Provincial life movies and TV shows – page 4
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List of provincial life movies
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother (Lou Castel), mother (Emmanuelle Riva) and pregnant lover (Angela Molina).
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, semi autobiographical
Plot:
suicide, twins, character study, grief, mourning, loneliness, existential crisis, midlife crisis, family secret, infidelity, small town, provincial life ...
Time:
year 1982
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
TV show
Story:
Gymnasium with limited liability is a Czech series from a small-town grammar school that loses its struggle with a bad reputation. Although it is also known shortly as Gympl, it has no direct connection with the Czech film Gympl from 2007.
Style:
entertaining, funny, captivating, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teacher student relationship, high school, gymnasium, teachers and students, school teacher, teacher, apprentice, female teacher, school, children, high school teacher, student life ...
Place:
czech republic
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
celebration, society, disorder, nothing goes right, religions or cults, lifestyle, celebrity culture, faith, satire, social commentary, provincial life, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Four girls unknowingly experience the happiest days of their lives during an uneventful best-friend trip to Belgrade.
Style:
road movie, psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
female friendship, road trip, job, friendship, coping, women, girlfriend, workplace, female protagonist, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, friends, female best friends ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
belgrade, italy, serbia, former yugoslavia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In this offbeat coming-of-age tale, a charming, rebellious high school dropout named Kanta befriends the kind, provincial Shoji. The two bring out the best in each other, each gaining confidence from their friendship - especially regarding pursuit ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, sincere, melancholic
Plot:
jealousy, working class, friendship, youth, coming of age, love story, love triangle, relationships, co worker co worker relationship, couple relations, love affair, relationship problems ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the Sicily of the late 1940s, two brother sculptors, tired of selling madonnas to the local churches, finally realize their dream, and set up a Sicilian production company, thanks to the help of a local bishop. They start producing one box-office ...
Style:
tragicomedy, black comedy, dark comedy, intercultural, avant garde ...
Plot:
filmmaking, brothers, behind the scenes, post war, provincial life, debt, ambition, satire, perseverance, mishap, occult, religion ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
sicily
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The town is shocked with a brutal double murder. The "Courier" hands the case to an experienced journalist - Witold Wanycz. At the same time, he learns about the mysterious suicide of two teenagers. Together with Piotr, a young journalist, ...
Style:
suspenseful, dark, suspense, thought provoking, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, swamp, small town, investigative journalism, journalism, investigation, life is a bitch, danger, organized crime, society, violence, police ...
Time:
80s
Place:
poland
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289
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Threatened by his debtors, rocked by a broken heart and driven by greed, a charming gambler arrives at a middle-of-nowhere tavern in search of a case of gold. Instead, he attracts the attentions of the grumpy tavern owner's unhappy wife, whose ...
Style:
tense, melancholic, comedy drama, suspense
Plot:
gambling, debt, down on your luck, unrequited love, desperation, greed, mishap, infidelity, loneliness, provincial life, isolation, seduction ...
Place:
greece
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of an enthusiastic young man who joins a textile factory in the late 1950s and assumes that a promising career awaits him - the protagonist is therefore constantly comparing himself to his favourite literary model, the ...
Style:
melancholic, costume drama, period drama
Plot:
ambitious, provincial life, coming of age, bittersweet, social realism, naked man, hairy bush, woman on top, erotica, sex in a chair, promiscuous man, female pubic hair ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
central europe, czechoslovakia, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Trajković family are bridge builders. Being forced to move every once in a while, the bridges are everything but pleasant thing for 17 year old Budimir, who is unable to make any permanent love relationship. In their last attempt to settle down in ...
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, heartfelt, period piece
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
sexual intercourse, coming of age, first love, adolescence, young love, sexual awakening, bittersweet, male protagonist, longing, female nudity, slice of life, sexual frustration ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
belgrade, former yugoslavia, eastern europe, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Seven pals decide to take a few days'holidays to free up the time necessary to pull three enormous pranks. Their aim is to ridicule three established bodies: the army, the church and the administration. Quite arbitrarily, they set their hearts ...
