Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) Review
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Diane Keaton plays a teacher of deaf children who spends her nights in bars, in a film that is genuinely good for ninety minutes and then…
Filming Location: Chicago
Films in this library shot in Chicago, a city with a distinct architectural signature that directors use deliberately. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
ChicagoOrdinary People (1980) Review
Ordinary People (1980) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Robert Redford's first film as director is a carefully observed drama about a family that cannot discuss a death, and it won Best Picture and Director over Raging…
ChicagoHenry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) Review
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Made for around a hundred thousand dollars, shelved for four years over its rating, and still the film that other films about this subject…
ChicagoIronheart (2025) Review
Ironheart (2025) rates 1 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The series that closed Phase 5, three years after its protagonist was installed in a film that had other business. A character handed a show on the strength of…
ChicagoRoad to Perdition (2002) Review
Road to Perdition (2002) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A gangster film shot like a painting, about a man teaching his son a trade while trying to keep him out of it. Conrad Hall's last work…
ChicagoCandyman (1992)
Bernard Rose adapts Clive Barker's story about a graduate student researching an urban legend that summons a hook-handed killer. Candyman is Bernard Rose's 1992 American supernatural horror film adapted from Clive Barker's short story 'The Forbidden', depicting a graduate student…
ChicagoThe Omen (1976)
An American diplomat learns his adopted son may be the Antichrist as people around the boy die in supernatural accidents. The Omen is Richard Donner's 1976 American horror film depicting an American diplomat who learns that his adopted son may…
CaliforniaOcean’s Eleven (2001)
Soderbergh's 2001 Rat Pack remake. Clooney, Pitt, Damon, Roberts, Gould.
ChicagoHoop Dreams (1994)
Snubbed by Oscars in major scandal. Hoop Dreams is Steve James's 1994 American documentary tracking two African-American teenagers from Chicago, William Gates and Arthur Agee, across five years as they pursue careers in professional basketball through high school recruitment, family…
ChicagoThe Untouchables (1987)
Brian De Palma's 1987 Eliot Ness biopic. Costner, Connery, De Niro as Capone.
ChicagoThe Color of Money (1986)
Scorsese's 1986 Hustler sequel. Paul Newman returns as Fast Eddie alongside Tom Cruise.
ChicagoEight Men Out (1988)
John Sayles' 1988 Black Sox scandal drama. The 1919 thrown World Series through procedural accuracy.