Top Small Town Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Sierra McCormick

Jake Horowitz

Bruce Davis

Gail Cronauer

The Vast of Night (2019)

6.6 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.

Plot: small town, new mexico, basketball, ufo, tape recorder, radio show, phone call, telephone switchboard operator, ...

Time: 1950s

Cast

Nathan Fillion

Michael Rooker

Elizabeth Banks

Gregg Henry

Slither (2006)

6.5 1.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.

Plot: small town, mutant, transformation, meteor, meat, alien, zombie, parasite, ...

Cast

Miriam Ingrid

Oliver Dufu00e5ker

Otto Fahlgren

Ulf Stenberg

Beartown (2020) TV Show

6.5 30 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Sweden

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 5

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Hockey is the last beacon of hope for the citizens of Björnstad, so when its junior hockey team makes the national semifinal, the burden of the entire town’s dreams weigh heavily on the shoulders of its teenage superstars. However, the day of the semi-final is also the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatised and the town in turmoil.

Plot: based on novel or book, nordic noir

Cast

Zoe Colletti

Dean Norris

Michael Garza

Gabriel Rush

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

6.5 2.9K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: Canada, Hong Kong

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

Plot: small town, based on novel or book, halloween, haunted house, scarecrow, family secrets, urban legend, racism, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Emily Mortimer

Bill Nighy

Patricia Clarkson

James Lance

The Bookshop (2017)

6.5 464 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Germany, Spain

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Set in a small English town in 1959, a woman decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop, a decision which becomes a political minefield.

Plot: small town, bookshop, based on novel or book, shopkeeper, suffolk, england

Time: 1950s

Cast

John Agar

Mara Corday

Leo G. Carroll

Nestor Paiva

Tarantula (1955)

6.5 309 votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 80 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A rogue scientist near a small desert town arouses the suspicion of the town's doctor when his lab assistant is found dead from a case of acromegaly, which took only four days to develop. As the doctor investigates, aided by the scientist's new female assistant, they discover that something is devouring local cattle and humans in increasingly large quantities.

Style: absurd

Plot: small town, monster, experiment, giant monster, giant spider, deformation, laboratory, black and white, ...

Cast

Patrick Dempsey

Nell Verlaque

Addison Rae

Milo Manheim

Thanksgiving (2023)

6.5 1.6K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts - the birthplace of the holiday. Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan.

Plot: small town, sadism, holiday, massachusetts, thanksgiving, dark comedy, riot, plymouth, ...

Cast

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Petra van Hoven

Marianne Aubert

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Evelyne Lang

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Elke Sju00f6berg

Six Swedish Girls in Alps (1983)

6.5 62 votes

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Country: Germany

Duration: 90 min.

Story: This comedy has everyone's favorite 6 Swedish gals enjoying their stay in the alps. When the girls aren't enjoying the pleasure of their own company they're out having a good time with nearly everyone else in town.

Plot: small town, blindfold, alps mountains, sex comedy, erotic movie

Cast

Jim Carrey

Ewan McGregor

Leslie Mann

Rodrigo Santoro

I Love You Phillip Morris (2010)

6.4 1.8K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: Steven Russell leads a seemingly average life – an organ player in the local church, happily married to Debbie, and a member of the local police force. That is until he has a severe car accident that leads him to the ultimate epiphany: he’s gay and he’s going to live life to the fullest – even if he has to break the law to do it. Taking on an extravagant lifestyle, Steven turns to cons and fraud to make ends meet and is eventually sent to the State Penitentiary where he meets the love of his life, a sensitive, soft-spoken man named Phillip Morris. His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts him to attempt (and often succeed at) one impossible con after another.

Style: witty

Plot: small town, miami, florida, judge, con man, fraud, insurance fraud, car crash, ...

Time: 1990s

Cast

Joaquin Phoenix

Deirdre O'Connell

Emma Stone

Micheal Ward

Eddington (2025)

6.4 852 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Western

Country: United States of America, Finland

Duration: 148 min.

Audience: R

Story: In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

Style: absurd

Plot: small town, sheriff, husband wife relationship, new mexico, mayor, dark comedy, protest, satire, ...

Cast

Robert Duvall

Donald Pleasence

Don Pedro Colley

Maggie McOmie

THX 1138 (1971)

6.4 1.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: R

Story: People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.

Plot: prison, mind control, computer, police, dystopia, drug addiction, hearing, totalitarian regime, ...

Time: future

Cast

Sascha Zacharias

Eva Melander

Jakob u00d6hrman

Ardalan Esmaili

Rebecka Martinsson (2017) TV Show

6.4 37 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Germany, Sweden

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Story: Rebecka Martinsson from Kiruna has not really found herself despite her big successes at a law firm in Stockholm. When a friend from her childhood passes away, Rebecka returns to Kiruna where she's drawn into a thrilling hunt for a killer.

Plot: nordic noir

Cast

Fred Ward

Helen Shaver

Chris Gartin

Michael Gross

Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996)

6.3 1.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Earl Bassett's celebrity after defeating the Graboid attack against the town of Perfection has proved short-lived, until he's recruited by a Mexican oil company whose workers have found more than they bargained for under the soil.

Plot: small town, stranded, creature, tentacle, graboids, giant worm, oil refinery, seismograph, ...

Walking Tall (2004)

6.3 1.7K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: United States of America, Canada

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.

Plot: small town, martial arts, war veteran, based on true story, remake, torture, one man army, one against many, ...

Cast

Richard Carlson

Barbara Rush

Charles Drake

Joe Sawyer

It Came from Outer Space (1953)

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, ...

Cast

Anne Hathaway

Jason Sudeikis

Austin Stowell

Tim Blake Nelson

Colossal (2017)

6.3 2.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Country: Canada, South Korea

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: A woman discovers that severe catastrophic events are somehow connected to the mental breakdown from which she's suffering.

Plot: new york city, small town, monster, mental breakdown, creature, loss of job, alcoholic, psychotic, ...

Cast

Guy Pearce

Robert Pattinson

Scoot McNairy

David Field

The Rover (2014)

6.3 1.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Australia

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: Ten years after a severe economic collapse in the western world, lawlessness reigns and life is cheap. Eric is a lone drifter, and his car is his only possession. When a gang steals it, Eric comes across the injured Rey, left behind by the car thieves. The pair form an unlikely and uneasy alliance.

Plot: small town, sibling relationship, hostage, dystopia, motel, rifle, money, car accident, ...

Place: australia

Cast

Sean Connery

Laurence Fishburne

Blair Underwood

Kate Capshaw

Just Cause (1995)

6.3 629 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.

Plot: small town, rape, based on novel or book, professor, innocence, harvard university, revenge, serial killer

Place: florida

Cast

Pierce Brosnan

Linda Hamilton

Arabella Field

Jamie Renu00e9e Smith

Dante's Peak (1997)

6.2 2.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for. Before long, his worst fears are realized when a massive eruption hits, and immediately, Harry, the mayor and the townspeople find themselves fighting for their lives amid a catastrophic nightmare.

Plot: rescue, small town, helicopter, lava, mayor, evacuation, natural disaster, motel, ...

Cast

Morgan Saylor

Sophie Lowe

Margo Martindale

June Squibb

Blow the Man Down (2019)

6.2 342 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: R

Story: While grieving for the loss of their mother, the Connolly sisters suddenly find they have a crime to cover up, leading them deep into the underbelly of their salty Maine fishing village.

Plot: small town, prostitute, sister, cover-up, murder, maine, death of mother, murder investigation, ...

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