Style:
light hearted, slapstick
Plot:
unhappiness, prank, small town, male friendship, irreverent, satire, male bonding, farce, political satire, anti establishment, road trip, social satire ...
Time:
60s
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When the local science teacher hurts herself during a failed experiment and ends up in hospital, she is replaced by young and sexy Stevania Marini. Barely out of school herself, Stefania finds herself the object of affection for several men, ...
Style:
sex comedy, erotic, sensual, sexy, period piece ...
Plot:
school, seduction, sexploitation, female protagonist, small town, desire, substitute teacher, scandal, sexual awakening, infatuation, affair, voyeurism ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a hard time having let success and wealth go to his head. But after the superticous Nicosia has an encounter with an elderly gypsy aunt, and a business ...
Style:
horror comedy, satirical, black comedy, dark comedy, sex comedy ...
Plot:
vampire, dracula, satire, vampirism, social satire, supernatural, snobbism, provincial life, transformation, gay, lgbt, absurd humor ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, romania
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of young unemployed people from Le Mans (France) decide to create a new political party.
Style:
comedy drama
Plot:
unemployment, social commentary, political satire, friendship, working class, provincial life, realism, bureaucracy, idealism, frustration, ambition, team building ...
Time:
90s
Place:
maine
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181
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
British-Canadian light romantic comedy film set in a dying Saskatchewan town. Bank branch manager, Pincer Bedier, dreams of reviving the town when one day a beautiful young woman's car breaks down and she becomes stranded until it can be ...
Style:
lighthearted, romantic comedy, independent film, sentimental
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
small town, optimism, heartwarming, social commentary, slice of life, provincial life, professional, journey, bittersweet, hardware store, tour
Time:
90s
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Anna Davati is a very beautiful woman of about forty years who moves from the big city where she lives to a small provincial town to answer a job advertisement published in a newspaper. She appears, therefore, at the home of Carlo Silvio, a writer ...
Style:
romantic, captivating, psychological, art house, intellectual ...
Plot:
writers, blindness, character study, blind man, writer's life, love and romance, secret, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, nursing, romantic relationship, relationships, male female relationship ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first love affair, which ends badly. In the second a provincial boy with dreams of life in the theater has ...
Style:
art house, melancholic, period piece
Plot:
coming of age, youth, first love, character study, working class, loss of innocence, relationships, betrayal, ambition, unrequited love, intimacy, realism ...
Time:
70s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Inspector Chantal Vantomme starts a new life in Loveringem, aka the Farwest of Flanders as the new coordinator of the small and rural police office. She arrives in a macho world where the apparent tranquillity does not guarantee less crime.
Style:
crime drama, tense, serious, suspense, contemplative ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
police procedural, investigation, small town, secrets, social realism, provincial life, slow burn, social commentary, isolation, moral ambiguity, corruption, dark humor
Place:
flanders, belgium
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Comedy about a family of Gran Canaria island that shown in a "situation totally on edge" and reflects the way to be the canaries, as its author.
Style:
comedy drama, dark comedy, queer cinema
Plot:
family drama, family conflict, sibling rivalry, gay lead character, mother son relationship, lgbtq, family secret, mother daughter conflict, small town, island, everyday life, provincial life ...
Place:
canary islands
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Pascal and Pauline are coming back to their parents’ estate. After years of travelling the world, they are no longer in a position to afford the property bills. They confront their childhood friends. Friends coming from less wealthy families and ...
Style:
tension, melancholic, art house
Plot:
inheritance, family drama, class conflict, childhood friend, resentment, siblings, aristocracy, countryside, character study, getting home, estate, nostalgia ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france, new york
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307
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: New Zealand
TV show
Story:
A group of horse-mad teenagers who are regulars at their local stables on the fictional NZ peninsula of Kauri Point. Worrying incidents surrounding a new industrial development prove the catalyst for a series of events that means the group have to ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, suspense
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenager, horse, equestrian, friendship, teenage life, horse ranch, animal, life, human animal relationship, horse trainer, girl horse relationship, rider horse relationship ...
