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Small Town Drama Movies

Name: Small Town Drama Movies
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Dramatic films set in small towns where everyone knows everyone — and everyone has secrets.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
It's a Wonderful Life	1946	Frank Capra	8.3	Drama, Family, Fantasy	United States of America	131	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.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	2017	Martin McDonagh	8.1	Crime, Drama	United Kingdom	115	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,...
Palmer	2021	Fisher Stevens	8.1	Drama	United States of America	110	After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home. But Eddie's past threatens to ruin his new life and family.
The Iron Giant	1999	Brad Bird	8	Animation, Science Fiction, Family, Drama	United States of America	86	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.
Edward Scissorhands	1990	Tim Burton	7.7	Fantasy, Drama, Romance	United States of America	105	A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
Moonrise Kingdom	2012	Wes Anderson	7.7	Comedy, Drama, Romance	United States of America	94	Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and t...
High Noon	1952	Fred Zinnemann	7.7	Western, Drama	United States of America	85	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 lo...
October Sky	1999	Joe Johnston	7.7	Drama	United States of America	107	The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.
In the Heat of the Night	1967	Norman Jewison	7.7	Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller	United States of America	109	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 kille...
Nebraska	2013	Alexander Payne	7.5	Drama, Adventure	United States of America	115	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.
My Cousin Vinny	1992	Jonathan Lynn	7.5	Comedy, Drama	United States of America	120	Two carefree pals traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who has just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When h...
The Man Who Wasn't There	2001	Joel Coen	7.5	Crime, Drama	United Kingdom	116	A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to change it.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me	1992	David Lynch	7.4	Drama, Mystery, Horror	United States of America	135	In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culp...
Boys Don't Cry	1999	Kimberly Peirce	7.4	Crime, Drama	United States of America	118	A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.
The Judge	2014	David Dobkin	7.3	Drama	United States of America	141	A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.
Cape Fear	1991	Martin Scorsese	7.3	Drama, Crime, Thriller	United States of America	128	Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client ...
Lolita	1962	Stanley Kubrick	7.3	Drama, Comedy	United Kingdom	154	Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
It	2017	Andy Muschietti	7.2	Horror, Thriller, Drama	United States of America	135	In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
A History of Violence	2005	David Cronenberg	7.2	Drama, Thriller, Crime	Germany	96	An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
The Devil All the Time	2020	Antonio Campos	7.2	Crime, Drama, Thriller	United States of America	138	In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.
The Lost Boys	1987	Joel Schumacher	7.1	Horror, Comedy, Thriller, Drama, Romance	United States of America	97	When an unsuspecting town newcomer is drawn to local blood fiends, the Frog brothers and other unlikely heroes gear up to rescue him.
Little Children	2006	Todd Field	7.1	Drama, Romance	United States of America	137	The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.
Chocolat	2000	Lasse Hallström	7	Comedy, Drama, Romance	United States of America	121	In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where they open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.
Take Shelter	2011	Jeff Nichols	7	Thriller, Drama, Horror	United States of America	120	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.
The Dressmaker	2015	Jocelyn Moorhouse	7	Drama, Comedy, Western	Australia	118	In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.
Dumplin'	2018	Anne Fletcher	6.8	Comedy, Drama	United States of America	110	To prove a point about measuring up and fitting in, Texas teen Willowdean “Dumplin’” Dickson enters a local pageant run by her ex-beauty queen mom.
Whip It	2009	Drew Barrymore	6.7	Drama	United States of America	111	In Bodeen, Texas, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin.
Hillbilly Elegy	2020	Ron Howard	6.7	Drama	United States of America	117	An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.
Appaloosa	2008	Ed Harris	6.6	Drama, Western, Crime	United States of America	115	Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
The Gift	2000	Sam Raimi	6.5	Horror, Drama, Thriller, Mystery	United States of America	112	Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures⁠—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client's violent husband and plagued by visions of a missing local woman, Annie finds herself pulled into a thicket of lies and de...
The Vast of Night	2019	Andrew Patterson	6.5	Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller	United States of America	91	At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.
The Mothman Prophecies	2002	Mark Pellington	6.2	Drama, Horror, Mystery	United States of America	119	Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.

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