Farms
If you think i may have omitted to include specific movies, just drop a comment in the facebook comment section. Also if you feel like encouraging me, you can donate any amount to my paypal! paypal.me/LongplaysLand. Any amount is appreciated!
Donators will receive a newsletter weekly with every new lists added!
Donators will receive a newsletter weekly with every new lists added!
List activity
93 views
• 0 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
89 titles
- DirectorBenji GarciaStarsGina AlajarNonie BuencaminoAlchris GaluraA 14-year old Batad Boy, a high school dropout, is forced to sell produce in the Banawe market to augment the family income while his father pursues the philantrophic mission of repairing the rice terraces of adjoining Ifugao villages. Exposed to Western modernization in Banawe, the boy obsesses with owning a pair of rubber shoes that he does not really need. In pursuit of his dream sneakers, he takes on all odd jobs imaginable and ultimately becomes a tour guide. During one of his tours, he barters his guide fee for a pair of shoes which are, however, too big for him. Upon possessing the long-desired rubber shoes, he attempts to leave his Ifugao roots and chase big city dreams.Philippines -rice terraces in Philippines, repairing ancient Batad rice terraces. Nice views of extent of terraces, covering mountainsides.
h - DirectorMajid MajidiStarsMohammad Amir NajiMaryam AkbariKamran DehghanWhen an ostrich-rancher focuses on replacing his daughter's hearing aid, which breaks right before crucial exams, everything changes for a struggling rural family in Iran. Karim motorbikes into a world alien to him - incredibly hectic Tehran, where sudden opportunities for independence, thrill and challenge him. But his honor and honesty, plus traditional authority over his inventive clan, are tested, as he stumbles among vast cultural and economic gaps between his village nestled in the desert, and a throbbing international metropolis.Iran -Ostrich farming in rural Iran.
h - DirectorJulio MedemStarsCarmelo GómezEmma SuárezKarra ElejaldeAngel, an exterminator recently released from a mental hospital, comes to rid a small Spanish town of tiny grubs in the soil. The local wine-making industry has found these pests responsible for giving their product an "earthy" taste that has divided local opinion. While in town, Angel becomes involved with two beautiful and very different women, and impacts their lives on a grand scale. Can either of these women accept the fact that Angel travels with a "ghost" of himself, or that he routinely speaks with the deceased townspeople?Spain -wine country farming.
h - DirectorJulio MedemStarsEmma SuárezCarmelo GómezAna TorrentSet in the Basque region, a story of the rivalry of two families, period 1870-1935Basque region -1870-1935. Farming families and rivalries.
- DirectorGlenn JordanStarsGlenn CloseChristopher WalkenLexi RandallA single New England woman responds to an advertisement by a Midwestern widower in which he asks for a bride to help him raise his two children.Kansas, USA -turn of the century farming.
- DirectorHilary BirminghamStarsGlenn FitzgeraldAnson MountBob BurrusTully can get any girl he wants and often does every night - until he meets the new girl, Ella - who reveals something within him and his family they've long buried.Nebraska, USA -family farm
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsLucrezia Lante della RovereDavide BechiniFelice AndreasiAt a farmhouse, a large family cooks mountains of food for the next day's engagement party for Silvia and her city fiancé, Angelo. Her parents feud about infidelity; an aging salesman who rents a cottage from them arrives with a young French woman; in Bologna, Angelo's mother frets that her son is marrying beneath him; his sisters are less critical. Early the next morning, the four of them go by train to the farmhouse, joined by Angelo's married, unpregnant sister. The day-long dinner is riotous, couples display affection and impatience, children chase angels. Angelo's family stays the night, and his sister Linda has a visitor. A silver elephant makes the perfect gift.Italy -rural 1930s farmhouse with lots of cooking for festivities.
h - DirectorKaige ChenStarsXueqi WangBai XueQuiang LiuA communist soldier travels to Shanbei to collect folk songs for propaganda while visiting a poor peasant family, giving hope to the teenage daughter in escaping an arranged marriage.China -rural, remote farming in northern China. Treeless rolling hills and mountains, with river a long walk away.
h - DirectorGeorge StevensStarsAlan LaddJean ArthurVan HeflinAn ex-gunfighter defends homesteaders in 1889 Wyoming.Western USA -homesteading in the 1870s
h - DirectorLeslie MegaheyStarsColin FirthAmina AnnabiJim CarterIn medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues. At the same time, he is pushed to defend a pig, owned by the mysterious gypsy Samira. The pig has been arrested for the murder of a young boy.France -1452, Medieval France, French farms and countryside.
h - DirectorTerrence MalickStarsRichard GereBrooke AdamsSam ShepardA hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.Texas, USA - Panhandle, Texas farm.
