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poster
Amazon Prime Video
86
7.9
/25278/
77
/560/
74
/426/
4.2
/52135/
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
83
7.6
/30075/
73
/588/
72
/432/
4.1
/61611/
85
/62/
86
/564/
93
/17/

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
poster
81
7.7
/28767/
76
/536/
73
/439/
4.1
/33109/
93
/88/
81
/445/
88
/17/
cc age 10+

How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th-century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.
poster
Fandor
76
7.5
/15906/
73
/503/
72
/328/
4.0
/40201/
96
/57/
83
/202/
85
/21/

Wake in Fright (1971)
A young schoolteacher descends into personal moral degradation after finding himself stranded in a brutal, menacing town in outback Australia.
poster
74
6.6
/623/
65
/18/
68
/10/
3.8
/7534/
95
/39/
76
/6/

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025)
As an unknown and deadly disease begins to spread, legend has it that it is transmitted between two men, through a simple glance, when they fall in love. While people are accusing her family, Lidia must find out whether this myth is real or not.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
71
7.5
/4586/
72
/64/
73
/108/
3.9
/8421/
100
/6/
90
/85/

Pitfall (1962)
A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.
poster
72
65
7.1
/9712/
65
/117/
65
/134/
3.8
/9945/
83
/23/
74
/150/

Women in Love (1969)
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.
poster
81
65
7.6
/3588/
71
/74/
76
/113/
4.0
/9181/
100
/5/
88
/21/

Dust in the Wind (1986)
A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei, where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone thinks they are meant for each other, and so do they. They fail to see time and fate are beyond their control.
poster
FXNow
61
5.9
/49149/
60
/2974/
62
/1197/
2.6
/94001/
59
/179/
67
/257/
57
/33/
cc age 16+

Antlers (2021)
A small-town Oregon teacher and her brother, the local sheriff, discover a young student is harbouring a dangerous secret that could have frightening consequences.
poster
81
61
8.4
/2166/
80
/132/
81
/68/
4.1
/4370/

Billy Elliot: The Musical Live (2014)
In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family’s set ways, inner conflict, and standing on his toes in a musical that questions masculinity, gender norms and conformity.
poster
67
51
7.0
/2381/
69
/30/
68
/54/
3.5
/1249/
56
/18/
83
/246/
53
/5/

Hula Girls (2006)
Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.
poster
Pluto TV
63
51
6.3
/3273/
64
/59/
65
/92/
3.4
/4120/
57
/70/

Four of the Apocalypse (1975)
Four petty criminals, three men and a woman, wander through the trackless terrain of the Wild West Utah and are hounded by a sadistic bandit.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
50
6.8
/1526/
73
/83/
66
/25/
3.6
/2574/
94
/16/
87
/8/

Hotel Coolgardie (2016)
Fresh off the plane and in need of money, two Finnish backpackers find themselves the latest batch of “fresh meat” sent to work as barmaids at the only pub in a remote Australian mining town.
poster
71
47
7.0
/2571/
69
/30/
64
/31/
3.3
/1140/
90
/10/
72
/24/

The Citadel (1938)
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
poster
Hoopla
71
46
7.3
/3428/
70
/24/
71
/34/
3.4
/1000/
77
/29/

The Corn Is Green (1945)
When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.
poster
Kanopy
75
46
7.1
/2413/
73
/145/
71
/87/
3.6
/2035/
88
/4/

Wrath of Silence (2018)
Northern China, 2004. When miner Zhang Baomin returns to his home, a small and isolated mining village, his wife tells him that their son has mysteriously disappeared while shepherding his small flock.
poster
65
43
6.5
/2396/
70
/55/
59
/31/
3.3
/4318/
70
/10/
60
/11/

Desert Fury (1947)
The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.
poster
64
41
7.1
/1953/
64
/36/
64
/38/
3.5
/1186/
67
/9/
49
/18/

Sons and Lovers (1960)
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
poster
74
36
8.1
/512/
80
/19/
73
/34/
4.0
/883/
60

Hill of No Return (1992)
In 1920s Taiwan, Jou, a controversial woman with a tragic past, seeks to change her life after falling for a man named Che. Meanwhile, a man named Wei seeks to buy the freedom of Fumiko, a dying young woman.
poster
57
35
6.4
/1824/
65
/45/
61
/44/
3.3
/1073/
33
/142/

The Badlanders (1958)
Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, The Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from certain people in a small mining town who had him imprisoned unjustly. The other, McBain, is just trying to go straight, but that is easier said than done once The Dutchman involves him in his gold theft scheme. Based on the 1949 novel The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett, the story is given an 1898 setting. It is the second film adaptation of the novel following 1950's noir classic The Asphalt Jungle.
poster
66
33
6.5
/1440/
65
/68/
70
/26/
3.3
/1080/

The Riot (2023)
In 1907, the miners in Sulitjelma in Fauske in Nordland made a famous rebellion against greedy mine owners.
poster
55
32
5.4
/961/
56
/83/
50
/15/
3.0
/4194/
57
/35/

