Drama
In a small village, young Mert is about to get traditionally circumcised, but the family does not have the money to follow up with the circumcision celebration. The family wants to be able to serve lamb meat to the guests at the celebration. Mert’s older sister scares him that if they cannot afford a lamb the father will slaughter him instead.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
All My Good Countrymen
Cowboy Forever
Lång-Lasse i Delsbo
God's Wife
The Desert Ark
The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael
The Wind Will Carry Us
El profe
Diary of a Country Priest
Last Dance
Nang Nak
Sixteen
A Fire in the Cold Season
Honey and Ashes
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
The Stoning of Soraya M.
A Picture of You
Affæren Birte
Our Twisted Hero
Sweet Land
SIMILAR MOVIES
All My Good Countrymen
IMDB 7.8 | Jul , 1969
The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.Cowboy Forever
IMDB 4.3 | Jun , 2006
Fictionalized from a true story, this docu-drama takes us on a journey through Brazil's Mato Grosso do Sul and into the lives of Brazilian gauchos. Beautifully shot landscapes form the backdrop for a simple story of friendship and tolerance between Govinda and John, as Govinda explores his attraction to his fellow cowboy.Lång-Lasse i Delsbo
IMDB 6 | Oct , 1949
it's the 1840s and a rural parish plagued by drinking and fighting gets a new vicar who has decided to instill law, order and fear of God into the parishioners.God's Wife
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2024
A young widow struggles to reconcile her catholic beliefs with the demands of tradition after her late husband’s brother propositions her.The Desert Ark
IMDB 6.7 | Jan , 1998
The Desert Ark (L'Arche du Desert), a variation on Romeo and Juliet set in the Algerian desert. A young couple must face inevitable conflict when their rival families discover their secret love. Taking refuge in a cave, they listen to the sounds of a senseless campaign of violence and murder, which is the culmination of the extremism that has long divided their two communities. Nominated for the Golden Leopard at the 1997 Locarno Film Festival.The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael
IMDB 5.1 | Aug , 2005
In a small English coastal town, three teenage boys are drawn into a world of temptation and violence. Bored, troubled and excluded, the boys are unable to accept or even recognise moral boundaries. Their actions move inexorably towards a truly shocking act, that will horrify their sleepy community and expose its deepest, hidden fears.The Wind Will Carry Us
IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 1999
Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural Kurdish village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.El profe
IMDB 7.8 | Apr , 1971
Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.Diary of a Country Priest
IMDB 7.5 | Feb , 1951
An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.Last Dance
IMDB 5.7 | May , 1996
Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. As Hayes investigates the background for her case, the two begin to form a deep friendship, while all the while the date for her execution draws nearer.Nang Nak
IMDB 6.3 | Jul , 1999
In a rural village in Thailand, Mak is sent to fight in a war and leaves his pregnant wife, Nak. Mak is injured and barely survives. He returns home to his doting wife and child, or so he thinks.Sixteen
IMDB 4 | Jun , 1972
Hickspoiltation film from the early 1970s ostensibly starring Oscar nominee Mercedes McCambridge, but really more a film looking for an excuse to show off Simone Griffeth's beauty. She plays a daughter of a swamp family. The whole family goes to a carnival where she is seduced by an older male performer, while her teen brother is seduced by an older female performer.A Fire in the Cold Season
IMDB 5.9 | Sep , 2019
A whisper among the sprawling forests and mill towns of central Newfoundland. A body found on the side of a river brings together a reclusive fur trapper and a heartsick mother-to-be. Scott is lonely and desperate to give himself meaning. Mona is strong-willed, but frustrated by her fragility. As a reluctant dependence blossoms the pair find themselves wading into violence, answering for the debts of a dead man. Stalked by outlaws, they plan an exit.Honey and Ashes
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 1998
The lives of three Tunisian women are explored in this drama from filmmaker Nadia Fares.Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing
IMDB 5.9 | Apr , 1973
While bicycling through the Spanish countryside, Walter, the aimless young son of a doctor, makes the acquaintance of proper, middle-aged, clumsy and secretive Lila. He falls in love with her, but she is resistant.The Stoning of Soraya M.
IMDB 7.6 | Jun , 2009
In 1986 Iran, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village, enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arranged marriage to an abusive tyrant ended in tragedy.A Picture of You
IMDB 6.2 | Jun , 2014
Kyle and Jen, estranged siblings, travel from New York City to rural Pennsylvania to pack up the home of their recently deceased mother. While there, they make a discovery that turns their world upside-down. A Picture of You is a serious movie about life that gets sideswiped in the supermarket parking lot by a funny movie about death. It’s a story about family, loss, secrets, letting go, and starting anew.Affæren Birte
IMDB 5 | Feb , 1945
Our Twisted Hero
IMDB 6.7 | Aug , 1992
Han Byung-tae, who teaches at a private after-school academy in Seoul, receives word that his old teacher has passed away and sets off to the rural village where he attended elementary school. In the train, he reminisces about the tough fights he used to get into back in the day.Sweet Land
IMDB 6.3 | Oct , 2005
Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.