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1) Medium cool
Language
English
Description
The story of the working world and romantic life of a television cameraman is a visceral, lasting cinematic snapshot of the era, climaxing with an extended sequence shot right in the middle of the riots surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. An inventive commentary on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera, Medium Cool is as prescient a political film as Hollywood has ever produced.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
From the director of Drinking Buddies comes a comedy about an irresponsible 20-something, Jenny, who arrives in Chicago to live with her older brother Jeff and his novelist wife, Kelly, after a breakup. Jenny's arrival shakes up their quiet domesticity as she and her friend Carson instigate an evolution in Kelly's life and career.
3) Thief
Series
Criterion collection volume 691
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A professional thief is caught between Chicago organized crime families and corrupt police.
4) Cooley High
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Set in 1960s, a slice-of-life tale of high school students coping with the challenges of everyday life growing up in the Chicago housing projects.
5) Red heat
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Two cops, a serious, taciturn one from the Soviet Union and a wise guy from Chicago, team up to catch the Eastern Bloc's biggest drug czar who has fled to Chicago.
6) Call Jane
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Chicago, 1968. As the city and the nation are on the brink of political upheaval, suburban housewife Joy and her husband and daughter are living the all-American dream. But Joy's tranquil world is shattered when her life-threatening pregnancy forces her to navigate a medical establishment unwilling to help. This impossible situation leads Joy to the 'Janes,' an underground network providing the only available alternative, helmed by fierce advocates...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In 1975, the Broadway musical Chicago brought together a host of memes and myths-- the gleefully subversive character of American musical comedy, the reckless glamour of the big-city newspaper, the mad decade of the 1920s, the work of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon (two of the greatest talents in the musical's history), and the Wild West gangsterville that was the city of Chicago itself. The tale of a young woman who murders her departing lover and then...
8) Love Jones
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Set in Chicago, a beautiful photographer and a sweet-talking poet get together and discover romance.
9) Candyman
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
For decades, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook handed killer. In present day, an artist begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny.
10) Widows
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Four women with nothing in common except a debt left by their dead husbands' criminal acts conspire to take fate into their own hands.
11) The fugitive
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife is determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who actually committed the crime.
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