The Secret World of Arrietty (2010), My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Médecin de campagne (2016), Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988), Hear My Song (1991), She Shears (2018), Eboli (1979), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Countryside movies.
Storyline: Two young girls, 10-year-old Satsuki and her 4-year-old sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuki and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They soon befriend these Totoros, and have several magical adventures.
Plot Keywords: animation, fantasy, family, children, adventure, japan, forest ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's the summer of 1959 in Castlerock, Oregon and four 12 year-old boys - Gordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern - are fast friends. After learning of the general location of the body of a local boy who has been missing for several days, they set off into woods to see it. Along the way, they learn about themselves, the meaning of friendship and the need to stand up for what is right.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, friendship, adventure, childhood, nostalgia, self-discovery, journey ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A girl of perhaps five or six is orphaned in an air raid while fleeing a French city with her parents early in World War II. She is befriended by a pre-adolescent peasant boy after she wandered away from the other refugees, and is taken in for a few weeks by his family. The children become fast friends, and the film follows their attempt to assimilate the deaths they both face, and the religious rituals surrounding those deaths, through the construction of a cemetery for all sorts of animals. Child-like and adult activity are frequently at cross-purposes, however.—Doug Shafer <dsshafer@uncc.edu>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, french film, classic, child's perspective, tragedy, human nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young Japanese middle school girl finds that all the books she chooses in the library have been previously checked out by the same boy. Later she meets a very infuriating fellow... could it be her "friend" from the library? The boy's grandfather has a violin sales and service shop. The boy wants to be a violin maker like his grandfather.
Plot Keywords: animation, japan, coming of age, youth, romance, dreams, music ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The life inside a farm in Italy at the end of the 19th century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him help them, although this represents a great sacrifice. The boy has to wake up very early and walk several miles to get to the school. One day the boy's shoes break when returning home, but they do not have money to buy another pair. What can they do?—Michel Rudoy <mdrc@hp9000a1.uam.mx>
Plot Keywords: drama, rural life, italian cinema, poverty, family, faith, tradition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his village with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...
Plot Keywords: historical, war, soviet union, family, political, tragedy, revolution ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, the new film by Luca Guadagnino, is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman. It's the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17-year-old young man, spends his days in his family's 17th-century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). Elio enjoys a close relationship with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a translator, who favor him with the fruits of high culture in a setting that overflows with natural delights. While Elio's sophistication and intellectual gifts suggest he is already a fully-fledged adult, there is much that yet remains innocent and unformed about him, particularly about matters of the heart. One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24-year-old American college graduate student working on his...
Plot Keywords: romance, lgbt, coming of age, italy, summer, youth, art film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman) visits the meadows of England in summer and develops a special bond with a child in need of a friend. When the other fairies launch a daring rescue, Tinker Bell has to take a huge risk to keep all of fairykind safe.
Plot Keywords: animation, fantasy, adventure, family, children, disney, fairies ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cesira is a beautiful widow and a successful grocery store owner in Rome. WWII is raging, and she fears for her beloved daughter, 13-year-old Rosetta, amid the daily bombings. They travel to the village where Cesira was born, where Cesira believes they will be safer. There, they are happy even as food dwindles. A young intellectual, Michele, falls in love with Cesira, who is too consumed with the well-being of her daughter and their survival to return his timid advances. As the allies advance, Cesira decides to return to Rome - and encounter the horrors of war at last.—jcravens42@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, italy, women, survival, trauma, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A woman (Nguyen Ngoc Hiep) harvests flowers for a leper (Tran Manh Cuong), a cyclo driver (Don Duong) loves a prostitute, and an ex-Marine seeks an unknown daughter in Saigon.
Plot Keywords: drama, vietnam, independent film, multi-narrative, social realism, cultural clash, poetic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a nursing home, resident Duke reads a romance story to an old woman who has senile dementia with memory loss. In the late 1930s, wealthy seventeen year-old Allie Hamilton is spending summer vacation in Seabrook. Local worker Noah Calhoun meets Allie at a carnival and they soon fall in love with each other. One day, Noah brings Allie to an ancient house that he dreams of buying and restoring and they attempt to make love but get interrupted by their friend. Allie's parents do not approve of their romance since Noah belongs to another social class, and they move to New York with her. Noah writes 365 letters (A Year) to Allie, but her mother Anne Hamilton does not deliver them to her daughter. Three years later, the United States joins the World War II and Noah and his best friend Fin enlist in the army, and Allie works as an army nurse. She meets injured soldier Lon Hammond in the hospital. After the war, they meet each other again going on dates and then, Lon, who is wealthy and ...
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, romantic, novel adaptation, memory, nostalgia, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Madame Souza, an elderly woman, instills in her grandson Champion (for who she acts as his guardian) a love of cycling. As a young man, he does become a dedicated road racer with his grandmother as his trainer. During a mountainous leg of the Tour de France in which Champion is racing, he goes missing. Evidence points to him being kidnapped. Indeed, he and two of his competitors were kidnapped, the kidnappers who want to use the threesome's unique skills for nefarious purposes. With Champion's overweight and faithful pet dog Bruno at her side, Madame Souza goes looking for Champion. Their trek takes them overseas to the town of Belleville. Without any money, Madame Souza and Bruno are befriended and taken in by three eccentric elderly women, who were once the renowned jazz singing group The Triplets of Belleville. The triplets help Madame Souza and Bruno try to locate and rescue Champion.
Plot Keywords: animation, comedy, fantasy, french film, music, adventure, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When fisherman Ford Lofton's (Gabriel Byrne) wife dies in a horseback riding accident, the devastated widower tells his daughters they can no longer ride. The younger of the two, Virginia (Lindze Letherman), can't shake her passion for horses, and cares for a young foal named Stormy behind her father's back. When Ford moves to sell Stormy, the girl enlists a friendly horse trainer named Jessie Eastwood (Joanne Whalley) to try to change Ford's mind and let Virginia keep Stormy for her own.
Plot Keywords: family, adventure, coming of age, equestrian, father-daughter relationship, rural life, dreams ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A 12-year-old girl is sent to the country for health reasons, where she meets an unlikely friend in the form of Marnie, a young girl with long, flowing blonde hair. As the friendship unravels it is possible that Marnie has closer ties to the protagonist than we might expect.
Plot Keywords: animation, japan, fantasy, coming of age, childhood, memories, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, sends the oldest son, who is about 11 years old, to visit his father at the camp. The journey becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey, he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.—Ed Cannon <ecannon@mail.utexas.edu>
Plot Keywords: drama, family, race, american south, great depression, african american, poverty ...
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