Small town life movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant small town life movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, atmospheric, sentimental and semi serious films and TV shows about / with small town, small town life, social relations, family relations, murder, couples, love, society, love and romance and women plots mostly in Drama, Mystery and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as small town life: Safe Haven (2013), Olive Kitteridge (2014), Hart of Dixie (2011), Cranford (2007), Northern Exposure (1990), Banshee (2013), Under the Dome (2013), Everwood (2002), Mare of Easttown (2021), Cedar Cove (2013).

List of small town life movies

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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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Olive Kitteridge (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 239 min.
TV show
Story: The story focuses on a middle-school math teacher Olive and her relationship with Henry which spans 25 years over the four parts. It is based on Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Style: meditative, realistic, serious, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot: small town life, family problems, maturity, dysfunctional family, elderly, couple relations, couples, parents and children, family relations, psychology, complex characters, relationships ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: maine, new england, usa
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 7.7
 56K
Hart of Dixie (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: New Yorker Zoe Hart has it all figured out - after graduating top of her class from medical school, she'll follow in her father's footsteps and become a cardio-thoracic surgeon. But when her dreams fall apart, Zoe decides to work at a ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, humorous, light ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: small town, lifestyle change, small town life, lifestyle, doctor, social relations, female doctor, young woman, neighbor, fish out of water, clinic, doctors and patients ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: alabama, usa, hawaii, southern usa
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 8.3
 11K
Cranford (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 469 min.
TV show
Story: In the 1840s, Cranford is ruled by the ladies. They adore good gossip; and romance and change is in the air, as the unwelcome grasp of the Industrial Revolution rapidly approaches their beloved rural market-town.
Style: sincere, atmospheric, costume drama, clever, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: small town life, social differences, family relations, aristocracy, high society, class differences, small town, love and romance, social relations, family life, maid, proposal ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1840s
Place: england, britain, europe
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, ambiguous ending, psychological, depressing ...
Plot: small town, police brutality, rape, small town life, loss of daughter, billboard, regret, revenge, guilty conscience, anger, suffering, death of daughter ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: missouri, usa, america, persia, idaho
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Northern Exposure (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After receiving a scholarship from the state, a recent Columbia University medical school graduate is required to set up his practice in an eccentric Alaskan town.
Style: offbeat, realistic, humorous, surreal, semi serious ...
Plot: small town, small town life, fish out of water, medical, native american, cold weather, self discovery, love and romance, couple relations, doctors and patients, moose, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: alaska, usa
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 8.4
 122K
Banshee (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Banshee is an American drama television series set in a small town in Pennsylvania Amish country and features an enigmatic ex-con posing as a murdered sheriff who imposes his own brand of justice while also cooking up plans that serve his own ...
Style: exciting, sexy, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ex convict, sheriff, tough heroes, female nudity, organized crime, shooting, social relations, gory, cop, double life, sexual activity, small town ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa, pittsburgh
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 6.5
 112K
Under the Dome (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Under the Dome is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. It tells the story of the residents of the small town of Chester's Mill in Maine, where a massive, transparent, indestructible dome suddenly cuts them off from the rest of ...
Style: exciting, mind bending, surreal, teen, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, survival, stephen king, trapped, small town, life turned upside down, twists and turns, isolation, teenage girl, small town life, human existence, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new england, usa
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 7.5
 15K
Everwood (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small town of Everwood, Colorado. There he becomes a small-town doctor and learns parenting on the fly as he raises his talented but ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: small town life, doctor, small town, father son estrangement, first love, crush, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family problems, friends in love, widower, love and romance ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: colorado, usa
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Mare of Easttown (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 418 min.
TV show
Story: A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.
Style: detective, suspense, captivating, anthology, spectacular ...
Plot: small town, murder, murder investigation, small town life, homicide detective, murder mystery, female detective, mother daughter relationship, female police officer, ex husband ex wife relationship, drug abuse, incest ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania
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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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 7.6
 9K
Bunheads (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Michelle, a Las Vegas showgirl, impulsively marries a man, moves to his sleepy coastal town, and takes an uneasy role at her new mother-in-law's dance school.
Style: feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
Plot: ballet, dancer, dance school, lifestyle, starting over, lifestyle change, dancing, small town life, small town, women, hopes, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, nevada, las vegas
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 8.9
 417K
Fargo (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story: A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, captivating, detective, clever ...
Plot: dark humor, psychopath, small town, law enforcement, police investigation, cop, snow, killings, small town life, social relations, scheme, policewoman ...
Time: 2010s, year 1979, year 2014, future, year 2006 ...
Place: minnesota, north dakota, east germany, usa
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 7.3
 60K
Wayward Pines (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Imagine the perfect American town... beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world. You think you're going insane. You must be ...
Style: tense, mind bending, serious, captivating, surprise ending ...
Plot: apocalypse, society, small town, investigation, small town life, beast, danger, missing person, murder, cryogenics, confined, suspended animation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, idaho
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 7.3
 10K
The Dead Zone (2002)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone was an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma. The show, credited as "based ...
Style: serious, psychological, atmospheric, scary, bad ending ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: psychic, psychic power, supernatural, twists and turns, stephen king, friendship, hopes, time travel, supernatural ability, small town life, supernatural power, changing the past or future ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: maine, usa
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 8.1
 21K
The Returned (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 418 min.
TV show
Story: In the shadow of an enormous hydraulic dam, the lives of the residents of a small French town are changed to their core when hundreds of previously dead relatives all return home on the same day.
