Suburban Movies
Kinora's catalogue lists 206 films set in suburban environments, spanning 1940–2023. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.
- 1999
10 Things I Hate About You
Suburbandir. Gil Junger - 1983
A Christmas Story
Suburbandir. Bob Clark - 1998
A Civil Action
Urban · Suburbandir. Steven Zaillian - 1949
A Letter to Three Wives
Suburbandir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz - 2022
A Man Called Otto
Suburbandir. Marc Forster - 2015
A Man Called Ove
Suburbandir. Hannes Holm - 1984
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Suburbandir. Wes Craven - 2009
A Serious Man
Suburbandir. Joel Coen - 2001
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Urban · Suburbandir. Steven Spielberg - 2002
About Schmidt
Suburban · Ruraldir. Alexander Payne - 2009
Adventureland
Suburbandir. Greg Mottola - 1955
All That Heaven Allows
Suburbandir. Douglas Sirk - 1999
American Beauty
Suburbandir. Sam Mendes - 2016
American Honey
Rural · Suburbandir. Andrea Arnold - 1999
American Pie
Suburbandir. Paul Weitz - 1998
Apt Pupil
Suburbandir. Bryan Singer - 1999
Arlington Road
Suburbandir. Mark Pellington - 1985
Back to the Future
Suburbandir. Robert Zemeckis - 1989
Back to the Future Part II
Suburbandir. Robert Zemeckis - 1964
Band of Outsiders
Urban · Suburbandir. Jean-Luc Godard - 1988
Big
Urban · Suburbandir. Penny Marshall - 1956
Bigger Than Life
Suburbandir. Nicholas Ray - 1989
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Suburbandir. Stephen Herek - 2014
Blue Ruin
Rural · Suburbandir. Jeremy Saulnier - 2010
Blue Valentine
Suburbandir. Derek Cianfrance - 1986
Blue Velvet
Suburbandir. David Lynch - 1981
Body Heat
Coastal Sea · Suburbandir. Lawrence Kasdan - 1997
Boogie Nights
Urban · Suburbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 2019
Booksmart
Suburbandir. Olivia Wilde - 1989
Born on the Fourth of July
Suburbandir. Oliver Stone - 1996
Bottle Rocket
Suburbandir. Wes Anderson - 2014
Boyhood
Suburban · Urbandir. Richard Linklater - 1945
Brief Encounter
Suburbandir. David Lean - 1991
Cape Fear
Suburbandir. Martin Scorsese - 1976
Carrie
Suburbandir. Brian De Palma - 1985
Cat's Eye
Urban · Suburbandir. Lewis Teague - 1997
Chasing Amy
Urban · Suburbandir. Kevin Smith - 1983
Christine
Suburbandir. John Carpenter - 2012
Chronicle
Urban · Suburbandir. Josh Trank - 1994
Clerks
Suburbandir. Kevin Smith - 1997
Cop Land
Suburbandir. James Mangold - 2019
Crawl
Suburbandir. Alexandre Aja - 1982
Creepshow
Rural · Suburbandir. George A. Romero - 2000
Dancer in the Dark
Rural · Suburbandir. Lars von Trier - 1978
Dawn of the Dead
Urban · Suburbandir. George A. Romero - 2004
Dawn of the Dead
Suburban · Urbandir. Zack Snyder - 1993
Dazed and Confused
Suburbandir. Richard Linklater - 1955
Diabolique
Suburbandir. Henri-Georges Clouzot - 1990
Die Hard 2
Suburbandir. Renny Harlin - 1999
Dogma
Suburbandir. Kevin Smith - 2001
Donnie Darko
Suburbandir. Richard Kelly - 1982
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Suburbandir. Steven Spielberg - 1951
Early Summer
Urban · Suburbandir. Yasujirō Ozu - 1990
Edward Scissorhands
Suburbandir. Tim Burton - 2018
Eighth Grade
Suburbandir. Bo Burnham - 1999
Election
Urban · Suburbandir. Alexander Payne - 2000
Erin Brockovich
Urban · Suburbandir. Steven Soderbergh - 2004
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Urban · Suburbandir. Michel Gondry - 1960
Eyes Without a Face
Suburbandir. Georges Franju - 2002
Far from Heaven
Suburbandir. Todd Haynes - 1982
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Suburbandir. Amy Heckerling - 1987
