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, captivating, serious, humorous, semi serious and melancholic films and TV shows about / with village life, village, social relations, society, countryside, family relations, rural setting, small town, love and love and romance plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in UK, Germany, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as village life: A Village Affair (1995), The Source (2011), No One's with the Calves (2021), Lark Rise to Candleford (2008), The Village (2013), All Creatures Great & Small (2020), The White Massai (2005), Return to Dust (2022), No Need to Grieve (2010), Antonia's Line (1995).
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List of village life movies
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, sensual, sincere ...
Plot:
lesbian, village life, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, closeted homosexual, adultery, lesbian sex, lesbian relationship, family relations, infidelity, husband wife relationship, lesbian love, family life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe
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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, sentimental, stylized, feel good, political ...
Plot:
village life, sexism, marital rape, desert, sexual relations, strike, against the rules, battle of the sexes, rebellion, ultimatum, couples, social relations ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, north africa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Five houses, one bus stop, cows and nothing but fields. 24-year-old Christin lives on the farm of her long-term boyfriend Jan. The exciting post-reunification years that defined her childhood are long gone. Her relationship is loveless. She keeps ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, talky, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
village life, casual sex, lovers, boyfriend girlfriend conflict, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, older man younger woman sex, love and romance, love affair, fall in love, love, family relations, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hamburg germany, northern 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, sentimental, sincere, period piece, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
village life, friendship, social relations, hopes, small town, abbey, true love, victorian england, father son relationship, employer employee relationship, neighbor neighbor relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place:
england, britain, europe
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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, costume drama, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
village life, parents and children, society, social relations, villager, countryside, village people, world war one, family relations, gay relationship, small village, village ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, 1910s
Place:
england
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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:
sweet, funny, sentimental, humorous, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
veterinarian, village life, countryside, english countryside, human animal relationship, dog, cow, rural setting, new life, friendship, animal, scotsman ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
yorkshire, england
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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:
emotional, realistic, serious, erotic, sad ...
Plot:
interracial relations, interracial marriage, fall in love, couples, interracial sex, culture clash, black man white woman relationship, relationships, love story, love and romance, village life, cultural difference ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, kenya, switzerland
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Humble, unassuming Ma and timid Cao have been cast off by their families and forced into an arranged marriage. They have to combine their strength and build a home to survive. In the face of much adversity, an unexpected bond begins to blossom, as ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, meditative, slow cinema, melancholic ...
Plot:
village life, lovers apart, intimate, character study, farming, love story, family relations, male female relationship, relationships, love and romance, tragic love, star crossed lovers ...
Place:
poetic realism, china
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The adventures of the people living in a small village on a border between Russia and Belarus.
Style:
light, feel good, humorous, sincere, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
village life, everyday life, businessman, bull, neighbor neighbor relationship, family relations, village, friendship, nature, drinking, society, drinking alcohol ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
russia
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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, intellectual, melancholic, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot:
strong female character, lgbtq, village, lesbian, philosophy, strong female lead, friendship, magic realism, women, village life, unwed mother, nude model ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
germany, holland
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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:
pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy, satire, mediterranean, religions or cults, clergy, village life, social relations, disorder, dishonesty, society, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
balkan, eastern europe, croatia
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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, isolation, social decay, loneliness, landscape, boat, yacht, survival, nature, summer ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
russia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 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:
melancholic, suspenseful, sentimental, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
suicide, waitress, secret love, teenage crush, village life, male female relationship, party, infidelity, rescue, husband wife relationship, convention, extramarital affair ...
Place:
berlin germany, east germany
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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, hospital, treatment, loner, doctors and patients, teacher, surgery, responsibility, antisocial behavior, manners, medicine ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, cornwall, london, europe
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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: 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, sexy, lgbt cinema, erotic, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, gay romance, lgbt, gay relationship, gay love, migrant worker, gay interest, gay lead character, gay couple, village life, sheep, homosexuality ...
Time:
year 2017, 2000s, 2010s, 90s
Place:
yorkshire, northern england, indiana, britain, romania ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 136 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, erotic, slow cinema, serious ...
Plot:
forbidden love, passionate kiss, making love, fall in love, farmer, redemption, moral dilemma, religion, couples, regret, sin, human nature ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007
Place:
mexico, latin america
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert.
