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.

Letter from the Mountain

2002

Japanese

7.2

♡ 6

Action

based on novel or book

Takashi Koizumi Director

Hidetaka Yoshioka as Dr. Nakamura

Kanako Higuchi as Michiko Ueda

Manami Konishi as Sayuri

Takahiro Tamura as Shigenaga Koda

Husband and wife Michiko and Takao move from their urban existence in Tokyo to the isolated, rural farming village where Takao grew up.

Village of Swimming Cows

2018

Polish

7.0

♡ 4

Katarzyna Trzaska Director

Luna Leung as Self

Ayumi Matsuzaka as Self

Mario May as Self

Ronny Kleiner as Self

A docu-comedy about three neo-hippies from Berlin who move to a farm in Poland to be closer to nature. They meditate, practice acroyoga and shower in the garden. The villagers consider them complete eccentrics.

Little Forest: Summer/Autumn

2014

Japanese

7.6

♡ 17

88%

Jun'ichi Mori Director

Yôichi Nukumizu as

Takahiro Miura as

Ai Hashimoto as Ichiko

Mayu Matsuoka as Kikko

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.

The Whaler Boy

2020

Russian

6.4

♡ 5

93%

grandparent grandchild relationship

teenage boy

village life

webcam

Philipp Yuryev Director

Gennady Iuneut as Gena

Kristina Asmus as Girl from America

Evgeny Ayanto as Poacher

Zakhar Vykvytke as Poacher

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.

Dear Doctor

2009

Japanese

7.0

♡ 3

71%

Miwa Nishikawa Director

Takashi Sasano as

Yutaka Matsushige as

Kimiko Yo as Akemi Ohtake

Kaoru Yachigusa as Kaduko Torikai

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.

The Day Has Gone

1968

Hungarian

6.9

♡ 1

Márta Mészáros Director

Gaspar Jancso as (as Jancsó Gáspár)

Gábor Agárdi as A züllött szabó

Kati Kovács as Szõnyi Erzsi

Teri Horváth as Zsámbokiné

A young woman leaves a state orphanage to find her mother in this interesting examination of how the overt repression of women in the older pattern of village life has been replaced by the more subtle exploitation inherent in the apparently freer existence of young girls in the contemporary city.

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.

Hatred

2016

Polish

7.6

♡ 17

94%

Wojciech Smarzowski Director

Maciej Winkler as Chaim Kac

Maria Sobocinska as Helena Glowacka-Huk

Julian Swiezewski as Lieutenant

Ireneusz Czop as Priest Adam

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.

Deliver Us from Evil

2009

Danish

6.5

80%

Ole Bornedal Director

Jacob Ottensten as Frederik

Lasse Rimmer as Johannes

Sonja Richter as Presenter

Fanny Bornedal as Viola

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.

In Harm's Way

2017

Chinese

6.3

♡ 29

57%

Bille August Director

Emile Hirsch as Jack

Vincent Riotta as Jimmy Doolittle

Vivian Wu as Old Nunu

Yifei Liu as Ying

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.

Ankur

1974

Hindi

7.8

♡ 6

100%

Shyam Benegal Director

Dalip Tahil as (as Daleep Tahil)

Sadhu Meher as Kishtayya

Shabana Azmi as Laxmi

Priya Tendulkar as Saru

In a small Indian village, a destitute woman's barren, alcoholic husband absconds after stealing toddy. Alone to fend for herself, she ends up relying on the affections of her landlord's to-be-married son who recently returned to look after the estate.

A River Called Titas

1973

Bangla

7.2

♡ 11

Ritwik Ghatak Director

Farid Ali as

Rawshan Zamil as Basanti's mother

Golam Mustafa as Ramprasad / Kader Mian

Abul Hayat as Thakur

An in-depth look at the lives and struggles of a fishing community living by the River Titas in Bangladesh after the Partition of India in 1947.

Kabahat

2022

Turkish

5.5

♡ 8

Umran Safter Director

Kayra Kalayci as Mehmet

Nuray Mermer Kalayci as Melahat

Melek Yarasir as Nezahat

Mina Demirtas as Reyhan

Reyhan, raised in a religious family, arrives to spend her summer holidays at her grandmother Ummu's house in a conservative central Anatolian village, accompanied by her mother Hatice, and her 6 year old brother Mehmet. The 13 year old is gripped by a state of inner turmoil. She has just had her first period and dreads the consequences of being unable to perform the required religious rites. Reyhan's concerns mount after she finds out the water supply at her grandmother's village house is cut off. She is desperate to find a way to perform the required religious ablution rites, which she has always been told will protect her from attacks by djinns and facial disfiguration. She starts having nightmares. At the same time, Reyhan is also determined to help Şükran, her best friend in the village.

Les vieux de la vieille

1960

French

6.6

♡ 4

56%

Action

alcohol abuse

based on novel or book

Gilles Grangier Director

Jacques Marin as Le gendarme au saut de chaîne de vélo

Paul Faivre as Léon

Yane Barry as Mariette

Nicole Desailly as Une villageoise

Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside

Local Hero

1983

English

7.3

♡ 17

100%

Bill Forsyth Director

John M. Jackson as Cal

Burt Lancaster as Felix Happer

Denis Lawson as Urquhart

Alex Norton as Watt

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.

In My Father's Den

2004

English

7.4

♡ 25

100%

Brad McGann Director

Antony Starr as Gareth

Jodie Rimmer as Jackie

Matthew Macfadyen as Paul Prior

Miranda Otto as Penny

War journalist Paul Prior returns to his New Zealand hometown after his father’s death, rekindling strained relationships with his brother and memories of a troubled past. He befriends Celia, a curious and aspiring writer, who shares a fascination with his world. When Celia mysteriously disappears, Paul becomes the prime suspect, forcing him to confront buried secrets and uncover the dark truths of his family and community.

Little Forest: Winter/Spring

2015

Japanese

7.6

♡ 10

Jun'ichi Mori Director

Yôichi Nukumizu as

Takahiro Miura as

Ai Hashimoto as Ichiko

Mayu Matsuoka as Kikko

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.