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    Movies

    The Village (2004)

    Members (Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody) of a 19th-century community fear the...

  • Country picture
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    Country (1984)

    A midwestern farm family struggles to stay together when the government attempts to foreclose on...

  • Yesterday picture
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    Yesterday

    A courageous South African woman (Leleti Khumalo) who has AIDS tries to secure a better future for...

  • Boys Don't Cry picture
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    Boys Don't Cry (1999)

    Young Teena Brandon (Hilary Swank) lives as a male and begins a love affair with a single mother...

  • The Prince of Pennsylvania picture
    Movies

    The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988)

    A teenager (Keanu Reeves) kidnaps his coal-miner father (Fred Ward), hoping his mother (Bonnie...

  • Footloose picture
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    Footloose (1984)

    A hip Chicago teen (Kevin Bacon) moves to a Midwestern town where, thanks to a pastor (John...

  • Flesh and Bone picture
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    Flesh and Bone (1993)

    An evil man (James Caan) who killed a family 25 years earlier meets a survivor, his son's (Dennis...

  • My Neighbor Totoro picture
    Movies

    My Neighbor Totoro (1993)

    Two sisters encounter a mythical forest sprite and its woodland companions when they move to rural...

  • The Celebration picture
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    The Celebration (1998)

    A dark secret mars a Dane's (Henning Moritzen) 60th birthday celebration, attended by his family...

  • Flowers From Another World picture
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    Flowers From Another World

    Realizing his village has too few marriageable women, a man has a party to bring some into the town.

  • A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy picture
    Movies

    A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)

    An inventor (Woody Allen), his wife (Mary Steenburgen) and two other couples spend an enchanted...

  • Going to Kansas City picture
    Movies

    Going to Kansas City (1998)

    An exchange student from Helsinki travels to America with dreams of playing the blues in Kansas...

  • Ed Gein picture
    Movies

    Ed Gein (2001)

    After the death of his mother (Carrie Snodgress) in the 1950s, a Wisconsin farmer (Steve Railsback)...

  • Brother's Keeper picture
    Movies

    Brother's Keeper (1993)

    Filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky show the 1990 case of a New York farmer accused of a...

  • Le Grand Chemin picture
    Movies

    Le Grand Chemin (1988)

    Directed by French filmmaker Jean-Loup Hubert, Grand Chemin stars the director's young son Antoine...

  • Matewan picture
    Movies

    Matewan (1987)

    A fact-based account of the conflicts between a growing coal miners' union and mining bosses in 1920...

  • Come Next Spring picture
    Movies

    Come Next Spring (1956)

    A long-gone wayward man (Steve Cochran) returns sober to his wary wife (Ann Sheridan) and family in...

  • A Home of Our Own picture
    Movies

    A Home of Our Own (1993)

    A widowed mother (Kathy Bates) of five loses her job in 1962 Los Angeles, then heads to Idaho in...

  • Motel Hell picture
    Movies

    Motel Hell (1980)

    Farmer Vincent (Rory Calhoun) and his portly sister, Ida (Nancy Parsons), put lost motorists in...

  • Cash Crop picture
    Movies

    Cash Crop (1999)

    Farmers in Pennsylvania try to avoid dispossession of their farms by growing marijuana. When the DEA...

  • Dingo picture
    Movies

    Dingo (1992)

    A plane carrying a legendary jazz musician is diverted to a small town in the Australian outback. A...

  • This Is Not a Love Song picture
    Movies

    This Is Not a Love Song

    Set on the Yorkshire moors, two petty criminals kill the young daughter of a farmer by mistake and...

  • Cross Creek picture
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    Cross Creek

    Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Mary Steenburgen) moves to backwoods Florida in 1928 and writes ``The...

  • The Shipment picture
    Movies

    The Shipment

    A small-town sheriff (Matthew Modine) and a New York mob boss (Nicholas Turturro) battle over...

  • Ruby in Paradise picture
    Movies

    Ruby in Paradise (1993)

    A young woman moves to Florida to make a fresh start, discovering herself in the process.

  • Return to Macon County picture
    Movies

    Return to Macon County (1975)

    Two guys (Nick Nolte, Don Johnson) in a fast car pick up a wild girl (Robin Mattson) and find...

  • Too Much Flesh picture
    Movies

    Too Much Flesh

    A 35-year-old married virgin has a fling with a passing stranger which shocks the community.

  • My Life As A Dog picture
    Movies

    My Life As A Dog (1987)

    A boy (Anton Glanzelius), obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a...

  • Papa Was a Preacher picture
    Movies

    Papa Was a Preacher (1987)

    A minister (Robert Pine), his wife (Georgia Engel) and their large family are moved from Dallas to a...

  • Honky Tonk Freeway picture
    Movies

    Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)

    A writer (Beau Bridges), a waitress (Beverly D'Angelo), a nun and other motorists land in a...