Small town movies and TV shows – page 5

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 7.7
 214K
Blue Velvet (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Style: neo noir, surreal, detective, dark, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, small town, voyeurism, kidnapping, sadomasochism, sex scene, serial killer, violence, dark humor, sexual humiliation, nightclub, femme fatale ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1986
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 5.9
 37K
Hard Rain (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France, Japan, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Get swept up in the action as an armored car driver (Christian Slater) tries to elude a gang of thieves (led by Morgan Freeman) while a flood ravages the countryside. Hard Rain is "a wild, thrilling, chilling action ride" filled with close ...
Style: suspense, intense, stylized, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, evacuation, small town, rain, heist, flood, chase, justice, redemption, dishonesty, danger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: indiana
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 6.6
 91K
Footloose (1984)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock.
Style: teen, cult classic, serious, captivating, colorful ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: dancing, high school, youth, small town, dance, music, love and romance, rebellion, rebelliousness, dancer's life, teenage rebellion, teenager ...
Time: 80s, 90s, year 1984, 20th century, 70s
Place: utah, pittsburgh, usa
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 7.8
 533K
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel is good. Too good. To stop the rest of his team from looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford, paired with simple country cop, and everything seems quiet until two actors are found decapitated. ...
Style: parody, funny, humorous, dark comedy, hilarious ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: murder, police, partner, conspiracy, chase, buddy, buddy cop, cop, small town, secret society, gunfight, investigation ...
Time: year 2007, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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The Stepford Wives (1975)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The urban aspirant photographer Joanna Eberhart moves from Manhattan to Stepford, Connecticut with her family. Her husband Walter Eberhart decided to live in a calm suburb, but Joanna did not like the neighborhood with beautiful and perfect ...
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: robot, feminism, conspiracy, small town, housewife, women's liberation, suburbs, androids, social commentary, paranoia, utopia, distopia ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, connecticut, manhattan new york city
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 6.4
 6K
Prancer (1989)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished apple farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she comes across a reindeer with an injured leg, it makes perfect sense to her to assume that it is Prancer, who had fallen from a Christmas display in ...
Style: touching, christmas classics, entertaining, sad, mysterious ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, holiday, small town, single father, reindeer, santa claus, farm, father daughter relationship, snow, widower, animal, xmas ...
Time: year 1989
Place: michigan
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 6.2
 25K
Funny Farm (1988)
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, slapstick comedy, humorous, slapstick, laugh out loud ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: small town, fish out of water, writers, christmas, husband wife relationship, aspiring writer, farce, chase, breakup, media, suburbs, coming of age ...
Time: 80s
Place: vermont
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Appetite for Love (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Mina has everything going for her, but her world is turned upside down when work sends her to her hometown in Tennessee where she must convince an old, stubborn restaurant owner to sell his property. There is just one problem- the restaurant is now ...
Style: entertaining, light, captivating, romantic, emotional ...
Plot: small town, ex-lover, job, old love, cooking, ex couple relations, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, relationship vs career, ex lover, love and romance, male female relationship, ex boyfriend ...
Place: atlanta georgia
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Snowed Inn Christmas (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Jenna Hudson (Bethany Joy Lenz) and Kevin Jenner (Andrew Walker) are polar opposites working for the same online publication in New York City. With both having nowhere they want to be for Christmas, they volunteer for a special writing assignment. ...
Style: disturbing, sweet, entertaining, rom com, emotional ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: christmas, small town, love, reporter, love affair, male female relationship, couples, opposites attract, christmas romance, fall in love, friendship, help ...
Place: indiana, new york
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Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Those supersucking desert creatures are back --- and this time they're south of the border. As the creatures worm their way through the oil fields of Mexico, the only people who can wrangle them are veteran Earl Bassett and survivalist Burt ...
Style: scary, humorous, suspense, semi serious, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: creature, small town, monster, creature feature, oil refinery, survival, giant monster, chase, metamorphosis, stranded, danger, supernatural ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: mexico, usa, latin america, nevada
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 7.5
 76K
A Simple Plan (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, France, USA, Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain ...
Style: neo noir, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: greed, snow, small town, betrayal, fbi, bag of money, heist, winter, twists and turns, character study, moral ambiguity, redemption ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place: minnesota, usa, wisconsin
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The Spitfire Grill (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. Percy brings change to the small town, stirring ...
Style: christian film, sentimental, emotional, touching, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: small town, friendship, bittersweet, self discovery, restaurant, solitude, hospital, storytelling, death, food, christian, abortion ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: maine, vermont, usa, new england, ohio ...
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The Love Letter (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A romantic comedy about a mysterious love letter that turns a sleepy New England town upside down.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, romantic, sexy ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: small town, mistaken identity, bookstore, misunderstanding, love, comedy of errors, looking for love, writers, older woman younger man relationship, lgbt, fall in love, unfulfilled love ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new england, usa
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 6.4
 44K
In & Out (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.
Style: feel good, sexy, funny, hilarious, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, small town, closeted homosexual, wedding, gay stereotype, gay slur, homosexuality, high school teacher, teacher, lgbtq, self discovery, sexual orientation ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: indiana, usa
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 8.2
 130K
Yojimbo (1961)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant ...
