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Kanopy
84
7.6
/3817/
74
/121/
74
/67/
3.9
/2769/
100
/56/
87
/213/
86
/18/

Last Train Home (2009)
A family embarks on an annual tormenting journey along with 130 million other peasant workers to reunite with their distant family, and to revive their love and dignity as China soars as the world's next super power.
poster
MUBI
76
7.0
/9293/
67
/396/
67
/220/
3.7
/38038/
93
/60/
72
/11/
85
/19/

Alcarràs (2022)
In a small village in Catalonia, the peach farmers of the Solé family spend every summer together picking fruit from their orchard. But when plans arise to install solar panels and cut down trees, the members of this tight-knit group suddenly face eviction – and the loss of far more than their home.
poster
Kanopy
76
70
7.4
/8978/
72
/158/
69
/215/
3.9
/15085/
92
/13/
77
/112/

October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1928)
Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.
poster
79
63
7.8
/8633/
74
/86/
77
/80/
4.0
/8828/
90
/26/

The Cow (1969)
An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.
poster
Kanopy
81
62
7.8
/3368/
67
/61/
71
/58/
4.0
/1980/
100
/5/
91
/17/

Kaos (1984)
Five stories center on a werewolf, a feudal landlord, peasants, a ghost, and a mother and her sons.
poster
77
58
7.0
/2778/
75
/43/
69
/37/
3.5
/1662/
100
/14/
80
/33/

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beaten up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. W. C. Fields' last starring role in a feature-length film.
poster
57
6.0
/1637/
53
/18/
58
/42/
3.2
/801/
43
/7/
58
/7/

More Than a Miracle (1967)
A fairy tale of the misadventures of a beautiful but temperamental Neapolitan peasant, Isabella, when she meets the ill- tempered Spanish Prince Rodrigo Ferrante y Davalos. The King of Spain has ordered Rodrigo to choose a wife among seven Italian Princesses, but he is smitten by the lowly peasant.
poster
The Roku Channel
64
56
6.4
/4178/
60
/99/
61
/82/
3.3
/3122/
82
/11/
53
/41/

Joan of Arc (1948)
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of Arc claims to hear voices from Heaven asking her to lead God's Army against Orleans and crowning the weak Dauphin Charles VII as King of France. Joan gathers the people with her faith, forms an army, and conquers Orleans.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
55
8.0
/2787/
71
/21/
82
/38/
4.1
/5133/

The Land (1970)
Set in 1933, the mayor informs the peasants that the share of irrigation of their land will be split equally between them and feudal lord Mahmoud Bey. The peasants send Mohamed Effendi to submit a petition to the government. Mahmoud Bey then proposes a project that would require taking part of the peasants' lands.
poster
67
55
6.4
/3440/
61
/51/
57
/42/
3.2
/1606/
83
/6/
76
/84/

Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other, Charles and Claude Coupé, are poor and dim-witted. On the eve of the French Revolution, both sets find themselves entangled in palace intrigue.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
53
7.2
/2270/
66
/50/
70
/72/
3.8
/4876/
100
/12/
86
/8/

Toni (1935)
In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in the agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently - like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a well-ordered existence is not immune from boredom, friendship, love, or enmity, and Toni gets entangled in a web of increasingly passionate relationships. For there is his best pal Fernand, but also Albert, his overbearing foreman; there is Sebastian, a steady Spanish peasant, but also Gabi, his young rogue relative; there is Marie, but there is also Josefa.
poster
48
33
5.7
/3511/
72
/57/
60
/40/
2.8
/1024/
20
/10/
26
/47/

The Pride and the Passion (1957)
During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.
poster
63
30
6.5
/920/
58
/14/
65
/20/
3.4
/916/
80
/5/
42
/7/

The Spanish Earth (1937)
Joris Ivens’s advocacy documentary for the Republican cause intercuts a besieged Madrid with a nearby village digging an irrigation canal, linking the war to bread, land, and survival. Produced by the writers’ collective Contemporary Historians, edited by Helen van Dongen, scored by Marc Blitzstein, and narrated in its U.S. version by Ernest Hemingway (after an initial Orson Welles track), it blends frontline reportage with persuasion against Franco’s forces and their German–Italian backers.
poster
Criterion Channel
63
28
6.8
/1585/
70
/9/
56
/17/
3.4
/727/
51
/203/