Horror in the High Desert 3: Firewatch (2024)
As a wildfire bears down on the opposite side of the state, Oscar Mendoza, armed with a secret, takes advantage of the distraction and journeys to Northeastern Nevada in search of missing outdoorsman Gary Hinge's last known whereabouts.
poster
66
21
7.5
/802/
64
/14/
57
/32/
3.5
/398/

Mirror for a Hero (1987)
Sergei and Andrei are walking through a city park and see that a film shoot set just post World War II is taking place . They climb over the park fence to get a better view but hit some cable lying on the ground and find themselves in the past - on May 8, 1949, a day which they seem doomed to relive over and over again.
poster
75
17
8.1
/1049/
75
/12/
71
/7/
3.8
/529/

Petria's Wreath (1980)
This film takes place in a small mining town in Serbia, within a time span covering the prewar, war, and postwar period. A story about tragic life of an illiterate woman from village, about her life with three men she loved. Her life, torn between dreams and reality, is a life of suffering, loneliness, disappointment, hope and love.
poster
67
16
7.0
/212/
70
/2/
68
/4/
3.5
/240/
60
/54/

The Silent Village (1943)
The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
poster
63
16
6.6
/664/
62
/18/
62
/16/
3.4
/589/
57
/6/

The Proud Valley (1940)
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
poster
?
7.3
/13/

The Curse and the Jubilee (2018)
An intimate, arresting portrait of the cursed Appalachian mining town of Ivanhoe, Virginia. The film captures the town as it prepares for the annual Jubilee, a wild 4th of July celebration where families and neighbors let loose and triumph over daily hardships, industrial abandonment, and race.
poster
?
6.0
/59/

Land of the Lawless (1947)
Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a female boss villain in this unusual Western from Monogram. Hired to look into dirty dealings in the town of Medicine Flats, Johnny learns that Kansas City Kate (Christine McIntyre), the owner of the Golden Spur Saloon, has been waging a war against local prospectors, one of whom is found murdered. Not appreciating Johnny's interference, Kate has her henchman Cameo (Tristram Coffin) take a shot at him and when that fails, hires a notorious gunslinger, the Cherokee Kid (I. Stanford Jolley).
poster
?
70
/1/

A Tent on Mars (2009)
Three decades after the shuttering of the mining town of Schefferville, the Innu people, who moved in after the non-natives abandoned the town, are facing a new challenge: the iron mines are about to be reopened. Land, identity and legitimacy are central to the dialogue between peoples locked in parallel struggles, the Québécois and the First Nations.
poster
?
7.3
/30/
100
/2/

Children of Chance (2017)
In the small local school of Cheratte, a former mining town, 11-year old students with and immigrant background are coming to the end of their primary school education with Brigitte. She is a dynamic teacher whose particular pedagogical approach aims to give these pupils a firm foundation to build on in this constantly changing world.
poster
50
?
6.8
/36/
20
/2/
63
/15/

'Ora sí ¡tenemos que ganar! (1981)
Subjugated by power, the workers of a mining town organize clandestinely.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
53
?
4.9
/220/
55
/7/
52
/4/
60
/3/

Brothers O'Toole (1973)
The O'Toole Brothers are Eastern con men, exceptionally good at talking their way out of tight situations. When they ride into Molybdenum, Colorado, not suspecting the riches beneath the streets, they turn the sleepy mining town upside-down for their search for the gold. High-spirited hijinks ensue, with the brothers involved in everything from stolen gambling equipment to a "belchin', cussin' and spittin' " contest.
poster
Plex
50
?
4.9
/313/
56
/12/
46
/4/

Desert Son (2010)
After being abandoned in the desert by his abusive stepfather, Phillip finds himself cruelly cast into a game of life or death until a beautiful orphan named Lucy and her boyfriend Jack come to his rescue. The three runaways patrol the desert and live as petty thieves, but they soon find that the fight for survival against nature may become a fight for survival against each other.
poster
?
6.5
/78/
55
/2/
20
/1/

Burning Rage (1984)
While coal fires burn beneath a depressed mining town a greedy businessman stops at nothing to buy up the mineral rights.
poster
?

Dreams of the Moon
Lucy is a fearless young Black girl whose dream of becoming an astronaut collides with the extraordinary moment NASA astronauts descend on her small Canadian mining town. As Lucy and her friends navigate the complexities of their world, they discover the power of hope and the courage to dream big.
poster
?

That's the Price (1970)
What happens to two dying coal towns in British Columbia when an American corporation provides a contract for millions of tons of coking coal? The film follows the consequences for the towns of Natal and Michel, suggesting that industrial growth has its price, especially with regard to the environment.
poster
?

Goodwin’s Way (2016)
Goodwin's Way is a 1-hr. documentary exploring a British Columbia town's resistance to a coal-powered future 100 years after the killing of controversial local labour activist Ginger Goodwin.
poster
?

Rocks 4 Sale! (2022)
A slice-of-life look at how kids in the former mining town of Silverton, Colorado stay busy in the summer by “mining” and selling rocks to tourists. Through this time-honored rite of passage, these “rock stars” learn history, social skills, and become little entrepreneurs while delighting tourists from around the world.


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