Movies and TV shows set in north carolina
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in north carolina ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, sexy, melancholic and feel good films and TV shows about / with small town, dialogue, mentor, storytelling, death, friendship, runaway, catastrophe, redemption and life philosophy plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, Australia and other countries.
north carolina
TOP 10 movies tagged as north carolina: Alien Abduction (2014), The Best of Enemies (2019), Serena (2014), Nights in Rodanthe (2008), Heart of the Country (2013), A Good Baby (1999), Main Street (2010), A Walk to Remember (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), All the Real Girls (2003).
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List of movies set in north carolina
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this pulse-pounding thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, futuristic ...
Plot:
alien, alien abduction, found footage, alien encounter, extraterrestrial, ufo, space and aliens, missing person, abduction, mountain, survival, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
The story of the real-life unlikely relationship between an outspoken civil rights activist and a local Ku Klux Klan leader in 1971 North Carolina.
Style:
rough, sincere, thought provoking, disturbing, political ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
interracial friendship, civil rights, human spirit, human rights, racism, name calling, tiredness, african american, court, interracial relations, breaking and entering, helplessness ...
Time:
70s, year 2016, year 1971, year 2005
Place:
north carolina, usa
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29K
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a ...
Style:
enigmatic, emotional, depressing, intense, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, kids, chick flick
Plot:
jealousy, adaptation, obsession, twists and turns, suspense, loneliness, writers, tragedy, marriage, brutality, destiny, greed ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, future, year 1929
Place:
north carolina, new jersey, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two unhappy people's lives become entwined when they have a life changing romance. Adrienne is a woman who's trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not. Her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is traveling to ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love, love story, middle age romance, true love, love and romance, infidelity, parents and children, couples, life philosophy, fall in love, death, hotel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, latin america, usa
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
With her husband jailed for Wall Street-based fraud, Faith has to leave behind her luxury life in New York to return home to North Carolina and the widower father and dutiful older sister she left behind. Together, they have to deal with the buried ...
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, captivating, romantic ...
Plot:
family relations, love and romance, parents and children, love affair, homecoming, hopes, countryside, getting home, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, village life, life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, north carolina
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young loner wandering the back roads of North Carolina comes across an abandoned baby. He immediately starts seeking the baby's parents, but starts developing a bond with the child that explores his own isolated roots.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, atmospheric, gloomy
Plot:
missing child, family problems, family relations, orphan, missing person, adoption, isolation, abandoned baby, rivalry, misfit, single parent, legal action ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
north carolina, appalachia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
From the once thriving tobacco warehouses, to the current run-down and closed shops of Five Points, a diverse group of residents and their respective life changes when outsider Gus Leroy brings something new and potentially dangerous into their ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
estrangement, introspection, mysterious character, small town life, hopes, dishonesty, small town, social relations, intrigue, city, high school sweetheart, loss of job ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life and also a very big ...
Style:
touching, romantic, sad, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot:
teenager, opposites attract, fall in love, terminal illness, love and romance, cancer, love story, first love, youth, true love, love, high school ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina
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151K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Italy, Romania, UK
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind ...
Style:
romantic, epic, sincere, serious, touching ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
american civil war, survival, love story, civil war, tragic love, war, loss of family member, wartime, getting home, slavery, loss of loved one, military ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, victorian era, 50s
Place:
south carolina, north carolina, usa, ancient greece, atlantic ocean ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In a small North Carolina town, Paul, a womanizer, meets Noel, a confused intellectual returning home for the first time in years since she left for boarding school. The film depicts the typical romance of a good girl and a bad boy, in an ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, melancholic, atmospheric, touching ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night
Plot:
small town, womanizer, coming of age, regret, depression, existentialism, love, crumbling relationship, introspection, human nature, relationships, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, california, southern usa, usa
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the ...
Style:
scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
truck, survival, suspense, supernatural, gas station, monster, car, crazy, hostage, animate object, race against time, heroic mission ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
north carolina, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a gay couple has moved in across the street. All of their lives will intersect as Loggerheads subtly ...
Style:
serious, psychological, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, self discovery, couple relations, society, parents and children, family life, haunted by the past, gay interest, birth mother, hiv positive, sea turtle ...
Time:
90s, 60s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2000 ...
Place:
north carolina, appalachia, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Set in the landscape of a rural southern town, "George Washington" is a stunning portrait of how a group of young kids come to grips with a hard world of choices and consequences. During an innocent game in an abandoned amusement park, a ...
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, meditative, lyrical, touching ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, redemption, adolescence, boy, father son relationship, friendship, youth, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, death, social relations, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, tokyo, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
A tight-knit group of teens unearths a long-buried secret, setting off a chain of illicit events that takes them on an adventure they'll never forget.
Style:
exciting, entertaining, intellectual, feel good
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
group of friends, treasure, treasure hunt, wild ride, treasure map, friendship, treasure hunter, search for father, escapades, rivals, love, coming of age ...
Place:
north carolina
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Veteran catcher Crash Davis is brought to the minor league Durham Bulls to help their up and coming pitching prospect, "Nuke" Laloosh. Their relationship gets off to a rocky start and is further complicated when baseball groupie Annie ...
Style:
sexy, inspirational, funny, realistic, talky ...
Plot:
baseball, sport, small town, love triangle, mentor, relationships, age difference, sexual content, coach, summer, female nudity, underdog ...
