Terribly Happy (2008), Raanjhanaa (2013), Bareilly Ki Barfi (2017), The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953), Queen to Play (2009), The Dish (2000), Under Milk Wood (1971), Made in Belfast (2013) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Small Town Story movies.
Storyline: Following a nervous breakdown, a police officer (Jakob Cedergren) from Copenhagen pulls duty in a small town, where his big-city attitude clashes with the residents' bizarre behavior.
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, black comedy, mystery, psychological thriller, drama, danish film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The pundit's son Kundan (Dhanush) has fallen for the girl at first sight. That they're both kids makes us dismiss it as a meaningless crush. But a few years later, the boy is still in love with the girl, Zoya (Sonam Kapoor). When she's in school, he follows her around holding her hand and getting slapped in the process. Finally, she relents because of his "consistency". The film shifts cities when Zoya gets into JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University), and through her, we are introduced to the idealistic and political culture of the place. She discovers a long-lost strength as she confronts and then falls for student leader Akram (Abhay Deol). The film takes a turn when Zoya returns to her hometown after eight long years only to find some things changed, and others surprisingly the same.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, bollywood, music, song and dance, tragedy, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in the small-town of Bareilly, Bitti is a free-spirited young girl who lives life on her own terms and refuses to be pressured into getting married. Her life takes a shift when she meets Chirag Dubey and Pritam Vidrohi.
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, bollywood, love, indian cinema, humor, family, cultural clash ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The residents of a small English village are about to lose their ancient railroad. They decide to rescue it by running it themselves, in competition with the local bus company.—Blair Stannard <stannard@sonetis.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, british film, classic, village life, nostalgia, humour, light comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A chambermaid (Sandrine Bonnaire) begs a reclusive employer (Kevin Kline) to teach her chess, then discovers that she has a real talent for the game.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, french film, female lead, coming of age, midlife crisis, inspirational ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the days before the July 19, 1969 space mission that marked humankind's first steps on the moon, NASA was working with a group of Australian technicians who had agreed to rig up a satellite interface. That the Aussies placed the satellite dish smack dab in the middle of an Australian sheep farm in the boondocks town of Parkes was just one of the reasons that NASA was concerned. Based on a true story, The Dish takes a smart, witty, comical look at the differing cultural attitudes between Australia and the U.S. while revisiting one of the greatest events in history.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, historical, based on true events, australian film, space race, rural life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The inhabitants of the Welsh village of Llareggub offer their impressions on life's absurdities and longings.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, adaptation, village life, surrealism, black comedy, narration ...
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: The ordinary and extraordinary adventures of a British family and their various guests during a weekend in their country cottage : the son and his socialite flirt hated by his adoring cousin, the local magistrate having a salmon poaching night, and so on.—BSK
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, british film, black and white, country life, family, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: With a longer-than-usual running time on original release and booked and sold to the exhibitors as a "Gene Autry Special", which Republic would do once a year from 1939-1943 in order to get higher rates than on the regular series entries from the theatre owners. Hey, Jimmy Durante and Ann Miler cost more than Smiley Burnette and June Storey. This "special",(which alternates between tongue-in-cheek and for-real and hard to distinguish which is which since there was very little for-real in most of the fantasy-land settings Autry's Republic films were laid in), finds Gene returning to his hometown of Torpedo as guest of honor at the Frontier Days Celebraion, Once there, he encounters his childhood enemies, the Wildhack brothers (Barton MacLane, Joe Sawyer and Horace MacMahon in pecking order), now the local gangsters (and playing it with relish.) The Wildhacks own a saloon next door to the school, and when their shooting and brawling endangers the safety of the children, Gene protests and threatens to expose them during his next radio broadcast. The Wildhacks stop the broadcast and beat Gene up. Gene, humiliated because Hollywood life has softened him to the extent that he can't hold his own against three assailants, decides to remain in Torpedo and get into shape again. He is encouraged by his friend Cornelius J. "Corney" Courtney, and also by Pop Laramie, owner and operator of the local version of the "Toonerville Trolley." Since Gene refuses to return to Hollywood, his radio show now originates from Torpedo. Julie Sheldon, a débutante with theatrical aspirations, sees Gene in his natural setting, and begins to take an interest in the cowboy she formerly scorned. Gene avenges himself against the Wildhacks by rounding them up, whipping them single-handed and forcing them to sing on his broadcast. Enraged, the brothers are determined to "get" Gene. He, in turn, runs for sheriff so he will be in position to clean up the Wildhack political machine and use can be made of the "Vote For Autry" song. During the battles that ensue, one of Gene's friends is killed. Gene finally obtains evidence which labels the Wildhacks as killers.