City country contrast movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant city country contrast movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, humorous, serious, feel good, melancholic and light films and TV shows about / with city country contrast, culture clash, small town, couples, storytelling, family, fish out of water, love and romance, dialogue and family relations 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 country contrast: Funny Farm (1988), Son in Law (1993), My Cousin Vinny (1992), Coogan's Bluff (1968), The Greening of Whitney Brown (2011), The Girl from Paris (2001), The Grocer's Son (2007), Russian Affairs (2019), The Horse Whisperer (1998), Les Norton (2019).
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List of city country contrast movies
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Chevy Chase stars as Andy Farmer, a sportswriter who moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth (Madolyn Smith) to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, ...
Style:
hilarious, rom com, humorous, slapstick, social ...
Audience:
kids, date night
Plot:
small town, fish out of water, writers, husband wife relationship, aspiring writer, farce, christmas, chase, breakup, divorce, fishing, plagiarism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
vermont, new york, san francisco
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Country girl Rebecca has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota, and, when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feels out of place in the daunting urban setting. She is befriended by a savvy party animal named ...
Style:
funny, humorous, feel good, slapstick comedy, slapstick ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night
Plot:
college, thanksgiving, culture clash, fish out of water, engagement, slacker, friendship, unlikely couple, romantic rivalry, farmer, makeover, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1993
Place:
south dakota, california, turkey, los angeles, las vegas
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his ...
Style:
funny, hilarious, feel good, light hearted, light ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
courtroom, courtroom drama, lawyer, court, trial, small town, cousin cousin relationship, mistaken identity, legal, murder, jail, false accusation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
alabama, southern usa, new york, usa, new jersey ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Coogan (Clint Eastwood) an Arizona deputy sheriff goes to New York to pick up a prisoner. While escorting the prisoner to the airport he escapes and Coogan heads into the City to recapture him.
Style:
black comedy, light, exciting, cult classic, entertaining ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
fish out of water, tough cop, investigation, one against many, love interest, desert, motorcycle chase, maverick cop, chase, lovers on the run, police, gunfight ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s
Place:
arizona, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Whitney, a spoiled pre-teen from Philadelphia, is forced to move to the country when her parents feel the squeeze of economic hard times. A fish out of water, far from her comfort zone, she befriends an amazing horse, and undertakes a misguided ...
Style:
sentimental, captivating, sincere, light, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
horse, new house, girl horse relationship, school, family relations, family life, teenage life, farm, hopes, countryside, fish out of water, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, philadelphia, ireland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Sandrine, a woman in her thirties gets tired of life in Paris and decides to leave her work in computers and become a farmer. She takes the required practice for two years, and after that she buys an isolated farm from Adrien, an old farmer who ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, feel good, touching, semi serious
Plot:
hopes, isolation, starting over, friendship, fish out of water, couple relations, love and romance, elderly, odd couple, disorder, lifestyle change, cultural difference ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back ...
Style:
realistic, contemplative, thought provoking, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
village, countryside, family relations, hospital, heart attack, self discovery, culture clash, homecoming, parents and children, conflict, lifestyle, on the road ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, lyon, europe, alps, provence
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story:
Moscow, present day. The city of big money, passion, gorgeous women and wealthy men, receptions and dangerous intrigue. Dasha, an art historian from the province, who came to the capital, dreams of a new, better life, but a mysterious and cruel ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, tense, thought provoking, intellectual ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
ambitious woman, rivalry, female nudity, danger, dishonesty, society, model, betrayal, heroine, love triangle, lifestyle, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
moscow russia
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
Based on the novel by the same name from Nicholas Evans, the talented Robert Redford presents this meditative family drama set in the country side. Redford not only directs but also stars in the roll of a cowboy with a magical talent for healing.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, melancholic, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
horse, cowboy, ranch, animal, stallion, horse riding, riding accident, travel, rider horse relationship, true love, therapy, parent child relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
montana, new york, usa, london
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in 1985, the series will follow the exploits of a country bloke from outback Queensland. On the run from a troubled past, he blows into Sydney where he lands a job as a bouncer at an illegal casino. A classic fish out of water who is desperate ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
troubled past, police, fight, beefcake, gangster, nightclub, casino, bouncer, mafia, killing, criminal heroes, organized crime ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
sydney australia, australia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about ...
Style:
neo noir, detective, realistic, enigmatic, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, police, murder mystery, rape, police investigation, twists and turns, unsolved crime, police detective, murder investigation, murderer, suspicion, investigation ...
Time:
year 2003, 80s, year 1986, y2k, 20th century ...
Place:
south korea, east asia, korea, asia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
This Finnish romance tells of a young couple who vacation by the ocean. While there, the unsatisfied man decides he wants to end their relationship. Upon their return home, he has an overnight fling with another woman while his recently dumped ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, melancholic, black and white, moody
Plot:
accident, young lovers, children, car accident, regret, heartache, reconciliation, bittersweet, tragic romance, longing, camping, guilt ...
Time:
60s
Place:
finland, helsinki finland
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Finland
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Sequel to Kuutamosonaatti (1988).
Style:
horror comedy
Plot:
zombie, bachelor, redneck, amusement park, swamp, living dead, undead, sauna, nightshift, stalker, simpleton, train travel ...
Time:
90s
Place:
finland, helsinki finland
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38K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
Style:
romantic, inspirational, melancholic, thought provoking, period piece ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
interracial couple, racism, marriage, interracial marriage, interracial love, interracial romance, husband wife relationship, supreme court, civil rights, love story, forbidden love, miscegenation ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 60s, year 2016, 2010s ...
