mining town
35 movies and shows
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo
Thu, 11 Sep 2025
As an unknown and deadly disease begins to spread, legend has it that it is transmitted between two men, through a simple glance, when they fall in love. While people are accusing her family, Lidia must find out whether this myth is real or not.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Thu, 24 Jun 1971
A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
Hula Girls
Sat, 09 Sep 2006
Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.
Pitfall
Sun, 01 Jul 1962
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.
The Riot
Fri, 06 Oct 2023
In 1907, the miners in Sulitjelma in Fauske in Nordland made a famous rebellion against greedy mine owners.
Wrath of Silence
Wed, 04 Apr 2018
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.
Kes
Fri, 03 Apr 1970
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.
Dust in the Wind
Fri, 09 May 1986
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.
Burning Rage
Fri, 21 Sep 1984
While coal fires burn beneath a depressed mining town a greedy businessman stops at nothing to buy up the mineral rights.
Women in Love
Sat, 13 Sep 1969
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s 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 Badlanders
Wed, 03 Sep 1958
Two men are released from the Arizona Territorial Prison at Yuma in 1898. One, The Dutchman, is out to get both gold and revenge from certain people in a small mining town who had him imprisoned unjustly. The other, McBain, is just trying to go straight, but that is easier said than done once The Dutchman involves him in his gold theft scheme. Based on the 1949 novel The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett, the story is given an 1898 setting. It is the second film adaptation of the novel following 1950's noir classic The Asphalt Jungle.
Mirror for a Hero
Sun, 13 Dec 1987
Sergei and Andrei are walking through a city park and see that a film shoot set just post World War II is taking place . They climb over the park fence to get a better view but hit some cable lying on the ground and find themselves in the past - on May 8, 1949, a day which they seem doomed to relive over and over again.
The Silent Village
Thu, 17 Jun 1943
The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
Desert Fury
Fri, 15 Aug 1947
The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone's efforts to separate them.
How Green Was My Valley
Tue, 28 Oct 1941
A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.
Antlers
Thu, 28 Oct 2021
A small-town Oregon teacher and her brother, the local sheriff, discover a young student is harbouring a dangerous secret that could have frightening consequences.
The Proud Valley
Sat, 06 Apr 1940
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.
That's the Price
Thu, 01 Jan 1970
What happens to two dying coal towns in British Columbia when an American corporation provides a contract for millions of tons of coking coal? The film follows the consequences for the towns of Natal and Michel, suggesting that industrial growth has its price, especially with regard to the environment.
'Ora sí ¡tenemos que ganar!
Thu, 22 Oct 1981
Subjugated by power, the workers of a mining town organize clandestinely.
The Citadel
Sat, 29 Oct 1938
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.