The Olive Tree (2016), Sweet Land (2005), Red Sorghum (1988), Mother India (1957), The Emigrants (1971), Jean de Florette (1986), Giant (1956), Wild River (1960) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Land movies.
Storyline: Explores a thesis: that the deep colored, oak-aged taste of Bordeaux wines has become the world standard, following the writing of critic Robert Parker, the magazine "Wine Spectator," the consulting work of Michel Rolland of Pomerol, and the money of Mondavi, a publicly-traded corporation based in Napa with a family history of wine making. Wine makers worldwide, many using Rolland as a consultant, pursue this structure, color, and taste - to the detriment, argue some, of wine that should reflect the character of the land where the grape is grown, including the lighter Burgundy. A few old wine makers, from Aniane, Sardinia, and Argentina offer this argument.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: documentary, globalization, france, italy, cultural conflict, tradition, family business ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease, a flood, and a jealous neighbor. Can they make it as farmers?—George S. Davis
Plot Keywords: drama, rural life, poverty, family, struggle, american south, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 'Yellow Earth' focuses on the story of a communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns that the happy songs he was sent to collect do not exist; the songs he finds are about hardship and suffering. He returns to the army, but promises to come back for the young girl, Cuiqiao, who has been spell-bound by his talk of the freedom women have under communist rule and who wants to join the Communist Army.—Ronald Aiken <aikenrd@netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: zhang yimou, traditional culture, visual aesthetics, cinematography, symbolism, realism, social criticism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ulmer's soulful, open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein's classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. When an ascetic young scholar ventures into the countryside, searching for the city of "true Jews," he learns some unexpected lessons from the Jewish peasants who take him in as a tutor for their children.—National Center for Jewish Film
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, rural, agriculture, family, tradition, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Corporate salesman Steve Butler (Matt Damon) arrives in a rural town with his sales partner, Sue Thomason (McDormand). With the town having been hit hard by the economic decline of recent years, the two outsiders see the local citizens as likely to accept their company's offer, for drilling rights to their properties, as much-needed relief. What seems like an easy job for the duo becomes complicated by the objection of a respected schoolteacher (Holbrook) with support from a grassroots campaign led by another man (Krasinski) who counters Steve both personally and professionally.
Plot Keywords: drama, social, environment, political, controversy, rural, american ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ephraim Cabot is an old man of amazing vitality who loves his New England farm with a greedy passion. Hating him, and sharing his greed, are the sons of two wives Cabot has overworked into early graves. Most bitter is Eben, whose mother had owned most of the farm, and who feels who should be sole heir. When the old man brings home a new wife, Anna, she becomes a fierce contender to inherit the farm. Two of the sons leave when Eben gives them the fare in return for their shares of the farm. Meanwhile, Anna tries to cause some sparks by rubbing up against Eben.—Ray Hamel <hamel@primate.wisc.edu>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, family, tragedy, adaptation, theatrical, desire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A rodeo rider decides to quit his line of work after a serious injury, but when he visits his family and finds out that his dad is not well, he'll have to risk it one more time.
Plot Keywords: western, family, father-son relationship, inheritance, texas, country music, homecoming ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Squanto (Adam Beach) is a high-born Native American from a tribe on the Atlantic coast of North America which devotes its life to hunting and rivalry with a neighboring tribe. Everything changes forever after a ship arrives from England, prospecting the region's commercial potential for the rich Sir George (Sir Michael Gambon), who uses all his wealth and influence only for ever greater profit. When it returns, several Indians find themselves captives on-board, including Squanto. The arrogant "Christians" consider themselves utterly superior to the "heathen savages" and treat them as brutally as they do beasts. Squanto fights a bear in a circus, not understanding how men can be so cruel to that creature either, and manages a spectacular escape, but where must he go? He finds shelter and help in a rural monastery, where it takes his protector some effort to prevent the others considering the unknown as diabolical. In time, Sir George's men come looking for him most brutally, but he escapes again, now determined to find a way back home, across the ocean.—KGF Vissers
Plot Keywords: historical, adventure, drama, biographical, friendship, cultural clash, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After receiving news of her father's death, Alice, a young travelling sheep-shearer, tentatively decides to return to the dilapidated family house of her childhood, in muddy North Yorkshire. Surprisingly, it's been already fifteen years since Alice left behind an ailing dad and her older brother, Joe, to wander about from farm to farm; however, this cold and heavy homecoming will be Alice's last chance to reclaim the land she believes was once promised to her. But, now, on one hand, there's Joe's resentment paired with a rancorous rivalry between siblings--while, on the other hand--fleeting mournful shadows of a troubled past permeate the walls of an imperfect prize. What will it take to keep the haunting memories at bay?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: drama, thriller, family, psychological, british film, rural, trauma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Following World War II, a northern cannery negotiates for the purchase of a large tract of uncultivated Georgia farmland. The major portion of the land 's owned by Julie Warren and has already been optioned by her unscrupulous, husband, Henry. Now the combine must also obtain 2 smaller plots; one owned by Henry's cousin Rad McDowell, the other by Reeve Scott, a young black man whose mother had been Julie's childhood nammy. But neither Rad nor Reeve's interested in selling, and they form a partnership to improve their land. Although infuriated by the events, Henry remains determined to push through the big land deal,—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, race, family, conflict, legal, social ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the competitive world of modern agriculture, ambitious Henry Whipple wants his rebellious son Dean to help expand his family's farming empire. However, Dean has his sights set on becoming a professional race car driver. When a high-stakes investigation into their business is exposed, father and son are pushed into an unexpected crisis that threatens the family's entire livelihood.—Sony Pictures Classics
Plot Keywords: drama, family, farm, father-son relationship, agriculture, moral dilemma, inheritance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jude and Joy escape to her Parisian flat for a private detox. A dark comedy of word games, sex, fantasy and pop tarts.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, society, class, austria, rural, inheritance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A down-and-out wildcatter (Robert Duvall) smells oil beneath a struggling farmer's (Aidan Quinn) land in Depression-era Texas.
Plot Keywords: drama, western, dream, adventure, family, hope, perseverance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Swedish emigrants Karl-Oskar (Max von Sydow), wife Kristina (Liv Ullmann) and family struggle in 1850 Minnesota.
Plot Keywords: immigration, sweden, america, 19th century, family, survival, struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After an earthquake wakes a giant creature trapped in a mountain, residents have to find a way to kill it before it destroys the entire town.
Plot Keywords: documentary, china, environment, pollution, industry, social issues, health ...
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