Movies and TV shows set in florida

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in florida ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, cult classic, tense, suspenseful and touching films and TV shows about / with family relations, husband wife relationship, beach, friendship, father son relationship, murder, bare chested male, kiss, deception and deadly plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, West Germany, Canada and other countries.
florida
 618
florida movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as florida: The Florida Project (2017), The Glades (2010), Invasion (2005), Out of Time (2003), Body Heat (1981), Pain & Gain (2013), Ruby in Paradise (1993), Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), The Birdcage (1996), Frogs (1972).

List of movies set in florida

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The Florida Project (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
Style: touching, sincere, aesthetic, social, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: poverty, mother daughter relationship, social services, friendship, children, motel, summer, single mother, little girl, childhood, eviction, female friendship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017
Place: florida, nebraska, orlando florida
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 15K
The Glades (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: This Crime series follows Matt Passmore as Jim, a Chicago cop who gets kicked off the force after being shot and wrongfully accused by his ex-captain of having an affair with his wife. After receiving his payout, Jim decides to moves to a small ...
Style: stylized, cliffhanger, detective, semi serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, law enforcement, multiple suspects, murder, team, suspicion, dishonesty, murder investigation, hotshot hero, ex husband, starting over, lifestyle change ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: florida, usa, everglades, miami
Is relevant ?
 7.5
 13K
Invasion (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Invasion is an American science fiction television series that aired on ABC for only one season beginning in September 21, 2005. Somewhat similar to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the show told the story of the aftermath of a hurricane in which ...
Style: serious, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, survival, invasion, space and aliens, creature, deadly creature, alien possession, rescue, danger, heroic mission, evil alien, hurricane ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, everglades, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.5
 65K
Out of Time (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trusted in ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, tense, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: twists and turns, murder, police investigation, murder mystery, police detective, betrayal, conspiracy, police, frame up, investigation, double murder, law enforcement ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: florida, miami, usa
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 7.4
 40K
Body Heat (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
Style: neo noir, sexy, sexual, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: femme fatale, obsession, murder, adultery, lawyer, husband wife relationship, female nudity, passion, fatal attraction, greed, adulteress, lust ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place: florida, usa, miami
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 228K
Pain & Gain (2013)
Genre: Action, Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adrian as accomplices. After several failed attempts, ...
Style: stylized, dark comedy, humorous, funny, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: american dream, kidnapping, buddies, athlete's life, money, friends, group of criminals, hot and sexy, stupidity, bodybuilding, dark humor, scam ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 20th century, year 1995, year 1994 ...
Place: miami, florida, usa, bahamas, mexico
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Ruby in Paradise (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Reeling from her mother's recent death, Ruby Lee Gissing relocates to Florida to start anew. After finding a job at a souvenir store, Ruby becomes friends with the shop's owner, Mildred Chambers, and slowly acclimates to her new ...
Style: independent film, realistic, touching, road movie, mumblecore ...
Plot: self discovery, coming of age, friendship, bittersweet, drinking, shoplifting, suburbs, girl power, feminist, women, spring break, society ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: florida, tennessee, usa
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Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, returns to his home town as the accompaniment of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter ...
Style: emotional, southern gothic, intense, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: hollywood, adultery, betrayal, drug addiction, loneliness, movie star, justice, tragedy, character study, couple relations, unlikely couple, actor's life ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: florida, usa
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 100K
The Birdcage (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's right-wing moralistic parents.
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, light, feel good ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: gay, cross dressing, senator, gender, drag queen, gay parent, gay couple, farce, lgbtq, wedding, gay slur, nightclub ...
Time: 90s
Place: florida, miami, usa, miami beach, los angeles
Is relevant ?
 4.4
 8K
Frogs (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jason Crockett is an aging, grumpy, physically disabled millionaire who invites his family to his island estate for his birthday celebration. Pickett Smith is a free-lance photographer who is doing a pollution layout for an ecology magazine. Jason ...
Style: surprise ending, natural horror, grindhouse, cult classic, suspense ...
