City council movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant city council movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, humorous, independent film, captivating and feel good films and TV shows about / with city council, family relations, mayor, small town, friendship, politics, love and romance, murder, father daughter relationship and gun plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as city council: Hands Over the City (1963), Waiting for Guffman (1996), The House (2017), Poolman (2023), Melissa & Joey (2010), Death of a Gunfighter (1969), Life at the Top (1965), A Very Merry Toy Store (2017), Flint (2017), Easter (2019).

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Hands Over the City (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi’s Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. This expose of the politically driven real-estate ...
Style: realistic, tense, suspenseful, serious, clever ...
Plot: politics, election, corruption, investigation, political corruption, bribery, dishonesty, state affairs, fighting the system, manipulation, lie, city council ...
Time: 1940s, year 1963, 60s, 21st century
Place: italy, europe, southern italy, naples italy
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Waiting for Guffman (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Corky St. Clair is a director, actor and dancer in Blaine, Missouri. When it comes time to celebrate Blaine's 150th anniversary, Corky resolves to bring down the house in Broadway style in this hilarious mockumentary from the people who brought ...
Style: mockumentary, funny, parody, independent film, witty ...
Plot: satire, backstage, small town, improv, city council, theater, coming of age, chinese restaurant, alien contact, travel agent, dentist, director ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place: missouri, usa, north america, florida
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 5.6
 47K
The House (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When Scott and Kate Johansen’s daughter gets into the college of her dreams it’s cause for celebration. That is, until Scott and Kate learn that the scholarship they were counting on didn’t come through, and they’re now on the hook for ...
Style: thought provoking, humorous, funny, captivating, light ...
Audience: adult
Plot: gambling, farce, college, neighbor, casino, middle class, bet, gambler, kickass, nerd, party, love ...
Time: year 2017
Place: las vegas
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 5.3
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Poolman (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An eccentric pool cleaner stumbles upon an investigation by a dirty city council.
Style: captivating, detective, entertaining, light, exciting ...
Plot: swimming pool, apartment building, crime investigation, criminal, crime scene, slacker, daydreamer, male protagonist, dreaming, security guard, city council
Place: los angeles
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 7.0
 20K
Melissa & Joey (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Melissa & Joey is an ABC Family original television series starring Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence that premiered on ABC Family on August 17, 2010. The series follows local politician Mel Burke and Joe Longo, whom Mel hires to look after ...
Style: realistic, feel good, humorous, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: nanny, family relations, politician, parents and children, adolescence, custody, couples, child care, job seeking, family life, fish out of water, bankruptcy ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, ohio
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Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottownwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. ...
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: saloon owner, marshal, interracial, lonely, small town, showdown, pistol duel, gunfight, social relations, self defense, lone wolves, heroes ...
Time: year 1969, 19th century
Place: texas, usa
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Life at the Top (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: 'Life at the Top' is a sequel to 'Room at the Top', made in 1959. Ten years have passed and Joe Lampton now takes a wealthy lifestyle alongside his wife and two kids. But since he's married the boss' daughter, his rise ...
Style: independent film
Plot: adultery, kitchen sink realism, unfaithful wife, grandfather grandson relationship, unfaithful husband, husband wife separation, socialite, social justice, life, frustration, promiscuity, city council ...
Place: yorkshire, london
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A Very Merry Toy Store (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two rival toy shop owners reluctantly join forces when an unscrupulous toy magnate opens a box store in their town.
Style: romantic, sincere, light, captivating, emotional
Plot: christmas, small town, love interest, christmas season, widow, love and romance, christmas romance, holiday, wedding, christmas spirit, voting, mayor ...
Place: new england
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 6.2
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Flint (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A woman deals with the toxic water scandal in Flint, Michigan, and the effect it has on her family.
Plot: contaminated water, water, environmental activism, environmental, african american, environment, mother, underdog, city council, african american woman, contamination, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2015
Place: michigan
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Easter (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, War
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story: Easter is a five story-arc opera about the coming-of-age of juking. The first of its tales aptly deals with contemporary civil unrest with foci on the interrelationships between law enforcement in communities it serves, and corruption within the ...
Style: suspense, intense, detective, twisted, allegory ...
