Films set in Chicago

Home Alone is a 1990 American Christmas comedy film directed by Chris Columbus and written and produced by John Hughes. The first film in the Home Alone franchise, the film stars Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old boy who defends his suburban Chicago home from a home invasion by a pair of robbers after his family accidentally leaves him behind on their Christmas vacation to Paris. The cast also features Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, and Catherine O'Hara.

1959 film directed by Billy Wilder

Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film dramatizes Oppenheimer's studies, his direction of the Los Alamos Laboratory and his 1954 security hearing. Cillian Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, alongside Robert Downey Jr. as the United States Atomic Energy Commission member Lewis Strauss. The ensemble supporting cast includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is a 1992 American Christmas comedy film directed by Chris Columbus and written and produced by John Hughes. The sequel to Home Alone (1990) and the second installment in the Home Alone franchise, the film stars Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Tim Curry, Brenda Fricker and Catherine O'Hara. The story follows Kevin McCallister as he is separated from his family on their vacation to Miami, Florida and ends up in New York City. While initially enjoying his newfound experiences, Kevin soon encounters the Wet Bandits again after their escape from prison.

2002 film by Rob Marshall

2011 film directed by Michael Bay

1959 film by Alfred Hitchcock

1996 live-action and animated film directed by Joe Pytka

2004 film directed by Alex Proyas

2021 film by Chloé Zhao

1987 film directed by Brian De Palma

1973 film by George Roy Hill

2014 science fiction film directed by Michael Bay

2009 film directed by Michael Mann

When Harry Met Sally… is a 1989 American romantic comedy film directed by Rob Reiner and written by Nora Ephron. Starring Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, and Bruno Kirby, it follows the title characters from the time they meet in Chicago and share a drive to New York City through twelve years of chance encounters in New York, and addresses the question "Can men and women ever just be friends?"

2014 film by Neil Burger

1993 film directed by Nora Ephron

1980 film directed by John Landis

2010 film directed by Robert Schwentke

2017 film directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts

2009 comedy-drama film by Jason Reitman

2015 film directed by Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski

2017 film directed by Michael Bay

1997 film directed by Raja Gosnell

1936 film by Robert Zigler Leonard

1993 film directed by Andrew Davis

2000 film by Nancy Meyers

2015 film directed by Todd Haynes

Sinners is a 2025 American horror film produced, written, and directed by Ryan Coogler. Set in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta, it stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as criminal twin brothers who return to their hometown in the Jim Crow South, where they are confronted by a supernatural evil. The film co-stars Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Benson Miller, and Delroy Lindo.

2002 film by Joel Zwick

2000 film by Jay Roach

2011 US film directed by Paul Feig

2008 film directed by Timur Bekmambetov

2011 film by Duncan Jones

2012 film directed by Tony Gilroy

Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!) is a 1980 American comedy film written and directed by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker in their directorial debut, and produced by Jon Davison. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Lorna Patterson, Stephen Stucker, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It is a parody of the disaster film genre, particularly the 1957 Paramount film Zero Hour!, from which it borrows the plot, central characters, and some dialogue. It also draws many elements from Airport 1975 and other films in

2006 film directed by Alejandro Agresti

2002 film by Sam Mendes

2011 film by Jake Kasdan

2016 film by Kevin Munroe

2016 film directed by Gavin O'Connor

1997 film by P. J. Hogan

2011 film directed by Simon West

1997 film by Michael Caton-Jones

Primal Fear is a 1996 American legal thriller film directed by Gregory Hoblit, based on the 1993 novel of the same name by William Diehl, written by Steve Shagan and Ann Biderman. It stars Richard Gere, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Alfre Woodard, Frances McDormand, and Edward Norton in his film debut. The film follows a Chicago-based defense attorney who believes that his client, an altar boy, is not guilty of murdering a Catholic bishop.

1986 film by John Hughes

2021 film directed by Jason Reitman

1988 film by Tom Holland

2014 film by David Dobkin

2008 film directed by D. J. Caruso

1988 film by Walter Hill

2006 film directed by Clint Eastwood

2015 film directed by Robert Schwentke

2013 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

2018 film directed by Brad Peyton

2002 television film directed by Rod Daniel

2007 film by Kirsten Sheridan

1932 American gangster film

2010 film by Paul Weitz

2013 film directed by Taylor Hackford