Peasant Movies

In the aftermath of a medieval battle, a war-ravaged soldier meets a peasant woman searching for her warrior son. Unexpectedly their lives will...

With the death of her mother, eight-year-old Anna ends her childhood: From now on, she has to look after the nine-member family. Deprivation-rich...

Katina, an impoverished Greek woman, tries to arrange the marriage of her shepherd son, Thanos, to Despina, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. But...

Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.

Reino Köyri the son of a wealthy house falls off a horse and ends up at Liuhala's cottage to be treated by Venla. There he falls in love with...

A sublime documentary on childhood and bereavement that’s one of several shorts the filmmaker completed while working in Algeria for Georges...

The film depicts the lives of Guangdong peasants who have gone through the suffering of the Sino-Japanese War only to experience home-grown...

This short film provides a fanciful account of how Felix Mendelssohn came to compose "The Wedding March".

Years after Algeria gained independence, war continues to claim lives in Soulima, a border village surrounded by mines, whose victims are too...

In this remake the Bertolucci's 1900, Olmo Dalco and Alfredo Berlingheiri's complicated friendship and struggles with the constantly changing...

Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion...

The struggle of two Serbian peasants to choose between love of their families and love of their country.

A group of village boys found a gang under the leadership of the most intelligent amongst them - Pero the Lump. They decide to renovate an old and...

Giacomo Meyerbeer's pastoral opera,based on a Breton tale, is the tale of DINORAH who has gone mad because her bridegroom Hoël has disappeared...

Nigel, a famished peasant in 18th century England, takes revenge on the aristocrat that deprived him of his livelihood.