| Wanda (1970) | 7.1 | |
| Prisoners (2013) | 8.2 | |
| Grand (1990) | 7.8 | |
| Groundhog Day (1993) | 8.0 | |
| That Thing You Do! (1996) | 7.0 |
Movies and TV shows set in pennsylvania – page 3
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style:
touching, teen, sincere, melancholic, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, teenage love, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, teenage life ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, year 1991, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on the Pretty Little Liars series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard, the series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee, Alison. One year ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, teen, realistic, soap opera ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot:
high school, high school life, lesbian, blackmail, threat, gossip and rumors, haunted by the past, teenage life, murder, mysterious character, friendship, friends ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, philadelphia, usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In this remake of the original classic film, a group of people are trapped inside a farmhouse as legions of the walking dead try to get inside and use them for food.
Style:
creepy, scary, splatter, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, living dead, cemetery, zombie attack, survival horror, gory, survival, vigilante, virus, reanimated corpse, female warrior, zombie apocalypse ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate written and directed by actor Tim Robbins. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a difference: He offers tunes that protest welfare chiselers, liberal whining, and the like. As the ...
Style:
mockumentary, political, witty, cynical, satirical ...
Plot:
political satire, election campaign, politics, satire, journalism, political campaign, manipulation, republican, conspiracy, senator, ambition, campaign ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, nicaragua, new york
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants to take possession of the wife.
Style:
black and white, spooky, tense, scary, serious ...
Plot:
haunted house, boy, farmhouse, supernatural, possession, female protagonist, panic, housewife, nervous breakdown, party, husband wife relationship, fear ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
pennsylvania
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Karen, Sarah, and Emma Tunney are all moving to a small town in Pennsylvania where, unknown to them, in 1913, a horrid mine accident trapped dozens of children alive, underground. But there's a problem. They're still alive.
Style:
scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
creepy kid, nightmare, abandoned house, undead, zombie, danger, small town life, small town, missing person, parents and children, ghost, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The popular 1980’s dance movie that depicts the life of an exotic dancer with a side job as a welder who true desire is to get into ballet school. It’s her dream to be a professional dancer and now is her chance. The film has a great soundtrack ...
Style:
sexy, retro, teen, inspirational, erotic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick
Plot:
dancing, music, dance, happy ending, ballet school, dancer, women, stripper, fashion, hip hop, music and dance, teenager ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1982
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, chicago, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.
Style:
romantic, touching, romantic comedy, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
mental illness, love, family drama, bipolar disorder, depression, adaptation, character study, social misfits, supportive parent, father son relationship, male female friendship, mental patient ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, peru, usa, pennsylvania, america ...
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86K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young man sets out to uncover the truth about his life after finding his baby photo on a missing persons website.
Style:
teen, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
teenager, chase, kidnapping, uncover truth, chases and races, missing person, danger, disorder, young heroes, on the run, life turned upside down, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, london, new york ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In hot water with the mob over an unpaid debt, a con man poses as a family friend in an affluent Pennsylvania suburb.
Style:
humorous, black comedy, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
friendship, stupidity, dysfunctional family, dentist, teenage girl, mistaken identity, redemption, debt, father daughter relationship, loan shark, african american, lawyer ...
Time:
90s
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, emotional, psychological, romantic drama ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
marriage, depression, dysfunctional family, couple relations, lust, husband wife relationship, passion, crumbling marriage, sexual content, lovers, love story, sex ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, pennsylvania, usa, brooklyn new york city, florida
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When he starts dating drop-dead gorgeous Molly, insecure airport security agent Kirk can't believe it. As his friends and family share their doubts about the relationship lasting, Kirk does everything he can to avoid losing Molly forever.
Style:
sex comedy, romantic comedy, romantic, rom com, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
sex, odd couple, opposites attract, couple relations, insecurity, sex scene, shyness, confidence, birthday party, dating, happy ending, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, new york, las vegas ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In 1968, in the Ravenside Military Hospital in a military facility in Pennsylvania, the army loses control of an experiment of a lethal bacteriologic weapon that changes the DNA and transforms human beings into zombies. A group of soldiers is sent ...
Style:
rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
living dead, chaos, supernatural, deadly creature, danger, plague, chaos and mayhem, dystopian future, race against time, survival, military hospital, zombie ...
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In Appalachia, blood always runs to the hollow.
Style:
suspense, psychotronic, scary, disturbing, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
sexist, true crime, lgbt, serial killer, psychopath, lesbianism, lesbian, female student, human prey, hunted, sniper, lesbian couple ...
Place:
pennsylvania
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Alex McPherson returns to the small town in Pennsylvania where she spent her summers as a girl to record the next episode of her true crime podcast, about the disappearance of a childhood friend 20 years prior. However, after teaming up with the ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, rough, complex
Plot:
disappearance, hostage, kidnapping, teenager, investigation, police investigation, cruelty, missing child, abduction, obsession, manipulation, morality ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Is relevant?
15K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and ...
Style:
humorous, light, funny, captivating, cult classic ...
Plot:
culture clash, workplace, labor union, friendship, satire, small town, worker, factory worker, unemployment, comedy of manners, businessman, working class ...
Time:
80s
Place:
japan, usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, asia ...
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
On a snowy night in 1963 Pennsylvania, a boarding school student goes missing in the woods. Her friends, a disgraced quarterback, a shunned ex-cop, and the headmaster's wife, agree to go search for her. As they do, they confront the lies, ghost ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, isolation, missing person, boarding school, woods, mysterious disappearance, school, undercover, friends, high school life, friendship, secret ...