Plot: swamp, nature, creature feature, leech, bird attack, island, monster, dysfunctional family, revenge, disaster, animal attack, killer animal ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: florida, usa
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Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Rootless Hungarian émigré Willie, his pal Eddie, and visiting sixteen-year-old cousin Eva always manage to make the least of any situation, whether aimlessly traversing the drab interiors and environs of New York City, Cleveland, or an anonymous ...
Style: independent film, road movie, black and white, art house, contemplative ...
Plot: minimalism, immigrant, road trip, on the road, snow, existentialism, dialogue, coming of age, melancholy, jazz, culture clash, loneliness ...
Time: year 1984, 20th century, 80s
Place: florida, new york, ohio, cleveland ohio, hungary ...
Is relevant ?
 5.7
 39K
The Paperboy (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent ...
Style: sexy, atmospheric, surreal, serious, tense ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: reporter, prison, small town, investigation, journalism, paperboy, dangerous attraction, bdsm, injustice, police investigation, newspaper man, uncover truth ...
Time: 60s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1969, 21st century
Place: florida, everglades, usa, miami
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Empire of the Ants (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Sleazy scam artist Joan Collins tries to sell phony real estate deals down in the Florida everglades. What she and her unsuspecting buyers don't know is the area has been taken over by giant ants!
Style: scary, intense, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: ant, supernatural, giant insect, monster, disaster, giant monster, technology, real estate, danger, deadly creature, dangerous animal, toxic ...
Place: florida, everglades, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.9
 2K
Cross Creek (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The portrait of a woman who, at the edge of survival, found a world of meaning.
Style: touching, realistic, atmospheric, serious, captivating ...
Plot: writers, swamp, biopic, friendship, suburbs, deep south, art, romantic relationship, past, poet, rural setting, backwoods ...
Time: year 1983, 80s, 1930s
Place: florida, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.9
 12K
Matinee (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A showman introduces a small coastal town to a unique movie experience and capitalises on the Cuban Missile crisis hysteria with a kitschy horror extravaganza combining film effects, stage props and actors in rubber suits in this salute to the ...
Style: cult classic, retro, slasher, dark comedy, meta ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: cold war, filmmaking, monster, cuban missile crisis, coming of age, youth, showbiz, giant, paranoia, boy, mad scientist, nuclear threat ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 20th century
Place: florida, cuba, key west florida, usa, latin america
Is relevant ?
 6.8
 26K
Dolphin Tale (2011)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A story centered on the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap.
Style: uplifting, sentimental, realistic, touching, serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: summer, young heroes, hopes, water, friendship, animal life, human spirit, animal, youth, fish, destiny, child ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: florida, usa
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 46K
Cougar Town (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Jules Cobb is a mom in her forties facing the often humorous challenges, pitfalls and rewards of life's next chapter. Along for the journey is her son, her ex-husband, her husband/neighbor and her friends who together make up her dysfunctional, ...
Style: sitcom, light, sexy, sexual, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: looking for love, neighbor, friendship, supportive friend, wine, love and romance, small town life, middle aged, lifestyle, parents and children, family relations, marriage ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: florida, usa
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 329K
Moonlight (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Style: serious, lgbt cinema, art house, hood, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: lgbt, forgiveness, african american, drug dealer, lgbtq, coming of age, gay, homosexuality, drug addict, dysfunctional family, bullying, beach ...
Time: year 2016, 2000s, 2010s
Place: florida, indiana, idaho, atlanta georgia, miami
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 6.4
 60K
Live by Night (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A story set in the Prohibition Era and centered around a group of individuals and their dealings in the world of organized crime.
Style: neo noir, stylized, period piece, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: organized crime, prohibition, chase, mafia, revenge, betrayal, criminal, friendship, murder, police, gangster, death ...
Time: 1920s, year 2016, 2010s, 1930s
Place: florida, boston, massachusetts, america, miami ...
