Small-Town Life
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    Movies

    Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)

    Residents (Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth, John Ortiz) of a Colorado town become caught up in a...

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    Movies

    Departures (2009)

    A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.

  • The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain picture
    Movies

    The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain (1995)

    A cartographer (Hugh Grant) maps the terrain of a small village and crosses paths with a local...

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    Dogville (2004)

    On the run from gangsters, a woman (Nicole Kidman) agrees to work for residents of a small town in...

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    Movies

    Snow Cake (2007)

    A traumatized British ex-convict (Alan Rickman) travels to a small Canadian town to inform a woman...

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    Movies

    Bubble (2006)

    Residents of a small town investigate a murder which took place at a local toy factory.

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    Movies

    Pleasantville (1998)

    A shy suburban teen and his sister are transported into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV...

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    Movies

    Beautiful Girls (1996)

    The opposite sex preoccupies working-class pals gathered for their high-school reunion in small-town...

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    Movies

    No Looking Back (1998)

    A man (Edward Burns) tries to win back the woman (Lauren Holly) he left three years earlier, now...

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    Movies

    The Basket (2000)

    In the midst of World War I, the people in a small Pacific Northwest town are tired, confused and...

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    Movies

    Kitchen Stories (2004)

    A researcher (Tomas Norstrom) observes a bachelor (Joachim Calmeyer) in his home as part of a study...

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    Movies

    Snow Angels (2008)

    A teen (Michael Angarano) experiences first love while a waitress (Kate Beckinsale) on whom he once...

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    Movies

    American Teen (2008)

    Four high-school seniors navigate their way through the ups and downs of life in their small Indiana...

  • Bye Bye Birdie picture
    Movies

    Bye Bye Birdie (1963)

    An Iowa songwriter (Dick Van Dyke) sees his big chance when rock 'n' roll idol Conrad Birdie comes...

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    Amarcord (1974)

    Federico Fellini's episodic homage to life in a 1930s Italian seaside village as seen through the...

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    Movies

    Inventing the Abbotts (1997)

    Two brothers from the wrong side of the tracks share complicated relationships with the daughters of...

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    Movies

    Mystery, Alaska (1999)

    The National Hockey League sends the New York Rangers to play a legendary local team in an isolated...

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    Signs (2002)

    With the help of his brother (Joaquin Phoenix), a Pennsylvanian (Mel Gibson) investigates the...

  • Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! picture
    Movies

    Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! (2004)

    Secretly in love with his friend (Kate Bosworth), a supermarket manager (Topher Grace) becomes...

  • Live Free or Die picture
    Movies

    Live Free or Die (2007)

    Hoping to pass himself off as a dangerous outlaw, a small-time crook (Aaron Stanford) takes credit...

  • A Slipping Down Life picture
    Movies

    A Slipping Down Life (2004)

    An introverted North Carolinian (Lili Taylor) acts obsessively to force a relationship with a local...

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    Movies

    Clay Pigeons (1998)

    A Montana gas-station attendant (Joaquin Phoenix) is suspected of murders a serial killer (Vince...

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    Movies

    Oyster Farmer (2005)

    A man (Alex O'Lachlan) suspects one of his neighbors has a package of money that he robbed from an...

  • Lonesome Jim picture
    Movies

    Lonesome Jim (2006)

    A 27-year-old man (Casey Affleck) moves back in with his parents.

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    Movies

    Groundhog Day (1993)

    February 2nd keeps repeating for a cynical TV weatherman (Bill Murray) sent to watch the groundhog...

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    Movies

    The Rainmaker (1956)

    A huckster (Burt Lancaster) charms a small-town Kansas spinster (Katharine Hepburn) and offers to...

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    Movies

    Straw Dogs (1971)

    An American mathematician (Dustin Hoffman) moves to Cornwall to escape violence, then turns his rage...

  • What's Eating Gilbert Grape picture
    Movies

    What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

    A self-sacrificing grocery worker is pushed to the breaking point by the constant demands of his...

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    Movies

    Picnic (1956)

    A drifter captures the fancy of his old college friend's fiancee at a Labor Day fete. Based on...

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    Movies

    Diggers (2007)

    During the 1970s an independent clammer (Paul Rudd) and his friends watch their way of life slowly...