The Devil's Miner (2005), Circo (2010), Apocalypto (2006), Kung fu (2004), Shower (1999), The Edge of the World (1937), The Makioka Sisters (1983), Yellow Earth (1984) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Traditional Culture movies.
Storyline: Filmmakers Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani profile Basilio, a 14-year-old Bolivian who supports his family by working in a silver mine. Like his fellow workers, the boy looks to Satan for protection from the daily hazards he encounters in the bowels of the Earth.
Plot Keywords: documentary, poverty, survival, social issues, family, traditional culture, exploitation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Throughout the world, the circus is an old-fashioned form of entertainment that's slowly fading away, and in Mexico, the situation is no different. The Ponces, captained by lead manager and ringmaster Tino, struggle to bring in the crowds and keep their generations-old family business going strong. Compounding this challenge is a weakened economy, particularly in the rural areas where the Ponces pitch their big tent. The soundtrack is enlivened by the music of country-rock band Calexico.
Plot Keywords: documentary, family, circus, mexico, traditional culture, poverty, struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the Maya civilization, a peaceful tribe is brutally attacked by warriors seeking slaves and human beings for sacrifice for their gods. Jaguar Paw hides his pregnant wife and his son in a deep hole nearby their tribe and is captured while fighting with his people. An eclipse spares his life from the sacrifice and later he has to fight to survive and save his beloved family.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, drama, historical, jungle, survival, chase ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set in Canton, China in the 1940s, the story revolves in a town ruled by the Axe Gang, Sing who desperately wants to become a member. He stumbles into a slum ruled by eccentric landlords who turns out to be the greatest kung-fu masters in disguise. Sing's actions eventually cause the Axe Gang and the slumlords to engage in an explosive kung-fu battle. Only one side will win and only one hero will emerge as the greatest kung-fu master of all.
Plot Keywords: action, comedy, adventure, martial arts, fantasy, drama, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Shenzhen businessman, Da Ming, goes home to Beijing when he thinks his father has died. He finds his father hard at work at the family's bathhouse (the false message was a ruse of Da's mentally-handicapped, exuberant brother, Er Ming, to get Da home). Da stays a couple days, observing his father being social director, marriage counselor, and dispute mediator for his customers and a boon companion to Er. Da is caught between worlds: the decaying district of his childhood and the booming south where he now lives with a wife who's not met his family. When Da realizes his father's health is failing and the district is slated for razing, he must take stock of family and future.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: family, father-son relationship, traditional culture, nostalgia, warmth, humor, social change ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A trio wanders the cliffs of an Outer Hebridean island and encounters a gravestone at the edge of a precipice; it reads, "Peter Manson ... gone over." One man in the trio knows the story of the gravestone and tells it to the others... It is ten years earlier, and the way of life on the island is dying; steam trawlers from the mainland threaten its survival as a fishing port. Peter Manson, one of the community's leaders, resists evacuating to the mainland, though his son Robbie is about to leave the island himself. Meanwhile, Robbie's twin sister plans to marry his best friend, Andrew Gray. Andrew and Robbie argue over evacuation and decide to settle the matter by racing to the top of a cliff. Ruth is terrified: she may lose them both. The race ends in tragedy, which tears apart the families of Manson and Gray. Times passes and Ruth reveals she is pregnant with an illegitimate child. This promises to bring the two families back together, but not before desperation hits the islanders. Evacuation is inevitable. And so is one last tragedy.—sspurli
Plot Keywords: adventure, drama, history, british film, black and white, 1930s, scotland ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.—L.H. Wong <as9401k56@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg>
Plot Keywords: family drama, literary adaptation, sisterhood, traditional culture, social change, female perspective, period drama ...
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: When Po's long-lost panda father suddenly reappears, the reunited duo travels to a secret panda paradise to meet scores of hilarious new panda characters. But when the supernatural villain Kai begins to sweep across China defeating all the kung fu masters, Po must do the impossible-learn to train a village full of his fun-loving, clumsy brethren to become the ultimate band of Kung Fu Pandas.
Plot Keywords: animation, comedy, action, adventure, family, fantasy, inspirational ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While grieving over her late father and dealing with her many teenage frustrations, Yi discovers an infant yeti hiding on the roof of her apartment building. Rather lovable than scary, the creature has escaped from a research laboratory. Yi and two boys, a neighbour, Jin, and his cousin, Peng, leave their unnamed city, embarking on a trip across China to help their new friend, eponymously named Everest, get back safely home, to Mount Everest, and reunite with his family. They are chased by the rare animals' collector, Burnish, and his zoologist, Dr. Zara, who are determined to take Everest back to captivity. Enter the road movie, involving a chase, taking place along the captivating scenic cross-country trip, telling the sweet and endearing story about acceptance and bonding, value of friendship, importance of freedom and power and strength of family.—Davor Blazevic 1959 <davor.blazevic@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: animation, adventure, comedy, family, fantasy, friendship, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A gigantic white stallion appears mysteriously to a Traveller grandfather and his two grandsons in an Irish slum. Since, puzzlingly, the younger of the two boys is the only individual who can control the horse, ownership falls to him and his older brother by default. There being no place for the animal, they move him into the apartment of their alcoholic Traveller father. Police remove him and, in a shady deal, he ends up under control of a wealthy, underhanded horse breeder. The boys manage to retrieve him and escape on his back, but the stallion seems to have his own travelling agenda.—JH
Plot Keywords: ireland, family, adventure, horse, fairy tale, brotherhood, fantasy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A filmmaker sets out make a film sbout her Tibetan Buddhist teacher, meets all kinds of interesting people who tell their version of what suffering is. Things aren't as much fun as she thought it was going to be. But she learns a lot about herself in the meantime.—ggn
Plot Keywords: drama, documentary, spiritual growth, wisdom, life philosophy, faith, spiritual journey ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Once again, Kirikou's noble Grandfather tell us more of his grandson's untold adventures.
Plot Keywords: animation, africa, folklore, adventure, children, family, fantasy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Brand new epic adventure set during a tumultuous time in China, when left without a leader, the cavalry is attacked by the powerful allies and pirate bands. A martial arts master, Wong Fei-Hong and Aunt Yee return to do battle against these evil forces.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: martial arts, historical, action, fight scenes, patriotic, traditional culture, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A blind man seeks revenge on his girlfriend's killers.
Plot Keywords: adventure, fantasy, family, children, animation, mexican, folklore ...
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