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

1. Marple (2004–2013)

TV-14 | 2,090 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An elderly spinster living in the village of St. Mary Mead helps her friends and relatives solve mysterious murders.

Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Julia McKenzie, Stephen Churchett, Isabella Parriss

Votes: 10,715

2. Grantchester (2014–2025)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A Cambridgeshire clergyman finds himself investigating a series of mysterious wrongdoings in his small village of Grantchester.

Stars: Robson Green, Tessa Peake-Jones, Al Weaver, Kacey Ainsworth

Votes: 17,214

3. 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: 11,738

4. Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

G | 181 min | Drama, Family, Musical

In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.

Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon

Votes: 47,913 | Gross: $80.50M

5. Am I Being Unreasonable? (2022– )

29 min | Comedy, Thriller

Follows two friends who love having fun and booze, until everything unravels.

Stars: Daisy May Cooper, Lenny Rush, Selin Hizli, Dustin Demri-Burns

Votes: 4,061

6. The Village (2013–2014)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama

Follows the residents of one English village across the 20th century and their turbulent lives.

Stars: David Ryall, Maxine Peake, John Simm, Charlie Murphy

Votes: 2,735

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: 7,780 | Gross: $0.11M

8. Brian and Charles (2022)

PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

After a particularly harsh winter Brian goes into a deep depression; completely isolated and with no one to talk to, Brian does what any sane person would do when faced with such a melancholic situation. He builds a robot.

Director: Jim Archer | Stars: David Earl, Chris Hayward, Louise Brealey, Jamie Michie

Votes: 8,310

9. The Adolescent (1979)

PG | 90 min | Drama

In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandmother in a small town near Avignon. Although rumors of war reach the countryside, it's an idyllic place, ... See full summary »

Director: Jeanne Moreau | Stars: Edith Clever, Francis Huster, Jacques Weber, Jean-François Balmer

Votes: 330

10. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy

In 1940, after watching and being traumatized by the movie Frankenstein (1931), a sensitive seven year-old girl living in a small Spanish village drifts into her own fantasy world.

Director: Víctor Erice | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Tellería

Votes: 20,705

11. Hatred (2016)

150 min | Drama, War

Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower. Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise. Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive.

Director: Wojciech Smarzowski | Stars: Michalina Labacz, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Wasyl Wasylik, Adrian Zaremba

Votes: 6,803

12. The Trouble with Maggie Cole (2020)

TV-PG | 46 min | Comedy, Drama

It follows the stories and fallout for Maggie Cole (French), who doesn't pay attention to the cautionary adage that 'those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones'.

Stars: Mark Heap, Dawn French, Emilie Reid, Julie Hesmondhalgh

Votes: 1,155

13. Saraswatichandra (2013–2014)

Romance

In this classic tale of love and heartbreak, Saras and Kumud are soulmates who are repeatedly denied the joy of being together. Will destiny bring them together?

Stars: Gautam Rode, Jennifer Winget, Varun Kapoor, Anirudh Singh

Votes: 910

14. The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)

PG-13 | 139 min | Comedy, Drama, War

During WWII in Italy, a wine-producing village hides a million bottles from the Germans

Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi, Hardy Krüger

Votes: 4,171 | Gross: $2.50M

15. Gorgeous (2022)

TV-MA | 151 min | Drama

A family migrates to the city after a tragic loss. When they reunite in their hometown 30 years later, buried emotions and painful secrets resurface.

Director: Berkun Oya | Stars: Ayça Bingöl, Fatih Artman, Funda Eryigit, Incinur Dasdemir

Votes: 5,892

16. To the Left of the Father (2001)

Not Rated | 163 min | Drama

A young son who ran from his dominant family descends into decadence, then returns to the nest. Tyrannical fathers, incest, fierce family conflicts, and an intense visual style to match.

Director: Luiz Fernando Carvalho | Stars: Selton Mello, Raul Cortez, Juliana Carneiro da Cunha, Simone Spoladore

Votes: 2,055

17. 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: 9,058

18. Devilish Education (1995)

29 min | Short

After taking a dip in the lake, an innocent maiden encounters an enigmatic stranger dressed in black. Soon, he will introduce her to the secret pleasures of the flesh and the mysterious ways of the world.

Director: Janusz Majewski | Stars: Renata Dancewicz, Marek Kondrat, Anna Dymna, Stanislaw Brudny

Votes: 554

19. All My Good Countrymen (1969)

120 min | Comedy, Drama

Various scenes in the life of a tight-knit community in Czechoslovakia exploring the human spirit in the backdrop of the political changes that they experience.

Director: Vojtech Jasný | Stars: Vlastimil Brodský, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Vladimír Mensík, Waldemar Matuska

Votes: 1,086

20. Pobol y Cwm (1974– )

25 min | Drama

A Welsh-language TV soap (the longest running BBC television soap) set in the small Welsh town of Cwmderi, in the heart of the South Wales valleys.

