Movies and TV shows set in nebraska

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in nebraska ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, scary, independent film, humorous and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with youth, family relations, small town, teenager, small town life, husband wife relationship, death, murder, violence and bar plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as nebraska: Nebraska (2013), The Good Life (2007), Boys Don't Cry (1999), Hick (2011), Heaven Is for Real (2014), Skins (2002), On the Road (2012), Murder in the Heartland (1993), The Indian Runner (1991), The Substitute Wife (1994).

List of movies set in nebraska

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 123K
Nebraska (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
Style: road movie, black and white, depressing, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: aging, road trip, small town, dysfunctional family, elderly, on the road, old age, obsessive quest, honest, relationships, tragedy, eccentricity ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: nebraska, montana, usa
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The Good Life (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A story about a mostly normal young man who makes the most out of fitting in when he obviously doesn't.
Style: semi serious, sincere, realistic, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: small town, family problems, fish out of water, small town life, hopes, sport team, social relations, working class, teenage life, dysfunctional family, athlete's life, lifestyle ...
Place: nebraska, usa
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Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When a girl named Jamie repeatedly tries to contact her grandmother to no avail, she investigates by going to her apartment in Omaha Nebraska - only to find that it's been condemned and overtaken by possessed children. As she digs deeper, she ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, slasher, exciting ...
Plot: stephen king, zombie, ghost, small town, good versus evil, supernatural, serial killer, creepy child, religions or cults, danger, escapades, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nebraska, usa
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 7.5
 103K
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Female born, Teena Brandon adopts his male identity of Brandon Teena and attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska.
Style: bleak, disturbing, touching, independent film, sad ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, gender, rape, transgender, transsexual, violence, prejudice, lgbt, tragic love, small town, gay slur, lgbtq ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: nebraska, texas, usa
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 5.5
 21K
Hick (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A pistol-packing teen meets an unstable rebel and a cocaine-snorting drifter as she hitchhikes her way out West.
Style: touching, realistic, independent film, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, hitchhiker, teenage runaway, on the road, nymphet, alcoholic, self discovery, teenage life, friendship, lolita, youth, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 21st century
Place: nebraska, oklahoma, usa, california
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Heaven Is for Real (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Heaven is for Real recounts the true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. Four-year-old Colton shares the details of his amazing journey ...
Style: christian film, inspirational, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: faith, afterlife, christianity, god, heaven, jesus, religion, near death experience, small town, life & death, parenthood, happy ending ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nebraska, usa, lithuania
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 2K
Skins (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux Indian brothers living on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
Style: serious, rough, realistic, gloomy, contemplative ...
Plot: native american reservation, vigilantism, native american, brother brother relationship, family relations, arson, vandalism, life is a bitch, homecoming, american football, social relations, human nature ...
Time: year 2002
Place: nebraska, montana, idaho, asia, south dakota ...
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 6.0
 43K
On the Road (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA, UK, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Argentina
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.
Style: road movie, sexy, independent film, inspirational, melancholic ...
Plot: road trip, writers, on the road, beat generation, infidelity, friendship, bisexual, travelogue, beatnik, youth, hitchhiker, watching sex ...
Time: 1940s, year 1951, 1950s, 50s, year 2012 ...
Place: nebraska, california, arizona, usa, louisiana ...
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To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Three New York drag queens on their way to Hollywood for a beauty pageant get stranded in a small Midwestern town for the entire weekend when their car breaks down. While waiting for parts for their Cadillac convertible, the flamboyant trio shows ...
Style: road movie, cult classic, entertaining, sweet, light ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: gay, transvestism, gender bending, drag queen, small town, friendship, cross dressing, road trip, on the road, lgbt, transgender, culture clash ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: nebraska, usa, new york
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Murder in the Heartland (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
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Story: A wanna-be tough guy and his 14-year-old girlfriend go on a murder spree.
