Local Hero (1983)

An oil-company representative arrives in a Scottish village expecting to conduct a purchase; the locals are hardly innocent of financial ambition themselves. Bill Forsyth keeps the comedy in mismatched expectations, small conversational turns and odd behaviour left just unexplained enough. That gives it more resistance to age than a simple corporation-bad, villagers-good fable. The gentle pace is essential: allow time for the incidental people, and the film becomes stranger and funnier than its cosy reputation suggests.