Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "small-village"

1. Anthracite (2024)

TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An old case is wrenched open when a reporter goes missing, leading his web sleuth daughter to a small mountain town haunted by a sect, secrecy and death.

Stars: Hatik, Noémie Schmidt, Camille Lou, Nicolas Godart

Votes: 1,912

2. About Dry Grasses (2023)

Not Rated | 197 min | Drama

A young teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after four years of mandatory service in a remote village, but is accused of inappropriate contact by two students. After losing hope, a colleague offers him new perspectives on life.

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Stars: Deniz Celiloglu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici, Ece Bagci

Votes: 11,428

3. Picture of Beauty (2017)

70 min | Drama, Romance

In an early 20th century village, a painter with an unusual commission finds two pretty girls to model for him. The girls slowly come of age while exploring their sexuality and finding liberation in a repressed society.

Director: Maxim Ford | Stars: Taylor Sands, Danielle Rose, Pawel Hajnos, Magdalena Bochan-Jachimek

Votes: 1,764

4. What Lies Beneath (2000)

PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost - or that she is losing her mind.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Katharine Towne, Miranda Otto

Votes: 135,689 | Gross: $155.46M

5. The White Ribbon (2009)

R | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?

Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur

Votes: 77,628 | Gross: $2.22M

6. Babette's Feast (1987)

G | 103 min | Drama

During the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.

Director: Gabriel Axel | Stars: Stéphane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle

Votes: 22,033 | Gross: $4.40M

7. Belladonna of Sadness (1973)

Unrated | 86 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy

After being raped by an evil feudal lord and subsequently getting banished from her village, a peasant girl makes a pact with the Devil to gain magical powers and take her revenge.

Director: Eiichi Yamamoto | Stars: Aiko Nagayama, Chinatsu Nakayama, Masaya Takahashi, Masakane Yonekura

Votes: 7,755 | Gross: $0.11M

8. Speed Walking (2014)

108 min | Drama, History

Martin (14) is forced to deal with confused sexuality and the loss of a mother in a provincial setting in the mid-seventies, where the famed Danish liberation of porn has had its influence on the grownups.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev | Stars: Villads Bøye, Anders W. Berthelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Frederik Winther Rasmussen

Votes: 1,819

9. Arn: The Knight Templar (2007)

R | 139 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman, is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.

Director: Peter Flinth | Stars: Joakim Nätterqvist, Sofia Helin, Stellan Skarsgård, Michael Nyqvist

Votes: 23,172

10. No Bears (2022)

106 min | Drama, Romance

Two parallel love stories in which the partners are thwarted by hidden, inevitable obstacles, the force of superstition, and the mechanics of power.

Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Jafar Panahi, Vahid Mobasseri, Bakhtiyar Panjeei, Mina Kavani

Votes: 3,790

11. Glória (2021)

TV-MA | 40 min | Drama, History, Thriller

In the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, in the small village of Glória do Ribatejo, João Vidal will take on several high-risk espionage missions that could change the course of Portuguese and world history.

Stars: Miguel Nunes, Matt Rippy, Stephanie Vogt, Carolina Amaral

Votes: 5,054

12. Frühling (2011– )

Drama

Katja Baumann is a nurse working in a hospital in Munich. One day as she leaves the hospital she meets Tim Lechner, a young boy who tells her his mother is in the hospital and a rural ... See full summary »

Stars: Simone Thomalla, Johannes Herrschmann, Kristo Ferkic, Marco Girnth

Votes: 117

13. Zombie 3 (1988)

R | 84 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is cremated by the US military, a virus is unintentionally released into the atmosphere over a small island.

Directors: Lucio Fulci, Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei | Stars: Deran Sarafian, Beatrice Ring, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Massimo Vanni

Votes: 5,496

14. Sir Billi (2012)

Not Rated | 76 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A retired veterinarian living in a remote Scottish village encounters a goat who thinks he's a dog, an Admiral who's afraid of the water, and a beaver who was raised by rabbits.

