A Antlers, una petita ciutat d'Oregon, una professora i el seu germà, el xèrif de la localitat, es comencen a interessar per un estudiant misteriós i distant. A mesura que es van coneixent, descobreixen que el jove amaga un perillós secret que podria tenir conseqüències fatals.
En un petit poble de Gal·les, un pare i els seus cinc fills treballen a les mines de carbó i la vida quotidiana flueix pacíficament. Tot i això, les seves condicions de treball són cada vegada més difícils i els fills decideixen donar un cop, en contra de l'opinió del seu pare.
A schoolteacher, stuck in a teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in a mining town on his way home for Christmas. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the money to move back to Sydney for good, he embarks on a five-day nightmarish odyssey of drinking, gambling, and hunting.
In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family’s set ways, inner conflict, and standing on his toes in a musical that questions masculinity, gender norms and conformity.
Estat de Washington, 1902. Un tafur de fosc passat a qui anomenen McCabe arriba a un llogaret miner de mala mort entremig de les muntanyes. Amb els guanys del joc i la seva traça per als negocis aviat prospera a la petita comunitat. Malgrat tot, quan munta una casa de barrets per pal·liar la manca de dones, necessita el suport i l'experiència d'una professional del ram com la senyora Miller. Entre tots dos aconsegueixen que el nou bordell sigui el més reputat de la regió, un fet que atrau l'atenció d'inversors sense escrúpols.
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence—until tragedy strikes.
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920's English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results for all four.
The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.
A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.
A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei, where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone thinks they are meant for each other, and so do they. They fail to see time and fate are beyond their control.
Four petty criminals, three men and a woman, wander through the trackless terrain of the Wild West Utah and are hounded by a sadistic bandit.
Dos homes surten de la presó d'Arizona el 1898 i es dirigeixen a una petita ciutat de miners a la recerca d'or i venjança. Un remake en versió western de "La jungla d'asfalt"
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.
Northern China, 2004. When miner Zhang Baomin returns to his home, a small and isolated mining village, his wife tells him that their son has mysteriously disappeared while shepherding his small flock.
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
The O'Toole Brothers are Eastern con men, exceptionally good at talking their way out of tight situations. When they ride into Molybdenum, Colorado, not suspecting the riches beneath the streets, they turn the sleepy mining town upside-down for their search for the gold. High-spirited hijinks ensue, with the brothers involved in everything from stolen gambling equipment to a "belchin', cussin' and spittin' " contest.
When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.
In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the ultimate sacrifice when a pit disaster threatens.
This film takes place in a small mining town in Serbia, within a time span covering the prewar, war, and postwar period. A story about tragic life of an illiterate woman from village, about her life with three men she loved. Her life, torn between dreams and reality, is a life of suffering, loneliness, disappointment, hope and love.