🏷 Discover The Best Countryside Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Escape to the Countryside: A Guide to the Best Movies and TV Shows

Get ready to leave the hustle and bustle of city life behind and immerse yourself in the serene beauty of the countryside. From romantic comedies to heartwarming dramas, we've curated a list of the best movies and TV shows that capture the essence of rural living. Whether you're looking for a relaxing weekend or a new favorite show, we've got you covered.

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Sahaphap Wongratch

Pirapat Watthanasetsiri

Sarunchana Apisamaimongkol

Krittanai Arsalprakit

A Tale of Thousand Stars (2021) TV Show

8.7 65 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Thailand

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Story: After a heart transplant, Tian follows his donor's path to the mountains and finds both love and purpose with forest officer Phupha.

Plot: countryside, based on novel or book, attempted murder, village, friendship, terminal illness, volunteer, forest ranger, ...

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Ahn Hyo-seop

Chae Won-bin

Kim Bum

Yoon Byung-hee

Sold Out on You (2026) TV Show

8.6 68 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: A work-obsessed cosmetics CEO and a top home-shopping host struggling with insomnia cross paths, and through an unexpected romance, begin to heal the emptiness in their lives.

Plot: countryside, romcom, romance, rural area, blunt, farmer

Cast

Miho Okasaki

Tomoaki Maeno

Takuya Eguchi

Hochu Otsuka

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (2018) TV Show

8.4 942 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 96

Audience: TV-14

Story: Corporate worker Mikami Satoru is stabbed by a random killer, and is reborn to an alternate world. But he turns out to be reborn a slime! Thrown into this new world with the name Rimuru, he begins his quest to create a world that’s welcoming to all races.

Style: absurd

Plot: countryside, elves, monster, underground, swordplay, magic, fairy, affectation, ...

Cast

Jennifer Ehle

Colin Firth

Susannah Harker

Crispin Bonham-Carter

Pride and Prejudice (1995) TV Show

8.2 560 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Canada, United Kingdom

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-14

Story: Set in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with the second-eldest Bennet daughter, Elizabeth.

Plot: countryside, based on novel or book, miniseries, class differences, period drama, costume drama, georgian or regency era, sisters

Time: 18th century

Place: england

Cast

Liu Yifei

Li Xian

Hu Bingqing

Niu Junfeng

Meet Yourself (2023) TV Show

8.2 39 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: China

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 40

Story: Grieving the premature death of her closest friend, a despondent young Chinese woman quits her job to fulfill the friend's dying wish of visiting an area in southern China. What began as a three-month recuperative stay in a village far from the madding crowd gradually reveals the potential of life-changing camaraderie, romance, and purpose.

Plot: countryside, friendship, romance, slice of life, healing, death of friend, slow burn romance, village setting, ...

Cast

Gunnar Bju00f6rnstrand

Bengt Ekerot

Nils Poppe

Max von Sydow

The Seventh Seal (1957)

8.1 3.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy

Country: Sweden

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: NR

Story: When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

Plot: witch, dying and death, blacksmith, chess, countryside, allegory, crusade, artist, ...

Time: 14th century

Cast

Punyapat Wangpongsathaporn

Saranphat Pedersen

Thanyares Chamnan

Pisanu Chutanimsakul

Hometown Romance (2026) TV Show

8.0 6 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: Thailand

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Story: Si, a high-society heiress, dreams of becoming the president of her family’s company. However, her parents give the position to her younger sister instead, believing Si is too spoiled and irresponsible, spending millions without a second thought. When the family business faces a crisis involving a crucial land lease renewal, negotiations fail—until Klaokavee, the landowner, makes an unusual proposal: she will renew the lease only if Si agrees to marry her. Despite their completely opposite lifestyles, this strange arrangement brings the two into an unexpected and complicated relationship.

Plot: countryside, based on novel or book, village, lesbian relationship, romance, girls' love (gl), comedy, comedia

Cast

Mihu00e1ly Vu00edg

Putyi Horvu00e1th

Szu00e9kely B. Miklu00f3s

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Erika Bu00f3k

Satantango (1994)

8.0 310 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Germany, Hungary

Duration: 432 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.

Plot: farm, countryside, based on novel or book, cat, rain, loneliness, art house, poverty, ...

Place: hungary

Cast

Ersya Aurelia

Arbani Yasiz

Erika Carlina

Bukie B. Mansyur

Sugar Mill (2025)

7.9 26 votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: Indonesia

Duration: 133 min.

