Films set in Nebraska

Nomadland is a 2020 American drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Chloé Zhao. Based on the 2017 nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, it stars Frances McDormand as a widow who leaves her life in Nevada to drift around the United States in her van. A number of real-life nomads appear as fictionalized versions of themselves, including Linda May, Swankie, and Bob Wells. David Strathairn also stars in a supporting role.

1983 film directed by James L. Brooks

2009 comedy-drama film by Jason Reitman

2002 film directed by Alexander Payne

Gordy is a 1994 American family comedy-drama film directed by Mark Lewis, about a livestock piglet named Gordy who searches for his missing family (who are taken away to a slaughterhouse in Omaha, Nebraska). He experiences the lives of others who are part of the film's side plots, including traveling country music singers Luke McAllister and his daughter, Jinnie Sue; and lonely boy Hanky Royce whose mother, Jessica, is engaged to a sinister businessman named Gilbert Sipes. Gordy changes lives for the people he encounters due to their ability to understand him. The film was distributed by Miram

2004 film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

1999 film by Kimberly Peirce

Five Nights at Freddy's is a 2023 American supernatural horror film based on the video game series of the same name created by Scott Cawthon. It was directed by Emma Tammi and written by Cawthon, Tammi and Seth Cuddeback. The film stars Josh Hutcherson as a troubled security guard who starts a job at a condemned pizzeria where he discovers that its animatronic mascots are possessed by the spirits of murdered children who were abducted by a serial killer decades prior. It additionally features Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Mary Stuart Masterson and Matthew Lillard in supporting roles.

2014 film directed by Scott Waugh

2013 film directed by Alexander Payne

2017 film directed by Alexander Payne

1982 film directed by Tommy Lee Wallace

1984 film directed by Fritz Kiersch

1999 film by Alexander Payne

1964 film directed by Sidney Lumet

1938 film by Norman Taurog

2014 film by Tommy Lee Jones

1984 film by Barry Levinson

2012 film by David Frankel

2006 film by Tony Bill

1985 film directed by Rod Daniel

2022 film directed by Luca Guadagnino

2017 film by Zak Hilditch

1992 film directed by David Price

2011 film by Derick Martini

2008 film by Jay Lee

2011 film directed by Joel Soisson

1996 film directed by Greg Spence

2015 film directed by Chris Lofing, Travis Cluff

2014 film by Randall Wallace

1998 film directed by Ethan Wiley

2011 film directed by Brett Simmons

1999 film by Kari Skogland

2001 film directed by Guy Magar

2023 film directed by Tony Goldwyn

1996 film directed by Alexander Payne

1991 film by Sean Penn

2021 film directed by Patrick Brice

1998 film directed by Arlene Sanford

2009 film directed by Donald P. Borchers

2010 film directed by Michael Lander

2020 film directed by Kurt Wimmer

2020 film directed by Kyle Rankin

1955 film by Rudolph Maté

1941 film by Norman Taurog

2026 film directed by Gavin Polone

2000 film directed by Stephen Frears

1977 film by Jonathan Demme

1984 film by Richard Lester

1959 film directed by Nathan Juran

2015 film directed by Matt Sobel

1998 film directed by Hype Williams

1940 film by S. Sylvan Simon

1914 film by Francis Powers

2024 film directed by Adam Rehmeier

2025 film directed by Cole Webley

2002 film by Steve Boyum

2009 film by Danny Leiner

1996 television film directed by Timothy Bond