Mystery novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with her secretary's fiancé and when her estranged husband unexpectedly returns, Janet poisons him, but just as she's about to dispose of the body, one of her husband's criminal cohorts also shows up.

A Sunday in the Country

1984

French

7.4

♡ 1

100%

Bertrand Tavernier Director

Thomas Duval as Emile

Jean-Roger Milo as Fisherman

Erika Faivre as Little girl

Claude Winter as Madame Ladmiral

In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.

Nurse on Wheels

1963

English

6.2

♡ 5

56%

Gerald Thomas Director

Joan Sims as Deborah Walcott

Ronald Lewis as Henry Edwards

Aileen Lewis as Lady in Pub

Jim Dale as Tim Taylor

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.

His

2020

Japanese

7.3

♡ 5

Rikiya Imaizumi Director

Kumi Nakamura as Fumiko Noda

Toshie Negishi as Fusako Yoshimura

Kisetsu Fujiwara as Nagisa Hibino

Wakana Matsumoto as Rena Hibino

Shun and Nagisa first meet and fall in love during their first year of high school. While Shun is graduating from university, Nagisa tells him that he doesn't see a future for them. Despite Shun's strong feelings, they go their separate ways. Years later, Shun is now a store owner, living alone in a rural area. Out of the blue, Nagisa arrives with his six-year-old daughter, Sora. Spending time together, Shun realizes he still harbors feelings for Nagisa. Can Nagisa reconcile with his feelings for Shun, which have been there all along?

The Watcher in the Woods

1980

English

6.2

♡ 17

52%

John Hough Director

Kyle Richards as Ellie Curtis

Ian Bannen as John Keller

Richard Pasco as Tom Colley

Georgina Hale as Young Mrs. Aylwood

After an American family moves to an old country manor in rural England, one of the daughters is tormented by the spirit of the owner's long lost daughter, who mysteriously disappeared 30 years ago during a solar eclipse.

Homebound

2021

English

4.3

♡ 5

67%

Sebastian Godwin Director

Raffiella Chapman as Anna

Aisling Loftus as Holly

Lukas Rolfe as Ralph

Tom Goodman-Hill as Richard

A young woman arrives at the home of her new husband's estranged family to find the children behaving in increasingly unnerving ways.

Howards End

1992

English

♡ 27

94%

81%

Action

based on novel or book

James Ivory Director

Jemma Redgrave as Evie Wilcox

Helena Bonham Carter as Helen Schlegel

Anthony Hopkins as Henry Wilcox

Emma Thompson as Margaret Schlegel

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.

My Week with Marilyn

2011

English

6.9

♡ 44

82%

71%

Action

based on novel or book

husband wife relationship

movie business

platonic love

Sport

Simon Curtis Director

Dougray Scott as Arthur Miller

Eddie Redmayne as Colin Clark

Emma Watson as Lucy

Kenneth Branagh as Sir Laurence Olivier

London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Marilyn Monroe. Young Colin Clark, who dreams on having a career in movie business, manages to get a job on the set as third assistant director.

The Score

2021

English

5.0

♡ 1

53%

Malachi Smyth Director

Naomi Ackie as

Will Poulter as

Lucian Msamati as

Johnny Flynn as

Mike and Troy, two small-time crooks, go to a roadside cafe for a meeting they hope to make a big profit from.

City Girl

1930

English

7.7

♡ 17

63%

F.W. Murnau Director

Arnold Lucy as Cafe patron

Richard Alexander as Mac

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams as Reaper

Jack Pennick as Reaper

A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.

A Distant Place

2020

Korean

6.6

♡ 3

Kun-Young Park Director

Sang-hee Lee as Eun Young

Kyung Hong as Hyun Min

Kang Gil-woo as Jin Woo

Ju-bong Gi as Joong Man

A sheep farmer whose remote and quiet life is disturbed by the arrival of both his lover and his twin sister.

