Movies and TvShows featuring "grain-elevator" theme.

Picnic is a classic 1955 drama and romance movie that takes place in a small town in Kansas, USA. The story revolves around a love triangle that forms during a Labor Day picnic. The movie explores themes of social differences, sexual repression, and social prejudices. It delves into the relationships between college friends, mother and daughter, and sister and sister. The plot also involves a beauty queen, a pie-eating contest, and the consequences of drinking while driving. With its melodramatic elements and compelling characters, Picnic is a captivating film that highlights the complexities of human relationships.

The Return (2005) is a gripping movie that follows a woman named Joanna as she returns to her hometown and becomes haunted by a series of disturbing events. She must unravel the mystery of what is happening before it's too late.

In Holy Matrimony, a man named Peter must go undercover and impersonate the husband of a woman on the run from the law. As he tries to hide his true identity, he gets caught up in a series of comedic and criminal misadventures. With a mix of humor and suspense, Holy Matrimony showcases the lengths people will go to when faced with desperate circumstances.

Corner Gas: The Movie (2014) follows the residents of Dog River, a small town dealing with bankruptcy and an evil corporation trying to take over their gas station. The best friends and quirky characters must come together to save their town and overcome various challenges.

A farmer faces financial ruin due to the greed of a wealthy businessman, leading to a stark contrast between poverty and privilege.

In this short documentary from the Canada Vignettes series, a Saskatchewan grain elevator is moved across the snow-covered prairie to a new home after nearly a half-century of use. The film follows the lifting and transporting of the 9-storey, 200-ton structure, and examines the feelings of the people as they witness the final passing of their town's one and only grain elevator.

Disguised as executives from a Dutch Oil Company, Aliens from outer space buy a local farming company and promise to create jobs for the failing farming town. Their goal is to use crop circles to heat up the temperature of the earth and eventually turn the entire planet into a Club-Med for extra-terrestrials.

This documentary short is a visual portrait of “Prairie Sentinels,” the vertical grain elevators that once dotted the Canadian Prairies. Surveying an old diesel elevator’s day-to-day operations, this film is a simple, honest vignette on the distinctive wooden structures that would eventually become a symbol of the Prairie provinces.