🏷 Discover The Best Small Town Sheriff Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Small Town Justice: Uncovering the Best Movies and TV Shows Featuring a Sheriff

Step into the world of small town America, where the local sheriff is the law, the protector, and the guardian of the community. From classic Westerns to modern-day dramas, the small town sheriff has been a staple of popular culture. In this article, we'll explore the best movies and TV shows that feature a sheriff as the main character, and delve into the themes and tropes that make them so compelling.

Riverdale
Cast
KJ Apa KJ Apa
Lili Reinhart Lili Reinhart
Camila Mendes Camila Mendes
Cole Sprouse Cole Sprouse
8.4 13.7K votes
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: United States of America
Seasons: 7
Episodes: 137
Audience: TV-14
Story:  Set in the present, the series offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica and their friends, exploring the surreality of small-town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.
Style:  dark, absurd, romantic
Plot:  love triangle, casino, witch, killing, small town, amateur detective, magic, manipulation, ...
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Banshee
Cast
Antony Starr Antony Starr
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Hoon Lee Hoon Lee
Frankie Faison Frankie Faison
8.0 1.4K votes
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: United States of America
Seasons: 4
Episodes: 38
Audience: TV-MA
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 interests.
Style:  absurd
Plot:  robbery, sheriff, double life, pennsylvania, usa, hacker, deputy, vigilante, ...
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The Leftovers
Cast
Justin Theroux Justin Theroux
Carrie Coon Carrie Coon
Amy Brenneman Amy Brenneman
Christopher Eccleston Christopher Eccleston
7.7 1.2K votes
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction
Country: United States of America
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 28
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. This is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.
Plot:  based on novel or book, depression, police chief, disappearance, family, missing person, small town sheriff
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Longmire
Cast
Robert Taylor Robert Taylor
Katee Sackhoff Katee Sackhoff
Lou Diamond Phillips Lou Diamond Phillips
Cassidy Freeman Cassidy Freeman
7.7 321 votes
Genre: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: United States of America
Seasons: 6
Episodes: 63
Audience: TV-14
Story:  A Wyoming sheriff rebuilds his life and career following the death of his wife. Based on the “Walt Longmire” series of mystery novels written by best-selling author Craig Johnson.
Plot:  wyoming, usa, small town, small town sheriff, tuff, russia
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Moonrise Kingdom
Cast
Jared Gilman Jared Gilman
Kara Hayward Kara Hayward
Bruce Willis Bruce Willis
Edward Norton Edward Norton
7.7 6.4K votes
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: United States of America
Duration: 94 min.
Audience: PG-13
Story:  Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
Plot:  camping, hurricane, pen pals, coming of age, camp, orphan, first love, eye patch, ...
Time:  1960s
Place:  new england
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American Gothic
7.4 57 votes
Genre: Crime, Drama, Science Fiction
Country: United States of America
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 18
Audience: TV-PG
Story:  Everything is not what it seems in Trinity, South Carolina. Sheriff Lucas Buck develops a sinister interest in Caleb. Caleb's cousin Gail tries to protect him, but that's complicated since she has feelings for Sheriff Buck. And Caleb's dead sister, Merlyn, returns as an angel, warning him that Buck is an incarnation of evil - and may not be human.
Plot:  small town, blackmail, black magic, supernatural, family relationships, serial killer, gothic, rapist, ...
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Normal
Cast
Bob Odenkirk Bob Odenkirk
Henry Winkler Henry Winkler
Lena Headey Lena Headey
Billy MacLellan Billy MacLellan
7.0 308 votes
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: United States of America
Duration: 91 min.
Audience: R
Story:  An unassuming substitute sheriff with a troubled past responds to a bank robbery in a small, sleepy town and unknowingly uncovers something far more explosive.
Plot:  small town, sheriff, bank robbery, small town sheriff, corrupt mayor, secret benefactor, criminal plot, criminal conspiracy, ...
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The Mule
Cast
Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood
Bradley Cooper Bradley Cooper
Laurence Fishburne Laurence Fishburne
Michael Peu00f1a Michael Peu00f1a
6.9 5.4K votes
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, United States of America
Duration: 116 min.
Audience: R
Story:  Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.
Plot:  drug crime, drug mule, based on true story, old man, drug cartel, dea agent, pickup truck, small town sheriff, ...
Time:  2000s
Place:  mexico, texas
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Kopps
Cast
Fares Fares Fares Fares
Torkel Petersson Torkel Petersson
Gu00f6ran Ragnerstam Gu00f6ran Ragnerstam
Sissela Kyle Sissela Kyle
6.4 241 votes
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:  A small Swedish village, Högboträsk, is so peaceful that crime is nonexistent. The police spend their shifts drinking coffee, eating hot dogs and chasing down runaway cows. This is all well and good for the village's own police, but the police management board wants to discontinue the local police force for lack of crime.
Plot:  friendship, slapstick comedy, police officer, police station, hostage situation, small town sheriff, crime wave
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It Came from Outer Space
Cast
Richard Carlson Richard Carlson
Barbara Rush Barbara Rush
Charles Drake Charles Drake
Joe Sawyer Joe Sawyer
6.3 252 votes
Genre: Horror, Science Fiction
Country: United States of America
Duration: 80 min.
Audience: PG
Story:  Author and amateur astronomer John Putnam and schoolteacher Ellen Fields witness an enormous meteorite come down near a small town in Arizona. Putnam becomes a local object of scorn when, after examining the object up close, he announces that it is a spacecraft, and that it is inhabited...
Plot:  spacecraft, small town, arizona, alien life-form, meteorite, astronomer, black and white, school teacher, ...
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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Cast
Burt Reynolds Burt Reynolds
Dolly Parton Dolly Parton
Dom DeLuise Dom DeLuise
Charles Durning Charles Durning
6.2 180 votes
Genre: Comedy
Country: United States of America
Duration: 114 min.
Audience: R
Story:  When a Conservative TV crusader threatens to shut down beloved brothel The Chicken Ranch, proprietress Miss Mona Stangley and her girls won't go down without a fight.
Plot:  governor, crusader, brothel, musical, based on play or musical, conservative, prostitution, tv reporter, ...
Place:  texas
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