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

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Escape to the Countryside: Discovering the Best Movies and TV Shows Related to Rural Life

Get ready to immerse yourself in the serene beauty of rural landscapes and the quirky characters that inhabit them. From drama to comedy, and from classic films to modern series, we've curated a list of the best movies and TV shows that celebrate the charm and simplicity of rural life.

Khemjira (2025) TV Show

9.2 36 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Thailand

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Story: With a deadly curse set to claim him at 21, a young man flees to a master of ancient magic—only to face ghosts more dangerous than his fate.

Plot: love triangle, buddhism, soulmates, based on novel or book, jealousy, exorcism, college, village, ...

Cast

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

Yoji Matsuda

Yuriko Ishida

Yuko Tanaka

Kaoru Kobayashi

Princess Mononoke (1997)

8.3 9.1K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest, and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.

Style: philosophical

Plot: friendship, human vs nature, wolf, fight, wild boar, territory, leprosy, feral child, ...

Cast

Han Suk-kyu

Lee Sung-kyung

Ahn Hyo-seop

Jin Kyung

Dr. Romantic (2016) TV Show

8.2 125 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 52

Audience: TV-14

Story: An eccentric, triple board-certified virtuoso surgeon leaves a top job in Seoul and ends up at a provincial hospital, where he mentors young doctors.

Plot: nurse, trauma, surgeon, romance, rural area, hospital, doctor, surgery, ...

Red Beard (1965)

8.2 410 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 185 min.

Story: Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

Plot: uniform, career, small town, brothel, heal, lunatic asylum, rural area, clinic, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Aoi Miyazaki

Takao Osawa

Haru Kuroki

Yukito Nishii

Wolf Children (2012)

8.2 2.5K votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Family

Country: Japan

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: PG

Story: After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's traits prove to be a challenge for her.

Plot: wolf, forest, death of father, growing up, rural area, werewolf, single mother, adult animation, ...

Cast

Noriko Hidaka

Chika Sakamoto

Hitoshi Takagi

Shigesato Itoi

My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

8.1 8.9K votes

Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: G

Story: Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.

Plot: mother, sibling relationship, village, leave, rural area, hospital, new neighbor, new home, ...

Cast

Markella Kavenagh

Maiah Stewardson

Edwina Wren

Harvey Zielinski

My First Summer (2020)

8.0 279 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Australia

Duration: 78 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Isolated on a remote property, 16-year-old Claudia finds her world transformed when a spirited girl named Grace wanders into her garden.

Plot: drowning, coming of age, dog, mental illness, novelist, death of mother, first love, lgbt, ...

Cast

Machiko Kyu014d

Mitsuko Mito

Kinuyo Tanaka

Masayuki Mori

Ugetsu (1953)

8.0 642 votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Country: Japan

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: NR

Story: In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.

Plot: samurai, based on novel or book, greed, bigamy, tragedy, rural area, black and white, ghost, ...

Time: 16th century

Place: japan

Cast

Cantinflas

Marga Lu00f3pez

Vu00edctor Alcocer

Rau00fal Martu00ednez

El profe (1971)

7.9 120 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family

Country: Mexico

Duration: 117 min.

Story: Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.

Plot: teacher, rural area, school, chieftain, little town

Cast

Sarah Lancashire

Siobhan Finneran

James Norton

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Rhys Connah

Happy Valley (2014) TV Show

7.9 400 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working copper. She is also a bereaved mother who looks after her orphaned grandchild.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: rape, police, yorkshire, revenge, rural area, death of daughter, police sergeant, crime investigation, ...

Cast

Ed Asner

Pat Benatar

Johnny Carson

Dick Cavett

Koyaanisqatsi (1983)

7.9 777 votes

Genre: Documentary, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.

Plot: human vs nature, technology, civilization, social commentary, rural area, nature run amok, nature, environment, ...

Cast

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Hatidzhe Muratova

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Nazife Muratova

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Hussein Sam

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Ljutvie Sam

Honeyland (2019)

7.9 302 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: Macedonia

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: 12A

Story: When nomadic beekeepers break Honeyland’s basic rule (take half of the honey, but leave half to the bees), the last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance.

Plot: tradition, beehive, rural area, new neighbor, bee, honey, beekeeping, macedonia, ...

Cast

Pupella Maggio

Armando Brancia

Magali Nou00ebl

Ciccio Ingrassia

Amarcord (1973)

7.9 1.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Italy, France

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: R

Story: In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.

Plot: small town, fascism, surrealism, sheik, coming of age, rural area, bathtub, semi autobiographical

Time: 1930s

Cast

George O'Brien

Janet Gaynor

Margaret Livingston

Bodil Rosing

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

7.8 909 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Plot: adultery, lake, love triangle, pig, marriage crisis, country life, indian summer, redemption, ...

Silver Spoon (2013) TV Show

7.8 59 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 22

Audience: TV-14

Story: Yuugo Hachiken enrolled in Ooezo Agricultural High School for the reason that he could live in a dorm there. In some ways he chose Ooezo in an effort to escape the highly competitive prep schools he had attended previously, but he was faced with an entirely new set of difficulties at Oezo, surrounded by animals and Mother Nature. After growing up in an average family, he began to encounter clubs and training the likes of which he had never seen before.

Plot: agriculture, high school, slice of life, coming of age, rural area, farm life, based on manga, anime, ...

Cast

Kathy Bates

James Caan

Richard Farnsworth

Lauren Bacall

Misery (1990)

7.8 5.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: R

Story: After an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his biggest fan. Her obsession takes a dark turn when she holds him captive in her remote Colorado home and forces him to write back to life the popular literary character he killed off.

Style: claustrophobic, suspenseful, intense

Plot: based on novel or book, nurse, psychopath, colorado, car crash, author, slasher, psychological thriller, ...

Cast

Aidan Turner

Eleanor Tomlinson

Jack Farthing

Luke Norris

Poldark (2015) TV Show

7.7 323 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 43

Audience: TV-14

Story: Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin. But Ross finds that hope and love can be found when you are least expecting it in the wild but beautiful Cornish landscape.

Plot: love triangle, based on novel or book, romance, period drama, historical, military, costume drama, rural setting, ...

Place: england

Cast

Silvia Pinal

Francisco Rabal

Fernando Rey

Josu00e9 Calvo

Viridiana (1962)

7.7 554 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Spain, Mexico

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

Style: intense

Plot: based on novel or book, nun, faith, lie, uncle, wine, devoutness, rural area, ...

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, ...

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