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Nothing on this site is recommended because people liked it. Films are described by what they are (how heavy, how fast, how far from the real world), and you get the ones closest to what you asked for.
Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
88 films tagged small town, showing 50
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2025 · Thriller
In May 2020, the sheriff of a small New Mexico town refuses the mayor's mask mandate and decides to run against him. It is a long film about a town arguing with itself, online and in the street.
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2025 · Horror
A year after a group of friends cover up the crash they caused on a cliff road, a note arrives saying somebody knows. Then a fisherman with a hook starts working through them.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Horror
A teenager moves to a small Missouri town where the adults blame the local kids for burning down the factory, and someone in the town's clown mascot suit starts killing them off. A straight-ahead slasher.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Thriller
A teacher in a tidy Michigan tulip town suspects her optometrist husband is not spending his conference weekends the way he says. She recruits a colleague to help her find out, and they get closer as they dig.
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2025 · Horror
In 1988 an outcast at Shadyside High signs up to run for prom queen against the popular clique, and a masked killer starts working through the candidates. A straight-ahead slasher, most of it on prom night.
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2025 · Documentary
The first woman elected to a village council in rural Iran teaches teenage girls to ride motorbikes and works to stop child marriages, and the village starts to question her. A documentary that stays close to her.
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2025 · Drama
A concert flutist goes back to his Finnish hometown and reconnects with an old schoolmate. From there he is pulled towards experimental music.
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2025 · Drama
After a death at sea, a Galician fishing village rehearses a rondalla to compete against the villages nearby, and to get over it. A large cast, and the rehearsals carry the film.
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2025 · Drama
A man from Mumbai goes back to the family village for his father's ten-day mourning period, where relatives keep asking why he is not married yet. He spends his days out in the fields with a childhood friend.
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1993 · Comedy
A sour television weatherman covering a small-town festival wakes up to find it is the same day again, and again. He works through boredom, then mischief, then something else.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Drama
A fifteen-year-old in a conservative village in rural North Macedonia falls for a girl and decides he wants to be a DJ. It stays small, and most of it is village life and what a teenager there is allowed to do.
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2025 · Horror
After her parents die, a teenager moves in with her blind grandmother in Florida, where a local legend says the Sandman comes in dreams for people who have done wrong. She witnesses something and says nothing.
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2025 · War
Refugees from the fall of Nanjing settle in a small mountain town, and when Japanese soldiers stumble into it the townspeople have to defend it themselves. Labourers and shopkeepers, not soldiers.
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2025 · Thriller
An assassin working off a debt takes his family on the small-town holiday he remembers from childhood, and the amusement park there turns out to belong to people who want them gone. Short, fast and very violent.
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2025 · Horror
Maya wakes in a small-town hospital after being stabbed by three masked strangers, and they have come to finish it. A straight chase through a town whose sheriff would rather this went away.
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2025 · Crime
A new interim sheriff in a quiet, well-off Minnesota town is stuck on nuisance calls until a botched bank robbery drags him into something the whole town is in on. Dry, sudden and very violent.
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2013 · Thriller
A man living out of his car hears that the person who killed his parents is being let out of prison, and drives home to do something about it. Very little talking, and he is not good at any of it.
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2025 · Drama
In 1916 a Yorkshire choral society, short of men and short of a choirmaster, hires one the town distrusts and starts rehearsing Elgar. The war stays mostly offstage, and it moves at a stroll.
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2025 · Crime
An Oklahoma beekeeper and bluegrass player brings his former foster daughter into the honey business, and then his hives are stolen. Rural, full of music, and it takes its time getting where it is going.
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2025 · Science fiction
A fishing boat lost at sea thirty years ago sails back into the harbour of a declining Cornish village, and two men who need the money sign on to crew her. Slow and strange, with the village's old loss over all of it.
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2025 · Horror
A single father's teenage daughter is bitten as a zombie virus reaches Seoul, and he hides her at his mother's house in a seaside village rather than hand her over. Played as comedy as much as horror.
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2025 · Comedy
An American widower flies to Italy to stop his grown daughter spending her inheritance on a one-euro village villa, and gets drawn into the rebuild and the village himself. It is light, and it takes its time over the scenery.
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2025 · Comedy
A Hollywood action star, typecast and out of work, flies to England expecting the West End and is cast as Buttons in a small-town panto of Cinderella. It is a Christmas comedy, and most of it is him stuck in a village theatre.
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2025 · Thriller
A veteran just out of prison goes home to a small Ohio town run by a racist sheriff, where Black men have a way of disappearing. It starts slow and turns violent.