Fatal Attraction
Urban · Suburbandir. Adrian Lyne - 1950
Father of the Bride
Suburbandir. Vincente Minnelli - 1986
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Urban · Suburbandir. John Hughes - 2018
First Man
Suburban · Off Worlddir. Damien Chazelle - 1985
Fright Night
Suburbandir. Tom Holland - 2004
Garden State
Suburbandir. Zach Braff - 2017
Get Out
Suburban · Ruraldir. Jordan Peele - 2000
Ginger Snaps
Suburbandir. John Fawcett - 2014
Gone Girl
Suburbandir. David Fincher - 1959
Good Morning
Suburbandir. Yasujirō Ozu - 1978
Grease
Suburbandir. Randal Kleiser - 1984
Gremlins
Suburbandir. Joe Dante - 1997
Grosse Pointe Blank
Suburbandir. George Armitage - 1978
Halloween
Suburbandir. John Carpenter - 1998
Happiness
Suburban · Urbandir. Todd Solondz - 1965
Happiness
Suburban · Ruraldir. Agnès Varda - 1971
Harold and Maude
Suburbandir. Hal Ashby - 1950
Harvey
Suburbandir. Henry Koster - 1989
Heathers
Suburbandir. Michael Lehmann - 2018
Hereditary
Suburbandir. Ari Aster - 1993
Hocus Pocus
Suburbandir. Kenny Ortega - 1990
Home Alone
Suburbandir. Chris Columbus - 2011
Insidious
Suburbandir. James Wan - 2016
It's Only the End of the World
Suburbandir. Xavier Dolan - 1995
Jumanji
Suburbandir. Joe Johnston - 2007
Juno
Suburbandir. Jason Reitman - 1995
La Haine
Urban · Suburbandir. Mathieu Kassovitz - 1955
Lady and the Tramp
Suburban · Urbandir. Hamilton Luske - 2017
Lady Bird
Suburbandir. Greta Gerwig - 2008
Let the Right One In
Suburbandir. Tomas Alfredson - 2021
Licorice Pizza
Suburbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 2006
Little Miss Sunshine
Suburban · Desertdir. Jonathan Dayton - 1994
Little Women
Suburbandir. Gillian Armstrong - 2017
Logan Lucky
Suburbandir. Steven Soderbergh - 1962
Lolita
Suburbandir. Stanley Kubrick - 1997
Lolita
Suburbandir. Adrian Lyne - 2022
M3GAN
Suburban · Urbandir. Gerard Johnstone - 2016
Manchester by the Sea
Coastal Sea · Suburbandir. Kenneth Lonergan - 1986
Manhunter
Urban · Suburbandir. Michael Mann - 1985
Mask
Suburbandir. Peter Bogdanovich - 1996
Matilda
Suburbandir. Danny DeVito - 2000
Meet the Parents
Suburbandir. Jay Roach - 1945
Mildred Pierce
Suburban · Urbandir. Michael Curtiz - 2023
Missing
Urban · Suburbandir. Will Merrick - 2014
Mommy
Suburbandir. Xavier Dolan - 1958
Mon Oncle
Suburban · Urbandir. Jacques Tati - 2006
Monster House
Suburbandir. Gil Kenan - 2001
Monster's Ball
Rural · Suburbandir. Marc Forster - 1991
My Girl
Suburbandir. Howard Zieff - 1989
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Suburbandir. Jeremiah S. Chechik - 2021
Nobody
Suburban · Urbandir. Ilya Naishuller - 1999
Office Space
Suburbandir. Mike Judge - 1980
Ordinary People
Suburbandir. Robert Redford - 2007
Paranormal Activity
Suburbandir. Oren Peli - 1979
Phantasm
Suburbandir. Don Coscarelli - 1998
Pleasantville
Suburbandir. Gary Ross - 1982
Poltergeist
Suburbandir. Tobe Hooper - 1981
Porky's
Suburban · Wildernessdir. Bob Clark - 1986
Pretty in Pink
Suburbandir. Howard Deutch - 2004
Primer
Suburbandir. Shane Carruth - 2013
Prisoners
Suburbandir. Denis Villeneuve - 2020
Promising Young Woman
Suburbandir. Emerald Fennell - 1990
Pump Up the Volume
Suburbandir. Allan Moyle - 1955
Rebel Without a Cause
Suburban · Urbandir. Nicholas Ray - 2011
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Urban · Suburban · Wildernessdir. Rupert Wyatt - 1983
Risky Business
Suburbandir. Paul Brickman - 2015
Room
Suburbandir. Lenny Abrahamson - 1988
Running on Empty
Suburbandir. Sidney Lumet - 1954
Sabrina
Suburbandir. Billy Wilder - 1995
Safe
Suburban · Desertdir. Todd Haynes - 1989
Say Anything...
