Keyword: rural area

Brother and Sister

6.8

1953

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In Older Brother, Younger Sister, director Mikio Naruses adaptation of an oft-filmed popular novel by Saisei Murô, the eldest daughter (Machiko Kyô) of a rural family comes home pregnant, testing some already tenuous family bonds. Naruse shows his considerable skill at portraying household dynamics, filming Kyô in relaxed and/or reclining positions (indicative of her characters exhaustively maintained independence) that are then intruded upon by her ill-tempered older brother (Masayuki Mori), whose initially comic, brute-force presence grows increasingly menacing and treacherous as the film progresses.

Nurse on Wheels

5.6

1963

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Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.

Nang Nak

6.5

1999

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Mak goes home from war and lives together with his wife and baby happily until a friend decides to reveal a secret.

Black Bread

6.9

2010

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In the harsh post-war years Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding out who truly killed them. In this search, Andreu develops a moral consciousness against a world of adults fed by lies. In order to survive, he betrays his own roots and ends up finding out the monster that lives within him.

State Fair

6.2

1933

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An Iowa family finds adventure, love and heartbreak when they spend a week at the state fair.

The Holy Innocents

7.9

1984

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Spain, 1960s. People from a very poor family work in the country, at the service of a rich family of landowners...

The Mudge Boy

7.5

2003

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The film follows the story of Duncan, a fourteen-year-old misfit farm boy trying to fill the void and alleviate the numbness left by his mothers passing. Unable to let her go quite yet, Duncan mimics his dead mother. He talks in her voice at the dinner table and wears her fur coat to bed. Edgar, Duncans distant sixty-year-old father, doesnt understand the strange manifestations of his sons mourning. Why cant Duncan grieve like a normal person? Macho mate Perry Foley, who has it physically even harder on his dads farm, usually comforts Duncan and defends his wimpiness to their cocky ruffian mates Travis, Scotty and Brent. But although clearly attracted to gentle Duncan himself, the socially unacceptable suggestion of sissy homosexuality makes Perry over-react and turn on his friend.

Happy as Lazzaro

7.7

2018

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An unceasingly kind Italian peasant and his family are blatantly exploited by a tobacco baroness.

Americana

6.5

1981

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In a small town in rural Kansas, a troubled veteran attempts to restore an old merry-go-round ride.

The Wind Will Carry Us

7.6

1999

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Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.

The Quiet Man

7.9

1952

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A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union.

My Girl

8

2003

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Jeab hears that his childhood sweetheart Noi-Naa is to be married, so he makes the trip back home to his provincial village. As he does so, the memories come flooding back to his childhood in 1980s Thailand. He remembers always being late to school, so his father would have to give him a ride on the back of the motorcycle. After school, he would always play with Noi-Naa and her girlfriends while the neighborhood boys rode their bicycles and played football and Chinese fantasy characters.