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List of small town life movies

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A Minute with Stan Hooper (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A Minute with Stan Hooper, also known as Stan Hooper, is an American sitcom starring Norm Macdonald. The series was a Carsey-Werner production in association with Paramount Television and aired on Fox. The series was canceled after six of the ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating ...
Plot: fish out of water, journalism, social relations, misfit, society, small town life, small town, wife, relocation, diner, media, husband wife relationship
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, wisconsin
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Mrs. Worthington's Party (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Father Jonathan Keene - a cold, impatient Catholic priest arrives in a tiny fishing village the week before Christmas to do what he does best: shut down a dying parish...
Style: touching, realistic, feel good, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: christmas, priest, clergy, introspection, society, self discovery, social relations, religions or cults, hopes, church, small town life, save the day ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.1
 615
Falcon Beach (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in a quiet town where locals and summer visitors mingle, and relationships change as quickly as the tide. Will the hot days of summer prove long enough to resolve the abundant seduction and scandal of Falcon Beach?
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, emotional
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: family relations, friends, youth, love and romance, social differences, environmentalism, culture clash, small town life, small town, mogul, friendship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 2000s
Place: canada
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 4.3
 456
Hank (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Hank is a comedy television series which ran on ABC from September 30, 2009, to November 4, 2009. The series was created by Tucker Cawley and is about a Wall Street executive who loses his job and reconnects with his small-town family. Hank ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, humorous, not serious
Plot: small town, family relations, starting over, family life, society, eccentric family, parents and children, unemployment, small town life, stock broker, husband wife relationship, social relations ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, virginia
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 7.2
 12K
Lammbock (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Stefan and Kai have good going business, self-grown cannabis screened as pizza delivering service. For now they only have to deal with plant-louses.
Style: humorous, funny, light, witty, talky ...
Plot: drug dealing, stoner, marijuana, undercover cop, weed, friendship, adolescence, loneliness, drug, undercover agent, small town life, incest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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 6.1
 14K
Cut Bank (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 25 year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But his effort to do so sets in moton a deadly series of events that change his life and the life of the ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, semi serious ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: murder, small town, witness, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, disorder, cons and scams, nothing goes right, small town life, coming of age, blood, hustler ...
Time: 21st century
Place: montana, usa
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Regarding Billy (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After Billy's parents are killed he moves home to care for his little brother Johnny, who is mentally challenged. Together the two struggle through the loss of their parents. Meanwhile, Billy's best friend from childhood, Dean, has moved ...
Style: emotional, touching, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: gay, gender, gay soldier, family relations, best friend, friendship, disability, couples, family problems, love and romance, youth, homecoming ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, iraq
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Screen Door Jesus (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A vision of Jesus sighted on the screen door of Mother Harper's front porch sparks misadventures as the media and crowds gather around the phenomenon and the townsfolk start to take sides. As more people flock to the door, some for guidance, ...
Style: sincere, humorous, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: society, social relations, bittersweet, small town life, interracial relations, friendship, small town, human nature, religions or cults, religion, preacher, escape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
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Air: The Motion Picture (2005)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A long time ago, a winged maiden was held prisoner in a castle - cursed never to experience love, lest she die. Centuries later, in a sleepy coastal town, a young girl relives this agony.
Style: anime, sincere, touching, emotional, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, magic, summer, imaginary, social relations, youth, impossible love, tragic love, teenage life, family relations, unfulfillment, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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 6.4
 399
Jewel (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, realistic
Plot: disability, family relations, family problems, family life, couples, social relations, couple relations, society, babies and infants, youth, small town life, small town ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 60s
Place: mississippi, california
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Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
TV show
Story: About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hysterical media coverage that made the investigation even more difficult.
Style: serious, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: true crime, murder, child murder, police investigation, who done it, family relations, law enforcement, dishonesty, media, small town, parents and children, small town life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: colorado
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Chaos and Desire (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Suspecting that the cecassion of the tides may indicate an impending earthquake, Seismologist Alice arrives in her hometown of Baie-Comeau, Quebec to commence her investigation. Soon confronted by numerous figures from her past, the unusual weather ...
Style: captivating, psychological, touching, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: couple relations, dishonesty, haunted by the past, small town life, small town, homecoming, uncover truth, lgbtq, lesbian, lesbian relationship, couples, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: quebec, canada
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Southern Belles (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bell and Belle want to break out of their trailer park lives and get up and out to the "Big City" of Atlanta. Just when they think they are on their way to getting a nest egg Bell falls for a handsome police officer named Rhett Butler.
Style: feel good, not serious, humorous, romantic, ironic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: best friend, friends, partner, couples, social relations, buddies, society, odd couple, misfit, farce, teenage life, family relations ...
Place: georgia, atlanta georgia
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Very Annie Mary (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Set in the fictional village of "Ogw" in the valleys of south-east Wales. After her father Jack suffers a stroke Annie Mary Pugh is forced to take care of him but uses the circumstances to emancipate herself and find the courage to sing ...
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, touching, semi serious ...
Plot: parents and children, self discovery, family relations, small town life, village life, small town, unfulfilled love, hopes, nothing goes right, love and romance, father daughter relationship, music ...
Time: year 2001
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What Would Jesus Do? (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The citizens of a small town lose their faith day by day. Poverty and hardships have been hard on them... when all of a sudden something changes. Their faith is reborn. And a question rises inside them: "What would Jesus do?"
