Dakota Road (1991), State Fair (1945), Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952), White Banners (1938), Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (1998), The Hardys Ride High (1938), Prairie Moon (1938), The Horse Whisperer (1998) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best American Countryside movies.
Storyline: A sensitive drama about a farm labourer's abused daughter who fantasises about the officers of the local U.S. Air Base to escape the guilt and hypocrisy of everyday life. But her dreams of glamour and excitement are shattered when she is seduced by a pilot, setting in motion a chain of events...—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, road movie, american film, 1990s, independent film, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Farm family Frake, with discontented daughter Margy, head for the Iowa State Fair. On the first day, both Margy and brother Wayne meet attractive new flames; so does father's prize hog, Blue Boy. As the fair proceeds, so do the romances; must lovers separate when the fair closes?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, comedy, family, rural life, love, song and dance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, rural life, american film, 1950s, classic film, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.—Dan Navarro <daneldorado@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, family, ethics, american film, black and white, classic, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Four friends from the small Texas town of Dancer are graduating from high school and are planning to move to L.A. after graduation, taking the population of Dancer down to 77 from 81. All other 77 residents feel threatened by their decision and decide to spoil their plans by all means possible.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: coming of age, small town life, friendship, growth, dreams, texas, rural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2 million dollars. In order to claim the inheritance, he and his family must leave for Detroit. The disinherited heir Philip 'Phil' Westcott, adopted son of the deceased relative, has to leave the fabulous mansion Detroit. But the playboy Phil ain't going down without a fight. He decides on a charm offensive. First with Polly Benedict and foremost Andrew 'Andy' Hardy, the son of Judge Hardy. Various complications follow.—Robert
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, drama, classic, 1930s, american film, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The dying outlaw Barton gets Gene to be the guardian of his three boys. The three troublemakers arrive on the Barton ranch from Chicago where they soon uncover Welsh's smuggling operation located there. So Welsh adopts the boys and boots Autry out. Gene counters by bringing three other boys and getting the Judge to declare them to be the real Bartons.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: western, musical, romance, comedy, country music, song and dance, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A teenage girl riding a horse is hit by a truck. To help heal her troubled/injured daughter, and horse, the mother takes them to Montana to recuperate at the ranch of a 'horse whisperer', a horse healer of mystical talents. The mother proceeds to fall in love with him, as well.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, family, western, healing, psychological trauma, montana ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Arlo Guthrie's song is converted into a motion picture. Arlo goes to see Alice for Thanksgivng and as a favor takes her trash to the dump. When the dump is closed, he drops it on top of another pile of garbage at the bottom of a ravine. When the local sheriff finds out a major manhunt begins. Arlo manages to survive the courtroom experience but it haunts him when he is to be inducted into the army via the draft. The movie follows the song with Arlo's voice over as both music and narration.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: counterculture, road movie, black comedy, social satire, anti-war, musical, based on true events ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's 1963 in rural Massachusetts, and Nora James has the usual worries of an eleven year-old girl:lipstick, first crushes, staying out of trouble at school...not easy when your teacher is the elderly Sister Concilia. And even harder when your parents are struggling to heal from an almost unbearable loss. Then tragedy strikes another Massachusetts family, the Kennedys, and shatters the fragile bonds holding the James family together, Nora, sent to live with her brittle Aunt Rose, soon learns who she is, what she wants, and what she must do to achieve it. She makes a decision that is both cruel and courageous. Nora's choice unlocks the way to what amounts to the rescue of her family.—Maureen Foley, writer/director of the film
Plot Keywords: family, drama, children, coming of age, adventure, friendship, rural ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Andy and Elizabeth buy a farm in Vermont, they can't imagine the trouble that awaits them. Andy has quit his job as a sports journalist and is planning to use the peace and quiet of the country to write the Great American Novel. From the moment the movers' truck gets lost with their furniture, though, there's little peace and less quiet. From a manical mailman to a dead body buried in the garden, Andy is distracted by the town and its wacky inhabitants. His effort at a novel is mediocre, at best, and he's threatened by Elizabeth's foray into writing when she attempts a children's book. Can the Farmers survive the townsfolk and each other?
Plot Keywords: comedy, rural life, marriage, humor, 1980s, american film, neighborhood dynamics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: McAllister (Ole Olsen and Hamilton (Chic Johnson)are a couple of con-men who travel about the country selling worthless stock to small town citizens. They come to Chesterville where they see a potential sucker list in the local war-veteran's home. They sell shares to the vets in a local worthless oil-field. McAllister falls in love with the widowed-owner of their hotel, Louise Heath (Lila Lee)who persuades him to give up his shady dealings. But before he can convince his partner the townspeople catch on to their scheme and decide jail is the place for them.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, rural life, american film, black and white, 1930s, light comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A cantankerous handyman (Alan Arkin) retreats to his bed and calls for a reunion with his estranged children after his lawsuit causes his community to turn against him.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, drama, american film, independent film, rural life, father-son relationship ...
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