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51. Face to Face (1967)

R | 111 min | Western

A history professor has a chance meeting with an infamous outlaw and eventually assumes leadership of his gang.

Director: Sergio Sollima | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Tomas Milian, William Berger, Jolanda Modio

Votes: 3,376

52. This Man Must Die (1969)

GP | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A man asserts himself within the life of an actress he believes is somehow responsible for his son's death.

Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne, Anouk Ferjac

Votes: 4,907

53. Feeders (1996)

Unrated | 69 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Two friends on a road trip pass through a town where aliens are landing and feeding upon some of the civilians.

Directors: Jon McBride, John Polonia, Mark Polonia | Stars: Jon McBride, John Polonia, Sebastian Barran, Maria Davis

Votes: 1,144

54. Moonshine County Express (1977)

PG | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

When a hillbilly moonshiner is murdered by a powerful competitor, his tough three daughters discover a stash of prohibition whiskey and start undercutting their father's killer's business, with help from a local race car driver.

Director: Gus Trikonis | Stars: John Saxon, Susan Howard, William Conrad, Morgan Woodward

Votes: 498

55. Iona (2015)

85 min | Drama

Iona takes her teenage son to the holy island where she was born so they can hide from a violent crime. As her son seeks forgiveness for what he has done Iona comes to terms with her loss of faith.

Director: Scott Graham | Stars: Ruth Negga, Douglas Henshall, Tom Brooke, Michelle Duncan

Votes: 357

56. A Village Affair (1995 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Romance

Alice has married the rich but boring Martin. When they move to a small village Martin starts flirting with Clodagh, but she is more interested in his wife Alice.

Director: Moira Armstrong | Stars: Sophie Ward, Kerry Fox, Nathaniel Parker, Jeremy Northam

Votes: 600

57. Moonshine Highway (1996 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A moonshine runner tries to make a better life for himself by becoming a stock car racer. Unfortunately, the local sheriff is out to wreak revenge on him for having an affair with his estranged wife.

Director: Andy Armstrong | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Randy Quaid, Maria del Mar, Alex Carter

Votes: 306

58. Monstroid (1980)

R | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.

Directors: Kenneth Hartford, Herbert L. Strock | Stars: James Mitchum, John Carradine, Philip Carey, Anthony Eisley

Votes: 866

59. Devil Story (1986)

76 min | Horror

A deformed man living with his mother in the countryside roams the woods killing indiscriminately. A couple spend the night nearby, and the wife goes through a nightmarish experience involving a black horse, a mummy, and the deformed man.

Director: Bernard Launois | Stars: Véronique Renaud, Marcel Portier, Catherine Day, Nicole Desailly

Votes: 668

60. Wasted (I) (2016)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy

Surreal slacker comedy set in a West Country village where the lives of a group of twenty-something friends are changed forever by the appearance of a familiar figure as a spirit guide.

Stars: Danny Kirrane, Dylan Edwards, Gwyneth Keyworth, Rose Reynolds

Votes: 1,221

61. Rain Shadow (2007)

60 min | Drama

Dr Kate McDonald is married to the small farming community of Paringa, where she's been the vet for 15 years. For most of that time she's been hiding a secret, and as a result, refuses to allow anyone to get close to her.

Stars: Rachel Ward, Victoria Thaine, Grant Piro, Tom O'Sullivan

Votes: 277

62. Hope Island (1999– )

Drama

Reverend Daniel Cooper has come to Hope Island to reopen the Community Church, hoping the assignment will help him through the grief of a terrible loss. Distrusted by the local inhabitants ... See full summary »

Stars: Cameron Daddo, Suki Kaiser, Duncan Fraser, Haig Sutherland

Votes: 138

63. American Women (2000)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy

Irish lads send an ad to the Miami Herald inviting fit and enticing women, between the ages of 20 and 21, to live in their isolated Donegal village. The whole town knows about the ad, and ... See full summary »

Director: Aileen Ritchie | Stars: Ian Hart, Sean McGinley, Niamh Cusack, Ruth McCabe

Votes: 1,531 | Gross: $0.22M

64. Strisser på Samsø (1997–1998)

55 min | Crime, Drama

A cop on a small island, going about his everyday life.