Stars: Sophie Mensah, Gwenfair Vaughan, Lois Meleri Jones, Siw Hughes

Votes: 112

21. Secrets of an Angel (2022–2023)

135 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Cennet, who has been abused by her husband for years, calls Zeynep, the lawyer whose sign she sees from the window of her hospital room. He gives a letter to be opened after he dies. ... See full summary »

Stars: Ayça Bingöl, Alp Navruz, Mesut Akusta, Irem Helvacioglu

Votes: 420

22. Pecados (2011)

Not Rated | 80 min | Drama

In a village, two teenagers fall in love with each other. The villagers are against this connection for reasons yet to be uncovered.

Director: Diego Yaker | Stars: Pepe Soriano, Carmelo Gómez, Mariano Reynaga, Diana Gómez

Votes: 37

23. The Last Shaman (2016)

77 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama

James gives himself 12 months before he has 'a license to kill himself', he sets off to the amazon rainforest with hopes of finding a shaman who can save his life.

Director: Raz Degan | Stars: Guillermo Arevalo, James Freeman

Votes: 2,022 | Gross: $0.02M

24. Torn (2019– )

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Victoire moves to a small village with her family and meets Florent, her childhood love. Very soon, they give in to their passion. But just as they are about to leave their respective partners, Florent's wife suddenly disappears.

Stars: Julie Gayet, Bruno Debrandt, Thomas Jouannet, Joyce Bibring

Votes: 203

25. Ratu ilmu hitam (1981)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror

A woman is accused of being a witch and thrown to her death over a cliff. A strange man rescues her, nurses her back to health, and is told that she must master black magic in order to exact vengeance on her tormentors.

Director: Liliek Sudjio | Stars: Suzzanna, W.D. Mochtar, Teddy Purba, Sofia W.D.

Votes: 575

26. The Rotten Link (2015)

75 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

In a little village with 20 houses, isolated in the countryside, lives Raulo, a 50 year-old retarded lumberjack, with Ercilia, his senile witch doctor mother, and Roberta, his sister, the ... See full summary »

Director: Valentín Javier Diment | Stars: Luis Ziembrowski, Marilú Marini, Paula Brasca, Germán De Silva

Votes: 150

27. Penelope Keith's Hidden Villages (2014– )

Not Rated | Documentary, History

Dame Penelope Keith visits England's picturesque villages to see how they're holding up in the 21st century. For the most part, she finds them quirky, resilient, and, well, picturesque.

Star: Penelope Keith

Votes: 249

28. Septyni nematomi zmones (2005)

119 min | Drama

A group of drop-outs, losers and criminals are travelling in a stolen Mercedes seemingly aimlessly along numerous derelict houses and impassable roads to eventually end up on an old ... See full summary »

Director: Sharunas Bartas | Stars: Dmitriy Podnozov, Rita Klein, Aleksandre Saulov, Saakanush Vanyan

Votes: 352

29. Song of Russia (1944)

Passed | 107 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Propaganda film from WW2, designed to raise the awareness of the American public regarding USSR's fight against Nazi Germany.

Directors: Gregory Ratoff, Laslo Benedek | Stars: Robert Taylor, Susan Peters, John Hodiak, Robert Benchley

Votes: 317

30. Tevya (1939)

Approved | 93 min | Drama

The original, non-musical film version of the book which inspired "Fiddler on the Roof".

Director: Maurice Schwartz | Stars: Maurice Schwartz, Miriam Riselle, Rebecca Weintraub, Paula Lubelski

Votes: 394

31. Hearts of the World (1918)

TV-PG | 117 min | Drama, War

Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Robert Harron, Adolph Lestina

Votes: 1,107

32. Tabu (1988)

105 min | Drama

Story of a tragic love triangle that develops between a mother daugther and a farmhand. A good-looking widow lives alone on a farm with her teenage daughter. Their neighbor occasionally ... See full summary »

Director: Andrzej Baranski | Stars: Grazyna Szapolowska, Bernadetta Machala-Krzeminska, Krzysztof Gosztyla, Bronislaw Pawlik

Votes: 124

33. The Dancing Hawk (1977)

98 min | Drama

Michal Toporny is a poor country boy whose determination and hard work help him climb the social ladder and become the head of a large factory in the city. But at what cost?

Director: Grzegorz Królikiewicz | Stars: Franciszek Trzeciak, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Beata Tumkiewicz, Czeslaw Przybyla

Votes: 120

34. The Lamb (2014)

87 min | Drama, Family

As Eastern Anatolian village tradition requires, 27-year-old Medine must serve oven-roasted lamb at her 5-year-old son Mert's circumcision feast.

Director: Kutlug Ataman | Stars: Erdal Yildiz, Taner Birsel, Sila Lara Cantürk, Nesrin Cavadzade

Votes: 696

35. Ms. Ma, Nemesis (2018– )

Mystery

A woman falsely accused of killing her daughter escapes from prison, tries to clear her name, and solves a series of mysteries along the way; a twist on Agatha Christie's Miss Marple stories.

