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1. About Dry Grasses (2023)
Not Rated | 197 min | Drama
A young teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after four years of mandatory service in a remote village, but is accused of inappropriate contact by two students. After losing hope, a colleague offers him new perspectives on life.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Stars: Deniz Celiloglu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici, Ece Bagci
Votes: 10,278
2. Picture of Beauty (1998)
70 min | Drama, Romance
In an early 20th century village, a painter with an unusual commission finds two pretty girls to model for him. The girls slowly come of age while exploring their sexuality and finding liberation in a repressed society.
Director: Maxim Ford | Stars: Taylor Sands, Danielle Rose, Pawel Hajnos, Magdalena Bochan-Jachimek
Votes: 1,740
3. What Lies Beneath (2000)
PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost - or that she is losing her mind.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Katharine Towne, Miranda Otto
Votes: 135,359 | Gross: $155.46M
4. The White Ribbon (2009)
R | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur
Votes: 77,438 | Gross: $2.22M
5. Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
Unrated | 86 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
After being raped by an evil feudal lord and subsequently getting banished from her village, a peasant girl makes a pact with the Devil to gain magical powers and take her revenge.
Director: Eiichi Yamamoto | Stars: Aiko Nagayama, Chinatsu Nakayama, Masaya Takahashi, Masakane Yonekura
Votes: 7,683 | Gross: $0.11M
6. Babette's Feast (1987)
G | 103 min | Drama
During the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters.
Director: Gabriel Axel | Stars: Stéphane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle
Votes: 21,921 | Gross: $4.40M
7. The Witches (1966)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror
Following a horrifying experience with the occult in Africa, a schoolteacher moves to a small English village, only to discover that black magic resides there as well.
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec McCowen, Ann Bell
Votes: 3,233
8. Arn: The Knight Templar (2007)
R | 139 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman, is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.
Director: Peter Flinth | Stars: Joakim Nätterqvist, Sofia Helin, Stellan Skarsgård, Michael Nyqvist
Votes: 23,125
9. No Bears (2022)
106 min | Drama, Romance
Two parallel love stories in which the partners are thwarted by hidden, inevitable obstacles, the force of superstition, and the mechanics of power.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Jafar Panahi, Vahid Mobasseri, Bakhtiyar Panjeei, Mina Kavani
Votes: 3,718
10. Glória (2021)
TV-MA | 40 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, in the small village of Glória do Ribatejo, João Vidal will take on several high-risk espionage missions that could change the course of Portuguese and world history.
Stars: Miguel Nunes, Matt Rippy, Stephanie Vogt, Carolina Amaral
Votes: 5,040
11. Anthracite (2024)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
An old case is wrenched open when a reporter goes missing, leading his web sleuth daughter to a small mountain town haunted by a sect, secrecy and death.
Stars: Hatik, Camille Lou, Noémie Schmidt
12. ...And the Band Played On (1980 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama
The equilibrium of a small English village is upset by the arrival of a pop star and his wife. When he takes over the conductorship of the local brass band after the previous conductor ... See full summary »
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Robin Nedwell, Diane Keen, Trevor Howard, Jack Douglas
Votes: 220
13. Frühling (2011– )
Drama
Katja Baumann is a nurse working in a hospital in Munich. One day as she leaves the hospital she meets Tim Lechner, a young boy who tells her his mother is in the hospital and a rural ... See full summary »
Stars: Simone Thomalla, Johannes Herrschmann, Kristo Ferkic, Marco Girnth
Votes: 114
14. Sir Billi (2012)
Not Rated | 76 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A retired veterinarian living in a remote Scottish village encounters a goat who thinks he's a dog, an Admiral who's afraid of the water, and a beaver who was raised by rabbits.
Director: Sascha Hartmann | Stars: Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill, Alana Gray, Valentina Hartmann
Votes: 793
15. Speed Walking (2014)
108 min | Drama, History
Martin (14) is forced to deal with confused sexuality and the loss of a mother in a provincial setting in the mid-seventies, where the famed Danish liberation of porn has had its influence on the grownups.
