List of Movies - Rural life (North America)

TV Series (2003-2012). 187 Episodes. Besides a love for hoops, it would seem that Lucas and Nathan are two young men with little in common - except for the dark secret that they share the same father. Arrogant and assured, Nathan ...

A beautiful fugitive, Grace (Nicole Kidman), arrives in the isolated township of Dogville on the run from a team of gangsters. With some encouragement from Tom, the self-appointed town spokesman, the little community agrees to hid...

Amish teenagers experience and embrace the modern world as a rite-of-passage before deciding which life they will choose.

TV Series (2002-2006). 4 Seasons. 89 Episodes. A widowed brain surgeon from Manhattan moves his two children to the small mountain town of Everwood, Colorado.

In this romantic comedy, New York fashion designer Melanie Carmichael (Reese Witherspoon) suddenly finds herself engaged to the city’s most eligible bachelor, Andrew (Patrick Dempsey). But Melanie’s past holds many secrets, in...

In the Montana of the late 19th century, wounded outlaw Johnny Gault (Tim Daly) is given refuge by widowed sheep farmer Rebecca Yoder (Naomi Watts). This puts Rebecca on the outs with her own people, a pacifist Quaker sect, and al...

The town of Auburn was always normal, to say the least. True, the people there weren't really a "community", but they never noticed...until a stranger named Joshua rolled into town one morning. In small ways, Joshua bega...

It's contaminated. That's what pint-sized Bo (Abigail Breslin) says about every glass of water that she tries to drink, then rejects. This is just one in a long list of strange occurrences that are changing the lives of the Hess f...

Jewel (Liv Tyler) is a beautiful drifter and each of the three guys - a barman called Randy (Matt Dillon); Randy's lawyer cousin, Carl (Paul Reiser); and a cop called Dehling,(John Goodman) - is convinced that he is the only one f...

A Mexican smuggler sold to a New York gangster a shipment of Viagra, which mysteriously disappears in a remote village of Arizona. This gangster sends his partner and a deputy to retrieve the unique merchandise, but it needs to de...

Set against the backdrop of the 1950's Hollywood blacklist, a young, ambitious screenwriter (Jim Carrey) loses his job and his identity, only to find new courage, love and the power of conviction in the heart of a small town's lif

This movie contains three short stories dealing with the theme of homosexuality. In "A Friend of Dorothy", a woman joins the Navy during the 1950's and discovers lesbianism. In "Mr. Roberts", a teacher in a 197...

Set in a small town in North Carolina, George Washington is the story of a tight-knit multi-racial group of working-class kids caught in a tragic lie. After a twelve-year-old girl breaks up with her boyfriend for a sensitive, deep...

TV Series (2000-2007). 7 Seasons. 153 episodes. The Gilmore Girls follows the life of Lorelai Gilmore and her daughter Rory, who live in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut. Set in a storybook Connecticut town populated...

Echoing the themes of Living in Oblivion and Irma Vep, David Mamet's seventh feature centers on the havoc wrought on the inhabitants of a small town by a troubled film production. After its leading man's propensity for teenage gir...