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: western, musical, comedy, romance, country music, classic film, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 'The Nugget' is a tale about a group of three roadworkers who stumble upon the world's biggest nugget, and become instant millionaires - or so they think. The roadworkers are mates from way back, and each weekend they go out to an old goldmining site hoping to strike it rich. Each weekend they come back with nothing but a hangover. But then everything changes when they discover the world's biggest nugget - worth many millions of dollars.—Nugget Films Pty Ltd
Plot Keywords: comedy, adventure, family, australian film, gold rush, humor, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: New York playwright in a slump Ben accepts his friend Kevin's invitation to spend some quiet time is his sleepy Connecticut harbor town. Although his polite order of a tea in Kevin's partner's sister Donavan's coffee-shop owes him an absurd scolding from the owner, whose incompetence runs that business into the ground, Ben is amused and interested and a curious bond grows between them. The local banker having sold out to a large company, her trouble loan is about to foreclose in three days. Then her former perfect lover, whom she failed to follow to his big town dream job, returns to town with a surprise deal to get a nice bonus from selling to a mall developer before, yet gets an even ruder reaction from the 'idealist barista', whose clientele enjoys the informal dwelling place socially. Despite another precipitous insult, Ben rides to the rescue.—KGF Vissers
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, drama, american film, independent film, romantic comedy, low budget film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Long Bay resident Donald Foley, a life long curler and more recent curling coach, has just passed away. He has requested that his cremated ashes be bored into a specific curling stone he has just had retrieved from the bottom of Long Bay. His will also has a non-binding codicil to reunite the last team he coached to curl in the Golden Broom Bonspiel in town, a Long Bay team which has never won and that team which was the closest ever to doing so. Donald wants that specific stone in which he is buried to be delivered as the final shot to sit on the button for the win for the Long Bay team. Beyond the four team members not having curled at all since their last bonspiel ten years ago, they each have issues in their lives which may make coming together as a team and winning, and curling in its entirety difficult or a non-priority. Lead Neil Bucyk's life is directed by his controlling wife Linda, a right she believes she has as his livelihood is in her family's business, a funeral home. Second Eddie Strombeck and his wife Lilly are trying to conceive, her ovulation cycles which may trump all else in his life especially as they have long tried to have a baby without success (although they are having a good time in the trying). Third James Lennox, who has recently returned to town with Joanne, the latest in a long line of not too bright casual and short term girlfriends, is a drug dealer whose biggest priority may be to evade the thugs to who he owes a lot of money. But the biggest question mark may be skip Chris Cutter, who unilaterally made the decision to break up the team when he left town to work in the Alberta oil patch. He quit curling over guilt in not reporting a burnt rock in that last bonspiel, that rock which he ultimately threw into Long Bay (i.e. the rock in which Donald is now buried). The issue of skill may be somewhat addressed if Chris is willing to reconnect with his father and Donald's friend, Gordon Cutter, with who Chris has been estranged over family issues but who remains the most knowledgeable curler in town. The other part of the skill issue is that the Butte team will be curling in the bonspiel, their entire team, but especially skip Alexander Yount, who are treated like rock stars in the curling world. If Chris remains in town to curl, he also has to address some personal issues, as his departure ten years ago broke up his relationship with Donald's daughter, Julie Foley, that adversity which in part led to she coming out ahead professionally as a member now of the space program. However, Donald's other daughter, single mother physiotherapist and admitted alcoholic Amy Foley, who was Chris' drinking buddy and is everyone's best friend, has always had feelings for Chris herself, something of which Chris and Julie, deep in their hearts, are aware.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: comedy, sports, canada, romance, friendship, teamwork, inspirational ...
Movie Details Click Here !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: western, classic film, black and white, 1940s, american film, gunfight, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Government bureaucrat Guner (Tarik Akan) moves to a small Turkish village with the mission of modernizing their library, but the entire nation is in turmoil, and the people would much rather watch television than read books. While caring for his daughter Tuuba (Tuba Ünsal), a winsome girl in a wheelchair, Guner tries to grab the attention of the populace. Fortunately, eccentric repairman Crazy Emin (Yilmaz Erdogan) takes a liking to the girl and helps to unite the village.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, nostalgia, family, coming of age, rural life, humor ...
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