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, interesting, tense, serious, cult classic and clever films and TV shows about / with dialogue, catastrophe, mentor, runaway, nude, storytelling, beach, pornography, family relations and betrayal plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres shot in USA, Canada, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as florida: The Glades (2010), Wild Things (1998), The Florida Project (2017), Out of Time (2003), Ruby in Paradise (1993), The Birdcage (1996), Pain & Gain (2013), Dolphin Tale (2011), Invasion (2005), Sweet Bird of Youth (1962).
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List of movies set in florida
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:
detective, cliffhanger, stylized, exciting, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police detective, law enforcement, multiple suspects, outsmarting, outside help, murder, team, murder investigation, police investigation, coworker, ex husband, starting over ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
florida, usa, everglades, miami
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140K
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:
tense, sexy, surprise ending, erotic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, date night, boys' night, chick flick, adult ...
Plot:
blackmail, femme fatale, plot twist, revenge, rape, hot and sexy, fatal attraction, twists and turns, sex, teachers and students, desire, lesbian ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
florida, usa, miami beach, miami, everglades
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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:
sincere, touching, inspirational, visually stunning, aesthetic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
friendship, poverty, social services, mother daughter relationship, children, motel, single mother, little girl, childhood, swimming pool, eviction, female friendship ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017
Place:
florida, nebraska, orlando florida
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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, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, murder mystery, police detective, police investigation, adultery, betrayal, homicide detective, conspiracy, police, frame up, investigation, double murder ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
florida, miami, usa, america, africa
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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, romantic drama ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
self discovery, coming of age, friendship, bittersweet, drinking, desire, shoplifting, spring break, suburbs, feminist, girl power, women ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
florida, tennessee, usa, tokyo, new jersey
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114K
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:
sexy, humorous, funny, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
lgbtq, gay parent, gender, gay, wedding, glbt, cross dressing, gay couple, senator, drag queen, gay father, farce ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
florida, miami, usa, miami beach, los angeles ...
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240K
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:
black comedy, dark comedy, humorous, sexy, funny ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
american dream, kidnapping, money, athlete's life, group of criminals, hot and sexy, stupidity, scam, bodybuilder, sex scene, escape, buddies ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 20th century, year 1995, year 1994 ...
Place:
miami, florida, usa, bahamas, mexico ...
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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:
inspirational, uplifting, sentimental, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot:
summer, hopes, young heroes, water, animal life, friendship, animal, youth, fish, destiny, summer vacation, child ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Place:
florida, usa, north america
Is relevant?
14K
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, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
creature, invasion, space and aliens, deadly creature, alien possession, evil alien, survival, danger, rescue, heroic mission, hurricane, alien ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, everglades, usa
Is relevant?
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:
southern gothic, emotional, intense, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
adultery, hollywood, betrayal, true love, loneliness, drug addiction, character study, tragedy, justice, movie star, unlikely couple, actor's life ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 1930s
Place:
florida, southern usa, usa, california, london
Is relevant?
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, gothic, erotic, atmospheric, sexual ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
reporter, prison, small town, paperboy, journalism, dangerous attraction, american south, violent sex, injustice, police investigation, newspaper man, deep south ...
Time:
60s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1969, 21st century
Place:
florida, everglades, usa, miami
Is relevant?
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:
sexy, light, sitcom, sexual, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
looking for love, neighbor, love and romance, small town life, wine, middle aged, supportive friend, lifestyle, friendship, parents and children, hot and sexy, marriage ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
florida, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A recently released ex-con gets involved in a fake kidnapping scheme that turns very real.
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, erotic, psychosexual thriller, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
femme fatale, murder, frame up, husband wife relationship, scam, sex, kidnapping, police investigation, ex convict, temptation, betrayal, teenage girl ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place:
florida, usa
Is relevant?
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, hipster, immigration, slacker, dialogue, existentialism, coming of age, melancholy, culture clash ...
Time:
year 1984, 80s, 20th century
Place:
florida, new york, ohio, manhattan new york city, cleveland ohio ...
Is relevant?
14K
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, slasher, dark comedy, meta, anamorphic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
cold war, cuban missile crisis, coming of age, filmmaking, teenager, monster, youth, showbiz, giant, paranoia, boy, dating ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, 80s
Place:
florida, key west florida, cuba, latin america, usa ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When the Kwimper family car runs out of gas on a new Florida highway and an officous state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his heels and decides to do a little homesteading. He and his son Toby and their "adopted" ...