Place:
new zealand
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Neck leads a quiet life, totally subordinated to his wife. His colleagues are out of town, and the neck is working in the company ordering the highway. When the case agent stars, feisty Clementine, sexy blonde kidnaps him to Warsaw, where the neck ...
Style:
feel good, satirical, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
escapades, fish out of water, celebrity, mistaken identity, celebrity impersonation, new identity, humour, family relations, husband wife relationship, satire, male female relationship, road trip ...
Place:
warsaw poland
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Vasyl Seredyuk - head of the local Museum - having sent his daughter Katya to a french university, never expected the outcome: a month ago she informed him that she is getting married to a French heart surgeon François. Since then Vasyl’s proud ...
Style:
humorous, light, funny, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
father dislikes daughter's boyfriend, wedding, father daughter relationship, interracial couple, wedding ceremony, culture clash, stereotypes, love and romance, father in law son in law relationship, racist, interracial romance, prejudice ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
ukraine
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The nice town of Kellyville is too small to accomodate the world's worst scoundrels, Albert and Egon, who decides to go out in the world.
Style:
humorous, feel good, entertaining, contemplative, light ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
boy, friendship, balloon, child protagonist, escapades, clumsy, ambition, youth, society, friends, disorder, heroes ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Cha Kang Jin grows up in a poor family who is constantly on the move. After relocating to his mother's hometown when Kang Jin is a teenager, his mother falls back into her old ways, opening a bar that draws a group of undesirable men. Kang Jin ...
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
unrequited love, unfulfilled love, relationship problems, life is a bitch, love triangle, couples, love interest, love story, male female relationship, romantic friendship, tragic love, relationships ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Peppino, a provincial librarian who became the accidental President of Italy, is now a father and has returned to a peaceful, happy life as a woodsman. That is, until his wife Janis decides to return to politics. Peppino is forced to abandon his ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, satirical, captivating, funny ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
president, satire, political campaign, prime minister, politician, politics, political satire, presidential candidate, humour, fish out of water, media satire, media manipulation ...
Place:
rome italy
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Philippines, Hong Kong, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Before he became one of the world's greatest boxers, Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao was a young boy living a hand-to-mouth existence, trying to survive from one day to the next. When he discovers his natural talent for boxing, he embarks ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, emotional, inspirational
Plot:
boxing, boxer, ambition, athlete's life, biopic, champion, historical character, ambitious man, athlete and trainer, historical figure, family drama, poverty ...
Place:
the philippines
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Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
After their fathers death, two brothers dispute the inheritance: the local movie theater known as Linterna Mújica. Their dispute may or not bring the town to its apocalypse, but it will for sure turn it upside-down.
Style:
satirical, tragicomedy, black comedy, futuristic, semi serious ...
Plot:
cinema, apocalypse, family feud, brothers, inheritance, small town, family drama, projectionist, siblings, brother vs brother, rivalry, satire ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
mexico
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A woman is paid a surprise visit by her long-forgotten classmate, who needs her advice: should he choose a wife or a lover? An outrageously burlesque mise-en-scène is repeated many times but each time in a different place and performed by new ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, surreal, experimental ...
Plot:
relationships, love triangle, romantic relationship, couple relations, love affair, male female relationship, relationship problems, romantic triangle, ex classmate ex classmate relationship, ex classmate, romantic friendship, love interest ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy, History
Country: Poland
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A zany nobleman contends with family feuds and clashes with peasants in his quest to become the most famous person in Poland.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, entertaining, dark comedy, light hearted ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, peasant, noble, class conflict, kingdom, nobility, social satire, family feud, class struggle, ambition, farce, pride ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
poland
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