Plot: politics, police, survival, vengeance, conspiracy, revenge, murder, strained relationship, prodigy, gunfight, secret, rescue ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, 70s
Place: maryland, new jersey, chile, morocco, philadelphia ...
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 8.0
 12K
Show Me a Hero (2015)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 358 min.
TV show
Story: Mayor Nick Wasicsko took office in 1987 during Yonkers' worst crisis when federal courts ordered public housing built in the white, middle class side of town, dividing the city in a bitter battle fueled by fear, racism, murder and politics.
Style: serious, tense, captivating, rough, political ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: politics, racism, state affairs, society, life is a bitch, hunting, urbanization, corporation, white house, true crime, pop culture, secrets ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 2010s, 90s
Place: usa, new york, dominican republic, new york state
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 5.6
 1K
Stag (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Victor Mallick returned to his home and found out that all of his friends have arranged a surprise bachelor/stag party for him. Two strippers were hired to cheer up the party. However, when some of the men accidentally killed one of the strippers, ...
Style: psychological, independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: death, murder, suicide, hooker, stripper, suburbs, friendship, wrongfully committed, friends, disorder, drug dealing, witnessing a crime ...
Time: 90s
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 6.4
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Rome & Juliet (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Rome and Juliet follows the romantic journey and soul mating of two straight women caught in a web of forbidden love. Juliet (a conservative pre-school teacher) is a bride to be who befriends and hires Rome (a liberated businesswoman) as her wedding ...
Style: sincere, disturbing, captivating, serious, independent film
Plot: lesbian relationship, lesbian sex, lesbian, wedding planner, lesbian interest, lgbt, forbidden love, fall in love, friendship, jealousy, dysfunctional family, coworker relationship ...
Place: the philippines
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 6.4
 888
The Pied Piper (1972)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father ...
Style: fairy tale, stylized, art house, independent film, serious ...
Plot: bubonic plague, ancient, wedding, burned alive, clergy, revenge, witchcraft, siblings relations, parents and children, society, vengeance, dealing with death ...
Time: year 1972, 14th century, medieval times, middle ages
Place: germany, europe, northern germany
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The Vicar of Dibley (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Reverend Granger is assigned as the Vicar of the rural parish of Dibley, but she is not quite what the villagers expected.
Style: sitcom, retro, light hearted, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: english countryside, church, christmas, friendship, small community, religion, small town, religious, women power, professional, girl power, everyday life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, europe, britain
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 5.8
 53K
Footloose (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where loud music and dancing are prohibited. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister’s ...
Style: feel good, romantic, teen, sincere, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: dancing, dance, teenage love, small town, teenager, dancer's life, music, love and romance, love, dancer, youth, teenage girl ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa, southern usa
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Step Up Revolution (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily's father's development plans.
Style: romantic, feel good, entertaining, teen, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, family friendly
Plot: dancing, dance, dancer, dancer's life, hip hop, music, teenage love, competition, teenager, teenage life, revolution, culture clash ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, miami, florida
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 4.7
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Rag and Bone (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The life of a priest seconded to a New Orleans police department begins to fall apart when he is wrongly implicated in the shooting of a suspect. However, it comes to light that the precinct is haunted by the spirit of a deceased policeman, who ...
Style: independent film
Plot: nypd, medical student, father son relationship, hallucination, flashback, sex, ghost, murder, police, cemetery, church, brother sister relationship ...
Place: new orleans
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Blackmail Boy (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the small, closed community of a provincial town, Magda tries to maintain a balance within a family facing many serious problems. The families apparently normal, bourgeois, every-day life will crack open, bringing to the surface hatred and ...
Style: realistic, serious, crying, sexual, humorous ...
Plot: mother in law son in law relationship, gay husband, older woman younger man relationship, gay, dysfunctional family, dishonesty, family problems, dark humor, breakup, parents and children, manipulation, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
Place: athens greece, greece
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Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Ghoulish Count Dracula lures a naive estate agent, Jonathan Harker, to his decaying Transylvanian castle with the promise of easy money. But when he spies a portrait of the man's beautiful young wife Lucy, the vampire becomes obsessed and sets ...
