THEME EXPLORATION

rural village life

44 films · 3 directors

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FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Boyhood
Boyhood
2014 · Richard Linklater
The Gin Game
The Gin Game
1981 · Mike Nichols
You Have to Come and See It
You Have to Come and See It
2022 · Jonás Trueba
Chung Kuo Cina
Chung Kuo Cina
1972 · Michelangelo Antonioni
El mégano
El mégano
1955 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Five Men in the Circus
Five Men in the Circus
1935 · Mikio Naruse
Maria Chapdelaine
Maria Chapdelaine
1934 · Julien Duvivier
Roma
Roma
1972 · Federico Fellini
The Rising of the Moon
The Rising of the Moon
1957 · John Ford
The Sundowners
The Sundowners
1960 · Fred Zinnemann
Russian Lullabies
Russian Lullabies
1993 · Nobuhiko Obayashi
Tokyo-ga
Tokyo-ga
1985 · Wim Wenders
Aquí está Heraclio Bernal/Here Comes Heraclio Bernal
Aquí está Heraclio Bernal/Here Comes Heraclio Bernal
1957 · Roberto Gavaldón
No Rest for the Brave
No Rest for the Brave
2003 · Alain Guiraudie
Winter Brothers
Winter Brothers
2017 · Hlynur Pálmason
Diary of a Country Priest
Diary of a Country Priest
1951 · Robert Bresson
Blind Chance
Blind Chance
1987 · Krzysztof Kieślowski
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 · F. W. Murnau
Notting Hill
Notting Hill
1999 · Roger Michell
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
1965 · Sergei Parajanov
Earth
Earth
1930 · Alexander Dovzhenko
Divine Intervention
Divine Intervention
2002 · Elia Suleiman
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
2025 · Guillermo del Toro
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
2011 · Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Taste of Cherry
Taste of Cherry
1997 · Abbas Kiarostami
Touki Bouki
Touki Bouki
1973 · Djibril Diop Mambéty
Family Life
Family Life
1971 · Ken Loach
Ikarie XB-1
Ikarie XB-1
1963 · Jindřích Polák
Whisky
Whisky
2004 · Juan Pablo Rebella
Yellow Earth
Yellow Earth
1984 · Zhang Yimou
Brokeback Mountain
Brokeback Mountain
2005 · Ang Lee
An Evening Shoot
An Evening Shoot
2009 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul
On the Job
On the Job
2013 · Erik Matti
¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?
¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?
1984 · Pedro Almodóvar
Tulpan
Tulpan
2008 · Sergei Dvortsevoy
Utama
Utama
2022 · Alejandro Loayza Grisi
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 · Stanley Kubrick
Tourettes
Tourettes
1971 · David Cronenberg
Camion
Camion
2012 · Rafaël Ouellet
Corn Island
Corn Island
2014 · Giorgi Ovashvili
Me You Them
Me You Them
2000 · Andrucha Waddington
Patrick
Patrick
2019 · Tim Mielants
Salesman
Salesman
1969 · Maysles Brothers
The Almost Man
The Almost Man
2012 · Martin Lund
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Vittorio De Sica Italy

His neorealist masterpieces like 'Bicycle Thieves' and 'Umberto D.' capture the dignity and struggles of ordinary rural and working-class life with profound humanism.

 Hirokazu Koreeda Japan

Films like 'Still Walking' and 'Like Father, Like Son' intimately explore family bonds and the quiet rhythms of rural Japanese village existence.

 Ken Loach United Kingdom

His socially conscious films such as 'Kes' and 'I, Daniel Blake' authentically document rural working-class life and economic hardship with unflinching realism.