Best "village life" Movies of All Time

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Dogville(2003)

3.9/5 (with 1,034 votes)

A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth their effort, so Grace works hard under the employ of various townspeople to win their favor. Tensions flare, however, and Grace's status as a helpless outsider provokes vicious contempt and abuse from the citizens of Dogville.

Directed by Lars von Trier - With Nicole Kidman, Paul Bettany, Stellan Skarsgård, Chloë Sevigny, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, John Hurt, ...

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The Chinese Widow(2017)

| 1h 37min | Drama, Romance / Love, History, War

3.6/5 (with 66 votes)

It’s 1941 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has destroyed America’s morale. The US President Franklin D. Roosevelt then decides to risk it all by bombing Tokyo and raise more hope for his citizens. After completing its mission, a unit of the US Air Force is forced to make an emergency landing in China. Its commander Jack Turner (Emilie Hirsch) barely survives but gets rescued by Ying (Crystal Liu), a local widow who will stop at nothing to hide him from the Japanese occupant.

Directed by Bille August - With Liu Yifei

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Where Is My Friend's House?(1987)

1h 23min | Drama, Kids & Family

4.0/5 (with 148 votes)

An 8 year old boy must return his friend's notebook he took by mistake, lest his friend be punished by expulsion from school.

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami

Local Hero(1983)

| 1h 51min | Comedy, Drama

3.4/5 (with 136 votes)

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

Directed by Bill Forsyth - With Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay, Peter Capaldi

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Little Forest: Summer/Autumn(2014)

1h 51min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 39 votes)

Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet potatoes, Ichiko begins reaping rice and recalls her departure five years before.

Little Forest: Winter/Spring(2015)

2h | Drama

3.9/5 (with 33 votes)

Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm. Later, spring brings thoughts of her absent mother as well as rice planting and sakura, and she begins to think of leaving Komori behind again.

In My Father's Den(2004)

| 2h 6min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

3.6/5 (with 42 votes)

Paul (Macfadyen), a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to the death of his father, battle-scarred and world-weary. For the discontented sixteen-year-old Celia (Barclay) he opens up a world she has only dreamed of. She actively pursues a friendship with him, fascinated by his cynicism and experience of the world beyond her small-town existence. But many, including the members of both their families (Otto, Moy), frown upon the friendship and when Celia goes missing, Paul becomes the increasingly loathed and persecuted prime suspect in her disappearance. As the violent and urgent truth gradually emerges, Paul is forced to confront the family tragedy and betrayal that he ran from as a youth, and to face the grievous consequences of silence and secrecy that has surrounded his entire adult life.

Directed by Brad McGann - With Matthew Macfadyen, Emily Barclay, Miranda Otto

Antonia's Line(1995)

| 1h 42min | Drama, Comedy

3.5/5 (with 51 votes)

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around her include quirky friend Crooked Finger, would-be suitor Bas and, eventually for Antonia, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter who help create a strong family of empowered women.

Directed by Marleen Gorris - With Els Dottermans, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Victor Löw, Carlo van Dam, Dora van der Groen, Jan Decleir, ...

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The Source(2011)

2h 15min | Comedy, Drama

3.3/5 (with 80 votes)

A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.

Directed by Radu Mihăileanu - With Leïla Bekhti, Hafsia Herzi, Hiam Abbass, Biyouna, Saleh Bakri, Sabrina Ouazani, ...

Silent Light(2007)

2h 16min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 47 votes)

Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and Man, Johan falls in love with another woman.

Directed by Carlos Reygadas - With Miriam Toews, Maria Pankratz, Cornelio Wall, Jacques Brel

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, ...

A Gentle Breeze in the Village(2007)

2h 1min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 20 votes)

Based on a popular manga, the film is a tender coming-of-age love story set deep in Japan's countryside. When eighth grade cool guy Hiromi transfers from Tokyo to a small elementary/middle school with only six kids enrolled, wholesome and honest Soyo becomes enthralled with his sophisticated world.

Directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita - With Kaho, Masaki Okada

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Little Bird(1997)

1h 40min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

Manu travels to Murcia to spend the summer with their grandparents because their parents are getting divorced. Surrounded by gardens, sea, nature, and lush, warm family, Manu find his first love and the first signs of adulthood.

