Coastal town movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant coastal town movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic, psychological and suspense films and TV shows about / with coastal town, small town, family relations, murder, friendship, small town life, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, death and danger plots mostly in Drama, Mystery and Comedy genres shot in UK, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as coastal town: Boundaries (2016), Safe Haven (2013), Home and Away (1988), Casper (1995), Fisherman's Friends (2019), Trapped (2015), Cedar Cove (2013), The Lost Boys (1987), Luca (2021), Whitstable Pearl (2021).

List of coastal town movies

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 6.3
 280
Boundaries (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Emily Price tries to balance family life and leading crunch negotiations between a Canadian politician and the president of a country whose natural resources are being exploited.
Style: touching, sexy, psychological, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Plot: politics, female protagonist, coastal town, politician, conference, fortune teller, fictional country, abandoned mine, woman, island, president, corporation ...
Place: canada
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 6.6
 116K
Safe Haven (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.
Style: touching, romantic, teen, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: small town, love story, obsession, starting over, love, small town life, love and romance, single father, domestic violence, power of love, fall in love, choice ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa, boston, south carolina
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Home and Away (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Home and Away is set in the fictional town of Summer Bay, a coastal town in New South Wales, and follows the personal and professional lives of the people living in the area. The show initially focused on the Fletcher family, Pippa and Tom Fletcher ...
Style: soap opera, serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coastal town, sex, beach, small town, lesbian, family relations, bare chested male, love, husband wife relationship, seaside town, youth, fall in love ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: australia, new south wales
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 6.2
 146K
Casper (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Furious that her late father only willed her his gloomy-looking mansion rather than his millions, Carrigan Crittenden is ready to burn the place to the ground when she discovers a map to a treasure hidden in the house. But when she enters the ...
Style: fairy tale, light, sweet, humorous, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: friendship, ghost, halloween, haunted house, supernatural, single father, afterlife, father daughter relationship, childhood, mischievous children, life & death, family bonds ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: maine, new england, usa
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Fisherman's Friends (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Ten fisherman from Cornwall are signed by Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album of Sea Shanties. Based on the true-life story of Cornish folk band, Fisherman's Friends.
Style: feel good, realistic, semi serious, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: fisherman, remote village, music, coastal town, friendship, choir, artist, musician, society, ambition, musician's life, rise to the top ...
Time: year 1968, year 2011, year 2010, year 1964
Place: cornwall, london
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 8.0
 25K
Trapped (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: As a ferry carrying 300 passengers from Denmark pulls into an Icelandic town’s small port, heavy snow begins to fall. The ferry can’t leave until the storm passes and the main road into town is impassable. A mutilated and dismembered body washes ...
Style: atmospheric, detective, crime drama, scenic, bleak ...
Plot: murder investigation, police, murder, snowstorm, small town, coastal town, winter, nordic, investigation, ex wife, danger, voodoo ...
Place: iceland
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 7.0
 3K
Cedar Cove (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Judge Olivia Lockhart is considered the community's guiding light in the picturesque, coastal town of Cedar Cove, Washington. But like everyone else, Olivia fights the uphill battle of balancing career with family and finding love, all the ...
Style: serious, sentimental, sincere, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: relationship vs career, small town, loss of son, small town life, courtroom, love and romance, looking for love, family relations, career woman, couple relations, legal, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington state, seattle, washington d.c.
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 7.2
 160K
The Lost Boys (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A mother and her two teenage sons move to a seemingly nice and quiet small coastal California town yet soon find out that it's overrun by bike gangs and vampires. A couple of teenage friends take it upon themselves to hunt down the vampires ...
Style: black comedy, scary, surprise ending, teen, gothic ...
Audience: teens, family outing, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: vampire, small town, supernatural, single mother, goth, teenage boy, amusement park, motorcycle, vampire hunter, blood, fear, home invasion ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
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 7.4
 191K
Luca (2021)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Italy, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera, two young boys experience an unforgettable summer filled with gelato, pasta and endless scooter rides. But all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another ...