Plot: serial killer, true crime, killer, age difference, good girl gone bad, violent, murder, murderer, cigarette smoking, courtroom, killing spree, based on real people ...
Time: 1950s
Place: nebraska
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The Indian Runner (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: An intensely sad film about two brothers who cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things ...
Style: psychological, realistic, rough, serious, independent film ...
Plot: small town, family problems, brother brother relationship, pregnancy, vietnam war, welder, brothers, melancholy, murder, childhood, violence, blood ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s, year 1991
Place: usa, nebraska, america, ohio, asia ...
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The Substitute Wife (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In Nebraska, in pioneer days, a woman who knows she is going to die asks a prostitute to replace her with her husband and four children in order to make it possible for them to keep their family farm.
Style: touching, emotional, sincere, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: bigamy, prostitute, love triangle, family relations, self discovery, polygamy, american history, open relationship, couples, life is a bitch, love and romance, aging ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: nebraska
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Night of the Twisters (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A Nebraska farm community is plagued by a storm with a series of tornadoes acting against normal patterns...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful
Audience: kids
Plot: disaster, tornado, natural disaster, weather, youth, apocalypse, climate, family relations, old lady, small town, family life, countryside ...
Time: 90s
Place: nebraska, usa
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 12K
Peacock (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man with a split personality fools his small town into believing his two alter egos are man and wife, although a struggling young mother holds the key to his past and sparks a battle between the personalities.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, intense, thought provoking ...
Plot: mental illness, split personality, small town, guilt, mental disorder, single mother, double life, small town life, social relations, husband wife relationship, twists and turns, lgbt ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: usa, nebraska
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 7.3
 104K
Election (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, political, witty, humorous ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, teacher, election, satire, teenage girl, politics, campaign, jealousy, coming of age, society, school, teachers and students ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, y2k, 20th century
Place: nebraska, washington d.c., new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Children of the Corn (1984)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
Style: suspense, slasher, demonic, suspenseful, creepy ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: killer child, folk horror, children, blood, religion, creepy child, supernatural, small town, violence, murder, isolation, child murders an adult ...
Time: 80s
Place: nebraska, usa, iowa
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 7.3
 2K
Tully (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Tully Jr. and Earl live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While the shy, reclusive Earl spends his free time watching movies, the cockier Tully works his way through a succession of short-term affairs and an ...
Style: emotional, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot: small town, coming of age, friendship, lifestyle, introspection, young lovers, womanizer, couples, family problems, youth, society, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2000
Place: nebraska, england, usa, europe
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Starkweather (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1958 Nebraska 19 year old garbageman Charles Starkweather goes on a murder spree with his 14 year old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate killing 11 people in three months, introducing America to spree killing.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, detective ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, lovers on the run, psychopath, mind game, police investigation, gory, teenage life, law enforcement, violence spree, chase, true crime ...
Place: nebraska, usa, wyoming
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Caddyshack (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favour of the elitist ...
Style: funny, slapstick, light, intense, not serious ...
Audience: teens, family outing, adult
Plot: golf, country club, female nudity, public nudity, nudity, teenage girl, nude girl, rivalry, boobs, lust, swimming pool, peeping tom ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: usa, nebraska
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 7.2
 133K
About Schmidt (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: 66-year-old Warren Schmidt is a retired insurance salesman and has no particular plans other than to drive around in the motor home his wife insisted they buy. He's not altogether bitter, but not happy either, as everything his wife does annoys ...
Style: road movie, depressing, dark comedy, sad, melancholic ...
Plot: road trip, on the road, parenthood, wedding, elderly, family life, existentialism, depression, life philosophy, great ending, workplace, philosophy ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: nebraska, colorado, denver colorado, kansas
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Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A girl called Hannah goes back to her hometown (Gatlin) to find out who her mother but on the way she picks up a strange man who fore-shadows her life with a passage from the bible. When she gets there she wakes up Isaac from a coma he has been in ...
Style: slasher, classic horror, cult horror, pastoral, saga ...
