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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story:
Russian scientists created an android policeman. Ideal in all respects, Captain Anna Nikolaevna Korolkevich goes to serve in a provincial town to see real life and become a human. Colleagues think that Anna Nikolaevna is the daughter of the Deputy ...
Plot:
human android relationship, fighting crime, female police officer, humanoid robot, artificial intelligence, science runs amok, police, adaptation, provincial life, province, crime fighter, moral transformation ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A sadly humorous story about a Siberian tractor driver, Ivan Rastorguyev (Vasili Shukshin), traveling with his wife (Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina) to a Black Sea resort, and about their first visit to Moscow.
Style:
road movie, comedy drama, light hearted
Plot:
provincial life, travelogue, marriage, social satire, humanism, city life, slice of life, character study, village, train, villager, holiday ...
Time:
70s
Place:
russia, siberia, moscow russia, black sea
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Mrs Emmeline Lucas (Lucia) has just moved to the small English town of Tilling where she comes into conflict with the social ambitions of Miss Elizabeth Mapp. Until now, Miss Mapp has led (and controlled) the social life of Tilling, but that was ...
Style:
satirical, light hearted, witty
Plot:
snobbism, female rivalry, provincial life, literary, seaside town, small town, manners, social climber, neighbor, rivalry, gossip, storage unit
Time:
1930s
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A film-in-film story set in a provincial town in Russia. Pasha is an amateur actress who plays a witch at a local club, but her dream is to play Joan of Arc. In a strike of luck she is cast as Joan of Arc in a big screen film. Now she is torn ...
Style:
inspirational, poignant, emotional, historical drama, sentimental ...
Plot:
joan of arc, unrequited love, female protagonist, aspiring actress, provincial life, village, theater, self discovery, coming of age, identity, resilience, film industry ...
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Luisa is a small-town girl who works in the bakery of the widower Don Albino. Luisa dreams of marrying and loves children. Just as Don Albino shows interest in her, Luisa announces that she will marry soon with Carlos, the driver of a rich house ...
Style:
poignant, psychological, art house, black and white
Plot:
loneliness, widower, female protagonist, melancholy, doomed romance, small town, provincial life, failed marriage, character study, isolation, marriage, unrequited love ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Emma Bovary is bored by her country doctor husband and gives in to the affections of several rich suitors as well as the temptation of living beyond her husband's means.
Style:
sexy, period drama, sexploitation film
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, debt, provincial life, financial ruin, social climbing, forbidden love, scandal, escapism, gender roles, class conflict, greed ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A movie directed by F.Nuti
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, father daughter relationship, gang, family problems, dishonesty, youth, parents and children, kids in trouble, family relations, infidelity, family in crisis, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florence
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203
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
22-year-old Norge lives a careless life as a bachelor in the province. The slacker idyll meets a sudden end when 16-year-old Josephine turns up after a one-night-stand and tells him she’s pregnant
Style:
reflective, melancholic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
slacker, coming of age, provincial life, small town, friendship, one night stand, responsibility, slice of life, grownups, male protagonist, aimlessness, moral dilemma ...
Place:
ireland
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925
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Elena, Koko, Patso and Gosho are high school students in a small provincial town. They are inseparable friends that share the belief that they are «losers». Koko is in love with Elena. The girl wants to be a singer. She is really excited about the ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, black and white, independent film
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, first love, youth, small town, provincial life, unrequited love, aspiring singer, friendship, grandmother, family abandonment, social change, rock concert ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
bulgaria, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Janus is a young high school student who dreams of leaving his native countryside ravaged by isolation and alcoholism. His daily life changes the day he discovers an artisanal distillery hidden in his grandfather's cellar.
Style:
satirical, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
dream, student, alcoholism, coping, teenager, changing lives, satire, adolescence, lifestyle change, teenage life, teenage protagonist, youth ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Sakthi is in love with Anjali but marries city girl Divya because his father has given his word to her dad. But Divya is least interested in making the marriage work and wants a divorce...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, exciting, funny, tense ...
