20 movies like Yellow Earth, ordered by similarity : First They Killed My Father(2017), Eboli(1979), They Shall Not Grow Old(2018), Mother India(1957), To Live(1994), The English Patient(1996), Boat People(1983), War and Peace(1966), I Am Cuba(1964), The Return of Martin Guerre(1982), Stromboli(1950), Ash Is Purest White(2018) ...
Drama
China
1984
89 Minutes
Xue Bai Wang Xueqi Tan Tuo Quiang Liu
peasant soldier communist girl solemn powerful striking gripping china countryside village poverty cultural revolution arranged marriage freedom folk music discovery escape 1930s
'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... See full summary »
Biography, Drama, History
Cambodia|USA
2017
136 Minutes
Sareum Srey Moch Phoeung Kompheak Sveng Socheata Tharoth Sam
young girl soldier author village elder cambodian boy gripping inspiring incredible uplifting cambodia village jungle cultural revolution culture war discovery escape love sacrifice 1970s
Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge.
Drama
1979
118 Minutes
Gian Maria Volonte Irene Papas Paolo Bonacelli Alain Cuny Léa Massari François Simon Antonio Allocca
artist mayor sister villager physician profound powerful solemn italy village countryside fascism class distinctions political unrest isolation unlikely allies carlo levi discovery transformation 1930s
A fact-based account of author-artist Carlo Levi's political exile in a remote Italian village during the 1930s.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
UK|New Zealand
2018
99 Minutes
soldier army recruit british officer british soldier british soldiers german soldier german troops bleak emotional moving patriotic powerful sad somber war zone france belgium united kingdom trenches training camp
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
Musical, Drama
India
1957
180 Minutes
Nargis Sunil Dutt Rajendra Kumar Mukri Raaj Kumar Kanhaiya Lal Jilloo Maa
wife husband peasant son money lender village elder melodramatic powerful touching moving india farm village field poverty perseverance injury motherhood death marriage
In this melodrama, a poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, always sticks to her own moral code.
Drama
China|Hong Kong
1994
125 Minutes
You Ge Gong Li Niu Ben Tao Guo Jiang Wu Ni Dabong Liu Tianchi Deng Fei
chinese man gambler wife peasant soldier daughter bleak emotional tender china village house field war zone chinese cultural revolution starting over family poverty tragedy gambling
After Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.
Drama
USA|UK
1996
162 Minutes
Ralph Fiennes Juliette Binoche Willem Dafoe Kristin Scott Thomas Naveen Andrews Colin Firth Julian Wadham Jürgen Prochnow Kevin Whately Clive Merrison Nino Castelnuovo
englishwoman count husband nurse soldier former lover emotional gripping endearing suspenseful passionate powerful cairo italy monastery cave sahara desert big city affair world war ii
At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.
Drama
Hong Kong
1983
111 Minutes
photojournalist villager peasant government official child mistress disheartening bleak powerful jungle saigon, vietnam village hut postwar vietnam politics poverty travel communism journalism discovery
A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the Liberation and learns harsh truths about its regime and its "New Economic Zones".
Romance, War, Drama, History
1966
373 Minutes
Lyudmila Saveleva Sergei Bondarchuk Vyacheslav Tikhonov Oleg Tabakov Boris Zakhava Anatoliy Ktorov Anastasiya Vertinskaya Antonina Shuranova Viktor Stanitsyn
count countess military officer soldier wife socialite creative gripping passionate russia royal palace family home battlefield countryside war love marriage infidelity horrors of war love
Drama
1964
141 Minutes
Luz María Collazo Jean Bouise Sergio Corrieri José Gallardo Raul Garcia Salvador Wood Alberto Morgan Fausto Mirabal Roberto García York Maria M. Diez Zilia Rodríguez
girl suitor farmer student peasant intense powerful spirited cuba countryside city underworld revolution politics rise sacrifice 1950s
Cuba's embracement of Communism is honored in four vignettes dramatizing life before Fidel Castro and the revolution.
Drama, History
France
1982
122 Minutes
Gérard Depardieu Nathalie Baye Roger Planchon André Chaumeau Maurice Barrier Stéphane Pean Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu Sylvie Meda
wife husband villager magistrate veteran impostor fascinating gripping emotional suspenseful france countryside village courtroom family home impersonation court battles husband/wife relationship con game war aftermath
In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.
