Village life movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant village life movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, sincere, semi serious, humorous and captivating films and TV shows about / with village life, village, society, social relations, rural setting, family relations, husband wife relationship, couples, couple relations and love and romance plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in UK, France, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as village life: The Source (2011), The Village (2013), A Village Affair (1995), Silent Light (2007), Antonia's Line (1995), Longing (2006), Lark Rise to Candleford (2008), The White Massai (2005), All Creatures Great & Small (2020), The Postman's White Nights (2014).
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.
Style:
realistic, stylized, sentimental, feel good, political ...
Plot:
village life, sexism, rebellion, battle of the sexes, muslim woman, marital rape, desert, ultimatum, power relations, social relations, couples, couple relations ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, north africa
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Village is a BBC TV series written by Peter Moffat. The drama is set in a Derbyshire village in the 20th century. The first series of what Moffat hopes will become a 42-hour TV drama was broadcast in spring 2013 and covered the years 1914 to ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, rough, costume drama ...
Plot:
village life, village, parents and children, social relations, society, villager, countryside, village people, family relations, world war one, small village, landscape ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, 1910s
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Based on the bestselling novel by Joanna Trollope Recently returned to England from New York City, vivacious heiress Clodagh Unwin befriends a couple new to her village. The husband is entranced by the young aristocrat, but Clodagh has eyes for ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
village life, adultery, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, lesbian sex, lesbian, lesbian love, infidelity, family relations, family life, family problems, couple relations, society ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and Man, Johan falls in love with another woman.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, slow cinema, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, infidelity, redemption, fall in love, moral dilemma, religion, regret, couples, sin, clergy, human nature, love affair ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s
Place:
mexico, latin america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, UK, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around ...
Style:
touching, melancholic, sentimental, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
village life, strong female character, village, lesbian, philosophy, friendship, women, magic realism, free love, mathematics, generation gap, widow ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
germany, holland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A melancholy 2006 German film about the life and love in the daily life of a man who’s trying to get the feeling of longing and nostalgia back into his marriage.
Style:
suspenseful, melancholic, captivating, tense, sentimental ...
Plot:
suicide, waitress, secret love, village life, teenage crush, male female relationship, infidelity, rescue, extramarital affair, convention, party, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
east germany, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry at the end of the 19th Century. Lark Rise to Candleford is a love letter to a ...
Style:
costume drama, sincere, sentimental, period piece, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
english countryside, friendship, village life, society, social relations, small town, new job, hopes, father son relationship, neighbor neighbor relationship, employer employee relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place:
england, britain, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A girl, Carola, whose vacation in Kenya takes an interesting turn when she becomes infatuated with a Masai. Carola decides to leave her boyfriend to stay with her lover. There, she has to adapt to the Masai's way of life and get used to their ...
Style:
captivating, emotional, realistic, serious, sad ...
Plot:
interracial relations, couples, interracial sex, interracial marriage, culture clash, fall in love, love and romance, village life, black man white woman relationship, relationships, love story, cultural difference ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, kenya, switzerland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
The heartwarming and humorous adventures of a young country vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. A remake of the 1978 series.
Style:
light, funny, humorous, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
veterinarian, village life, countryside, english countryside, human animal relationship, friendship, scotsman, veterinary clinic, following a dream, animal, job, workplace ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
yorkshire, england
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. A reserved community has been set up here. Despite the modern ...
Style:
neorealism, serious, atmospheric, realistic, stylized ...
Plot:
isolated place, village life, social relations, village, isolation, landscape, loneliness, social decay, boat, nature, survival, summer ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
russia
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
История частной жизни одной женщины и четверых ее мужчин. Главная героиня - неграмотная крестьянка, и действие фильма начинается с ее ...
Style:
realistic, serious, stylized, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot:
village life, wartime life, revolution, village, state affairs, village people, rape, countryside, communism, social injustice, russian civil war, woman ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 1900s
Place:
russia, europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother, Madi, ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, meditative, harsh, emotional ...
Plot:
kurd, children, coming of age, youth, siblings relations, orphan, family relations, village life, family in crisis, parents and children, village, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
iraq, iran, middle east, kurdistan, persia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote settlement which was under attack by a bunch of these recently-released blood-thirsty ...
Style:
rough, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
village life, cold weather, gang, injustice, village, life is a bitch, fighting crime, down on your luck, rivalry, danger, violence, mercilessness ...
Time:
1950s, year 1953, 50s
Place:
russia, siberia, soviet union, ussr, moscow russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
Doc Martin is a British television comedy drama series starring Martin Clunes in the title role. It was created by Dominic Minghella after the character of Dr. Martin Bamford in the 2000 comedy film Saving Grace. The show is set in the fictional ...
Style:
witty, clever, sincere, cynical, humorous ...
Plot:
doctor, village life, social relations, doctors and patients, treatment, medicine, teacher, surgery, responsibility, antisocial behavior, manners, hospital ...
