Top Illinois Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Michael B. Jordan

Hailee Steinfeld

Miles Caton

Jack O'Connell

Sinners (2025)

7.5 4.8K votes

Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: R

Story: Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

Plot: chicago, illinois, capitalism, ku klux klan, musician, immortality, vampire, cousin, ...

Time: 1990s, 1930s

Cast

Cate Blanchett

Rooney Mara

Kyle Chandler

Jake Lacy

Carol (2015)

7.5 4.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.

Plot: hotel, new year's eve, chicago, illinois, new york city, based on novel or book, parent child relationship, age difference, ...

Time: 1950s

Shining Girls (2022) TV Show

7.5 216 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Years after a brutal attack left her in a constantly shifting reality, Kirby Mazrachi learns that a recent murder is linked to her assault. She teams with veteran reporter Dan Velazquez to understand her ever-changing present—and confront her past.

Plot: chicago, illinois, based on novel or book, serial killer, miniseries, newspaper reporter, traumatized woman, thriller

Cast

Paul Muni

Ann Dvorak

Karen Morley

Osgood Perkins

Scarface (1932)

7.4 699 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: 15

Story: In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

Plot: chicago, illinois, sibling relationship, based on novel or book, police, alcohol, gangster, gang war, ...

Time: prohibition era

Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy (2025) TV Show

7.4 65 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When a teenager goes missing, it becomes clear that many young men and boys have disappeared at the hands of John Wayne Gacy, the prime suspect.

Plot: detective, illinois, investigation, based on true story, murder, serial killer, lawyer, miniseries, ...

Time: 1970s

Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes

Cast

John Wayne Gacy

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Sam Amirante

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Greg Bedoe

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Rafael Tovar

Conversations with a Killer: The John Wayne Gacy Tapes (2022) TV Show

7.4 220 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 3

Audience: TV-MA

Story: He dined with the powerful. He preyed on the vulnerable. Beneath a smiling exterior was the horrifying darkness of a sadistic serial killer.

Plot: illinois, clown, biography, serial killer, miniseries, true crime, missing person, criminal investigation, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Tom Hanks

Paul Newman

Jude Law

Tyler Hoechlin

Road to Perdition (2002)

7.4 4.0K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him.

Plot: hotel, farm, hitman, illinois, road trip, based on comic, revenge, organized crime, ...

Time: great depression, 1930s

The League (2009) TV Show

7.3 231 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 84

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The League is an American sitcom and semi-improvised comedy about a about a fantasy football league and its members and their everyday lives.

Plot: chicago, illinois, american football, male friendship, geek, sitcom, fandom, bar, ...

Cast

Danielle Deadwyler

Jalyn Hall

Frankie Faison

Haley Bennett

Till (2022)

7.3 352 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.

Plot: chicago, illinois, mother, funeral, son, based on true story, racist, grief, ...

Time: 1950s

Cast

Kumail Nanjiani

Zoe Kazan

Holly Hunter

Ray Romano

The Big Sick (2017)

7.3 2.7K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.

Plot: chicago, illinois, new york city, immigrant, muslim, roommates, sadness, sarcasm, ...

Place: pakistan

Early Edition (1996) TV Show

7.3 167 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 90

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today giving him a disconcerting look into the future. What will he do with tomorrow's news?

Plot: chicago, illinois, newspaper, cat, small town, animals, changing the past or future, supernatural power

Cast

Robert Hays

Julie Hagerty

Leslie Nielsen

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Airplane! (1980)

7.3 5.1K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: PG

Story: An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

Plot: chicago, illinois, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), airplane, cataclysm, nun, guitar, alcohol, ...

Cast

Alfonso Herrera

Ben Daniels

John Cho

Li Jun Li

The Exorcist (2016) TV Show

7.3 755 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 20

Audience: TV-14

Story: Follow the lives of two very different priests tackling one family’s case of terrifying demonic possession.

Style: psychotronic

Plot: chicago, illinois, based on novel or book, exorcism, parish, supernatural, priest, apparition, ...

Cast

Daniel Kaluuya

LaKeith Stanfield

Jesse Plemons

Dominique Fishback

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

7.3 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: R

Story: Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.

Plot: chicago, illinois, assassination, black panther party, based on true story, betrayal, betrayal by friend, hard, ...

Time: 1960s

Mean Girls (2004)

7.2 9.5K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.

Plot: based on novel or book, illinois, female friendship, bullying, coming of age, prom, teenage girl, fish out of water, ...

Cast

Oscar Isaac

Carey Mulligan

Justin Timberlake

Ethan Phillips

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

7.2 2.9K votes

Genre: Drama, Music

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future.

Style: melancholy, bleak

Plot: chicago, illinois, depression, new york city, guitar, winter, cat, subway, ...

Time: 1960s

Chicago Hope (1994) TV Show

7.2 80 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 141

Audience: TV-14

Story: Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois.

Plot: chicago, illinois, medicine, hospital, doctor, medical drama

Cast

Kelsey Grammer

Connie Nielsen

Hannah Ware

Jeff Hephner

Boss (2011) TV Show

7.2 141 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Mayor Tom Kane sits like a spider at the center of Chicago's web of power; a web built on a covenant with the people. They want to be led, they want disputes settled, jobs dispensed, and loyalties rewarded. If he achieves all this through deception and immorality, so be it. As long as he gets the job done, they look the other way. Yet despite being the most effective mayor in recent history, a degenerative brain disorder is ripping everything away from him. He can't trust his memory, his closest allies, or even himself.

Style: psychological

Plot: chicago, illinois, mayor, dementia, politics, deception, power politics, ruthlessness, ...

Chicago (2002)

7.1 2.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.

Plot: prison, chicago, illinois, gallows, musical, based on play or musical, jail, lawyer, ...

Time: 1920s

Cast

Denzel Washington

James Woods

Kimberly Elise

Robert Duvall

John Q (2002)

7.1 2.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.

Plot: chicago, illinois, parent child relationship, heart attack, kidnapping, heart disease, hostage-taking, hospital

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