Crystal Swan

2018

Russian

6.9

♡ 1

100%

Darya Zhuk Director

Guy V. Cimbalo as American Consul

Artyom Kuren as (as Artem Kuren)

Ivan Mulin as Stepan

Alina Nasibullina as Velya

Minsk, Belarus, 1996. Velya, an aspiring DJ, wants to move to Chicago to make her dreams come true, but bureaucracy, a phone line and the human condition will put obstacles in her way that will be difficult to avoid.

Men

2022

English

6.0

♡ 78

69%

Alex Garland Director

Rory Kinnear as Geoffrey

Jessie Buckley as Harper

Paapa Essiedu as James

Sonoya Mizuno as Police Operator

In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. But someone — or something — from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her, and what begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears.

Withnail and I

1987

English

7.5

♡ 25

84%

Bruce Robinson Director

Bruce Robinson as Double for various actors in distant shots

Paul McGann as ... & I

Michael Elphick as Jake

Richard Griffiths as Monty

Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

Susu

2018

English

3.6

♡ 1

Yixi Sun Director Zhu Lin

Zhu Lin as Aimo

Tom Mannion as Dirk Cain

Zitong Wu as Qi'an

Steve Edwin as Shirley / Charles Stuart / Antony Stuart

Two Chinese girls take a film transcription job at a heritage English countryside mansion. Discovering entangled family secrets about the Kunqu Opera star Susu, they find it almost impossible to escape, physically and emotionally.

All My Good Countrymen

1969

Czech

7.5

♡ 3

94%

Vojtech Jasný Director

Jirí Kodet as Fake policeman

Vladimír Mensík as Jorka

Karel Augusta as Joza Trna

Lubomír Kostelka as Man in pub

The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.

The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman

1971

Spanish

5.3

♡ 7

León Klimovsky Director

Julio Peña as Dr. Hartwig - Coroner

Barbara Capell as Genevieve Bennett

Barta Barri as Muller

José Marco as Pierre

Elvira is travelling through the French countryside with her friend Genevieve, searching for the lost tomb of a medieval murderess and possible vampire, Countess Wandessa. They find a likely site in the castle of Waldemar Daninsky, who invites the women to stay as long as they like. As Waldemar shows Elvira the tomb that supposedly houses the countess, she accidentally causes the vampire to come back to life, hungrier than ever. Daninsky has a hidden secret of his own, but will it be enough to save the two girls from becoming Wandessa's next victims?

The Gleaners & I

2000

French

7.7

♡ 7

Agnès Varda Director

Agnès Varda as Self

François Wertheimer as Self

Jean La Planche as Self

Bodan Litnanski as Self

Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of necessity or activism.

We Bought a Zoo

2011

English

7.0

♡ 119

64%

71%

Action

animal

based on memoir or autobiography

Cameron Crowe Director

Matt Damon as Benjamin Mee

Thomas Haden Church as Duncan Mee

Scarlett Johansson as Kelly Foster

Elle Fanning as Lily Miska

Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the head keeper and the rest of the staff, but, the zoo soon runs into financial trouble.

Goatling

2020

Portuguese

4.1

♡ 2

Luciano de Azevedo Director

Magui Bravi as Irmã

Sandra Emília as Mãe Velha

Ramon Brant as Son 1

Iuri Alvarenga as Son 2

Split into three chapters, "Cabrito" tells the story of a man haunted by his loved ones. The film begins with the story of his father and how the family became cannibal. The second part focuses on his mother and how she awakens the worst in her son with her twisted religiousness. The last part is focused on the main character's final catharsis, when he kidnaps his first love, Rosalita, and reproduces the inhuman bizarre caring to which he was subjected in his family relations.

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Another Man's Poison

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His

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Homebound

Howards End

My Week with Marilyn

The Score

City Girl

A Distant Place

Crystal Swan

Men

Withnail and I

Susu

All My Good Countrymen

The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman

The Gleaners & I

We Bought a Zoo

Goatling