Peasant Movies

  • 1987
    Empire of the Sun

    Empire of the Sun

    Empire of the Sun

    7.5091987HD

    Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured...

    Empire of the Sun
  • 1993
    Sommersby

    Sommersby

    Sommersby

    6.31993HD

    Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By...

    Sommersby
  • 1984
    Yellow Earth

    Yellow Earth

    Yellow Earth

    7.21984HD

    A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small...

    Yellow Earth
  • 2007
    Jacquou the Rebel

    Jacquou the Rebel

    Jacquou the Rebel

    6.52007HD

    In 1815, young Jacquou lives an idyllic peasant life with his parents in the Périgord region of France. But one day, his childhood happiness...

    Jacquou the Rebel
  • 1976
    1900

    1900

    1900

    7.81976HD

    The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

    1900
  • 1984
    The Holy Innocents

    The Holy Innocents

    The Holy Innocents

    7.81984HD

    In 60s Extremadura, Paco el Bajo and his relatives work during day in a farmhouse, and silently suffer submission to their masters, who exploit them...

    The Holy Innocents
  • 1962
    Superfluous

    Superfluous

    Superfluous

    5.91962HD

    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
  • 1998
    The Inheritors

    The Inheritors

    The Inheritors

    6.5631998HD

    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
  • 1964
    I Am Cuba

    I Am Cuba

    I Am Cuba

    7.81964HD

    Four vignettes on the lives of the Cuban people in the pre-revolutionary era. In Havana, Maria is ashamed when a man she loves discovers how she...

    I Am Cuba
  • 1979
    Uncle Marin, the Billionaire

    Uncle Marin, the Billionaire

    Uncle Marin, the Billionaire

    7.91979HD

    At a swanky hotel in a Black Sea resort, Gogu, one of the hotel employees, meets his uncle Marin, an Oltenian peasant who has come to visit. Gogu...

    Uncle Marin, the Billionaire
  • 1972
    Red Psalm

    Red Psalm

    Red Psalm

    6.21972HD

    Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt,...

    Red Psalm
  • 1979
    Tess

    Tess

    Tess

    7.0821979HD

    A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the...

    Tess
  • 2007
    Silent Light

    Silent Light

    Silent Light

    6.8442007HD

    Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and Man, Johan falls in love with another woman.

    Silent Light
  • 1960
    Two Women

    Two Women

    Two Women

    7.8251960HD

    A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up...

    Two Women
  • 2007
    The Astronaut Farmer

    The Astronaut Farmer

    The Astronaut Farmer

    6.2472007HD

    Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. Like most American ranchers, he owes his bank....

    The Astronaut Farmer
  • 1954
    Woman of the River

    Woman of the River

    Woman of the River

    5.451954HD

    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...

    Woman of the River
  • 1971
    Breakfast with the Devil

    Breakfast with the Devil

    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...

    Breakfast with the Devil
  • 1995
    Antonia's Line

    Antonia's Line

    Antonia's Line

    6.9111995HD

    After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon...

    Antonia's Line
  • 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
  • 1992
    The Story of Qiu Ju

    The Story of Qiu Ju

    The Story of Qiu Ju

    7.311992HD

    When her husband is kicked in the groin by the village head, Qiu Ju, a peasant woman, despite her pregnancy, travels to a nearby town, and later a...

    The Story of Qiu Ju