Peasant Movies

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

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...

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...

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...

Nous sommes dans un coin de France reculé... très reculé.

Europe in second half of 16th century was very rough place to live. Peasants of Slovenia and Croatia had even rougher times because of the constant...

Spring of 1794, Poland is in a state of unrest. General Tadeusz ‘Kos’ Kościuszko returns to the country, planning to ignite an...

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

The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between...

As a child, Jairo William Gutiérrez traded a few onions for a ticket to the circus and from then on he only wanted to be an actor and...

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...

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

When a stranded soldier shows up on a peasant family’s doorstep pleading for shelter, they take him in on account of their religious values....

A film about a young farmer's connection to the land, his animals and a changing world in the north of England. Battling against unsustainable...

In barely a century, French peasants have seen their world profoundly turned upside down. While they once made up the vast majority of the country,...

In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is found dead, and all the farmhands are relieved to be...

A depressed Alexander the Great and a left-for-dead peasant have an unlikely rendezvous, leading to a devious twist of fate for both.

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

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