Top Small Town Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Emma Stone

Penn Badgley

Amanda Bynes

Dan Byrd

Easy A (2010)

6.8 7.4K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school board is becoming concerned, including her favorite teacher and the distracted guidance counselor. With the support of her hilariously idiosyncratic parents and a little help from a long-time crush, Olive attempts to take on her notorious new identity and crush the rumor mill once and for all.

Plot: high school, small town, lie, loss of virginity, coming of age, teen movie, school, female protagonist, ...

Lipstick Under My Burkha (2017)

6.8 107 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: India

Duration: 116 min.

Story: Four ordinary women, inflicted by silly societal norms, have to steal, lie, cheat and hide in order to lead the lives that they rightfully deserve.

Plot: small town, muslim, sexuality, islam, patriarchy, social satire, rural area, masturbation

Place: india

Cast

Sean Penn

Christopher Walken

Mary Stuart Masterson

Chris Penn

At Close Range (1986)

6.8 308 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a gang of thieves in a nearby town. Though his new girlfriend supports his criminal ambitions, Brad Jr. soon learns that his father is a dangerous man. Inspired by the real events that led to the end of the Johnston Gang, who operated in the northeastern United States in the 1970s.

Plot: small town, rape, pennsylvania, usa, money laundering, tractor, based on true story, sociopath, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Eric Bana

Genevieve O'Reilly

Keir O'Donnell

John Polson

The Dry (2021)

6.8 845 votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Australia, United Kingdom

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.

Style: nostalgic, intense

Plot: small town, drowning, based on novel or book, funeral, gambling debt, investigation, grave, flashback, ...

Place: australia

Cast

Keenan Tracey

Daniel Doheny

Natalie Malaika

Kristy Dawn Dinsmore

Day of the Dead (2021) TV Show

6.8 213 votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A group of strangers try to survive the first 24 hours of an undead invasion.

Plot: small town, chaos, outbreak, gore, undead, survival, zombie, zombie apocalypse

Cast

Danielle Macdonald

Jennifer Aniston

Odeya Rush

Bex Taylor-Klaus

Dumplin' (2018)

6.8 1.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: To prove a point about measuring up and fitting in, Texas teen Willowdean “Dumplin’” Dickson enters a local pageant run by her ex-beauty queen mom.

Plot: small town, drag queen, beauty contest, protest, musical, based on young adult novel, plus size, fat shaming, ...

Place: texas

Cast

Lana Turner

Hope Lange

Lee Philips

Lloyd Nolan

Peyton Place (1957)

6.8 91 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 157 min.

Story: In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.

Plot: high school, small town, rape, based on novel or book, christmas tree, new hampshire, scandal, snow, ...

Time: world war ii

Place: new england

Cast

Patrick Brammall

Emma Booth

Jessica Faulkner

Sean Keenan

Glitch (2015) TV Show

6.8 399 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Australia

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 18

Story: A police officer and a doctor face an emotionally charged mystery when seven local residents inexplicably return from the dead in peak physical form.

Plot: cemetery, small town, resurrection, police officer

Briarpatch (2020) TV Show

6.7 56 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Dogged investigator Allegra Dill returns to her border-town Texas home after her sister is murdered. What begins as a search for a killer turns into an all-consuming fight to bring her corrupt hometown to its knees.

Plot: gun, car bomb, death of sister, murder investigation, female investigator, small southern town

The Returned (2015) TV Show

6.7 169 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: France, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-14

Story: A small town that is turned upside down when several local people, who have long been presumed dead, suddenly reappear; their presence creates both positive and negative consequences. As families are reunited, the lives of those who were left behind are challenged both physically and emotionally.

Plot: small town, supernatural, resurrection, remake, sibling rivalry, back from the dead, based on movie

Cast

Joel Edgerton

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Sarah-Jane Potts

Nick Frost

Kinky Boots (2005)

6.7 366 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer Lola and everything changes.

Style: inspiring

Plot: factory worker, career, factory, small town, transvestism, drag queen, cabaret, musical, ...

