Movies and TvShows featuring "tess-of-the-storm-country-character" theme.

Tess, a young woman from a poor family, faces false accusations, injustice, and heartbreak as she navigates the challenges of poverty and family relationships in a small coastal town. Along the way, she finds unexpected love and must fight for her innocence and happiness.

Fourth reworking of the classic Grace Miller White novel, this time updated to the 60s, with young Scottish lassie Tess (Diane Baker) becoming embroiled in a conflict about a toxic chemical plant near her new home in Pennsylvania.

When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting a bit to old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the coast of Maine, but not for long. A local millionaire, Frederick Garfield, lays a false claim to the property and has them evicted. Later, when Tess saves a young man about her age from drowning, she is a bit dismayed to learn that he is Garfield's son. But when her father is jailed on a false-accusation charge of murder, the younger Garfield comes to their aid and proves he himself.