Small-town Life Movies, Movies about Small-town Life

Here we've displayed a list of the best Small-town Life films : Sling Blade(1996), Dogville(2003), The Last Picture Show(1971), Edward Scissorhands(1990), Harvey(1950), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town(1936), Amarcord(1973), October Sky(1999), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg(1964), The White Ribbon(2009), The Birds, the Bees and the Italians(1966), The Young Girls of Rochefort(1967) ... ...

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Sling Blade

Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.

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Dogville

A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town she finds out that their support has a price.

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The Last Picture Show

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.

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Edward Scissorhands

An artificial man, who was incompletely constructed and has scissors for hands, leads a solitary life. Then one day, a suburban lady meets him and introduces him to her world.

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Harvey

Due to his insistence that he has an invisible six foot-tall rabbit for a best friend, a whimsical middle-aged man is thought by his family to be insane - but he may be wiser than anyone knows.

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

A simple small-town man inherits a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.

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Amarcord

A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.

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October Sky

The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.

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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

A young woman separated from her lover by war faces a life-altering decision.

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The White Ribbon

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?

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The Birds, the Bees and the Italians

Three stories, all set in Treviso. Various couple experience adultery at a party, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress and all the men in the end are prosecuted for having intercourse with an underage girl.

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The Young Girls of Rochefort

Two sisters leave their small seaside town of Rochefort in search of romance. Hired as carnival singers, one falls for an American musician, while the other must search for her ideal partner.

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The Station Agent

When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.

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Bigger Than Life

A seriously ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect his sanity.

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The China Lake Murders

Jimmy Rabbitte, an unemployed Dublin boy, decides to put together a soul band made up entirely of the Irish working class.

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Pleasantville

Two 1990s teenage siblings find themselves in a 1950s sitcom, where their influence begins to profoundly change that complacent world.

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Revanche

Ex-con Alex plans to flee to the South with his girl after a robbery. But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.

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Carnival in Flanders

Tells the story of the Spanish invasion of Flanders

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Paterson

A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.

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John and the Missus

A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stubbornly refuses the small amount of ... See full summary »

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Pollyanna

A young girl comes to an embittered town and confronts its attitude with her determination to see the best in life.

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Le Boucher

An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.

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A Beautiful Place to Die: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery

Based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Lloyd Vogel.

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Big Eden

Big Eden is a small, fictional northwestern Montana town.

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One Deadly Summer

Oozing sensuality, a young woman arrives in a small town and gets married to the local mechanic. Was it love at first sight? What links her enigmatic presence to the family's piano? Is it curiosity or is it something far more sinister?

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Day of the Outlaw

Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.

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Capote

In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.

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Local Hero

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

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The Mosquito Problem & Other Stories

On March 24th, 2004, 15-year-old Hussam Abdu was apprehended at an Israeli border checkpoint with live explosives strapped around his waist. Instead of detonating the bomb, out of fear of ... See full summary »

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Peyton Place

A peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals.

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