| Die Hard 2 (1990) | 7.2 | |
| Mindhunter (2017) | 8.6 | |
| October Sky (1999) | 7.8 | |
| Pocahontas (1995) | 6.7 | |
| Shadrach (1998) | 6.4 |
Movies and TV shows set in virginia
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in virginia ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, independent film, humorous and emotional films and TV shows about / with dialogue, family, mentor, death, runaway, life philosophy, storytelling, brutality, catastrophe and chase plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as virginia: The New World (2005), Pocahontas (1995), The Beguiled (2017), Lawless (2012), Lake Effects (2012), Virginia (2010), Wrong Turn (2003), An American Girl Adventure (2005), Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004), Shadrach (1998).
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List of movies set in virginia
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
Style:
emotional, epic, period piece, visually stunning, cerebral ...
Plot:
power of love, historical character, culture clash, american history, new world, native american, american indian, tudors, adventurer, indians, communication problem, fort ...
Time:
17th century, ancient times, middle ages, year 2005, 16th century ...
Place:
virginia, north america, america, usa, england
Is relevant?
216K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
History comes gloriously to life in Disney's epic animated tale about love and adventure in the New World. Pocahontas is a Native American woman whose father has arranged for her to marry her village's best warrior. But a vision tells her ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sweet, cute, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, family outing, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
princess, native american, interracial romance, disney princess, forbidden love, raccoon, culture clash, tragic love, native american tribe, female protagonist, tribe, enemies to lovers ...
Time:
17th century, 90s, year 1995
Place:
virginia, usa, london, england, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in ...
Style:
sexy, gothic, suspense, period piece, costume drama ...
Plot:
union soldier, american civil war, wounded soldier, girl, sexual tension, sex scene, amputee, girls' school, teenage girl, murder, jealousy, seduction ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, victorian era, year 2017, 2010s
Place:
virginia
Is relevant?
262K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits.
Style:
intense, suspense, sexy, period piece, neo noir ...
Plot:
mafia, smuggling, gang, gangster, bootlegging, violence, vigilante, greed, corruption, prohibition era, prohibition, robbery ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 2012, 2010s, year 1931 ...
Place:
virginia, usa, appalachia, america, north america ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Sara and Lily grew up at Smith Mountain Lake. Sara became estranged from the family and without explanation moved to Los Angeles to study law. Her sister Lily, an artist, teaches locally and lives with their parents, Ray and Vivian, until Dad dies ...
Style:
realistic, touching, humorous, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
lake, parents and children, homecoming, estrangement, estate, small town, friendship, spirituality, death of father, skinny dipping, truth, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
virginia, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A sheriff sees his state senate bid slide out onto the ice when his daughter begins to date the son of a charming but psychologically disturbed woman with whom the sheriff has engaged in a two-decade-long affair.
Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, sincere, serious ...
Plot:
sheriff, mother child relationship, parent child relationship, family problems, misfit, life is a bitch, family relations, mentally unstable, love and romance, couple relations, love affair, extramarital affair ...
Time:
21st century, labor day
Place:
virginia, usa, atlantic city new jersey
Is relevant?
145K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibalism, gory, survival, forest, massacre, danger, youth, manhunt, blood, chase, disfigurement, brutality ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, virginia, usa, texas
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Pre-American Revolution Virginian girl whose love for the outdoors leads to the friendship of a lifetime. Felicity loves horses, and though her parents plead with her to remain indoors, she years to ride the open plains. When Felicity comes into ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, feel good, realistic
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot:
horse, horse riding, friendship, colonial america, rescue, best friend, hopes, american girl, animal life, young heroes, parents and children, family life ...
Time:
18th century, 1770s, georgian era
Place:
virginia, usa, britain
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A small-town girl wins a date with a Hollywood star through a contest. When the date goes better than expected, a love triangle forms between the girl, the celebrity, and the girl's best friend.
Style:
romantic, feel good, romantic comedy, sexy, teen ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
celebrity, fall in love, love triangle, artists and showbiz, love and romance, hollywood, best friends in love, buddies, movie star, actor's life, social relations, contests and competitions ...
Time:
year 2004, 80s, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, virginia, los angeles, usa, california ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is ...
Style:
independent film, touching, emotional, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
slavery, african american, old man, segregation, slave, social justice, interracial, youth, slave trade, suburbs, interracial relations, family relations ...
Time:
1930s, year 1998
Place:
virginia, usa, alabama, california
Is relevant?
86K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news. He sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance but proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
vengeance, violence, revenge, vigilante, vigilantism, murder, violent, brutality, car, storytelling, character study, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2013, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
virginia, ethiopia, usa, delaware
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Serbia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
backwoods, murder, lost in the woods, cannibalism, community, abduction, group of friends, escape, characters killed one by one, hiking, terror, blinded ...
Time:
2020s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, virginia, appalachia
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, inspirational, emotional, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot:
racism, high school, african american, american football, civil rights, racial tension, racial prejudice, against the odds, high school football, football, prejudice, life lesson ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 2000, y2k, 2000s
Place:
virginia, boston, usa, america, africa ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his youngest boy is taken prisoner by the North the Civil War is forced upon him.
Style:
retro, black and white, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
american civil war, civil war, wartime, military, anti war, u.s. civil war, interracial relations, bittersweet, war, wild west, father son relationship, family drama ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
virginia, usa, england
Is relevant?
