Biopics Set in the Countryside

Kinora's catalogue lists 42 films about a real person's life and set in the countryside, spanning 1941–2021. 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
• 1995

  Braveheart

  Scotland · England — Medieval
  Ruraldir. Mel Gibson
• 2005

  Capote

  Kansas — 1950s · 1960s
  Ruraldir. Bennett Miller
• 1980

  Coal Miner's Daughter

  Kentucky · Nashville · Los Angeles — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s
  Ruraldir. Michael Apted
• 1987

  Cry Freedom

  South Africa · Lesotho — 1970s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Richard Attenborough
• 2016

  Dangal

  Haryana · Patiala — 2000s · 2010s
  Ruraldir. Nitesh Tiwari
• 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
• 1982

  Gandhi

  India · South Africa — 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Richard Attenborough
• 2007

  Into the Wild

  Alaska · California · South Dakota — 1990s
  Wilderness · Rural · Desertdir. Sean Penn
• 2016

  Lion

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

  Loving

  Virginia · Washington, D.C. — 1950s · 1960s
  Ruraldir. Jeff Nichols
• 1956

  Lust for Life

  Netherlands · Paris · Arles — 1800s
  Rural · Urbandir. Vincente Minnelli
• 2016

  Maudie

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

  Mirror

  Russia — 1930s · 1940s · 1960s
  Ruraldir. Andrei Tarkovsky
• 1999

  October Sky

  West Virginia — 1950s
  Rural · Undergrounddir. Joe Johnston
• 2000

  One Hundred Steps

  Cinisi — 1960s · 1970s
  Ruraldir. Marco Tullio Giordana
• 1985

  Out of Africa

  Kenya — 1910s · 1920s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Sydney Pollack
• 1970

  Patton

  Sicily · France · Germany · Tunisia — 1940s
  Desert · Ruraldir. Franklin J. Schaffner
• 2009

  Public Enemies

  Chicago · Indiana · Wisconsin — 1930s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Michael Mann
• 1995

  Rob Roy

  Scotland — 1700s
  Rural · Mountaindir. Michael Caton-Jones
• 2014

  Selma

  Selma · Alabama — 1960s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Ava DuVernay
• 1941

  Sergeant York

  Tennessee · France — 1910s
  Ruraldir. Howard Hawks
• 1983

  Silkwood

  Oklahoma — 1970s
  Ruraldir. Mike Nichols
• 1955

  Sissi

  Bavaria · Bad Ischl · Vienna — 1800s
  Rural · Mountain · Urbandir. Ernst Marischka
• 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
• 1965

  The Gospel According to St. Matthew

  Galilee · Jerusalem — Ancient
  Rural · Desertdir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 1988

  The Last Temptation of Christ

  Jerusalem · Judea — Ancient
  Desert · Urban · Ruraldir. Martin Scorsese
• 2004

  The Motorcycle Diaries

  Buenos Aires · Chile · Peru — 1950s
  Mountain · Desert · Ruraldir. Walter Salles
• 2004

  The Sea Inside

  Spain — 1990s
  Rural · Coastal Seadir. Alejandro Amenábar
• 1943

  The Song of Bernadette

  Lourdes — 1800s
  Ruraldir. Henry King
• 2013

  The Wind Rises

  Japan · Germany — 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Hayao Miyazaki
• 2005

  The World's Fastest Indian

  Invercargill · Los Angeles · Utah — 1960s
  Rural · Desert · Urbandir. Roger Donaldson
• 1993

  Tombstone

  Arizona — 1800s
  Desert · Ruraldir. George P. Cosmatos
• 1952

  Viva Zapata!

  Mexico — 1900s · 1910s
  Ruraldir. Elia Kazan
• 2005

  Walk the Line

  Arkansas · Memphis · Nashville — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
  Rural · Urbandir. James Mangold
• 1994

  Wyatt Earp

  Iowa · Kansas · Arizona — 1800s
  Rural · Desertdir. Lawrence Kasdan