Rural Area Movies

Pseudo-ethnological documents about two villages which, without roads and electricity, "stopped existing"

The Paraguayan railroad, created in 1861, fell in the late twentieth century in decline. Operated for decades by foreign companies and later by the...

The film chronicles everyday struggle of a Russian woman for “ordinary” happiness of her family.

In recent years it has become the handiest character of Mexican cinema: the Chilango fleeing the capital to the province in search of something. But...

Law graduate Ylva Markner spends the summer on the island of Väddö, where she gets involved in a quarrel concerning a last will.

In a rural parish in 1906, young Heikki, one of the Finnish immigrants, lives a wild and free life in the deep forest. After poaching, his furs are...

It's post famine and bare-knuckle boxer Dan Power is trying to earn enough money to escape to an easier life in America, but he's starting to suspect...

84-year-old Maura is the guardian of a very particular tradition in danger of extinction. She is a singer of amorfinos, verses full of humor that...

A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.

Greta's parents have decided that the three of them are going back to their hometown. Greta has to tell them that she won't return with them.

The villagers of El Dorado, Argentina, shy away from doctors. Then again, they hardly need one. They have almost as many cures for ailments and...

Two neighbours, each with a small plot of land, hate each other. Both are dissatisfied with his wife.

Albert Engström's anecdotes of Småland have been put together to make a comedy film about Johannes and Cornelius, two smallholding farmers...

He's the bartender at a bar with no parishioners. There he spends his nights yearning for good times, now that he can not even attract his only...

In the 1970's a young idealistic teacher arrives in a remote impoverished North East Issan village to teach in a school. He must first reform the...

A rural doctor in the north of Sweden must travel for hours to his patients. When a young woman has a serious case of appendicitis the doctor must...

An intimate study of Dunquin, County Kerry, Ireland, the westernmost village in Europe and one of the last Gaelic-speaking communities. Isolated from...