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1. When Evil Lurks (2023)
Not Rated | 99 min | Horror
In a remote village, two brothers find a demon-infected man just about to "give birth" to evil itself. They decide to get rid of the body, only to end up unintentionally spreading chaos.
Director: Demián Rugna | Stars: Ezequiel Rodríguez, Demián Salomón, Silvina Sabater, Luis Ziembrowski
Votes: 32,830
2. SAS: Red Notice (2021)
R | 124 min | Action, Thriller
A small army of well trained criminals led by Grace Lewis have hijacked a train deep beneath the English Channel.
Director: Magnus Martens | Stars: Sam Heughan, Ruby Rose, Andy Serkis, Hannah John-Kamen
Votes: 21,375 | Gross: $0.15M
3. Until the End of the World (1991)
R | 158 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In 1999, Claire Tourneur's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash. She rescues Sam and travels the world with him. Writer Eugene Fitzpatrick follows and writes their story as a method of recording dreams is being developed.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: William Hurt, Solveig Dommartin, Pietro Falcone, Enzo Turrin
Votes: 11,372 | Gross: $0.75M
4. Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019)
110 min | Drama, Family
An aspiring singer living with his grandmother in the capital of Bhutan dreams of getting a visa to move to Australia.
Director: Pawo Choyning Dorji | Stars: Sherab Dorji, Ugyen Norbu Lhendup, Kelden Lhamo Gurung, Pem Zam
Votes: 6,697
5. The Painted Veil (2006)
PG-13 | 125 min | Drama, Romance
Dr Walter gets married to the beautiful Kitty but soon finds out that she is cheating on him. Battling his way through problems, he heads to China to fight a dreaded disease spread in a small village.
Director: John Curran | Stars: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Catherine An
Votes: 96,035 | Gross: $8.06M
6. Two Women (1960)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, War
In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Eleonora Brown
Votes: 12,460
7. The Cove (2009)
PG-13 | 92 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.
Director: Louie Psihoyos | Stars: Richard O'Barry, Louie Psihoyos, Hardy Jones, Michael Illiff
Votes: 51,496 | Gross: $0.87M
8. Forbidden Empire (2014)
Not Rated | 130 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
An eighteenth century English cartographer, Jonathan Green, sets out on a journey to map the uncharted lands of Transylvania, only to discover the dark secrets and dangerous creatures hidden in a cursed, fantastical Romanian forest.
Director: Oleg Stepchenko | Stars: Jason Flemyng, Andrey Smolyakov, Aleksey Chadov, Agnia Ditkovskyte
Votes: 6,538 | Gross: $34.59M
9. Mr. Pip (2012)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, War
As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village.
Director: Andrew Adamson | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Xzannjah Matsi, Healesville Joel, Eka Darville
Votes: 4,404
10. Doghouse (2009)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of men, heading to a remote village to help one of their friends get over his divorce, soon discover that all the women have been infected with a virus that makes them man-hating cannibals.
Director: Jake West | Stars: Danny Dyer, Noel Clarke, Emil Marwa, Lee Ingleby
Votes: 22,876
11. Zombie Lake (1981)
R | 90 min | Horror
In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WW II, come back.
Directors: Jean Rollin, Julian de Laserna | Stars: Howard Vernon, Pierre-Marie Escourrou, Anouchka, Antonio Mayans
Votes: 3,593
12. The Cabbage Soup (1981)
102 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
2 buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.
Director: Jean Girault | Stars: Louis de Funès, Jean Carmet, Jacques Villeret, Claude Gensac
Votes: 9,601
13. The Castle of Sand (1974)
143 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Detectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.
Director: Yoshitarô Nomura | Stars: Tetsurô Tanba, Gô Katô, Kensaku Morita, Yôko Shimada
Votes: 1,545
14. Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
A documentary depicting the life and work of the trappers of Bakhtia, a village in the heart of the Siberian Taiga, where daily life has changed little in over a century.
