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- Hope, British Columbia, Canada. Movies filmed here: "A Christmas Tree Grows in Colorado," "Winter's Dream" and "Falling for Christmas" Tucked away in the mountains, this Canadian town (and its nearby neighbor, Manning Park) is the epitome of a Hallmark winter wonderland.
- Chester, Vermont. Movies filmed here: "Moonlight & Mistletoe" This tiny town in the heart of Vermont embodies everything we love about small-town life. With a population of just over 3,000, its downtown is lined with charming brick buildings and local businesses you'd only find in a Hallmark movie, such as a yarn shop and a tea room.
- Farmington, Utah. Movies filmed here: "Christmas Land" and "Check Inn to Christmas" Farmington has become a must-visit for any die-hard Hallmark fan. Not only is it home to the adorably charming Lagoon Park — which makes an appearance in "Christmas Land" — but it's also home to things every fan of a good small-town movie can appreciate: snowcapped mountains, cute cafes and plenty of holiday cheer.
- Marietta, Georgia. Movies filmed here: "Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses" Located just outside of Atlanta, Marietta has become a go-to location for Hallmark movies set during the holiday season because it offers the quintessential ingredient to every good small-town Christmas movie — a charming town square.
- 25 Sweet Home Alabama
- 24 It’S A Wonderful Life
- 23 What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
- 22 The Virgin Suicides
- 21 Welcome to The Dollhouse
- 20 Notting Hill
- 19 The Half of It
- 18 Stand by Me
- 17 Gone Girl
- 16 The King of Staten Island
Melanie is a big fashion designer with unusual roots. She has a perfect life and is ready to get engaged to the most eligible bachelor in town, but her seemingly perfect future gets too complicated when an old flame Jake, the man she married in high school, steps back into her life. Sweet Home Alabamais set in the backwater town of Pigeon Creek, Al...
Allowing a glimpse into Bedford Falls, a quintessential American small town, through the eyes of Geoge Bailey, a man desperately wishing he had never been born, It’s A Wonderful Life celebrates the mere act of existing and contributing trivially to society. As an angel shows Bailey what the world, especially his town, would be like had he never bee...
Set against the endless stretches of road that tie together the fictitious town of Endora, Iowa, What’s Eating Gilbert Grapefollows Gilbert, stuck caring for his developmentally disabled brother, Arnie, and overweight mother, Bonnie, in a place where 'nothing ever happens.' His dull and uninspiring routine is upended by a traveling free spirit name...
The Virgin Suicides is set in 1970s suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan, where five beautiful yet mysterious teenage Lisbon sisters become the talk of their sleepy town after the youngest attempts suicide. Through the eyes of the neighborhood boys who obsess over the girls, we witness the stifling conformityand expectations placed on women right from ...
An exploration of the complexities and pain of growing up as the middle child in a dysfunctional family through the eyes of an awkward middle school girl named Dawn Weiner, Welcome to the Dollhouserevolves around her life as she desperately tries to fit in at school and at home while the ruthless social system of childhood constantly walks over her...
Starring the king and queen of ‘90s romance is this classic movie where a chance encounter between Julia Roberts' Anna Scott, a movie star character, and shopkeeper William Thacker, played by Hugh Grant, opens an enchanting door into the ups and downs of star-crossed love. Set against the charming and quirky backdrop of West London’s Notting Hill, ...
The Half of Itdropped as an incredible coming-of-age queer story on Netflix back in 2020. And while it remains underseen, the movie has a lot of things going for itself. Set in Squahamish, a sleepy town in Washington state, it follows the unlikely friendship between Ellie Chu, a studious Chinese-American teenager, and Paul, a sweet yet dumb jock wh...
Four Oregon boys, Gordie, Chris, Teddy, and Vern, set out on a journey to find the dead body of a missing boy who was hit by a train while plucking blueberries in the wild, having the greatest adventure of their young lives along the way. Stand by Me is a film that beautifully captures the boys’ precise knowledge of their small town, of back roads,...
Directed by David Fincher, Gone Girlis a spectacular psychological thriller based on the 2012 Gillian Flynn novel of the same name. The plot goes something like this – when Amy suddenly disappears on her fifth wedding anniversary, all eyes fall on her seemingly perfect husband, Nick as the prime suspect. The couple living in the picture-perfect tow...
The King of Staten Islandis a comedy-drama that follows Scott, a 24-year-old who is stuck in the past after losing his firefighter father at a young age. He spends his days smoking weed and dreaming of becoming a tattoo artist while living with his mother on Staten Island. When she starts dating a firefighter, Scott’s issues come to a head. Written...
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- Titanic. Released: 1997. Rated: PG-13. Memorable quote: “A woman’s heart is a deep ocean of secrets.” Twenty-five years after its release, our hearts still go on for James Cameron’s Academy Award–winning romantic drama.
- 12 Years a Slave. Released: 2013. Rated: R. Memorable quote: “I don’t want to survive. I want to live.” It is nearly impossible for a movie based on a true story to avoid taking any creative license, but 12 Years a Slave comes very close.
- Argo. Released: 2012. Rated: R. Memorable quote: “This is what I do. I get people out. And I’ve never left anyone behind.” Despite being a gripping spy thriller based on the very real extrication of six American diplomats from Iran in 1980 by CIA operative Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck, who also directed the movie), this film took a lot of creative license.
- Hidden Figures. Released: 2016. Rated: PG. Memorable quote: “On any given day, I analyze the velometer levels for air displacement, friction and velocity. And compute over 10,000 calculations by cosine, square root and lately analytic geometry by hand.”
Hoosiers (film) Hoosiers. (film) Hoosiers (released in some countries as Best Shot [3]) is a 1986 American sports drama film written by Angelo Pizzo and directed by David Anspaugh in his feature directorial debut. It tells the story of a small-town Indiana high school basketball team that enters the state championship.
- All the President's Men (1976) Film. Drama. Wait, you’re telling us Watergate is an actual thing that happened, and in 1974 two reporters really did take down a sitting US president?
- In Cold Blood (1967) Film. Before true crime podcasts and Dateline NBC marathons, there was Truman Capote, whose account of the 1959 massacre of a family in rural Kansas shocked a nation not yet desensitised to random acts of unspeakable violence.
- Hustlers (2019) Film. Drama. A rare depiction of a r ecession that’s neither a teary drama about farmers losing their homes nor a political screed against greedy one-percenters, Hustlers is instead a hyperkinetic story of economic survival, set in a world hit particularly hard by the 2008 financial crisis: New York strip clubs.
- Argo (2012) Film. Drama. It’s one of those stories too far-fetched for even the most inventive screenwriter to make up. At the onset of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, a movie-loving CIA agent hatched a plot to smuggle six diplomats out of the country by pretending to be a Canadian film crew shooting a fake Star Wars-alike sci-fi flick there.
Apr 28, 2023 · Love & Death is the third adaptation made using this case as a subject, following the 1990 CBS movie A Killing in a Small Town and the 2022 Hulu miniseries Candy starring Jessica Biel.
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Jul 15, 2021 · Little Boxes is a small town movie that's still relevant for 2021. Gunpowder & Sky/YouTube. Directed by Rob Meyer from a script penned by Annie Howell, "Little Boxes" is an indie feature that ...
