Top Small Town Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Jennifer Aniston

Harry Connick Jr.

Vin Diesel

James Gammon

The Iron Giant (1999)

8.0 6.2K votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.

Plot: friendship, small town, based on novel or book, self sacrifice, villain, alien, meteorite, giant robot, ...

Time: cold war, 1950s

The Deer Hunter (1978)

8.0 4.3K votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 183 min.

Audience: R

Story: Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever.

Plot: vietnam veteran, small town, suicide, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), escape, pennsylvania, usa, saigon, ...

Time: vietnam war

Place: vietnam

Cast

Emilia Clarke

Sam Claflin

Janet McTeer

Charles Dance

Me Before You (2016)

7.9 13.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Lou Clark, a directionless 26-year-old from the English countryside, takes a job at the local castle as a caregiver and companion to a wealthy young banker, Will Traynor. Wheelchair-bound from an accident two years prior, the once adventurous Will has all but given up — that is until Lou determines to show him that life is worth living.

Plot: depression, small town, based on novel or book, artist, wheelchair, romance, love, caretaker, ...

Place: england

Cast

Jared Keeso

Nathan Dales

Michelle Mylett

K. Trevor Wilson

Letterkenny (2016) TV Show

7.9 208 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: Canada

Seasons: 12

Episodes: 75

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Letterkenny follows Wayne, a good-ol’ country boy in Letterkenny, Ontario trying to protect his homegrown way of life on the farm, against a world that is constantly evolving around him. The residents of Letterkenny belong to one of three groups: Hicks, Skids, and Hockey Players. The three groups are constantly feuding with each other over seemingly trivial matters; often ending with someone getting their ass kicked.

Plot: small town, sitcom, hometown friends, hilarious

Place: canada

The Baby-Sitters Club (2020) TV Show

7.9 503 votes

Genre: Drama, Family

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-G

Story: In this contemporary take on the beloved book series, five best friends launch a baby-sitting business that's big on fun and adventure.

Plot: small town, babysitter, friendship, family relationships, teenage girl, inspirational, hopeful

Cast

David Tennant

Olivia Colman

Julie Hesmondhalgh

Mark Bazeley

Broadchurch (2013) TV Show

7.9 1.0K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.

Plot: hotel, newspaper, beach, small town, child murder, investigation, media, grief, ...

Cast

Nana Mizuki

Kenji Nojima

Keiji Fujiwara

Masumi Asano

BLOOD-C (2011) TV Show

7.9 273 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Story: Saya Kisaragi is an outwardly normal girl who serves as the shrine maiden to a country town; in reality, she is a skilled swordswoman charged by her father to defeat Elder Bairns, monsters who feed on human blood. As her battles grow more desperate and more people she cares for fall victim to the Elder Bairns, Saya begins finding faults in her reality, and eventually uncovers a disturbing truth about herself, the town and her surviving friends.

Plot: small town, supernatural, high school, anime, demon slayer, horror

Cast

Alexandra Breckenridge

Martin Henderson

Colin Lawrence

Benjamin Hollingsworth

Virgin River (2019) TV Show

7.9 597 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 74

Audience: TV-14

Story: After seeing an ad for a midwife, a recently divorced big-city nurse moves to the redwood forests of California, where she meets an intriguing man.

Style: intimate

Plot: based on novel or book, small town, friendship, love, romance, flirting, appreciative

Place: california

Gilmore Girls (2000) TV Show

7.9 1.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 153

Audience: TV-14

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.

Plot: grandparent grandchild relationship, small town, coffee, private school, ambition, middle class, high school, love, ...

Cast

Pupella Maggio

Armando Brancia

Magali Nou00ebl

Ciccio Ingrassia

Amarcord (1973)

7.9 1.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Italy, France

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: R

Story: In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.

Plot: small town, fascism, surrealism, sheik, coming of age, rural area, bathtub, semi autobiographical

Time: 1930s

Cast

Aamir Khan

Fatima Sana Shaikh

Sanya Malhotra

Zaira Wasim

Dangal (2016)

7.9 1.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family

Country: India

Duration: 161 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Dangal is an extraordinary true story based on the life of Mahavir Singh and his two daughters, Geeta and Babita Phogat. The film traces the inspirational journey of a father who trains his daughters to become world class wrestlers.

Plot: small town, strong woman, sports, parent child relationship, empowerment, abusive father, feminism, wrestling, ...

Northern Exposure (1990) TV Show

7.9 203 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 110

Audience: TV-PG

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.

Plot: small town, native american, female pilot

Place: alaska

Cast

Bju00f6rk

Catherine Deneuve

David Morse

Peter Stormare

Dancer in the Dark (2000)

7.8 2.0K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Denmark, Finland

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: R

Story: Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.

Plot: factory worker, individual, immigrant, blindness and impaired vision, dancing, eye operation, small town, naivety, ...

Cast

John Wayne

Dean Martin

Ricky Nelson

Angie Dickinson

Rio Bravo (1959)

7.8 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 141 min.

Story: A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.

Plot: small town, sheriff, gun, marshal, deputy, murder, jail, alcoholic, ...

Place: texas

Cast

Gorden Kaye

Carmen Silvera

Vicki Michelle

Richard Marner

'Allo 'Allo! (1984) TV Show

7.8 267 votes

Genre: Comedy, War

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 9

Episodes: 82

Audience: TV-PG

Story: The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.

Style: surreal

Plot: raf (royal air force), small town, prisoner of war, british army, workplace, slapstick comedy, parody, french resistance, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Place: france

Cast

Tsutomu Yamazaki

Nobuko Miyamoto

Ken Watanabe

Koji Yakusho

Tampopo (1985)

7.8 438 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: Japan

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: NR

Story: In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Interspersed are satirical vignettes about the importance of food to different aspects of human life.

Style: whimsical

Plot: widow, restaurant, business woman, restaurant owner, bullying, sensei, food, truck driver, ...

Cast

Eugene Levy

Catherine O'Hara

Dan Levy

Annie Murphy

Schitt's Creek (2015) TV Show

7.8 712 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: Canada

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 79

Audience: TV-14

Story: Formerly filthy rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira, and their two kids, über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis, suddenly find themselves broke and forced to live in Schitt's Creek, a small depressing town they once bought as a joke.

Plot: small town, motel, spoiled child, riches to rags, spoiled, loving, hometown friends, comforting

Cast

Darby Stanchfield

Connor Jessup

Emilia Jones

Jackson Robert Scott

Locke & Key (2020) TV Show

7.7 1.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 28

Audience: TV-14

Story: After their dad's murder, three siblings move with their mom to his ancestral estate, where they discover magical keys that unlock powers — and secrets.

Plot: small town, magic, based on comic, supernatural power, power

Cast

Johnny Depp

Winona Ryder

Dianne Wiest

Anthony Michael Hall

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

7.7 13.9K votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.

Plot: underdog, small town, unsociability, inventor, hairdresser, isolation, scissors, burglar, ...

Cast

Thiago Cazado

Paulo Sousa

Juliana Zancanaro

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Denis Camargo

Cousins (2019)

7.7 362 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: Brazil

Duration: 83 min.

Story: Lucas is a young man who lives with his religious aunt Lourdes in a quiet country town. He helps his aunt by holding religious meetings with the ladies of the area, in the living room, playing biblical songs on the keyboard. This quiet life will end as soon as the charitable aunt communicates the arrival of another nephew, Mario, just out of jail. The clash of reality between the cousins ends up causing unusual situations, and an unexpected attraction among the boys.

Plot: coming out, small town, cousin, coming of age, catholic, lgbt, cousin relationship, gay theme

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