Movies and TV shows set in minnesota

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in minnesota ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good and cult classic films and TV shows about / with family relations, snow, winter, small town, friendship, father daughter relationship, friends, love, husband wife relationship and profanity plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Family genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
minnesota
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minnesota movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as minnesota: Fargo (1996), Grumpy Old Men (1993), New in Town (2009), North Country (2005), Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), Young Adult (2011), Best Man Down (2012), Fargo (2014), Jingle All the Way (1996), Sweet Land (2005).

List of movies set in minnesota

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 8.1
 722K
Fargo (1996)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to ...
Style: neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: snow, dark humor, small town, kidnapping, police, murder, greed, crime gone awry, police investigation, violence, satire, winter ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1996, year 1987
Place: minnesota, north dakota, usa, minneapolis minnesota, persia
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 7.0
 54K
Grumpy Old Men (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent ...
Style: funny, feel good, hilarious, light, humorous ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: senior citizen, thanksgiving, buddy, small town, snow, winter, beautiful scenery, aging, friendship, old age, fall in love, couples ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1978
Place: minnesota, usa
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 5.7
 25K
New in Town (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Lucy Hill is an ambitious up-and-coming executive living in Miami. She loves her shoes, she loves her cars and she loves climbing the corporate ladder. When she is offered a temporary assignment – in the middle of nowhere – to restructure a ...
Style: feel good, humorous, sweet, light, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: small town, fish out of water, fall in love, opposites attract, love and romance, moral dilemma, winter, factory worker, creativity, social relations, life philosophy, prejudice ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: minnesota, miami, usa
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 7.3
 45K
North Country (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
Style: dramatic, emotional, sincere, factual, disturbing ...
Plot: courtroom drama, small town, feminism, sexual harassment, lawsuit, rape, court, lawyer, labor union, courtroom, sexism, workplace ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 70s, 80s
Place: minnesota, usa
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Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps; explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are ...
Style: mockumentary, dark comedy, black comedy, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: beauty pageant, murder, small town, farce, obsession, satire, dark humor, twists and turns, manipulation, blind ambition, cheerleader, trailer park ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 1995
Place: minnesota, usa
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 6.3
 87K
Young Adult (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.
Style: dark comedy, realistic, talky, emotional, depressing ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: mental illness, high school, small town, emotional breakdown, alcoholic, narcissism, divorce, hometown, borderline personality disorder, thirtysomething life, depression, old love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa, minneapolis minnesota
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 6.4
 10K
Best Man Down (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A newlywed couple cancels their honeymoon and returns to the snowy Midwest to make the funeral arrangements for their best man, who died unexpectedly after their ceremony.
Style: independent film, melancholic, light, talky, romantic ...
Plot: wedding, honeymoon, adaptation, secrets, dysfunctional family, couple relations, friendship, couples, dealing with death, newlyweds, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa, minneapolis minnesota, phoenix arizona
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 8.9
 417K
Fargo (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story: A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, captivating, detective, clever ...
Plot: dark humor, psychopath, small town, law enforcement, police investigation, cop, snow, killings, small town life, social relations, scheme, policewoman ...
Time: 2010s, year 1979, year 2014, future, year 2006 ...
Place: minnesota, north dakota, east germany, usa
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Jingle All the Way (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Meet Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company is constantly busy at his job, and he also constantly disappoints his son, after he misses his son's karate exposition, his son tells Howard that he wants for Christmas is an action figure ...
Style: humorous, slapstick, christmas classics, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot: christmas, father son relationship, holiday, santa claus, chase, toys, postman, shopping, superhero, christmas party, motorcycle, neighbor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 2016
Place: minnesota, usa, minneapolis minnesota
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 7.1
 4K
Sweet Land (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.
Style: touching, melancholic, stylized, sweet, sincere ...
Plot: citizenship, countryside, immigrant, prejudice, friendship, mail order bride, society, social issues, small town, farmer, wedding, fall in love ...