Stars: Lars Bom, Andrea Vagn Jensen, Amalie Dollerup, Lotte Arnsbjerg

Votes: 417

65. Summerfield (1977)

95 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A teacher discovers one of his students has a rare blood disease, and is drawn into a mystery that culminates in a thrilling climax.

Director: Ken Hannam | Stars: Nick Tate, John Waters, Elizabeth Alexander, Michelle Jarman

Votes: 412

66. The Postman's White Nights (2014)

100 min | Drama

The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. A... See full summary »

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Aleksey Tryapitsyn, Irina Ermolova, Timur Bondarenko, Viktor Kolobkov

Votes: 2,105

67. Vulcano (1950)

Approved | 106 min | Drama

The prostitute Anna returns to her home, a volcanic island off the coast of southern Italy. Rossano, a procurer for a prostitution ring sets his cap for Anna's beautiful sister. When Anna wants to do something drastic the Volcano erupts.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Anna Magnani, Rossano Brazzi, Geraldine Brooks, Eduardo Ciannelli

Votes: 336

68. Den sommeren jeg fylte 15 (1976)

98 min | Drama

Peter is telling his story about a special summer, when he was invited over to summer holiday from bickering parents, to his aunt and uncle in the country. He's been there before, but this summer was quite one to remember.

Director: Knut Andersen | Stars: Steffen Rothschild, Anne-Lise Tangstad, Kaare Kroppan, Grethe Ryen

Votes: 204

69. Resting Place (1986 TV Movie)

PG | 100 min | Drama

The mysterious death of an army officer comes under investigation by Major Kendall Laird as the young soldier's parents seek an honorable burial place, out of respect for their son. The ... See full summary »

Director: John Korty | Stars: John Lithgow, Richard Bradford, Morgan Freeman, CCH Pounder

Votes: 644

70. The Prayer (2018)

107 min | Drama

Thomas is a drug addict. In an effort to put an end to his habit, he joins a community of former addicts who live isolated in the mountains and use prayer as a way to cure themselves.

Director: Cédric Kahn | Stars: Anthony Bajon, Damien Chapelle, Alex Brendemühl, Louise Grinberg

Votes: 1,288

71. Bootleggers (1974)

PG | 115 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Details the lives of two feuding families of bootleggers, the Pruitts and the Woodalls, in rural 1920s and 1930s Arkansas.

Director: Charles B. Pierce | Stars: Paul Koslo, Dennis Fimple, Slim Pickens, Jaclyn Smith

Votes: 184

72. The Zone (2017–2018)

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

After a nuclear accident in the north of Spain, a vast exclusion zone was set up to contain the risk of radioactive propagation. A series of murders leads Héctor, the police chief who ... See full summary »

Stars: Eduard Fernández, Álvaro Cervantes, Alexandra Jiménez, Alba Galocha

Votes: 988

73. Hi-Riders (1978)

R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Story of a group of drag races and the young boy and girl who join them.

Director: Greydon Clark | Stars: Mel Ferrer, Stephen McNally, Darby Hinton, Ralph Meeker

Votes: 228

74. The Capture of Bigfoot (1979)

PG | 92 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi

A series of killings occur, with no suspects, the locals soon decide that Bigfoot is responsible.

Director: Bill Rebane | Stars: Janus Raudkivi, Randolph Rebane, Stafford Morgan, Katherine Hopkins Nicholas

Votes: 702

75. Vedreba (1967)

77 min | Drama

Brave sons of Khevsureti and Kisteti fight against each to protect their homelands. But, they confront faulty domestic traditions to respect enemy's true prowess and find themselves in conflict with own compatriots.

Director: Tengiz Abuladze | Stars: Spartak Bagashvili, Rusudan Kiknadze, Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Otar Megvinetukhutsesi

Votes: 896

76. The Day the World Ended (2001 TV Movie)

R | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

When a killer alien creature, who is misunderstood, begins killing specific members of a small town, a school psychologist learns of its link to a young boy's tragic childhood, and his adoptive father's dark secret.

Director: Terence Gross | Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Bobby Edner, Randy Quaid, Harry Groener

Votes: 1,374

77. Fjällbackamorden: Vänner för livet (2013 TV Movie)

90 min | Crime

Erica mentions in a TV interview, that her next book's about her friend, Peter, who vanished when they were 13. Shortly after, Peter's brother gets murdered. Erica and her cop husband investigate separately.