Director: Sascha Hartmann | Stars: Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill, Alana Gray, Valentina Hartmann

Votes: 798

15. The Witches (1966)

Not Rated | 90 min | Horror

Following a horrifying experience with the occult in Africa, a schoolteacher moves to a small English village, only to discover that black magic resides there as well.

Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen, Ann Bell

Votes: 3,251

16. Stromboli (1950)

Approved | 81 min | Drama

Karin, a young woman from the Baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prison camp. But she cannot get used to the tough life in Antonio's volcano-threatened village, Stromboli.

Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana, Mario Sponzo

Votes: 7,961

17. 3 Faces (2018)

100 min | Drama

Three actresses at different stages of their career. One from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, one popular star of today known throughout the country, and a young girl longing to attend a drama conservatory.

Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei, Maedeh Erteghaei

Votes: 4,788 | Gross: $0.07M

18. My Name Is Sara (2019)

111 min | Biography, Drama, War

Sara is a a 13 year-old Polish Jew who finds refuge and is taken in by a farmer and his wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers' marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identity.

Director: Steven Oritt | Stars: Zuzanna Surowy, Konrad Cichon, Pawel Królikowski, Piotr Nerlewski

Votes: 826

19. Adiós, Sabata (1970)

PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Drama, War

Sabata helps a band of Mexican revolutionaries steal a wagon-load of gold from the occupying Austrian forces of Emperor Maximilian I.

Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Yul Brynner, Dean Reed, Ignazio Spalla, Gérard Herter

Votes: 2,305 | Gross: $0.55M

20. Cargo 200 (2007)

89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer gone mad.

Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Agniya Kuznetsova, Aleksey Poluyan, Leonid Gromov, Aleksey Serebryakov

Votes: 11,373

21. Jour de Fête (1949)

Not Rated | 70 min | Comedy

A village postman with no sense of humour delivers his mail via bicycle on the day the travelling fair comes to town. He is disrupted by a short film about US speed and efficiency and the playful teasing of the village folk.

Director: Jacques Tati | Stars: Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur, Santa Relli

Votes: 9,052

22. Non Non Biyori (2013–2021)

TV-PG | 24 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

When Hotaru Ichijo transfers schools from the hustle and bustle of Tokyo to a quaint and quiet village in the countryside, she's in for a big adjustment. With her new quirky classmates, Hotaru adapts to her new life with daily adventures.

Stars: Kotori Koiwai, Rie Murakawa, Ayane Sakura, Kana Asumi

Votes: 1,219

23. Japan (2002)

R | 122 min | Drama

A painter from the big city goes to a remote canyon to commit suicide. To reach some calmness, he stays at the farmstead of Ascen, an old, religious woman. Although but a few words are spoken, love grows.

Director: Carlos Reygadas | Stars: Alejandro Ferretis, Magdalena Flores, Yolanda Villa, Martín Serrano

Votes: 3,990

24. The Forest (V) (2016)

109 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A new teacher arrives at a small village in rural Thailand. He has just left the monkhood and has taken a job at the local school in a quest to discover life outside the monastery. He finds... See full summary »

Director: Paul Spurrier | Stars: Wannasa Wintawong, Tanapol Kamkunkam, Asanee Suwan, Pongsanart Vinsiri

Votes: 325

25. Els encantats (2023)

108 min | Drama

After her recent separation, Irene seeks to regain her calm in a village in the Catalan Pyrenees, but the familiarity of the place forces her to confront her fears.

Director: Elena Trapé | Stars: Laia Costa, Daniel Pérez Prada, Pep Cruz, Ainara Elejalde

Votes: 316

26. Maya (1989)

100 min | Horror

An ancient evil awakens in a small Mexican village and many people fall victim to its curse. It is up to a mystical doctor to try and stop this evil power before it is too late.

Director: Marcello Avallone | Stars: Peter Phelps, Mariella Valentini, Cyrus Elias, Mariangélica Ayala

Votes: 384

27. Puika (1977)

97 min | Family

World for the boy is revealed gradually - in all its diversity, beauty and sustainability.

