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Superman(1978)

3.6/5 (with 1,751 votes)

Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.

Irresistible(2020)

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| 1h 41min | Comedy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 171 votes)

A Democratic political consultant helps a retired Marine colonel run for mayor in a small, conservative Wisconsin town.

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom(2019)

1h 49min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 57 votes)

A teacher, in search of inspiration, travels to the most remote school in the world, where he ends up realizing how important his job is and appreciating the value of yak dung.

Directed by Pawo Choyning Dorji

In the Name of the Land(2019)

1h 43min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 129 votes)

Pierre is 25 when he returns from Wyoming to his fiancée and take over the family farm. Twenty years later, the farm expanded and so did the family.

Directed by Edouard Bergeon

Hatred(2016)

2h 30min | War, Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 58 votes)

Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she is left alone because her husband is drafted to the Polish army for the war with Germany. Meanwhile, tensions grow due to Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians living side by side.

Directed by Wojciech Smarzowski - With Michalina Łabacz, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Adrian Zaremba, Izabela Kuna, Jacek Braciak, Lech Dyblik, ...

Fire Will Come(2019)

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| 1h 25min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 42 votes)

When Amador Coro gets out of prison for having provoked a fire, nobody is waiting for him. He returns to his home town, a small village hidden in the mountains of rural Galicia, to live with his elder mother, Benedicta, and three cows. Life goes on calmly, following the rhythm of the nature. Until the night when a fire devastates the region.

Directed by Óliver Laxe - With Amador Arias, Benedicta Sánchez Vila

The Good Earth(1937)

3.2/5 (with 28 votes)

China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the many hardships of life over the years; but the temptations of a fragile prosperity will endanger their love and the survival of their entire family.

The Little Switzerland(2019)

1h 26min | Comedy
2.4/5 (with 37 votes)

The discovery of the tomb of William Tell’s son in a town in the Basque Country spurs the village's cantankerous citizens to lobby for Swiss annexation.

The Levelling(2017)

1h 23min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 25 votes)

Clover is finishing a veterinary course when her brother dies and she is called home to her family's struggling Somerset farm.

Directed by Hope Dickson Leach - With Ellie Kendrick

Suro(2022)

1h 56min | Thriller, Drama
3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

Elena and Ivan are getting ready to enter into a new phase in their life. They are leaving the metropolis of Barcelona to settle in the Catalan countryside, where they are taking over a cork oak plantation. Not only will the business pay for their living, but they also want to exploit the plantation equitably and sustainably. But despite their ideals, Elena and Ivan soon find themselves in a crisis which will endanger not only their project, but also their relationship.

Directed by Mikel Gurrea - With Vicky Luengo, Pol López

The Rye Horn(2023)

1h 45min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Illa de Arousa, 1971. Maria is a woman who earns her living by seafood. She is also known on the island for helping other women in childbirth with special dedication and care. After an unexpected event, she is forced to flee and begins a dangerous journey that will make her fight for her survival. Seeking her freedom, Maria decides to cross the border by one of the smuggling routes between Galicia and Portugal.

Directed by Jaione Camborda - With Janet Novás

The Crime of Cuenca(1981)

1h 29min | Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused of the murder of José María el Cepa, a shepherd who mysteriously disappeared three years earlier.

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This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection(2020)

2h | Drama
3.8/5 (with 9 votes)

In a small village surrounded by mountains somewhere in Lesotho, the 80-year-old widow Mantoa waits for the return of her only surviving relative: her son, who works in a South African coal mine. It is Christmas and he would come home. Messengers, however, bring the sad news: her son died in a mining accident.

Directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese

My Family and the Wolf(2019)

2.7/5 (with 7 votes)

When Hugo, a boy who spends his summer vacation with his cousins, discovers that the wolf Rong intends to take his grandmother Sara, he devises a plan to save her.

La marrana(1992)

1h 42min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

After spending three years in captivity in Tunis, Bartolomé returns home Extremadura with the only hope to eat his favorite dish: the pork. Along the way he meets a deserter who is traveling with a sow.

Rage(2018)

1h 25min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 6 votes)

Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his revenge on those who caused his ruin during the darkest night, unable to get honestly the bread needed to feed his family in the daylight.

Miracle in Kasama(2018)

1h 21min | Drama, Comedy
4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Yuka Shibuya, a struggling actress, and Hatsue, a widowed chestnut farmer, meet a mysterious, bloodied man in the farm. The three end up living together during chestnut season and form a special bond while a miracle slowly unfolds.