Stars: Yunjin Kim, Ko Sung-hee, Lee Tae-hyung, Jeong Woong-in

Votes: 67

36. Baikonur (2011)

Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Iskander, a young man living on the Kazakh steppes, finds French astronaut Julie after her capsule crashes. Julie now has amnesia, but Iskander convinces her they are engaged. (Russian with English subtitles)

Director: Veit Helmer | Stars: Alexander Asochakov, Marie de Villepin, Sitora Farmonova, Erbolat Toguzakov

Votes: 580

37. Heiran (2009)

PG | 85 min | Drama, Romance

An Iranian high school student falls for an illegal foreign worker and follows him to Tehran.

Director: Shalizeh Arefpoor | Stars: Baran Kosari, Mehrdad Sedighian, Farhad Aslani, Jaleh Sameti

Votes: 398

38. Sois sage (2008)

90 min | Drama

There's something strange about Nathalie, the girl on the brink of maturity. She regularly causes uneasy situations by coming up with all kinds of dubious stories: that her handball-playing... See full summary »

Director: Juliette Garcias | Stars: Anaïs Demoustier, Bruno Todeschini, Nade Dieu, Alexandra Fleischer

Votes: 63

39. Drei sind einer zuviel (1977)

25 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Charlotte is a traveling sales rep for her uncle's pottery. On her travels she meets the attractive young teacher Peter and his equally young and attractive landlord Benedikt. Charlotte ... See full summary »

Stars: Thomas Fritsch, Herbert Herrmann, Jutta Speidel, Eduard Linkers

Votes: 50

40. Raziye (1990)

74 min | Drama

Ali, who comes to his uncle's house, who lives in a coastal area to stay out of sight for a while due to political reasons, meets and falls in love with Vedia, his uncle's stepdaughter.

Director: Yusuf Kurçenli | Stars: Kamran Usluer, Oguz Tunç, Yasemin Öymen, Ahmet Fuat Onan

Votes: 83

41. Zeit der Wünsche (2005 TV Movie)

118 min | Drama

This heartbreaking TV movie focuses on the first generation of Turkish migrant workers coming to Germany in the 1960s. Melike and Mustafa grow up in a small village of Ürgüp, Nevsehir in ... See full summary »

Director: Rolf Schübel | Stars: Lale Yavas, Erhan Emre, Tim Seyfi, Hilmi Sözer

Votes: 319

42. Hinterm Vorhang (2022)

Drama

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Director: Oskar Lekies | Stars: Kim Guliyew, Baris Öztürk, Ruzica Hajdari, Stefan Lampadius

43. Vares: The Path of the Righteous Men (2012)

93 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Jussi Vares goes in a small town to investigate a murder of young girl. This little goodloving town isn't as pure as it seems.

Director: Anders Engström | Stars: Antti Reini, Peter Franzén, Merja Larivaara, Markku Maalismaa

Votes: 946

44. Niok (1957)

G | 29 min | Short, Adventure, Family

In the Cambodia area of Indo-China (when it was filmed) a young native boy 'adopts' a baby elephant and raises it as a pet. His father later sells it to a Chinese merchant. The boy ... See full summary »

Director: Edmond Séchan | Star: John Dehner

Votes: 15

45. Nafi's Father (2019)

107 min | Drama

A fight between an Imam and his powerful brother over their children's marriage. At stake: how a small community slowly drifts towards extremism.

Director: Mamadou Dia | Stars: Alassane Sy, Aicha Talla, Saikou Lo, Penda Daly Sy

Votes: 116

46. Chalupári (1975– )

Comedy

Show about live in a village in Czech republic in the 70's.

Stars: Jirí Sovák, Josef Kemr, Jirina Bohdalová, Josef Vetrovec

Votes: 276

47. Aya Seyahat (2009)

Not Rated | 80 min | History

1957. A remote village in Erzincan province, Eastern Turkey. The quest of four villagers to travel to the moon is documented with the use of found black-and-white photos and the aid of a ... See full summary »

Director: Kutlug Ataman | Stars: Metin Alagas, Gozde Aran, Ahmet Aslan, Rüstem Aslan

Votes: 105

48. The Village (II) (2019–2020)

30 min | Documentary

Observational documentary following a year in Portmeirion - the Italianate village in North Wales made famous as the filming location for cult television series The Prisoner (1967).

Star: Matthew Gravelle

49. Tarnished Reputations (1920)

50 min | Drama

While visiting a small village, popular young artist Robert Williams meets innocent country girl Helen Sanderson and, enchanted by her beauty, induces the girl to pose for him. An ... See full summary »

Directors: Herbert Blaché, Alice Guy, Léonce Perret | Stars: Dolores Cassinelli, Alan Roscoe, Georges Deneubourg, Ned Burton

50. Pendant que les champs brûlent (2018)

26 min | Short, Drama

A young mother with a son in stuck of an unhappy marriage dreams of starting another life, a stranger on the side of the road and a saddle from a bicycle and a fire going out somewhere.

Director: Louve Dubuc Babinet | Stars: Nina Lombardo, David Kammenos, Bogdan Zamfir, Rayhane Gacem

Votes: 13