Director: Niels Arden Oplev | Stars: Villads Bøye, Anders W. Berthelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Frederik Winther Rasmussen
Votes: 1,815
16. Zombie 3 (1988)
R | 84 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is cremated by the US military, a virus is unintentionally released into the atmosphere over a small island.
Directors: Lucio Fulci, Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei | Stars: Deran Sarafian, Beatrice Ring, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Massimo Vanni
Votes: 5,471
17. Stromboli (1950)
Approved | 81 min | Drama
Karin, a young woman from the Baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prison camp. But she cannot get used to the tough life in Antonio's volcano-threatened village, Stromboli.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Mario Vitale, Renzo Cesana, Mario Sponzo
Votes: 7,922
18. Maya (1989)
100 min | Horror
An ancient evil awakens in a small Mexican village and many people fall victim to its curse. It is up to a mystical doctor to try and stop this evil power before it is too late.
Director: Marcello Avallone | Stars: Peter Phelps, Mariella Valentini, Cyrus Elias, Mariangélica Ayala
Votes: 357
19. Cargo 200 (2007)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer gone mad.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Agniya Kuznetsova, Aleksey Poluyan, Leonid Gromov, Aleksey Serebryakov
Votes: 11,297
20. Jour de Fête (1949)
Not Rated | 70 min | Comedy
A village postman with no sense of humour delivers his mail via bicycle on the day the travelling fair comes to town. He is disrupted by a short film about US speed and efficiency and the playful teasing of the village folk.
Director: Jacques Tati | Stars: Jacques Tati, Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur, Santa Relli
Votes: 9,023
21. 3 Faces (2018)
100 min | Drama
Three actresses at different stages of their career. One from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, one popular star of today known throughout the country, and a young girl longing to attend a drama conservatory.
Director: Jafar Panahi | Stars: Behnaz Jafari, Jafar Panahi, Marziyeh Rezaei, Maedeh Erteghaei
Votes: 4,753 | Gross: $0.07M
22. Japan (2002)
R | 122 min | Drama
A painter from the big city goes to a remote canyon to commit suicide. To reach some calmness, he stays at the farmstead of Ascen, an old, religious woman. Although but a few words are spoken, love grows.
Director: Carlos Reygadas | Stars: Alejandro Ferretis, Magdalena Flores, Yolanda Villa, Martín Serrano
Votes: 3,981
23. Adiós, Sabata (1970)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Drama, War
Sabata helps a band of Mexican revolutionaries steal a wagon-load of gold from the occupying Austrian forces of Emperor Maximilian I.
Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Yul Brynner, Dean Reed, Ignazio Spalla, Gérard Herter
Votes: 2,302 | Gross: $0.55M
24. Els encantats (2023)
108 min | Drama
After her recent separation, Irene seeks to regain her calm in a village in the Catalan Pyrenees, but the familiarity of the place forces her to confront her fears.
Director: Elena Trapé | Stars: Laia Costa, Daniel Pérez Prada, Pep Cruz, Ainara Elejalde
Votes: 304
25. The Piper (2015)
PG-13 | 119 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Shortly after the Korean war, a father and a son are wandering through the country and make a stop in a remote village, where strange and dangerous happenings occur.
Director: Kwang-tae Kim | Stars: Zach Aguilar, Rebecca Davis, Dorah Fine, Chris Hackney
Votes: 1,903
26. Non Non Biyori (2013–2021)
TV-PG | 24 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The lives of a group of children who live in the countryside village of Asahigaoka.
Stars: Kotori Koiwai, Rie Murakawa, Ayane Sakura, Kana Asumi
Votes: 1,208
27. Puika (1977)
97 min | Family
World for the boy is revealed gradually - in all its diversity, beauty and sustainability.
