Highest-Rated Movies about 'New Town', Sort by Popularity

The Black Book of Father Dinis (2018), Love Under the Rainbow (2019), Yip Man (2008), Ip Man 2 (2010), American Wrestler: The Wizard (2016), The Troops of St. Tropez (1964), Clara Hakedosha (1995), The Proud Rebel (1958) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best New Town movies.

#16. The Fighting Preacher (2019)

Storyline: Preacher Willard Bean becomes the world middleweight boxing champion in 1905, but when Joseph F. Smith asks him to step away from the limelight and serve a five-year mission in upstate New York, the Beans immediately pack their bags and travel to the East Coast. Once there, they find the hatred that existed 90 years earlier is still alive and very present.

Plot Keywords: preacher, boxer, champion, missionary, mormon, inspiring, heartwarming ...

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#17. Monkeys, Go Home! (1967)

Storyline: Henry Dussard, a young American, inherits a picturesque but badly neglected olive farm in southern France and is determined to make it operational again despite cautionary advice from the local priest and a pretty villager. Desperate for laborers, the inventive Dussard turns to the zaniest crew of olive pickers ever recruited - four mischievous monkeys! As former members of an Air Force space team, these intelligent chimps quickly pick up on their new responsibilities - but prove to have a turbulent effect on the local townspeople.—Mike Patton <film@start.no>

Plot Keywords: american, maid, priest, laborer, monkey, impostor, madcap ...

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#18. Disturbing Behavior (1998)

Storyline: After the suicide of the teenager Allen Clark, his family decides to move from Chicago to the quiet Cradle Bay Island seeking a peaceful life for the siblings Steve and Lindsay Clark. When Steve joins the local high-school, the outcast Gavin Strick befriends Steve and introduces his also rejected friend Rachel Wagner to the newcomer. Gavin exposes to Steve in the refectory the punks, the nerds and the different tribes of the school and he defends the weird theory that a sinister force changes the behavior of the annoyingly perfect "Blue Ribbons", a group of good students that wear identical jackets and gather in the Yogurt Shoppe. Further he tells that he had witnessed the blue ribbon Andy Efkin killing their schoolmate Mary Jo that is missing and the local Officer Cox covering the murder. Steve does not believe on Gavin words, but when his friend is submitted to the treatment of Dr. Edgar Caldicott and immediately changes his behavior, joining the Blue Ribbons, Steve and Rachel ...

Plot Keywords: high-school student, teacher, mother, janitor, psychologist, friend, creepy ...

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#19. Texas Lady (1956)

Storyline: Prudence travels to an isolated Texas town where she has inherited the local paper. She finds the place ruled over by the two men who wrested the area from the Indians twenty-five years before, and it is clear they do not welcome her free-spirited intervention. Support comes in the unexpected shape of the gambler she has just bested in New Orleans for her own family reasons.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Plot Keywords: publisher, gambler, deputy, judge, rancher, beautiful woman, melodramatic ...

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#20. The Messengers (2007)

Storyline: It's been six years since the Rollins family just up and left and now the troubled Solomon family has come from Chicago, to rebuild their lives following their sons hospitalization due to their daughter's drunk driving accident. But as they start to settle in something odd and strange begins to occur to their son. Could something supernatural be at work, and did the previous family just leave...or are they still here? Trapped in the only place they've ever known? And what did cause their deaths? Most of all...is this 'killer' still very much alive?

Plot Keywords: teen girl, brother, mother, father, friend, spirit, chilling ...

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#21. Confined (2010)

Storyline: Victoria and Michael Peyton move from the big city to the suburbs after Victoria's job loss and possible mental breakdown. When she starts to suspect that her next-door neighbor is keeping a young woman locked in his basement, her husband thinks she may be losing touch with reality. But the neighbor's evil starts to become all too real.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: husband, daughter, wife, neighbor, detective, captive, thrilling ...

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#22. Alice Neel (2007)

Storyline: Still mourning the death of her mother a few years back, Alice McKinley finds her life seriously disrupted when her father Ben buys a store and moves her and her older brother Lester to a new town. In the painful throes of adolescence, Alice has a rough time adjusting to her new school, especially after she gets the stern Mrs. Plotkin as her core teacher. Feeling shy and isolated, Alice frequently escapes into a vivid fantasy life that occasionally gets her into hot water. But with a little unexpected help from Mrs. Plotkin, Alice learns not to judge by appearances or jump to conclusions. More importantly, she confronts her father over his inability to accept their loss and move on into the future.—breakdown

Plot Keywords: girl, brother, single father, teacher, love interest, friend, amusing ...

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#23. Pet Sematary II (1992)

Storyline: After the horrible electrocution of his divorced mother in a freakish film-set accident, the troubled thirteen-year-old boy, Jeff Matthews, and his father, Chase, move to his hometown of Ludlow, Maine, to make a fresh start. However, as Jeff struggles to leave the bad memories behind him, his only friend, Drew Gilbert, tells him about the ancient Indian burial site with the otherworldly reanimating powers, intent on testing it on his loyal dog, Zowie. Indeed, the myth is real; nevertheless, what would happen if Jeff buried his beloved mother's dead body in the graveyard's stony soil? Can the dead truly return from the grave?

Plot Keywords: father, son, stepfather, teen boy, mother, bully, disturbing ...

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#24. The Intruders (2015)

Storyline: The disturbed twenty year-old Rose Halshford moves with her father, the architect Jerry Halshford, to an old house after the loss of her mother. Soon Rose meets her next door neighbor Leila Markby and she learns about the tragic disappearance of the teenager Rachel that was sheltered by the previous owner of her house, Cheri Garrison and her son Marcus. Rose suspects Leila's father Howard Markby and she also learns that he had been the prime suspect of the police but proved his innocence. Rose overhears noises in the house but her father believes she is still traumatized by the loss of her mother. Rose also dates the constructor Noah Henry that is refurbishing the house. When strange events happen in the house, Jerry believes Rose is responsible. Is his daughter really paranoid?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: teen girl, father, townspeople, eerie, suspenseful, haunted house, chicago ...

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#25. Promise Her Anything (1966)

Storyline: Michele O'Brien (Leslie Caron) recently lost her husband, so she moves, along with her infant son, from her suburban home to a New York City apartment. After contemplating her son's fatherless future, she decides to remarry and thinks her boss, child psychologist Philip Brock (Bob Cummings), would be a perfect mate. While she pursues Philip, she develops a love-hate relationship with her upstairs neighbor, an amateur porn director (Warren Beatty) who harbors a crush of his own.

Plot Keywords: widow, baby, child psychologist, single mother, neighbor, director, amusing ...

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