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2025 · Mystery
A New York actor comes to with no memory in a small Ohio town in the 1950s, and cannot find his way home. Working out who he was is most of what the film is.
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2025 · Drama
In a desert mining town in 1982 Chile, an eleven-year-old lives with her queer family as a deadly illness spreads, said to pass between two people the moment they fall in love. The town turns on them.
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2025 · Drama
A chef on the way up goes back to the roadside town she grew up in after her father's heart attack, and runs into the boy she loved at school. It is a musical, so what people feel comes out as songs.
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2015 · Drama
A young woman leaves a small Irish town for New York in the 1950s, homesick and alone until she meets someone. Gentle and slow, and mostly about one person working out where she belongs.
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2026 · Mystery
A shepherd in an English village is found dead outside his trailer, and his flock, who have had murder mysteries read to them for years, set out to work out who did it. A village whodunnit, told largely by the sheep.
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2026 · Horror
A man who fell apart after losing the woman he loved gets a letter telling him to come back to the town where they lived together. He finds it fogbound and all but empty, and then it turns into something else.
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2026 · Horror
A teenager in a strict evangelical town outs the boy he has been seeing, and both are put through a ritual meant to purge their desire. Then something starts following them, wearing the face each one wants most.
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2026 · Horror
Having survived the masked strangers once already, Maya is trying to get out of a small Oregon town and going after them at the same time. It is the last part of a trilogy, and it is violent all the way through.
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2026 · Horror
An ice cream truck arrives in a seaside town and the children who eat from it start killing the adults, leaving three who did not eat to get away. Gory and fast, and it does not let up.
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2026 · Comedy
A fisherwoman in a medieval village, mocked for her smell and for staying unmarried, sarcastically orders a husband woven out of wicker, and the weaver brings him to life. It is a fairy tale played as comedy, in one small town.
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2026 · Thriller
In a provincial Russian town in 2022, a business executive on the verge of laying off his staff discovers his wife has been unfaithful. A marriage coming apart, with the war always in the background.
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2026 · Comedy
Three sex workers in a conservative Peruvian town, replaced by women from abroad, set up their own business and take on the corrupt mayor. Broad political satire, played for laughs throughout.
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2026 · Comedy
After losing her boyfriend and her job in the same stretch, a woman goes back to her Texas hometown and runs into everyone she used to know. Warm and chatty, with old friends and old flames.
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2026 · Drama
A widowed village postwoman looks after her dying mother while her son, who says he is doing well in France, keeps his distance. His visit home brings his life as a drag queen into the village with him.
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2026 · Crime
A boy vanishes without a trace from a small town in northern Poland, and a prosecutor starts looking for him. It follows on from an earlier film about the same man.
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2026 · Action
A drifter turns up in a small Texas town in 1988, where a bar owner and his daughter are being squeezed by the crime boss who owns the place. Fights and shootouts, escalating a step at a time.
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2026 · Drama
A teenage girl freezes when a TV audition asks who she is, then goes looking for an answer around her family's failing hotel in the old East Germany. It moves through family, not events.
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2016 · Science fiction
A woman loses her job and her boyfriend, moves back to her hometown, and works out that a giant creature stomping around Seoul copies whatever she does in one particular playground. A small-town drinking story with a monster movie bolted on.
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2008 · Drama
A cellist whose orchestra folds moves back to his home town and takes a job he did not expect: preparing the dead for their families before burial. Slow and gentle, with a lot of quiet ceremony.
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2007 · Comedy
London's best policeman is promoted sideways to a village where nothing happens and paired with a partner raised on action films. Jokes come thick and fast, and it gets very loud towards the end.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2017 · Horror
In a small Maine town where children keep going missing, a group of misfit kids works out that something lives under the streets and wears a clown's face. As much a summer-holiday adventure as a horror film, with the scares on a schedule.
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2019 · Animation
A spoiled postman is posted to a frozen island where the two halves of town have feuded for generations, and finds a woodsman with a cabin full of toys. Hand-drawn, funny, and made for children.
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2016 · Drama
A Boston handyman is made guardian of his teenage nephew after his brother dies, which means going back to the town he left. The reason he left comes out slowly.
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2012 · Comedy
On a small New England island in 1965 a scout and a girl who has had enough of her family run off together, and the whole place goes looking for them. Neat, funny and told like a storybook.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2009 · Mystery
When her son is arrested for a girl's murder and nobody will look any further, his mother starts working the town herself. It moves slowly, and the funny bits arrive at strange moments.
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2004 · Comedy
A teenager in small-town Idaho draws mythical creatures, feeds his brother's llama and helps a friend run for class president. Deadpan, barely plotted, and full of long flat pauses.
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