Director: Aivars Freimanis | Stars: Indars Lacis, Zigrida Lorence, Peteris Martinsons, Mara Rence
Votes: 87
28. The Forest (V) (2016)
109 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A new teacher arrives at a small village in rural Thailand. He has just left the monkhood and has taken a job at the local school in a quest to discover life outside the monastery. He finds... See full summary »
Director: Paul Spurrier | Stars: Wannasa Wintawong, Tanapol Kamkunkam, Asanee Suwan, Pongsanart Vinsiri
Votes: 324
29. Nadikalil Sundari Yamuna (2023)
129 min | Comedy
Nadhikalil Sundari Yamuna is a realistic and humorous movie portraying love, friendship and family relationships. The story revolves around two individuals having a healthy competition at a small town of Kannur in Kerala.
Directors: Vijesh Panathur, Unni Vellora | Stars: Dhyan Sreenivasan, Aju Varghese, Kalabhavan Shajohn, Nirmal Palazhi
Votes: 361
30. You've Been Trumped Too (2016)
79 min | Documentary
A chronicle of the confrontation between billionaire Donald Trump and feisty 92-year-old Scottish widow, Molly Forbes.
Director: Anthony Baxter | Stars: Molly Forbes, Donald Trump, Michael Forbes, Anthony Baxter
Votes: 251
31. La Vénus à Lulu (1991 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy
Narcoleptic Finnish naturist as beautiful as Venus is on vacation in Southern France with her husband. She goes for a walk in the field naked and gets lost. A local kid takes her to his village to help her as well as brag to his friends.
Director: Daniel Losset | Stars: Caroline Laurence, Paul Crauchet, Alain Mottet, Maxime Boidron
Votes: 75
32. My Name Is Sara (2019)
111 min | Biography, Drama, War
Sara is a a 13 year-old Polish Jew who finds refuge and is taken in by a farmer and his wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers' marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identity.
Director: Steven Oritt | Stars: Zuzanna Surowy, Konrad Cichon, Pawel Królikowski, Piotr Nerlewski
Votes: 816
33. Dear John (1964)
115 min | Drama, Romance
John is a shipmaster on a very small transportation boat which regularly attends a very small harbour to buy food, actually from Anna's father. She is a waitress and has a young daughter. ... See full summary »
Director: Lars-Magnus Lindgren | Stars: Jarl Kulle, Christina Schollin, Helena Nilsson, Erik Hell
Votes: 389
34. Riverside Mukolitta (2021)
120 min | Drama, Family
Takeshi Yamada arrives in a small village in the Hokuriku region. There, he begins to work at a small factory which makes shiokara (salted fish paste). Through the introduction of the CEO ... See full summary »
Director: Naoko Ogigami | Stars: Noriko Eguchi, Tasuku Emoto, Daisuke Kuroda, Ken'ichi Matsuyama
Votes: 318
35. Eye Witness (1950)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In 1949, when his former British war buddy is charged with murder, American lawyer Adam Hayward goes to England to see if he can help.
Director: Robert Montgomery | Stars: Ruth Lee, Robert Montgomery, Hal Osmond, Wylie Watson
Votes: 362
36. Christmas Perfection (2018 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Darcy's been striving for the perfect Christmas since childhood and, thanks to a magical figurine, her dream finally comes true.
Director: David Jackson | Stars: Caitlin Thompson, James Henri-Thomas, Robbie Silverman, Rachel-Mae Brady
Votes: 1,035
37. La ragazza americana (2011 TV Movie)
180 min | Comedy, Romance
An American woman inherits a castle from her deceased Italian grandfather. To her dismay, the locals of the small Italian village seem to despise her. Including a handsome young man.
