Not movies, but books about a small town that will make you want to live there: Fannie Flagg's books about Elmwood Springs, Missouri:
Welcome to the World, Baby Girl
Standing in the Rainbow
Can't Wait to Get to Heaven
The good hearted always win, the bad guys always lose, and the heroines can always bake a great cake. Whenever I think the world is evil, I re-read one of these.
