Sitting at home looking for something to watch? How about having your own Cincinnati movie marathon? Cincinnati is once again voted as one of the top 10 destinations for movie makers, and this list proves it. From George Clooney and Robert Redford to Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett, the stars have made Cincinnati a leading motion picture destination.
“Times like these are about community,” said Kristen Schlotman, Film Cincinnati executive director. “Film Cincinnati and Game Day generated a list of movies shot in Cincinnati as both a way to escape, and find community.”
You can find a number of them streaming on digital right now. Here’s a list of the “made in Cincinnati” movies you can find streaming right now.
A Kind of Murder
Patrick Wilson and Jessica Biel star in this Hitchcockian noir based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Carol). It's 1960 in Manhattan and Walter Stackhouse (Wilson) becomes obsessed with Marty Kimmel (Eddie Marsan), a man suspected of killing his wife. This brutal murder unlocks Walter's darkest fantasies – his desire to be free from his own wife. When she is found dead in suspicious circumstances the lines blur between innocence and intent.
📺 Available on Amazon Prime and iTunes
Carol
Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett and Academy Award® nominee Rooney Mara star as two women in the 1950s from different backgrounds who find themselves in a life-changing love affair. Cincinnati doubles as midtown Manhattan and Todd Haynes directs.
📺 Available on Netflix and iTunes
Dark Waters
Inspired by a true Cincinnati story, an attorney (Mark Ruffalo) uncovers a dark secret connecting a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world’s largest corporations. Todd Haynes returns to Cincinnati to direct.
📺 Available on Hulu and Amazon Prime
Donnybrook
For struggling ex-Marine Earl, violent drug dealer Angus, and the haunted Delia, all roads lead to the Donnybrook: an illicit backwoods cage match where bare-knuckled fighters brawl for a shot at a $100,000 prize. Jamie Bell and Frank Grillo star.
📺 Available on Amazon Prime
Eight Men Out
John Cusack and Charlie Sheen are among the all-star cast for this 1988 drama based on the 1963 book Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series. The film is a dramatization of Major League Baseball's Black Sox Scandal, in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired with gamblers to intentionally lose the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds.
📺 Available on Amazon Prime and iTunes
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Teen hunk Zac Efron slides seamlessly into the role of mass murderer Ted Bundy, with Lily Collins his unsuspecting (for most of the time) girlfriend. The Big Bang Theory’s Jim Parsons is chilling as the Florida prosecutor who brings Bundy to justice.
📺 Available on Netflix
Goat
After being assaulted, Brad Land (Ben Schnetzer) starts college ready to move on. His brother Brett (Nick Jonas) is in a fraternity that Brad wants to join, but Brett has concerns. While Brad pledges, each new humiliating event threatens to destroy their relationship.
📺 Available on Amazon Prime and iTunes
Gotti
John Travolta brings the true story of notorious mob leader John Gotti to the screen as head of one of the largest and most dangerous crime organizations in North America, the Gambino family. Travolta’s real-life wife, Kelly Preston, co-stars as Gotti’s wife.
📺 Available on Amazon Prime
Haunt (2019)
On Halloween, a group of friends visit an “extreme” haunted house that promises to feed their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they realize that some terrors are real. From the writers of A Quiet Place, Katie Stevens, Will Brittain and Lauryn McClain star in this Northern Kentucky-shot feature.
📺 Available on Amazon Prime
Hillbilly Elegy
Glenn Close is still picking up award nods for her role in this made-from-a-book movie, based on J.D. Vance’s autobiography of growing up in Middletown.
📺 Available on Netflix
Lost in Yonkers
Neil Simon’s play hits the big screen as Richard Dreyfuss makes an early star turn in this feature where, in the summer of 1942, two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother and their childlike aunt in Yonkers, New York.
📺 Available on Amazon Prime and iTunees
Marauders
One of many Bruce Willis movies shot in Cincinnati, Marauders follows an untraceable group of elite bank robbers who are chased by an FBI agent who uncovers a deeper conspiracy behind the robbery-homicides. Law & Order: Organized Crime star Christopher Meloni co-stars.
📺 Available on Netflix
Miles Ahead
Jazz legend Miles Davis and a music reporter embark on an adventure to recover a stolen tape of Davis’ latest compositions. Don Cheadle stars and directs.
📺 Available on Amazon Prime and Hulu
Milk Money
Frank Wheeler is only 12 years old but he’s determined to solve life’s biggest mystery, women! So he pools his piggy-bank money and heads for the big city. Ed Harris and Melanie Griffith star, Richard Benjamin directs.
📺 Available on Amazon Prime and iTunes
My Days of Mercy
After a female activist protesting the death penalty (Eliot Page) befriends a woman with opposing views (Kate Mara), they begin a passionate relationship that tests their beliefs and their values.
📺 Available on Amazon Prime and Hulu
Point Blank
Cincinnati native Johanna Byer is the producer behind this crime drama remake, and she brought the production back to her home town. The story centers on an emergency room nurse, Paul (Anthony Mackie), who saves the life of murder suspect Abe (Frank Grillo). However, Paul’s pregnant wife is kidnapped and in order to secure her release, he is ordered to help the murder suspect escape.
📺 Available on Netflix
Rain Man
Tom Cruise stars as an idealistic young wheeler-dealer whose life is changed forever when he discovers he has an autistic savant older brother (Dustin Hoffman) in a best actor Oscar®-winning performance.
📺 Available on Amazon Prime and Netflix
Seabiscuit
Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges and Chris Cooper star in this true story of three men—a jockey, a trainer and a businessman—and the racehorse who took the nation on the ride of a lifetime.
📺 Available on Amazon Prime and iTunes
Surviving Compton
This 2016 American biographical television drama film started life as “Girl From Compton” before changing titles for its Lifetime premiere. It is directed by Jackie Cooke and stars Rhyon Nicole Brown as Michel’e, Curtis Hamilton as Dre, and Jamie Kennedy as N.W.A.’s manager Jerry Heller. The film is based on the true story of R&B singer, Michel’e.
📺 Available on Amazon Prime
The Fits
A Sundance Film Festival favorite. While training at the gym, 11-year-old tomboy Toni becomes entranced with a dance troupe. As she struggles to fit in, she finds herself caught up in danger as the group begins to suffer from fainting spells and other violent seizures.
📺 Available on Amazon Prime and Hulu
The Ides of March
George Clooney returns to his home area to direct, write and star in the political thriller that rings eerily true to today’s headlines. An idealistic staffer for a new presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his time on the campaign trail. When the movie came out in 2011, Clooney told The Hollywood Reporter the movie was inspired by his father Nick’s failed run for Kentucky’s 4th congressional seat.
📺 Available on Amazon Prime and iTunes
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman star in this heart-stopping thriller about a surgeon whose family is terrorized by a depraved teenager determined to take revenge on the doctor for a fatal past mistake.
📺 Available on Netflix and Amazon Prime
The Old Man and the Gun
In what he says is his final acting role, Robert Redford stars as a gentlemanly geriatric bank robber whose heists are rivaled only by his prison breaks. Sissy Spacek co-stars.
📺 Available on Amazon Prime
The Public
On the coldest night of the year, a Cincinnati librarian is caught between a group of homeless patrons staging a sit-in and a face-off with the local police and media. Emilio Estevez writes, directs and stars.
📺 Available on Amazon Prime and Peacock
Traffic
Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro and Catherine Zeta-Jones lead this Steven Soderbergh thriller. A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Ironically, while watching scenes from Traffic being shot at her house, a young Johanna Byer got the movie bug and eventually produced the aforementioned Point Blank here in Cincinnati.
📺 Available on iTunes and Peacock