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Haluk Bilginer

Melisa Su00f6zen

Demet Akbau011f

Ayberk Pekcan

Winter Sleep (2014)

7.5 626 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Turkey, France

Duration: 196 min.

Story: Aydın is a hotel owner and a retired actor in rural Turkey. As winter emerges he begins navigating the conflicts within the relationships with his wife, sister and existence.

Plot: hotel, husband wife relationship, retirement, rural area, writer, anatolia, turkey

Cast

Emily Rose

Lucas Bryant

Eric Balfour

Haven (2010) TV Show

7.5 515 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Canada, United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 78

Audience: TV-14

Story: FBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve a murder and soon discovers the town's many secrets—which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.

Plot: detective, based on novel or book, small town, fbi, police, supernatural, paranormal, maine, ...

Place: new england

Cast

Sylvester Stallone

Richard Crenna

Brian Dennehy

Bill McKinney

First Blood (1982)

7.5 7.0K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Netherlands Antilles

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.

Style: absurd

Plot: prison, guerrilla warfare, dying and death, vietnam veteran, hero, police brutality, sheriff, escape, ...

Time: vietnam war

Place: vietnam

Cast

Christian Friedel

Ernst Jacobi

Leonie Benesch

Ulrich Tukur

The White Ribbon (2009)

7.5 1.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: Italy, Germany

Duration: 144 min.

Audience: R

Story: An aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.

Plot: child abuse, authority, pastor, nanny, northern germany, punishment, puritan, incest, ...

Time: 1910s

Cast

Skeet Ulrich

Lennie James

Ashley Scott

Kenneth Mitchell

Jericho (2006) TV Show

7.4 553 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 29

Audience: TV-14

Story: Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.

Plot: small town, kansas, usa, survival, conspiracy, family drama, post nuclear, no electricity, ...

Cast

Adriano Tardiolo

Agnese Graziani

Luke Chikovani

Alba Rohrwacher

Happy as Lazzaro (2018)

7.4 771 votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy

Country: France, Germany

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.

Plot: wolf, rural area, magic realism, sharecropper

Cast

Yoo Ah-in

Steven Yeun

Jeon Jong-seo

Kim Soo-kyung

Burning (2018)

7.4 1.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: South Korea, Japan

Duration: 148 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Deliveryman Jong-su is out on a job when he runs into Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return, she introduces to Jong-su an enigmatic young man named Ben, who she met during her trip. One day Ben tells Jong-su about his most unusual hobby.

Style: melancholy, philosophical

Plot: fire, jealousy, dreams, countryside, love triangle, cat, sex shop, sadness, ...

Cast

Kwak Do-won

Hwang Jung-min

Chun Woo-hee

Jun Kunimura

The Wailing (2016)

7.4 2.1K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: South Korea, United States of America

Duration: 156 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

Plot: daughter, small town, police, investigation, exorcism, possession, murder, priest, ...

Cast

Radhika Apte

Tannishtha Chatterjee

Sayani Gupta

Surveen Chawla

Parched (2015)

7.3 98 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Canada, India

Duration: 116 min.

Story: In the arid landscape of Rajasthan, four women navigate their way through personal and cultural difficulties.

Plot: sheep, fire, fight, tradition, pregnancy, fireworks, cave, feminism, ...

Cast

Steven Yeun

Han Ye-ri

Youn Yuh-jung

Will Patton

Minari (2021)

7.3 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.

Plot: american dream, affectation, arkansas, church, east asian lead, farmland, farmer, burlesque, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

John Wayne

Maureen O'Hara

Victor McLaglen

Barry Fitzgerald

The Quiet Man (1952)

7.3 614 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: NR

Story: An American man returns to the village of his birth in Ireland, where he finds love and conflict.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: countryside, fight, brother, widow, boxer, beer, love, rural area, ...

Place: ireland

Cast

Dolores del Ru00edo

Pedro Armendu00e1riz

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Alberto Galu00e1n

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Margarita Cortu00e9s

Maria Candelaria (1944)

7.3 43 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Mexico

Duration: 102 min.

Story: A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria Candelaria, a young Indian woman who was rejected by her own people for being the daughter of a prostitute. She is protected by a young Indian man, Lorenzo Rafael, who has fallen in love with her.

Plot: journalist, prostitute, robbery, greed, artist, native american, rural area, couple, ...

Cast

Eduard Fernu00e1ndez

Megan Montaner

Miguel u00c1ngel Silvestre

Macarena Gu00f3mez

30 Coins (2020) TV Show

7.3 649 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: Spain

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Father Vergara—an exorcist, boxer and ex-convict—lives in a remote village in Spain. Hoping to be lost and forgotten, Vergara’s demons catch up to him.

Plot: vatican (holy see), exorcism, religion and supernatural, supernatural, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, religious horror, rural, ...

Cast

Richard E. Grant

Paul McGann

Richard Griffiths

Ralph Brown

Withnail & I (1987)

7.2 631 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, Canada

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

Plot: drug dealer, london, england, northern england, countryside, alcohol, darkness, flat, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Anton Glanzelius

Tomas von Bru00f6mssen

Anki Lidu00e9n

Melinda Kinnaman

My Life as a Dog (1985)

7.2 294 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Sweden

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.

Plot: underdog, based on novel or book, uncle, loneliness, rural area, dog, transsexual, tomboy, ...

Time: 1950s

Place: sweden

Cast

Seo Young-hee

Ji Sung-won

Baek Su-ryeon

Park Jeong-hak

Bedevilled (2010)

7.2 490 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror

Country: South Korea

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A disillusioned Seoul woman visits a remote island to reconnect with a childhood friend, only to find her trapped in an oppressive cycle of physical, mental, and sexual abuse. As tensions escalate, the situation spirals into a harrowing tale of survival and retribution.

Plot: friendship, island, prostitute, rape, isolation, revenge, domestic abuse, rural area, ...

Cast

Mia Wasikowska

Michael Fassbender

Jamie Bell

Sally Hawkins

Jane Eyre (2011)

7.2 1.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Plot: friendship, prayer, smoking, painting, man woman relationship, love, rural area, snow, ...

Cast

Gong Li

Jiang Wen

Teng Rujun

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Liu Ji

Red Sorghum (1988)

7.1 244 votes

Genre: Drama, History, Romance

Country: China

Duration: 91 min.

Story: An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.

Plot: based on novel or book, rural area, distillery, japanese occupation of china, war crime

Time: 1940s

Cast

Hio Miyazawa

Kisetsu Fujiwara

Wakana Matsumoto

Honoka Matsumoto

His (2020)

7.1 28 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Japan

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Shun and Nagisa first meet and fall in love during their first year of high school. While Shun is graduating from university, Nagisa tells him that he doesn't see a future for them. Despite Shun's strong feelings, they go their separate ways. Years later, Shun is now a store owner, living alone in a rural area. Out of the blue, Nagisa arrives with his six-year-old daughter, Sora. Spending time together, Shun realizes he still harbors feelings for Nagisa. Can Nagisa reconcile with his feelings for Shun, which have been there all along?

Plot: coming out, infidelity, countryside, homophobia, village, social commentary, unrequited love, rural area, ...

Cast

Javier Gutiu00e9rrez

Rau00fal Aru00e9valo

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Maru00eda Varod

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Perico Cervantes

Marshland (2014)

7.0 1.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Spain

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: 15

Story: The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters – both detectives in the homicide division – to investigate the cases.

Plot: kidnapping, rural area, disappearance, serial killer, police investigation, buddy cop

Time: 1980s

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