Chicago Illinois Movies

An underdog basketball player from Chicago goes on a meteoric rise to become one of the best college point guards in the nation. But while he pursues...

A portrait of Chicagoland ICU nurse Jeanette Alvarez-Basem captured through the perspective of her son Ben Basem. Between her night shifts and...

Seeking quite in the park, a young songwriter runs into three familiar strangers with some bad news.

A gangster hires a mysterious rent-a-man for a subtle game of cat-and-mouse in the Las Vegas desert until a future-changing twist ending.

Surreal film melding documentary footage of Chicago and its residents, featuring fast paced montage sequences set against a rollicking 1960s musical...

30 years in the making, the film Jan Terri: No Rules tells the story of an irrepressible, and often delightfully perplexing personality. As a child,...

An experimental documentary about the street drag racing scene on Chicago’s Near West Side. This is a rambling, textured film about obsession....

Heavy metal band Insane Albino and their Manson-like leader go on an LSD-soaked cannibal rampage in Chicago.

A tour de force exercise in optical printing shot in the Chicago Loop

A woman with agoraphobia and the Airbnb guest across the hall strike up a correspondence that becomes something more for the holidays.

What Poor Gods We Do Make: The Story and Music Behind Naked Raygun," the 2-disc DVD/CD focuses on the band's history and the development of their...

This Rose will forever be Chicago Red.

Mike Leonard tells the inside story of how the west Loop’s St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, known to residents as Old St. Pat's,...

Miss Girl moves to Chicago with her boyfriend and discovers a new world and a new identity.

A 1988 period piece by Casi Pacilio and L.M. Keys.

There's No Fish in Lake Michigan is a short documentary exploring salmon's surprising presence in Chicago and the communities, industries, ecology,...

Few amateur films with sound were produced in the 1930s and fewer remain extant. A charming artifact that demonstrates the expressive possibilities...

An ecstatic exploration of a Chicago parking garage

The regulars of Chicago's Southside Rink show off the style and personality of the place they have called home for generations.

Documentary about Ben Wilson, a good-natured and beloved teenage basketball phenom from Chicago's South Side whose life was tragically cut short by...