Big Nothing (2006) dir. Jean-Baptiste Andrea
A financially-troubled family man is contacted by a small-time scam artist and the two decide to pull off a seemingly foolproof blackmail scam. A black comedy mixed in with the thriller genre, full of...
View ArticlePromised Land (2012) dir. Gus Van Sant
A natural gas corporation faces trouble when trying to buy the drilling rights in a small rural, economically struggling Pennsylvania town. A well-directed film on the topics of fracking and...
View ArticleBlue Velvet (1986) dir. David Lynch
After coming back to his hometown, a young man finds a severed human ear, which leads him to an investigation into the darkest parts of their small town (and his own mind). A marvelous surrealist...
View ArticleIn The Heat of The Night (1967) dir. Norman Jewison
A murder in a small and racially intolerant Missouri town is investigated by an African American homicide expert from Philadelphia, in cooperation with the local authorities. A superb look into the...
View ArticleThe Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) dir. Joel & Ethan Coen
Circa 1949: a laconic small-town barber devises a complex plan of blackmail which goes awry. An outstanding Neo-Noir piece. Shot in color, but transferred to Black and White for stylistic reasons. A...
View ArticleBernie (2011) dir. Richard Linklater
Based on a true story: In the small East-Texas town of Carthage, a young mortician begins a relationship with an 81-year old millionaire widow. A superb dark comedy with mockumentary and documentary...
View ArticleBreaking the Waves (1996) dir. Lars von Trier
The tragic love story of Bess, a pretty young woman with a history of psychological problems and Jan, an atheist oil rig worker in a repressed Calvinist community in the Scottish Highlands. Divided...
View ArticleBadlands (1973) dir. Terrence Malick
In 1959, a troubled Greaser teenager kidnaps his impressionable 15 year-old girlfriend and the two go on a crime spree in the badlands of South Dakota. Terrence Malick’s first self-written and directed...
View ArticleStraw Dogs (1971) dir. Sam Peckinpah
An American mathematician and his British wife move back to her hometown – a small remote village in Cornwall, England, and are faced with increasingly violent harassment from the locals. Stellar...
View ArticleLeviathan (2014) dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
Левиафан /Leviafan: A tragic series of events unravels for Kolya, a middle-aged family man, living in a corrupt small town in Russia. After the mayor of the town starts a plan to steal his land and...
View ArticlePost Tenebras Lux (2012) dir. Carlos Reygadas
A wealthy young Mexican family move to a small village in the mountainous countryside. The film deconstructs the darkness – within them as individuals and a family, and the darkness lurking in the...
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