Style:
realistic, serious, cerebral, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
village life, couple relations, violence spree, unlikely couple, village, contests and competitions, single parent, multiple storylines, single mother, desert, campus, mountain ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 90s, year 1976, 21st century
Place:
china, asia, shanghai
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Based on a Japanese novel written by Masako Bando, the story revolves around Kayoko who lives with one man (Tetsuya) but is in love with another (Takumi).
Style:
sincere, serious, contemplative, realistic, aesthetic ...
Plot:
village, village life, social differences, society, human nature, social relations, love, male female relationship, mountain, pregnant woman, sculptor, pregnancy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Casual Vacancy centres on Pagford, a seemingly idyllic English village with a cobbled market square and ancient abbey. Behind the pretty façade however, is a town at war: rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot:
village life, social relations, society, small town, uninhibited rivalry, under the surface, rivalry, rivals, murder, social inequality, class conflict, british ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
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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:
touching, serious, period piece, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, gender, gays and lesbians, island, lesbian romance, lesbianism, forbidden love, lesbian love, lesbian sex, village life ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, turn of the century, 1800s
Place:
italy, mediterranean sea, sicily
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany, Spain, France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A rural drama set in Obaba, a mythical region in northern Spain, where a young filmmaker struggled to capture the feel of the area, which in turn leads to a wealth of self-discovery.
Style:
semi serious, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense ...
Plot:
self discovery, social relations, village life, mountain village, human nature, artists and showbiz, filmmaking, filmmaker, small village, countryside, small town, correspondence ...
Place:
spain, basque country, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
In search of inspiration, rock band “Excellent Souls” — Lee Min Ki, Kang Hyeok, Yoo Han Cheol — goes on hiatus deep in the countryside. To their surprise, the village elder is none other than Kang Yoon Hee, a zippy woman who's not only ...
Style:
dorama, touching, feel good, humorous, romantic ...
Plot:
friendship, true love, village life, rock band, music, countryside, complex characters, dream, farm, farmer, relationship vs career, aspiring singer ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
korea
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
A proud young calligrapher is punished for punching a critic by being sent to a faraway island in the east coast of Japan. But as he meets and lives with the island's friendly people, his attitude begins to improve.
Style:
psychological, semi serious, captivating, thrilling, lighthearted ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
village life, slice of life, exile, japanese culture, heartwarming, seaside, social change, social relations, changing lives, lifestyle change, social problems, island ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Ukraine
TV show
Story:
Human history, which is against the will was drawn into historical conflicts.
Style:
emotional, historical drama, uplifting, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
village life, loveless marriage, emotional manipulation, resilience, humanity, storytelling, husband wife relationship, death, betrayal, life is a bitch, family relations, family life ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
ukraine, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A devout village leader prohibits an array of modern devices, but when his strict measures go too far, the locals rise up in popular rebellion.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, poignant ...
Plot:
village life, technophobia, satire, against the rules, social relations, media, rebellion, television, tradition, social change, moral dilemma, imagination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, bangladesh, india
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
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, costume drama, feel good, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids, adult
Plot:
love story, love, happy ending, love triangle, love and romance, sisters, fall in love, love affair, social differences, rich and poor, true love, village life ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, 90s, regency period, 1810s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london, seattle
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Poet Yusuf (35-38) returns to his childhood hometown, which he hadn't visited for years, upon his mother's death. He is faced with a neglected, crumbling house. Ayla, a young girl (17-19) awaits him there. Yusuf has been unaware of the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, art house, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot:
village life, poet, love and romance, parents and children, homecoming, family relations, dealing with death, curses spells and rituals, small town, small town life, loss of mother, funeral ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Every city-dweller daydreams about dropping out of the rat-race and moving to the country. Every country-dweller wonders what it might be like to try their luck in the 'Big Smoke'. Always Greener is the story of two families who actually ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
fish out of water, village life, families, subculture, lifestyle, social relations, city life, culture clash, family drama, countryside, satire, small town ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, France, Denmark
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Seeking shelter from the trials and tribulations of city life, Hugi has built a quiet existence for himself in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere. Here, he passes his days jogging, attending AA meetings and taking Portuguese lessons online. But ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
village life, elderly, parents and children, social relations, family relations, teachers and students, power relations, aging, estrangement, isolation, alcoholism, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iceland
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