Plot: stephen king, evil child, teenager, religion, killer child, folk horror, occult, creepy kid, bad kids, faith, creepy child, psycho ...
Time: 90s
Place: nebraska, usa
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Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.
Style: funny, humorous, stylized, dark comedy, not serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: road trip, on the road, jackass, prank, funeral, goofy hero, grandparent and grandchild, disorder, elderly, irresponsible, dirty old man, vandalism ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: north carolina, nebraska, america, usa, tennessee ...
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The House Without a Christmas Tree (1972)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A young girl named Addie, living in Nebraska in 1946 wants nothing more for the holidays than a Christmas tree, but her widowed father, is bitter and refuses due to events from the family's past.
Style: christmas classics, christmas special, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, bondage, family relations, family problems, youth, crumbling marriage, mischievous children, young heroes, single parent, small town, eccentric family ...
Time: 70s
Place: nebraska, usa
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Zombie Strippers (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the not too distant future a secret government re-animation chemo-virus gets released into conservative Sartre, Nebraska and lands in an underground strip club. As the virus begins to spread, turning the strippers into "Super Zombie ...
Style: sexy, humorous, stylized, grindhouse, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: stripper, zombie, experiment gone awry, striptease, violence, deadly virus, virus, chaos, nothing goes right, danger, race against time, supernatural ...
Time: year 2008, future, 21st century
Place: nebraska, usa
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Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two young Gatlin residents are orphaned after the younger brother kills their father. The terror of Gatlin goes urban when the two boys are placed in the custody of two foster parents in the city. The younger brother takes some corn seeds along for ...
Style: scary, slasher, cult classic, classic horror, dark ...
Plot: killer child, stephen king, supernatural, creepy child, telekinesis, religion, killer scarecrow, evil child, scarecrow, youth, vengeance, gory ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, nebraska, usa
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Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Arriving in Gatlin, Nebraska, a news-reporter and his son get wind of a story about the youth in the town murdering their parents finds that a series of brutal murders are revealed to be worshipers of the corn-stalks and try to stop them before they ...
Style: slasher, cult classic, scary, classic horror, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, children, stephen king, creepy child, killer child, cornfield, occult, evil child, reporter, investigation, gory, murder ...
Time: 90s
Place: nebraska, usa
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Balls Out: Gary the Tennis Coach (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An overenthusiastic high-school maintenance man attempts to lead an unlikely group of misfits to the Nebraska state tennis championship in Balls Out: The Gary Houseman Story? director Danny Leiner's underdog sports comedy. American Pie star ...
Style: funny, humorous, sexy, satirical, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: tennis, male nudity, teacher, mentor, stereotypes, athlete and trainer, ambition, rivalry, misfit, youth, lifestyle, school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nebraska, usa
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Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This complex portrait of modern-day life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation explores the bond between a brother and his younger sister, who find themselves on separate paths to rediscovering the meaning of home.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: native american, teenager, society, youth, indian reservation, american indian, american football, dysfunctional family, death in the family, family problems, social relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, nebraska, indiana, south dakota
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Take Me to the River (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A naive California teen plans to remain above the fray at his Nebraskan family reunion, but a strange encounter places him at the center of a long-buried family secret.
Style: ambiguous ending, psychological, suspenseful, sincere, touching ...
Plot: river, child abuse, family secret, injustice, suspicion, children, cousin cousin relationship, summer, farm, child sexual abuse, lgbt, precocious child ...
Place: nebraska
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A Simple Wish (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Murray is a male fairy godmother, and he is trying to help 8-year-old Anabel to fulfil her "simple wish" - that her father Oliver, who is a cab driver, would win the leading role in a Broadway musical. Unfortunately, Murray's magic ...
Style: feel good, fairy tale, funny, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: magic, good versus evil, fairy godmother, magic wand, witch, imaginary, rivalry, supernatural ability, down on your luck, mischievous children, supernatural, parents and children ...
Time: year 1997
Place: nebraska, new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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