolation, disease, military, survival ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, vietnam, usa, asia, washington d.c.
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
When lesbian detective Abigail Marks teams up with gay guy Michael Dalmar to solve the disappearance of his twin, Kyle Dalmar, a famed portrait photographer, their investigation leads them into the Kyle's risque world. With Michael posing as ...
Style:
realistic, serious, mind bending, witty, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gay, lgbtq, lesbian, missing person, male nudity, male pubic hair, private detective, sex, female detective, investigation, criminal, law enforcement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A group of people try to survive an attack of bloodthirsty zombies while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse. Although not the first zombie film, Night of the Living Dead is the progenitor of the contemporary "zombie apocalypse" ...
Style:
suspense, classic horror, grindhouse, scary, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, cemetery, infection, zombie apocalypse, survival, cannibalism, zombie attack, basement, gory, monster, supernatural, post apocalypse ...
Time:
20th century, year 1968, year 1967, 60s
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa, washington d.c.
Is relevant?
7K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Wanda, after a string of abusive relationships, abandons her family and seeks solace in the company of a petty criminal (Michael Higgins).
Style:
independent film, depressing, road movie, existential, realistic ...
Plot:
low self esteem, affair, illicit affair, nervous breakdown, feminist, women, female protagonist, poverty, loneliness, death of lover, promiscuity, shooting ...
Time:
year 1970, 60s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
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