Top Small Town Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Kevin Costner

Maria Bello

Elsie Fisher

Morgan Saylor

McFarland, USA (2015)

7.5 953 votes

Genre: Drama, Family

Country: United States of America

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders.

Plot: small town, coach, championship, woman director, track and field

Place: california

Cast

Kevin McCarthy

Dana Wynter

King Donovan

Carolyn Jones

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

7.5 1.2K votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 80 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

Plot: small town, based on novel or book, alien, black and white, doctor, patient, alien invasion, psychiatrist, ...

The Society (2019) TV Show

7.5 625 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.

Style: dark

Plot: small town, murder, survival, trapped, isolated society, teenager

Nebraska (2013)

7.5 1.9K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.

Plot: small town, montana, dementia, aging, dysfunctional family, road trip, f word, pickup truck, ...

Cast

Jacques Brel

Emmanuelle Riva

Renu00e9 Dary

Nadine Alari

Risky Business (1967)

7.4 38 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: France

Duration: 105 min.

Story: A teenage girl accuses her primary schoolteacher, Jean Doucet (Jacques Brel), of trying to rape her. The police and the mayor investigate, but Doucet denies the charges. Two other students come forward to reveal more of Doucet's misconduct – one confessing to be his mistress. Doucet faces trial and hard labor if convicted.

Plot: small town, sexual abuse, defamation, teacher, teacher student relationship, teachers and students

Cast

Tom Mison

Janina Gavankar

Lyndie Greenwood

Jerry MacKinnon

Sleepy Hollow (2013) TV Show

7.4 1.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 62

Audience: TV-14

Story: Ichabod Crane is resurrected and pulled two and a half centuries through time to unravel a mystery that dates all the way back to the founding fathers.

Plot: small town, boston, massachusetts, mythology, secret society, historical figure, fish out of water, female cop, ...

Cast

Anne Consigny

Fru00e9du00e9ric Pierrot

Clotilde Hesme

Cu00e9line Sallette

The Returned (2012) TV Show

7.4 298 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: France

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

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.

Plot: loss of loved one, europe, small town, supernatural, resurrection, teacher, fate, family, ...

Place: france

Cast

Skeet Ulrich

Lennie James

Ashley Scott

Kenneth Mitchell

Jericho (2006) TV Show

7.4 553 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 29

Audience: TV-14

Story: Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.

Plot: small town, kansas, usa, survival, conspiracy, family drama, post nuclear, no electricity, ...

Cast

Claudio Santamaria

Luca Marinelli

Ilenia Pastorelli

Stefano Ambrogi

They Call Me Jeeg (2016)

7.4 2.6K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Italy

Duration: 112 min.

Story: Exposed to radioactive waste, small-time crook Enzo gains super-strength. A misanthropic, introverted brute, he uses his powers for personal gain until he meets Alessia, a mentally ill girl who believes Enzo is the hero from her favorite anime, Steel Jeeg.

Plot: rome, italy, anti hero, camorra, criminal underworld, superhero spoof, terrorist plot, terrorist bombing, ...

American Gothic (1995) TV Show

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, ...

Cast

Neve Campbell

Skeet Ulrich

Rose McGowan

Matthew Lillard

Scream (1996)

7.4 8.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

Plot: high school, small town, riddle, killing, halloween, house party, serial killer, school, ...

Place: california

Cast

Kwak Do-won

Hwang Jung-min

Chun Woo-hee

Jun Kunimura

The Wailing (2016)

7.4 2.1K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: South Korea, United States of America

Duration: 156 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

Plot: daughter, small town, police, investigation, exorcism, possession, murder, priest, ...

Cast

Ben Mendelsohn

Bill Camp

Jeremy Bobb

Julianne Nicholson

The Outsider (2020) TV Show

7.4 1.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When an insidious supernatural force edges its way into a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy, it leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe in.

Plot: detective, based on novel or book, small town, child murder, georgia, strip club, investigation, alcoholism, ...

Cast

Robert Downey Jr.

Robert Duvall

Vera Farmiga

Vincent D'Onofrio

The Judge (2014)

7.3 4.5K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: R

Story: A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.

Plot: small town, indiana, usa, judge, parent child relationship, dysfunctional family, trial, family relationships, ...

Cast

Mckenna Grace

Finn Wolfhard

Carrie Coon

Paul Rudd

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

7.3 5.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When single mom Callie and her two kids Trevor and Phoebe arrive in a small Oklahoma town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: small town, afterlife, ghostbuster, nostalgia, sequel, ghost, aftercreditsstinger, duringcreditsstinger, ...

Early Edition (1996) TV Show

7.3 167 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 90

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today giving him a disconcerting look into the future. What will he do with tomorrow's news?

Plot: chicago, illinois, newspaper, cat, small town, animals, changing the past or future, supernatural power

Cast

James Van Der Beek

Katie Holmes

Michelle Williams

Joshua Jackson

Dawson's Creek (1998) TV Show

7.3 616 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 128

Audience: TV-14

Story: Dawson's Creek is an American teen drama that portrays the fictional lives of a close-knit group of teenagers through high school and college.

Plot: small town, boston, massachusetts, friendship, growing up, coming of age, friends in love, teenage romance, ...

Trapped (2015) TV Show

7.3 277 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: Iceland, Denmark

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 28

Audience: TV-14

Story: The body of a murder victim turns up in a small Icelandic village just as a major snowstorm cuts the region off from the rest of the world.

Plot: small town, snowstorm, murder, police officer, murder investigation, nordic noir, neo-noir

Place: iceland

3:10 to Yuma (1957)

7.3 422 votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.

Plot: hotel, small town, arizona, hunger, ranch, outlaw, shootout, black and white, ...

Time: 19th century