Movies: Kansas city

A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits....

An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery....

A group of ruthless Chicago mob enforcers are sent to Kansas City to settle things with the owner of a slaughterhouse who has taken money that is not his to keep....

Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children....

A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City....

In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection....

A frustrated young man, separated from his younger girlfriend, gets involved in a juvenile gang....

Coming back during Winter, Alex Powell explores both the places and personal connections found in his hometown and how they've changed. “Guide to a Midwest Hometown” explores what makes the barren places at home feel sentimental and special, and the ...

Formed in 1979 in Wichita, Kansas, the so-called "blister pop" band the Embarrassment played major U.S. cities and garnered praise from the likes of Allen Ginsberg, John Cale and Jonathan Demme, but their refusal to compromise their vision made succe...

In 2012, two students, Gary and Matt, set out on their graduate thesis to prove one thing: paranormal existence is simply a figment of ones imagination. To conduct their experiment, they sent six volunteers as subjects into a notoriously haunted hou...

Rosie and Marie are wisecracking Kansas City manicurists. Marie is an unabashed golddigger but Rosie would like to marry her gangster boyfriend Dynamite, who's given her an expensive ring. When she loses the ring, both friends have to flee Dynamite's...

A feature documentary about Kansas City, as its people tell us how they got through the pandemic and look back at what they lost....

In 1913 Congress created the Federal Reserve to bring financial stability to the nation after a number of banking panics, with a mix of regional banks and a central bank board. Congressmen Robert L. Owen and Carter Glass helped pass the Federal Reser...

Documentary film detailing the history of Kansas City jazz....

A witch from the 1850's is magically transported into the head of her descendant in modern Kansas City....

Set during the height of the Great Depression, a young man gets a job as a photographer and comes face to face with a test of his morals....

Escapist proudly presents Our World, featuring Sean Malto, Mikey Santillan, Shaun McKay, Joseph Lopez, Josh Crane, Josh White, Bryant Doerfler, Keelin Austin, Scotty Laird, Rod Harper, Ernie Torres, Dillon Aguilar, Garrett Olinger, Mike Webb, Ryan Pe...

The film shines a light on Kansas City’s less glorious past when it was a major distribution hub for heroin in the 1930s and 1940s. Black Hand Strawman explains how Kansas City’s Mafia exercised control over the Teamsters Union Local 41 from the 1950...

In downtown Kansas City, a bunch of drunk bums get strangled with a radioactive chain of mutation....

The titular cackling machete-wielding nuthouse escapee prowls around the city killing people....