Films in this library shot in Illinois, a state whose film identity is almost entirely Chicago. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
ChicagoBernard 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…
ChicagoAn 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…
CaliforniaSoderbergh's 2001 Rat Pack remake. Clooney, Pitt, Damon, Roberts, Gould.
ChicagoSnubbed 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…
ChicagoBrian De Palma's 1987 Eliot Ness biopic. Costner, Connery, De Niro as Capone.
ChicagoScorsese's 1986 Hustler sequel. Paul Newman returns as Fast Eddie alongside Tom Cruise.
ChicagoJohn Sayles' 1988 Black Sox scandal drama. The 1919 thrown World Series through procedural accuracy.
Czech Republic1996 Brian De Palma spy thriller launching the Tom Cruise franchise. Mission: Impossible is Brian De Palma's 1996 American spy thriller and the franchise launcher that has produced multiple sequels across three decades.
Chicago1983 Paul Brickman comedy with Tom Cruise as a Chicago teen who turns his parents' empty house into a brothel for one weekend. Risky Business is Paul Brickman's 1983 American comedy and the film that launched Tom Cruise's career.
California1971 Guy Hamilton Bond film with Connery returning. Las Vegas setting, diamond smuggling, Blofeld as Howard Hughes pastiche.
Chicago1996 Gregory Hoblit thriller with Richard Gere as a Chicago defense attorney and Edward Norton's breakthrough as an altar boy accused of murder. Primal Fear is Gregory Hoblit's 1996 American courtroom thriller adapting William Diehl's 1993 novel.
CaliforniaThe film that proved comic book films could be major cinema. The Dark Knight is the Christopher Nolan-directed second entry in his Batman trilogy and the film that established the post-2008 standard for superhero cinema.
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