Style: black and white, visually stunning, visual, black comedy, cynical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: samurai, sword fight, small town, ronin, martial arts, gangster, one against many, swordsman, gang war, mercenary, medieval, gang ...
Time: 19th century, year 1961, 1800s, future, 1860s
Place: japan, persia, asia
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 5.9
 41K
The Void (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and ...
Style: dark, lovecraft, creepy, stylized, surreal ...
Audience: date night
Plot: body horror, hospital, monster, cosmic horror, another dimension, insanity, macabre, murder, mutation, small town, isolation, human experiment ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada
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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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Kindergarten Cop (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Hard-edged cop John Kimble gets more than he bargained for when he goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher to get the goods on a brutal drug lord while at the same time protecting the man's young son. Pitted against a class of boisterous ...
Style: light, funny, humorous, detective, sincere ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: teacher, fish out of water, children, kindergarten, police, education, mischievous children, small town, bullying, undercover, elementary school, school ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1990
Place: astoria oregon, california, oregon, los angeles
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The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Cousins Bo, Luke and Daisy are sent to Hazzard County, Georgia for the first time to live with their Uncle Jesse. Jesse is a farmer and a moonshiner and is constantly battling his old rival Boss Hogg who is the corrupt city commissioner of the small ...
Style: not serious, exciting, humorous, sexy, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: small town, youth, friendship, siblings relations, countryside, friends, save the day, disorder, escapades, misfit partners, nudity, family relations ...
Place: georgia
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 5.0
 33K
Deck the Halls (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two neighbors have it out after one of them decorates his house for the holidays so brightly that it can be seen from space.
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, light, christmas classics ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, neighbor, feud, small town, parents and children, unlikely friendships, suburbs, xmas, rivalry, couple relations, social relations ...
Time: future, 2000s
Place: europe, england, massachusetts
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 7.4
 5K
October Road (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: When Nick Garrett was 18, he packed up his truck and said goodbye for a summer road trip that turned into 10 years of being away. He has since become a literary celebrity in New York, living off the fame and fortune of his best-selling novel and ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, realistic
Plot: small town, hometown, old friend, love and romance, homecoming, family relations, success, writer's life, parenthood, writer's block, village, thoughtful ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, massachusetts, new england
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 6.8
 23K
Ondine (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net believing her to be a mermaid.
Style: sentimental, touching, fairy tale, sweet, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: mermaid, small town, father daughter relationship, self discovery, character study, secrets, family drama, adaptation, redemption, small town life, hopes, love and romance ...
Time: year 2009
Place: ireland, europe
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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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Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Burt Gummer returns home to Perfection, Nev., to find that the town of terror has become a theme park, and when the simulated giant worm attacks turn real, the survivalist must battle the creatures once again. Gummer pits his impressive knowledge of ...
Style: scary, humorous, natural horror, absurd, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: creature, small town, survival, creature feature, chase, giant monster, danger, supernatural, deadly creature, rescue, store, worm ...
Place: nevada, usa
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 6.5
 8K
Lonesome Jim (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Failing to make it on his own, 27-year-old Jim moves back in with his parents and deals with crippling family obligations.
Style: touching, emotional, stylized, sincere, humorous ...
Plot: small town, dysfunctional family, coma, single parent, homecoming, alienation, introspection, writers, love and romance, hopes, life is a bitch, couple relations ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, new orleans
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 6.4
 83K
Phenomenon (1996)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.
Style: inspirational, touching, emotional, sentimental, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: genius, goodhearted, superhuman powers, miraculous event, small town, terminal illness, telekinesis, supernatural ability, psionic power, brain tumor, friendship, hopes ...
Time: future, year 1996, 20th century
Place: usa
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 5.4
 8K
Hope Springs (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: British artist Colin Ware discovers that his fiancée, Vera, is going to marry another man. Distraught and despondent, he gets on a plane for America and ends up in the tiny town of Hope in New England. At first, Colin is depressed, but he soon ...
Style: romantic, light, sweet, funny, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: small town, fall in love, hotel, love and romance, starting over, love affair, looking for love, breakup, couple relations, lifestyle, love triangle, beautiful scenery ...
Time: year 2003
Place: vermont, new england, usa
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American Graffiti (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
Style: humorous, teen, melancholic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, small town, rock and roll, friendship, car, drag racing, teenager, street racing, first love, love at first sight, rebellious youth ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 1950s, near future, year 1973 ...
Place: california, arizona, usa
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 7.8
 234K
Misery (1990)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: insanity, obsession, psychopath, hostage, stephen king, loneliness, snow, kidnapping, isolation, torture, writers, obsessed fan ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place: colorado, persia, usa
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The Naked Kiss (1964)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A former prostitute discovers that her philanthropic fiance is involved in perversion.
Style: neo noir, controversial, grindhouse, dark, surreal ...
Plot: prostitute, small town, social commentary, hospital, pedophile, prostitution, pedophilia, nurse, abortion, marriage proposal, child molester, hooker ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, 20th century, year 1961, year 1964
Place: america, switzerland, venice, usa
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