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6.3

92%

Angelo Madsen Minax Director

Angelo Madsen Minax as

Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown following the death of his infant niece and the subsequent arrest of his brother-in-law as the culprit. Using the audio-visual approaches of essay film, first-person cinema vérité, staged actions, and decades of home movies, Madsen navigates a town steeped in opioid addiction, economic depression, and religious fervor, while using the act of filmmaking to rebuild familial bonds and reimagine justice. Posing empathy as a tool for creating a more just world, North By Current does not seek to investigate a crime, but creates a relentless portrait of an enduring pastoral family, poised to reframe and reimagine narratives about incarceration, addiction, trans embodiment, and ruralness.

Sweet Land

2005

grandparent grandchild relationship

7.1

♡ 6

85%

minnesota

Romance

rural area

Ali Selim Director

John Heard as Minister Sorrensen

Paul Sand as Old Frandsen

Robert Hogan as Old Olaf

Patrick Heusinger as Young Lars

Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.

This is Our Land

2017

6.4

♡ 4

73%

Lucas Belvaux Director

Jean-Louis Sbille as M. Biaggi

Émilie Dequenne as Pauline Duhez

André Dussollier as Philippe Berthier

Guillaume Gouix as Stéphane Stankowiak, dit Stanko

Pauline, a devoted and generous home help nurse, raises her two children alone, while also looking after her father, a former steelworker. Taking advantage of her popularity, the directors of an extremist political party suggest she become their candidate at the mayoral elections.

Truth and Justice

2019

Estonian

7.9

♡ 16

80%

Tanel Toom Director

Ott Aardam as Hundipalu Tiit

Andres Lepik as Pastor

Ahti Puudersell as Puudersell

Andres Tabun as Tabun

Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber's Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams.

Caballerango

6.8

Juan Pablo González Director

Nando, a young horse wrangler in a rural Mexican village, has taken his own life following a disagreement with his father. Caballerango shows the boy’s family members and townspeople as they reckon with the new realities borne out of this inexplicable tragedy. Each account of Nando’s story reveals a different aspect of this rural town, which is deeply affected by modernization. The confrontation between the centuries-old ways of life and the modern-day world seems to be creating serious identity crises among the younger generation. The story is told in a patient, observational style with methodical shots of the landscape, ranches, and of the two white horses, whom Nando and his father tended to. Those horses, the last to see Nando alive, connect us to an ethereal sensation of almost otherworldly mystical beings.

El Lute: Run for Your Life

1987

Spanish

6.6

♡ 2

Vicente Aranda Director

Rafael Hernández as Guardia Civil en tren

Manuel de Blas as Policía

Daniel Medrán as Preso

Luis Barbero as Sacerdote

In Spain of the 1960s, a poor family of quinquis - a nomadic ethnic group with a tradition as old as that of the gypsises of Spain but with even more obscure origins - have a nomadic life marked by poverty. The son, Eleuterio Sánchez Rodriguez, nicknamed "El Lute", steals some chickens and is condemned to six months in jail. El Lute moves to the slum outskirts of Madrid with his common law wife, Chelo, starting an itinerant life as a peddler of pots and pans and living in a quinqui shantytown. He gradually embarks upon as life of petty criminality, eventually participating in the theft of a jewelry store during which a bystander is killed.

The Auction

2013

parent child relationship

7.0

♡ 5

82%

quebec

rural area

Sébastien Pilote Director

Nathalie Cavezzali as Journaliste

Jean-Philippe Wauthier as Journaliste

Frédéric Gilles as Journaliste

Pierre-Luc Brillant as Préposé au foyer

Gaby owns a farm on which he raises lambs: Bouchard & Sons Farm. But he has no sons. Rather, he has two daughters that he raised like princesses and who live far away, in the big city. One day, the oldest asks him for some financial support so she doesn't end up losing her house...

A Gentle Breeze in the Village

2007

Japanese

7.1

♡ 29

74%

Nobuhiro Yamashita Director

Satoru Saitô as Atsuko's Father

Kôichi Satô as Father

Masaki Okada as Hiromi Osawa Kaho

Kaho as Soyo Migita

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.

Winter Sleep

2014

Turkish

8.0

♡ 44

87%

husband wife relationship

retirement

rural area

writer

Nuri Bilge Ceylan Director

Haluk Bilginer as Aydin

Nejat Isler as Ismail

Demet Akbag as Necla

Melisa Sözen as Nihal

Aydın is a hotel owner and a retired actor in rural Turkey. As winter emerges he begins navigating the conflicts within the relationships with his wife, sister and existence.

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.

As I Lay Dying

2013

5.3

♡ 11

37%

36%

James Franco Director

Jim Parrack as Cash

James Franco as Darl Bundren

Logan Marshall-Green as Jewel

Jesse Heiman as Jody

Strife and disaster befall a poor Mississippi family during a two-day trip by horse and wagon to bury their deceased matriarch.

A Private Function

1984

6.5

♡ 2

91%

Malcolm Mowbray Director

Denholm Elliott as Dr. Swaby

Maggie Smith as Joyce Chilvers

Alison Steadman as Mrs Allardyce

Tony Haygarth as Sutcliff

In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.

Certain Women

2016

6.4

♡ 33

92%

Kelly Reichardt Director

Kristen Stewart as Elizabeth Travis

Jared Harris as Fuller

Guy Boyd as Personal Injury Lawyer

Ashlie Atkinson as Secretary

Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a lonely ranch hand who forms an ambiguous bond with a young law student.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1959

6.9

♡ 25

95%

73%

Terence Fisher Director

John Le Mesurier as Barrymore

Sam Kydd as Perkins

Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes

Christopher Lee as Sir Henry

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Marshland

2014

Spanish

7.2

♡ 19

91%

Alberto Rodríguez Director

Javier Gutiérrez as Juan Robles

Raúl Arévalo as Pedro Suárez

Manolo Solo as Periodista el Caso

Jesús Castro as Quini

The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters - both detectives in the homicide division - to investigate the cases.

The Grand Highway

1987

7.3

♡ 4

Jean-Loup Hubert Director

Marcelle Lucas as 1ère plumeuse

Jeanne Allaire as 2ème plumeuse

Christine Hubert as La bouchère

Richard Bohringer as Pelo

Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year- old girl next door, and learns from her about life.

Last Dance

1996

5.7

♡ 12

30%

Bruce Beresford Director

Skeet Ulrich as Billy, Cindy's Brother

Sharon Stone as Cindy Liggett

Peter Gallagher as John Hayes

Rob Morrow as Rick Hayes

Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. As Hayes investigates the background for her case, the two begin to form a deep friendship, while all the while the date for her execution draws nearer.

That Old Dream That Moves

2001

6.7

♡ 1

Alain Guiraudie Director

Jean-Marie Combelles as Donand

Pierre Louis-Calixte as Jacques

Laurent Lunetta as Laurent

Rui Fernandes as Pierre

A chronicle of queer lust set against a greasy metallic environment of the last days of a factory that is about to shut down. Among the workers forced to idle away until the end of the week, Jacques, a young technician is busy dismantling a machine while, without noticing it, turning on some of the men around him!

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1939

7.4

♡ 13

91%

83%

Sidney Lanfield Director

John Carradine as Barryman

Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson

Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes

Herschel Graham as Ship Passenger

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Excess Will Save Us

2022