Directors: Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov | Stars: Werner Herzog, Gennady Soloviev, Anatoly Blumei, Gennady Tiganov
Votes: 8,941 | Gross: $0.34M
15. Bread, Love and Dreams (1953)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Gina Lollobrigida, Marisa Merlini, Virgilio Riento
Votes: 2,196
16. Utama (2022)
87 min | Drama
In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and Sisa face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.
Director: Alejandro Loayza Grisi | Stars: José Calcina, Luisa Quispe, Candelaria Quispe, Placide Ali
Votes: 2,078
17. The Piper (2015)
PG-13 | 119 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Shortly after the Korean war, a father and a son are wandering through the country and make a stop in a remote village, where strange and dangerous happenings occur.
Director: Kwang-tae Kim | Stars: Ryu Seung-ryong, Lee Sung-min, Chun Woo-hee, Lee Joon
Votes: 1,920
18. Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005)
Not Rated | 133 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Soldiers from both sides of the Korean divide live among villagers who know nothing of the war.
Director: Kwang-Hyun Park | Stars: Jeong Jae-yeong, Shin Ha-kyun, Kang Hye-jeong, Ha-ryong Lim
Votes: 7,551
19. Japan (2002)
R | 122 min | Drama
A painter from the big city goes to a remote canyon to commit suicide. To reach some calmness, he stays at the farmstead of Ascen, an old, religious woman. Although but a few words are spoken, love grows.
Director: Carlos Reygadas | Stars: Alejandro Ferretis, Magdalena Flores, Yolanda Villa, Martín Serrano
Votes: 4,001
20. Honey (2010)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
The quiet life of a boy and his family is endangered when his father does not return home from his work collecting honey in the forest.
Director: Semih Kaplanoglu | Stars: Bora Altas, Erdal Besikçioglu, Tülin Özen, Ayse Altay
Votes: 7,489
21. Mr. Natwarlal (1979)
148 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
Natwar is just a young boy when his beloved older brother and caretaker, police officer Gridharilal (Ajit), is framed for bribery by sinister criminal mastermind Vikram (Amjad Khan). When ... See full summary »
Director: Rakesh Kumar | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha, Ajit Khan, Kader Khan
Votes: 1,463
22. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
110 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Two youths sent for a Maoist "re-education" in the mountains fall in love with the village tailor's granddaughter.
Director: Sijie Dai | Stars: Xun Zhou, Kun Chen, Ye Liu, Shuangbao Wang
Votes: 4,587 | Gross: $0.67M
23. Earth (1996)
Unrated | 125 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Angel, 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Julio Medem | Stars: Carmelo Gómez, Emma Suárez, Karra Elejalde, Silke
Votes: 4,040
24. Dan Oniroku: Bikyoshi jigokuzeme (1985)
67 min | Horror
A teacher is assaulted by children at her new job in the country. Then the torture begins.
Director: Masahito Segawa | Stars: Ran Masaki, Seiichirô Fukuyama, Nobutaka Masutomi, Saori Mizuno
Votes: 477
25. My Sweet Pepper Land (2013)
100 min | Drama
Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, is now sheriff in Erbil, the capital city. No longer feeling useful in this society now at peace, he thinks about quitting the police force, but ... See full summary »
Director: Hiner Saleem | Stars: Korkmaz Arslan, Golshifteh Farahani, Suat Usta, Mir Murad Bedirxan
Votes: 2,544
26. Brother of Sleep (1995)
R | 127 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austrian mountains. While growing up he is considered strange by the other villagers and ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: André Eisermann, Dana Vávrová, Ben Becker, Jochen Nickel
Votes: 1,678
27. Chûgoku no chôjin (1998)
TV-PG | 118 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A salaryman and yakuza are each sent by their bosses to a remote Chinese village but discover more than they expected.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Renji Ishibashi, Mako, Michiko Kichise
Votes: 4,930
28. Across the River (2013)
92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The story revolves around an ethologist working in the remote woods, trapping animals and mounting cameras on them so that he can monitor their behavior remotely. The resulting recordings ... See full summary »
Director: Lorenzo Bianchini | Stars: Renzo Gariup, Marco Marchese, Lidia Zabrieszach
Votes: 1,662
29. The Stick (1988)
90 min | Action, Horror, War
During the apartheid era in South Africa, a young naive soldier is assigned to a unit of racist white soldiers. After they annihilate a remote village led by a witch doctor, the spirits of those they've killed target them.
