Peasant Movies

  • 1956
    Song of the Scarlet Flower

    Song of the Scarlet Flower

    Song of the Scarlet Flower

    41956HD

    Olof is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a log driver and his reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide.

    Song of the Scarlet Flower
  • 1984
    The Holy Innocents

    The Holy Innocents

    The Holy Innocents

    7.81984HD

    Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy...

    The Holy Innocents
  • 1987
    Empire of the Sun

    Empire of the Sun

    Empire of the Sun

    7.51987HD

    Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured...

    Empire of the Sun
  • 1957
    Mother India

    Mother India

    Mother India

    7.11957HD

    A poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, always sticks to her own moral code.

    Mother India
  • 1989
    Peasant Psalm

    Peasant Psalm

    Peasant Psalm

    4.81989HD

    This heimat-movie after a novel by Felix Timmermans is about the at first sight idyllic, but actually tragical life of Wortel, a peasant in a pre-war...

    Peasant Psalm
  • 1962
    Superfluous

    Superfluous

    Superfluous

    5.91962HD

    Young farmer Mikajlo while on youth labour action falls in love with a student Nada and infatuated with her, he leaves the peasant brigade and...

    Superfluous
  • 1970
    Pero the Lump's Gang

    Pero the Lump's Gang

    Pero the Lump's Gang

    71970HD

    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...

    Pero the Lump's Gang
  • 1967
    More Than a Miracle

    More Than a Miracle

    More Than a Miracle

    5.81967HD

    A fairy tale of the misadventures of a beautiful but temperamental Neapolitan peasant, Isabella, when she meets the ill- tempered Spanish Prince...

    More Than a Miracle
  • 1939
    Mendelssohn's Wedding March

    Mendelssohn's Wedding March

    Mendelssohn's Wedding March

    11939HD

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

    Mendelssohn's Wedding March
  • 2011
    Leader-Sheep

    Leader-Sheep

    Leader-Sheep

    72011HD

    Marizette, Christiane, Pierre, Léon, José... are some of the actors, funny and moving, of an incredible struggle, that of the peasants...

    Leader-Sheep
  • 1970
    Once on This Island

    Once on This Island

    Once on This Island

    01970HD

    Adaptation of the Broadway musical. The story is set in the French Antilles in the Caribbean Sea and tells of a peasant girl who falls in love with...

    Once on This Island
  • 1955
    Two Peasants

    Two Peasants

    Two Peasants

    01955HD

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

    Two Peasants
  • 1992
    The Story of Qiu Ju

    The Story of Qiu Ju

    The Story of Qiu Ju

    7.3091992HD

    When her husband is kicked in the groin by the village head, Qiu Ju, a peasant woman, despite her pregnancy, travels to a nearby town, and later a...

    The Story of Qiu Ju
  • 1991
    L'Elisir d'Amore

    L'Elisir d'Amore

    L'Elisir d'Amore

    9.51991HD

    John Copley’s colorful production, with designs by Beni Montresor, was created around the beloved superstar Luciano Pavarotti. As the simple,...

    L'Elisir d'Amore
  • 2007
    Up the Yangtze

    Up the Yangtze

    Up the Yangtze

    7.322007HD

    At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront...

    Up the Yangtze
  • 1984
    Yellow Earth

    Yellow Earth

    Yellow Earth

    7.21984HD

    A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small...

    Yellow Earth
  • 2002
    Dinorah, or The Pardon of Ploërmel

    Dinorah, or The Pardon of Ploërmel

    Dinorah, or The Pardon of Ploërmel

    02002HD

    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...

    Dinorah, or The Pardon of Ploërmel
  • 1964
    At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

    At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

    At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

    6.81964HD

    Zé do Caixão is an undertaker in a small Brazilian town, searching for the perfect woman to bear him a superior child. Unable to...

    At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
  • 1979
    Uncle Marin, the Billionaire

    Uncle Marin, the Billionaire

    Uncle Marin, the Billionaire

    81979HD

    At a swanky hotel in a Black Sea resort, Gogu, one of the hotel employees, meets his uncle Marin, an Oltenian peasant who has come to visit. Gogu...

    Uncle Marin, the Billionaire
  • 1967
    Thanos and Despina

    Thanos and Despina

    Thanos and Despina

    7.11967HD

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

    Thanos and Despina