Knight Without Armour (1937)
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he poses as a Russian Commissar. Because of his position among the revolutionaries, he is able to rescue a Russian countess from the Bolsheviks.
poster
59
12
6.8
/610/
65
/2/
67
/9/
3.3
/344/
30
/19/

Mockery (1927)
There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to help her get there, and to tell anyone they might meet that he is her husband.
poster
64
12
7.0
/303/
60
/9/
57
/17/
3.5
/330/

The Mill on the Po (1949)
In the Po Valley during the 19th century, a rich girl engaged to a well-to-do farmer ends up penniless and is forced to work for her fiancé’s relatives. Peasant unrest, carried to extremes by both workers and landowners, leads to violence and tragedy.
poster
72
12
7.5
/352/
66
/11/
68
/17/
3.5
/226/
82
/2/

Think Global, Act Rural (2010)
N/A
poster
?
7.2
/46/
10
/1/
63
/3/

At the Crossroads of Great Storms (1980)
In 1848 during the tumultuous era of European revolutions shaking the continent out of its feudal-based empire-based system the Wallachian politician Nicolae Balcescu is trying to reach the same revolutionary goals at home.
poster
71
?
7.3
/600/
66
/6/
76
/5/
3.5
/275/

The Reluctant Saint (1962)
Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social challenges with a pure heart and a simple faith. God performs a miracle through him, quite literally raising him to sainthood.
poster
?
6.0
/37/
50
/4/

Guerrilla Brigade (1939)
Episodic story of the resistance to the German invasion of the Ukraine in 1918 during World War 1, and made as an example of the guerrilla warfare and fierce spirit in which Ukrainian peasants were again resisting Teuton onslaughts in 1939. Highlights a small band of guerrillas and their battles using scythes, shotguns and, often, just clubs against the Kaiser's army in the Ukrainian forests.
poster
?
10
/1/

Lampong Karam (1967)
'Lampung Karam' tells a story of a religious community living in Lampung (southern Sumatra, Indonesia) during the 1883 eruption of the Krakatau volcano.
poster
59
?
6.5
/121/
35
/4/
65
/4/
3.3
/212/
67
/1/

The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin (1967)
The adventures, fortunes and misfortunes of resourceful peasant Juan Quin Quin - in turns bullfighter, guerrilla fighter and sacristan - who never resigns himself to his fate. Set against the backdrop of 1950s Cuba and steeped in the island's countryside traditions, this comedy is considered the first successful Cuban experimental film.
poster
Public Domain Movies
59
?
6.7
/105/
52
/4/

The Forgotten Village (1941)
Documentary examining the conflicts between the coming of modernization and the traditional culture of a small Mexican village.
poster
68
?
6.8
/505/
58
/9/
80
/9/

Autumn Milk (1989)
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 years, which also find no end when Anna marries: Her husband Albert must be a soldier in the Second World War, and the pregnant Anna has to work hard in the farm and care sick relatives. Lonely and exposed to the harassment of the tyrannical mother-in-law, she waits for Albert, with no certainty that he will ever return.
poster
?
5.7
/99/
63
/3/
62
/3/

This England (1941)
Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.
poster
57
?
6.2
/229/
46
/6/
66
/8/

100 Horsemen (1964)
Don Fernando rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain.
poster
41
?
6.3
/109/
10
/1/
53
/3/

Putkinotko (1954)
A story takes place within one summery day in a place called Putkinotko on the shore of lake Saimaa in the early 20th century. Juutas and Rosina Käkriäinen are poor sharecroppers struggling to feed their ten children, so they run a liquor selling business on the side...
poster
65
?
7.3
/164/
47
/4/
51
/7/
90
/3/

Maria Goretti (2003)
The life of the virgin and martyr Santa Maria Goretti
poster
?
5.3
/41/
10
/1/
62
/4/

In Our Village (1951)
The film shows that Romanian peasants were divided between those opposing and those embracing collectivization. The heated debates between the pro and con camps would ultimately lead to murder.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
61
?
6.3
/575/
55
/6/
66
/5/
3.4
/306/
80
/5/
36
/3/

We Live Again (1934)
Nekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.


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