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List of movies set in virginia

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 4.4
 115
Show Stoppers (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: "Show Stoppers" is a comedy-drama set in the world of Greek stepping on a historically black university in Virginia "where Greek steppers get as much attention as star athletes."
Style: semi serious, sentimental, emotional, humorous, hood ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ambition, friendship, rivalry, youth, hopes, contests and competitions, destiny, college life, betrayal, college, ghetto, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: virginia
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Widow on the Hill (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A sexy young hospice nurse, is hired by a wealthy man to care for his sick wife who eventually dies. When the nurse becomes the widower's new bride and then he dies suspiciously leaving his vast fortune to the new Mrs., his daughter becomes ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspense
Plot: terminal illness, investigation, manipulation, parents and children, murder, cons and scams, power relations, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, death in the family, estate ...
Time: 21st century
Place: virginia, usa
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The Last Detail (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
Style: road movie, atmospheric, cult classic, realistic, witty ...
Plot: u.s. navy, road trip, sailor, profanity, male bonding, beer, buddy, fighting the system, society, on the road, travel, female nudity ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: new york, maine, philadelphia, massachusetts, virginia ...
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 4.3
 525
The Turning (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Gillian Anderson in her first ever screen role. Anderson's psycho boyfriend, Cliff, returns to his home town seething with pent-up frustration and rage. Four years earlier his family was on the verge of breaking up. Noe he's returned to ...
Style: erotic, independent film, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: making love, sex scene, infidelity, alcoholic mother, neo nazism, couples, family problems, psychopath, family relations, society, life is a bitch, mentally unstable ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: virginia, west virginia, usa
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 7.6
 9K
The Waltons (1972)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Waltons is an American television series created by Earl Hamner, Jr., based on his book Spencer's Mountain, and a 1963 film of the same name. The show is centered on a family in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and ...
Style: sitcom, absurd, juvenile, realistic, serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: world war two, large family, team, parents, christian, girl, family affairs, real life, coming of age, family relations, small town, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place: hawaii, virginia, usa, southern usa
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 7.3
 10K
The Hot Zone (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Heroic U.S. Army scientist Dr. Nancy Jaax, working with a secret military specialized team, puts her life on the line to head off an Ebola outbreak before it spread to the human population.
Style: suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic, terrifying, psychological ...
Plot: virus, infection, research, scientist, female protagonist, laboratory, military, death, doctor, disease, blood, army ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, september 11 2001, year 1989
Place: africa, washington d.c., virginia, texas, cleveland ohio ...
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 6.3
 64K
Spectral (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural being that have taken over a European city.
Style: stylized, exciting, suspenseful, serious, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, danger, science, technology, chase, military, heroes, heroic mission, chaos and mayhem, escapades, super soldier, survival ...
Time: future, near future
Place: virginia, usa, eastern europe, new york
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The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: What starts as a poignant medical documentary about Deborah Logan's descent into Alzheimer's disease and her daughter's struggles as caregiver degenerates into a maddening portrayal of dementia at its most frightening, as hair-raising ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, suspense, disturbing, mockumentary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: supernatural, found footage, demon, investigation, mental illness, insanity, kidnapping, serial killer, surveillance, possession, snake, illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: virginia
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The Exorcist III (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set fifteen years after the original film, The Exorcist III centers around the philosophical Lieutenant William F. Kinderman who is investigating a baffling series of murders around Georgetown that all contain the hallmarks of The Gemini, a deceased ...
Style: demonic, scary, suspenseful, religious horror, splatter ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, demon, possession, supernatural, demonic possession, macabre, exorcist, priest, investigation, murder, violence, hospital ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1998
Place: washington d.c., virginia, usa, india, copenhagen
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 5.5
 3K
Best Friends (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When a professional couple who have lived & worked together for many years finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpectedly funny and awkward difficulties. They soon find that being married is often quite different ...