Time: 1920s, year 2005, 60s, 20th century, post world war one
Place: minnesota, usa, germany, europe
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 8.1
 778K
Inside Out (2015)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness. ...
Style: inspirational, touching, emotional, 3d animation, motivational ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: imaginary friend, memory, creativity, dream, joy, childhood, parents and children, life philosophy, subconscious, coming of age, friendship, happy ending ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, minnesota, california, tibet, usa
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A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court
Style: humorous, lyrical, feel good, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: radio, backstage, country music, musician's life, cowboy, lifestyle, showbiz, society, artists and showbiz, singer, music, storytelling ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa, chicago, wisconsin
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Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the massive city of Tokyo, Kumiko, a twenty-nine year old, lives in utter solitude. She works a dreadful, dead-end job under an awful boss, is intimidated by her well-off peers, and nagged incessantly by her overbearing mother who is exasperated ...
Style: depressing, surreal, art house, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot: treasure, language barrier, mental illness, treasure hunt, character study, alone in the world, survival, self discovery, obsession, female protagonist, map, delusion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, minnesota, tokyo, east asia, north dakota ...
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 6.9
 247K
Rio (2011)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel, a ...
Style: touching, humorous, entertaining, funny, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: bird, parrot, kids and family, jungle, animal, happy ending, friendship, good versus evil, fantasy world, childhood, talking animal, animal life ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 20th century, 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, minnesota, brazil, south america, iran ...
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 5.5
 150K
Jennifer's Body (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A newly possessed cheerleader turns into a killer who specializes in offing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?
Style: sexy, dark comedy, slasher, demonic, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: teenager, high school, supernatural, bad girl, satanic ritual, demon, succubus, seductress, small town, cheerleading, dark humor, cannibalism ...
Time: year 2009, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: minnesota, indiana
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Little Big League (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When the owner of the Minnesota Twins passes away, he bequeaths the team to his preteen grandson. The newly minted head honcho quickly appoints himself manager, causing unrest in an organisation that struggles to take orders from a 12-year-old.
Style: humorous, epic, semi serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: baseball, childhood, coming of age, youth, teenager, motivation, mathematics, sport team, boy, friends, power relations, family relations ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: minnesota, usa, minneapolis minnesota, bronx new york city, boston ...
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 7.4
 547K
Juno (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young girl named Juno gets herself pregnant and tries to stand on her own, but soon learns a few lessons about being grown up.
Style: funny, touching, sweet, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, adoption, teenager, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, high school, love and romance, female protagonist, teenage girl, strong female character, friendship ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: minnesota, usa
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 7.5
 76K
A Simple Plan (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, France, USA, Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain ...
Style: neo noir, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: greed, snow, small town, betrayal, fbi, bag of money, heist, winter, twists and turns, character study, moral ambiguity, redemption ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place: minnesota, usa, wisconsin
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Grumpier Old Men (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A family wedding reignites the ancient feud between next-door neighbors and fishing buddies John and Max. Meanwhile, a sultry Italian divorcée opens a restaurant at the local bait shop, alarming the locals who worry she'll scare the fish away. ...
Style: hilarious, funny, melancholic, suspense, humorous ...
Plot: fishing, fish, vengeance, friendship, wedding, prank, odd couple, single parent, disorder, parents and children, bait, partner ...
Time: 90s
Place: minnesota
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Feeling Minnesota (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sam Clayton's (Vincent D'Onofrio) marriage to ex-stripper Freddie (Cameron Diaz) comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red (Delroy Lindo), a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with ...
Style: dark comedy, independent film, black comedy, talky, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, corruption, murder, gangster, wedding, love triangle, stripper, family relations, elopement, motel, presumed dead, framed for murder ...
Time: 90s
Place: minnesota, las vegas, usa
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D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After Gordon Bombay's hockey comeback is cut short he is named coach of Team USA Hockey for the Junior Goodwill Games. Bombay reunites the Mighty Ducks and introduces a few new players, however, he finds himself distracted by his newfound fame ...
