Under the Stars (2022)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 52M
Director : Mathieu Pheng
Sinopse
Paying tribute to some of America's only surviving drive-ins – and those who keep them running – this heartfelt documentary captures efforts to preserve these nostalgic theaters in small-towns across the country.
When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions - because of the accidental death of his own family -investigates the crime. What he finds may create more questions than answers.
A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War.
Após cair em desgraça em Los Angeles devido a uma operação fracassada, Ray Owens (Arnold Schwarzenegger) parte para o interior e assume a posição de xerife em uma pequena cidade na fronteira dos Estados Unidos com o México. O que ele não esperava era que um poderoso chefão das drogas, que escapou recentemente da prisão, quisesse cruzar a fronteira exatamente na cidade onde trabalha. Para enfrentá-lo Ray precisa reunir todo o pessoal que tem à disposição.
Retrato da vida dos habitantes de Grandview, pequena cidade americana do interior, centrado em três personagens: um garoto que chega à idade da razão; uma jovem que gerencia a pista de corridas do pai; e um piloto de provas por ela apaixonado.
Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his marriage, Henry falls in love with teenage seductress Alma, who is the daughter of local criminal and moonshiner Carl McCain. Henry's moral character comes further into question when he is tempted to conceal Carl's crimes in order to prolong his relationship with Alma.
Four guys, best friends, have grown up together in DANCER, TEXAS POP. 81, a tiny town in West Texas. Years ago, they made a solemn vow to leave town together as soon as they graduate. Now, it's that weekend and the time has come to "put up or shut up." The clock is ticking and as all 81 people in the town watch, comment, offer advice and place bets, these four very different boys with unique backgrounds struggle with the biggest decision of their lives... whether to stay or leave home.
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff.
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
Verão de 1980. Barbara é uma pediatra que se viu transferida de Berlim para um hospital de uma cidade remota e isolada da Alemanha Oriental. A nova colocação surgiu depois de se ter candidatado a um visa para emigrar para o lado Ocidental do país. É lá que se encontra o seu namorado que prepara a fuga de Barbara enquanto a médica aguarda pacientemente pelo dia da sua libertação. O novo apartamento, os vizinhos, o Verão e o campo não significam nada para ela. No trabalho, Barbara é atenciosa, mas distante, seguindo as indicações do responsável do Hospital, André. Mas o médico confunde-a: deposita confiança nas suas capacidades profissionais, é carinhoso e o seu sorriso revelam um homem apaixonado. Ou será este médico um espia contratado para seguir os seus passos e revelá-los ao governo?
Um pastor de uma pequena cidade de Vermont acaba ligado à investigação de assassinato de dois paroquianos, depois que são encontradas evidências de que ele estava tendo um caso com uma das vítimas.
A small town doctor mistakenly ingests an experimental drug made from the blood of vampire bats which transforms the kindly medic into a bloodthirsty monster.
The interlaced stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio.
Ervin Plummer-played by the estimable George Macready, who like his good friend Vincent Price was a man of culture and erudition who specialised in bad guy roles-is a grasping avaricious businessman with a hunger for gold.
A compelling documentary film four years in the making, The Pipe tells the story of the small Rossport community which has taken on the might of Shell Oil and the Irish State. The discovery of gas off this remote coastal village has led to the most dramatic clash of cultures in modern Ireland. The rights of farmers over their fields, and of fishermen to their fishing grounds, has come in direct conflict with one of the world's most powerful oil companies. When the citizens look to their State to protect their rights, they find that the government has put Shell's right to lay a pipeline over their own.
Levando a sua jovem namorada da cidade de viagem, um homem visita antigos amigos musicais numa aldeia rural para um ensaio de um quarteto de cordas.
Summer, 1984: 30 years after Duane captained the high school football team and Jacy was homecoming queen, this Texas town near Wichita Falls prepares for its centennial. Oil prices are down, banks are failing, and Duane's $12 million in debt. His wife Karla drinks too much, his children are always in trouble, and he tom-cats around with the wives of friends. Jacy's back in town, after a mildly successful acting career, life in Italy, and the death of her son. Folks assume Duane and Jacy will resume their high school romance. And Sonny is "tired in his mind," causing worries for his safety. Can these friends find equilibrium in middle age?
In 1910, a wayward mother re-visits the family she deserted.
An eccentric man endangers himself when he makes advances toward the girlfriend of a saloon keeper.
When the peaceful Morris family move to a small town and buy the town grocery store, they run afoul of the Cullen family. The Cullen's have been bullying the town's folk for years, and now they are harassing the Morris family every chance they get. Matt meanwhile meets and starts seeing a lot of Becky who also likes him. Unfortunately her last name is Cullen, and when the rest of the family finds out about their relationship, they decide to get even, and their harassment is elevated to vicious assault.
Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.