419
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Every year the Chincoteague fire department rounds up the wild ponies of Assateague Island and holds an auction to thin out the herd. The young children set out to raise enough money in hopes that the Phantom will be caught in this years round up. ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, feel good
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
horse, coming of age, beach, youth, island, seaside, racing, animal, pony, horse riding, family relations, grandfather ...
Time:
year 1961
Place:
virginia, usa
Is relevant?
467
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Haunted by memories of his ex-girlfriend Alice, a heartbroken Billy returns home to Northern Virginia seeking solace from old friends. But what he finds there is more disconcerting: his best friend Stanley has become unstable, mysterious and ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, slasher ...
Plot:
murder, homecoming, best friend, couples, breakup, missing person, danger, friendship, campus, serial killer, suicide by gun, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
virginia, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a group of hikers take off for a weekend of fun and adventure in remote mountain region, they unwittingly stumble across the Staunton family - for whom the hill is named - and find themselves at the mercy of a depraved, diabolical brood that ...
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
danger, wilderness, gory, escapades, strong violent content, backwoods, redneck, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, cruelty, torture, exploitation, serial killer ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
virginia, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
At the start of the Civil War, a prominent Virginia family makes the controversial decision to defend the South while freeing all of their slaves, pitting the family against one another and testing their strength, courage and love.
Style:
tense, historical drama, captivating, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
civil war, american civil war, family relations, parents and children, family problems, soldier, military, siblings relations, slavery, family conflict, racism, moral dilemma ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
virginia, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virgina that results in a violent retaliation from whites.
Style:
factual, brutal, intense, emotional, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
slavery, preacher, civil war, rebellion, racism, violence, suffering, poverty, preaching, black slave, murder, rape ...
Time:
year 2016, 19th century, 2010s, georgian era
Place:
virginia, southern usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta returns to Virginia and resumes her former position with complex relationships, both personal and professional – including her sister Dorothy, with plenty of grudges and secrets to uncover.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, dark, neo noir
Plot:
medical examiner, family secret, forensics, murder investigation, strong female lead, autopsy, serial killer, cat and mouse, small town, slow burn, revenge, courtroom ...
Place:
virginia, southern usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
After an unexpected tragedy, Suzanne searches for the true meaning of Christmas during one sad, strange December in suburban Virginia.
Style:
tragicomedy, humorous, dark comedy, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot:
swinger party, christmas, swinger couple, introspection, dark humor, friendship, suburbs, solace, xmas, death of husband, holiday, cheating wife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
virginia, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The Cleveland Show is an American adult animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry, and Richard Appel for the Fox Broadcasting Company as a spin-off of Family Guy. The series centers on the Browns and Tubbs, two dysfunctional families ...
Style:
sitcom, not serious, humorous, witty, adult animation ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
black american, blended family, parents and children, family life, starting over, family relations, ethnic humor, mature, black, adult humor, american football, family man ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
virginia, usa, north america
Is relevant?
298K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and ...
Style:
exciting, epic, entertaining, futuristic, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night, family outing, teens
Plot:
mars, alien, superhuman powers, space opera, heroic mission, monster, space travel, mysterious planet, distant planet, imaginary kingdom, space adventure, warrior ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, future, 1880s, 19th century ...
Place:
virginia, arizona, new york, space western, seattle
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
Style:
touching, atmospheric, sincere, sentimental, enigmatic ...
Plot:
small town, childhood, stephen king, single mother, friendship, childhood friend, coming of age, mysterious stranger, childhood memory, father figure, psychic, psychic power ...
Time:
year 2001, 1950s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
virginia, connecticut, usa, new york, boston
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The true story of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets had some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.
Style:
clever, political, factual, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cold war, cia, politics, womanizer, satire, spy, politician, propaganda, swimming pool, soviet afghanistan war, congressman, brutality ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, year 1988, 2000s, year 2007 ...
Place:
afghanistan, washington d.c., texas, pakistan, helsinki finland ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dream of exploiting his powers force him back to civilization, he finds himself coming face to face ...
Style:
exciting, gloomy, serious, saga, action packed ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
superhero, superhuman powers, chase, transformation, mutant, unstoppable, creature, experiment gone awry, scientist, split personality, giant, antidote ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, rio de janeiro, virginia, british columbia, brazil ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, family comedy, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
adoption, adopted daughter, single father, redemption, hopes, teacher, unrequited love, manipulation, child hero, in love, coin, fall in love ...
Time:
80s, year 1994, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
virginia, usa, washington d.c.
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, and treating a boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
alien, conspiracy, supernatural, abduction, psychic, supernatural ability, priest, skepticism, secrets, winter, bodies, partner ...
Time:
year 2008, 20th century, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, virginia, usa, washington d.c.
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A French football playing exchange student falls in love.
Style:
sexual, independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
white male black female relationship, interracial couple, interracial romance, age difference, interracial, interracial relations, college, couples, love and romance, fall in love, self discovery, coming of age ...
Time:
year 1994, 50s, 1950s, year 1955
Place:
virginia, paris france, france, europe, usa ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of Linda Litzke and Chad Feldheimer, the two gym employees see a chance to make enough money for her to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of ...
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, funny, cynical, absurd ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
stupidity, espionage, satire, paranoia, farce, divorce, gym, dark humor, infidelity, internet dating, online dating, sarcasm ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa, virginia, persia, america ...
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