Style: spectacular, epic, hilarious, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: ice hockey, hockey, competition, childhood, olympics, underdog, youth, friendship, teenager, winter, athlete and trainer, child ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place: minnesota, los angeles, iceland, usa, europe
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 7.0
 149K
A Serious Man (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Serious Man is the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, philosophical, ironic, cynical ...
Plot: midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, professor, rabbi, teacher, suburban life, divorce, marijuana, religion, mysticism, life, neighbor ...
Time: year 2009, 60s, 2000s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: minnesota, usa, poland, bolivia, israel ...
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 8.0
 5K
The New Land (1972)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Sweden
Duration: 202 min.
Story: Continuation from Utvandrarna (1971): The Swedes arrive in the USA. They still have a long journey to Minnesota where they expect to find other Swedes. When they arrive there, each family searches a place to build a home. Kristina and Karl-Oskar ...
Style: epic, captivating, serious, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Plot: settler, immigration, immigrant, farmer, migration, nordic, american civil war, native american, food, intrigue, redsploitation, water ...
Time: 19th century, year 1972, 1850s, 1860s
Place: minnesota, america, usa
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 6.6
 9K
Iron Will (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When Will Stoneman's father dies, he is left alone to take care of his mother and their land. Needing money to maintain it, he decides to join a cross country dogsled race. This race will require days of racing for long hours, through harsh ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, uplifting, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog sled, dog, survival, treasure hunt, animal, racing, underdog, winter, world war one, human animal relationship, canine, nature ...
Time: year 1994, 1910s, 20th century
Place: alaska, minnesota, canada, usa
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D3: The Mighty Ducks (1996)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The Ducks are offered scholarships at Eden Hall Academy but struggle with their new coach's methods and come under pressure from the board to retain their scholarships before their big game against the Varsity team.
Style: epic, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot: ice hockey, hockey, competition, high school, olympics, childhood, college, school, coming of age, underdog, winter, happy ending ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: minnesota, usa
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Major League: Back to the Minors (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: At the behest of Roger Dorn -- the Minnesota Twins' silver-tongued new owner -- washed-up minor league hurler Gus Cantrell steps up to the plate to take over as skipper of the club's hapless farm team. But little does he know that Dorn has ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: baseball, underdog, major league, racing, sport competition, contest, competition, tournament, sport team, rivalry, training, career ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: minnesota, usa, south carolina
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 5.6
 42K
Regression (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John unexpectedly and without recollection admits guilt, renowned psychologist Dr. Raines is brought in ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, atmospheric, detective ...
Plot: psychiatrist, investigation, hospital, paranoia, police officer, false accusation, memory loss, twists and turns, child abuse, nightmare, obsession, devil ...
Time: 20th century, year 2015, year 1990, 90s
Place: usa, minnesota
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 6.8
 315K
Contagion (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
Style: apocalyptic, suspense, bleak, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: epidemic, virus, deadly virus, pandemic, infection, infected, quarantine, survival, plague, disaster, medical, natural disaster ...
Time: 2010s, future, distant future, year 2000, year 2011 ...
Place: minnesota, hong kong, san francisco, california, bay area ...
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 7.0
 8K
Coach (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Coach is an American television sitcom that aired for nine seasons on ABC from 1989 to 1997. The series stars Craig T. Nelson as Hayden Fox, head coach of the fictional Division I-A college football team the Minnesota State University Screaming ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, not serious, humorous
Plot: american football, workplace, football, football team, college, athlete and trainer, youth, family relations, power relations, social relations, sport team, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: minnesota, usa
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The Mighty Ducks (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After reckless young lawyer Gordon Bombay gets arrested for drunk driving, he must coach a kids hockey team for his community service. Gordon has experience on the ice, but isn't eager to return to hockey, a point hit home by his tense dealings ...
Style: inspirational, humorous, sweet, light, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot: hockey, ice hockey, sport team, happy ending, childhood, athlete and trainer, competition, underdog, foe turned friend, youth, redemption, self discovery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: minnesota, minneapolis minnesota
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