Provincial life movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant provincial life movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, humorous, realistic, touching, feel good and sincere films and TV shows about / with provincial life, small town, family relations, society, love and romance, countryside, friendship, corruption, couples and love plots mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres shot in Russia, Poland, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as provincial life: Chicks (2020), Manon of the Spring (1986), Not My Type (2014), Braunschlag (2012), We Accept Miracles (2015), Little Forest: Summer/Autumn (2014), Big Bang (1986), Sosy Problems (2012), Welcome to the Sticks (2008), Disco Polo (2015).
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List of provincial life movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story:
In the south of Russia, where roadside cafes alternate with ripe fruit ruins, three friends of Sveta, Marina and Lyudka work in a brothel. Their former colleague - enterprising Jeanne - went to conquer Moscow, but returned to the girls with a ...
Style:
touching, sad, uplifting, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
women, business venture, provincial life, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, new life, misery, parents and children, prostitute, woman in danger, country girl, friendship, dream ...
Place:
russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon (Beart) has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, thought provoking, saga, anthology ...
Plot:
revenge, female nudity, haunted by the past, spring, provincial life, wedding, cave, rural setting, rabbit, xenophobia, harmonica, marriage ...
Time:
year 1986, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
france, provence, europe, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Clement, a young philosophy teacher, is sent to Arras for a year. He meets Jennifer, a pretty hair stylist, and the two freely share their hearts and bodies as they try to overcome the cultural and social divide between them.
Style:
touching, semi serious, sentimental, feel good, eros ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
young lovers, fall in love, social differences, couples, society, beauty salon, provincial life, unrequited love, professor, love and romance, couple relations, nudity ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The market town Braunschlag, on the outskirts of Austria close to the Czech Republic is bankrupt. The mayor, under pressure form Russian mafia creditors and state government has an idea after a night of too much alcohol in shabby town-disco: Only a ...
Style:
black comedy, semi serious, captivating, cynical, dark comedy ...
Plot:
mayor, small town, provincial life, satire, dark humor, corruption, greed, problem, money problems, deception, town mayor, con trick ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Fulvio is the only one of the three brothers to have left the village to go to work in the city. Deputy chief of staff in a large company, he dismisses people without remorse until he gets fired himself and after being jailed for beating his ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, funny, light, satirical ...
Plot:
satire, provincial life, community, society, social problems, small town, church, humour, family problems, breaking the law, money problems, small community ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Abandoned by her mother, young Ichiko leaves her life in the city to live off the land in Komori, a small town nestled among the mountains in rural Japan. Despite the void left by her mother’s disappearance, Ichiko comes to enjoy her independence ...
Style:
captivating, visually appealing, thought provoking, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
food, japanese girl, farmer, village life, solitude, mother issues, female protagonist, provincial life, nature, slice of life, countryside, agriculture ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A UFO lands at night in a typical Masovian village. The villagers feel honored and want to be as hospitable as possible for the unexpected alien guests.
Style:
light hearted, period piece, surreal, whimsical
Plot:
ufo, provincial life, alien encounter, village life, hospitality, first contact, curiosity, social commentary, night, culture clash, community, humanity ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The problems of 4 rich beautiful girls
Style:
sincere, humorous, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, provincial life, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, protest, reporter, corruption, memories, hotel manager, nanny, spoiled brat, gay ...
Place:
the philippines
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a ...
Style:
humorous, witty, funny, light, satirical ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick
Plot:
village life, culture clash, friendship, fish out of water, postman, prejudice, post office, happy ending, small town, foe turned friend, adaptation, marriage proposal ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, provence, south of france, flanders, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Young wannabe musicians from the province decide to write hit song and gain the top of the charts in order to become legends of disco polo
Style:
entertaining, emotional, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Plot:
provincial life, record producer, fame, magic realism, follow your dream, performer, ambition, artists and showbiz, society, dancing, rivalry, rising to stardom ...
