Rural Movies

Kinora's catalogue lists 165 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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2013
12 Years a Slave
New York City · Louisiana — 1800s
Rural · Urbandir. Steve McQueen
2019
1917
France — 1910s
Rural · Wilderness · Undergrounddir. Sam Mendes
2002
28 Days Later
London — 2000s
Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Danny Boyle
1963
8½
Italy — 1960s
Rural · Urbandir. Federico Fellini
1964
A Fistful of Dollars
1800s
Rural · Desertdir. Sergio Leone
2018
A Quiet Place
Near Future
Rural · Wildernessdir. John Krasinski
1972
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Peru — Early Modern
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Werner Herzog
2022
All Quiet on the Western Front
France — 1910s
Rural · Wildernessdir. Edward Berger
2016
American Honey
Kansas City — 2010s
Rural · Urban · Suburbandir. Andrea Arnold
2023
Anatomy of a Fall
Grenoble — 2010s · 2020s
Mountain · Ruraldir. Justine Triet
1966
Andrei Rublev
Russia
Rural · Wilderness · Urbandir. Andrei Tarkovsky
1979
Apocalypse Now
Vietnam · Cambodia — 1960s
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Francis Ford Coppola
1969
Army of Shadows
Paris · Marseille · London — 1940s
Urban · Ruraldir. Jean-Pierre Melville
2007
Atonement
London — 1930s · 1940s · 2000s
Rural · Urban · Coastal Sea · Undergrounddir. Joe Wright
1966
Au Hasard Balthazar
France — 1960s
Rural · Mountaindir. Robert Bresson
1974
Badlands
South Dakota — 1950s
Rural · Wildernessdir. Terrence Malick
1975
Barry Lyndon
Ireland · London — 1700s · 1800s
Rural · Urbandir. Stanley Kubrick
2013
Before Midnight
Greece — 2010s
Coastal Sea · Rural · Urbandir. Richard Linklater
2000
Billy Elliot
London — 1980s · 1990s
Urban · Ruraldir. Stephen Daldry
1967
Bonnie and Clyde
Texas — 1930s
Rural · Urbandir. Arthur Penn
2014
Boyhood
Texas · Houston — 2000s · 2010s
Urban · Suburban · Ruraldir. Richard Linklater
1996
Breaking the Waves
Scotland — 1970s
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Lars von Trier
1938
Bringing Up Baby
Connecticut — 1930s
Rural · Urbandir. Howard Hawks
2005
Brokeback Mountain
Wyoming · Texas — 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
Rural · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Ang Lee
2018
Burning
Seoul — 2010s
Urban · Ruraldir. Lee Chang-dong
1972
Cabaret
Berlin — 1930s
Urban · Ruraldir. Bob Fosse
2017
Call Me by Your Name
Italy — 1980s
Ruraldir. Luca Guadagnino
1998
Central Station
Rio de Janeiro · Brazil — 1990s
Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Walter Salles
2006
Children of Men
London — Near Future
Urban · Rural · Coastal Seadir. Alfonso Cuarón
1988
Cinema Paradiso
Sicily · Rome — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1980s
Rural · Urbandir. Giuseppe Tornatore
1941
Citizen Kane
Florida · New York City · Colorado — 1800s · 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s
Urban · Ruraldir. Orson Welles
1977
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Indiana · Wyoming — 1970s
Rural · Wilderness · Desertdir. Steven Spielberg
1985
Come and See
Belarus — 1940s
Rural · Wildernessdir. Elem Klimov
1967
Cool Hand Luke
Florida — 1950s
Ruraldir. Stuart Rosenberg
1972
Cries and Whispers
Sweden — 1800s
Ruraldir. Ingmar Bergman
2000
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Beijing — 1700s
Urban · Rural · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Ang Lee
2000
Dancer in the Dark
Washington State — 1960s
Rural · Suburbandir. Lars von Trier
1990
Dances with Wolves
Kansas · Tennessee
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Kevin Costner
1978
Days of Heaven
Chicago · Texas — 1910s
Rural · Wildernessdir. Terrence Malick
1995
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
London · Punjab — 1990s
Rural · Urbandir. Aditya Chopra
2012