Place:
virginia, washington d.c., richmond virginia, usa, australia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious
Plot:
nature, wilderness, forest, freedom, rabbit, lapland, survival, nordic, midlife crisis, woods, introspection, misfit ...
Time:
70s
Place:
scandinavia, finland, europe, helsinki finland
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
The Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer, Jr.
The series is about a poor backwoods family transplanted to ...
Style:
sitcom, hilarious, retro, realistic, not serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
rags to riches, fish out of water, hillbilly, nouveau riche, humour, villain, family relations, secretary, rich, family life, family business, rich and poor ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s
Place:
beverly hills, california, los angeles, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Green Acres is an American sitcom starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a rural country farm. Produced by Filmways as a sister show to Petticoat Junction, the series was first broadcast on CBS, from September ...
Style:
sitcom, realistic, semi serious, humorous, light ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
countryside, fish out of water, small town, farm, village life, workplace, workplace situations, small town life, hotshot lawyer, pets, family life, pig ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s
Place:
usa, new york
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110K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Ike Graham, New York columnist, writes his text always at the last minute. This time, a drunken man in his favourite bar tells Ike about Maggie Carpenter, a woman who always flees from her grooms in the last possible moment. Ike, who does not have ...
Style:
romantic, rom com, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, family outing, teens, date night ...
Plot:
wedding, small town, fiance fiancee relationship, love and romance, journalist, battle of the sexes, unlikely couple, enemies to lovers, fear of commitment, reporter, breakup, canceled wedding ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, maryland, san francisco
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Style:
road movie, touching, surreal, atmospheric, lyrical ...
Plot:
amnesia, father son relationship, desert, redemption, on the road, road trip, relationships, memory, melancholy, motel, reconciliation, drifter ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
texas, los angeles, houston texas, california, america ...
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128K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, gothic ...
Plot:
wilderness, rape, survival, friendship, canoe, rape and revenge, nature, forest, river, nightmare, camping, revenge ...
Time:
70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place:
georgia, southern usa, usa, appalachia
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163K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for ...
Style:
funny, entertaining, humorous, hilarious, light ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot:
inheritance, justice, happy ending, love and romance, rags to riches, lone hero, greed, rise to the top, small town life, fall in love, dishonesty, disorder ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new hampshire, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers, craftsmen and gentry at the end of the 19th Century. Lark Rise to Candleford is a love letter to a ...
Style:
costume drama, sentimental, sincere, period piece, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids
Plot:
village life, friendship, social relations, hopes, small town, abbey, true love, victorian england, father son relationship, employer employee relationship, neighbor neighbor relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place:
england, britain, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Three friends leave Milan by car heading south. Two of them are married to two sisters, the third one is going to marry the third sister. The marriage is going to take place in the villa of their vulgar but very rich father in law. They are also ...
Style:
road movie, fast paced, not serious, parody, realistic ...
Plot:
dark humor, acid, male friendship, self discovery, love and romance, goofy hero, boss and employee, fall in love, nothing goes right, couple relations, power relations, couples ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
More interested in romance than sex, "Formula 17" swoons with youthful innocence. Naive country-boy Tien-Tsai travels to Taipei, where his quest to lose his virginity is impeded by his insistence on finding true love first. The film's ...
Style:
semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous, sexual ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
gays and lesbians, true love, gender bending, gay teenager, young lovers, gay asian, friendship, love and romance, teenage love, teenage life, best friend, gender ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan, asia, taipei
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Spain, Lithuania
Duration: 354 min.
TV show
Story:
Anna and Kitty. Two lives. One of desperate passion that ends in tragedy, the other, an existence made real through love. Two destinies that interweave, giving rise to two, so very different stories, yet lived in pursuit of the same desire- to find ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, sentimental, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
forbidden love, tragic love, betrayal, infidelity, love affair, family problems, love and romance, couples, unfulfilled love, society, crumbling marriage, unfaithful wife ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
russia, moscow russia, st. petersburg russia, italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
North & South is a British television drama serial, produced by the BBC and originally broadcast in four episodes on BBC One in November and December 2004. It follows the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman from southern England who has to ...
Style:
touching, period piece, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
prejudice, initially antagonists, social differences, love and romance, pride and honor, society, young woman, rich and poor, fall in love, couple relations, love affair, owner ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 50s, turn of the century, 1850s ...
Place:
england, britain, london
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15K
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An uncompromising British school headmaster finds himself beset by one thing going wrong after another.
Style:
funny, road movie, witty, black comedy, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
train, school, farce, time, obsession, comedy of errors, chaos, chase, teacher student romance, satire, humiliation, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe, london
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
Style:
cult classic, controversial, grindhouse, harsh, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
vigilantism, vigilante, violence, revenge, vengeance, rape, police, gunfight, architect, gang, female nudity, hospital ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, honolulu hawaii, new york state ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
After dropping everything to make the move from skyscrapers to farmhouses, Rio and Mike soon realize that the simpler life isn't as easy as they planned.
Style:
sitcom, humorous, captivating, feel good, light
Audience:
date night
Plot:
fish out of water, sex scene, husband wife relationship, small town, justice, love and romance, nothing goes right, silly humor, couple relations, adaptation, couples, obsessive quest ...
Place:
nebraska
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Headstrong textile student Irina tries to overcome her problems by accepting a summer job offer from an isolated and offbeat village of Kyrsyä. As Irina begins to get a grip of herself, the harmless and offbeat hillbillies begin to reveal their ...
Style:
gothic, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating ...
Plot:
folk horror, village, female protagonist, forest, summer job, countryside, small village, dark secret, skinny dipping, hillbilly, periphery, isolation ...
Place:
finland
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