Style: captivating, funny, entertaining, 3d animation, cute ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly
Plot: water, friendship, coming of age, ocean, sea voyage, disguise, seaside town, sea adventure, sea, monster, creature, male female friendship ...
Time: 1950s, 2020s, future, year 1959, 20th century
Place: italy, europe, riviera, mediterranean sea
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Whitstable Pearl (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
TV show
Story: With her son grown up, single mom Pearl Nolan decides to pursue her lifelong dream and launches a private detective agency, which she runs from her family's restaurant in the coastal town of Whitstable. Drawn by her caring nature, locals soon ...
Style: detective, disturbing, suspense, psychological, tense ...
Plot: police investigation, amateur detective, murder, restaurant, seaside, murder investigation, detective agency, coastal town, police inspector, single parent, private investigator, police detective ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: britain, united kingdom, england
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The Sommerdahl Murders (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A love triangle between Dan Sommerdahl, his wife Marianne Sommerdahl and their best friend Flemming Torp occurs as they try to solves killings in Helsingør.
Style: unusual plot structure, suspenseful, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: love triangle, husband wife relationship, homicide detective, friendship, investigation, love, murder investigation, coastal town, police protagonist, love and romance, partner, violence ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: denmark
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 6.1
 907
Electricity (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A woman leaves her seaside hometown to search for her long-lost brother, experiencing hallucinations brought on by her epilepsy during her trip.
Style: surreal, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, social ...
Plot: hallucination, epilepsy, family relations, missing person, coastal town, female protagonist, brother, minimalism, self discovery, coming of age, strong female presence, obsessive quest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, northern england
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The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother ...
Style: scenic, fairy tale, touching, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: children, island, mermaid, seal the animal, friendship, legend, celtic, ancient mystery, magic, young heroes, magic realism, social relations ...
Time: year 1994, 20th century, 1940s, year 1946
Place: ireland, europe
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 6.8
 265
Fractures (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: Drama series about Kristín, an emergency doctor who moves with her teenage daughter back to her parents' home in a small fishing village, following her own husband's affair. Kristín, who is grounded and rational, quickly realises she is ...
Style: enigmatic, exciting, psychological, dramatic, captivating ...
Plot: mother and daughter, town, hometown, mother daughter relationship, small town life, teenage daughter, female doctor, daughter, coastal town, teenager, small town, teenage girl ...
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Game Winning Hit (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: An army deserter hiding out in a small coastal town becomes the coach of a youth baseball team and develops warm relationships in his new community.
Style: serious, exciting, captivating, dramatic
Plot: baseball, baseball team, small town life, town, sport team, coastal town, deserter, seaside town, game, baseball coach, sports man, small town ...
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 7.2
 218
Doc Martin (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: After Dr. Martin Le Foll becomes suddenly phobic to blood, he moves from his lavish playboy lifestyle to a small fishing town, which may clash in ways he didn't expect.
Style: entertaining, captivating, funny, humorous, crime drama
Plot: playboy, adventure hero, seaside town, aunt, coastal town, small town, love, love and romance, doctor, relationships, small town life, surgeon ...
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 5.5
 263
Groundbeef (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Style: suspenseful, harsh, tense, dramatic, captivating
Plot: big city, bandit, gunfight, prostitute, criminal, scuffle, coastal town, fistfight, street fight, city, gang, street
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State of Happiness (2018)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Norway, Belgium
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The night before Christmas 1969, the gas flare at the Ocean Viking is lit. Phillips has found the largest sub sea oil basin in history. And everything is about to change.
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, period piece
Plot: oil, oil industry, politics, class differences, financial problem, intrigue, coastal town, changing lives, port, post war, women, secretary ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
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 7.2
 11K
The Bay (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Family Liaison Officer Lisa Armstrong becomes a little too emotionally involved with a case (to the point where she might compromise it) concerning a pair of missing Morecambe twins to whose distraught parents she is assigned.
Style: detective, crime drama, realistic, clever, serious ...
Plot: policewoman, investigation, police, missing person, courtroom drama, police investigation, social relations, uncover truth, family relations, who done it, parents and children, law enforcer ...