Django Unchained
Mississippi · Texas — 1800s
Rural · Wildernessdir. Quentin Tarantino
2021
Drive My Car
Tokyo · Hiroshima — 2010s
Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
2015
Ex Machina
Norway — 2010s
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Alex Garland
1996
Fargo
Minneapolis · Fargo — 1980s
Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Joel Coen
1982
Fitzcarraldo
Iquitos — 1900s · 1910s
Wilderness · Rural · Urbandir. Werner Herzog
1970
Five Easy Pieces
Los Angeles · Washington State — 1960s · 1970s
Rural · Coastal Sea · Urban · Islanddir. Bob Rafelson
1994
Forrest Gump
Alabama · New York City · Washington DC — 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
Rural · Urbandir. Robert Zemeckis
1987
Full Metal Jacket
Vietnam — 1960s
Urban · Ruraldir. Stanley Kubrick
2012
Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1
Dhanbad — 1940s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
Urban · Ruraldir. Anurag Kashyap
2017
Get Out
New York City — 2010s
Suburban · Ruraldir. Jordan Peele
2000
Gladiator
Rome — Ancient
Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Ridley Scott
2014
Gone Girl
New York City — 2010s
Urban · Ruraldir. David Fincher
1937
Grand Illusion
Germany — 1910s
Rural · Mountaindir. Jean Renoir
2018
Hereditary
Utah — 2010s
Rural · Suburbandir. Ari Aster
1952
High Noon
1800s
Urban · Ruraldir. Fred Zinnemann
2004
Howl's Moving Castle
Early Modern
Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Hayao Miyazaki
1967
In the Heat of the Night
Sparta — 1960s
Rural · Urbandir. Norman Jewison
2014
Interstellar
Near Future
Rural · Off Worlddir. Christopher Nolan
1934
It Happened One Night
New York City · Miami — 1930s
Urban · Ruraldir. Frank Capra
1962
Jules and Jim
Paris · Black Forest — 1910s · 1920s · 1930s
Urban · Rural · Coastal Seadir. François Truffaut
2003
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Tokyo · Okinawa — 1990s · 2000s
Urban · Rural · Suburbandir. Quentin Tarantino
2023
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oklahoma — 1920s · 1930s
Ruraldir. Martin Scorsese
1960
L'Avventura
Sicily · Rome — 1960s
Coastal Sea · Island · Urban · Ruraldir. Michelangelo Antonioni
1960
La Dolce Vita
Rome — 1950s · 1960s
Urban · Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Federico Fellini
1954
La Strada
Italy — 1950s
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Federico Fellini
2001
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
India — 1800s
Ruraldir. Ashutosh Gowariker
1997
Lost Highway
Los Angeles — 1990s
Urban · Desert · Ruraldir. David Lynch
1971
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Washington State — 1900s
Rural · Wildernessdir. Robert Altman
2011
Melancholia
2010s
Rural · Wildernessdir. Lars von Trier
2003
Memories of Murder
South Korea — 1980s · 2000s
Rural · Urbandir. Bong Joon Ho
2019
Midsommar
Sweden — 2010s
Rural · Wildernessdir. Ari Aster
2021
Minari
Arkansas — 1980s
Rural · Wildernessdir. Lee Isaac Chung
1975
Mirror
Russia — 1930s · 1940s · 1960s · 1970s
Rural · Urbandir. Andrei Tarkovsky
2012
Moonrise Kingdom
1960s
Island · Wilderness · Ruraldir. Wes Anderson
2009
Mother
South Korea — 2000s
Rural · Urbandir. Bong Joon Ho
1988
My Neighbor Totoro
Japan — 1950s
Ruraldir. Hayao Miyazaki
2007
No Country for Old Men
Texas — 1980s
Desert · Rural · Urbandir. Joel Coen
2021
Nomadland
Nevada · Arizona · South Dakota · California — 2010s
Rural · Wilderness · Desertdir. Chloé Zhao
1959
North by Northwest
New York City · Chicago — 1950s
Urban · Ruraldir. Alfred Hitchcock
1922
Nosferatu
Germany — 1800s
Urban · Rural · Mountain · Coastal Seadir. F. W. Murnau
2000
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Mississippi — 1930s
Rural · Wildernessdir. Joel Coen
1968
Once Upon a Time in the West
Arizona — 1800s
Rural · Desertdir. Sergio Leone
2023
