Movies: Peasant

  • 1940
    The Blue Bird

    The Blue Bird (1940)

    The Blue Bird

    5.71940HD

    Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other ...

    The Blue Bird
  • 1967
    Thanos and Despina

    Thanos and Despina (1967)

    Thanos and Despina

    7.11967HD

    Katina, an impoverished Greek woman, tries to arrange the marriage of her shepherd son, Thanos, to Despina, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. But Despina’s father, Vlahopoulos refuses to give his blessings....

    Thanos and Despina
  • 2005
    You Are So Beautiful

    You Are So Beautiful (2005)

    You Are So Beautiful

    6.32005HD

    Aymé Pigrenet, a recently widowed farmer, is eager to find a new wife to help him run his farm. Desperate, he seeks the aid of a local matchmaker who suggest that he go to Romania to find a new wife. There he meets Elena....

    You Are So Beautiful
  • 1954
    Woman of the River

    Woman of the River (1954)

    Woman of the River

    5.81954HD

    When peasant girl Nives is deserted by smuggler Gino Lodi, she betrays him to the police. Police officer Enzo Cinti, who loves Nives, traces her to the Po River cane-fields, where she is working as a cutter to support herself and an infant son, and w...

    Woman of the River
  • 1963
    Barren Lives

    Barren Lives (1963)

    Barren Lives

    7.41963HD

    In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of Brazil during the drought. A family in the search of new hope and destiny....

    Barren Lives
  • 2008
    Mariage chez les Bodin's

    Mariage chez les Bodin's (2008)

    Mariage chez les Bodin's

    5.72008HD

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

    Mariage chez les Bodin's
  • 1964
    At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

    At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964)

    At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

    6.81964HD

    Zé do Caixão is an undertaker in a small Brazilian town, searching for the perfect woman to bear him a superior child. Unable to conceive with his wife, he kills her and sets out to find someone else....

    At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
  • 2007
    Full Metal Village

    Full Metal Village (2007)

    Full Metal Village

    6.72007HD

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

    Full Metal Village
  • 1955
    La vida no vale nada

    La vida no vale nada (1955)

    La vida no vale nada

    8.21955HD

    Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him....

    La vida no vale nada
  • 1971
    Breakfast with the Devil

    Breakfast with the Devil (1971)

    Breakfast with the Devil

    6.31971HD

    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 devastation of their livelihoods and the demands of the new Communist authorities....

    Breakfast with the Devil
  • 1960
    Amal

    Amal (1960)

    Amal

    101960HD

    A sublime documentary on childhood and bereavement that’s one of several shorts the filmmaker completed while working in Algeria for Georges Derocles’s company Les Studios Africa, for whom he would shortly make his breakthrough feature The Olive Tree...

    Amal
  • 1943
    Wild Flower

    Wild Flower (1943)

    Wild Flower

    6.41943HD

    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 Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner...

    Wild Flower
  • 1950
    Dawn Must Come

    Dawn Must Come (1950)

    Dawn Must Come

    01950HD

    The film depicts the lives of Guangdong peasants who have gone through the suffering of the Sino-Japanese War only to experience home-grown oppression by a rapacious landlord in their village....

    Dawn Must Come
  • 1973
    One Russian Summer

    One Russian Summer (1973)

    One Russian Summer

    7.81973HD

    Based on Mikhail Lermontov's novel Vadim, this costume drama, set in Russia during the 1700s, chronicles the battle between a vengeful, anarchic peasant and the tyrannical landowner who killed his mother and father....

    One Russian Summer
  • 1962
    Tlayucan

    Tlayucan (1962)

    Tlayucan

    6.41962HD

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

    Tlayucan
  • 1969
    Twentieth Century

    Twentieth Century (1969)

    Twentieth Century

    01969HD

    In this remake the Bertolucci's 1900, Olmo Dalco and Alfredo Berlingheiri's complicated friendship and struggles with the constantly changing political scope are chronicled as well as the rise of fascism and the communist revolution....

    Twentieth Century
  • 1989
    Autumn Milk

    Autumn Milk (1989)

    Autumn Milk

    81989HD

    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 Worl...

    Autumn Milk
  • 1948
    Rosenda

    Rosenda (1948)

    Rosenda

    6.41948HD

    A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her....

    Rosenda
  • 2012
    Les fils de la terre

    Les fils de la terre (2012)

    Les fils de la terre

    62012HD

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    Les fils de la terre
  • 1956
    Song of the Scarlet Flower

    Song of the Scarlet Flower (1956)

    Song of the Scarlet Flower

    41956HD

    Olof is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a log driver and his reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide....

    Song of the Scarlet Flower