Place: england, milan

Cast

Angela Bassett

Rick Fox

Lance Gross

Chlu00f6e Bailey

Meet the Browns (2008)

6.7 112 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street. When she's laid off with no warning, she starts losing hope for the first time - until a letter arrives announcing the death of a father she's never met. Desperate for any kind of help, Brenda takes her family to Georgia for the funeral, but nothing could have prepared her for the Browns, her father's fun-loving, crass Southern clan. In a small-town world full of long afternoons and country fairs, Brenda struggles to get to know the family she never knew existed... and finds a brand new romance that just might change her life.

Plot: chicago, illinois, small town, strong woman, funeral, georgia, death of father, sequel, ...

Cast

Albert Sharpe

Janet Munro

Sean Connery

Jimmy O'Dea

Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)

6.7 173 votes

Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: G

Story: A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker.

Style: whimsical

Plot: small town, whiskey, leprechaun, caretaker, fiddle, banshee, storyteller, wishes, ...

Place: ireland

Cast

Moa Gammel

Gu00f6ran Ragnerstam

Ann Petru00e9n

Hans Mosesson

Jordskott (2015) TV Show

6.7 47 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Sweden

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 18

Story: Detective Inspector Eva Thörnblad returns to Silver Height seven years after her daughter Josefine disappeared by a lake in the woods. The body was never found and the girl was believed to have drowned. Now a boy has vanished without a trace and Thörnblad wants to find out if there is a link to her daughter's disappearance. At the same time , she will take care of the legacy of her father, the great entrepreneur Johan Thörnblad, who built an empire of timber and timber processing on the large forest owned by his ancestors. As the plot deepens more children are kidnapped and what initially seems like a police drama takes a more sinister and stranger twist with each episode.

Plot: missing person, missing child, nordic noir

Cast

Cillian Murphy

Emily Watson

Michelle Fairley

Eileen Walsh

Small Things Like These (2024)

6.7 560 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Belgium, Ireland

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.

Plot: small town, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, choir, flashback, barbershop, catholicism, coal, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: ireland

Cast

Carol Lynley

Jeff Chandler

Eleanor Parker

Mary Astor

Return to Peyton Place (1961)

6.6 42 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 123 min.

Story: Residents of the small town of Peyton Place aren't pleased when they realize they're the characters in local writer Allison MacKenzie's controversial first novel. A sequel to the hit 1957 film.

Plot: small town

Cast

Antonio Banderas

Salma Hayek Pinault

Zach Galifianakis

Billy Bob Thornton

Puss in Boots (2011)

6.6 4.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: United States of America

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Long before he even met Shrek, the notorious fighter, lover and outlaw Puss in Boots becomes a hero when he sets off on an adventure with the tough and street smart Kitty Softpaws and the mastermind Humpty Dumpty to save his town. This is the true story of The Cat, The Myth, The Legend... The Boots.

Plot: small town, fairy tale, rebel, spin off, wild west, aftercreditsstinger, talking cat, pets, ...

Cast

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Mia Delmae

Emilie de Preissac

Nicolas Gob

Mathieu Simonet

The Chalet (2018) TV Show

6.6 94 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: France

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Story: Friends gathered at a remote chalet in the French Alps for a summer getaway are caught in a deadly trap as a dark secret from the past comes to light.

Plot: small town, isolation, trauma, childhood trauma, friendship, revenge, murder, betrayal, ...

Cast

Anna Kendrick

Blake Lively

Henry Golding

Rupert Friend

A Simple Favor (2018)

6.6 4.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: Stephanie, a dedicated mother and popular vlogger, befriends Emily, a mysterious upper-class woman whose son Nicky attends the same school as Miles, Stephanie's son. When Emily asks her to pick Nicky up from school and then disappears, Stephanie undertakes an investigation that will dive deep into Emily's cloudy past.

Style: shocking, satirical

Plot: small town, based on novel or book, widow, dark comedy, female friendship, life insurance, best friend, single mother, ...

Cast

Viggo Mortensen

Ed Harris

Renu00e9e Zellweger

Jeremy Irons

Appaloosa (2008)

6.6 1.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering under the rule of a rancher find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.

Plot: small town, new mexico, ranch, cowboy, far west

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