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Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A small town on the night of Orson Welles's legendary 1938 'War of the Worlds' radio hoax is fooled into believing aliens are invading America. As they face what they think is their last night alive, hilarious and life-changing events unfold.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Rutherford Falls is an idyllic small town until lifelong best friends Nathan Rutherford and Reagan Wells discover their quiet community sits on a powder keg of problems. When the mayor makes a simple proposal to move a crash-causing statue, she inadvertently initiates a crazy chain reaction of mayhem. The two friends suddenly find themselves clashing with a casino CEO, their town's cultural heritage, and one weird resident after another in this quirky...
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Returning to small town life after an 18-year prison sentence is more than enough to leave most people dark and jaded. But not Miri. A true adult beginner, she navigates each daily obstacle of her post-incarceration life with the same sunny disposition, whether it's opening a bank account, finding a job, or starting a romantic relationship.
Publisher
Showtime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In Miri Matteson's first few weeks out after an eighteen-year stint behind bars for murder, the mystery of her past looms large in her insular small hometown. Life post-prison is not going to be easy. Her attempts to kickstart a new life fall flat, and while her parents try to be supportive, they are having troubles of their own. Will Miri find redemption, or is she doomed to be a middle-aged screw-up?
Publisher
CBS DVD / Paramount
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Based on Stephen King's best-selling novel, is the story of a small town that is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an enormous transparent dome. The town's inhabitants must deal with surviving the post-apocalyptic conditions while searching for answers about the dome, where it came from and if and when it will go away.
8) Angels crest
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]. c2011
Language
English
Description
In the small working-class town of Angels Crest a young single father's good intentions are thwarted by a moment of thoughtlessness, resulting in tragedy. A local prosecutor, haunted by his past goes after Ethan, and the ensuing confusion and casting of blame begins to tear the town apart.
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
When filthy-rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira and their two kids -- über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis -- suddenly find themselves broke, they are forced to leave their pampered lives to regroup and rebuild their empire from within the rural city limits of their only remaining asset - Schitt's Creek, an armpit of a town they once bought as a joke.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Hugh Knight is a renowned heart surgeon in Sydney, who believes he can live outside the rules. But after an incident involving drugs and alcohol, he is banned from surgery. Forced to work as a local doctor, Hugh retreats to rural Wyhope, his rarely visited hometown, which, he assumes, will be distraction-free. He couldn't be more wrong.
12) Magic town
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
c2013, c1947
Language
English
Description
An ambitious pollster finds a small town whose citizens' opinions accurately reflect those of America at large. On discovering this oddity in the darling town of Grandview, Smith plots to exploit this mathematical miracle. Posing as an insurance salesman along with his two sidekicks, Ike Sloan and Mr. Twiddle, he romances the local newspaper editor while trying to keep her from discovering his true intentions.
13) Cut Bank
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Looking to leave his sleepy town of Cut Bank, Dwayne McLaren hatches a get-rich scheme to get himself out. But when Dwayne's plan backfires and he's swept into a murder investigation led by the local sheriff, he discovers that Cut Bank is a small town full of deadly surprises.
14) Ballet blanc
Publisher
Indican Pictures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An innocent-looking young boy mysteriously appears in a nondescript small town as the town recovers from recent storms. A ballet troupe that passed through left him behind and suddenly strange things start happening. He is set to unleash his own reign of terror.
15) A bread factory
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In part one, after 40 years of running a community arts center, Dorothea and Greta are suddenly fighting for survival when a celebrity couple come to town and build an enormous complex down the street. Part two revolves around rehearsals for the Greek play, Hecuba, but the real theatrics are outside the theater where the town has been invaded by bizarre tourists and mysterious tech start-up workers.
Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The final season in the trilogy starts three years on from the last season, and five years on from the start. There is a bold, new crime story, which forces residents to ask themselves whether the town has a crack running through it caused by Danny Latimer₂s death, is this new crime somehow the long-term legacy of that dark moment? The central characters must contend with this possibility as they battle to make hope, friendship, and love triumph...
18) The judge
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.
19) Footloose
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Ren MacCormack moves from Boston to the small town of Bomont, where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out. Bomont's councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore responded by invoking ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizes the town, and falls in love with...
Publisher
Shout!
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In Like A Lion finds Elizabeth returning to her beloved Hope Valley after a month away and discovering that some surprising changes have occurred in her absence. From a mayoral race to exciting business ventures to old friends in new roles in the community, the one constant for Elizabeth is her budding romance with Lucas Bouchard. Then, in Turn Of The Page, the long-awaited arrival of Elizabeth's novel should be cause for celebration, but hurt feelings...
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