This heimat-movie after a novel by Felix Timmermans is about the at first sight idyllic, but actually tragical life of Wortel, a peasant in a pre-war Belgian village, who has a hard time accepting the curate’s assurance it’s all part of God’s grand plan when his loved ones keep coming to harm.

In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is fou...

Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm wit...

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capita...

The story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon w...

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all...

With the death of her mother, eight-year-old Anna ends her childhood: From now on, she has to look a...

Aymé Pigrenet, a recently widowed farmer, is eager to find a new wife to help him run his farm. Desp...

Europe in second half of 16th century was very rough place to live. Peasants of Slovenia and Croatia...

Spring of 1794, Poland is in a state of unrest. General Tadeusz ‘Kos’ Kościuszko returns to the coun...

Nagy István, the formerly poor peasant boy returns to his native village as a teacher. His convictio...

Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in th...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

Texan Charles Farmer left the Air Force as a young man to save the family ranch when his dad died. L...

In vivid images, the documentary-like story of a drover and his family in the northern badlands of B...

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Anton...

A poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the str...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...

Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and Man, Johan ...

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppress...