Rural Movies
Kinora's catalogue lists 173 films set in rural environments, spanning 1922–2023. 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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12 Years a Slave
Ruraldir. Steve McQueen - 2002
28 Days Later
Urban · Ruraldir. Danny Boyle - 1992
A League of Their Own
Urban · Ruraldir. Penny Marshall - 2018
A Quiet Place
Rural · Wildernessdir. John Krasinski - 1992
A River Runs Through It
Ruraldir. Robert Redford - 1986
A Room with a View
Urban · Ruraldir. James Ivory - 1998
A Simple Plan
Ruraldir. Sam Raimi - 2002
About Schmidt
Suburban · Ruraldir. Alexander Payne - 2022
All Quiet on the Western Front
Ruraldir. Edward Berger - 2016
American Honey
Rural · Suburbandir. Andrea Arnold - 2023
Anatomy of a Fall
Mountain · Ruraldir. Justine Triet - 1959
Anatomy of a Murder
Ruraldir. Otto Preminger - 1966
Andrei Rublev
Ruraldir. Andrei Tarkovsky - 1979
Apocalypse Now
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Francis Ford Coppola - 2016
Arrival
Ruraldir. Denis Villeneuve - 2007
Atonement
Rural · Urban · Coastal Seadir. Joe Wright - 1966
Au Hasard Balthazar
Ruraldir. Robert Bresson - 1987
Au Revoir les Enfants
Ruraldir. Louis Malle - 1974
Badlands
Rural · Wildernessdir. Terrence Malick - 1975
Barry Lyndon
Ruraldir. Stanley Kubrick - 2012
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Rural · Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Benh Zeitlin - 1985
Blood Simple
Ruraldir. Joel Coen - 2014
Blue Ruin
Rural · Suburbandir. Jeremy Saulnier - 1967
Bonnie and Clyde
Ruraldir. Arthur Penn - 1999
Boys Don't Cry
Ruraldir. Kimberly Peirce - 1996
Breaking the Waves
Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Lars von Trier - 1938
Bringing Up Baby
Ruraldir. Howard Hawks - 2005
Brokeback Mountain
Rural · Mountaindir. Ang Lee - 2018
Burning
Urban · Ruraldir. Lee Chang-dong - 2017
Call Me by Your Name
Ruraldir. Luca Guadagnino - 1998
Central Station
Urban · Ruraldir. Walter Salles - 2016
Certain Women
Ruraldir. Kelly Reichardt - 1988
Cinema Paradiso
Rural · Urbandir. Giuseppe Tornatore - 2022
Close
Ruraldir. Lukas Dhont - 1977
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Rural · Wildernessdir. Steven Spielberg - 1980
Coal Miner's Daughter
Ruraldir. Michael Apted - 2018
Cold War
Urban · Ruraldir. Paweł Pawlikowski - 1985
Come and See
Rural · Wildernessdir. Elem Klimov - 1967
Cool Hand Luke
Ruraldir. Stuart Rosenberg - 2019
Corpus Christi
Ruraldir. Jan Komasa - 1972
Cries and Whispers
Ruraldir. Ingmar Bergman - 2000
Dancer in the Dark
Rural · Suburbandir. Lars von Trier - 1990
Dances with Wolves
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Kevin Costner - 1978
Days of Heaven
Ruraldir. Terrence Malick - 1972
Deliverance
Wilderness · Ruraldir. John Boorman - 1995
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Urban · Ruraldir. Aditya Chopra - 2012
Django Unchained
Ruraldir. Quentin Tarantino - 1995
Dolores Claiborne
Island · Ruraldir. Taylor Hackford - 2022
EO
Rural · Wildernessdir. Jerzy Skolimowski - 1996
Fargo
Rural · Urbandir. Joel Coen - 2020
First Cow
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Kelly Reichardt - 2018
First Reformed
Ruraldir. Paul Schrader - 1970
Five Easy Pieces
Rural · Island · Coastal Seadir. Bob Rafelson - 1994
Forrest Gump
Rural · Urban · Coastal Seadir. Robert Zemeckis - 2016
Free State of Jones
Ruraldir. Gary Ross - 1991
Fried Green Tomatoes
Ruraldir. Jon Avnet - 2008
Frozen River
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Courtney Hunt - 2017
Get Out
Suburban · Ruraldir. Jordan Peele - 1937
Grand Illusion
Rural · Mountaindir. Jean Renoir - 1993
Groundhog Day
Ruraldir. Harold Ramis - 2016