Style: christian film, realistic, serious, spiritual, inspirational ...
Plot: faith, pastor, christian, small town, clergy, introspection, human spirit, society, hopes, social relations, religions or cults, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, xian
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 5.9
 456
Speechless (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A guy is found by the police swimming naked. He can't, or refuses to, speak and is sent to a hospital. Since no diagnosis can be made, he will be transferred to a mental hospital, when his male nurse decides to take another route. Slowly the ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, mental institution, gays and lesbians, small town life, small town, erotica, foreigner, lgbtq, homoeroticism, nude, gay love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, hong kong
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Back to You & Me (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Dr. Syd has a good practice in the big city but a bad day when her terminal patient finally passes away. Her surgeon boyfriend, who has been sarcastically nick named "Mr. Personality" and "Settle For" by Syd's best friend ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: high school reunion, starting over, doctor, couples, estrangement, couple relations, fall in love, homecoming, ex-lover, small town, small town life, single father ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.4
 795
Mapp & Lucia (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story: 1930s comedy drama based on EF Benson's novels, about the rivalry between two women in a quaint village.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, historical drama ...
Plot: small town, village, rivalry, lesbian, society, social relations, small town life, village life, gossip, friendship, snobbism, priest ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: europe, england
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Heaven's Door (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Julie Taylor has a problem how to cope with a pending divorce, find meaningful employment, live with her mother's constant advice and raise her two children. In their small rural town it isn't so much what people say as what they believe. ...
Style: uplifting, touching, sincere, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, parents and children, supernatural, social relations, family relations, miraculous event, small town, small town life, parallel world, christian, spirituality, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.5
 175
Crackie (2009)
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, touching, emotional
Plot: sexual abuse, dysfunctional family, teenage life, parents and children, single parent, prostitute, youth, family relations, family problems, estrangement, small town life, absent mother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: newfoundland, canada
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 5.7
 534
Beautiful Ohio (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An entire family comes of age during the early 1970s.
Style: serious, realistic, clever, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: mathematics, coming of age, family relations, family problems, parents and children, siblings relations, teenage love, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, society, youth, estrangement ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: ohio, usa, budapest, hungary, cleveland ohio
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A Town Without Christmas (2001)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In the small town of Seacliff, Wash., a child's letter to Santa Claus captures the nation's attention. When the little boy, Chris, writes that he wishes to leave this world so he will no longer be a burden to his divorcing parents, a race ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, emotional
Plot: christmas, small town, parents and children, missing child, family problems, small town life, family in crisis, media, journalism, love and romance, letter, little boy ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: washington state, washington d.c.
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 2.3
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Speed Demon (2003)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In this supernatural take on The Fast and the Furious, college student Jesse returns home only to find that his old stomping ground has been overrun by a gang of street racers that dabbles in the black arts. But things take a bloody turn for the ...
Style: serious, bleak, rough, scary, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, chase, vigilantism, supernatural ability, serial killer, supernatural, deadly creature, danger, terrorism, stalking, hidden identity, small town ...
Time: 21st century
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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
Style: dark, surreal, stylized, black and white, art house ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, loneliness, cat, prostitute, murder, father son relationship, drug addict, women, following someone, drug use, feminist ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, year 2014
Place: middle east, iran, persia, maghreb
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A Monkey in Winter (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story of a man who has stopped drinking- and then dreaming- and who thanks to a young man who tries to forget a lost love in alcohol will turn drunk again during an exciting night.
Style: humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, light ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: couples, alcohol abuse, drinking, buddies, friendship, partner, small town life, alcoholic, post war, world war two, drinking alcohol, drug addiction ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: france, europe, english channel, normandy
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 5.7
 14K
Kaboom (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Smith, a typical young college student who likes partying and engaging in acts of random sex and debauchery, has been having some interesting dreams revolving around two gorgeous women -- and is shocked when he meets the dream girls in real life. ...
Style: sexy, stylized, tense, clever, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, bisexuality, sexual perversion, lesbian, fantasy becomes reality, dream, guru, conspiracy, gay, lgbt, homosexual, college life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, southern california
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 6.9
 5K
Miss Minoes (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A cat who turns into a young woman helps a journalist protect their town from a factory boss with an evil plan.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating
Audience: kids
Plot: transformation, cat, journalism, working undercover, reporter, family relations, small town life, strong female character, anthropomorphism, mayor, fantasy world, talking animal ...
Place: netherlands
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True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A teen movie star attempts to overcome her addition to alcohol and salvage what's left of her career after passing out on the red carpet at her big Hollywood premiere and being sent to recover with her upbeat aunt in Indiana. Morgan Carter (Jo ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, teen, light, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: starlet, rehabilitation, fame, love and romance, teenage life, actor's life, showbiz, small town life, teenager, paparazzi, famous, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa
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 3.4
 1K
Devil's Prey (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of young adults attend an all-night rave, only to discover that it's a trap for a satanic cult that requires flesh for bloody sacrifices.
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, slasher, exciting ...
Plot: murder, religious cult, danger, religions or cults, youth, on the run, supernatural, small town life, teenage life, teenager, party, violence ...
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 6.1
 12K
The Car (1977)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The film is set in the fictional Utah community of Santa Ynez, which is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town's Sheriff (John Marley), it ...
Style: suspense, tense, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: killer car, desert, car, carsploitation, police, violence spree, vengeance, supernatural, danger, on the run, chase, psychopath ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
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