Style: mind bending, atmospheric, surreal, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: afterlife, resurrection, teenage life, supernatural, accident, small town, dealing with death, haunted by the past, small town life, death, living dead, zombie ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Sweet Magnolias (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Lifelong friends Maddie, Helen and Dana Sue lift each other as they juggle relationships, family and careers in the small, Southern town of Serenity.
Style: atmospheric, captivating, light, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: girlfriend girlfriend relationship, life, women, small town life, lovers, friendship, love, life changing experience, girlfriend, female friendship, faith, business ...
Place: south carolina
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 7.9
 3K
Kingdom (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Kingdom is a British television series produced by Parallel Film and Television Productions for the ITV network. It was created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and ...
Style: clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: small town life, small town, boss and employee, siblings relations, legal, lawyer, family relations, hotshot lawyer, legal investigation, apprentice, patronizing, workplace ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: england, europe
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 7.0
 12K
The Returned (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A small town that is turned upside down when several local people, who have long been presumed dead, suddenly reappear; their presence creates both positive and negative consequences. As families are reunited, the lives of those who were left behind ...
Style: captivating, mind bending, touching, surreal, tense ...
Plot: afterlife, resurrection, back from the dead, supernatural, small town life, uncover truth, life turned upside down, family relations, parents and children, dealing with death, miraculous event, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.5
 136K
Pleasantville (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's ...
Style: touching, humorous, feel good, visual, surreal ...
Audience: teens, date night, kids, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: small town, coming of age, time travel, alternate reality, adolescence, parallel world, utopia, siblings relations, american dream, fantasy world, small town life, parallel universe ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 90s, future, year 1998 ...
Place: america, france, paris france
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 8.4
 126K
Broadchurch (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.
Style: emotional, tense, realistic, clever, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder investigation, police investigation, murder, police detective, twists and turns, grief, multiple suspects, small town, reluctant partners, legal, uncover truth, murderer ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
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 7.0
 3K
Happy Town (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 353 min.
TV show
Story: The residents of Haplin, Minnesota - also known as "Happy Town" - have enjoyed an uneasy peace while haunted by a number of unsolved kidnappings. Now facing a disturbing new crime that brings unresolved fears to the surface, Haplin's ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: investigation, twists and turns, kidnapping, missing person, supernatural, multiple suspects, who done it, paranormal activity, uncover truth, mysterious death, social relations, sheriff ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, minnesota
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Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, captivating, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: friendship, small town, lesbian, feminism, self discovery, small town life, cannibalism, female bonding, midlife crisis, female protagonist, discrimination, lesbian love ...
Time: 1920s, 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: alabama, southern usa, usa, georgia, louisiana
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Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: New York fashion designer Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But Melanie's past holds many secrets, including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce ...
Style: feel good, romantic, sentimental, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot: fashion, small town, love and romance, homecoming, wedding, couples, marriage proposal, husband wife relationship, lovers reunited, lifestyle, marriage, canceled wedding ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: alabama, new york, usa, southern usa
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 7.6
 1K
Pollyanna (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her wealthy but bitter aunt after the tragic death of her father. Pollyanna shares a game her father taught her -- the 'Glad Game' -- in which everyone can find a silver lining in even the darkest ...
Style: touching, feel good, uplifting, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, optimism, teaching the ways of the world, small town life, countryside, young heroes, small town, hopes, orphan, friends, change of heart, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1900s, 1910s
Place: england, europe
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 5.7
 13K
Population 436 (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A census-taker (Sisto) is sent to investigate why a certain small town has had the same population -- 436 residents -- for the last 100 years.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, scary, twisted, surprise ending ...
Plot: brainwashing, small town life, religions or cults, danger, curses spells and rituals, small town, isolation, religious fundamentalism, electroshock therapy, murder, conspiracy, trap ...
Time: year 2000
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 6.8
 13K
Snow Angels (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Waitress Annie has separated from her suicidal alcoholic husband, Glenn. Glenn has become an evangelical Christian, but his erratic attempts at getting back into Annie's life have alarmed her. High school student Arthur works at Annie's ...
Style: melancholic, meditative, independent film, depressing, heartbreaking ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: small town life, small town, depression, dysfunctional family, abusive husband, teenage love, loneliness, life philosophy, snow, family problems, parents and children, first love ...
Time: year 2007
Place: nova scotia
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 7.5
 41K
Haven (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: FBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve a murder and soon discovers the town's many secrets—which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.
Style: atmospheric, stylized, detective, suspenseful, supernatural thriller ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, supernatural ability, female protagonist, investigation, surprising revelation, small town, danger, fbi, paranormal activity, small town life, social relations, mysterious place ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: maine, usa, new england, nova scotia
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 8.1
 490K
The Help (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's ...
Style: touching, inspirational, thought provoking, uplifting, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, kids, date night ...
Plot: racism, friendship, discrimination, civil rights, writers, women, maid, master and servant, human spirit, life is a bitch, racial segregation, racial issues ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 2011, 1900s, 50s ...
Place: mississippi, usa, america, africa, southern usa
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 8.2
 147K
Gilmore Girls (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.
Style: feel good, realistic, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience: teens, family outing, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: small town, teenager, mother daughter relationship, boyfriend, friends, female protagonist, small town life, teenage life, looking for love, single mother, first love, everyday life ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: yale university, connecticut, usa, new england
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