Provincial life movies and TV shows – page 5
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List of provincial life movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Iceland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An art-house comedy about an ordinary family running the unusual business of elf tourism and spiritual sessions. Their house is built around an elf stone, which is sacred to the wife Lara, who is blessed with a sixth sense. When they get an offer to ...
Style:
art house, surreal, reflective, absurd, dark comedy ...
Plot:
elf, folklore, family drama, spiritualism, ethical dilemma, tourism, supernatural, temptation, intimate, bittersweet, satire, small town ...
Place:
iceland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Leaving his family in Afghanistan to find work in Iran, Ali Bakhsh returns home to Afghanistan in search of his family in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the following U.S. invasion.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
refugee, self discovery, homecoming, job seeking, family man, introspection, life is a bitch, getting home, realism, loss, migration, social realism ...
Place:
iran, afghanistan, middle east
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A conflict arises between the people of the town and the local priest when they have to decide how to represent certain biblical episode.
Style:
thought provoking, bleak, serious, art house
Plot:
faith, small town, provincial life, symbolism, indigenous people, catholic, religion, remote village, priest, husband wife relationship, death of child, landowner ...
Place:
mexico
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A single woman has put all her efforts into raising her only son, Sasha. When Sasha grows up to become a teenager, she thinks that she can have some time for herself, so she responds to the courtship of Nikolai Sergeyevich. One summer, Sasha goes to ...
Style:
melancholic, psychological, art house, period piece
Plot:
cemetery, letter, tram, coming of age, single mother, mother son relationship, family drama, family bonds, character study, teenage rebellion, intimate, female protagonist ...
Time:
70s
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Iran
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Sohrab, a provincial young writer, is lost in the desert on the way to Tehran to get a publication license for his book on old Persian poetry, but the trip involves some bizarre events.
Style:
road movie, intellectual, philosophical, art house, spiritual ...
Plot:
poetry, literary, journey, desert, identity, bureaucracy, publishing, magic realism, imagination, provincial life, pilgrimage, memory ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tehran, iran, persia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Elisabeth, a 11 year old girl, visits Marcel, a mute gardener every morning with whom she shares a very particular friendship. During three years, their bond grows stronger, as Marcel seems to be the only person she can connect to.
Style:
emotional, controversial, psychological, art house, aesthetic ...
Plot:
organ, teenage girl, gardener, coming of age, children, female protagonist, taboo, small town, female sexuality, intimate, moral ambiguity, mute character ...
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends…
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, atmospheric, mystical, sinister ...
Plot:
curse, folklore, literary, legend, remote village, supernatural, isolation, symbolism, haunting, provincial life, castle, swamp ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, 1890s
Place:
russia
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
De Mantel der Liefde is a bizarre, over the top and at times hilarious settling of scores with the Catholic Church, commercial movie culture and 1970's petit bourgeois Dutch culture in general.
Style:
black comedy, absurd, allegory, art house, controversial ...
Plot:
religion, satire, hypocrisy, absurd humor, dark humor, irreverent, violence, cruelty, parable, taboo, political satire, counterculture ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Despite its South-of-the-Border title, Caracas is an Austrian love triangle. Gas-station owner Gerhard Zehmann is saddled with cheating wife Regina Bill. The man would like to escape to Venezuela, but he can't unload his wife. Then he meets a ...
Style:
crime drama, tragicomedy, dark comedy, noir
Plot:
infidelity, jealousy, betrayal, love triangle, murder, obsession, body swapping, romantic obsession, duplicity, moral ambiguity, mistaken identity, character study ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Serbia, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three stories about the impact of three God's miracles in the medieval sense that happen to the film's heroes living in a post-communist society that, after half a century of atheism, re-learns about Christianity.
Style:
thought provoking, tragicomedy, dark comedy, satirical
Plot:
satire, social commentary, absurdism, irony, absurd humor, folklore, superstition, moral ambiguity, bittersweet, small town, provincial life, humanism
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Just before her final exams, 19 years old Defne, has to return to her hometown after her father's stroke. His rehabilitation sessions will give the pair a chance to heal their fragile relationship in this beautiful Mediterranean town.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic
Plot:
father daughter relationship, reconciliation, healing, coming of age, family drama, estrangement, small town, homecoming, intimate, communication, getting home, mediterranean ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Portugal
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In "7 Pecados Rurais", Quim and Zé go to Lisbon to collect two distant cousins who want to revive a crazy last summer in Curral de Moinas. Along the way they bump into a flock of sheep and die.
Style:
feel good, psychological, satirical, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
seven deadly sins, heaven, satire, sin, lifestyle change, changing lives, festival, party, relationships, absolution, second chance, afterlife ...
Place:
portugal
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a small Czech town, mother dependent Robert, his attractive girlfriend Simona, histrionic Tomas and extremely reserved History freak Funes, all dissatisfied with their lives, are members of the same string Quartet. As they rehearse for their next ...
Style:
light hearted, absurd
Plot:
musician, rehearsal, concert, friendship, small town, slice of life, bittersweet, intimate, provincial life, identity, introvert, family conflict ...
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Jean has been the conservative mayor of a small town for several years. He intends to run for another term. Edith, his wife, is the paragon of the traditional devoted housewife and mother. So it comes as quite a shock when she tells her husband of ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, satirical, funny ...