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 7.9
 58K
Bloodline (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A dramatic thriller that explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The Rayburns are hard-working pillars of their Florida Keys community. But when the black sheep son comes home for the 45th anniversary of ...
Style: psychological thriller, psychological, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, wealthy family, siblings relations, haunted by the past, sibling relationship, homecoming, family life, secret, dark secret, police detective, police investigation ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: florida, usa
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The Longest Yard (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In this rough-and-tumble yarn, actually filmed on-location at the Georgia State Prision, the cons are the heroes and the guards are the heavies. Eddie Albert is the sadistic warden who'll gladly make any sacrifice to push his guards' ...
Style: inspirational, intense, suspense, talky, witty ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: prison, american football, football, underdog, prison escape, cheerleader, farce, greed, crime gone awry, unlikely friendships, prison life, contests and competitions ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: florida, usa, america, georgia
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 30K
Marvin's Room (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
Plot: terminal illness, dysfunctional family, estrangement, leukemia, family drama, cancer, father daughter relationship, teenage boy, family problems, single parent, siblings relations, sibling relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place: florida, usa, ohio, orlando florida
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Day of the Dead (1985)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The final chapter of George A. Romero's "Dead Trilogy". In an underground government installation they are searching for a cure to overcome this strange transformation into zombies. Unfortunately, the zombies from above ground have ...
Style: bloody, disturbing, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, zombie apocalypse, living dead, virus, apocalypse, gory, mad scientist, violence, insanity, macabre, survival, monster ...
Time: 80s
Place: florida, pittsburgh, usa
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The Golden Girls (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Golden Girls is an American sitcom, created by Susan Harris, that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, witty, realistic, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: female protagonist, old woman, elderly, senior citizen, storytelling, sicilian, dating, family relations, singleness, parents and children, lifestyle, best friend ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: florida, miami, atlanta georgia, sicily, brooklyn new york city ...
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 130K
Wild Things (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam Lombardo of rape, he's suspended by the school, rejected by the town, and fighting to get his life back. One cop suspects conspiracy, but ...
Style: erotic, surprise ending, psychological, tense, sexy ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night, chick flick, adult ...
Plot: femme fatale, blackmail, rape, fatal attraction, dangerous attraction, lesbian, plot twist, desire, sex, sexual harassment, teachers and students, twists and turns ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: florida, usa, miami, miami beach, everglades
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Flight of the Navigator (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This 1986 Disney adventure tells the story of 12-year-old David who lives with his family in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. When he awakens from being accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, he finds that eight years have passed. His family is ...
Style: feel good, futuristic, entertaining, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teen drama, preschool
Plot: time travel, ufo, nasa, benign alien, space and aliens, space travel, outer space, flying saucer, robot, alien, getting home, young heroes ...
Time: year 1978, year 1986, 80s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: florida, miami, miami beach, japan, texas ...
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Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park Frank is able to start a conversation after several attempts. They begin to spend time ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, sincere, light, captivating ...
Plot: aging, senior citizen, friendship, sea captain, buddies, hopes, summer, barber, alcoholic, old age, retirement, wrestling ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: florida
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Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston.
Style: touching, uplifting, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: racism, gambling, marriage, jealousy, love, small town, interracial relations, human spirit, family problems, injustice, black, small town life ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: florida
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Chattahoochee (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.
Style: disturbing, serious, sincere, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: courtroom drama, mental institution, social decay, injustice, life is a bitch, male pubic hair, male nudity, hospital, price of justice, prodigy, fighting the system, rebellion ...
Time: year 1989, 50s, 1950s, year 1952, year 1955 ...
Place: florida, usa, miami, korea
Is relevant ?
 5.2
 1K
Endure (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After a shocking photo of a young woman is found inside the twisted metal of a fatal car crash, veteran detective Emory Lloyd must risk everything to identify and find the woman before it's too late.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, detective
Plot: kidnapping, police detective, race against time, police investigation, woman in danger, partner, danger, law enforcement, confined, reluctant partners, husband wife relationship, swamp ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, usa
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