Movies and TV shows set in newfoundland
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in newfoundland ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, touching, emotional, light and weird films and TV shows about / with family relations, small town, storytelling, mentor, dialogue, catastrophe, death, life philosophy, greed and father son relationship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Adventure genres shot in Canada, USA, Sweden and other countries.
newfoundland
TOP 10 movies tagged as newfoundland: The Shipping News (2001), The Grand Seduction (2013), Closet Monster (2015), The Crab-Drum (1977), Rare Birds (2001), A Lobster Tale (2006), Riverhead (2016), S.O.S. Titanic (1979), K-PAX (2001), Going the Distance (2004).
List of movies set in newfoundland
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
Style:
melancholic, stylized, emotional, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
small town, adultery, single parent, isolation, depression, reporter, survival, kidnapping, starting over, haunted by the past, loneliness, adaptation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, new jersey, atlantic ocean, newfoundland
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying. As ...
Style:
semi serious, entertaining, inspirational, affectionate, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
small town, con trick, white lie, small village, manipulation, sport, fight scenes, police investigation, adaptation, transformation, redemption, british ...
Time:
50s, 21st century
Place:
england, newfoundland, canada
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.
Style:
psychotronic, serious, disturbing, captivating, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
gay, coming of age, gay bashing, gay teenager, closeted gay, gay interest, father son relationship, lgbt teen, gay sex, lgbtq, rejection, bullying ...
Place:
newfoundland
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A dying French naval frigate captain tries to make a last rendezvous in the winter storm-tossed seas off the Grand Banks, with "le crabe tambour," a French war hero he had betrayed twenty years earlier. "Le crabe tambour" ...
Style:
captivating, serious, psychological, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
military, world war two, soldier, french military, doctor, veteran, french soldier, french army, courtroom, battles, friends, life is a bitch ...
Time:
70s, 50s, 60s
Place:
algeria, france, atlantic ocean, indochina, newfoundland ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A down-and-out restaurateur and his neighbor hatch a plan to lure luminaries to their small Newfoundland town.
Style:
stylized, semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
couples, cons and scams, comedy of errors, couple relations, life is a bitch, dishonesty, social relations, husband wife relationship, addiction, drug deal, friendship, wine ...
Place:
canada, newfoundland
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Cody Brewer, a quiet New England fisherman isn't doing too well for himself. His wife feels neglected, and his son keeps getting picked on by the school bully. While out collecting his lobster traps one day, Cody finds a strange green moss that ...
Style:
sentimental, captivating, light, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
miraculous event, family relations, family life, moral dilemma, fisherman, supernatural, rivalry, friendship, social relations, down on your luck, arson, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england, usa, maine, newfoundland
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
An unexpectedly modern take on a tale of two Viking warriors abandoned on the American coast. Warning – contains a graphic answer to the question: do Vikings sh*t in the woods?
Style:
epic, stylized, atmospheric, serious, offbeat
Plot:
viking, human spirit, survival, rivalry, obsessive quest, adventurer, hopes, escapades, good versus evil, heroes, human nature, wilderness ...
Time:
middle ages, 11th century
Place:
newfoundland, canada
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135
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A blood feud divides a small town in rural Newfoundland.
Plot:
police officer, family relations, trouble, police, revenge, murder, catholic, violence, protestant
Place:
newfoundland, canada
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 194 min.
Story:
The Titanic disaster is depicted as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
Style:
fairy tale, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
titanic, disaster, ship, ocean, sinking ship, iceberg, shipwreck, survival, rescue, catastrophe, older man younger woman marriage, accident ...
Time:
1910s, year 1912
Place:
atlantic ocean, newfoundland
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Style:
psychological, touching, sentimental, surprise ending, futuristic ...
Plot:
alien, patient, extraterrestrial, planet, mysterious character, psychiatrist, mental institution, hypnosis, mental illness, science, investigation, space ...
Time:
future, 90s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, albuquerque new mexico, greenland ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Nick (Jacot), whose life seemed to be going perfectly, realizes he may lose his girlfriend to a famous music producer (Priestley). He sets out on a roadtrip from the west coast to go to the MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto, along with two buddies ...