Director: Vittorio Sindoni | Stars: Vanessa Hessler, Giulio Berruti, Ilaria Occhini, Orso Maria Guerrini
Votes: 74
38. The Cross of Lorraine (1943)
Approved | 90 min | War, Drama
A group of French soldiers during WWII are captured by German troops and sent to a POW camp. There they have to make use of his best resources to stay alive - and sane, while at the same time scheming a way out.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke, Richard Whorf
Votes: 956
39. If Winter Comes (1947)
Approved | 97 min | Drama
Laurie Anderson reflects on her relationship with her beloved terrier Lolabelle.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Deborah Kerr, Angela Lansbury, Binnie Barnes
Votes: 782
40. Mumu (2010)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old. He's a kid badly loved, mischievous and specializes in silly things to do. ... See full summary »
Director: Joël Séria | Stars: Sylvie Testud, Jean-François Balmer, Bruno Lochet, Michel Galabru
Votes: 243
41. Little Siberia
Drama | Pre-production
The everyday life of the small village of Hurmevaara is shaken when a meteorite falls through the roof of a car one night. According to the town's mayor, the meteorite is very valuable for ... See full summary »
Director: Dome Karukoski | Stars: Tommi Korpela, Martti Suosalo, Malla Malmivaara, Eero Ritala
42. Diggity's Treasure (2001)
PG | 91 min | Drama
Raymond, just fired again, inherits a church in an English village. Arriving from Georgia to sell the property to Mr. Slee, he meets the cute single Rachel, who runs the B&B, and others. Hidden treasure?
Director: Tom Reeve | Stars: Andrew McCarthy, Louise Lombard, Bill Treacher, Stefan Jürgens
Votes: 245
43. Para siempre
Drama | Post-production
A secret death witnessed by two boys in a small Oaxacan village forges an unbreakable bond. Twenty years later the childhood friends reunite as very different men, facing their shared past and new trials that test the power of friendship.
Stars: Diego Calva, Trinidad Evia, Mauro Guzmán, Frida Sofía Cruz Salinas
44. La maison assassinée (1988)
110 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before, his entire family was slain in their home one ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Patrick Bruel, Anne Brochet, Agnès Blanchot, Ingrid Held
Votes: 643
45. The Man from Beijing (2011 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 180 min | Thriller
A cold day in January 2006. The police make a horrible discovery in the Swedish town of Hudiksvall: In one night, 18 people have been brutally murdered in the small town. The police suspect... See full summary »
Director: Peter Keglevic | Stars: Suzanne von Borsody, Michael Nyqvist, Claudia Michelsen, Amy Cheng
Votes: 618
46. The Forest (2018)
97 min | Drama
Sixteen-year old Danila lives with oppressive mother Galina and brutal father Pasha in a small village lost in the middle of a boundless forest. Cut off from society he has a problem ... See full summary »
Director: Roman Zhigalov | Stars: Oleg Shibayev, Natalya Rychkova, Oleg Feoktistov, Mariya Avramkova
Votes: 240
47. The Bandit (1953)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Drama, History
'Capitão', a bandit, terrorizes poor villages in the Northeast region of Brazil, looting and frequently killing with his armed gang, until he kidnaps and becomes attracted to a beautiful schoolteacher, creating discord in his group.
Director: Lima Barreto | Stars: Alberto Ruschel, Marisa Prado, Milton Ribeiro, Vanja Orico
Votes: 698
48. Privarzaniyat balon (1967)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A large balloon suddenly appears above villages and fields and grabs the attention of the peasants. They start liking the sudden guest from nowhere for the beauty of the free existence. A policeman comes and the dreams of freedom vanish.
Director: Binka Zhelyazkova | Stars: Georgi Kaloyanchev, Grigor Vachkov, Ivan Bratanov, Georgi Georgiev-Getz
Votes: 206
49. The Black Rider (1954)
65 min | Crime, Thriller
When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their minds...
Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: Jimmy Hanley, Rona Anderson, Leslie Dwyer, Lionel Jeffries
Votes: 241
50. The Death of Mario Ricci (1983)
100 min | Drama
The tragic accident of an Italian laborer ,working on the Mont Blanc tunnel.
Director: Claude Goretta | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Magali Noël, Heinz Bennent, Mimsy Farmer
Votes: 194