Oppenheimer
Los Alamos · New Mexico — 1930s · 1940s · 1950s
Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Christopher Nolan
2019
Pain and Glory
Madrid · Valencia — 1960s · 1980s · 2010s
Urban · Ruraldir. Pedro Almodóvar
2006
Pan's Labyrinth
Spain — 1940s
Rural · Wilderness · Undergrounddir. Guillermo del Toro
1984
Paris, Texas
Los Angeles · Texas · Houston — 1980s
Desert · Urban · Ruraldir. Wim Wenders
1955
Pather Panchali
Bengal — 1910s
Ruraldir. Satyajit Ray
1957
Paths of Glory
France — 1910s
Rural · Undergrounddir. Stanley Kubrick
2021
Petite Maman
1990s · 2010s
Rural · Wildernessdir. Céline Sciamma
2017
Phantom Thread
London — 1950s
Urban · Ruraldir. Paul Thomas Anderson
1975
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Victoria — 1900s
Rural · Wildernessdir. Peter Weir
2019
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
France — 1800s · 1700s
Island · Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Céline Sciamma
1997
Princess Mononoke
Japan — Medieval
Wilderness · Rural · Urbandir. Hayao Miyazaki
2013
Prisoners
Pennsylvania — 2010s
Suburban · Ruraldir. Denis Villeneuve
1960
Psycho
Phoenix · California — 1950s
Rural · Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock
1985
Ran
Japan — Early Modern
Rural · Wilderness · Urbandir. Akira Kurosawa
1940
Rebecca
Monte Carlo · Cornwall — 1930s
Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Alfred Hitchcock
2018
Roma
Mexico City — 1970s
Urban · Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Alfonso Cuarón
1954
Sansho the Bailiff
Japan — Medieval
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Kenji Mizoguchi
1998
Saving Private Ryan
Normandy — 1940s
Rural · Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
1954
Seven Samurai
Japan — Early Modern
Rural · Mountain · Wildernessdir. Akira Kurosawa
1975
Sholay
India — 1970s
Rural · Wildernessdir. Ramesh Sippy
2000
Snatch
London · Antwerp — 2000s
Urban · Ruraldir. Guy Ritchie
1972
Solaris
Near Future
Off World · Rural · Wildernessdir. Andrei Tarkovsky
2020
Sound of Metal
Paris — 2010s
Rural · Urbandir. Darius Marder
1960
Spartacus
Italy — Ancient
Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Stanley Kubrick
2021
Spencer
London · Norfolk — 1990s
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Pablo Larraín
1939
Stagecoach
Arizona · New Mexico — 1800s
Desert · Ruraldir. John Ford
2006
Still Life
China — 2000s
Urban · Rural · Coastal Seadir. Jia Zhangke
1927
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1920s
Rural · Urban · Coastal Seadir. F. W. Murnau
1985
Tampopo
Japan — 1980s
Urban · Ruraldir. Jūzō Itami
1997
Taste of Cherry
Tehran — 1990s
Urban · Ruraldir. Abbas Kiarostami
2022
The Banshees of Inisherin
1920s
Island · Rural · Coastal Seadir. Martin McDonagh
1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Thailand — 1940s
Wilderness · Ruraldir. David Lean
1999
The Color of Paradise
Tehran · Iran — 1990s
Rural · Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Majid Majidi
1971
The Conformist
Paris · Rome — 1910s · 1930s · 1940s
Urban · Rural · Mountaindir. Bernardo Bertolucci
2017
The Death of Stalin
Moscow — 1950s
Urban · Ruraldir. Armando Iannucci
1978
The Deer Hunter
Saigon — 1960s · 1970s
Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Michael Cimino
1972
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
France — 1970s
Urban · Ruraldir. Luis Buñuel
1926
The General
Georgia
Rural · Wildernessdir. Clyde Bruckman
1972
The Godfather
New York City · Sicily · Las Vegas — 1940s · 1950s
Urban · Ruraldir. Francis Ford Coppola
1974
The Godfather Part II
New York City · Cuba · Las Vegas — 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1950s
Urban · Rural · Coastal Seadir. Francis Ford Coppola
1966
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Desert · Rural · Wildernessdir. Sergio Leone
2014
