Biopics Set in the Countryside

Kinora's catalogue lists 18 films about a real person's life and set in the countryside, spanning 1960–2021. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.

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• 2013

  12 Years a Slave

  New York City · New Orleans · Louisiana — 1800s
  Ruraldir. Steve McQueen
• 1966

  Andrei Rublev

  Russia — Medieval
  Ruraldir. Andrei Tarkovsky
• 1987

  Au Revoir les Enfants

  France — 1940s
  Ruraldir. Louis Malle
• 1975

  Barry Lyndon

  Ireland · Germany — 1700s
  Ruraldir. Stanley Kubrick
• 1980

  Coal Miner's Daughter

  Kentucky · Nashville · Los Angeles — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Ruraldir. Michael Apted
• 1994

  Forrest Gump

  Alabama · Vietnam · Washington, D.C. · New York City — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Rural · Urban · Coastal Seadir. Robert Zemeckis
• 2016

  Free State of Jones

  Mississippi — 1800s · 1940s
  Ruraldir. Gary Ross
• 2007

  Into the Wild

  Alaska — 1990s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. Sean Penn
• 2016

  Lion

  Calcutta · Hobart · Melbourne · Khandwa — 1980s · 2000s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Garth Davis
• 2016

  Loving

  Virginia · Washington, D.C. — 1950s · 1960s
  Ruraldir. Jeff Nichols
• 2016

  Maudie

  Nova Scotia — 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Rural · Coastal Seadir. Aisling Walsh
• 1975

  Mirror

  Russia — 1930s · 1940s · 1960s
  Ruraldir. Andrei Tarkovsky
• 2014

  Selma

  Selma · Alabama — 1960s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Ava DuVernay
• 1983

  Silkwood

  Oklahoma — 1970s
  Ruraldir. Mike Nichols
• 1960

  Spartacus

  Rome — Ancient
  Ruraldir. Stanley Kubrick
• 2021

  Spencer

  Norfolk — 1990s
  Ruraldir. Pablo Larraín
• 2007

  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

  Missouri — 1800s
  Ruraldir. Andrew Dominik
• 2005

  The World's Fastest Indian

  Invercargill · Los Angeles · Utah — 1960s
  Rural · Desert · Urbandir. Roger Donaldson