Style:
road movie, not serious, feel good, humorous, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
road trip, on the road, motor home, best friends, youth, caught having sex, flirting, buddies, misfit, nothing goes right, goofy hero, disorder ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada, newfoundland, vancouver, montreal, canada
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, suspenseful, exciting, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
airplane, suspense, kidnapping, missing child, twists and turns, conspiracy, female protagonist, disappearance, family relations, child, pilot, rain ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
berlin germany, germany, newfoundland, new york
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
Style:
factual, serious, stylized, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
airplane, female pilot, aviation, women, ambition, depression, flying, unlikely friendships, self fulfillment, follow your dream, lifestyle, adventurer ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, year 1935, year 1934, year 1932 ...
Place:
usa, indiana, atlantic ocean, africa, ireland ...
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172
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Life on the Rock never seemed easy, but for Mitsy it is especially rough. The teenager has been abandoned by her mother, a particularly unfit parent prone to both the bottle and the sex trade. She is left to be brought up by her mercurial ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Plot:
sexual abuse, parents and children, dysfunctional family, teenage life, prostitute, single parent, youth, family relations, estrangement, family problems, small town life, absent mother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, newfoundland
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Republic of Doyle is a Canadian comedy-drama television series set in St. John's, Newfoundland which debuted 6 January 2010 on CBC Television.
The show stars Seán McGinley and Allan Hawco as Malachy and Jake Doyle, a father and son who ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, suspenseful
Plot:
investigation, small town, family relations, policewoman, couples, ex couple relations, family business, parents and children, social relations, ex husband ex wife relationship, detective agency, woman with a gun ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, newfoundland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Thirty-year-old Keith Kavanagh (Joel Thomas Hynes) ekes his way through life in a small town. A hard-drinking hooligan, he keeps his ragged collection of poetry a closely guarded secret... as secret as his regret for the shattered relationship with ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
introspection, couple relations, redemption, starting over, misfit, alcohol abuse, follow your dream, aspiring actress, breakup, journey, winston churchill, oral sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
newfoundland, nova scotia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sharon and her ten year old son Bayo live in Tickle Cove on the shores of Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland like generations of their family have before them. Sharon hates her life there. She dreams of moving to Toronto - where her now deceased mother was ...
Plot:
fishing, seaside, insanity, grandparent grandchild relationship, small town, boy, grandfather grandson relationship, single mother
Place:
newfoundland
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage ran by a religious community in Newfoundland.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, thought provoking, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
child abuse, pedophilia, catholic priest, child molestation, man boy relationship, orphanage, child molester, pedophile priest, homosexual rape, childhood, underage sex, catholic orphanage ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
canada, london, newfoundland
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands, Italy, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at Captain Nolan's hands, a vengeful killer whale goes on a rampage in the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, Nolan, Rachel and Umilak sail after the ...
Style:
harsh, serious, suspenseful, scary, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
killer whale, whale, ocean, survival, animal attack, vengeance, dangerous animal, obsession, ship, revenge, animals, disaster ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
antarctica, newfoundland
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stubbornly refuses the small amount of settlement money offered by the government.
Plot:
inheritance, politics, fired from the job, small town, family relations, historical event, mining, village, miner, government
Time:
60s
Place:
canada, newfoundland
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young girl, who struggles with her pilot father's death in a plane crash years before, visits her grandmother in Newfoundland. While there, she encounters the ghosts of two pilots, who are condemned to Earth to constantly re-live their own ...
Style:
serious, emotional, touching
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
ghost, time travel, airplane, pilot, frenchman, grandmother, grief, youth, death of father, teenage girl, family relations, friends ...
Place:
canada, france, newfoundland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of Ruby, 13, determined to grow up fast after her mother runs away to become a movie star, leaving Ruby with her hopelessly rural father.
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
coming of age, single father, family relations, teenage girl, teenage sexuality, father daughter relationship, ambition, blind ambition, teenage life, sexual awakening, gender, rebelliousness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, newfoundland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
Style:
tragicomedy, sentimental, humorous, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
loneliness, bittersweet, friendship, solitude, depression, small town, society, loss, melancholy, prejudice, death, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey, manhattan new york city, canada, newfoundland
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