Time:
2020s, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, cornwall, london, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Portugal, Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The discovery of the tomb of William Tell’s son in a town in the Basque Country spurs the village's cantankerous citizens to lobby for Swiss annexation.
Style:
light, humorous, semi serious, captivating
Plot:
village life, love triangle, rivalry, love interest, priest, discovery, nudity, politics, banquet, weapons, tomb, discussion ...
Place:
basque country, switzerland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, tragicomedy, suspense ...
Plot:
satire, priest, pregnancy, mediterranean, clergy, religions or cults, unwanted pregnancy, village life, society, dishonesty, disorder, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe, balkan, croatia
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Nothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend turned great love, Sara. Based on a true story, Viola di Mare, presents a uniquely engaging portrait of family, community and gender roles in ...
Style:
serious, touching, disturbing, captivating, historical drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, gender, island, gays and lesbians, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lesbianism, village life, forbidden love, lesbian sex ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1800s
Place:
sicily, italy, mediterranean sea
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young doctor relocates to a remote region of central Asia, thinking his fiancee soon will join him ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
doctors and patients, boss and employee, village life, self discovery, workplace, hopes, countryside, workplace situations, fish out of water, doctor, loneliness, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, asia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ...
Style:
captivating, family saga, realistic, saga, costume drama ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
countryside, love affair, poverty, estate, society, rich and poor, love and romance, couple relations, master and servant, social differences, family relations, village life ...
Time:
18th century, victorian era, 1790s, georgian era, 1800s ...
Place:
england, cornwall, britain
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.
Style:
homoerotic, lgbt cinema, sexy, erotic, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay romance, lgbtq, gay interest, gay relationship, gay love, gay couple, migrant worker, gay lead character, sheep, homosexual ...
Time:
year 2017, 90s, 2000s, 2010s
Place:
yorkshire, northern england, indiana, romania, britain ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well to do family and becomes the Quack - he slowly regains his talent for medicine and saves the lives ...
Style:
touching, serious, atmospheric, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
memory loss, life is a bitch, surgeon, prodigy, love and romance, daughter, witch doctor, village life, losing-it hero, polish, amnesia, healer ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a ...
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
immigrant, hopes, social relations, starting over, society, progress, tradition, superstition, italian immigrant, parent child relationship, family history, emigration ...
Time:
victorian era, year 2006, 20th century, 1920s, 1900s ...
Place:
sicily, usa, italy, new york, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
Style:
feel good, humorous, touching, witty, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
small town, village life, greed, fish out of water, culture clash, american abroad, husband wife relationship, melancholy, social commentary, beautiful scenery, village, rabbit ...
Time:
20th century, year 1983, 80s
Place:
scotland, houston texas
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Romania, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In a small village of Communist-era Romania a young couple wish to marry, but Joseph Stalin dies the night prior to their wedding ceremony forcing the bride and groom to marry in silence.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, surreal, realistic, biting ...
Plot:
dictatorship, wedding preparations and rituals, injustice, dark humor, fighting the system, occupation, family life, parents and children, disorder, plan gone awry, couples, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
romania, soviet union, europe
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In a small village near Erzincan (Turkey) young Mert is about to get traditionally circumcised, but the family does not have the money to follow up with the circumcision celebration. The family wants to be able to serve lamb meat to the guests of ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
village life, circumcision, tradition, family relations, parents and children, society, religions or cults, distopia, rural area, social relations, slaughterhouse, poor family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Jam & Jerusalem is a British sit-com that aired on BBC One from 2006 to 2009. Written by Jennifer Saunders and Abigail Wilson, it starred Sue Johnston, Jennifer Saunders, Pauline McLynn, Dawn French, Maggie Steed, David Mitchell, and Sally ...
Style:
uplifting, witty, semi serious, humorous, sincere ...
Plot:
british, friendship, family relations, village life, village, english countryside, friends, best friend, social relations, gender, family life, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england, britain
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.
Style:
romantic, feel good, sincere, costume drama, dramatic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, kids, adult
Plot:
love, love story, happy ending, love triangle, love and romance, love affair, fall in love, sisters, social differences, rich and poor, village life, eligible bachelor ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, 90s, year 1995, 1800s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
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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, light, funny, satirical ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick
Plot:
village life, friendship, fish out of water, culture clash, postman, prejudice, post office, small town, foe turned friend, happy ending, social satire, provincial life ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, provence, south of france, flanders, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An aspiring young writer (Jackson) tracks a literary titan (Keitel) suffering from writers block to his refuge in rural Italy and learns about life and love from the irascible genius and his daughters.
Style:
feel good, touching, realistic, romantic, sincere ...
Plot:
publisher, village life, fall in love, writer's life, odd couple, artists and showbiz, writers, writer's block, father daughter relationship, loss of wife, exile, hiker ...
Place:
italy, tuscany, london, england, europe
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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:
village life, summer, magic realism, village, mental retardation, working class, provincial life, love and romance, misfit, society, couple relations, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
balkan, czech republic, eastern europe, czechoslovakia
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