Style: captivating, biting, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: screenwriter, honeymoon, marriage, hollywood, friendship, wedding, love, reconciliation, lust, husband wife relationship, film producer, father son relationship ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: virginia
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 7.8
 161K
NCIS (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.
Style: captivating, exciting, serious, detective, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: law enforcement, teamwork, special agent, crime solving, partners against crime, forensics, crime investigation, investigation, murder investigation, evidence, victim, military ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., virginia, usa
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 8.6
 76K
Dopesick (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 492 min.
TV show
Story: The story of how one company triggered the worst drug epidemic in American history. Look into the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA, and to the ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, psychological, social ...
Plot: addiction, medical, pharmaceutical company, sick, crime investigation, drug, crisis, drug addiction, health, opium, corporation, investigation ...
Time: 2020s, 80s, 2010s, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: america, virginia
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The Millers (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: A divorced reporter, looking forward to the single life, finds his parents' marital problems derail his plans.
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, hilarious
Plot: living with parents, eccentric family, family relations, nothing goes right, divorce, dysfunctional family, parents and children, disorder, family problems, divorced parents, writers, silly humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: virginia, usa
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A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion (1993)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The fourth Waltons reunion TV movie is set in the 1960s , with John-Boy still living in New York, trying to persuade his fiancée to marry him. Meanwhile, Ben and Cindy's daughter Virginia has died, and Cindy is finding life very lonely without ...
Plot: thanksgiving, christmas, family reunited, baby, american south, reunion
Time: 60s
Place: virginia, southern usa
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Wish You Well (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young girl and her brother come of age at their great grandmother's house in Virginia during the 1940s. After a family tragedy, a young girl moves from New York with your younger brother to live with their great grandmother on a Virginia farm ...
Style: uplifting, thought provoking, melancholic, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: coal mining, family tragedy, grandmother, little brother, farm, car accident, life philosophy, social relations, young heroes, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, small town life ...
Time: 1940s
Place: virginia
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 6.1
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Point of Honor (2015)
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: captivating, stylized, tense, serious, historical drama ...
Plot: american civil war, civil war, family relations, parents and children, family problems, soldier, siblings relations, military
Time: 19th century
Place: usa, virginia
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Crazy Like a Fox (2004)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This is the story of Nat Banks, an 8th generation Virginian gentleman farmer living in the past, who loses his family farm, Greenwood, to a pair of land speculators from Washington, D.C. When the predatory couple manipulates a "legal" real ...
Style: humorous, feel good, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: righting the wronged, rivalry, save the day, fighting the system, culture clash, screwball, heroes, society, good versus evil, buddies, friendship, interracial relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: virginia, washington d.c.
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A Little Closer (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: In the forgotten corners of rural Virginia, Sheryl struggles to balance her work as a housekeeper and raising her two sons, fifteen year-old Marc and eleven year-old Stephen. Hoping to meet the love of her life and bring home a father for her boys, ...
Style: realistic, sincere, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: boy, underage sex, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, looking for love, single parent, teenage boy, brother brother relationship, teacher, sexuality, loss of virginity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, virginia
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 4.3
 1K
Zombie High (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman goes to previously all-male boarding school on a scholarship. She begins to separate herself from her boyfriend in order to devote more time to her new environment...
Style: cult classic, independent film, scary, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, college, zombie, teacher, conspiracy, student, monster, supernatural being, school, teacher student relationship, abducted woman, conspirator ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: usa, virginia
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A Walk in the Spring Rain (1970)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A sophisticated, middle-aged grandmother, wed to a New York law professor, falls in love with a down-to-earth Tennessee farmer. Director Guy Green's bittersweet romance, released in 1970, stars Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn, Fritz Weaver, ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love, professor, sex crime, love triangle, family relations, dysfunctional family, infidelity, couple relations, elderly, unfulfillment, protagonist as suspect, love and romance ...
Time: 60s
Place: tennessee, virginia, new york
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Office Killer (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder ...