Plot:
marriage, family values, couple relations, family relations, male female relationship, relationships, father son relationship, satire, husband wife relationship, family secret, politics, politician ...
Place:
france
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Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jericho Rosales portrays Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao as he struggles out of poverty to become a champion and national hero. Yet when the pressures of his sport, his personal life and the high expectations of his countrymen take their toll, he ...
Style:
inspirational, emotional, motivational, tense, tagalog
Plot:
boxing, comeback, biopic, male protagonist, redemption, rise and fall, national hero, celebrity, gym, sacrifice, athletic training, poverty ...
Place:
the philippines
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Его папа хочет стать президентом США. Дед и бабка — Брэд Питт и Анджелина Джоли. Он был слеп, а когда прозрел, увидел Андрея Малахова. ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, captivating, emotional, surreal ...
Plot:
revenge, father son relationship, blindness, assassination, blindness and impaired vision, murder, father and son, love and romance, blind man, criminal's revenge, love interest, love ...
Place:
black sea
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
The house where you were born even decides who you love and who you marry. First the mothers take the pen in his hand and start writing
Style:
emotional, suspenseful, touching, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
husband wife relationship, family relations, love, father daughter relationship, house, family drama, friendship, unlikely couple, parents and children, unfulfilled love, couple relations, love triangle ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Felix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugenie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious, he does not take a favorable view of the beautiful parties who rush to ask for his ...
Style:
costume drama, reflective, melancholic, bleak, art house
Plot:
greed, father daughter relationship, literary, family secret, french countryside, hypocrisy, isolation, intimate, banker, loss of father, death of mother, cousin ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 924 min.
TV show
Story:
This epic tale of a family and their rural life in a small German village is told against the changing backdrop of a country's turbulent history from 1919 to 1982. From the aftermath of the First World War, economic hardship, the rise and fall ...
Style:
epic, family saga, saga, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, world war one, forbidden love, small town, sexuality, village people, german culture, ancestry, provincial life, holocaust, post war, european ...
Time:
20th century, year 1984, year 1993, 1910s, 60s ...
Place:
germany, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for the upper-class family Lelievre, hides her illiteracy under the cloak of a perfect household and obedience. She finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to ...
Style:
thought provoking, suspenseful, serious, clever, art house ...
Plot:
murder, social relations, social differences, female psychopath, secrets, psychology, manipulation, master and servant, society, village life, village, mental disorder ...
Time:
90s, year 1995
Place:
france, los angeles, usa, brittany
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
beer, renaissance, female nudity, nudity, provincial life, drinking, punishment, nude girl, modernism, family relations, small town, pregnancy ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1910s, pre world war one
Place:
eastern europe, balkan, central europe, czech republic
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a mentally retarded young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an assistant truck driver with Mr. Pávek, his older colleague and practical-minded ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Plot:
husband and wife, village life, mental retardation, provincial life, working class, marital infidelity, married woman, cheating on husband, magic realism, summer, couple relations, society ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
balkan, czech republic, czechoslovakia, eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.
Style:
detective, neo noir, serious, realistic, cynical ...
Plot:
postman, small town, widow, murder disguised as accident, arrogant man, domineering girlfriend, secret relationship, seductive woman, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, sick mother, investigation, mother ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This western is set in Valencia, Spain at the end of the 19th century, and stars Terence Hill as a close-mouthed gunslinger. The bad guy is the local landlord and aristocrat (Fernando Rey), who horribly abuses the laborers in his community. Written ...
Style:
spaghetti western, euro western, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
anarchist, torture, gunslinger, conflict, provincial life, heroes, rebellion, rivalry, rebelliousness, vengeance, society, hitman ...
Time:
19th century, 1900s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
spain, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, gothic ...
Plot:
wilderness, rape, survival, friendship, canoe, rape and revenge, nature, forest, river, nightmare, camping, revenge ...
Time:
70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place:
georgia, southern usa, usa, appalachia
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two old maid sisters are running a little family hotel in Spain. They are very religious and the moral of the foreign tourist girl is too much for them, they start to kill them.
Style:
classic horror, gothic, suspense, slasher, gothic horror ...
Plot:
hotel, murder, sexual repression, religious fanatic, religious hypocrisy, male nudity, wine, tourist, sister, innkeeper, sexual perversion, spanish history ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
spain, europe, madrid
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy landowner. They have 3 children. One is backward. The others can not got to school because the master ...
Style:
social, manga, captivating, realistic
Plot:
rich and poor, francisco franco, human rights, spanish history, provincial life, spanish civil war, servant, poverty, family relations, rural area, obedience, peasant ...
Time:
60s, year 1984
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, europe, milan italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
Style:
bleak, thought provoking, emotional, depressing, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
injustice, child abuse, pedophile, false accusation, life turned upside down, social injustice, divorce, social relations, parents and children, friendship between men, church, punched in the face ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
denmark
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The Spanish deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters - both detectives in the homicide division - to investigate the cases. With deep divisions in their ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, detective, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, investigation, kidnapping, murder investigation, murder mystery, twists and turns, disappearance, partners against crime, murder, sexual abuse, carnival ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief ...
Style:
black comedy, ambiguous ending, dark comedy, crime drama, psychological ...
Plot:
small town, revenge, rape, small town life, loss of daughter, billboard, police brutality, regret, death of daughter, anger, violence, guilty conscience ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place:
missouri, idaho, persia, america, usa
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