Directed by Hisashi Ueda - With Mau Nishio, Yuhi

The Village Detective(1969)

1h 27min | Comedy, Mystery
4.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Police officer Aniskin lives with his family in a rural Russian village whose inhabitants admire his gentleness and wisdom. When an accordion is stolen from the local clubhouse, he begins to investigate.

Directed by Ivan Lukinsky - With Mikhail Zharov, Tatyana Pelttser, Natalya Sayko, Irina Zarubina, Grigory Slabinyak, Nikolay Malikov, ...

The Cursed Village(1930)

57min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Region of Castilla La Vieja, Spain, early 20th century. In Luján, a village ravaged by drought, Juan, a humble farmer who survives with his wife and son, confronts a local loan shark and is imprisoned as a result.

A Life on the Farm(2023)

1h 15min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his long-lost home movies.

The Stationmaster Meets His Match(1980)

1h 6min | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 11 votes)

The story of Bendegúz, the teenage boy who never succeeds in anything and about whom everybody's first though is "I wish you had been hanged when you were born!" drops out of school and becomes a cowboy. He works for the Stationmaster whose cows he has to graze by the railway. Despite his goodwill and kindheartedness he always manages to spoil everything he touches. No matter his wit, he gets into humiliating situations and regularly fights with the Ugly Witch (the Stationmaster's mother-in-law). However his good spirit and cheerfulness never leave him.

Directed by Sándor Mihályfy

Eight Deadly Shots(1972)

5h 16min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 6 votes)

Small-scale farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the events that finally leads to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks gradually deeper and deeper into the poverty, gets into trouble with both police and tax officials while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a true story.

My Antonia(1995)

1h 40min | TV Movie, Drama
3.7/5 (with 2 votes)

After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska.

No One's with the Calves(2022)

1h 56min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Five houses, one bus stop, cows and nothing but fields. 24-year-old Christin lives on the farm of her long-term boyfriend Jan. The exciting post-reunification years that defined her childhood are long gone. Her relationship is loveless. She keeps the cherry liqueur close at hand. In the shimmering heat of summer, time seems to stand still – until 46-year-old wind energy engineer, Klaus, arrives.

Directed by Sabrina Sarabi - With Saskia Rosendahl, Rick Okon, Godehard Giese, Andreas Döhler, Nico Ehrenteit

The Two in Tracksuits(2008)

1h 33min | Drama, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A son quits his job and is persuaded by his father to head off to a cottage in the remote mountains. Together, the two of them manage to get through their days while wearing old jerseys left by a deceased grandmother. The following summer, the two once again leave the stifling heat of Tokyo, as if escaping to the mountain cottage. However, the next summer is very different.

Uncle(2019)

1h 46min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 8 votes)

Kris and her partially disabled uncle run a derelict farm together. Their quirky yet loving relationship, is built upon daily routine, and it becomes challenged when Kris finds a romantic interest and asks herself some life-changing questions.

Directed by Frelle Petersen - With Jette Søndergaard, Peter Hansen Tygesen, Ole Caspersen, Tue Frisk Petersen, Christian Tychsen, Stine Lee Bruhn Schrøder, ...

Pozoamargo(2015)

1h 40min | Drama
2.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Jesús, a middle-aged man, finds out that he suffers from a venereal disease. Feeling guilty, he abandons his pregnant wife and flees to the countryside. In Pozoamargo, a small village lost in the middle of nowhere, he works as a grape harvester, living a simple existence, until he meets Gloria, a peculiar young woman.

O Sítio da Mulher Morta(2021)

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

He has everything that the destiny wanted and that he has been able to expand: fertile lands as far as the eye can see, cattle, exceptional wines and cigars matured in the long voyages of the boats coming directly from the Caribbean, more precisely from Cuba. He enjoys all this in his rich rural house, with his wife and two children, whom he very much likes, but which sometimes interrupt him to enjoy these pleasures. The disenchantment of the passionate routine always reminds him of the fabled memories of a moment in the past when, unexpectedly, he discovered in a handmaiden the surprising elevation of passion. Until the harlot appears to her at the Estate, untouched by the past fifteen years, purer than before and, even in her eyes, rejuvenated. But married, to a dangerous man.

The Butterfly Swing(2020)

1h 30min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 3 votes)

The story is centered on the stubborn farmer Ernst and his wife Louise who are celebrating their 50th anniversary with a traditional Danish gold wedding for friends and family. However, the family carries several secrets and Ernest holds on to the biggest one of them all. Through one long joyous, intoxicating, surprising, gripping and melancholic night, the truths creep out and the family is put to the ultimate test.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm(1932)

1h 15min | Drama, Romance / Love

A young girl from Sunnybrook goes to live with her wealthy relatives and falls in love with a doctor. Adapted from Kate Douglas Wiggin's famous novel.

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