Style:
psychotronic, cult classic, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
elvis presley, music, surfing, singer, passionate kiss, homestead, family relations, casino, adoption, gambling, gangster, twins ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s
Place:
florida, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Retired at 35 is an American sitcom on TV Land starring George Segal, Jessica Walter, Johnathan McClain, Josh McDermitt, Marissa Jaret Winokur and Ryan Michelle Bathe. It is the network's second original scripted series after Hot in Cleveland. ...
Style:
sitcom, feel good, humorous, light, captivating ...
Plot:
family life, parents and children, family relations, elderly, lifestyle, living with parents, friendship, fish out of water, male protagonist, homecoming, suburban life, family reunited ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa
Is relevant?
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:
period piece, neo noir, stylized, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, prohibition, revenge, gangster, betrayal, chase, criminal, friendship, police, murder, mob boss ...
Time:
1920s, year 2016, 2010s, 1930s
Place:
florida, boston, massachusetts, america, miami ...
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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, suspenseful, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
wealthy family, dysfunctional family, family relations, family business, siblings relations, haunted by the past, sibling relationship, family life, homecoming, secret, child abuse, police detective ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
florida, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A handful of men and women of a certain age pick up the pieces of their lives and look for new love after the loss of their mates in this comedy drama from writer-director Susan Seidelman.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, touching, realistic, humorous
Audience:
date night
Plot:
elderly, support group, old age, friendship, looking for love, love and romance, midlife crisis, family problems, couples, fall in love, family relations, single parent ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
florida, usa
Is relevant?
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, clever, suspense, talky ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
american football, prison, football, underdog, prison escape, cheerleader, farce, greed, crime gone awry, prison life, contests and competitions, partner ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 1930s
Place:
florida, usa, america, georgia, new jersey ...
Is relevant?
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:
realistic, touching, uplifting, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
writers, biopic, friendship, rural setting, backwoods, suburbs, art, deep south, poet, past, romantic relationship, wilderness ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 1930s
Place:
florida, southern usa, usa, new jersey, new york
Is relevant?
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, cult classic, tense, splatter, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, living dead, virus, survival, violence, post apocalypse, mad scientist, gory, zombie attack, survival horror ...
Time:
80s
Place:
florida, pittsburgh, usa
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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, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
old woman, female protagonist, widow, senior citizen, sicilian, friendship, elderly, group of friends, dating, southern belle, sarcasm, stupidity ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
florida, sicily, miami, atlanta georgia, brooklyn new york city ...
Is relevant?
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:
emotional, touching, sentimental, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
terminal illness, dysfunctional family, estrangement, leukemia, family drama, father daughter relationship, family problems, single parent, siblings relations, sibling relationship, unfulfillment, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place:
florida, usa, ohio, orlando florida
Is relevant?
44K
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:
sexy, neo noir, sexual, suspense, noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, femme fatale, obsession, adultery, sex, husband wife relationship, passion, female nudity, adulteress, greed, nudity, prison ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place:
florida, southern usa, usa, miami
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A canceled Thanksgiving parade and no options professionally or personally, Kimberly DiPersia and Alex R. Wagner decide it would be a perfect opportunity to travel to Florida.
Style:
feel good, humorous, captivating, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, holiday, santa claus, thanksgiving, new year's eve, travel and leisure, cross country trip, entertainment, travel, friends, christmas spirit, road trip ...
Place:
florida, orlando florida, key west florida
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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:
futuristic, feel good, entertaining, exciting, stylized ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids, teen drama, preschool
Plot:
time travel, ufo, flying saucer, benign alien, space and aliens, nasa, outer space, space travel, robot, alien, alien abduction, childhood ...
Time:
year 1986, year 1978, 90s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
florida, miami, miami beach, tokyo, japan ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Bobby Earl is facing the electric chair for the murder of a young girl. Eight years after the crime he calls in Paul Armstrong, a professor of law, to help prove his innocence. Armstrong quickly uncovers some overlooked evidence to present to the ...
Style:
tense, psychological, entertaining, suspense, rough ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
twists and turns, murder, death row, serial killer, psychopath, legal, swamp, revenge, courtroom, legal investigation, lawyer, fighting the system ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
florida, everglades, harvard university, usa, miami ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A young music journalist's dark memories are awakened when he goes to interview a female rock singer, and both are forced to confront troubling secrets from their pasts.
Style:
sincere, erotic, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
rape, haunted by the past, sexual abuse, gang rape, teenage girl, trauma, memory, beach, rapist, journalist, coping, musician's life ...
Place:
florida, usa, los angeles
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