The Grand Budapest Hotel
1930s · 1960s · 1980s
Urban · Mountain · Ruraldir. Wes Anderson
1940
The Grapes of Wrath
Oklahoma · California — 1930s
Rural · Wildernessdir. John Ford
1940
The Great Dictator
1910s · 1930s
Urban · Ruraldir. Charlie Chaplin
2016
The Handmaiden
Korea — 1930s
Rural · Urbandir. Park Chan-wook
2012
The Hunt
Denmark — 2010s
Ruraldir. Thomas Vinterberg
1971
The Last Picture Show
Texas — 1950s
Rural · Urbandir. Peter Bogdanovich
1963
The Leopard
Sicily · Palermo
Rural · Urbandir. Luchino Visconti
1986
The Name of the Rose
Italy — Medieval
Rural · Undergrounddir. Jean-Jacques Annaud
2022
The Northman
Iceland — Medieval
Rural · Coastal Sea · Wildernessdir. Robert Eggers
1993
The Piano
New Zealand — 1800s
Wilderness · Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Jane Campion
2021
The Power of the Dog
Montana — 1920s
Rural · Wildernessdir. Jane Campion
2015
The Revenant
1800s
Wilderness · Mountain · Ruraldir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
1939
The Rules of the Game
Paris · Sologne — 1930s
Rural · Urbandir. Jean Renoir
1956
The Searchers
Texas · New Mexico
Rural · Desert · Wildernessdir. John Ford
1957
The Seventh Seal
Sweden — Medieval
Rural · Wilderness · Urbandir. Ingmar Bergman
1994
The Shawshank Redemption
Maine — 1940s · 1950s · 1960s
Urban · Ruraldir. Frank Darabont
1980
The Shining
Colorado — 1980s
Wilderness · Mountain · Ruraldir. Stanley Kubrick
1991
The Silence of the Lambs
Virginia · Baltimore · Memphis — 1990s
Urban · Rural · Undergrounddir. Jonathan Demme
2009
The White Ribbon
Northern Germany — 1910s
Ruraldir. Michael Haneke
1973
The Wicker Man
Scotland — 1970s
Island · Rural · Coastal Seadir. Robin Hardy
2016
The Witch
Rural · Wildernessdir. Robert Eggers
1939
The Wizard of Oz
Kansas — 1930s
Rural · Urbandir. Victor Fleming
1959
The World of Apu
Calcutta — 1930s
Urban · Ruraldir. Satyajit Ray
2023
The Zone of Interest
Auschwitz — 1940s
Ruraldir. Jonathan Glazer
1991
Thelma & Louise
Arkansas · Grand Canyon — 1990s
Rural · Desert · Wildernessdir. Ridley Scott
2007
There Will Be Blood
California · New Mexico — 1900s · 1910s · 1920s
Rural · Wildernessdir. Paul Thomas Anderson
1957
Throne of Blood
Japan — Medieval
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Akira Kurosawa
2014
Timbuktu
Timbuktu — 2010s
Desert · Ruraldir. Abderrahmane Sissako
2010
True Grit
Arkansas — 1800s
Rural · Wildernessdir. Joel Coen
1953
Ugetsu
Japan — Early Modern
Rural · Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Kenji Mizoguchi
2014
Under the Skin
Glasgow — 2010s
Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Jonathan Glazer
1992
Unforgiven
Japan — 1800s
Rural · Wilderness · Urbandir. Clint Eastwood
1958
Vertigo
San Francisco — 1950s
Urban · Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Alfred Hitchcock
1962
Viridiana
1960s
Ruraldir. Luis Buñuel
2006
Volver
Madrid · La Mancha — 2000s
Urban · Ruraldir. Pedro Almodóvar
1971
Wake in Fright
Australia — 1960s
Rural · Desert · Wildernessdir. Ted Kotcheff
1987
Where Is The Friend's House?
1980s
Rural · Wildernessdir. Abbas Kiarostami
1957
Wild Strawberries
Stockholm · Lund — 1950s
Rural · Urbandir. Ingmar Bergman
2014
Wild Tales
2010s
Urban · Rural · Desertdir. Damián Szifron
2001
Y Tu Mamá También
Mexico City · Mexico — 1990s · 2000s
Urban · Rural · Coastal Seadir. Alfonso Cuarón
1961
Yojimbo
Japan — 1800s
Rural · Urbandir. Akira Kurosawa
2007
Zodiac
San Francisco · California — 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
Urban · Ruraldir. David Fincher

Frequently asked

How many movies are set in rural environments?

Kinora's catalogue lists 165 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), 1917 (2019), 28 Days Later (2002), 8½ (1963), and A Fistful of Dollars (1964).

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 Zone of Interest (2023).