Story: A group of young men and women who work as seasonal workers in a sugar factory face terror from the kingdom of demons where the factory is located. They must find out the cause of the demons' anger, before the terror ends their lives.

Plot: factory, countryside, kingdom, demon, ghost, mysterious, sugarcane, industrial, ...

My Liberation Notes (2022) TV Show

7.9 92 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 16

Story: Three siblings, exhausted by the monotony of day-to-day adulthood, seek to find fulfillment and freedom from their unremarkable lives.

Plot: countryside, romance, slice of life, loneliness, family relationships, healing, emancipation, real life, ...

Cast

Kevin Costner

Mary McDonnell

Graham Greene

Rodney A. Grant

Dances with Wolves (1990)

7.8 4.7K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 181 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

Style: provocative, intense

Plot: friendship, mutiny, countryside, based on novel or book, unsociability, wolf, culture clash, self-discovery, ...

Time: 19th century

Cast

Heath Ledger

Jake Gyllenhaal

Michelle Williams

Anne Hathaway

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

7.8 7.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.

Plot: secret love, wyoming, usa, countryside, homophobia, marriage crisis, intolerance, in the closet, ...

Time: 1960s

Haibane Renmei (2002) TV Show

7.7 128 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-14

Story: A dream of falling from the sky...and then birth. Rakka is born from a large cocoon into the Old Home, greeted by a group of female beings with small wings on their backs and shining halos above their heads. Soon Rakka’s own wings grow, a halo is placed on her head and she is told that she must work in the nearby town of Grie. She soon realizes that the town and the entire world they live in are confined behind the Wall, a tall, impenetrable wall that none except the mysterious Toga are allowed to exit.

Style: psychological

Plot: suicide, angel, countryside, amnesia, afterlife, slice of life, tragedy, redemption, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Laurence Olivier

Michael Caine

Sleuth (1972)

7.7 724 votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A man who loves games and theatre invites his wife's lover to meet, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.

Style: tense

Plot: infidelity, robbery, countryside, upper class, romantic rivalry, author, game, extramarital affair, ...

Cast

Sam Neill

Julian Dennison

Rima Te Wiata

Rachel House

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

7.6 2.3K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Country: New Zealand, United Kingdom

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.

Plot: countryside, based on novel or book, wild boar, delinquent, wilderness, coming of age, dog, foster family, ...

Place: new zealand

Cast

Agnu00e8s Varda

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Bodan Litnanski

Franu00e7ois Wertheimer

The Gleaners and I (2000)

7.6 223 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: France

Duration: 82 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Varda focuses her eye on gleaners: those who scour already-reaped fields for the odd potato or turnip. Her investigation leads from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off, whether out of necessity or activism.

Plot: countryside, collecting, handheld camera, salvage, woman director, harvest, trash, potatoes, ...

Place: france

Cast

Simon Pegg

Nick Frost

Jim Broadbent

Paddy Considine

Hot Fuzz (2007)

7.6 8.4K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: France, United Kingdom

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he miss the excitement of the big city, but he also has a well-meaning oaf for a partner. However, when a series of grisly accidents rocks Sandford, Angel smells something rotten in the idyllic village.

Plot: countryside, police, village, arrest, parody, partner, murder, rural area, ...

Cast

Jet Li

Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Maggie Cheung

Donnie Yen

Hero (2002)

7.5 2.5K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

Country: Hong Kong, China

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: During China's Warring States period, a district prefect arrives at the palace of Qin Shi Huang, claiming to have killed the three assassins who had made an attempt on the king's life three years ago.

Plot: martial arts, kung fu, right and justice, countryside, loss of loved one, patriot, wuxia, warring states period, ...

Cast

Anne Wiazemsky

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Walter Green

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Franu00e7ois Lafarge

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Jean-Claude Guilbert

Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)

7.5 513 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: France, Sweden

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: NR

Story: The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels that of his first keeper, Marie, is truly a beast of burden, suffering the sins of humankind. But despite his powerlessness, he accepts his fate nobly.

Plot: suicide, rape, countryside, misery, donkey, gang leader, youth gang, black and white, ...

Cast

Emma Thompson

Kate Winslet

Alan Rickman

Hugh Grant

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

7.4 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 136 min.

Audience: PG

Story: The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, learn that their prospects of marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. After Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son. These circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's wife and daughters without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.

Plot: secret love, london, england, countryside, based on novel or book, widow, military officer, servant, ...

Time: 19th century

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