Suburbandir. Cameron Crowe - 1996
Scream
Suburbandir. Wes Craven - 2018
Searching
Suburbandir. Aneesh Chaganty - 1966
Seconds
Suburban · Coastal Seadir. John Frankenheimer - 1994
Serial Mom
Suburbandir. John Waters - 1943
Shadow of a Doubt
Suburbandir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1996
Shine
Suburban · Urbandir. Scott Hicks - 1975
Shivers
Suburbandir. David Cronenberg - 1993
Short Cuts
Urban · Suburbandir. Robert Altman - 2012
Silver Linings Playbook
Suburbandir. David O. Russell - 2012
Sinister
Suburbandir. Scott Derrickson - 1984
Sixteen Candles
Suburbandir. John Hughes - 2011
Snowtown
Suburban · Ruraldir. Justin Kurzel - 2011
Super 8
Suburban · Undergrounddir. J.J. Abrams - 2007
Superbad
Suburbandir. Greg Mottola - 1968
Targets
Suburban · Urbandir. Peter Bogdanovich - 1983
Terms of Endearment
Suburbandir. James L. Brooks - 1979
The Amityville Horror
Suburbandir. Stuart Rosenberg - 2014
The Babadook
Urban · Suburbandir. Jennifer Kent - 1976
The Bad News Bears
Suburbandir. Michael Ritchie - 1946
The Best Years of Our Lives
Urban · Suburbandir. William Wyler - 1979
The Black Stallion
Island · Coastal Sea · Suburbandir. Carroll Ballard - 2009
The Blind Side
Suburban · Urbandir. John Lee Hancock - 1985
The Breakfast Club
Suburbandir. John Hughes - 1968
The Bride Wore Black
Urban · Suburbandir. François Truffaut - 2004
The Butterfly Effect
Urban · Suburbandir. Eric Bress - 1996
The Craft
Urban · Suburbandir. Andrew Fleming - 1995
The Cure
Suburban · Ruraldir. Peter Horton - 1955
The Desperate Hours
Suburbandir. William Wyler - 2016
The Edge of Seventeen
Suburbandir. Kelly Fremon Craig - 2022
The Fabelmans
Suburban · Urbandir. Steven Spielberg - 2017
The Florida Project
Suburbandir. Sean Baker - 2016
The Founder
Suburbandir. John Lee Hancock - 1985
The Goonies
Coastal Sea · Underground · Suburbandir. Richard Donner - 1967
The Graduate
Suburbandir. Mike Nichols - 1974
The Great Gatsby
Suburban · Coastal Seadir. Jack Clayton - 2018
The Hate U Give
Urban · Suburbandir. George Tillman Jr. - 2011
The Help
Suburban · Urbandir. Tate Taylor - 1997
The Ice Storm
Suburbandir. Ang Lee - 1998
The Idiots
Suburbandir. Lars von Trier - 1957
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Suburbandir. Jack Arnold - 2004
The Incredibles
Suburban · Islanddir. Brad Bird - 1984
The Karate Kid
Suburbandir. John G. Avildsen - 1941
The Lady Eve
Coastal Sea · Suburbandir. Preston Sturges - 2001
The Man Who Wasn't There
Suburbandir. Joel Coen - 1979
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Urban · Suburbandir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 2021
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Suburban · Urbandir. Mike Rianda - 1968
The Party
Suburbandir. Blake Edwards - 2012
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Suburbandir. Stephen Chbosky - 1940
The Philadelphia Story
Suburbandir. George Cukor - 1993
The Sandlot
Suburbandir. David Mickey Evans - 1975
The Stepford Wives
Suburbandir. Bryan Forbes - 1968
The Swimmer
Suburbandir. Frank Perry - 2011
The Tree of Life
Suburban · Off Worlddir. Terrence Malick - 2000
The Virgin Suicides
Suburbandir. Sofia Coppola - 2022
The Whale
Suburbandir. Darren Aronofsky - 1981
The Woman Next Door
Rural · Suburbandir. François Truffaut - 2007
This Is England
Suburban · Coastal Seadir. Shane Meadows - 2000
Together
Suburbandir. Lukas Moodysson - 1995
Toy Story
Suburbandir. John Lasseter - 1999
Toy Story 2
Suburban · Urbandir. John Lasseter - 2010
Toy Story 3
Suburbandir. Lee Unkrich - 2000
Traffic
Urban · Suburbandir. Steven Soderbergh - 2007
Trick 'r Treat
Suburban · Ruraldir. Michael Dougherty - 1988
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Urban · Suburbandir. Francis Ford Coppola - 1989
Uncle Buck
Suburbandir. John Hughes - 2014
Unfriended
Suburbandir. Levan Gabriadze - 2019
Us
Coastal Sea · Suburban · Undergrounddir. Jordan Peele - 2005
War of the Worlds
Urban · Suburbandir. Steven Spielberg - 1992
Wayne's World
Suburbandir. Penelope Spheeris - 2011
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Suburbandir. Lynne Ramsay - 1996
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Suburbandir. Todd Solondz - 2014
What We Do in the Shadows
Suburban · Urbandir. Jemaine Clement - 1995
Whisper of the Heart
Urban · Suburbandir. Yoshifumi Kondo - 2018
Wildlife
Suburbandir. Paul Dano
Frequently asked
How many movies are set in suburban environments?
Kinora's catalogue lists 206 films set in suburban environments, spanning 1940–2023.
What are some movies set in suburban environments?
Films set in suburban environments in our catalogue include 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), A Christmas Story (1983), A Civil Action (1998), A Letter to Three Wives (1949), and A Man Called Otto (2022).
What is the oldest movie set in suburban environments?
The Philadelphia Story (1940) is the earliest film set in suburban environments in our catalogue; the most recent is Missing (2023).