Drama
Italy|USA
1950
81 Minutes
Ingrid Bergman Mario Vitale Renzo Cesana Mario Sponzo Gaetano Famularo Angelo Molino Roberto Onorati
lithuanian fisherman priest seamstress villager prisoner of war powerful solemn calm striking italy internment camp stromboli volcano village island outsider marital problems cultural differences refugees
Karin, a young woman from the Baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prison camp. But she cannot get used to the tough life in Antonio's volcano-threatened village, Stromboli.
Romance, Drama
2018
141 Minutes
Zhao Tao Liao Fan Feng Xiaogang Diao Yi-nan Zheng Xu Zhang Yibai
gang leader girlfriend gang members boyfriend ex-girlfriend bleak cool disheartening gripping intense uneasy china sacrifice gangsters relationships china chinese triad fall sacrifice 2010s
In an industrial city in China, a young dancer named Qiao falls in love with a mobster named Bin. When a fight breaks out between rival gangs, Qiao uses a gun to protect Bin and is sent to prison for five years.
Drama
Spain
1998
118 Minutes
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón Juan Diego Jesus Cabrero Irene Papas Mercedes Sanz-Bernal María Galiana
wife husband shepherd pagan villager bleak melodramatic dark spain village countryside farm fertility infidelity mental breakdown gossip resentment marriage fall discovery
Yerma wants a child but with her dispassionate husband have failed to conceive. On the other hand , Victor courts her but the sense of caste and honor prevent from surrendering to him.
Drama, History
2017
115 Minutes
Daniel Giménez Cacho Lola Dueñas Matheus Nachtergaele Juan Gervasio Minujín Nahuel Cano Daniel Veronese Rafael Spregelburd
officer governor villager boy king bandit amusing endearing bleak disheartening profound south america village house beach wilderness mission duty travel assignment
In the 18th century, a highly-placed servant of the Spanish crown who is obsessed with petty grudges and fantasies plots his transfer to Buenos Aires.
Animation, Drama
Ireland|Canada|Luxembourg|USA|Japan|UK|France
2017
94 Minutes
girl father mother sibling police officer emotional incredible inspiring moving powerful afghanistan afghan village house shop wilderness family relationships financial troubles war in afghanistan poverty
In 2001, Afghanistan is under the control of the Taliban. When her father is captured, a determined young girl disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
Documentary, War, Drama, History
USA|Congo
2017
93 Minutes
Mamadou Ndala
merchant poor person villager government official military officer bleak brutal uneasy tense intricate disheartening congo village plains office road market political corruption political unrest military occupation
An unfiltered look in to the lives of 3 characters surviving amongst the most recent cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as the M23 rebellion.
Drama
1942
96 Minutes
Leslie Banks Mervyn Johns Marie Lohr C.V. France Valerie Taylor Basil Sydney
villager soldiers german german officer german soldier thrilling tense suspenseful village small town england trust captivity disguise soldiers british life world war ii rivalry sacrifice 1940s
Residents of an English village unwittingly welcome Nazi soldiers who intend to take over their town.
Drama
USA
1994
142 Minutes
Tim Robbins Morgan Freeman Bob Gunton William Sadler Clancy Brown Gil Bellows James Whitmore Mark Rolston Jeffrey DeMunn
innocent man prisoner warden guard banker friend powerful emotional gripping maine prison mexico beach field store murder escape corruption freedom friendship
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
Drama
Poland
2007
121 Minutes
Joachim Paul Assböck Waldemar Barwinski Stanislawa Celinska Andrzej Chyra Magdalena Cielecka Maja Ostaszewska
lieutenant wife daughter soldier prisoner of war russian soldier bleak disheartening powerful emotional poland pow camp forest graveyard battlefield world war ii cover-up massacre marriage nazis
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
Drama
1967
78 Minutes
Nadine Nortier Marie Cardinal Jean Vimenet Paul Hébert Suzanne Huguenin Raymonde Chabrun Jean-Claude Guilbert Marie Susini Marine Trichet
teen girl father mother poacher warden teacher dark uneasy powerful bleak france village school cabin adolescence family dysfunction poverty child abuse rape suffering