Director: Richard Holm | Stars: Claudia Galli, Richard Ulfsäter, Eva Fritjofson, Pamela Cortes Bruna

Votes: 815

78. It Came from Outer Space II (1996 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 89 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi

Aliens crashland near a small desert town, strewing odd bluish-glowing rocks throughout the area. Townfolk notice something is amiss when temperatures begin to soar, water disappears, power goes down and people seem not to be themselves.

Director: Roger Duchowny | Stars: Brian Kerwin, Elizabeth Peña, Jonathan Carrasco, Adrian Sparks

Votes: 396

79. Inferno (I) (2002)

PG | 91 min | Action, Drama

A fire chief (Gunn) is investigating the cause of a string of blazes that threaten to destroy her small town, while at the same time dealing with her teen daughter's rebelliousness.

Director: Dusty Nelson | Stars: Jeff Fahey, Janet Gunn, Richard Danielson, Greta Danielle Newgren

Votes: 309

80. Psychic Experiment (2010)

R | 93 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

An idyllic, small, self-sufficient community. On the surface, it seems like the perfect neighborhood. Everything you could possibly need is within walking distance. But the pastoral ... See full summary »

Director: Mel House | Stars: Denton Blane Everett, Adrienne King, Reggie Bannister, Glenn Morshower

Votes: 472

81. Crazy Paradise (1962)

95 min | Comedy

The small windswept Danish island Trangö is home of the famous Trangö-eggs. Besides being bigger and whiter than all the others, these eggs light a fire under every woman's skirts.

Director: Gabriel Axel | Stars: Dirch Passer, Ove Sprogøe, Hans W. Petersen, Ghita Nørby

Votes: 131

82. Bloody Angels (1998)

R | 100 min | Horror, Thriller

An Oslo detective visits a hick town to investigate some murders rumored by the locals to have been the work of 'angels'. More likely, given the unsavory types he meets, vengeance and vigilantism are the very human motivations behind.

Director: Karin Julsrud | Stars: Reidar Sørensen, Jon Øigarden, Gaute Boris Skjegstad, Trond Høvik

Votes: 514

83. Summer of Fear (1996 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

The presence of a malicious stranger threatens to destroy the peace and harmony of a vacationing executive's family life.

Director: Mike Robe | Stars: Gregory Harrison, Glynnis O'Connor, Lee Garlington, David Gallagher

Votes: 304

84. Dark Secrets of a Trillion Dollar Island: Garenne (2021)

86 min | Documentary, Crime

Tells the extraordinary story of the child abuse scandal that erupted on the idyllic island of Jersey in 2007. For a long time, the victims' voices had remained unheard, but when widespread... See full summary »

Director: Camilla Hall

Votes: 174

85. Isle of Darkness (1997)

83 min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Fed up with her unfaithful boyfriend and big-city life, Julie, a newly-qualified young teacher from Copenhagen, takes a job as a teacher on an idyllic island in southern Norway. Julie finds... See full summary »

Director: Trygve Allister Diesen | Stars: Sofie Gråbøl, Paul-Ottar Haga, Sina Langfeldt, Martin Slaatto

Votes: 516

86. Mom Squad (2019)

99 min | Comedy, Drama

Newly mom Line lives the jet-set life in Hong Kong. But when she catches her husband, the arrogant businessman Bjørn, in an affair with the nanny, she flies home to Denmark.

Director: Charlotte Sachs Bostrup | Stars: Danica Curcic, Anders W. Berthelsen, Julie Agnete Vang, Lærke Winther

Votes: 729

87. Vrykolakes

90 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller | Filming

In a community ruled by a wealthy and charismatic leader encouraging his followers to pursue extreme subjectivist beliefs, two girls are put to death for their heretical realism only to ... See full summary »

Director: John Ryan Karlin | Stars: Dimitra Vogiatzoglou, Anna Vlachou, Aris Noussis, Haris Mega

88. The Beasts Are on the Streets (1978 TV Movie)

100 min | Thriller

Panic grips a small community after a tanker truck crashes through a fence at a wild animal park, freeing dozens of dangerous beasts.

