5 Best Country Films For You

5 Best Country Films For You

This list of the best country movies is ranked by film fans and professional movie critics. Country is one of the most popular genres of music in the United States.

Manchester by the Sea

Release Date 2016
Rating : 7.8 Production Companies: Big Indie Pictures, Pearl Street Films Director: Andrea Ulrich, Kenneth Lonergan, David Blazina Stars: Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges, Michelle Williams

Summary: After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.

The Founder

Release Date 2017
Rating : 7.2 Production Companies: Weinstein Company, The, FilmNation Entertainment Director: John Lee Hancock, Katherine Steets, Phil Hardage Stars: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch

Summary: The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.

Green Book

Release Date 2018
Rating : 8.2 Production Companies: Participant, Universal Pictures Director: J.B. Rogers, Peter Farrelly, Josh Klausner Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini

Summary: Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

August: Osage County

Release Date 2013
Rating : 7.2 Production Companies: Jean Doumanian Productions, Smokehouse Pictures Director: John Wells, Ian Calip Stars: Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Julianne Nicholson

Summary: A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

Sweet Country

Release Date 2018
Rating : 6.9 Production Companies: Bunya Productions, Sweet Country Films Director: Warwick Thornton, Dylan River, Shannon Crotty Stars: Hamilton Morris, Bryan Brown, Sam Neill

Summary: In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on the lam, pursued by a posse.