Highest-Rated Movies about 'Townspeople', Sort by Popularity

The Man With a Movie Camera (1929), Bill (2015), Groundhog Day (1993), Wild River (1960), Suite Française (2014), Brubaker (1980), Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (2008), A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Townspeople movies.

#16. A Day of Fury (1956)

Storyline: While on a manhunt the Marshal is saved by a passing gunslinger named Jagade. It is a time when law is coming to the west and when the gunslinger shows up in the Marshals' town the Marshal is caught between the town citezens fears and the debt he owes the gunslinger. The situation is further complicated by a previous relationship between the Marshal's fiancée and Jagade.—Dale Ray <daleray@jorsm.com>

Plot Keywords: townspeople, preacher, lawman, judge, dance hall girl, fiancé, intense ...

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#17. Four Fast Guns (1959)

Storyline: A gunslinger rides into the town of Purgatory and tells the townspeople he's the town tamer they've been expecting, knowing full well that he shot the man back in the desert. He agrees to their $500 fee, payable when the job is complete to the widow of another man he killed, and sets about freeing the town from it's wheelchair-bound criminal boss, who hires three killers in succession to rid the town of its new lawman.—David Bassler

Plot Keywords: gunslinger, townspeople, lawman, outlaw, widow, loner, brooding ...

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#18. The Postman (1997)

Storyline: 2013,Post-Apocalyptic America. An unnamed wanderer retrieves a Postman's uniform and undelivered bag of mail. He decides to pose as a postman and deliver the mail to a nearby town, bluffing that the United States government has been reinstated and tricking the town into feeding him. However, he reluctantly becomes a symbol of hope to the townspeople there who begin to remember the world that once was and giving them the courage to stand up to a tyrannical warlord and his army.

Plot Keywords: nomad, love interest, postman, dictator, friend, townspeople, emotional ...

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#19. Dante's Peak (1997)

Storyline: Volcanologist Harry Dalton and mayor Rachel Wando of Dante's Peak try to convince the city council and the other volcanologists that the volcano right above Dante's peak is indeed dangerous. People's safety is being set against economical interests.

Plot Keywords: scientist, mayor, child, grandmother, mother-in-law, townspeople, suspenseful ...

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#20. Into the Forest (2015)

Storyline: In a world that is increasingly dependent on electricity, a power outage seems like an awful predicament, as we can't imagine ourselves living in a world deprived of electricity. With this in mind, after a lingering power outage, a father and his two daughters will find themselves trapped in a completely different reality; one that will change their lives forever. But, is this outage regional, or does it affect the entire country? In the end--as these, and other, more crucial questions require an answer--no one can tell if the family has what it takes to survive; nonetheless, they will still have to put to the test their skills, their adaptability and endurance, but above all, find the courage to challenge the integrity of their familial bonds.

Plot Keywords: townspeople, teen girl, sister, father, tense, bleak, emotional ...

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#22. Christmas in the Smokies (2015)

Storyline: Clinging to the only life she's ever known, a headstrong woman (along with her loving parents) finds herself on the verge of losing her family's berry farm in the heart of the Smoky Mountains to an impending retail expansion. Over one eventful holiday season, she tries every avenue possible to save the farm. But when the town leaders notify her that they will seize the property after the holidays, her last hope to unite the town is to throw a Christmas concert on the farm, headlined by her former love, a ne'er-do-well country music superstar. As the day of the concert approaches, they all must learn the value of family, faith and community before time runs out.—Happy_Evil_Dude

Plot Keywords: woman, farmer, ex-boyfriend, country singer, townspeople, leader, charming ...

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#23. The Bay (2012)

Storyline: This "found-footage" film is set in 2009 in the town of Claridge, Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay. During the town's annual 4th of July Crab Festival, townspeople become sick, exhibiting a variety of symptoms, which leads local news reporters to suspect something has infected the water there. No one is sure what it is or how it's transmitted, but as people start to behave strangely, and others turning up dead, fear spawns into panic. The town is shut down as government authorities confiscate video footage from every media or personal source they find, in an effort to cover-up the incident. But one local reporter who witnessed the epidemic, was able to document, assemble, and hide this film in hopes that one day, the horrible truth would be revealed . . .

Plot Keywords: townspeople, mutant, vacationer, sick person, government official, reporter, bleak ...

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#24. The Kansan (1943)

Storyline: Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.—frankfob2@yahoo.com

Plot Keywords: cowboy, marshal, banker, townspeople, bank robber, bystander, brooding ...

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#25. Dark Encounter (2019)

Storyline: A year after the mysterious disappearance of an 8 year-old girl, we meet her grieving family as they return home from her memorial service in their small town. Later that evening, strange lights appear in the nearby forest and the family is exposed to an inexplicably strange phenomenon that rattles them to the core. The origin of the lights appear to be visitors from another world that seemingly terrorize the family.

Plot Keywords: missing girl, family, parent, police officer, townspeople, bleak, disturbing ...

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#26. 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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#28. The Tree That Saved Christmas (2014)

Storyline: Boy meets girl. Rather, Jadin meets Ashley, the ultimate con artist. This good, clean, Christian story uses the best comedic gaffs, including nosy neighbors, hearing voices in your head, and the worst nightmare of having one's house and life taken over by con artists. It is rich in humor and self-inflicted misery that ends happily ever after.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: young woman, writer, author, mother, townspeople, airy, amusing ...

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