Director: Aivars Freimanis | Stars: Indars Lacis, Zigrida Lorence, Peteris Martinsons, Mara Rence

Votes: 88

28. Eye Witness (1950)

Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

In 1949, when his former British war buddy is charged with murder, American lawyer Adam Hayward goes to England to see if he can help.

Director: Robert Montgomery | Stars: Ruth Lee, Robert Montgomery, Hal Osmond, Wylie Watson

Votes: 370

29. Nadikalil Sundari Yamuna (2023)

129 min | Comedy

Nadhikalil Sundari Yamuna is a realistic and humorous movie portraying love, friendship and family relationships. The story revolves around two individuals having a healthy competition at a small town of Kannur in Kerala.

Directors: Vijesh Panathur, Unni Vellora | Stars: Dhyan Sreenivasan, Aju Varghese, Kalabhavan Shajohn, Navas Vallikkunnu

Votes: 368

30. The Piper (2015)

PG-13 | 119 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Shortly after the Korean war, a father and a son are wandering through the country and make a stop in a remote village, where strange and dangerous happenings occur.

Director: Kwang-tae Kim | Stars: Ryu Seung-ryong, Lee Sung-min, Chun Woo-hee, Lee Joon

Votes: 1,912

31. La Vénus à Lulu (1991 TV Movie)

90 min | Comedy

Narcoleptic Finnish naturist as beautiful as Venus is on vacation in Southern France with her husband. She goes for a walk in the field naked and gets lost. A local kid takes her to his village to help her as well as brag to his friends.

Director: Daniel Losset | Stars: Caroline Laurence, Paul Crauchet, Alain Mottet, Maxime Boidron

Votes: 75

32. Riverside Mukolitta (2021)

120 min | Drama, Family

Takeshi Yamada arrives in a small village in the Hokuriku region. There, he begins to work at a small factory which makes shiokara (salted fish paste). Through the introduction of the CEO ... See full summary »

Director: Naoko Ogigami | Stars: Noriko Eguchi, Tasuku Emoto, Daisuke Kuroda, Ken'ichi Matsuyama

Votes: 324

33. The Cross of Lorraine (1943)

Approved | 90 min | War, Drama

A group of French soldiers during WWII are captured by German troops and sent to a POW camp. There they have to make use of his best resources to stay alive - and sane, while at the same time scheming a way out.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Whorf

Votes: 960

34. Little Siberia

Drama | Pre-production

The everyday life of the small village of Hurmevaara is shaken when a meteorite falls through the roof of a car one night. According to the town's mayor, the meteorite is very valuable for ... See full summary »

Director: Dome Karukoski | Stars: Malla Malmivaara, Martti Suosalo, Tommi Korpela, Eero Ritala

35. Diggity's Treasure (2001)

PG | 91 min | Drama

Raymond, just fired again, inherits a church in an English village. Arriving from Georgia to sell the property to Mr. Slee, he meets the cute single Rachel, who runs the B&B, and others. Hidden treasure?

Director: Tom Reeve | Stars: Andrew McCarthy, Louise Lombard, Bill Treacher, Stefan Jürgens

Votes: 245

36. You've Been Trumped Too (2016)

79 min | Documentary

A chronicle of the confrontation between billionaire Donald Trump and feisty 92-year-old Scottish widow, Molly Forbes.

Director: Anthony Baxter | Stars: Molly Forbes, Donald Trump, Michael Forbes, Anthony Baxter

Votes: 254

37. Mumu (2010)

95 min | Comedy, Drama

The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old. He's a kid badly loved, mischievous and specializes in silly things to do. ... See full summary »

Director: Joël Séria | Stars: Sylvie Testud, Jean-François Balmer, Bruno Lochet, Michel Galabru

Votes: 243

38. Dear John (1964)

115 min | Drama, Romance

John is a shipmaster on a very small transportation boat which regularly attends a very small harbour to buy food, actually from Anna's father. She is a waitress and has a young daughter. ... See full summary »

Director: Lars-Magnus Lindgren | Stars: Jarl Kulle, Christina Schollin, Helena Nilsson, Erik Hell

Votes: 391

39. If Winter Comes (1947)

Approved | 97 min | Drama

Laurie Anderson reflects on her relationship with her beloved terrier Lolabelle.

