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.
Storyline: Part documentary and part cinematic art, this film follows a city in the 1920s Soviet Union throughout the day, from morning to night. Directed by Dziga Vertov, with a variety of complex and innovative camera shots, the film depicts scenes of ordinary daily life in Russia. Vertov celebrates the modernity of the city, with its vast buildings, dense population and bustling industries. While there are no titles or narration, Vertov still naturally conveys the marvels of the modern city.
Plot Keywords: camera operator, townspeople, creative, fascinating, profound, patriotic, spectacular ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hopeless lute player Bill Shakespeare leaves his home to follow his dream, explaining the "lost years" of Shakespeare.
Plot Keywords: playwright, queen, lord, wife, townspeople, amusing, unrestrained ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting "rat" (as he calls it). This is his fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his frustration. On awaking the 'following' day he discovers that it's Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses this to his advantage, then comes the realisation that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing EVERY day.
Plot Keywords: weatherman, television producer, love interest, cameraman, townspeople, producer, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter.—Sam Neff <samn@yang.earlham.edu>
Plot Keywords: matriarch, grandchild, administrator, townspeople, gripping, passionate, river ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Her husband away at war, a lonely Frenchwoman (Michelle Williams) begins a tentative romance with the refined German soldier (Matthias Schoenaerts) who has taken up residence in her mother-in-law's house.
Plot Keywords: frenchwoman, german officer, husband, german soldier, mother-in-law, townspeople, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the new warden comes in disguised as an inmate, he sees firsthand all the corruption and scams the guards and prison officials are running. When he reveals himself and starts to implement reforms to stop the corruption, the local business community, who had been benefiting from the scams, fights back, and the corrupt prison system starts making political trouble for the new warden.
Plot Keywords: warden, prisoner, guard, prison official, doctor, townspeople, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France. Leaving his child and wife behind, the crucified man leaves for his frightening destination, a dreadfully cold place inhabited by hard-drinking, unemployed rednecks, speaking an incomprehensible dialect called Ch'ti. Philippe soon realizes that all these ideas were nothing but prejudices and that Bergues is not synonymous with hell...
Plot Keywords: family, postman, local, postal worker, ex-girlfriend, townspeople, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
Plot Keywords: girl, townspeople, dark, eerie, ghost town, women, chase ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: D'Artagnan has become a Musketeer. Protestants hold La Rochelle, and the Queen loves Buckingham, who'll soon send ships to support the rebels. Richelieu enlists Rochefort to kidnap Constance, the Queen's go-between and D'Artagnan's love. The Cardinal uses the wily, amoral Milady de Winter to distract D'Artagnan. But soon, she is D'Artagnan's sworn enemy, and she has an unfortunate history with Athos as well. Milady goes to England to dispatch Buckingham; the Musketeers fight the rebels. Milady, with Rochefort's help, then turns to her personal agenda. Can D'Artagnan save Constance, defeat Rochefort, slip de Winter's ire, and stay free of the Cardinal? All for one, one for all.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: musketeer, queen, love interest, villain, townspeople, noblewoman, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Odd little Western that gets off to a snappy start when a man (Matt Dow) is mistaken as a train robber. After the town's sheriff shoots the kid he's riding with, Dow clears his name and ends up as the new sheriff. He romances a Swedish woman and settles in to a peaceful life only to find that the boy has a few secrets of his own.—Ed Lorusso
Plot Keywords: cowboy, sheriff, townspeople, young woman, unrestrained, thrilling, spirited ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A fictional story on the real life work of St. Louis-based Jesuit priest, Father Charles Dismas Clark, is told, he who is assigned to work in a Catholic high school, but who feels he can best serve in providing guidance to convicts and ex-cons, the latter specifically by helping them reintegrate into society, including finding them housing and employment in a society that is less than welcoming to them, largely resulting in those ex-cons once again committing crimes and being sent back to prison otherwise. This work often places him at odds with the authorities as he is unwilling to betray the confidence of those convicts and ex-cons, even in matters of a criminal nature, they who only confide in him in he earning their trust. He is able to enlist the assistance of lawyer Louis Rosen, who eventually buys into Father Clark's view of assisting this marginalized population. The story told is of young ex-con Billy Lee Jackson, just released from prison and who is destined to recommit crimes in being all he knows. Despite their difficult introduction in which Billy wanted to show how tough he is, Father Clark is able to get through to him to help him find gainful employment as well as a place to live. In the process, Billy is eventually even able to find love, with socialite Ellen Henley who can see the inherent goodness in him. The problem becomes if Billy will turn back to a life of crime if he feels that even one person isn't giving him a fair shake. Things become even more complicated with journalist George McHale, who wants it both ways by trying to write an exposé of Father Clark in what he sees as the Father's protection of the criminal element, while glorifying crime in the way he shapes his stories.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: outlaw, police sergeant, townspeople, lawman, family, criminal, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Corporate salesman Steve Butler (Matt Damon) arrives in a rural town with his sales partner, Sue Thomason (McDormand). With the town having been hit hard by the economic decline of recent years, the two outsiders see the local citizens as likely to accept their company's offer, for drilling rights to their properties, as much-needed relief. What seems like an easy job for the duo becomes complicated by the objection of a respected schoolteacher (Holbrook) with support from a grassroots campaign led by another man (Krasinski) who counters Steve both personally and professionally.
Plot Keywords: salesman, partner, schoolteacher, townsperson, townspeople, mayor, somber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Double-crossed and pumped full of lead courtesy of his former friend, the unscrupulous, money-loving politician, David Barry, Django finds himself wandering from one dusty town to another working as a hangman. Saving doomed innocents condemned by Barry, Django has been secretly amassing a loyal army of supposedly hanged men who will help him gather evidence, and take his sweet revenge on those who murdered his wife and left him for dead several years before. However, shiny gold is always a great distraction. Can the blue-eyed executioner right a wrong, Django style?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: outlaw, nemesis, townspeople, vigilante, bandit, gunslinger, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A three-tiered story centered on a trio of French tourists visiting the same seaside resort.
Plot Keywords: townspeople, guide, screenwriter, couple, tourist, lifeguard, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: John Kane (Sidney Poitier) always seems to know when there will be a death in his family, despite not being in touch with them, and returns to his hometown. He has come home again, to be at his sister's deathbed and funeral. There is a strike in the town, and the police think he is a labor agitator. His well-used passport and unusual book collection only fuel their suspicions. But the town's doctor has always noticed that John is different, and thinks he has a larger purpose in life.
Plot Keywords: angel, doctor, worker, townspeople, dark, emotional, alabama ...
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