Movies and TV shows set in provence
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in provence ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, melancholic and psychological films and TV shows about / with friendship, summer, female nudity, coming of age, family relations, male nudity, countryside, culture clash, family drama and flashback plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in France, USA, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as provence: A Year in Provence (1993), A Good Year (2006), My Summer in Provence (2013), Magic in the Moonlight (2014), From the Land of the Moon (2016), The Time of Secrets (2021), Shepherds (2024), Happy He Who Like Ulysses (1970), Blood from a Stone (2011), Mother's Milk (2011).
Best films
New films
| UV (2007) | 5.6 | |
| Monkey King (2016) | 4.7 | |
| The Sower (2017) | 6.5 | |
| Marseille (2016) | 6.9 | |
| My Summer in Provence (2013) | 6.6 |
List of movies set in provence
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on the 1989 best-selling memoir of the same name by Peter Mayle about his first year in Provence, and the local events and customs.
Style:
culinary, scenic, lighthearted, pastoral, heartfelt ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
culture clash, countryside, farm, fish out of water, small town life, slice of life, tradition, travel, community, relocation, friendship, neighbor ...
Time:
future
Place:
provence, france, europe, south of france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman from California who tells Max she is his long-lost cousin and that the property is hers.
Style:
feel good, romantic, sentimental, sexy, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
wine, vineyard, countryside, fall in love, love story, character change, inheritance, love and romance, workaholic, stock broker, starting over, doubts and hesitations ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place:
provence, france, europe, england, london ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Lea, Adrian, and their little brother Theo, born deaf, go on holiday in Provence with their grandfather, Paul "Oliveron" they never met because of a family quarrel. It is not the holidays they dreamed, especially their father announced ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, realistic, humorous, psychological ...
Plot:
deaf child, grandfather grandson relationship, rural setting, family relations, grandmother granddaughter relationship, alcoholic, grandfather granddaughter relationship, grandmother grandson relationship, french countryside, culture clash, family drama, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
provence, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Style:
romantic, period piece, humorous, romantic comedy, cute ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
twists and turns, magic, love story, relationships, cons and scams, fish out of water, happy ending, destiny, marriage proposal, medium, magician, plot twist ...
Time:
1920s, year 2014, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
france, cote d'azur, provence, south of france, french riviera ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Canada, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Milena Agus' eponymous novel set after WWII, "Mal de Pierres" ("Mal di Pietre") spans 20 years, following the destiny of a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, erotic, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
unrequited love, twists and turns, female protagonist, pain, mountain, war veteran, delusional woman, doctor, marriage, baby, soldier, passionate love ...
Time:
post world war two, 50s, future, 1950s
Place:
provence, south of france, somalia, france, alps
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Marseille, July 1905. Nearly a teenager, Marcel Pagnol embarks in his last summer vacation before high school and returns, at last, to his beloved hills in Provence. What begins as a summer of boyhood adventures becomes one of the first loves, and ...
Style:
psychological, entertaining, thrilling, captivating, satirical ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
adolescence, satire, teenager, love affair, child, teenage protagonist, couple relations, teenage life, lifestyle, teen romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love ...
Time:
1950s, 1900s
Place:
marseille, france, provence, south of france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young Montreal advertising executive, converted to a Provençal shepherd, has various misadventures with a civil servant who has cavalierly quit her job.
Style:
pastoral, lighthearted, satirical, romantic comedy
Plot:
fish out of water, personal growth, village life, career change, culture clash, self discovery, friendship, civil servant, slice of life, identity crisis, retiring, male protagonist ...
Place:
provence, montreal, france
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
For 25 years now, under the Provence sun, Antonin, a farmhand, has shared his work and everyday life with a horse named Ulysse. What a shock when Pascal, the farmer, tells him he has decided to sell Ulysse to a picador for being too old. Not only ...
Style:
road movie, scenic, emotional, melancholic, contemplative ...
Plot:
friendship, village life, nostalgia, journey, landscape, escape, everyday life, solitude, loss, perseverance, character study, working class ...