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Deborah Kerr, Angela Lansbury, Binnie Barnes

Votes: 783

40. Christmas Perfection (2018 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Darcy's been striving for the perfect Christmas since childhood and, thanks to a magical figurine, her dream finally comes true.

Director: David Jackson | Stars: Caitlin Thompson, James Henri-Thomas, Robbie Silverman, Rachel-Mae Brady

Votes: 1,035

41. The Man from Beijing (2011 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 180 min | Thriller

A cold day in January 2006. The police make a horrible discovery in the Swedish town of Hudiksvall: In one night, 18 people have been brutally murdered in the small town. The police suspect... See full summary »

Director: Peter Keglevic | Stars: Suzanne von Borsody, Michael Nyqvist, Claudia Michelsen, Amy Cheng

Votes: 620

42. La ragazza americana (2011 TV Movie)

180 min | Comedy, Romance

An American woman inherits a castle from her deceased Italian grandfather. To her dismay, the locals of the small Italian village seem to despise her. Including a handsome young man.

Director: Vittorio Sindoni | Stars: Vanessa Hessler, Giulio Berruti, Ilaria Occhini, Orso Maria Guerrini

Votes: 74

43. The Bandit (1953)

Approved | 91 min | Action, Drama, History

'Capitão', a bandit, terrorizes poor villages in the Northeast region of Brazil, looting and frequently killing with his armed gang, until he kidnaps and becomes attracted to a beautiful schoolteacher, creating discord in his group.

Director: Lima Barreto | Stars: Alberto Ruschel, Marisa Prado, Milton Ribeiro, Vanja Orico

Votes: 704

44. La maison assassinée (1988)

110 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before, his entire family was slain in their home one ... See full summary »

Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Patrick Bruel, Anne Brochet, Agnès Blanchot, Ingrid Held

Votes: 645

45. ...And the Band Played On (1980 TV Movie)

95 min | Drama

The equilibrium of a small English village is upset by the arrival of a pop star and his wife. When he takes over the conductorship of the local brass band after the previous conductor ... See full summary »

Director: Val Guest | Stars: Robin Nedwell, Diane Keen, Trevor Howard, Jack Douglas

Votes: 221

46. Three Dangerous Ladies (1977)

88 min | Horror, Mystery

Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film anthology with three segments. Each story features a woman who willingly or unwillingly spreads evil.

Directors: Robert Fuest, Alvin Rakoff, Don Thompson | Stars: Ronee Blakley, Graham Crowden, Ed Devereaux, Keir Dullea

Votes: 121

47. Total (1983 TV Movie)

52 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Año 2598. Hace tres días que el mundo ha llegado a su fin en Londres, un pequeño y perdido pueblo de ambiente castellano. Lorenzo (Agustín González), pastor de ovejas, nos cuenta una serie ... See full synopsis »

Director: José Luis Cuerda | Stars: Agustín González, María Luisa Ponte, Manuel Alexandre, José María Caffarel

Votes: 279

48. Para siempre

Drama | Post-production

A secret death witnessed by two boys in a small Oaxacan village forges an unbreakable bond. Twenty years later the childhood friends reunite as very different men, facing their shared past and new trials that test the power of friendship.

Stars: Diego Calva, Trinidad Evia, Mauro Guzmán, Frida Sofía Cruz Salinas

49. The Black Rider (1954)

65 min | Crime, Thriller

When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their minds...

Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: Jimmy Hanley, Rona Anderson, Leslie Dwyer, Lionel Jeffries

Votes: 242

50. The Death of Mario Ricci (1983)

100 min | Drama

The tragic accident of an Italian laborer ,working on the Mont Blanc tunnel.

Director: Claude Goretta | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Magali Noël, Heinz Bennent, Mimsy Farmer

Votes: 197