Sui Dhaaga: Made in India (2018), Last Night at the Alamo (1983), Kedi (2016), The Castle (1997), Breaking Away (1979), Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (2008), Twin Town (1997), Mystery, Alaska (1999) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Local Culture movies.
Storyline: An unemployed small-town man defies all odds and naysayers and starts his own garment business.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, family, inspirational, entrepreneurship, indian cinema, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When overconfident slacker Cowboy (Sonny Carl Davis), workaday sad sack Claude (Louis Perryman) and a colorful slew of eccentric dreamers and down-and-outers learn that the Alamo, a beloved Houston dive, is about to be torn down, they all come together for one last night to tell alcohol-fueled tall tales at the run-down bar. As the drinks flow, Cowboy convinces his pals that they should band together and save the Alamo; unfortunately, he and his fellow patrons are more inclined to talk than act.
Plot Keywords: independent film, texas, bar culture, working class, realism, dark comedy, male friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the city of Istanbul, there are more than just human inhabitants. There are also the stray domestic cats of the city who live free but have complicated relationships with the people themselves. This film follows a selection of individual cats as they live their own lives in Istanbul with their own distinctive personalities. However, with this vibrant population, is the reality of an ancient metropolis changing with the times that may have less of a place for them.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: documentary, cats, animals, urban life, human-animal bond, independent film, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Melbourne family is very happy living where they do, near the Melbourne airport (according to Jane Kennedy, it's "practically their back yard"). However, they are forced to leave their beloved home, by the Government and airport authorities. 'The Castle' is the story of how they fight to remain in their house, taking their case as far as the High Court.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, australian, legal, underdog, working class, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Best friends Dave, Mike, Cyril and Moocher have just graduated from high school. Living in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana, they are considered "cutters": the working class of the town so named since most of the middle aged generation, such as their parents, worked at the local limestone quarry, which is now a swimming hole. There is great animosity between the cutters and the generally wealthy Indiana University students, each group who have their own turf in town. The dichotomy is that the limestone was used to build the university, which is now seen as being too good for the locals who built it. Although each of the four is a totally different personality from the other three, they also have in common the fact of being unfocused and unmotivated in life. The one slight exception is Dave. Although he has no job and doesn't know what to do with his life, he is a champion bicycle racer. He idolizes the Italian cycling team so much he pretends to be Italian, much to the chagrin...
Plot Keywords: coming of age, sports, cycling, small town life, friendship, dreams, competition ...
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: comedy, french film, cultural clash, humor, heartwarming, friendship, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Twin Town opens with wide sweeping shots of seaside Swansea; to be the place of action for the next one and a half hours. The serene setting with miles upon miles of old semi-detached housing is suddenly cleaved apart by two young lads tearing through the neighbourhood in a two tone BMW 525. Julian and Jeremy are in deep trouble. Their dysfunctional family scrapes together a living from their dole money and odd-jobs offered to their father. The boys have long since turned to drug abuse and car theft leading a happy-go-lucky life in downtown no-hoper city. In due course the plot thickens as the boys are out for revenge against wealthy club owner Bryn who is not particularly helpful in providing compensation when their father is hit by an accident when working on his premises. The boys are fairly imaginative when it comes to planning their strike, culminating in scenes which all dog-haters and karaoke loathers will love.—Alexander Weidt <demos@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Plot Keywords: black comedy, crime, british film, wales, drugs, violence, brotherhood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Mystery, Alaska's (amateur) hockey team accepts a challenge to play the New York Rangers, the entire population must put their petty differences aside, and band together, as their small town becomes the centre of a nationally televised event.
Plot Keywords: small town life, sports, team spirit, competition, alaska, community, dreams ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jack Flange leaves the big city for a respite in Australia's Hawkesbury River region, where generations of oyster fishermen (and maybe one woman) have made a living, built histories, and piled up grievances. Jack finds a small-town mentality, with pluses and minuses. There's also a recent burglary and lots of missing cash. Jack gets a job oystering; his boss is separated from a woman of invention, Jack's attracted to a chambermaid turned letter carrier, and there are plenty of mine fields for a city boy to step through. Jack also has a sister, who's ill, to worry about. It's a river journey of self discovery. Is he passing through, or has he found home?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, australian film, rural life, family, coming of age, small town ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After his best-selling novel exposes the private lives of his closest friends, Jack Kelly returns home to put right some of the wrongs which included breaking up his best friend's marriage. It won't be easy as his friends won't forget - or forgive!
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, romance, family, coming of age, independent film, urban life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: british film, comedy, drama, social realism, working class, 1960s, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The life at a suburban Sydney pizzeria.
Plot Keywords: comedy, australian film, cult film, crude humor, multiculturalism, urban life, social satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: "The Devil Dared Me To" follows the story of daredevil stuntman Randy Cambell and his quest to follow in his late father's footsteps and become New Zealand's greatest daredevil stuntman. Ever since growing up as a young boy on a remote New Zealand sheep-farm, Randy has dreamed of performing the ultimate daredevil stunt: jumping across Cook Strait in a rocket car. It is this dream that sends him on his quest from the South Island sheep farm to the bright lights of Auckland city. Along the way Randy teams up with the traveling misfit stunt-team the Timaru Hellriders, is employed by mentor-turned nemesis stunt co-ordinator Dick Johansonson, and meets the love of his life, the one-legged cunning stunt babe Tracy "Tragedy" Jones.—Karl Zohrab
Plot Keywords: comedy, action, adventure, crime, parody, new zealand film, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jimmy (Robert Carlyle) is a small-time crook living in Glasgow, Scotland, long since absent from the lives of his ex-wife, Shirley (Shirley Henderson), and 12-year-old daughter, Marlene (Finn Atkins), who live in England's Midlands. One day, Jimmy happens to catch Shirley and Marlene on a TV talk show, where Shirley has rejected the proposal of her boyfriend, Dek (Rhys Ifans). Taking this as a sign, Jimmy up and leaves for the Midlands to win Shirley back.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, british film, independent film, modern western, family, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The movie is about a man trying to impress his childhood lover, although it may sound like a romantic movie, it is not. When Recep comes see's Sibel he starts to remember the old days, from there on he goes into very ridiculous lengths to impress her. The story gets a bit complicated when Recep comes across many obstacles but overcomes everything in his own funny ways.
Plot Keywords: comedy, humor, slapstick, social satire, cultural differences, male protagonist, antihero ...
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