Hail the Conquering Hero (1944), The Shadow of Violence (2019), Inherit the Wind (1960), Safety Not Guaranteed (2012), Diane (2017), What the Deaf Man Heard (1997), The Here After (2015), My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Small Town Life movies.
Storyline: Preston Sturges' satire about a sickly soldier discharged from duty and mistaken for a war hero when he returns home.
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, political, world war ii, heroism, mistaken identity, small town life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A former boxer cares for his autistic son while working as an enforcer for a family of drug dealers in rural Ireland.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, violence, ireland, gangster, family, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the 1920s, Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates (Dick York) is put on trial for violating the Butler Act, a state law that prohibits public school teachers from teaching evolution instead of creationism. Drawing intense national attention in the media with writer E. K. Hornbeck (Gene Kelly) reporting, two of the nation's leading lawyers go head to head: Matthew Harrison Brady (Fredric March) for the prosecution, and Henry Drummond (Spencer Tracy) for the defense.
Plot Keywords: courtroom drama, historical drama, american history, evolution, cultural conflict, based on true events, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A disaffected magazine intern (Aubrey Plaza) befriends an unusual guy (Mark Duplass), who is looking for a partner to accompany him on a trip back through time.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, comedy, romance, adventure, time travel, indie film, drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a disabled war veteran discovers the dead body of a beautiful singer in his backyard, his fascination with her photographic image soon turns to obsession.
Plot Keywords: drama, independent film, female protagonist, aging, family relationships, american film, 2010s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sammy (Matthew Modine) isn't mute. But no one knows that. After he was seemingly abandoned by his mother at the age of 10, Sammy took a vow of a silence. Since then, everyone in the tiny town of Barrington, Ga., has treated him as a deaf-mute. This puts Sammy in the unique position of being in on the secrets of its citizens, including domineering matron Tynan (Claire Bloom), her oafish son (Jake Weber) and her sensitive daughter (Anne Bobby). But what happens when his own secret gets loose?
Plot Keywords: drama, tv movie, usa, small town life, coming of age, secret, social prejudice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The classic radio show (which also inspired a novel, a TV special, and a film) is performed in front of a live audience.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, thriller, swedish film, nordic film, independent film, teen ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A barely literate laborer (Gérard Depardieu) undergoes a personal transformation through his friendship with an old woman (Gisèle Casadesus) who introduces him to the world of books.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, french film, heartwarming, literature, friendship, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A woman (Jennifer Love Hewitt) unknowingly takes a job at a massage parlor where prostitution runs rampant.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, romance, tv movie, female lead, marriage, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the small Norwegian fishing village of Berlevåg, north of the Arctic Circle, some local men have discovered the joy of song thanks to their participation in the town's choir. These unlikely real-life crooners -- consisting of fishermen and factory workers -- get their big break when they're asked to perform in the depressed Russian city of Murmansk. But the trip there is fraught with infighting, which may ruin the group's opportunity at the big time before anyone sings a note.
Plot Keywords: music documentary, choir, small town life, winter, musical dreams, community spirit, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Berlinger and Sinofsky's documentary of a gruesome triple murder in West Memphis, Arkansas and the subsequent trials of three suspects, takes a hard look at both the occult and the American justice system in 'small-town' America. Three teenagers are accused of this horrific crime of killing three children, supposedly as a result of involvement in Satanism. As in their previous documentary, things turn out to be more complex than initial appearances and this film presents the real-life courtroom drama to the viewer, as it unfolds.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Plot Keywords: crime, documentary, true story, murder, miscarriage of justice, courtroom, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Small-town Alabama, 1932. Atticus Finch (played by Gregory Peck) is a lawyer and a widower. He has two young children, Jem and Scout. Atticus Finch is currently defending Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman. Meanwhile, Jem and Scout are intrigued by their neighbours, the Radleys, and the mysterious, seldom-seen Boo Radley in particular.
Plot Keywords: racial discrimination, justice, law, coming of age, morality, prejudice, american south ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While World War II rages overseas, a divorced mother of two, Nita Longley (Sissy Spacek), struggles to makes ends meet as a telephone operator in small-town Texas. As the subject of disdainful gossip due to her divorce, Nita faces a lonely existence of ostracism, where only the unscrupulous approach her -- often with ill intent. When she befriends Teddy (Eric Roberts), a sailor on leave, her situation improves, but he's soon sent to war. Once again, Nita must face her plight alone.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, historical, war, american, female lead, world war ii ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: As his brother (Clayne Crawford) muddles through a workaday job, and his father (John Heard) sits in a jail cell after a fatal drunk-driving crash, P.J. Lee (Thomas Guiry) works as a dishwasher in a Midwestern mill town. P.J. halfheartedly pursues a relationship with local girl Amy Barnes (America Ferrera) and temporarily bunks with his ex-Marine uncle, but family troubles weigh on him. Barely 20 but already worn down, P.J. might be the only person who can help his family heal.
Plot Keywords: family, drama, american film, independent film, working class, father-son relationship, small town life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI is a darkly comic drama from Academy Award nominee Martin McDonagh (In Bruges). After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes (Academy Award winner Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby (Academy Award nominee Woody Harrelson), the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon (Academy Award winner Sam Rockwell), an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, black comedy, mystery, anger, revenge, justice ...
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