Style: gothic, bleak, enigmatic, dark, scary ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, immortality, blood, loneliness, death, insanity, castle, surrealism, obsession, transformation, life & death ...
Time: 19th century, year 1979, 1800s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: romania, bulgaria, europe, germany, black sea ...
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Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Mother (Bill Cosby), Jugs (Raquel Welch) & Speed (Harvey Keitel) work for a ambulance company competing for a L.A. city contract.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: satire, murder, chase, paramedic, black, truck, trucker, medical, rivalry, nothing goes right, fighting the system, contests and competitions ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa
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Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: One day, Horton the elephant hears a cry from help coming from a speck of dust. Even though he can't see anyone on the speck, he decides to help it. As it turns out, the speck of dust is home to the Whos, who live in their city of Whoville. ...
Style: light, feel good, funny, computer animated, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, toddlers ...
Plot: talking animal, determination, rescue, jungle, friendship, fantasy world, animal, friends, elephant, creativity, goofy hero, save the day ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008
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Dr. T & the Women (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Dr. Sullivan Travis is a man at the top of his game, a rich and successful Dallas gynecologist whose "religion" is women. Dr. T. worships women. In his immediate family and in his office, they surround him. He is loving and giving to each ...
Style: satirical, light, stylized, humorous, talky ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: gynecologist, cheerleader, lesbian, women, family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, twists and turns, life philosophy, couple relations, eccentric family, workplace situations ...
Time: 90s, year 2000
Place: texas, usa, austin texas, washington d.c., houston texas ...
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 6.8
 2K
Dandelion (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason meets Danny, a sensitive and troubled girl, and their tender ...
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: small town, dysfunctional family, parents and children, young lovers, desperation, depression, compassion, jail, self discovery, amor, fishing village, bad father ...
Place: idaho, usa, washington state
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 8.1
 347K
Chinatown (1974)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double ...
Style: neo noir, detective, atmospheric, twist ending, bleak ...
Audience: date night
Plot: private detective, corruption, investigation, femme fatale, rape, police, murder, conspiracy, domestic violence, father daughter incest, incest, investigator ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1974, year 1937
Place: los angeles, california, usa, eastern europe, america ...
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Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The continuing adventures of the barbers at Calvin's Barbershop. Gina, a stylist at the beauty shop next door, is now trying to cut in on his buisness. Calvin is again struggling to keep his father's shop and traditions alive--this time ...
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, hilarious, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: beauty salon, fighting the system, urban, black, barbershop, friendship, hip hop, family business, workplace romance, workplace, friends, workplace situations ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: chicago, indiana, illinois, usa
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Last Ounce of Courage (2012)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Bob Revere is a small town Mayor and combat decorated veteran. He faces a root of bitterness from his past filled with heartbreaking loss. His grandson comes back into his life after many years to ask the most important question, “What are we ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, funny, christian film ...
Plot: funeral, christian, self discovery, supportive spouse, young heroes, patriotism, self sacrifice, war hero, veteran, patriot, courage, freedom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Christmas with a Capital C (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: An attorney returns to his small home town in Alaska and quickly rocks the boat by getting an injunction against the nativity display tradition and attacking Christmas.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, christmas comedy, disgusting ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, winter, small town, lawyer, battles, family relations, love and romance, boss and employee, workplace, small town life, religions or cults ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska
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The Perfect Gift (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A spoiled schoolgirl, her overworked executive mother, and a disillusioned young minister each receives an uplifting message about friendship, commitment, and the truest meaning of Christmas from a friendly, but mysterious drifter.
Style: serious, realistic, christmas classics, christian film
Plot: christmas, youth, religion, spoiled brat, friendship, family relations, hopes, human spirit, high school, parents and children, clergy, christian ...
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 8.1
 18K
Boss (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
TV show
Story: Boss is an American political drama television serial created by Farhad Safinia. The series stars Kelsey Grammer as Tom Kane, the mayor of Chicago, who has recently been diagnosed with dementia with Lewy bodies, a degenerative neurological disorder.
Style: serious, rough, captivating, clever, political ...
Audience: adult
Plot: politics, mayor, boss, ambition, political intrigue, career, mental illness, life is a bitch, dishonesty, power struggle, ambitious, corruption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
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