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poster
Amazon Prime Video
89
IMDb 57
8.6
/542956/
84
/9018/
82
/4666/
4.4
/608314/
94
/97/
95
/14068/
89
/17/
cc age 9+

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
poster
Criterion Channel
87
8.0
/72394/
78
/1578/
78
/1216/
4.2
/67277/
96
/50/
90
/1201/
93
/18/

Rio Bravo (1959)
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
poster
Criterion Channel
87
7.9
/17380/
76
/346/
78
/354/
4.3
/37507/
98
/57/
90
/279/
93
/9/

Werckmeister Harmonies (2001)
A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.
poster
The Roku Channel
87
8.0
/56157/
76
/999/
76
/734/
4.2
/82829/
98
/115/
89
/953/
93
/15/
cc age 17+

The Last Picture Show (1971)
High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
86
8.3
/22963/
81
/376/
81
/389/
4.4
/29613/
73
/15/
95
/388/
90
/10/

Red Beard (1965)
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
poster
MGM Plus
86
8.1
/382147/
78
/5617/
80
/4073/
4.2
/262779/
86
/129/
91
/5763/
90
/18/
cc age 17+

The Deer Hunter (1978)
A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.
poster
86
7.8
/74424/
74
/1361/
75
/1099/
4.0
/75459/
100
/54/
89
/1216/
94
/15/

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
In sleepy Santa Rosa, restless young Charlie’s world brightens when her sophisticated Uncle Charlie arrives for a long visit. But as his behavior grows increasingly strange, she begins to suspect that her beloved uncle may be hiding a terrible secret—and that danger has quietly entered her home.
poster
MGM Plus
86
7.9
/24997/
77
/557/
74
/419/
4.2
/47489/
100
/32/
91
/620/
cc age 13+

Kes (1970)
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
85
8.0
/43600/
77
/795/
76
/626/
4.1
/52687/
93
/41/
92
/641/
85
/19/

Out of the Past (1947)
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
poster
85
8.1
/595962/
79
/23751/
81
/10593/
4.0
/764693/
90
/408/
87
/2612/
88
/50/
cc age 17+

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
poster
85
8.1
/254041/
81
/11214/
80
/5953/
4.3
/596287/
96
/144/
90
/5880/
85
/29/
cc age 6+

The Iron Giant (1999)
In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.
poster
84
7.7
/13479/
76
/223/
75
/276/
4.1
/24877/
95
/39/
85
/190/

Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
7.8
/50784/
75
/816/
78
/1169/
4.1
/65328/
88
/49/
90
/772/
cc age 17+

Amarcord (1973)
In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.
poster
Kanopy
83
7.7
/23581/
75
/1042/
76
/577/
4.1
/48649/
98
/105/
93
/52/
77
/20/

Corpus Christi (2019)
A pious 20-year-old juvenile delinquent is sent to work at a sawmill in a small town; on arrival, he dresses up as a priest and accidentally takes over the local parish. The arrival of this young, charismatic preacher is an opportunity for the local community to begin the healing process after a tragedy that happened a year prior.
poster
MGM Plus
83
7.9
/115191/
75
/1961/
77
/1521/
4.0
/82829/
94
/90/
89
/1533/
89
/7/
cc age 11+

High Noon (1952)
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
poster
MGM Plus
83
8.5
/379517/
82
/5893/
82
/4694/
4.4
/252296/
96
/67/
94
/4737/
82
/9/
cc age 14+

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.4
/37884/
70
/536/
68
/414/
3.9
/23026/
98
/61/
86
/722/
91
/23/

The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
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 of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.
poster
Kanopy
83
7.7
/78873/
76
/2225/
77
/1617/
4.2
/175096/
96
/121/
89
/974/
79
/31/
cc age 15+

Mother (2009)
A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.
poster
83
8.3
/235956/
81
/2695/
78
/1084/
3.9
/71295/
89
/18/
93
/133/
cc age 12+

Dangal (2016)
Dangal is an extraordinary true story based on the life of Mahavir Singh and his two daughters, Geeta and Babita Phogat. The film traces the inspirational journey of a father who trains his daughters to become world class wrestlers.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.3
/28975/
72
/575/
68
/377/
3.9
/33018/
100
/42/
87
/674/
83
/17/
cc age 12+

Local Hero (1983)
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.
poster
Netflix
82
IMDb 87
8.2
/224941/
83
/10007/
82
/4430/
4.2
/535765/
95
/79/
96
/908/
65
/13/
cc age 6+

Klaus (2019)
A selfish postman and a reclusive toymaker form an unlikely friendship, delivering joy to a cold, dark town that desperately needs it.
poster
MGM Plus
82
7.7
/58804/
74
/1608/
75
/1148/
3.8
/76088/
97
/58/
85
/957/
92
/16/
cc age 11+

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
82
7.9
/89573/
77
/1727/
76
/1181/
4.0
/80961/
96
/91/
92
/1187/
76
/15/
cc age 15+

In the Heat of the Night (1967)
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
poster
82
7.6
/59314/
72
/1372/
73
/916/
4.0
/50683/
97
/146/
80
/324/
92
/34/

Leviathan (2014)
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
poster
82
7.5
/106962/
74
/2194/
74
/1404/
3.7
/78117/
90
/83/
87
/3504/
86
/33/
cc age 17+

Boys Don't Cry (1999)
A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
7.4
/48512/
71
/1182/
72
/1036/
3.8
/146829/
93
/71/
83
/988/
79
/19/

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.
poster
Kanopy
81
7.2
/23301/
74
/1175/
71
/437/
4.0
/133465/
96
/134/
80
/171/
89
/27/
cc age 13+