Plot:
villager, arranged marriage, relationships, male female relationship, countryside, village people, village life, village, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, couples, small village ...
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Juan and Richi Osorio are two brothers that in the early 90's created a musical duet called Supergalactic, which get the No. 1 in the hit lists with the single "Pool Party Time". 20 years later, Juan is a pool maintenance worker and ...
Style:
sentimental, rom com
Plot:
small town, brothers, showbiz, provincial life, family conflict, bittersweet, getting home, nostalgia, midlife crisis, celebration, underdog, music industry ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
For her latest project, commissioned by Arte and starring members of the Comédie-Française, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (A Castle in Italy, Rendez-Vous 2014) shot an idiosyncratic, half-modernized adaptation of one of Chekhov’s greatest, most ...
Style:
captivating, family saga, art house, meditative, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
three sisters, sister sister relationship, family relations, isolation, melancholy, longing, literary, relationships, coping, life, sister, male female relationship ...
Place:
russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Elementary school teacher Michele Cortese is about to start a whole new life. After 40 years of teaching in the metropolitan Roman jungle, he had to move to a village in Central Italy, to teach in a tiny school with just a few children aged 7-10. ...
Style:
heartfelt, emotional, scenic, melancholic
Plot:
education, village, teacher, children, elementary school, small town, friendship, community, fish out of water, provincial life, intimate, relocation ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
italy
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A comedy about the competition between two countryside businessmen.
Style:
funny, entertaining, humorous, captivating, light ...
Plot:
business rivalry, countryside, competition, financial problem, business, humour, money, money falling through the air, criminal, money problems, businessman, lifestyle change ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Beryl Gardenant, a middle-aged swordsman running a dojo in the backwaters, lives a quiet life, until Allucia, former student and Commander of the Royal Order of Knights, appears! Beryl’s life is about to change dramatically! City life. Old ...
Style:
action drama, anime, seinen
Audience:
adult
Plot:
martial arts, discipline, personal growth, duel, rivalry, reluctant hero, honor, provincial life, city life, military training, legacy, reputation ...
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Genre: Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Parisian businesswoman Lili travels to rural France for a wedding and falls in love with Luc, a single father and farmer.
Style:
romantic drama, captivating, sincere, emotional
Plot:
love story, village life, relationships, love, in love, love affair, businesswoman, male female relationship, couple relations, love interest, french countryside, fall in love ...
Place:
france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Toth family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the armed forces. When his weary major is ordered to take a vacation, the son talks him into a visit to his family home. Comedy ensues when the ...
Style:
dark comedy, sitcom, situational comedy, satirical, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, family home, military, satire, irony, social satire, awkwardness, social climbing, family drama, provincial life, class conflict, bureaucracy ...
Time:
60s
Place:
hungary
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue made by a St. Petersburg bureaucrat. The actress father dies after being involved in this game and perspectives look dark... But evil will ...
Style:
melancholic, sincere, tragicomedy, costume drama, emotional ...
Plot:
investigation, secret police, jealousy, actor, love, theater, actress, illicit affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair, social relations, honor ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
russia
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Katerina Izmailova is a filmization of Dmitry Shostakovich's long-suppressed 1936 opera. Galina Vishnevskaya stars as Katerina, a bored 19th century farm wife. At the behest of her grungy lover, Katerina murders her husband and her ...
Style:
dark, bleak, art house, atmospheric, gothic ...
Plot:
murder, betrayal, female protagonist, adaptation, adultery, political repression, forbidden love, moral ambiguity, sexuality, infidelity, jealousy, fatalism ...
Time:
19th century, 60s
Place:
siberia, soviet union, russia, ussr
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
"Pag-puti ng Uwak, Pag-itim ng Tagak" is a pulsating love story that recaptures the nostalgic fifties, the exciting era of mass hysteria, and the golden years of the rock and roll fever inflicted by screaming, wiggling hip-shaking foreign ...
Style:
tragic ending, emotional, poignant, period piece, family saga ...