Directed by Carlos Saura - With Francisco Rabal, Dafne Fernández, Alejandro Martínez, Eulàlia Ramon, María Luisa San José, Paulina Gálvez, ...

A Stroke of Luck(2016)

1h 30min | Romance / Love, Drama, Comedy

2.5/5 (with 92 votes)

Villaviciosa de al Lado is a peaceful town stuck in time, living exclusively of the fame of a 200 years-old spa. Therefore, city hall's debts threatens to close the spa and ruin all town. Their salvation becomes when suddenly mayor Anselmo and the rest of members of city hall realize that they won the Christmas Lottery. But their happiness turns in horror after to discover that the prize belongs to a serial number distributed by the town's brothel, causing the suspicion of the wives and fear of the husbands after a TV interview where Mari, brothel's owner, claims that the almost men of the town will have prize from the lottery. Wanting a way to charge the prize to save the town without having to suffer the anger of their respective women, Anselmo, Ricardo, César, Juandi and Paco plots a plan in order to steal the money from the brothel, meanwhile Mari tries reconcile her stranded life and restore the memory of her deceased father, a former mayor.

Directed by Nacho G. Velilla - With Carmen Machi, Macarena García, Julieta Serrano, Miguel Rellán, Belén Cuesta, Leo Harlem, ...

Luna Papa(1999)

1h 43min | Drama, Comedy

3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

The unborn child of Mamlakat is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a travelling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and makes her pregnant. She tries to abort, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures.

Directed by Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov - With Moritz Bleibtreu, Çulpan Xämmatova, Ato Mukhamedshanov, Dinmukhamet Akhimov, Merab Ninidze, Nikolai Fomenko, ...

Ramaiya Vastavaiya(2013)

2h 28min | Romance / Love, Action, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

A wealthy NRI falls hard for a country girl during a visit to his homeland.

Directed by Prabhu Deva - With Girish Kumar, Shruti Haasan, Sonu Sood, Poonam Dhillon, Randhir Kapoor

Whistle Down the Wind(1961)

| 1h 39min | Crime, Drama

3.6/5 (with 23 votes)

When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.

Directed by Bryan Forbes - With Hayley Mills, Bernard Lee, Alan Bates

The Old Guard(1960)

1h 25min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 18 votes)

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Directed by Gilles Grangier - With Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Noël-Noël, Mona Goya, Yvette Etiévant, André Dalibert, ...

Naya Daur(1957)

2h 53min | Drama

4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Shankar lives in a remote village in rural India with his mother and sister, Manju, and drives a horse-carriage for a living. The main employer in the region is a kind-hearted businessman Maganlal. When Maganlal announces that he would like to undertake a religious pilgrimage, his son, Kundan, takes over and wants to cut back on labor and mechanize the business - thus leading to loss in jobs.

Directed by Baldev Raj Chopra - With Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Leela Chitnis

Mr. Bones 2: Back from the Past(2008)

1h 41min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

Hekule, the King of Kuvukiland, is given a gemstone by the dying Kunji Balanadin. The stone is cursed and causes Hekule to become possessed by the spirit of the mischievous Kunji. It is up Mr. Bones, the royal witch doctor to cure his King and get rid of this cursed stone by returning the gem to its home in an Indian fishing village.

Directed by Gray Hofmeyr - With Leon Schuster

Brother of Sleep(1995)

2h 7min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and discovers his love of music, especially rebuilding and playing the organ at the village church. After experiencing an "acoustic wonder", his eye color changes and he can hear even the most subtle sounds.

Directed by Joseph Vilsmaier - With André Eisermann, Dana Vávrová, Ben Becker, Jochen Nickel, Jürgen Schornagel, Paulus Manker, ...

Deliver Us from Evil(2009)

1h 40min | Thriller

3.0/5 (with 16 votes)

In search of a new lifestyle, Johannes and his wife Pernille leave the city and move with their two children to Johannes’ childhood town in the country. When Johannes’ drunken brother Lars accidently runs over Anna, a local, and plants false evidence pointing at the emigrant Alain, Johannes stands up to defend Alain. But it comes with a price.