Columbus (2017)
When a renowned architecture scholar falls suddenly ill during a speaking tour, his son Jin finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana - a small Midwestern city celebrated for its many significant modernist buildings. Jin strikes up a friendship with Casey, a young architecture enthusiast who works at the local library.
poster
The Roku Channel
81
7.3
/114363/
72
/3635/
70
/1893/
3.8
/102270/
92
/167/
81
/2284/
85
/34/
cc age 14+

Take Shelter (2011)
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
7.7
/127473/
74
/3014/
74
/1855/
4.0
/101458/
90
/252/
83
/2126/
86
/46/
cc age 16+

Nebraska (2013)
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
poster
80
7.8
/110014/
78
/2822/
77
/1358/
3.8
/130599/
90
/72/
88
/3011/
71
/23/
cc age 10+

October Sky (1999)
Homer Hickam is a kid with only one future in sight, to work in the local coal mine like his father. However, in October 1957 everything changes when the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, goes into orbit. When Homer sees the Soviet satellite streak overhead, he becomes inspired to learn how to build rockets. With the help of his friends, and the local nerd, Homer sets to do just that by trial and a lot of error. Unfortunately, most of the town, and especially Homer's father, thinks that they are wasting their time. Only one teacher understands their efforts and lets them know that they could become contenders in the national science fair with college scholarships being the prize. Now the gang must learn to perfect their craft and overcome the many problems facing them as they shoot for the stars.
poster
80
7.6
/28375/
73
/477/
73
/458/
3.9
/36001/
89
/47/
84
/403/
93
/17/

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
7.3
/13119/
71
/242/
70
/237/
3.7
/22100/
91
/32/
82
/120/

The Firemen's Ball (1967)
The firemen of a provincial Czechoslovakian town throw a ball in honor of the old chief's retirement. There will be music and dancing, a beauty pageant and a raffle. The whole town will be in attendance. However, the proceedings are dogged by difficulty at every step. Workplace injuries, stolen prizes, a shortage of pretty girls... and fire.
poster
80
7.8
/24629/
75
/440/
75
/392/
3.9
/17236/
90
/21/
86
/416/
cc age 9+

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
poster
80
7.7
/25542/
75
/535/
73
/411/
3.8
/29920/
100
/35/
89
/286/
72
/12/

The Killers (1946)
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
79
IMDb 34
7.5
/253522/
72
/13117/
73
/2489/
3.6
/2164007/
93
/386/
85
/3217/
81
/48/
cc age 17+

Weapons (2025)
When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
poster
The Roku Channel
79
7.1
/3203/
68
/80/
65
/50/
3.9
/5785/
92
/13/
84
/45/

Housekeeping (1987)
In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
poster
79
7.7
/34201/
76
/632/
74
/602/
3.9
/32144/
88
/26/
86
/654/
76
/5/

Cape Fear (1962)
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
7.2
/8890/
72
/156/
66
/119/
3.8
/13596/
84
/62/
85
/384/
82
/19/

George Washington (2000)
Set in the landscape of a rural southern town, "George Washington" is a stunning portrait of how a group of young kids come to grips with a hard world of choices and consequences. During an innocent game in an abandoned amusement park, a member of the group dies. Narrated by one of the children, the film follows the kids as they struggle to balance their own ambitions and relationships against a tragic lie.
poster
79
7.1
/15945/
70
/391/
66
/203/
3.7
/20190/
93
/58/
76
/189/
87
/20/

One False Move (1991)
Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding. Two detectives from the LAPD, who are already on the case, contact the town's sheriff, Dale Dixon, to alert him of the fugitives' presence in the area. Underestimating Dixon, the criminals have no idea what they are about to face.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
7.6
/12617/
76
/297/
73
/115/
3.8
/6642/
97
/137/
83
/706/
cc age 8+

Spellbound (2002)
This documentary follows 8 teens and pre-teens as they work their way toward the finals of the Scripps Howard national spelling bee championship in Washington D.C.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.3
/24266/
71
/426/
68
/326/
3.7
/12806/
91
/56/
82
/329/
86
/28/

Nobody's Fool (1994)
A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for his nemesis and flirting with his nemesis' young wife. As his estranged son returns, he faces new family responsibilities, while a banker plots to evict him from his home.
poster
81
79
8.1
/34536/
77
/504/
70
/192/
4.1
/24786/
93
/15/
86
/32/

Masaan (2015)
Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy in hopeless love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small-town.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
79
7.4
/95536/
74
/4469/
73
/1940/
4.0
/259710/
99
/87/
82
/394/
81
/19/

The Wailing (2016)
A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
poster
Hulu
78
6.7
/32904/
67
/1663/
66
/407/
3.5
/138621/
93
/122/
81
/92/
82
/28/
cc age 13+

Small Things Like These (2024)
In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.
poster
78
7.4
/269420/
72
/6505/
71
/3549/
3.7
/235784/
88
/222/
76
/11065/
82
/37/
cc age 18+

A History of Violence (2005)
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
poster
The Roku Channel
78
7.6
/23424/
73
/533/
72
/391/
3.9
/22432/
94
/31/
79
/516/
80
/12/

3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.0
/3858/
69
/151/
67
/51/
3.7
/9117/
100
/13/
79
/145/

Vernon, Florida (1981)
Early Errol Morris documentary intersplices random chatter he captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida. A few examples? The preacher giving a sermon on the definition of the word "Therefore," and the obsessive turkey hunter who speaks reverentially of the "gobblers" he likes to track down and kill.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
78
7.4
/13675/
74
/246/
71
/187/
4.1
/30634/
97
/32/
84
/125/
87
/19/

The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
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.


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