Movies: Peasant

  • 1969
    Once on This Island

    Once on This Island (1969)

    Once on This Island

    01969HD

    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 an aristocrat. Against this backdrop, social class differences play out while the island gods wager a ...

    Once on This Island
  • 1960
    The River Fuefuki

    The River Fuefuki (1960)

    The River Fuefuki

    7.51960HD

    In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followe...

    The River Fuefuki
  • 1927
    Mockery

    Mockery (1927)

    Mockery

    6.71927HD

    There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to help her get there, and to tell anyone they m...

    Mockery
  • 2007
    Full Metal Village

    Full Metal Village (2007)

    Full Metal Village

    6.72007HD

    The film describes the microcosmos of the small village Wacken and shows the clash of the cultures, before and during the biggest heavy metal festival in Europe....

    Full Metal Village
  • 1972
    Red Psalm

    Red Psalm (1972)

    Red Psalm

    6.31972HD

    Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence....

    Red Psalm
  • 2007
    Up the Yangtze

    Up the Yangtze (2007)

    Up the Yangtze

    7.32007HD

    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 rising waters and a radically changing China....

    Up the Yangtze
  • 1943
    Wild Flower

    Wild Flower (1943)

    Wild Flower

    6.41943HD

    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 Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner...

    Wild Flower
  • 1998
    The Inheritors

    The Inheritors (1998)

    The Inheritors

    6.91998HD

    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 free of their tyrant. But the farmer was childless, so suddenly they all inherit the farm together. ...

    The Inheritors
  • 1989
    Autumn Milk

    Autumn Milk (1989)

    Autumn Milk

    81989HD

    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 years, which also find no end when Anna marries: Her husband Albert must be a soldier in the Second Worl...

    Autumn Milk
  • 2007
    Silent Light

    Silent Light (2007)

    Silent Light

    6.82007HD

    Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and Man, Johan falls in love with another woman....

    Silent Light
  • 1954
    Woman of the River

    Woman of the River (1954)

    Woman of the River

    5.81954HD

    When peasant girl Nives is deserted by smuggler Gino Lodi, she betrays him to the police. Police officer Enzo Cinti, who loves Nives, traces her to the Po River cane-fields, where she is working as a cutter to support herself and an infant son, and w...

    Woman of the River
  • 1975
    Anno Domini 1573

    Anno Domini 1573 (1975)

    Anno Domini 1573

    5.81975HD

    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 threat of Turk raids and being taxed to death in order to provide defence against the Turks. But, the ...

    Anno Domini 1573
  • 1948
    Rosenda

    Rosenda (1948)

    Rosenda

    6.41948HD

    A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her....

    Rosenda
  • 2008
    Mariage chez les Bodin's

    Mariage chez les Bodin's (2008)

    Mariage chez les Bodin's

    5.72008HD

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

    Mariage chez les Bodin's
  • 1971
    Breakfast with the Devil

    Breakfast with the Devil (1971)

    Breakfast with the Devil

    6.31971HD

    In 1947, among the ruins of war and in anticipation of a catastrophic flood, the locals of a Vojvodina village find themselves caught between the devastation of their livelihoods and the demands of the new Communist authorities....

    Breakfast with the Devil
  • 1973
    One Russian Summer

    One Russian Summer (1973)

    One Russian Summer

    7.71973HD

    Based on Mikhail Lermontov's novel Vadim, this costume drama, set in Russia during the 1700s, chronicles the battle between a vengeful, anarchic peasant and the tyrannical landowner who killed his mother and father....

    One Russian Summer
  • 2021
    Nous paysans

    Nous paysans (2021)

    Nous paysans

    7.82021HD

    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, today they are only a tiny minority and are faced with an immense challenge: to continue to feed Franc...

    Nous paysans
  • 2018
    The Riddle of Jaan Niemand

    The Riddle of Jaan Niemand (2018)

    The Riddle of Jaan Niemand

    52018HD

    After ten years of war, plague and famine, the land is swept clean of people. The few remaining souls are scattered about, living in misery and lacking hope. An anxious silence hangs over the land. On one particularly starry night, two peasants find ...

    The Riddle of Jaan Niemand
  • 1950
    Dawn Must Come

    Dawn Must Come (1950)

    Dawn Must Come

    01950HD

    The film depicts the lives of Guangdong peasants who have gone through the suffering of the Sino-Japanese War only to experience home-grown oppression by a rapacious landlord in their village....

    Dawn Must Come
  • 1991
    L'Elisir d'Amore

    L'Elisir d'Amore (1991)

    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, good-hearted Nemorino, he enchanted audiences with his larger-than-life personality as well as his golden vo...

    L'Elisir d'Amore