Time:
80s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
north carolina, california, usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Alicia is a poor girl starting college. Hadley, Julianne and Sydney are three well-off girls in a row house. Classes begin and Alicia is paired with Hadley to work on a sociology class project. At first rejected, Alicia is finally accepted into ...
Style:
intense, stylized, sexy, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
investigation, college, murder, betrayal, lesbian, teenage life, cheerleading, wealth, mind game, manipulation, youth, divorce ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
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113K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
small town, starting over, obsession, fall in love, love and romance, domestic violence, small town life, single father, power of love, runaway, love, choice ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, boston, usa, new jersey, san francisco ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An inept taekwondo instructor struggles with marital troubles and an unhealthy obsession with fellow taekwondo enthusiast Chuck "The Truck" Williams.
Style:
funny, humorous, harsh, stylized, tragicomedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
martial arts, obsession, disorder, ambition, life is a bitch, buddies, breaking point, dark humor, contests and competitions, goofy hero, crumbling relationship, friendship ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A woman finds a romantic letter in a bottle washed ashore and tracks down the author, a widowed shipbuilder whose wife died tragically early. As a deep and mutual attraction blossoms, the man struggles to make peace with his past so that he can move ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sentimental, sincere, bad ending ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
love, sailing, haunted by the past, single parent, love story, anonymous letter, destiny, love letter, women, father son relationship, bittersweet, stranded ...
Time:
90s
Place:
north carolina, virginia, usa, new york, chicago illinois
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Skyler Day stars as Ociee Nash, a spirited nine-year-old from rural Mississippi. Ociee's idyllic life is thrown into a tailspin when she's sent to live with her Aunt Mamie to become a "young lady". Ociee's true bravery, ...
Style:
semi serious, touching, feel good, realistic, gothic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
youth, mischievous children, farm, starting over, young heroes, friendship, lifestyle, single parent, family life, adoption, teaching the ways of the world, nanny ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
north carolina, mississippi, tennessee, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young widower moves with his daughter into a North Carolina mountain town in 1934. He quickly takes up with a young woman with an illegitimate baby. First he must prove himself to her father and her three brothers. He does so first by joining them ...
Style:
touching, captivating, realistic, serious, sentimental
Plot:
widower, mountain, survival, nature, single father, family feud, great depression, love, winter, hillbilly, small town, bittersweet ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
north carolina, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, a rebellious young man struggles to escape the violence that would bind him to the past.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, tense, neo noir ...
Plot:
civil war, starting over, haunted by the past, social relations, life is a bitch, friendship, family relations, hopes, coming of age, youth, massacre, mountain ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
north carolina, appalachia, usa
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as he checks out the final prospect of his career. Along the way, the two renew their bond, and she catches the eye of a young player-turned-scout.
Style:
inspirational, touching, melancholic, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
baseball, father daughter relationship, sport, aging, reluctant, blind character, pitcher, kids and family, destiny, good versus evil, parent grown child relationship, scout ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, georgia, california, boston ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In order to secure the position of Head of Pediatrics at a top Chicago hospital, a young, highly accomplished, pediatrician agrees to spend a summer setting up a clinic in a small town in the North Carolina mountains. Clashing against the ways of ...
Style:
uplifting, emotional, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
pre-teens
Plot:
clinic, starting over, lifestyle, family relations, family life, doctors and patients, friendship, small town, widower, father son relationship, youth, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, chicago illinois, usa
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23K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
On the way to meet with an independent artist in the South, newlywed art dealer Madeleine is convinced by her husband, George, that they should stop to meet his family in North Carolina. Madeleine's affluent lifestyle clashes with the family, ...
Style:
humorous, emotional, sentimental, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, pregnancy, art, small town, eccentricity, painting, jealousy, love and romance, eccentric family, meet the parents, newlyweds, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, chicago illinois, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young man, Pat, visits the clan of gypsy-like grifters (Irish Travellers) in rural North Carolina from whom he is descended. He is at first rejected, but cousin Bokky takes him on as an apprentice. Pat learns the game while Bokky falls in love and ...
Style:
road movie, neo noir, bad ending, intense, enigmatic ...
Plot:
home invasion, funeral, grandmother grandson relationship, trailer home, death of grandmother, drifter, single mother, mentor protege relationship, widower, female bartender, gypsy, counterfeit money ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
north carolina, new orleans, usa
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Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Port City North Carolina: During a routine camp out, a local vagrant discovers plans for an invasion in America. When he tries to notify the local Sheriff about his discovery, the Sheriff dismisses his claims and has him locked up for loitering. ...
Style:
brutal, realistic, tense, disturbing
Plot:
post traumatic stress disorder, domestic terrorism, invasion, bad cop, violence, small town, pride and honor, mentor, social relations, state affairs, morality, death ...
Place:
north carolina
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A conservative, God fearing Southern family is spiritually changed by an auto accident, but who they become puts them at odds with the highly conservative values around them.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, talky, entertaining ...
Plot:
cheerleader, church, family relations, high school, family problems, religions or cults, high school life, dark humor, society, single parent, best friends, rehabilitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
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30K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell - a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets.
Style:
touching, psychological, sentimental, emotional, compassionate ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
feral child, mental illness, isolation, childhood, disability, loneliness, secrets, self discovery, psychologist, wilderness, doctors and patients, power relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
north carolina, usa
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133K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.
Style:
parody, funny, ridiculous, humorous, political ...
Plot:
congressman, politics, farce, satire, election campaign, election, mentor, political corruption, twists and turns, sarcasm, stereotypes, campaigning ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
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