Zama (2017), Microcosmos (1996), Badlands (1973), A Touch of Zen (1971), The Piano (1993), Gabbeh (1996), Slow West (2015), Naqoyqatsi (2002) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Natural Landscape movies.
Storyline: In the 18th century, a highly-placed servant of the Spanish crown who is obsessed with petty grudges and fantasies plots his transfer to Buenos Aires.
Plot Keywords: colonialism, historical drama, latin america, 18th century, bureaucracy, identity crisis, isolation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching.—Will Gilbert
Plot Keywords: nature, documentary, ecology, french film, cinematography, biodiversity, science ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's the late 1950s. Mid-twenty-something Kit is a restless and unfocused young man with a James Dean vibe and swagger which he has heard mentioned about him more than once. Fifteen year old Holly has a somewhat cold relationship with her sign painter father, if only because she is the primary reminder of his wife, who died of pneumonia when Holly was a child. The two meet when Holly and her father move from Texas to the small town where Kit lives, Fort Dupree, South Dakota. They slowly fall in love, something about which she cannot tell her father because of their age difference and Kit coming from the wrong side of the tracks. When he tries to take Holly away with him, Kit, on an impulse, shoots her father dead. After letting the initial emotions of the situation settle down, Holly decides voluntarily to go with Kit, they trying to make it look like they committed suicide in a house fire. But they soon learn that their plan did not work, there being a bounty on their heads. As such,...
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, romance, thriller, road movie, violence, fugitive ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An artist, Ku, lives with his mother near an abandoned fort, reputed to be haunted. One night, investigating strange noises, he meets the beautiful Yang who is living there. She is being pursued by agents of an Imperial noble who have murdered her family. Ku finds himself caught up in her struggle to survive, and many fierce battles take place before all is resolved. Action adventure with a lyrical feel, this is a kung fu film with a strong spiritual element.—Richard Hills <R.Hills@wlv.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, drama, historical, swordplay, revenge, female protagonist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It is the mid-nineteenth century. Ada cannot speak and she has a young daughter, Flora. In an arranged marriage she leaves her native Scotland accompanied by her daughter and her beloved piano. Life in the rugged forests of New Zealand's North Island is not all she may have imagined and nor is her relationship with her new husband Stewart. She suffers torment and loss when Stewart sells her piano to a neighbor, George. Ada learns from George that she may earn back her piano by giving him piano lessons, but only with certain other conditions attached. At first Ada despises George but slowly their relationship is transformed and this propels them into a dire situation.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, music, female perspective, victorian era, new zealand, colonialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An elderly couple go about their routine of cleaning their gabbeh (a intricately-designed rug), while bickering gently with each other. Magically, a young woman appears, helping the two clean the rug. This young woman belongs to the clan whose history is depicted in the design of the gabbeh, and the rug recounts the story of the courtship of the young woman by a stranger from the clan.—Mike Myers <mmyers@ucsd.edu>
Plot Keywords: magical realism, symbolism, love story, cultural heritage, surreal, visual art, tradition vs modernity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 'Slow West' follows a 16-year-old boy on a journey across 19th Century frontier America in search of the woman he loves, while accompanied by mysterious traveler Silas.
Plot Keywords: western, adventure, drama, romance, violence, survival, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this cinematic concert, mesmerizing images are plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques. The result is a chronicle of the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle, tragedy and hope fuse in a tidal wave of visuals and music, giving rise to a unique, artistic experience that reflects the vision of a brave new globalized world.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: experimental film, documentary, globalization, technology, soundtrack, passage of time, social commentary ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An ethologist's research on the nocturnal behavior of animals leads him to a remote, "deserted" village and an ancient curse.
Plot Keywords: adventure, drama, nature, wildlife, documentary, italy, river ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A photographer (Nezam Manouchehri) and his wife (Leila Hatami) seek help at the nearest village when their car breaks down en route to Tehran. There they find a teacher, Feizollah (Mehran Rajabi), overseeing a small group of scrappy children. While the men fix the car, the wife is left to care for the children and confront her own fears of parenthood. Over the course of the day, this childless woman and these motherless gamins form a bond that will change them forever.
Plot Keywords: drama, road movie, human nature, loneliness, encounter, cultural conflict, countryside ...
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