Movies: City country contrast

  • 2002
    Mr. Deeds

    Mr. Deeds (2002)

    Mr. Deeds

    5.82002HD

    When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for th...

    Mr. Deeds
  • 1988
    Funny Farm

    Funny Farm (1988)

    Funny Farm

    6.21988HD

    Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, eccentric town, where disaster awaits them at e...

    Funny Farm
  • 2015
    Matrimonio al Sud

    Matrimonio al Sud (2015)

    Matrimonio al Sud

    4.92015HD

    A Milanese businessman is beside himself when his son tells him he's going to marry the daughter of a pizza maker from Naples....

    Matrimonio al Sud
  • 1997
    Three Men and a Leg

    Three Men and a Leg (1997)

    Three Men and a Leg

    7.91997HD

    Friends Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo travel from north to south for Giacomo's wedding, carrying a precious item: the father of the bride, a tyrannical rich man who is both their boss and father-in-law (also Aldo and Giovanni married his daughters), ha...

    Three Men and a Leg
  • 2011
    The Greening of Whitney Brown

    The Greening of Whitney Brown (2011)

    The Greening of Whitney Brown

    6.12011HD

    Whitney, a spoiled pre-teen from Philadelphia, is forced to move to the country when her parents feel the squeeze of economic hard times. A fish out of water, far from her comfort zone, she befriends an amazing horse, and undertakes a misguided journ...

    The Greening of Whitney Brown
  • 2017
    Omicidio all'italiana

    Omicidio all'italiana (2017)

    Omicidio all'italiana

    6.32017HD

    To save his crumbling and rapidly-depopulating rural town, its mayor fakes a gruesome murder to attract media attention. His plan initially succeeds, but soon the situation will spiral out of control....

    Omicidio all'italiana
  • 2004
    Formula 17

    Formula 17 (2004)

    Formula 17

    52004HD

    More interested in romance than sex, "Formula 17" swoons with youthful innocence. Naive country-boy Tien-Tsai travels to Taipei, where his quest to lose his virginity is impeded by his insistence on finding true love first. The film's Chinese title t...

    Formula 17
  • 1998
    L'estate di Davide

    L'estate di Davide (1998)

    L'estate di Davide

    71998HD

    At 19, David has his diploma (the first in his family), a job at a car wash, and little else. His family is broke and argues constantly. So, unannounced, David leaves Turin for his uncle's farm in Polesine. Here he learns many life lessons over the c...

    L'estate di Davide
  • 2018
    Chinese Portrait

    Chinese Portrait (2018)

    Chinese Portrait

    6.92018HD

    Shot over the course of ten years on both film and video, the film consists of a series of carefully composed tableaux of people and environments. Pedestrians shuffle across a bustling Beijing street, steelworkers linger outside a deserted factory, t...

    Chinese Portrait
  • 1971
    Life is Beautiful When You Are in Love

    Life is Beautiful When You Are in Love (1971)

    Life is Beautiful When You Are in Love

    5.81971HD

    Turkish Pollyanna's story....

    Life is Beautiful When You Are in Love