Tag: small town

  • Dancer in the Dark

    Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, escaping life’s troubles – even…

  • Zadar’s Memento

    The painful challenges experienced in the life of a farmer from Zadar, Croatia, in the years from World War I to World War II.

  • Julian Po

    Christian Slater is a stranger who comes to a small town. The local citizens think he’s up to no good. After bothering him for a while, he blurts out in frustration, that he is there to kill himself.

  • Nevada

    Chrysty walks through the desert carrying nothing and heading nowhere. She enters a very small town called Silver City. The local community of women is intrigued by the sudden arrival of an attractive stranger and they find out that Chrysty left a husband and three kids behind. One of the women, McGill, calls Chrysty’s husband,…

  • Rosewood

    Spurred by a white woman’s lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.

  • Eye of God

    A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys turns up mute and bloodied by the lakeside. Unable to tell his story, the local sheriff embarks on a quest to uncover the roots of a gruesome crime. He’s led to Ainsley DuPree and her new husband, Jack, a man whose…

  • Affliction

    A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally.

  • The Sweet Hereafter

    A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors’ and victims’ families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor…

  • Fire Down Below

    When an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, EPA undercover agent Jack Taggart is sent in—posing as a handyman working with a Christian relief agency—to determine what happened.

  • Dante’s Peak

    Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante’s Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for. Before long, his worst fears are realized when a massive eruption hits, and immediately, Harry, the mayor and the townspeople find themselves fighting for their lives amid a catastrophic nightmare.

  • The Lake

    Jackie Ivers is a Los Angeles nurse who returns home to the small town of San Vicente to find that her friends and family have taken on bizarrely different personalities. Jackie notices that everyone who goes into the town’s lake come out different…

  • Route 9

    During a routine surveilance on desolate Route 9, two small town deputies come across over one million dollars in cash, a van full of drugs, several dead bodies and not a witness in sight.

  • Radiofreccia

    April 24, 1993: it’s the last broadcast of Radiofreccia, an independent radio station closing after 18 years, barely one minute before coming of age. Bruno, one of its founders, begins to tell its story, the story of a group of friends—especially troubled Freccia’s—and a period of their youth in their small hometown.

  • The Con

    A lonely gas station attendent in Mississippi falls in love with a con woman who wants to get her hands on an inheritance he doesn’t know about.

  • No Looking Back

    Charlie returns to his old town where he meets his ex-girlfriend again and tries to get her back.

  • Show Me Love

    Two teenage girls in small-town Sweden. Elin is beautiful, popular, and bored with life. Agnes is friendless, sad, and secretly in love with Elin.

  • Hard Rain

    An armored car driver tries to elude a gang of thieves while a flood ravages the countryside.

  • The Day Silence Died

    A handsome and mysterious stranger, played by Darío Grandinetti, walks into the town square of Villaserena one day and strategically places loudspeakers around the town, blaring a variety of musical tunes. Soon, he begins to sell airtime to the various locals, who broadcast their own personal love dedications and (more frequently) insults for all to…

  • Humanité

    In a quiet little French town, two detectives are tasked with investigating the brutal rape and murder of a preteen girl.

  • Cookie’s Fortune

    Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman’s death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.

  • The Wind Will Carry Us

    Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.