Director: Peter R. Hunt | Stars: Carol Lynley, Dale Robinette, Billy Green Bush, Philip Michael Thomas

Votes: 127

89. Nattseilere (1986)

113 min | Adventure, Drama

On the island of Senja in Northern Norway in 1877, Båremor, a 14-year-old girl is washed ashore almost dead. No-one knows her and she remembers nothing of her past. A poor family of ... See full summary »

Director: Tor M. Tørstad | Stars: Vera Holte, Helge Jordal, Per Oscarsson, Frode Rasmussen

Votes: 222

90. Bastion (2016)

Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

In an alternative future in which the Cold War never ended, a man called David, flees the city with his pregnant wife, Abigail, in search of freedom.

Directors: Louis Hannan, Dominic Hodge | Stars: Leo Taylor-Jannati, Victoria Slinger, Andrew Swift, Craig Carr

Votes: 17

91. Weekend of Shadows (1978)

Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama

In the 1930s, a farmer's wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a posse is formed to catch him.

Director: Tom Jeffrey | Stars: John Waters, Wyn Roberts, Graham Rouse, Melissa Jaffer

Votes: 70

92. Silence (2011)

110 min | Drama, War

A drama between people under unconventional circumstances. In the Second World War Finland was the only nation who brought casualties killed-in-action back to be buried at home. These ... See full summary »

Director: Sakari Kirjavainen | Stars: Joonas Saartamo, Lauri Tilkanen, Terhi Suorlahti, Joanna Haartti

Votes: 468

93. Herman U.S.A. (2001)

PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy, Romance

When 78 eligible bachelors from a small Minnesota town advertise for female companionship, women from 37 states and four foreign countries arrive, changing the men's lives forever.

Director: Bill Semans | Stars: Kevin Chamberlin, Michael O'Keefe, Enid Graham, Ann Hamilton

Votes: 158 | Gross: $0.07M

94. Villhesten (1994)

106 min | Adventure, Family, Drama

A night Ragnhild can't sleep due to a storm, she discovers a horse in distress. The horse runs away, and the days after she is told that the horse is not real, but an old saying. But Ragnhild knows what she have seen.

Director: Morten Kolstad | Stars: Linda Digernes, Susanne Nielsen, Trygve Vassbotn, Michael Solhjem

Votes: 79

95. Kimen (1974)

93 min | Crime, Drama

On a small green island out in the sea, they live in harmony - until a stranger comes. Like a hurricane this rocks the small society, and a killing lets all hidden forces loose.

Director: Erik Solbakken | Stars: Kjell Stormoen, Svein Sturla Hungnes, Ragnhild Michelsen, Helle Ottesen

Votes: 55

96. Pieniä suuria valheita (2018)

94 min | Comedy, Drama

A priest who left his cheating wife (Mikko Nousiainen) moves with his school-aged son to a small town in Kainuu, where he plans to start a new life. The beginning, however, is not very rosy... See full summary »

Director: Matti Kinnunen | Stars: Mikko Nousiainen, Niila Nousiainen, Santtu Karvonen, Pihla Penttinen

Votes: 247

97. Cave In (2003 TV Movie)

PG | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When a cave in threatens the lives of four miners, including a father and son, it becomes a fight for survival. The superintendent struggles against the ticking clock to save her crew and family from impending doom.

Director: Rex Piano | Stars: Mimi Rogers, Ted Shackelford, Bruce Allpress, Paul Gittins

Votes: 179

98. The Spring Gathering (1999)

178 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

In early-1960s Chios, the sudden death of a forest ranger forces the local agronomist to appoint his successor. But, none of the available field guards accepts the position due to the bad reputation of the village.

Director: Dimos Avdeliodis | Stars: Angeliki Malanti, Angelos Pantelaras, Takis Agoris, Yannis Tsoubariotis

Votes: 530

99. Troll-Elgen (1927)

95 min | Drama, Mystery

The motherless moose calf acts like a cow, and the strange animal is the start of a lot of stories. Hunter's aren't interesting in hunting him down, except one. He has decided to do it in, the troll-moose.

Director: Walter Fyrst | Stars: Tryggve Larssen, Bengt Djurberg, Julie Lampe, Tove Tellback

Votes: 83

100. Eskimo (1930)

86 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Jack Norton is a careless gambler, until his father turns his back on him. Dead drunk he winds up on a boat going far up North, where he leaves the boat, only to be saved by Eskimos, where he soon falls in love.

Director: George Schnéevoigt | Stars: Mona Mårtenson, Paul Richter, Ada Kramm, Knut Langgaard

Votes: 35