Movies and TvShows featuring "council-meeting" theme.

When a couple realizes they can't afford to send their daughter to college, they decide to turn their home into an underground casino to make money. As the business thrives, they find themselves caught up in a world of gambling, corruption, and hilarious mishaps.

Taking Woodstock is a comedy-drama film that follows Elliot Tiber, a struggling young man who inadvertently becomes a part of history when he offers his family's motel to be used as the venue for the famous Woodstock Music Festival in 1969. The film explores the chaotic and transformative events leading up to the festival, as well as the impact it has on Elliot's life and the community of Bethel, New York.

In a small town in Italy, a priest named Don Camillo and the mayor have a tumultuous love-hate relationship. They constantly argue and clash, but deep down they have a mutual respect for each other. The town is also known for its passion for soccer, and the priest gets involved in coaching the local team. Through their various adventures and conflicts, Don Camillo and the mayor learn important life lessons and discover the power of forgiveness and understanding.

Til There Was You is a romantic comedy film that tells the story of Gwen and Nick, two individuals who embark on a journey to find love. Gwen, a former child star turned architect, meets Nick, a struggling writer with a closeted homosexual best friend. As they navigate through various challenges such as eviction notices, breakups, and addiction, they start to develop feelings for each other. Their chance meeting and growing friendship lead to a romantic relationship filled with nostalgia, loneliness, and the ups and downs of life.

The life of a priest seconded to a New Orleans police department begins to fall apart when he is wrongly implicated in the shooting of a suspect. However, it comes to light that the precinct is haunted by the spirit of a deceased policeman, who helps the beleaguered cleric to solve the case and clear his name.

Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.

The protagonist is a jovial bus driver, well beloved by his passengers, essentially the whole community around him. The bus, however, is old, and needs to be replaced. The bus driver himself is also needed as a handyman for all the people around him, assisting with stray cattle, household machines, children's homework, errands of all kinds, and at one occasion, assisting birth. Progress is however leaving him behind, and the local county council plots on a solution, involving a new bus and driver. The community revolts, and the local midwife (married to the mayor) intervenes with all the locals to keep the bus driver, who ends up keeping his job in a new bus.

In the Canadian Northwest, the Chippewa tribe struggles to find food before the onset of winter.

Press for Time (1966) is a hilarious comedy set in London, England, during the 1960s. The town mayor's favoritism, graft, and corruption result in chaos and embarrassment for the town council. The main character, a klutz reporter working for a newspaper, uncovers a rigged beauty contest and exposes the dishonesty of the mayor. Based on a book, the movie highlights the challenges faced by an honest individual in a corrupt system.

Northern Quality tells the story of three generations of farmers. Each of them experience different kind of problems, but all of them are linked to some kind of structural change. They seek a solution to their problems by cultivating a more productive crop in their fields: cannabis. This experiment leads to significant problems with international criminals, municipal officials and even the local police officer.

George Gribble is tea-boy at Tangleton town council, he gets ravelled up in the councillors money-grubbing machinations concerning compiling and then cooking the results of a government sponsored housing survey.