A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still cannot read or write. Amid the daily chaos of teaching in an inner city school, Alex Jurel tries to decide if he will lie at his deposition to protect the school or tell the truth and risk throwing away his career.

Edge of Seventeen

1998

English

6.8

♡ 35

79%

David Moreton Director

Michael Medico as

Lea DeLaria as Angie

Barbie Marie as Frieda

Tina Holmes as Maggie

1984, Sandusky, Ohio. A naive 17-year-old navigates heartbreak and self-expression as he explores his sexuality.

Blue Car

2002

English

6.6

♡ 5

81%

teacher student relationship

woman director

Karen Moncrieff Director

David Strathairn as Auster

Frances Fisher as Delia

Amy Benedict as Diner Waitress

Sarah Buehler as Georgia

Meg is a gifted but emotionally scarred 18-year-old who finds solace in writing poetry. Mr. Auster, her English teacher, recognizes her talent and encourages her to enter a national poetry contest. As tension at home escalates and Meg struggles to find a way to get to the poetry finals in Florida, Auster's role in her life becomes increasingly complex.

The Mighty

1998

English

7.2

♡ 18

74%

79%

Action

based on novel or book

Peter Chelsom Director

Sharon Stone as Gwen Dillon

Gillian Anderson as Loretta Lee

John Bourgeois as Mr. Sacker Sting

Sting as The Balladeer

Kevin, an intelligent guy helps out Maxwell to improve his reading skills. In return, Kevin wants Maxwell to take him out places since he is not authorized to go out. Being the social outcasts of the town, Kevin and Maxwell come to realize that they are similar to each other and accept that they are "freaks" and nothing will stop them.

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

2005

English

7.2

♡ 2

59%

Jane Anderson Director

Martin Doyle as Cutter Murphy

Julianne Moore as Evelyn Ryan

Nora Dunn as Girl Group Member

Woody Harrelson as Kelly Ryan

A Midwestern housewife supports her large family by entering contests for ad slogans sponsored by consumer product companies, while dealing with abuse from her alcoholic husband. Based on a true story.

Girls Nite Out

1982

English

4.9

♡ 4

26%

Robert Deubel Director

Rutanya Alda as Barney / Katie Cavanaugh

Carrick Glenn as Kathy

Lois Robbins as Leslie Peterson

Lauren-Marie Taylor as Sheila Robinson

The students of DeWitt University are preparing themselves for a night of fun and frolics in the form of an all-night scavenger hunt. Little do they know that they are in fact the ones being hunted.

Beloved

1998

English

6.1

♡ 13

71%

70%

Action

affectation

based on novel or book

Jonathan Demme Director

Charles Napier as Angry Carny

Thandie Newton as Beloved

Kimberly Elise as Denver

Wes Bentley as Schoolteacher's Nephew

After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...

The Bronze

2015

English

6.1

♡ 40

37%

Bryan Buckley Director

Dale Raoul as Doris

Sebastian Stan as Lance

Haley Lu Richardson as Maggie

Gary Cole as Stan

In 2004, Hope Ann Greggory became an American hero after winning the bronze medal for the women's gymnastics team. Today, she's still living in her small hometown, washed-up and embittered. Stuck in the past, Hope must reassess her life when a promising young gymnast threatens her local celebrity status.

An Uncommon Grace

2017

English

6.4

♡ 15

43%

David Mackay Director

Jes Macallan as

Cory Scott Allen as Deputy Small

Kelly McGillis as Elizabeth Conner

Sean Faris as Levi Troyer

An army nurse returning from Afghanistan discovers her purpose in a rural Ohio farm community, along with a deep connection with a neighbor whose conservative Amish sect strictly forbids relationships with those outside his church community.

Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

1990

English

5.9

♡ 20

50%

Jim Abrahams Director

Robby Kiger as Beannie Billings

Winona Ryder as Dinky Bossetti

Frances Fisher as Rochelle Bossetti

Carla Gugino as Young Roxy

Movie star Roxy Carmichael is abandoning the bright lights of Hollywood, Calif. and returning to her small Ohio hometown -- at least long enough to dedicate a city building. And now the whole town of Clyde is bracing for Carmichael's return, most of all her now-married old flame Denton Webb and troubled teen Dinky Bossetti. An orphan with few friends, Dinky is convinced that Carmichael is her birth mother, and that the actress will reclaim her when she returns.

