丝泰尔（萨莎·莱恩 饰）是一个正处于青春期的年轻女孩，她离开了乱糟糟的家庭生活，加入了一支杂志订阅销售团队。她需要穿越美国广袤的中西部地区，挨家挨户地推销杂志。杰克（希亚·拉博夫 饰）也是这帮年轻人中的一员。丝泰尔很快适应了他们的生活方式，她的生活被酊酩大醉的夜晚、隔三差五的小叛逆和爱情故事所点缀……

堪萨斯市屠宰场和芝加哥犯罪集团之间进行着非法的“牛肉”交易，这些“牛肉”是被贩卖的性奴。主人公唤起了对一个“牛肉”的同情，他会帮她逃离么……

运气不佳的前 GI 发现自己因为装甲车抢劫案而陷于陷害。 在被警察殴打和折磨之后，他最终因证据不足而被释放。他开始调查究竟是谁陷害他，以及为什么陷害他。线索将他带入了墨西哥和一个由雇佣杀手和腐败警察组成的网络。

由纽曼与乔伍德沃德这对银色夫妻档在晚年的再度合作。通过擅长拍摄文艺片的詹姆斯·伊沃里以细腻手法刻画老人家与家族和环境之间的心理互动，成功地塑造了布里奇夫妇的形象，以及表现了他们的丰厚人生经验。

擅拍文艺片的詹姆斯·伊沃里以细腻手法刻画老人家与家族和环境之间的心理互动，戏剧性不强，却相当成功地塑造了布里奇夫妇的形象，以及表现了他们的丰厚人生经验。两人的表演都很精彩，乃影片的一大亮点。

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

故事发生在1930年代，当时美国正值经济大萧条，人民精神萎靡不振，堪萨斯市里充满了赌博、卖淫等犯罪活动。欧哈拉的丈夫约翰尼是一个小混混，因为犯了事被当地老大西恩拘禁起来。欧哈拉为了解救丈夫，冒险绑架了当地一位政客的妻子卡洛琳，希望能借此逼迫其政客丈夫利用关系网，促使西恩释放约翰尼。结果在相处过程中，绑架者欧哈拉和被绑架者卡洛琳之间，反倒产生了一些微妙的感情变化。

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.

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 house in the West Bottoms area of Kansas City and recorded their every move. They hypothesized that if subjects knew the house’s history of unexplained deaths and the frequent paranormal sightings, the subjects would begin to experience “ghostly encounters.” After what started out to be a flawless experiment, things quickly started to get out of control.

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.

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 wrath; their adventures include masquerading as girl scouts and taking an ocean voyage to Paris.

Nelly Don the Musical Movie is a true Kansas City story about Nelly Don, a trailblazer who ignited a fashion revolution in the early 1900s to become a global sensation. Yet on the coattails of her success, drama ensues from an abusive husband and affair with a US Senator to the fake adoption of her biological son and her mobster-linked abduction. History comes alive with music, propelling the sensational story of her meteoric rise to fame in the fashion industry.

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 success elusive. Through archival interviews and concert footage, this documentary draws a portrait of the oft-overlooked post-punk legends.

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 Pearce, Max Chilen and Jesse Doan. Edited by Ryan Lovell. Filmed by Tyler Krupski, Dylan Burke and Ryan Lovell in Kansas City, LA, Japan and Puerto Rico.

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 1950s into the 1980s.

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 good and bad feelings that come when being back home. Inspired by "How To With John Wilson".

Documentary film detailing the history of Kansas City jazz.

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

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.

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 Reserve Act with the help of compromises led by President Woodrow Wilson. The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City was begun in 1914, led by Jo Zach Miller, Jr., along with local bankers such as William T. Kemper. With the bank rapidly growing, about 1920 a new 21 story building was built at 9th and Grand that at one time held the offices of the Bureau of Investigation and President Harry S. Truman.