Filmed in Alberta, Canada.
h - DirectorAleksandr RogozhkinStarsAnni-Kristiina JuusoVille HaapasaloViktor BychkovIn World War II, a Finnish sniper is left chained to a rock by German soldiers, while a captain of the Red Army, en route to his court martial, is almost blown up by Russian planes. A Lapp woman gives shelter to both of them at her farm.Finnish farming. A single woman farming her land and bay.
h - DirectorTaggart SiegelStarsJohn PetersonAnna NielsenJohn EdwardsThe epic tale of a maverick Midwestern farmer. Castigated as a pariah in his community, Farmer John bravely transforms his farm amidst a failing economy, vicious rumors, and arson. He succeeds in creating a bastion of free expression and a revolutionary form of agriculture in rural America.Mid-western USA.
h - DirectorBent HamerStarsTomas NorströmJoachim CalmeyerBjørn FlobergA scientific observer's job of observing an old cantankerous single man's kitchen habits is complicated by his growing friendship with him.Norway -A farmer and his kitchen.
h - StarsJohn ThawLindsay DuncanJean-Pierre DelageBased on the 1989 best-selling memoir of the same name by Peter Mayle about his first year in Provence, and the local events and customs.France, Provence - farmhouse living and community ties, in hill country.
- DirectorChristopher CainStarsRobert DuvallJason PressonGlenn CloseA Midwestern farm family faces major emotional adjustment after a tragedy results in the death of an older brother.Montana, USA - farm family and grief.
h - DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsDeborah KerrRobert MitchumPeter UstinovIn Australia's Outback during the early twentieth century, the impoverished Carmody family lives a nomadic life out of their wagon, but the mom and son want to settle, while the dad is against it.Australian Outback, sheep drovers
h - DirectorClaude BerriStarsYves MontandGérard DepardieuDaniel AuteuilA greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.France, Provence - water source issues on the two farms. Flower gardens. Filmed in Ansouis, Vaucluse.
- DirectorSøren Kragh-JacobsenStarsIben HjejleAnders W. BerthelsenJesper AsholtKresten's dad dies and he returns to the farm on Lolland to take care of things, including his developmentaly-challenged brother. He employs a hooker as maid. He loses his wife and job due to lies. The maid's kid brother moves in and they're a family of 4.Denmark- farm on small Danish island
h - DirectorCaroline LinkStarsJuliane KöhlerMerab NinidzeMatthias HabichDue to Hitler's threat, Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer, immigrates to Kenya with his wife Jettel and daughter Regina. Things take a turn when the family is ordered to move by the British officers.Africa, Kenya - 1930s -Family from Germany farming in 1930s Kenya.
h - DirectorClaire DenisStarsIsaach De BankoléGiulia BoschiFrançois CluzetA French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon - formerly a colonial outpost - where she's flooded by memories, particularly of Protée, her servant.West Africa, Cameroon -1950s colonial outpost.
h - DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsEdward ArnoldWalter HustonJane DarwellA nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer makes a pact with Satan for economic success, then enlists famed orator Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract.New Hampshire, USA - pre-Civil War America. Down on his luck farmer makes a deal with the devil.
h - DirectorNorman FosterStarsLoretta YoungWilliam HoldenRobert MitchumA widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of his old friend threatens their burgeoning relationship.Ohio, USA - Pioneer days on farm.
h - DirectorMartin RittStarsCicely TysonPaul WinfieldKevin HooksThe oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.Louisiana, USA -Depression era sharecroppers
h - DirectorJames KeachStarsRobert DuvallAidan QuinnFrances FisherA story of desperate search for oil.Texas, USA - life during the oil boom.