Small-Town Life
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    Julian Po (1997)

    A young man travels to a small town where he meets and falls in love with an eccentric loner. The...

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    Tom and Huck (1995)

    Mark Twain's boy adventurers (Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Brad Renfro) labor to clear the town drunk of...

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    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)

    A deaf-mute man (Alan Arkin) helps several other lonely people in a Southern town.

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    The Matchmaker (1997)

    A senator's aide (Janeane Garofalo) contends with a matchmaker (Milo O'Shea) and an amorous...

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    Dry Cleaning (1999)

    A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out

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    The Only Thrill (1998)

    A small-town store owner (Sam Shepard) with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his...

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    American Hollow (1999)

    This film tells the tale of a close-knit Appalachian family that has changed little in the last 100...

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    Coup de Tete (1980)

    Like other young men in his soccer-obsessed town, a belligerent and rebellious factory worker...

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    Reach the Rock (1998)

    A jailed troublemaker (Alessandro Nivola) tries to get through to an ex-girlfriend and to a...

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    Calabuch (1956)

    A renown atomic scientist escapes from his world of formulas and destruction and finds a respite in...

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    Munchies (1987)

    While on a dig in Peru, a shady archaeologist uncovers a strange creature, which he dubs a...

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    Halbe Treppe

    An intimate look at two couples living on the German-Polish border whose lives are turned upside...

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    101 Reykjavik (2001)

    About a man who discovers the woman expecting his child is his mother's lesbian lover.

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    Fifty Ways of Saying Fabulous (2006)

    Growing up is mystifying, but Billy discovers all he has to be is himself

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    The Big Animal (2004)

    Mr. Zygmunt Sawicki, a bank employee and respectable member of a small-town community, sees a camel...

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    The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania

    Documents the odyssey of Hollywood actress Sarah Rush back to her roots as a 16-year-old pageant...

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    Judy Berlin (2000)

    It is the second day of school in the tiny town of Babylon, Long Island. The residents of the...

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    The Guatemalan Handshake

    A large power outage affects the lives of eccentric residents (Will Oldham, Sheila Scullin) of a...

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    A Simple Curve

    A restless man (Kris Lemche) tries to understand his hippie father (Michael Hogan), while trying to...

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    Amici Miei (1976)

    The famed Italian film director Pietro Germi (his sharply observant and satirical films include The...

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    Needful Things (1993)

    Maine townsfolk play deadly pranks for a sinister shopkeeper (Max von Sydow) who alarms the sheriff...

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    Movies

    Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (2005)

    Country musician Jim White explores his heritage via a backroads tour of the Deep South.

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    Movies

    Red Dirt (2000)

    Griffin and Emily, cousins -- and secret lovers -- on the verge of adulthood, find themselves...

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    Public Access (1995)

    To all outward appearances, Brewster is an idyllic little town with wide, clean streets, green parks...

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    Alamo Bay (1985)

    A Texas fisherman (Ed Harris) leads others against Vietnamese refugees working for less in Galveston...

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    The Magician (1958)

    Rural Swedish officials arrest a 19th-century magician (Max von Sydow) and his wife assistant...

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    Movies

    Uranus (1991)

    After the Occupation in France, various political factions vie for control in a small town.

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    Movies

    Waiting For the Light (1990)

    A mother, her two children and aunt move to a small midwestern town in 1962 to run a diner. The...

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    Movies

    The Last Picture Show (1971)

    The lives of high schoolers (Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges), a debutante (Cybill Shepherd) and...

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    Movies

    Vesnicko ma Strediskova (1987)

    Jiri Menzel of Closely Watched Trains fame directed the sweet little Czechoslovakian comedy/drama My...