The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
Jun 22, 2022 | IMDB 8.1
480 min Watch NowDrama
An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is a geographic description of the work and non-work of a farmer. A portrait, over five seasons, of a family, of a terrain, of a soundscape, and of duration itself. A film-as-adaptive-landscape. A georgic in five books.
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Whistle Down the Wind
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Golden Apple
All That Money Can Buy
Dragonwyck
From the Four Corners
Sunset Song
In Cold Blood
Days of Heaven
Tess
Aaltra
Withnail & I
The Milagro Beanfield War
2048: Nowhere to Run
Matija Gubec
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Seven Samurai
What Matters Most
The Devil Has a Name
Wisdom
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IMDB 7.2 | Jul , 1961
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IMDB 6 | Oct , 2017
A hard-working farmer, despairing by the harsh reality of his daily struggle, is determined to have his son taking over the farm and continue his legacy. The mother tries her best to keep the family together. Yet, with increasing horror, the son witnesses his father's psychotic behavior escalate.Golden Apple
IMDB 5.1 | Jan , 1986
In the first year of freedom after WW2, a poor family from rocky Herzegovina moves to fertile province of Vojvodina hoping for a better life. However, there they face different type of troubles following the Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948. Destinies of individual members of this family are about to have a tragic epilogue.All That Money Can Buy
IMDB 7 | Oct , 1941
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.Dragonwyck
IMDB 6.7 | Apr , 1946
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.From the Four Corners
IMDB 0 | Jul , 1941
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IMDB 6.2 | Dec , 2015
The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.In Cold Blood
IMDB 7.5 | Dec , 1967
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.Days of Heaven
IMDB 7.5 | Sep , 1978
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.Tess
IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 1979
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line, but is left traumatised from her experiences.Aaltra
IMDB 6.2 | Jun , 2004
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IMDB 7.2 | Jun , 1987
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IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 1988
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IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 2017
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 1919
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IMDB 7.8 | Nov , 1927
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.Seven Samurai
IMDB 8.5 | Apr , 1954
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IMDB 5.8 | Jan , 2022
The lawyer Ella Wolf and her childhood friend Florian come from the same place but live in different worlds. He stayed in idyllic Bad Friedlingen and continues to run the organic farm of his deceased parents. For him, the modern milking machine means maximum change. Ella, on the other hand, is about to take the next step in her career in a renowned Munich law firm: one more test and she will become the youngest junior partner of all time! At her best friend's hilarious wedding party, the two meet and get closer than ever! When Ella returns to her home village six weeks later, she has two serious issues in her luggage: Firstly, she is pregnant by "Flo", which nobody but her knows yet, and secondly, she is supposed to push through a destructive construction project for an important client, which of all things is fought by Florian as the leader of a citizens' initiative.The Devil Has a Name
IMDB 5.3 | Aug , 2019
An oil baron and a farmer standoff after the water on his farm is poisoned by her company.Wisdom
IMDB 5.9 | Dec , 1986
Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid American farmers.