Time: future
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 7.2
 8K
Emergence (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A police chief takes in a young child she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child’s identity is at the center ...
Style: atmospheric, enigmatic, suspense, colorful, detective ...
Plot: child, police, daughter, supernatural, science and technology, investigation, single mother, cancer patient, female protagonist, coastal town, superhero, survival ...
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The View from Greenhaven (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A grumpy old man living in an idyllic coastal town who can't see he has the perfect life.
Plot: motorcycle, ferry, coastal town, family relations, train wreck, marital crisis, redemption, town, gratitude, barn
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The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In a small English coastal town, three teenage boys are drawn into a world of temptation and violence. Bored, troubled and excluded, the boys are unable to accept or even recognise moral boundaries. Their actions move inexorably towards a truly ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, brutal, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: rape, teenage rape, gang rape, gang, cruelty, brutality, teenager, juvenile delinquency, drug abuse, drug use, violent, drugged ...
Place: britain, new haven connecticut
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 7.6
 203K
The Birds (1963)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. ...
Style: surreal, psychological thriller, suspenseful, suspense, dark ...
Plot: bird, bird attack, paranoia, disaster, killer animal, survival, animal attack, small town, creature feature, unsolved mystery, dangerous animal, murder ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place: california, san francisco, bay area
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 5.6
 3K
Bitterly! (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Progressive and talented Natasha and Roma dream of a European wedding by the sea... but Natasha's stepfather procured a different scenario. Rough official of the city administration considers the celebration as a springboard for their careers, ...
Style: captivating, humorous, feel good, light
Audience: family outing
Plot: wedding, love, family relations, wedding preparations and rituals, drunkenness, society, stereotypes, adult humor, couples, social relations, sibling relationship, disagreement ...
Time: 2010s
Place: russia
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 6.8
 5K
Humanity (1999)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 141 min.
Story: When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ...
Style: contemplative, slow cinema, erotic, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: kids
Plot: small town, masturbation, female nudity, female pubic hair, lust, voyeur, sex, orgasm, murder, dead body, strike, rape ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: france, flanders, europe
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Mondays in the Sun (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and ...
Style: touching, sincere, realistic, political, serious ...
Plot: working class, unemployment, seaport, friendship, society, redemption, small town, job seeking, self esteem, life is a bitch, human nature, breaking point ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: iberian peninsula, europe, galicia, switzerland, spain ...
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 8.1
 655K
Jaws (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: An insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, The police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast.
Style: scary, suspense, natural horror, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: shark, beach, ocean, shark attack, animal attack, creature feature, fear, monster, killer shark, underwater, survival, dangerous animal ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: oceania, persia, fictional island, boston, long island ...
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A Warning to the Curious (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
Story: The tale tells the story of Paxton, an amateur archeologist who travels to "Seaburgh" (a disguised version of Aldeburgh, Suffolk) and inadvertently stumbles across one of the lost crowns of Anglia, which legendarily protect the county from ...
Style: christmas horror, gothic, scary, creepy, thrilling ...
Plot: folk horror, ghost, ghost story, cemetery, haunting, landscape, relic hunter, living dead, octopus, supernatural, folklore, christmas ...
Time: year 1917, year 1929, 20th century, 1920s, 1910s
Place: britain
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Innocent Lies (1995)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In September 1938 a British detective comes to a small French coastal town in order to investigate the death of a colleague. Prime suspects are the members of English aristocratic family with plenty of skeletons in the closet. This is a loose ...
Style: realistic, tense, mind bending, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: brother sister incest, incestuous desire, brother sister sex, mother daughter relationship, incest, investigation, murder, manipulation, wealth, betrayal, jealousy, secret ...
Time: 1930s, year 1938
Place: france
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 6.2
 21K
Dagon (2001)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. ...
Style: lovecraft, scary, suspense, surprise ending, satanic ...
Plot: curses spells and rituals, cthulhu, chase, monster, supernatural, small town, body horror, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, gory, nightmare, ritual, human sacrifice ...
Place: spain, galicia, europe
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