Top Small Town Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Kim Hye-ja

Won Bin

Jin Goo

Yoon Je-moon

Mother (2009)

7.7 1.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: R

Story: A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.

Plot: small town, mother, rice, golf, murder, teenage girl, misunderstanding, cell phone, ...

Cast

Hilary Swank

Alan Ritchson

Emily Mitchell

Skywalker Hughes

Ordinary Angels (2024)

7.7 396 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Inspired by the incredible true story of a hairdresser who single-handedly rallies an entire community to help a widowed father save the life of his critically ill young daughter.

Plot: small town, christianity, snowstorm, community, based on true story, alcoholism, tragedy, hospital, ...

Time: 1990s

Cast

Robert Taylor

Katee Sackhoff

Lou Diamond Phillips

Cassidy Freeman

Longmire (2012) TV Show

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

Cast

Jake Gyllenhaal

Chris Cooper

Chris Owen

Laura Dern

October Sky (1999)

7.7 1.5K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG

Story: The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.

Plot: small town, based on novel or book, parent child relationship, satellite, biography, based on true story, rocket, west virginia, ...

Time: 1950s

Cast

Sidney Poitier

Rod Steiger

Warren Oates

Peter Whitney

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

7.7 1.3K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.

Plot: small town, southern usa, police chief, stolen money, racial segregation, racist, thief, murder, ...

Cast

Gary Cooper

Thomas Mitchell

Lloyd Bridges

Katy Jurado

High Noon (1952)

7.7 1.6K votes

Genre: Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 85 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.

Plot: small town, gunslinger, showdown, fistfight, u.s. marshal, shootout, morality, black and white, ...

Cast

Timothy Bottoms

Cybill Shepherd

Jeff Bridges

Cloris Leachman

The Last Picture Show (1971)

7.6 778 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.

Plot: small town, new love, based on novel or book, graduation, high school graduation, billiard hall, graduation present, black and white, ...

Time: 1950s

Place: texas

Cast

Anna Paquin

Stephen Moyer

Alexander Skarsgu00e5rd

Sam Trammell

True Blood (2008) TV Show

7.6 2.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Singapore, United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 80

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Thanks to a Japanese scientist's invention of synthetic blood, vampires have progressed overnight from legendary monsters to fellow citizens. And while humans have been safely removed from the menu, many remain apprehensive about these creatures "coming out of the coffin." Religious leaders, government officials, and vampire fundamentalists around the world have chosen their sides. But in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps, the jury is still out.

Style: steamy

Plot: based on novel or book, small town, fairy, vampire, louisiana, romance, dark comedy, undead, ...

Cast

Isabella Rossellini

Kyle MacLachlan

Dennis Hopper

Laura Dern

Blue Velvet (1986)

7.6 3.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

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 psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

Plot: drug dealer, small town, sexual obsession, detective, nightclub, ear, surrealism, psychological abuse, ...

Eerie, Indiana (1991) TV Show

7.6 82 votes

Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 19

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: Teenage weirdness investigator Marshall Teller adventures through his new small-town home with his friends, geeky Simon Holmes and mysterious Dash X.

Plot: small town, indiana, usa, supernatural, urban legend, teenage boy, supernatural phenomena

Stranger Things: Tales from '85 (2026) TV Show

7.6 93 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Mystery

Country: United States of America, Australia

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Winter. Hawkins. 1985. Welcome back to a town crawling with secrets, where beloved heroes are facing fresh mysteries... and an all-new breed of strange.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: monster, small town, indiana, usa, experiment, supernatural, coming of age, parallel world, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Treat Williams

Gregory Smith

Emily VanCamp

Debra Mooney

Everwood (2002) TV Show

7.6 224 votes

Genre: Drama, Family

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 89

Audience: TV-14

Story: After the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small town of Everwood, Colorado. There he becomes a small-town doctor and learns parenting on the fly as he raises his talented but resentful 15-year-old son Ephram and his 9-year-old daughter Delia.

Plot: small town, colorado, dysfunctional family, family relationships, doctor, widower, single father, friends in love

Cast

Kim Nam-gil

Kim Joo-hyun

Kim Myung-min

Lee Kyung-young

Pandora (2016)

7.5 510 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 136 min.

Audience: R

Story: When an earthquake hits a Korean village housing a run-down nuclear power plant, a man risks his life to save the country from imminent disaster.

Plot: small town, corruption, panic, earthquake, nuclear power plant, tragedy, disaster, explosion, ...

Place: south korea

Cast

Mason Thames

Madeleine McGraw

Ethan Hawke

Jeremy Davies

The Black Phone (2022)

7.5 5.9K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.

Plot: mask, small town, child abuse, dreams, sibling relationship, kidnapping, sadistic, supernatural, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Emily Rose

Lucas Bryant

Eric Balfour

Haven (2010) TV Show

7.5 515 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Canada, United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 78

Audience: TV-14

Story: FBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve a murder and soon discovers the town's many secrets—which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.

Plot: detective, based on novel or book, small town, fbi, police, supernatural, paranormal, maine, ...

Place: new england

The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)

7.5 1.8K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to change it.

Plot: small town, hairdresser, con man, insurance fraud, black and white, barber, neo-noir

Time: 1940s

Place: california

Cast

Gregory Peck

Robert Mitchum

Polly Bergen

Martin Balsam

Cape Fear (1962)

7.5 639 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.

Style: intense

Plot: small town, psychopath, poison, ex-detainee, boat, film noir, lawyer, psychological thriller, ...

Home Before Dark (2020) TV Show

7.5 476 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 20

Audience: TV-14

Story: Young investigative journalist Hilde Lisko moves with her family to the small town her father left behind, only to unearth shocking secrets in her pursuit of the truth.

Plot: journalist, small town, family secrets, criminal investigation, murder investigation, washington state, murder mystery, investigative journalist, ...

Cast

Joe Pesci

Marisa Tomei

Ralph Macchio

Mitchell Whitfield

My Cousin Vinny (1992)

7.5 1.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two carefree pals traveling through rural Alabama on their way back to college 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 has just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!

Style: nostalgic, absurd

Plot: prison, small town, court case, court, southern usa, alabama, suspicion, cousin, ...

Cast

Andrew Garfield

Sam Worthington

Daisy Edgar-Jones

Denise Gough

Under the Banner of Heaven (2022) TV Show

7.5 392 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A devout detective's faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder that seems to be connected to an esteemed Utah family's spiral into LDS fundamentalism and their distrust in the government.

Plot: detective, based on novel or book, small town, homicide, investigation, based on true story, salt lake city, utah, ...

Time: 1980s

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