Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010), Pather Panchali (1955), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945), Babette's Feast (1987), Run the Wild Fields (2000), Treeless Mountain (2008), The Moo Man (2013), Bread, Love and Dreams (1953) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Simple Living movies.
Storyline: Indigenous people on the Siberian Taiga live in a village on the river Yenisei.
Plot Keywords: documentary, siberia, wilderness, survival, hunting, nature, seasons ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of a young boy, Apu, and life in his small Indian village. His parents are quite poor - his father Harihar, a writer and poet, gave away the family's fruit orchard to settle his brother's debts. His sister Durga and an old aunt also still lives with them. His mother Sarbojaya bears the brunt of the family's situation. She scrapes by and sells her personal possessions to put food on the table and has to bear the taunts of her neighbors as Durga is always stealing fruit from their orchard. Things get worse when Harihar disappears for five months and Durga falls ill. Even after Harihar returns, the family is left with few alternatives.
Plot Keywords: indian cinema, realism, rural life, poverty, family, coming of age, childhood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Wisconsin farming family takes on the struggles and rewards of rural life. Martinius Jacobson (Edward G. Robinson) is a humble Norwegian farmer, working his small farm with only the help of his wife, Bruna (Agnes Moorehead), and his young daughter, Selma (Margaret O'Brien). Selma and her cousin, Arnold (Jackie "Butch" Jenkins), witness many dramatic episodes over the course of a year, including a neighbor's barn fire, a raging flood and a brief visit from a traveling circus elephant.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, rural life, child's perspective, heartwarming, nostalgic, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a remote 19th-century Danish village, two sisters lead a rigid life centered around their father, the local minister, and their church. Both had opportunities to leave the village: one could have married a young army officer and the other, a French opera singer. Their father objected in each case, and they spent their lives caring for him. Many years later - their father is now deceased - they take in French refugee, Babette Hersant, who agrees to work as their servant. After winning the lottery, Babette wants to repay the sisters for their kindness and offers to cook a French meal for them and their friends on the 100th anniversary of their father's birth. It proves to be an eye-opening experience for everyone.
Plot Keywords: art, religion, denmark, 19th century, faith, sacrifice, cultural clash ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ruby Miller (Joanne Whalley) has put her life on hold. Her husband, after leaving to fight in World War II, has been missing in action for years. Ruby tends their North Carolina farm and rears their daughter, Pug (Alexa Vega), but cannot bring herself to think about the future. One day a drifter named Tom Walker (Sean Patrick Flanery) arrives in town. Ruby hires him to do some odd jobs around the farm, but he gradually assumes a much more vital role for her and her daughter.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, family, american film, 2000s, rural life, historical ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: What is the nature of childhood resilience? Sisters Jin and Bin, ages 6 and 3, live with their mother. Jin likes school and does well. One day, their mother leaves the girls with their father's sister, a woman they do not know. The mother seeks a reconciliation with their father. She leaves them a plastic piggy bank, promising to return when the bank is full. The girls scrub and clean for their aunt, a tippler who's often cranky and complaining. She gives them a few coins for their work. They earn more money catching, grilling, and selling grasshoppers. They miss their mother. The bank fills. They watch for her from a mound of dirt. Will she return? Will stoic faces give way to a smile?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: family, coming of age, children, sisters, loneliness, rural, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Modern British dairy farms must get bigger and bigger or go under but Farmer Stephen Hook decides to buck the trend. Instead he chooses to have a great relationship with his small herd of cows and ignore the big supermarkets and dairies. The result is a laugh-out-loud emotional roller-coaster of a film, a heart warming tearjerker about the incredible bonds between man, animal and countryside in a fast disappearing England.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, agriculture, united kingdom, independent film, sustainability, rural life, nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Marshal Antonio Carotenuto is sent to Sagliena, an imaginary little village in the center of Italy in the '50s, to assume his new mandate. In the village he knows Maria (Frisky) AKA 'la Bersagliera', secretly in love with a policeman (Carabiniere) reporting to Antonio. But also Paoletta, the priest's nephew, loves him. Things become more complicated when Annarella, the midwife, starts demonstrating her love to Antonio. She is hiding a secret and the Marshal soon will be in a restless situation.—1felco
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, drama, italian cinema, classic, black and white, post-war ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A small village in Burkina Faso. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When Bila's cousin Nopoko gets sick it is Sana's medicine who saves her.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: drama, family, village life, child's perspective, tradition, social outcasts, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, rural life, american film, 1950s, classic film, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture she has put out on the pavement. Her final gesture of taking a ring off her finger signals she is leaving her previous life in Holland behind. She goes to Ireland, where she chooses to lead a solitary, wandering existence, striding through the austere landscapes of Connemara. During her travels, she discovers a house that is home to a hermit, Martin.—Warsaw Film Festival
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, independent film, european cinema, irish film, female director, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Out of the blue, Ben learns he has stage IV cancer; survival, with treatment, is 10 percent. So this risk-averse, slow-to-act, quiet man buys a used motorcycle, says goodbye to Samantha, his baffled fiancée, and heads west from Toronto. He imagines it's a quest for Grumps, a mythical figure from his childhood; he takes digital photos of various "world's largest" roadside attractions; he chats with strangers, including two women; his bike slips on a dead skunk on the highway. Calls to Samantha meet with pleading that he return for treatment and anger that he won't. He doesn't want to be a patient yet. But, will he make discoveries, and what about Grumps? What's important?
Plot Keywords: adventure, road movie, canada, cancer, self-discovery, motorcycle, life turning point ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After years of no contact with his Uncle Henry, London banker and bond trader Max Skinner learns that Henry has died intestate, so Max inherits a château and vineyard in Provence. Max spent part of his childhood there, learning maxims and how to win and lose, and honing his killer instinct (at chess, which serves him well in finance). Max goes to France intent on selling the property. He spends a few days there, getting the property ready to show. Memories, a beautiful woman, and a young American who says she's Henry's illegitimate daughter interrupt his plans. Did Max the boy know things that Max the man has forgotten?
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, love, france, country life, inheritance, self-discovery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, rural life, humor, classic, 1950s, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An embittered, hard-drinking Indian finds himself befriending a young white farmboy, and together they determine to help him end his drinking problems and return to his former life.
Plot Keywords: adventure, drama, family, coming of age, friendship, nature, rural ...
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