Rural Life Movies

A musical portrait of Texas blues songster Mance Lipscomb.

Shortly before leaving his small town to go to the big city to study, young Daniel recalls his childhood, surrounded by family and friends.

The film follows 94-year-old Nežka as she navigates loneliness, the loss of those she loves, and the quiet emptiness of everyday life. Her faith...

A family goes for a nice picnic in the countryside. But the pleasant rural atmosphere soon makes a turn for the worse.

After spending three years in captivity in Tunis, Bartolomé returns home Extremadura with the only hope to eat his favorite dish: the pork....

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

Region of Castilla La Vieja, Spain, early 20th century. In Luján, a village ravaged by drought, Juan, a humble farmer who survives with his...

This short documentary illustrates rural French Canadian life in the early 1940s. The film follows Alexis Tremblay and his family through the busy...

Two women discuss the roles and problems of women, education, and shopping on Fogo Island.

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...

Gregório is a rustic and idealistic peasant who lives frustrated in the village of Rosillas. Arrogant and bold, he wants to recover the waters...

The first of a documentary serie about rural France.

Paco, a jealous and bitter man who is in love with Rosario, conspires in the shadows to bring about the downfall of Manuel, her husband.

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

The village of Yahidne in northern Ukraine is coming back to life. Dogs are running around. Gardens and crops are green again. People support one...

An Irish-born businessman based in London is kidnapped by colleagues as a joke and flown back to the small village of his birth. There he finds that...