Director: Darrell Roodt | Stars: Greg Latter, Sean Taylor, Frantz Dobrowsky, James Whyle
Votes: 192
30. Silip (2007)
TV-14 | 103 min | Drama
a traveling salesman takes his wife to settle on a remote farm, and they are happily married for a time? Until a woman full of mystery disrupts the otherwise peaceful relationship of the couple.
Director: Joel Lamangan | Stars: Diana Zubiri, Polo Ravales, Francine Prieto, Tony Mabesa
Votes: 104
31. Ninja vs Shark (2023)
77 min | Action, History, Horror
In the Edo period, at the remote village of Okitsu, the evil cult leader Koushirou uses ninjutsu to ensorcel sharks and forces them to attack local pearl divers so the cult can steal the ... See full summary »
Director: Kôichi Sakamoto | Stars: Darrel Delfin, Christopher Escalante, Koshu Hirano, Kanon Miyahara
Votes: 41
32. The Grocer's Son (2007)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
Antoine moves home to help his mom drive the mobile grocery, when his dad's hospitalized. He brings Claire along, hoping she'll become more than a friend. He drives around Provence's countryside, selling mainly to old people.
Director: Eric Guirado | Stars: Nicolas Cazalé, Clotilde Hesme, Daniel Duval, Jeanne Goupil
Votes: 2,531 | Gross: $0.28M
33. Inbetween Worlds (2014)
98 min | Drama, War
Jesper is a soldier in the German army. Although his brother was killed whilst serving in Afghanistan, he nevertheless reports for a new tour of duty in this war zone. He and his unit are ... See full summary »
Director: Feo Aladag | Stars: Ronald Zehrfeld, Mohsin Ahmady, Saida Barmaki, Salam Yousefzai
Votes: 694
34. Nunal sa tubig (1976)
TV-14 | 118 min | Drama
Ishmael Bernal's opus recreates the quality and slow pace of life in a dying village surrounded by the sea as it is caught in the eternal cycle of love and hate, of fertility and pollution,... See full summary »
Director: Ishmael Bernal | Stars: Elizabeth Oropesa, Daria Ramirez, George Estregan, Ruben Rustia
Votes: 166
35. Sidhi (1999)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Ana (Nora Aunor) is a mute woman living in a remote mountain area with her father Badong (Ray Ventura), who is sick and searching for a man to marry his daughter. He finds Michael (Albert ... See full summary »
Director: Joel Lamangan | Stars: Nora Aunor, Albert Martinez, Glydel Mercado, Samantha Lopez
Votes: 28
36. Spirit Blade Mountain (2016– )
Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
A comet falling will bring about a great calamity, and in order to choose a child fated by the falling comet, the family of the "Reiken" clan with a long storied history is once again ... See full summary »
Stars: Tsubasa Yonaga, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Eriko Nakamura, Masakazu Nishida
Votes: 123
37. The Orator (2011)
110 min | Drama
Saili, a little person and taro farmer, has his life turned upside-down when he is denied his father's chiefly status and his family plantation is threatened.
Director: Tusi Tamasese | Stars: Fa'afiaula Sanote, Tausili Pushparaj, Salamasina Mataia, Ioata Tanielu
Votes: 448
38. A Walk on the Moon (1987)
R | 95 min | Adventure, Drama
A Peace Corps volunteer, bubbling o'er with idealism, learns to his delight that he has been assigned to a remote, backward Colombian village. When he arrives, he is confused by the cynical attitude of his predecessor (In HD).
