Films set in Colorado

Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan Nolan. It features an ensemble cast led by Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, and Michael Caine. Set in a dystopian future where Earth is suffering from catastrophic blight and famine, the film follows a group of astronauts who travel through space in search of a new home for humanity.

2006 film directed by Christopher Nolan

The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson. It is based on Stephen King's 1977 novel and stars Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd and Scatman Crothers. The film presents the descent into insanity of a recovering alcoholic and aspiring novelist who takes a job as winter caretaker for a mountain resort hotel with his wife and clairvoyant son.

2000 film directed by John Woo

1994 film directed by Roland Emmerich

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western buddy film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman. Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy, and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the "Sundance Kid", who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies. The pair and Sundance's lover, Etta Place, flee to Bolivia to escape the posse.

Dogville is a 2003 experimental arthouse drama film written and directed by Lars von Trier. It features an ensemble cast led by Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Paul Bettany, Chloë Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgård, Udo Kier, Ben Gazzara, Patricia Clarkson, Harriet Andersson, and James Caan, with John Hurt as the narrator. The film employs an extremely minimal, stage-like set to tell the story of Grace Mulligan (Kidman), a woman on the run from mobsters who finds refuge in the tiny mountain town of Dogville, Colorado, in exchange for physical labor.

2015 film directed by Adam McKay

Misery is a 1990 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Rob Reiner from a screenplay by William Goldman. It is based on Stephen King's 1987 novel and stars James Caan as famed novelist Paul Sheldon, who is held captive by Annie Wilkes, an obsessive fan. The supporting cast includes Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen, and Lauren Bacall.

2002 film directed by Alexander Payne

2019 film directed by Michael Dougherty

1999 animated film directed by Trey Parker

1993 film directed by Renny Harlin

BlacKkKlansman is a 2018 American biographical crime film directed by Spike Lee and written by Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Lee, loosely based on the 2014 memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth. The film stars John David Washington as Stallworth, along with Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, and Topher Grace. It also features Harry Belafonte's last performance before his death in April 2023. Set in the 1970s in Colorado Springs, Colorado, it follows the first African-American detective in the city's police department as he sets out to infiltrate and expose the local Ku Klux

2013 film directed by Mikael Håfström

WarGames is a 1983 American techno-thriller film directed by John Badham, written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes, and starring Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood and Ally Sheedy. Broderick plays David Lightman, a young computer hacker who unwittingly accesses a United States military supercomputer programmed to simulate, predict and execute nuclear war against the Soviet Union, triggering a false alarm that threatens to start World War III. Martin Brest was originally the film's director, but was fired early into production.

2018 film directed by Brad Peyton

2016 film directed by Roland Emmerich

2010 film directed by Joe Carnahan

1950 film by Henry Koster

1992 film by Penny Marshall

2007 film directed by Colin Strause and Greg Strause

1996 film directed by John Woo

1984 film directed by John Milius

2022 film directed by Roland Emmerich

2011 film by Patrick Lussier

2019 film directed by Mike Flanagan

1973 film by Jerry Schatzberg

1991 film directed by Ron Underwood

Heretic is a 2024 American psychological horror film written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. It follows two young Mormon missionaries who visit the home of an eccentric man after he expresses interest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, only for his true intentions to quickly become clear.

2013 film by Seth Gordon

1983 film directed by Harold Ramis

1989 film directed by Steven Spielberg

Prey is a 2022 American science fiction action horror film directed by Dan Trachtenberg from a screenplay by Patrick Aison, based on a story by Aison and Trachtenberg. It is the fifth installment in the Predator franchise and a prequel to Predator (1987), set in the Northern Great Plains in 1719. It stars Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegro, Michelle Thrush, Stormee Kipp, Julian Black Antelope, and Bennett Taylor. The story revolves around a young Comanche woman, Naru, who is striving to prove herself as a hunter. She finds herself having to protect her people from a vicious, humanoid alien that hunts humans for sport.

2006 film by Barry Sonnenfeld

1995 film by Geoff Murphy

2009 film by Scott Cooper

2018 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

2019 film directed by Joe Berlinger

2006 film by Simon West

2017 film directed by Peter Chelsom

2019 film directed by Hans Petter Moland

2006 film directed by Sylvain White

1972 film by Sydney Pollack

2001 film directed by John Dahl

2007 film directed by Will Speck and Josh Gordon

1953 film by Anthony Mann

Black Phone 2 is a 2025 American supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson who co-wrote it with C. Robert Cargill. It serves as a sequel to The Black Phone (2021), is the second feature film and third overall installment in the Black Phone film series. The film stars Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, and Ethan Hawke reprising their roles from the first film, with Demián Bichir also joining the cast. The story sees siblings Finney and Gwen, along with their friend Ernesto, head to a winter youth camp to uncover a mystery regarding the first victims of the Grabber, whose ghostly presence now haunts the camp.

2009 film by Kirk Jones

2009 film by Karey Kirkpatrick

1995 film by Gary Fleder

1998 Christmas film by Troy Miller

2017 film directed by Scott Cooper

2018 film by Jeff Tomsic

1970 film by Ralph Nelson

2015 film by John Maclean

2004 film directed by Gavin O'Connor

2017 film by Takanori Tsujimoto

2002 American serial killer film directed by Matthew Bright

1965 film by John Sturges