TV Shows & Movies with a Strong Sense of Place

So many murdery picks!

In last week’s Tuesday Tea, we asked you about your favorite TV shows and movies with a strong sense of place — and phew! you really delivered. Thanks, everyone!

There were so many good ideas, we decided to collect them here in one convenient list, just in case you want to obsessively make a watching schedule and check them off a massive to-do list (or maybe that’s just us).

You can read the original posters’ comments here — links to trailers below.

Africa

• Out of Africa (Kenya) — film

• The Constant Gardner (Kenya) — film

• Recipes for Love and Murder (South Africa)

Australia

• The Light Between Oceans (lighthouse on the coast) — film

• Total Control (Sydney)

• My Brilliant Career (rural) — film

Caribbean

• Death in Paradise (fictional island of Saint Marie)

Denmark

• The Seaside Hotel / Badehotellet (northwest Denmark)

France

• Lupin (Paris)

• Chocolat (medieval town) — film

• Murder In… (various cities/communes/towns)

• A Little Romance (France & Italy) — film

• The Art of Crime (Paris)

• Emily in Paris (Paris)

• The Hundred Foot Journey (French village) — film

Greece

• The Durrells in Corfu

India

• Best Exotic Marigold Hotel & The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel — films

• The Good Karma Hospital

Italy

• Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy (various)

• A Room With a View (Florence) — film

• A Little Romance (Italy & France) — film

• My Brilliant Friend (1970s Naples & Florence)

• Only You (Venice, Positano & Rome) — film

• Detective Montalbano (Sicily)

New Zealand

• My Life is Murder (Auckland)

• The Brokenwood Mysteries (fictional town on the North Island)

Spain

• The Mallorca Files (Palma City)

Sweden

• The Åre Murders (rural)

• Wallander (recommended: Swedish version, not British w/ Kenneth Branaugh)

• The Breakthrough (Linköping)

United Kingdom

• All Creatures Great and Small (Yorkshire dales)

• Call the Midwife (London)

• Doc Martin (Cornwall)

• Shetland (Shetland islands)

• Outlander (Scotland)

• Bad Sisters (Ireland)

• Broadchurch (Dorset coast)

• Case Histories with Jason Isaacs (Edinburgh)

• Peaky Blinders (post-WWI Birmingham)

• Ted Lasso (London)

• Hinterland (Wales)

• Midsomer Murders (English country villages)

• Vera (Northumberland)

• Whitstable Pearl (seaside town of Whitstable)

• C.B. Strike (London)

• Rivals (the Cotswolds)

• Slow Horses (London)

• Poldark (18th-century Cornwall)

United States

• Dark Winds (Navajo Reservation)

• Northern Exposure (Alaska)

• Bored to Death (NYC)

• Broad City (NYC)

• Russian Doll (NYC)

• Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul (Albuquerque, NM)

• Cheers (Boston, MA)

• Witness (Amish community in Pennsylvania)

• True Detective, Season 1 (Louisiana)

• Yellowstone (Montana)

• 1923 (Montana, Wyoming)

• Rocky (Philadelphia) — film