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Genre "Rural Drama" Movies
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| 1. Days of Heaven (year: 1978) |
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Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, the long-awaited follow-up to his 1973 debut Badlands, confirmed his reputation as a visual poet and narrative icono ...
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| 2. Devi (year: 1960) |
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Director Satyajit Ray adapted his script for Devi from the collected works of Indian authors Prabhatkumar Mukherjee and Rabinranath Tagore. The teen-a ...
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| 3. El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba (year: 1999) |
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Based on the novel of Gabriel Garcia Marquez by the same name, but set in the forties, the film is a reflection on life and its illusions by the Mexic ...
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| 4. Hoosiers (year: 1986) |
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An unexpected late-1986 box-office hit, Hoosiers tells the true story of a group of underdogs who become champions. Set in the 1950s, Hoosiers is abou ...
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| 6. Of Mice and Men (year: 1992) |
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Gary Sinese directed this respectful re-telling of John Steinbeck's classic novel, with Sinese as the wily George and John Malkovich as the brutish, s ...
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| 7. Pather Panchali (year: 1955) |
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Pather Panchali (Father Panchali), Indian director Satyajit Ray's first feature film, relates the story of an impoverished Bengalese family. When the ...
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| 8. Silent Light (year: 2007) |
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A man of faith succumbs to a temptation he cannot resist in this drama written and directed by Carlos Reygadas. Johan (Cornelio Wall Fehr) and Esther ...
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| 9. Spencer's Mountain (year: 1963) |
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For a family picture, not to mention a story that later became the old-fashioned-values-affirming series The Waltons, Spencer's Mountain sure has a lo ...
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| 10. The Astronaut Farmer (year: 2006) |
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An aspiring astronaut who was forced to forsake his dream of exploring space in order to save the family farm begins building his own personal rocket ...
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| 11. The Banishment (year: 2007) |
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On the heels of his award-winning 2003 feature debut The Return, filmmaker Andrei Zvyagintsev struggles to avoid the sophomore slump with this art-hou ...
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| 12. The Color Purple (year: 1985) |
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) ...
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| 13. The Final Season (year: 2007) |
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A place where baseball is more than just a game fights to hold on to the national pastime in this drama inspired by a true story. Norway, Iowa is a li ...
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| 14. The Grapes of Wrath (year: 1940) |
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The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time Oscar-winning director Jo ...
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| 15. The Horse Whisperer (year: 1998) |
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Robert Redford directed himself for the first time in this romantic drama adapted from the 1995 best-seller by Nicholas Evans. Fourteen-year-old Grace ...
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| 16. The Village (year: 2004) |
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M. Night Shyamalan, the creative mind behind The Sixth Sense and Signs, wrote and directed this characteristically atmospheric thriller. The rustic vi ...
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| 17. Vesnicko Má Stredisková (year: 1985) |
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Jiri Menzel of Closely Watched Trains fame directed the sweet little Czechoslovakian comedy/drama My Sweet Little Village. The life's blood of the tit ...
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| 18. Witness (year: 1985) |
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In Peter Weir's thriller Witness, Samuel (Lukas Haas), a young Amish boy, witnesses a murder in the restroom of a Philadelphia bus station. Harrison F ...
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| 19. Zelary (year: 2003) |
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Czech filmmaker Ondrej Trojan directs the period war drama Zelary, based on the novella Jozova Hanule by Kveta Legátová. During WWII, nurse Eliska (An ...
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