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
The dramatic story of a woman's struggle to discover the identity of her grandchild's father. The grandmother becomes obsessed with discovering the identity of the man who fathered her daughter's child.The naive daughter is of ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, humorous, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
search for father, soldier, christmas, provincial life, poverty, mother, oath, winter, teenage pregnancy, mother daughter relationship, family drama, identity ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Crime
Country: Germany
TV show
Story:
Spreewald Krimi is a German television crime series by ZDF.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, detective ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, provincial life, uncover truth, homicide detective, crime solving, forensics, murder investigation, crime investigation, sleuth, police procedural, small town ...
Place:
berlin germany
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Bohaterem filmu jest 50-letni biznesmen Tomasz Adamczyk, który chce zrezygnować z prowadzenia interesów w branży winiarskiej i poświęcić się swojej pasji życiowej filozofii. Pomysł ten nie przypada do gustu jego wspólnikowi. Do tego ...
Style:
captivating, feel good, humorous, light, existential ...
Plot:
small business, social differences, hostage, meaning of life, ransom, poverty, businessman, hopelessness, countryside, provincial life, midlife crisis, career change ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An atmospheric coming-of-age story featuring an imaginative young boy named Marek who dreams of escaping an increasingly dangerous Poland on the eve of war for beautiful Venice.
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, psychological, inspirational, pre war
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
longing, world war two, coming of age, boy, imagination, journey, provincial life, dream, conscription, society, magic realism, wartime life ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, venice
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Set in a small Polish town, "Louder Than Bombs" tells the coming-of-age story of Marcin, a 21-year-old with a penchant for James Dean and The Smiths. After the death of his father, Marcin must contend with the funeral arrangements while ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, dark comedy ...
Plot:
family relations, youth, love and romance, friendship, friends, dealing with death, twentysomething life, parents and children, provincial life, sex, death, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
France, around 1900. Coming from the vibrancy of Paris, pert Célestine is procured as a chambermaid in Normandy. In the Lanlaire's villa she encounters the lecherous man of the house and his asexual, tyrannical and jealous wife. Célestine is ...
Style:
realistic, stylized, serious, period piece, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
master servant relationship, master and servant, nightmare, seaside, domestic servant, chambermaid, maid, burglary, unwanted pregnancy, valet, silver, train ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 1890s, victorian era, 1900s
Place:
france, normandy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
TV show
Story:
The story of Lesha, Vasya, Lena, Natasha and Vera — five graduates of a rural school who have been friends since childhood. Lyosha is in love with Natasha, but she dreams of leaving the village and becoming an actress. Vasya is in love with Lena, ...
Style:
atmospheric, touching, melancholic, semi serious, sincere ...
Plot:
provincial life, everyday life, village life, life, parent child relationship, mother son relationship, father daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships, husband wife relationship, couple relations, love affair ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
TV show
Story:
A beautiful provincial girl, Polina waits for her fiance Sergei to return from the army. She believes there is a long happy family life is ahead of them. But when Polina's mother needs an urgent expensive operation, she has to forget about her ...
Style:
suspenseful, romantic, captivating, disturbing, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, organized crime, gang, sacrifice, provincial life, family problems, husband wife relationship, life turned upside down, family drama, woman in danger, self sacrifice, gang leader ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Victor, a young artist, arrives in the village to formalize a local club for the New Year. Mishka, the owner of the club, meets Victor and takes him to the house where the room is rented. Sympathy arises between Victor and the daughter of the owner ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, captivating, feel good, light
Plot:
disorder, provincial life, friendship, party, love and romance, family relations, rivalry, disagreement, lifestyle, love triangle, sibling relationship, lie ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When small town drifter Sammy Barlach drives into town on the search for his next cold beer and the bunch that'll have him, he gets a lot more than he bargained for.
Style:
thought provoking, suspense, captivating, visually appealing, independent film ...
Plot:
older woman younger man sex, money problems, poverty, human nature, life is a bitch, outsider, nothing goes right, existentialism, provincial life, symbolism, breaking the law, sexual attraction ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Orléans is a typical provincial Russian town on the banks of a salt lake called Yarovoye. The town is 'steeped in evil'. But it isn't some great evil. This evil is of a banal and everyday type: Lida the hairdresser has indiscriminate ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, thought provoking, satirical ...
