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For Richer or Poorer(1997)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 55min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 98 votes)

Brad Sexton and his wife, Caroline, are wealthy New Yorkers with both marital and financial problems. The latter issue becomes a pressing matter when they discover that their accountant has embezzled millions and pinned the blame on them. Forced to go on the lam, Brad and Caroline end up in an Amish area of Pennsylvania and decide to pose as members of the religious group to evade the IRS. As the two adapt to the simple Amish lifestyle, they begin to reconnect.

Witness(1985)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 53min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 677 votes)

A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, he slowly assimilates despite his urban grit and forges a romantic bond with the child's beautiful mother.

Mute(2018)

2.8/5 (with 486 votes)

A mute man with a violent past is forced to take on the teeming underworld of a near-future Berlin as he searches for his missing girlfriend.

An Uncommon Grace(2017)

3.1/5 (with 19 votes)

An army nurse returning from Afghanistan discovers her purpose in a rural Ohio farm community, along with a deep connection with a neighbor whose conservative Amish sect strictly forbids relationships with those outside his church community.

Directed by David Mackay

Kaw(2007)

2.2/5 (with 35 votes)

On the last working day of Sheriff Wayne, his small town is attacked by blood thirsty ravens that eat human flesh. Meanwhile his wife Cynthia visits a farm where a Mennonite family lives to say farewell to her friend Gretchen and discloses a dark secret about the origin of the fierce ravens.

Violent Saturday(1955)

1h 30min | Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 25 votes)

Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.

Deadly Blessing(1981)

1h 40min | Horror
2.8/5 (with 69 votes)

After her husband dies of mysterious circumstances, a widow becomes increasingly paranoid of the neighboring religious community that may have diabolical plans for her.

The Frisco Kid(1979)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 54min | Western, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 61 votes)

Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced traveller, he is tricked by con men to pay for the trip to go west, then they leave him and his belongings scattered along a deserted road. He is befriended by a stranger, Tommy, who is a bank robber and have many adventures during their journey.

Runaway Romance(2018)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 30min | Romance / Love, TV Movie
3.4/5 (with 27 votes)

When she’s written out of her show, her relationship and her seemingly perfect life, reality TV star Ann Stanway leaves Hollywood and finds herself marooned in Amish country. But when Ann is taken in by the owner of a nearby Inn, and meets a handsome young architect, she discovers that the reality she left isn’t nearly as perfect as the one she’s found.

Directed by Brian Herzlinger - With Danielle Chuchran, Trevor Donovan, Galadriel Stineman, Tatum O'Neal, Beau Davidson, Drew Cash, ...

Amish Grace(2010)

1h 28min | Drama, TV Movie
3.6/5 (with 18 votes)

When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006, the world media attention rapidly turned from the tragic events to the extraordinary forgiveness demonstrated by the Amish community.

Expecting Amish(2014)

1h 25min | TV Movie, Drama
3.2/5 (with 13 votes)

Expecting Amish tells the story of 18-year-old Hannah Yoder, who is ready to join the Amish Church and marry her boyfriend Samuel. But things change when she goes to Hollywood and gets a glimpse of the world beyond.

Directed by Richard Gabai

An Amish Murder(2013)

3.0/5 (with 28 votes)

The Amish farming community of Painter’s Mill, Ohio, is shattered when a series of brutal murders leaves the town with a sense of frailty and loss of innocence. Among the most affected by the tragedy was Kate Burkholder, a young girl who survived the terror and, as a result, left the Amish life behind. Fifteen years later, Kate returns to Painter’s Mill as its Chief of Police. Certain she’s come to terms with her past, Kate’s renewed life in her hometown is shattered when a murder investigation triggers deep-seated emotions from her childhood and exposes a dark secret that could destroy her.

Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal
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An Amish Sin(2022)

1h 25min | Drama
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Rachel is an Amish teen who refuses to obey her parent’s command that she marry the man who abused her as a child. When she attempts to run away, she is caught and sent to a “rehab” for Amish girls who don’t follow the rules.

Beverly Lewis' The Confession(2013)

1h 28min | Drama, TV Movie
3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

Katie Lapp, a young Amish woman who goes on a journey in search of her identity - only to find herself embroiled in a mystery that must be solved before she can be reunited with the "Englisher" mother who gave her up to adoption 20 years earlier.

Directed by Michael Landon Jr.

