Films set in Illinois

1991 film directed by Jonathan Demme

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.

Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, who co-wrote it with producer Debra Hill. It stars Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P. J. Soles, and Nancy Loomis. The film follows escaped mental patient Michael Myers, who was committed to a mental institution for murdering his teenage sister on Halloween in the fictional Illinois town of Haddonfield; 15 years later, he returns to Haddonfield, where he stalks teenage babysitter Laurie Strode and her friends while his psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis pursues him.

2004 film by Mark Waters

1985 film directed by John Hughes

2021 film directed by Adam McKay

1980 film directed by John Landis

1980 film by Robert Redford

2016 film directed by Gavin O'Connor

2013 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

2014 film directed by Scott Waugh

1981 film by Rick Rosenthal

1992 film by Penny Marshall

2016 US film by John Lee Hancock

2012 film by Timur Bekmambetov

2003 film by Shawn Levy

1949 film by Raoul Walsh

1987 film directed by John Hughes

1998 film directed by Steve Miner

2021 film directed by David Gordon Green

2007 film directed by Rob Zombie

1988 film directed by Dwight H. Little

2018 film by David Gordon Green

1995 film directed by Joe Chappelle

2002 film by Rick Rosenthal

1983 film directed by Harold Ramis

2009 film directed by Rob Zombie

2018 film directed by Clint Eastwood

Caddyshack is a 1980 American sports comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and Douglas Kenney, and starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe and Bill Murray with supporting roles by Sarah Holcomb, Cindy Morgan, and Doyle-Murray. It tells the story of a caddie, vying for a caddie scholarship, who becomes involved in a feud on the links between one of the country club's founders and a nouveau riche guest. A subplot involves a greenskeeper who uses extreme methods against an elusive gopher.

2022 film directed by David Gordon Green

1989 film directed by Dominique Othenin-Girard

1939 film by John Ford

2007 film by Gavin Hood

2004 film directed by Joe Roth

1984 film by John Hughes

2025 film directed by Gavin O'Connor

1985 film by John Hughes

2003 film by Billy Ray

1990 film by Dennis Dugan

The Bride! is a 2026 American Gothic romance film directed and written by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Penélope Cruz. The film draws inspiration from the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein, which was based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein.

1993 film by Stephen Surjik

2009 film by Steven Soderbergh

2022 film directed by Luca Guadagnino

2024 film directed by Arturo Perez Jr. and Samantha Jayne

1991 American film by Bryan Gordon

1987 film directed by Chris Columbus

2023 film directed by Niki Caro

1980 film by Lewis Teague

2014 film by Ben Falcone

1978 film by Robert Altman

1997 film by Pat O'Connor

2011 teenage film directed by Melanie Mayron

2009 film by Will Gluck

2009 film directed by Marcus Dunstan

1985 film by Jeremy Kagan

2005 film by Stuart Gillard

1995 film by Peter Segal

1980 Canadian film by Roger Spottiswoode

1983 film directed by Rick Rosenthal

2012 film directed by Marcus Dunstan