Hell or High Water
Ruraldir. David Mackenzie - 1952
High Noon
Ruraldir. Fred Zinnemann - 2004
Howl's Moving Castle
Ruraldir. Hayao Miyazaki - 2013
Ida
Rural · Urbandir. Paweł Pawlikowski - 2001
In the Bedroom
Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Todd Field - 1967
In the Heat of the Night
Ruraldir. Norman Jewison - 2002
Insomnia
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Christopher Nolan - 2007
Into the Wild
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Sean Penn - 2003
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Urban · Ruraldir. Quentin Tarantino - 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon
Ruraldir. Martin Scorsese - 2019
Knives Out
Ruraldir. Rian Johnson - 1965
Kwaidan
Rural · Wildernessdir. Masaki Kobayashi - 1954
La Strada
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Federico Fellini - 2001
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Ruraldir. Ashutosh Gowariker - 2012
Lawless
Ruraldir. John Hillcoat - 2018
Leave No Trace
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Debra Granik - 1994
Legends of the Fall
Rural · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Edward Zwick - 2016
Lion
Urban · Ruraldir. Garth Davis - 2017
Logan
Desert · Ruraldir. James Mangold - 2016
Loving
Ruraldir. Jeff Nichols - 2016
Maudie
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Aisling Walsh - 1971
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Rural · Mountaindir. Robert Altman - 2011
Melancholia
Ruraldir. Lars von Trier - 2003
Memories of Murder
Ruraldir. Bong Joon Ho - 2019
Midsommar
Ruraldir. Ari Aster - 2021
Minari
Ruraldir. Lee Isaac Chung - 1975
Mirror
Ruraldir. Andrei Tarkovsky - 1988
Mississippi Burning
Ruraldir. Alan Parker - 2001
Monster's Ball
Rural · Suburbandir. Marc Forster - 2013
Mud
Rural · Islanddir. Jeff Nichols - 1988
My Neighbor Totoro
Ruraldir. Hayao Miyazaki - 2004
Napoleon Dynamite
Ruraldir. Jared Hess - 2013
Nebraska
Ruraldir. Alexander Payne - 1968
Night of the Living Dead
Ruraldir. George A. Romero - 2021
Nightmare Alley
Ruraldir. Guillermo del Toro - 2007
No Country for Old Men
Desert · Ruraldir. Joel Coen - 2021
Nomadland
Rural · Wildernessdir. Chloé Zhao - 1959
North by Northwest
Urban · Ruraldir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1922
Nosferatu
Mountain · Ruraldir. F. W. Murnau - 2000
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Ruraldir. Joel Coen - 1968
Once Upon a Time in the West
Desert · Ruraldir. Sergio Leone - 2019
Pain and Glory
Urban · Ruraldir. Pedro Almodóvar - 2006
Pan's Labyrinth
Rural · Undergrounddir. Guillermo del Toro - 1955
Pather Panchali
Ruraldir. Satyajit Ray - 2021
Petite Maman
Rural · Wildernessdir. Céline Sciamma - 1975
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Peter Weir - 1997
Princess Mononoke
Rural · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Hayao Miyazaki - 1960
Psycho
Ruraldir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1985
Ran
Mountain · Ruraldir. Akira Kurosawa - 1940
Rebecca
Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1954
Sansho the Bailiff
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Kenji Mizoguchi - 1998
Saving Private Ryan
Ruraldir. Steven Spielberg - 2014
Selma
Urban · Ruraldir. Ava DuVernay - 1954
Seven Samurai
Rural · Mountaindir. Akira Kurosawa - 1975
Sholay
Ruraldir. Ramesh Sippy - 2002
Signs
Ruraldir. M. Night Shyamalan - 1983
Silkwood
Ruraldir. Mike Nichols - 1996
Sling Blade
Ruraldir. Billy Bob Thornton - 2020
Sound of Metal
Rural · Urbandir. Darius Marder - 1960
Spartacus
Ruraldir. Stanley Kubrick - 2021
Spencer
Ruraldir. Pablo Larraín - 1927
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Rural · Coastal Seadir. F. W. Murnau - 2002