Style: psychological, slasher, black comedy, cynical, semi serious ...
Plot: asthma, workplace, office, asthmatic, manipulation, serial killer, psychopath, workplace romance, obsession, goofy hero, protagonist as suspect, evil woman ...
Time: 90s
Place: virginia, new york, usa
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The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is ...
Style: scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, suspense, surreal ...
Plot: mad scientist, mad doctor, laboratory, monster, zombie, experiment, macabre, surgery, danger, experiment gone awry, woman in danger, vengeance ...
Time: 50s, 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, virginia
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Follow the River (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Mary Ingles is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured from their homestead in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains by Shawnee Indians. Her husband, Will, narrowly escapes death during the attack. Impressed by her grace under the pressure of ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, epic
Audience: adult
Plot: native american white relationships, colonialism, kidnapping, wilderness, native american, survival, danger, captivity, native, culture clash, settler, colonial america ...
Time: 18th century
Place: virginia, usa
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Virginia's Run (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A teenage girl, trying to come to grips with the death of her mother in a horse-riding accident, nurtures the foal of her mother's horse.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, serious, independent film
Audience: pre-teens, adult
Plot: ambition, follow your dream, mischievous children, against the odds, teenage life, youth, love and romance, rehabilitation, contests and competitions, hopes, athlete and trainer, family life ...
Place: usa, virginia
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 2K
Wild Side (1995)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A bank accountant, whom moonlights as a high-priced call girl, becomes embroiled in the lives of a money launderer, his seductive wife, and his bodyguard whom blackmails her to help the FBI entrap him with his latest money laundering scheme.
Style: erotic, neo noir, sexy, sensual, independent film ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbianism, lesbian sex, lesbian couple, lgbtq, cons and scams, sex scene, nudity, fbi, undercover, making love, sex crime ...
Time: 90s
Place: virginia, usa
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Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The story follows a family of inbreeds who have been afflicted by a genetic disorder known as 'Merrye syndrome', named after the family in which the disorder developed. This malady causes its victims to enter a state of age regression that ...
Style: slasher, black and white, horror comedy, dark comedy, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: exploitation, evil child, cannibalism, misfit, serial killer, freak, cannibal, cat, redneck, inbreeding, female psychopath, mental disorder ...
Time: 60s
Place: virginia, usa
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 7.3
 31K
Covert Affairs (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A young CIA operative, Annie Walker, is mysteriously summoned to headquarters for duty as a field operative. While Annie believes she's been promoted for her exceptional linguistic skills, there may be something or someone from her past that ...
Style: serious, exciting, captivating, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, double life, blind man, cia, blindness, female protagonist, secret agent, blind character, female spy, cia agent, undercover, state affairs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, langley virginia, virginia
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 6.3
 6K
True Colors (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two law school friends find themselves at odds when one becomes a Justice Department lawyer and the other goes into politics.
Style: talky, political, intense, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: politics, friendship, political corruption, betrayal, manipulation, legal action, college, corruption, society, political intrigue, rivalry, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1991
Place: usa, washington d.c., virginia, florida, connecticut
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 6.1
 3K
American Gun (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- Distinctly American -- all affected by the proliferation of guns in American society.
Style: thought provoking, emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: family relations, on the road, family problems, teenage life, single mother, human nature, single parent, dealing with death, working class, parents and children, death in the family, brother brother relationship ...
Time: year 2005, 20th century, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, virginia, oregon
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 6.4
 13K
The Hot Spot (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A loner moves in to a small Texas town, finds himself a job, and sets about plotting to rob the local bank.
Style: neo noir, sexy, suspense, suspenseful, psychosexual thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: femme fatale, erotica, infidelity, love triangle, manipulation, dangerous attraction, bank robbery, accountant, love and romance, cons and scams, voyeur, car salesman ...
Time: 80s, 1950s
Place: texas, usa, virginia
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