Time:
70s
Place:
provence, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The day his bank refuses to finance him, Georges will do everything he can to save his shipyard and his employees.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, cynical, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
bankruptcy, save the day, rivalry, workplace, labor union, factory, working class, boss and employee, society, workplace situations, employer, strike ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, mediterranean sea, provence
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An English family is forced to come to terms with the imminent loss of their beloved holiday house in Provence.
Style:
light, captivating, tragicomedy, dark comedy
Plot:
family conflict, parent child relationship, domestic drama, family drama, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family problems, inheritance, family relations, life, culture clash, marital discord ...
Place:
provence
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Chloé, a beautiful young French actress, moves to Los Angeles to further her acting career and escape her troubled past. Joining a small theatre troupe, she finds her life spinning out of control into a strange parallel universe dominated by her ...
Style:
surreal, emotional, psychological, intense, suspense ...
Plot:
actress, trauma, revenge, nightmare, survival, identity, memory, confrontation, obsession, guilt, flashback, isolation ...
Place:
provence, malibu california, france
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Genre: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A comedy about three Bavarian guys who are traveling to Saint Tropez.
Style:
sex comedy, buddy comedy, lighthearted, slapstick
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fish out of water, road trip, party, summer, mediterranean, farce, sexual innuendo, fetish, bare butt, nudity, german humor, holiday ...
Place:
south of france, provence, saint tropez
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Wolfi is in his mid-40s and wants to revisit the good old days with his three best buddies in the Provence, where life is good. Little does he realize that his old chums are in the middle of growing up for real, bringing their wives and kids and all ...
Style:
realistic, tension, dark comedy
Plot:
midlife crisis, friendship, troubled marriage, male bonding, birthday party, machismo, dark humor, bromance, parenthood, nostalgia, domestic drama, bittersweet ...
Place:
provence
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day, he has an appointment with a woman to view a traditional country house. A few hours later, Marc finally puts a name to her face. It's Cathy, ...
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
missing person, french algerian war, teenage crush, haunted by the past, uncover truth, couples, investigation, couple relations, childhood love, repressed memory, family relations, theater ...
Time:
80s, 60s
Place:
france, europe, provence, nice france, algeria
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
Three beautiful friends, sensitive doctor Laure, ambitious lawyer Caroline and American model Jessica, live and love in Saint-Tropez beach resort, on the French Riviera.
Style:
soap opera, realistic, semi serious, sentimental, telenovela
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
couples, strong female presence, best friend, friends, love and romance, friendship, male female relationship, bare butt, sun, marriage, female nudity, beach ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
france, french riviera, europe, provence, riviera ...
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
A strange geometric shape in a field becomes the key to a young woman's dark family past.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, mystical, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, alien abduction, missing person, paranormal, dark past, family secret, mysterious past, paranormal activity, paranormal phenomena, paranormal investigator, undercover, paranormal investigation ...
Place:
provence
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union, France
Duration: 236 min.
TV show
Story:
A Russian version of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he ...
Style:
dark, suspense, gloomy, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
treasure, napoleonic era, island prison, false accusation, revenge, conspiracy, literary, adaptation, imprisonment, escape, betrayal, transformation ...
Time:
19th century, 80s, 1800s
Place:
ussr, paris france, provence, france, marseille
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An adolescent comes of age during a summer in the Rhône valley with his maternal grandparents. Jules seems a little too close to his mother and distant from his father, who wants Jules out of their Parisian house. It's to be a summer of ...
Style:
melancholic
Plot:
coming of age, fishing, adolescence, summer, maturity, loss of innocence, first love, small village, french countryside, rite of passage, personal growth, mother son relationship ...
Place:
provence
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
One New Year's Eve with a bottle of champagne, Emilie, 35, signs up for Meet Me, a popular internet dating site, with a great New Year's resolution: to find love. There are a lot of men on Meet Me: cynics, comedians, a few goofs and even ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, sentimental
Audience:
date night
Plot:
single woman, looking for love, hopes, love and romance, thirtysomething life, computers and web, male female relationship, relationships, celibacy, fishing, ice cream, seduction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, marseille, provence
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The summer of 1939. Marie, at 13, goes with her parents to visit her grandmother in a small town near Avignon. Although rumors of war reach the countryside, it's an idyllic place. Marie's parents are constantly making love. Surrounded by ...