Directed by Ole Bornedal - With Lasse Rimmer, Andreas Bo Pedersen, Jens Andersen, Lone Lindorff, Mogens Pedersen, Pernille Vallentin, ...

Longing(2006)

1h 28min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

An average, everyday metalworker and volunteer firefighter content in his marriage to his childhood sweetheart finds his emotions unexpectedly stirred when he falls for a pretty waitress from a nearby town.

Directed by Valeska Grisebach

Educate Yourself My Son(1981)

1h 36min | Drama, Comedy

3.9/5 (with 8 votes)

The most important political, post-military junta satire about the nation, the religion, the education, the family.

Directed by Thodoros Maragos - With Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Kostas Tsakonas, Anna Mantzourani, Dimitris Kaberidis, Dímos Avdeliódis, Christos Kalavrouzos, ...

A Village Affair(1995)

1h 41min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.2/5 (with 4 votes)

An apparently happy wife in an English village has a relationship with a local aristocrat's daughter.

Directed by Moira Armstrong - With Sophie Ward, Jeremy Northam, Michael Gough, Keira Knightley, Kerry Fox, Nathaniel Parker, ...

Letter from the Mountain(2002)

2h 8min | Drama

4.2/5 (with 4 votes)

As the film begins, Takao (Akira Terao) and Michiko (Kanako Higuchi) have already pulled up their Tokyo roots and moved to a village that is Takao's ancestral home. They visit a thatched cottage that serves as a memorial shrine (amidado) for the village dead and chat with the attendant, the spry 96-year-old Oume (Tanie Kitabayashi). Together they admire the view -- from an inspiring distance. Oume, it turns out, is a kind of sage, whose thoughts and observations are a popular feature in a column in a local newsletter. Her amanuensis is a mute, sweetly smiling young woman named Sayuri (Manami Konishi), who is as devoted to Oume as Oume is to the souls of her beloved dead.

Sun, Hay, Berries(1983)

1h 23min | Comedy

3.6/5 (with 11 votes)

A Czech agricultural student, Šimon Plánička, arrives at the small South Bohemian town of Hoštice, and joins the local JZD (agricultural co-op) with the intention of trying out his experiment regarding the "Milk yield of cows in regards to a cultured environment". He runs into difficulty with the directorship of the JZD, but he finds them eager to help once they hear he's the son of the local agricultural commissioner, as his last name is also Plánička. Blažena Škopková is given the task of finding out how things are looking. However everything is complicated by the jealousy of Blažena's boyfriend Venca.

Directed by Zdeněk Troška - With Helena Růžičková, Erna Červená, Veronika Kánská, Broněk Černý, Pavel Kikinčuk, Miroslav Zounar, ...

Dear Doctor(2009)

2h 7min | Drama

3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

Osamu Ino is a great doctor who is beloved in his rural village. His knowledge and dedication make an equally strong impression on his reluctant medical intern, Keisuke Soma. But, Soma and the villagers reconsider their opinion when they learn about a shameful incident from Dr. Ino's past. Now the once-respected doctor must account for his past actions.

Directed by Miwa Nishikawa - With Tsurube Shōfukutei, Eita Nagayama, Teruyuki Kagawa, Kaoru Yachigusa, Kimiko Yo, Yutaka Matsushige, ...

The Stepmother(1973)

1h 25min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Based on novel of the same name by Mariya Khalfina. In Pavel Olevantsev’s family suddenly comes news that his daughter by another woman was orphaned. Pavel did not know about the existence of the girl, nor could his wife know about it... It is not easy to decide to take the child to his house. But it will be much more difficult to endear the girl to them, to return her the joy of childhood and the belief that she is not alone...

Directed by Oleg Bondarev - With Tatiana Doronina, Leonid Nevedomsky

The Whaler Boy(2020)

1h 33min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

Everything changes in the life of a young 15-year-old Chukchi hunter Lyoshka with the advent of the Internet in the village. He falls in love – for the first time and deeply – with the silent video chat girl. Upon learning that she lives in Detroit, Lyoshka decides on the most desperate act in his life.

Directed by Philipp Yuryev - With Kristina Asmus

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