Plot:
mysterious stranger, satire, redemption, conscience, guilt, small town life, family problems, province, class society, mysterious man, society, lifestyle change ...
Place:
salt lake city utah
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A simple guy from Podolsk ends up in the Moscow Police Department and morally prepares for all sorts of humiliations. But the representatives of the law suddenly turn out to be exacting intellectuals…
Style:
captivating, intellectual, enigmatic, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police, police station, absurdism, scientific research, adult living with parents, stopped by police, law and order, police officer, human brain, journalist, legal, attempted escape ...
Place:
russia, moscow russia
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Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
When dead people starts returning to the small Japanese town of Aso, government official Kawada is dispatched to uncover the “truth”.
Style:
mystical, suspenseful, contemplative, unusual plot structure, enigmatic ...
Plot:
resurrection, back from the dead, forest, spirit, paranormal phenomena, supernatural, mysticism, provincial life, gravity, death, sibling relationship, mysterious disappearance ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In 1979, a young girl stumbles upon a possessed tape player. She unknowingly unleashes a demonic entity that haunts her family while slowly dragging the small town of Clarkston to Hell.
Style:
suspense, psychotronic, scary, bleak
Plot:
monster, supernatural, supernatural being, nightmare, survival horror, police officer, time travel, occult, female protagonist, supernatural power, supernatural horror, small town ...
Time:
70s, year 1979
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Genre: Family, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Five teens find a new home, new friends, a new family on the Lilientals' horse ranch - a truly magical place: An ancient curse traps them here between heaven and earth. Will the teens manage to band together, solve Arman's secret and ...
Style:
captivating, tense, enigmatic, bleak, mystical
Plot:
relationships, mysterious character, paranormal, investigation, mysticism, paranormal phenomena, paranormal activity, uncover truth, introspection, paranormal investigation, provincial life, trapped ...
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Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The suicide of a prominent wine producer unleashes a series of mysterious murders.
Style:
suspense, crime drama, humorous, enigmatic, satirical ...
Plot:
murder, murder mystery, investigation, justice, police investigation, culture clash, law enforcement, couple relations, provincial life, danger, dishonesty, nothing goes right ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy, venice
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The Valley of Light is a beautifully-filmed, sentimental movie of a young man's quest to make sense of his experiences and find new meaning in life. While this film deals with weighty material such as the suicide of Eleanor's husband and ...
Style:
touching, sincere, sentimental, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
post war, love and romance, fishing, love story, kindness, human spirit, in love, romanticism, province, happy ending, provincial life, angst ...
Time:
post world war two, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
usa, north carolina
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Young major Grisha played in a beautiful life and decided that everything was permissible for him. He has done a lot of things, and now he faces a prison. To correct his son, a desperate oligarch-father goes to extreme measures. Together with his ...
Style:
light, captivating, funny, entertaining, uplifting
Plot:
lifestyle change, rich man, rich and poor, spoiled brat, rich kid, life turned upside down, personality change, village life, teaching the ways of the world, rehabilitation, life changing experience, nouveau riche ...
Time:
19th century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
It's the beginning of the WWII. South of France. Patricia, 18, is the oldest daughter of a well-digger, Pascal, who considers her a princess because of her moral qualities. She's kind, devoted. One day, she briefly meets a young man, ...
Style:
touching, sincere, romantic, surprise ending, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
pregnancy, happy ending, large family, lovers apart, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, parents and children, widower, presumed dead, first love, summer, single mother ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1939, year 1940, 50s
Place:
france, provence, europe, south of france
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Progressive and talented Natasha and Roma dream of a European wedding by the sea... but Natasha's stepfather procured a different scenario. Rough official of the city administration considers the celebration as a springboard for their careers, ...
Style:
captivating, light, humorous, feel good
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
wedding, adult humor, love, family relations, wedding preparations and rituals, drunkenness, stereotypes, society, party, disagreement, father daughter relationship, escapades ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
russia
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