Plot:
elopement, father daughter relationship, sacrifice, forbidden love, small town, provincial life, lost love, coming of age, youth culture, nostalgia, violinist, satire ...
Time:
1950s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the sequel to the surprise hit Üvegtigris (2001), we witness the 6 losers again as they run amok around the roadside buffet, which again fails to make their dreams come true, but which serves as the basis and end station of numerous funny ...
Style:
sitcom, situational comedy, slapstick, funny, melancholic ...
Plot:
misadventure, small town, friendship, provincial life, working class, absurd humor, satire, deadpan, slice of life, road trip, bureaucracy, wedding ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After experiencing heartache, Adrian a.k.a. Ada - a conservative homosexual, leaves the city with his cousin Aruba. Relocating to a quaint province to start a new life and a parlor business, she meets her assistant Didi, her new secret love Dodong ...
Style:
feel good, absurd, whimsical
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexuality, gay lead character, gender bending, irreverent, self acceptance, gay, zombie, provincial life, small town, satire, cross dressing, love triangle ...
Place:
the philippines
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
"There will be no wedding!" - informs nervous Tomek Tarnawski gathered in the church family and friends from Zagórzyno. This is how the adventures of the inhabitants of a small town near Warsaw begin.
Style:
realistic, comedy drama, satirical
Plot:
wedding, church, community, small town, relationships, everyday life, gossip, intimate, slice of life, family reunited, provincial, provincial life ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Horror
Country: Philippines
Story:
A heart-pounding fright movie about a provincial lass whose life and death is shrouded by inexplicable and ghastly events so affecting the whole community of Sta. Barbara. Igan suffers a gruesome death in the hands of a devil worshipper, Nana ...
Style:
supernatural thriller, suspense, sinister, atmospheric, mysterious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
witch, curse, supernatural, revenge, fear, witchcraft, unsettling, ghost, devil worship, provincial life, terror, folk horror ...
Place:
the philippines
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The story of two sisters (Lilia and Trining), who have adopted three children (Lilia adopted Pilar and Joven, Trining adopted Ito). Trouble, lies and violence ensues as Lilia's children fall in love, and Trining's son gets infuriatingly ...
Style:
suspense
Plot:
love triangle, adoption, jealousy, family secret, forbidden love, family drama, rivalry, motherhood, betrayal, sexual tension, taboo, moral dilemma ...
Place:
the philippines
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
East of Everything is an Australian drama television series which began screening on 30 March 2008 on the ABC. It is produced by Deborah Cox, Fiona Eagger and Roger Monk. Two seasons were produced.
East of Everything revolves around a ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, melancholic, humorous ...
Plot:
family drama, family problems, social problems, family business, hotel manager, small town life, lifestyle, hotel, self discovery, small town, homecoming, getting home ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Suffering through a mid-life crisis, Omer has to face the angry villagers in order to realize his estranged father's dying wish to be buried under the enshrined Noah Tree which his father claims to have planted half a century ago.
Style:
sincere, disturbing, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
father son relationship, midlife crisis, family conflict, family problems, conflict, parents and children, social problems, village life, crisis, society, villager, social relations ...
Place:
turkey
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Serbia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story takes place in Nis, towards the end of the nineteenth century, during the calm down of the stormy historic events which led to final liberation of southern Serbian parts from Turkish occupation. The comedy is about celebrating traditional ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, light, funny, feel good ...
Plot:
tradition, celebration, satire, social satire, banquet, hospitality, humour, society, provincial life, community, small town, everyday life ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
serbia, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story:
Series is about a reluctant pornographic writer Rajaram a small-town bank clerk who aspires to be a litterateur, is inspired by the anonymous author of popular pulp fiction and sex stories in Hindi. His litterateur aspirations are supported by none ...
Style:
erotic, feel good, entertaining, satirical, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
slice of life, satire, writers, sexuality, erotica, writer's life, passion, seduction, male female relationship, relationships, ambition, desire ...
Time:
80s
Place:
india
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