Peasant Movies

  • 1967
    Thanos and Despina

    Thanos and Despina

    Thanos and Despina

    7.1251967HD

    Katina, an impoverished Greek woman, tries to arrange the marriage of her shepherd son, Thanos, to Despina, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. But...

    Thanos and Despina
  • 1943
    Wild Flower

    Wild Flower

    Wild Flower

    6.61943HD

    The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between...

    Wild Flower
  • 2001
    Die Scheinheiligen

    Die Scheinheiligen

    Die Scheinheiligen

    5.52001HD

    The starting point is the small (and real) town of Daxenbrunn, which has the misfortune of being located right on the highway to Salzburg. But Mayor...

    Die Scheinheiligen
  • 1989
    Autumn Milk

    Autumn Milk

    Autumn Milk

    7.91989HD

    With the death of her mother, eight-year-old Anna ends her childhood: From now on, she has to look after the nine-member family. Deprivation-rich...

    Autumn Milk
  • 1962
    Superfluous

    Superfluous

    Superfluous

    6.21962HD

    Young farmer Mikajlo while on youth labour action falls in love with a student Nada and infatuated with her, he leaves the peasant brigade and...

    Superfluous
  • 1983
    Harvest of Steel

    Harvest of Steel

    Harvest of Steel

    9.51983HD

    Years after Algeria gained independence, war continues to claim lives in Soulima, a border village surrounded by mines, whose victims are too...

    Harvest of Steel
  • 1939
    Mendelssohn's Wedding March

    Mendelssohn's Wedding March

    Mendelssohn's Wedding March

    5.71939HD

    This short film provides a fanciful account of how Felix Mendelssohn came to compose "The Wedding March".

    Mendelssohn's Wedding March
  • 1970
    Once on This Island

    Once on This Island

    Once on This Island

    01970HD

    Adaptation of the Broadway musical. The story is set in the French Antilles in the Caribbean Sea and tells of a peasant girl who falls in love with...

    Once on This Island
  • 1962
    Tlayucan

    Tlayucan

    Tlayucan

    6.61962HD

    Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.

    Tlayucan
  • 1971
    Breakfast with the Devil

    Breakfast with the Devil

    Breakfast with the Devil

    6.81971HD

    In 1947, among the ruins of war and in anticipation of a catastrophic flood, the locals of a Vojvodina village find themselves caught between the...

    Breakfast with the Devil
  • 1970
    Handcuffs

    Handcuffs

    Handcuffs

    6.71970HD

    Yugoslavia, 1948, the year of Inform Bureau's resolution and Tito's break-up with Stalin. The story takes place during a wedding in the Dalmatian...

    Handcuffs
  • 1963
    Countrymen

    Countrymen

    Countrymen

    7.21963HD

    A girl from passive area comes to work in Vojvodina's fertile lowlands, along with a group of peasants for a seasonal work. After visiting a city...

    Countrymen
  • 2002
    Dinorah, or The Pardon of Ploërmel

    Dinorah, or The Pardon of Ploërmel

    Dinorah, or The Pardon of Ploërmel

    02002HD

    Giacomo Meyerbeer's pastoral opera,based on a Breton tale, is the tale of DINORAH who has gone mad because her bridegroom Hoël has disappeared...

    Dinorah, or The Pardon of Ploërmel
  • 2007
    Full Metal Village

    Full Metal Village

    Full Metal Village

    6.7692007HD

    The film describes the microcosmos of the small village Wacken and shows the clash of the cultures, before and during the biggest heavy metal...

    Full Metal Village
  • 2008
    Mariage chez les Bodin's

    Mariage chez les Bodin's

    Mariage chez les Bodin's

    5.82008HD

    Nous sommes dans un coin de France reculé... très reculé.

    Mariage chez les Bodin's
  • 2008
    Up the Yangtze

    Up the Yangtze

    Up the Yangtze

    7.32008HD

    At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront...

    Up the Yangtze
  • 1927
    Mockery

    Mockery

    Mockery

    6.91927HD

    During the tumultuous days of the Russian Revolution, Countess Tatiana Alexandrova must leave Siberia and travel to Novokursk in disguise, for fear...

    Mockery
  • 1970
    Pero the Lump's Gang

    Pero the Lump's Gang

    Pero the Lump's Gang

    7.41970HD

    A group of village boys found a gang under the leadership of the most intelligent amongst them - Pero the Lump. They decide to renovate an old and...

    Pero the Lump's Gang
  • 2019
    Nowt But a Fleeting Thing

    Nowt But a Fleeting Thing

    Nowt But a Fleeting Thing

    102019HD

    A film about a young farmer's connection to the land, his animals and a changing world in the north of England. Battling against unsustainable...

    Nowt But a Fleeting Thing
  • 1998
    The Inheritors

    The Inheritors

    The Inheritors

    6.61998HD

    In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is found dead, and all the farmhands are relieved to be...

    The Inheritors