Director: Raphael D. Silver | Stars: Kevin Anderson, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Roger Cudney, Terry Kinney
Votes: 39
39. Devil Goddess (1955)
Approved | 70 min | Adventure
Jungle Jim type Johnny Weissmuller helps Professor Blakely look for a missing colleague who is now playing "god" for a bunch of natives.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Angela Stevens, Selmer Jackson, William Tannen
Votes: 253
40. Albert Schweitzer (1957)
Approved | 85 min | Documentary, Biography, History
This biographical drama/documentary narrative written by Dr. Albert Schweitzer and spoken by Fredric March, traces the life of Dr. Schweitzer (with actors playing the characters), from his ... See full summary »
Director: Jerome Hill | Stars: Burgess Meredith, Fredric March, Albert Schweitzer, Helene Schweitzer
Votes: 145
41. Pilgrim Hill (2013)
85 min | Drama
Jimmy Walshe is a middle aged farmer living in rural Ireland with his critically ill father. Life has been tough on Jimmy over the years, but things are about to get worse, as his life hits a very rough patch on and off his farm.
Director: Gerard Barrett | Stars: Joe Mullins, Muiris Crowley, Corina Gough, Kevin McCormack
Votes: 208
42. Village of Daughters (1962)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy
Traveling salesman Herbert Harris arrives in an isolated Italian village. The local women avidly pursue him, the sole remaining bachelor since most men have moved away for work.
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Eric Sykes, Scilla Gabel, John Le Mesurier, Grégoire Aslan
Votes: 184
43. Miracle (1982)
TV-14 | 124 min | Drama
Elsa saw the blessed Virgin Mary who had changed her life and caused a hysteria in a poor isolated village.
Director: Ishmael Bernal | Stars: Nora Aunor, Spanky Manikan, Gigi Dueñas, Laura Centeno
Votes: 904
44. A Polar Year (2018)
94 min | Adventure, Drama
A teacher in Denmark takes a job in rural Greenland where he struggles to fit in with the locals.
Director: Samuel Collardey | Stars: Anders Hvidegaard, Asser Boassen, Thomasine Jonathansen, Gert Jonathansen
Votes: 408
45. Secret of the Cave (2006)
PG | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A young American boy spends his summer in Ireland and solves the mystery that captivates the entire village. Driven by curiosity and his own search for meaning in life, he faces his fears and discovers the Secret of the Cave.
Director: Zach C. Gray | Stars: Kevin Novotny, Patrick Bergin, Joseph M. Kelly, Sean Murphy
Votes: 508
46. Heremias, Book One: The Legend of the Lizard Princess (2006)
519 min | Crime, Drama
A wandering peddler separates from his fellow salesman and becomes involved with criminals in the jungle.
Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Ronnie Lazaro, Jordan, Sid Lucero, Dante Balois
Votes: 201
47. Walk Into Hell (1956)
Approved | 93 min | Adventure
Steve MacAllister, an Australian official for The New Guinea Administration, gets orders to investigate an oil discovery by Ned 'Shark-eye' Kelly in the interior. He selects his native ... See full summary »
Directors: Lee Robinson, Marcello Pagliero | Stars: Chips Rafferty, Françoise Christophe, Reg Lye, Pierre Cressoy
Votes: 102
48. Sachrang (1978 TV Movie)
540 min | Drama, History, Romance
A chronicle of the lives of the inhabitants of the Bavarian village Sachrang during the years of the Napoleonic wars (1791-1814). The main character is Peter Müllner, who has been away to ... See full summary »
Director: Wolf Dietrich | Stars: Gerhart Lippert, Hans-Reinhard Müller, Oswald Fuchs, Gustl Bayrhammer
Votes: 24
49. The Forgotten Village (1941)
Approved | 67 min | Documentary, Drama
Documentary examining the conflicts between the coming of modernization and the traditional culture of a small Mexican village.
Directors: Herbert Kline, Alexander Hammid | Star: Burgess Meredith
Votes: 99
50. Danger Island (1931)
Passed | 220 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
The daughter of a man who has discovered radium on an African island is befriended by two people whose real goal is to keep the discovery to themselves.
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Kenneth Harlan, Lucile Browne, Walter Miller, Beulah Hutton
Votes: 35