Love Finds You in Charm(2015)

1h 33min | TV Movie, Drama
3.1/5 (with 21 votes)

A young Amish woman, who isn't satisfied with her path at home, visits a cousin for the summer. Over the summer, she is exposed to another world, finds friendship and more. Soon she must choose and come to terms with the life she wants.

Love Finds You In Sugarcreek(2014)

3.2/5 (with 18 votes)

Will a mysterious stranger's past wreak havoc on a quiet Amish community after they've opened their doors -- and hearts -- to him and his son?

The Harvesting(2018)

1h 32min | Thriller, Horror
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

To escape their marital problems, a young family travels from the city to spend the summer in Amish Country where a malevolent presence grips them. They soon discover that they were brought there for a reason and they must break free before the demonic hold consumes them.

Directed by Ivan Kraljevic

Saving Sarah Cain(2007)

1h 43min | Drama, Kids & Family
2.8/5 (with 8 votes)

When Sarah Cain, a self-involved big-city newspaper columnist, travels to Pennsylvania for the funeral of her Amish sister, she soon discovers that she is the legal guardian of her five Amish nieces and nephews. Rather than choose to move to Lancaster County to finish raising them there herself, or let them be separated by the foster care system, Sarah decides to take them with her back to Portland where she believes she can make a new life for them. However, she soon realizes that the modern world has forced them to compromise who they are, and that she has moved them there for all the wrong reasons - a motive which is soon exposed - because secrets can really never be kept secret. In order to find her own redemption, she knows she must make a choice to give them back their lives in Amish Country. And whether she remains part of their lives will have a lot to do with how much she has grown to love them.

Devil's Playground(2002)

1h 17min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

The Devil's Playground is a fascinating and moving documentary about a little-known aspect of Amish life. Amish are not permitted to join the church until their late teens, and have to do so of their own volition. The film explores Rumspringa, wherein young Amish are given the opportunity to explore the "English" way of life.

Directed by Lucy Walker

The Shunning(2011)

1h 28min | Drama, TV Movie
3.1/5 (with 17 votes)

Beautiful Katie Lapp has always felt something missing in her simple Amish existence -- until a mysterious "Englisher" comes to Lancaster County looking for the baby girl she gave up for adoption 19 years ago.

Amish Abduction(2019)

1h 30min | Thriller, TV Movie
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

Amish wife and mother Annie faces a crisis when her husband leaves the word of the Amish to live among “normal Americans,” or the “English” as the Amish dub them. But things turn even more dire when her husband returns, seeking custody of their son, and is willing to kill to achieve his goal….

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck(1976)

FSK: 6+ years
| 44min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

A documentary short examining the language and performance of auctioneering, filmed at the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Pennsylvania.

Directed by Werner Herzog

Plain Truth(2004)

2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

An unmarried 18 year-old Amish girl is charged with the murder of her infant child.

Harvest of Fire(1996)

1h 39min | Drama, TV Movie, Crime
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

In a small Amish community, three barns are burnt down almost simultaneously. FBI agent Sally Russwell is sent in to investigate this possible hate crime. What she finds however is a community that little trust for outsiders or "The English" as they call them. However, in her investigations, Agent Russell makes friends with one entrepreneurial widow, Annie Beiler who has her own curiosity about this stranger. Together, Annie introduces Russell in-depth to this close knit community bearing many appealing attributes. However, as Sally's investigations continue, she discovers secrets that reveal uncomfortable truths about the religious community that are linked to the arson attacks.

My Amish World(2017)

1h 52min | Drama

An Amish Family struggling in an oppressive religion who breakthrough their fear to find freedom.

The Seeker(2020)

19min | Documentary

A lyrical portrait of an excommunicated Amish woodworker struggling with spirituality, poverty, and life as an outcast from his strict, insular community.

American Cannibals(2007)

37min | Horror

A group of young women fall prey to some Amish men on rumspringa who have taken to cannibalism.

Leaving Amish Paradise(2011)

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Documentary following the lives of two Amish families leaving the only world they've ever known and trying to get to grips with the modern world. The Amish travel by horse and buggy and dress exactly as their forebears did when they first arrived in America almost 300 years ago. They have countless rules which keep them separate from the modern world, with electric lights, mobile phones, television and radio all forbidden. For those born into this culture, leaving is the biggest decision they'll ever make.