Time:
60s
Place:
pennsylvania
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14K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Martin sedates women with a syringe full of narcotics and then slices their wrists with a razor blade so he can drink their blood. Martin, who comes to live with his uncle and cousin in the dying town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has romantic ...
Style:
surreal, cult horror, suspenseful, grindhouse, creepy ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, serial killer, female pubic hair, curse, murder, shyness, hidden identity, mental disorder, teenage life, zombie, socially awkward ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century, 80s
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, romania
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Dominick and Eugene are twins, but Dominick is a little bit slow due do an accident in his youth. They live together, with Dominick working as garbage man to put Eugene through medical school. Their relationship becomes strained when Eugene must ...
Style:
serious, uplifting, emotional, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
medical student, twins, family relations, misfit, life is a bitch, family problems, intern, family life, brother brother relationship, intellectual disability, mental retardation, brother ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, pittsburgh
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A beautiful vampire turns a crime lord into a creature of the night.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, scary, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
vampire, femme fatale, gangster, supernatural, female vampire, violence, female protagonist, crime boss, love, villain, anti heroine, good versus evil ...
Time:
90s
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
International action superstar Jean Claude Van Damme teams with Powers Boothe in a Tension-packed, suspense thriller, set against the back-drop of a Stanley Cup game.Van Damme portrays a father whose daughter is suddenly taken during a championship ...
Style:
suspense, intense, exciting, action thriller, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hockey, terrorism, hostage, martial arts, one man army, female assassin, die hard, terrorist, fight scenes, explosions, hockey player, kidnapping ...
Time:
90s, year 1995, year 1993
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, chicago, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large in the small town of Mill Valley for generations. It's in a mansion that young Sarah Bellows turns her tortured life and horrible secrets into a series of scary stories. These terrifying tales ...
Style:
scary, enigmatic, spooky, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, kids, horror for children, adult
Plot:
urban legend, halloween, small town, teenager, haunted, old dark house, haunted house, monster, scarecrow, ghost, fear, supernatural ...
Time:
year 1968, 20th century, 60s, year 2019, 2010s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Professor Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid) might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the next guy.
Style:
humorous, emotional, talky, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, writers, happy ending, professor, father daughter relationship, character study, self discovery, eccentricity, family relations, parents and children, teacher, couples ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, new york, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, horror for children, teen drama
Plot:
twists and turns, afterlife, supernatural, psychology, ghost, plot twist, death, psychiatrist, psychic, life & death, supernatural horror, psychologist ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, future
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, persia, philadelphia
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Joe McBeth is a hard-working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat, who has much smarter. Pat believes she could do better with the place than their boss Norm is doing, so she plans to usurp Norm, convincing ...
Style:
humorous, parody, dark comedy, black comedy, disturbing ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, shakespeare, murder, crime gone awry, food, eccentricity, disorder, police detective, nothing goes right, couple relations, goofy hero, law enforcement ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 2001, 1930s, 18th century
Place:
pennsylvania, nova scotia, bosnia, europe, former yugoslavia ...
Is relevant?
682K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When world heavyweight boxing champion, Apollo Creed wants to give an unknown fighter a shot at the title as a publicity stunt, his handlers choose palooka Rocky Balboa, an uneducated collector for a Philadelphia loan shark. Rocky teams up with ...
Style:
inspirational, uplifting, touching, cult classic, saga ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
boxing, underdog, fight, boxer, self esteem, training, rocky, love story, shyness, tough guy, character study, pride and honor ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, north america, usa
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226K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Now the world champion, Rocky Balboa is living in luxury and only fighting opponents who pose no threat to him in the ring, until Clubber Lang challenges him to a bout. After taking a pounding from Lang, the humbled champ turns to former bitter ...
Style:
inspirational, captivating, suspenseful, action packed, saga ...
Audience:
family outing, boys' night, teens, manly
Plot:
boxing, boxer, revenge, comeback, training, underdog, friendship between men, celebrity, fight, tough guy, friendship, rivalry ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, north america, los angeles ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The chest's whereabouts may lie ...
Style:
exciting, entertaining, clever, satanic, suspense ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night, family outing ...
Plot:
treasure, treasure hunt, archaeology, treasure hunter, archaeologist, adventurer, secret place, riddles and clues, map, ancient, artifact, journey ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, year 1974, 19th century, 20th century ...
Place:
washington d.c., philadelphia, pennsylvania, new jersey, new york ...
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39K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jonathan Switcher, an unemployed artist, finds a job as an assistant window dresser for a department store. When Jonathan happens upon a beautiful mannequin he previously designed, she springs to life and introduces herself as Emmy, an Egyptian ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, teen, cult classic, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, kids, date night
Plot:
department store, shopping, motorcycle, love, ends with a wedding, public nudity, security guard, fired from the job, guard dog, impossible love, sex scene, happy ending ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, egypt
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Samantha Caine, suburban homemaker, is the ideal mom to her 8 year old daughter Caitlin. She lives in Honesdale, PA, has a job teaching school and makes the best Rice Krispie treats in town. But when she receives a bump on her head, she begins to ...
Style:
suspense, dark comedy, neo noir, cult classic, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
amnesia, memory loss, hitman, christmas, terrorism, strong female lead, female protagonist, chase, female assassin, conspiracy, kick-butt women, cia ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, pennsylvania, usa, manhattan new york city, new england ...
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