13

2010

English

6.0

♡ 77

7%

Géla Babluani Director

David Zayas as Detective Larry Mullane

Alexander Skarsgård as Jack

Jason Statham as Jasper

Wayne Duvall as Mr. Taylor

A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.

American Factory

2019

English

7.4

♡ 5

95%

Steven Bognar Director

Robert Allen as Self - Furnace Off-Loader

Sherrod Brown as Self - U.S. Senator, Ohio

Junming 'Jimmy' Wang as Self - Vice President, Fuyao

Dave Burrows as Self - Vice President, Fuyao Glass America

In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.

The Open Road

2009

English

5.5

♡ 3

29%

father son relationship

ohio

road trip

Michael Meredith Director

James DuMont as Clerk

Ted Danson as Coach

Jeff Bridges as Kyle

Kate Mara as Lucy

Minor leaguer Carlton Garret takes an unexpected road trip to track down his estranged father, legendary baseball player Kyle Garret when Carlton’s mother becomes sick. Once reunited, Carlton struggles to deal with the series of misadventures caused by his father’s antics. Attempts at bonding come to a head as the mismatched duo make their way from Ohio back home to Houston to reunite the family.

Hauntology

2024

English

3.7

♡ 3

Parker Brennon Director

Naomi Grossman as Annalisa Drouais

Samantha Robinson as Christina

Nancy Kyes as Josephine Cashel

Zoey Luna as Julian Cashel

An older sister takes her fearless runaway sibling on a road trip, to share the most chilling tales surrounding their hometown.

Gummo

1997

English

6.6

♡ 24

39%

Harmony Korine Director

Harmony Korine as Boy on Couch

Max Perlich as Cole

Chloë Sevigny as Dot

Linda Manz as Solomon's Mother

Solomon and Tummler are two teenagers killing time in Xenia, Ohio, a small town that has never recovered from the tornado that ravaged the community in the 1970s.

The Ides of March

2011

English

7.1

♡ 116

84%

presidential campaign

Thriller

George Clooney Director

Jennifer Ehle as Cindy Morris

George Clooney as Governor Mike Morris

Marisa Tomei as Ida Horowicz

Ryan Gosling as Stephen Meyers

Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.

Foreign Exchange

2008

English

4.0

♡ 25

Action

Comedy

exchange student

foreign exchange student

Danny Roth Director

Tania Raymonde as Anita Duarte

Curtis Armstrong as Marvin

Kaitlyn Black as New Girl

Jennifer Coolidge as Principal Lonnatini

Four high school friends plan to ride out their senior year taking easy classes, including a program for housing foreign exchange students and eventually all attending Ohio State. Hurdles befall each of the four: grades, higher aspirations, love. Is it the Foreign Exchange students that learn from their host or the hosts that do more of the learning?

Spring Night Summer Night

1967

English

7.0

♡ 7

Joseph L. Anderson Director

Hersha Parady as Donna

John Crawford as Father

Larue Hall as Jessica

Ron Parady as Tom

Carl and Jessie are half siblings who feel trapped by the existential and economic pressures of living in the small mining town of Canaan, Ohio. Their shared rebellion soon takes on the form of an illicit love affair depicted in interwoven sequences of lusty poeticism and ethnographic vérité. When Jessie becomes pregnant, the tension between the couple’s youthful vitality and the dire realities of rural society leads to consequences both despairing and hopeful.

Nutcrackers

2024

English

5.5

♡ 34

46%

David Gordon Green Director

Linda Cardellini as

Ben Stiller as

Toby Huss as

Edi Patterson as

Bryant Carroll as Security Guard

Just as Mike is on the heels of closing the biggest deal of his career, he's pulled away from his bachelor life in the big city to a farm in rural Ohio in order to help his recently orphaned nephews find a new home.

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