Sweet Home Alabama
Rural · Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Andy Tennant - 2011
Take Shelter
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Jeff Nichols - 2007
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Ruraldir. Andrew Dominik - 2018
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Joel Coen - 2022
The Banshees of Inisherin
Island · Ruraldir. Martin McDonagh - 2023
The Boy and the Heron
Rural · Undergrounddir. Hayao Miyazaki - 1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Wilderness · Ruraldir. David Lean - 1999
The Color of Paradise
Rural · Mountaindir. Majid Majidi - 2001
The Devil's Backbone
Ruraldir. Guillermo del Toro - 1926
The General
Ruraldir. Clyde Bruckman - 1974
The Godfather Part II
Urban · Ruraldir. Francis Ford Coppola - 1940
The Grapes of Wrath
Ruraldir. John Ford - 2016
The Handmaiden
Ruraldir. Park Chan-wook - 2015
The Hateful Eight
Mountain · Ruraldir. Quentin Tarantino - 2012
The Hunt
Ruraldir. Thomas Vinterberg - 1961
The Innocents
Ruraldir. Jack Clayton - 1971
The Last Picture Show
Ruraldir. Peter Bogdanovich - 1963
The Leopard
Urban · Ruraldir. Luchino Visconti - 1986
The Name of the Rose
Ruraldir. Jean-Jacques Annaud - 2022
The Northman
Island · Rural · Wildernessdir. Robert Eggers - 2001
The Others
Rural · Islanddir. Alejandro Amenábar - 2019
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Tyler Nilson - 1993
The Piano
Coastal Sea · Wilderness · Ruraldir. Jane Campion - 2021
The Power of the Dog
Ruraldir. Jane Campion - 2018
The Rider
Ruraldir. Chloé Zhao - 2009
The Road
Wilderness · Rural · Coastal Seadir. John Hillcoat - 1939
The Rules of the Game
Rural · Urbandir. Jean Renoir - 2009
The Secret in Their Eyes
Urban · Ruraldir. Juan José Campanella - 1957
The Seventh Seal
Ruraldir. Ingmar Bergman - 1999
The Straight Story
Ruraldir. David Lynch - 2009
The White Ribbon
Ruraldir. Michael Haneke - 1973
The Wicker Man
Island · Ruraldir. Robin Hardy - 2016
The Witch
Rural · Wildernessdir. Robert Eggers - 1939
The Wizard of Oz
Ruraldir. Victor Fleming - 1959
The World of Apu
Urban · Ruraldir. Satyajit Ray - 2005
The World's Fastest Indian
Rural · Desert · Urbandir. Roger Donaldson - 1991
Thelma & Louise
Rural · Desertdir. Ridley Scott - 2007
There Will Be Blood
Ruraldir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 2018
Tumbbad
Ruraldir. Rahi Anil Barve - 1996
Twister
Ruraldir. Jan de Bont - 1953
Ugetsu
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Kenji Mizoguchi - 1992
Unforgiven
Rural · Wildernessdir. Clint Eastwood - 1962
Viridiana
Ruraldir. Luis Buñuel - 2006
Volver
Urban · Ruraldir. Pedro Almodóvar - 1971
Wake in Fright
Desert · Ruraldir. Ted Kotcheff - 1987
Where Is The Friend's House?
Ruraldir. Abbas Kiarostami - 1957
Wild Strawberries
Ruraldir. Ingmar Bergman - 2017
Wind River
Rural · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Taylor Sheridan - 2010
Winter's Bone
Rural · Mountaindir. Debra Granik - 2001
Y Tu Mamá También
Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Alfonso Cuarón - 1961
Yojimbo
Ruraldir. Akira Kurosawa
Frequently asked
How many movies are set in rural environments?
Kinora's catalogue lists 173 films set in rural environments, spanning 1922–2023.
What are some movies set in rural environments?
Films set in rural environments in our catalogue include 12 Years a Slave (2013), 28 Days Later (2002), A League of Their Own (1992), A Quiet Place (2018), and A River Runs Through It (1992).
What is the oldest movie set in rural environments?
Nosferatu (1922) is the earliest film set in rural environments in our catalogue; the most recent is The Boy and the Heron (2023).