Hagazussa: A Heathen's Curse (2017), Tabu (1931), Mouchette (1967), Woman in the Dunes (1964), La Collectionneuse (1967), The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978), The Ballad of Narayama (1983), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Naturalism movies.
Storyline: Franck, a fit gay man, seeks love at a lakeside gay cruising beach. Among the mostly pudgy nude sunbathers, he befriends Henri, a depressed middle-aged bi-sexual who enjoys the quiet but accepts Franck's company. When Michel appears, Franck finally spots a man he'd like to know sexually. Unfortunately, he also spots him drowning his gay lover but opts not to tell anyone in order to consider having a relationship with this handsome yet remorseless killer.
Plot Keywords: thriller, lgbt, crime, french cinema, indie film, erotic, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nell is a girl who's been brought up in an isolated world. The only people she knew were her mother and twin sister. They lived together in a cottage in the forest. Nobody has ever met Nell. After her mother's death, she's discovered by the local doctor Jerome. He's fascinated by her, since she speaks a mangled language, developed by her sister and herself growing up, "twin speak" if you will. But Paula, a psychology student, wants her observed in a laboratory. The judge decides they get three months to observe her in the forest, after which he'll decide about Nell's future.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, drama, isolation, language barrier, cultural clash, coming of age, medical ethics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Spanning the 1910 decade, six years in the life of a girl named Chris, one of the numerous children of a tyrannical Scottish farmer. Years of high hopes and of disillusionment, of mirth and sorrow, of dreaming and toiling, of sweetness and violence, of love and hate, of peace and war. And in the end, the dignified loneliness of a new Chris, a woman who seems to have gone through several lives, now and forever as one with the land, the earth eternal...—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: scotland, rural life, coming of age, female protagonist, literary adaptation, class conflict, tradition vs modernity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On the outskirts of Austin, 10-year-old Annie tears around on her BMX bike, hurls dough at cars, and smashes things up with her baseball bat. Her father, a goat farmer-cum-demolition derby driver, does little parenting. Annie has no friends her age, so her daily routine is filled with solitary mischief. Playing in the woods one day, she hears a woman's plaintive call for help from an abandoned well. Though Annie feels driven to visit the well daily, she is unsure about how to deal with the woman's plight.—Sundance Film Festival
Plot Keywords: independent film, drama, child protagonist, american film, coming of age, surrealism, texas ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sisters Francine and Kath run a rundown farm left them by their parents. Kath is a single mother whose primitive and swaggering boyfriend, Buto has an unpredictable and sometimes violent disposition. She loves him, but his past behavior has earned Francine's enmity, and she's not at all happy when Kath announces that Buto has finally asked for her hand in marriage. Meanwhile, Lek, a stranger and hired hand on a neighboring farm, takes a shine to Francine.
Plot Keywords: drama, british, independent film, rural setting, social realism, poverty, working class ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Luke and Kate are co-workers at a Chicago brewery, where they spend their days drinking and flirting. They're perfect for each other, except that they're both in relationships. Luke is in the midst of marriage talks with his girlfriend of six years, Kate is playing it cool with her music producer boyfriend Chris. But you know what makes the line between "friends" and "more than friends" really blurry? Beer.
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, friendship, american movie, independent film, romantic comedy, workplace ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Glen (Steven Curry) and Randa (Shelley Plimpton), a young couple, struggle to survive among the uneducated, underfed masses in the post-apocalyptic wasteland once called America. Armed with a stack of tattered comic books and stolen maps, the two set off with their one horse to find Metropolis. The rumored modern city -- if it truly does exist -- could offer answers to their questions about life before nuclear war destroyed all traces of civilization.
Plot Keywords: dystopian, post-apocalyptic, survival, societal collapse, psychedelic, existential, counterculture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on the classic novel by William Faulkner, first published in 1930, "As I Lay Dying" is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest to honor her last wish to be buried in the nearby town of Jefferson.
Plot Keywords: family tragedy, rural life, moral dilemma, existentialism, father-son relationship, sibling rivalry, dark humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1914 twenty year-old Lucia enjoys a bucolic island existence looking after the family's herds of goats. The family's past, with all the positive aspects represented by the often silent mother figure, is concentrated in the house where the sick father is replaced by the brothers who are the bearers of the defense of a tradition that becomes an increasingly heavy dress for Lucia to wear. But when her father dies, her grumpy older brother decides to marry her off to a rich widower, thinking first and foremost about the financial benefits for the family. She joins a nudist colony, despite warnings from the locals that they are "devils". They are a commune of young North Europeans has found on Capri the ideal place to live their alternative life style and practice their art. There she falls under the spell of painter and commune leader Seybu. He teaches her to read and soon she is multi-lingual. But the local doctor Carlo hopes to win her affections and the two men fiercely stating their points in the duel between science and art. This becomes very boring and Lucia soon has enough and wants "to go back to dancing in the woods".—Venice Film Festival
Plot Keywords: history, war, italy, utopia, artists, rural life, social change ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel. After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.—Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, erotic, literary adaptation, british film, forbidden love, class divide ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Italian laborer Toni (Charles Blavette), loved by Marie (Jenny Helia), falls tragically for Spanish Josepha (Celia Montalvan) near Marseille.
Plot Keywords: french film, 1930s, realism, working class, immigration, love, tragedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A bourgeois Frenchman (Charles Granval) saves the life of a dirty tramp (Michel Simon) who proceeds to seduce his wife (Marcelle Hainia) and take over the house.
Plot Keywords: french film, comedy, classic, black and white film, 1930s, social satire, paris ...
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