Style:
controversial
Plot:
older man young girl relationship, 13 year old, young girl, sexual awakening, coming of age, children, first love, cheating wife, foot fetish, bare breasts, vacation, bicycle ...
Time:
year 1939, 1930s, pre world war two
Place:
provence, france
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
Experience Claudio Monteverdi's three-act opera in the environment it was meant to be seen with this release of a filmed performance captured live during a 2000 production staged at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in France. Mireille ...
Style:
historical drama, dramatic, intense, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
opera, live performance, classical music, ambition, betrayal, love triangle, power struggle, ancient rome, political intrigue, female protagonist, cupid, coronation ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
provence
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In a countryside village, a veteran politician, Damalas, and a young attorney, Ntinos, son of the village doctor, are rivals in the upcoming elections. Main controller of the political dispute is the all-powerful president of the village, Spyros ...
Plot:
president, village, politician, election, poor, in love, rivals, dowry, rivalry, politics, passion, greek ...
Time:
60s
Place:
greece, provence, hellas, athens greece
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France, Belgium
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
A series of mysterious murders, break-ins and other events in Avignon all have to do with the papal palace and a prophecy legend has to be contained in it. Centuries old family and organized legacies, even the murderous secret Judas brotherhood, are ...
Style:
tense, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, prophecy, mysticism, supernatural, castle, obsession, investigation, family secret, conspiracy, secret society, moral ambiguity, legend ...
Place:
france, provence
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Henry Dussard, a young American, inherits a picturesque but badly neglected olive farm in southern France and is determined to make it operational again despite cautionary advice from the local priest and a pretty villager. Desperate for laborers, ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, sexy
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
monkey, farm, animal, chimpanzee, village, down on your luck, village life, friends, animal life, social relations, disorder, nothing goes right ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
south of france, france, europe, provence
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, realistic, light, captivating ...
Plot:
amateur detective, gendarme, nude beach, nothing goes right, retirement, nun, save the day, goofy hero, colleague, chases and races, memory loss, disorder ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
france, saint tropez, europe, french riviera, cote d'azur ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Les Charlots, a French rock group, continue their adventures, in the manner of the Beatles in Hard Day's Night. This is their second adventure. The foursome are on holiday, camping outside a village. The Olympic flame is going to pass through ...
Style:
slapstick comedy, crying, slapstick
Plot:
cycling, camping, race, village, olympic athlete, olympics, father daughter relationship, bicycle, cow, romantic rivalry, wedding dress, athlete ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
south of france, paris france, provence, europe
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story:
During the night of August 4-5, 1952, three Englishmen, Jack Drummond, his wife Anne and their daughter Elizabeth were murdered near their car near the farm of the Dominici family, in the commune of Lurs in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Denounced by ...
Plot:
farm, murder, social commentary, investigation
Place:
provence
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A month of vacation with friends: difficult to bear the kids of his friends, especially when the methods of education differ and that some prove to be unbearable.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
summer vacation, family relations, coming of age, friendship, motherhood, sex scene, parents, parenthood, vacation, friends, relationships, cohabitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, provence
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Between fear of success and a tricky break-up, Ludovic is beyond all hope as he is getting close to the 30's stage. His unexpected meeting with a sick child, Raphael, shakes up his daily life and his future approach. Together, they go after ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
hopes, self discovery, introspection, child illness, life turned upside down, cause and meaning, terminal illness, disorder, friendship, family relations, unfulfillment, dealing with death ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
france, provence, marseille
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
My Mother's Castle (Le chateau de ma mere) is a sequel and companion piece to My Father's Glory (La Gloire de Mon Pere), both based on the childhood recollections of Marcel Pagnol. Like its predecessor, the movie explores the adventures ...
Style:
sexy, talky, touching, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
countryside, teacher, childhood, coming of age, friendship, little girl, nostalgia, farm, school, weekend, family relations, couples ...
Time:
1900s, year 1990, 20th century, 1910s, victorian era
Place:
provence, france, europe, marseille, tokyo ...
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