01
The River
Why this pick
Like Country, it grounds marital strain and rural resilience in the immediate pressure of a family farm facing financial collapse, with an earnest, weather-beaten 1980s realism.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1984 1h 45m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Movies like
Country
Drama
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
If you loved Country, try these.
01
02
Places in the Heart
Why this pick
Its Depression-era Texas farm setting and quietly determined family make hardship feel intimate rather than melodramatic, matching Country’s compassion for people fighting to keep a home.
03
Minari
Why this pick
A delicate, lived-in portrait of a family trying to make a precarious farm work; it shares Country’s attention to labor, money worries, landscape, and the costs of endurance.
04
At Any Price
Why this pick
This is a more morally unsettled modern farm drama, but its family conflict, agricultural debt, and sense that livelihoods are shaped by impersonal economic forces strongly echo Country.
05
The Field
Why this pick
A fierce Irish variation on the attachment to land: its rural textures and generational stakes extend Country’s feeling that a farm is both livelihood and identity.
Finding the atmosphere, tension and little details that made this one stay with you.
Our curator needs a little longer. Please come back shortly.
No confident matches yet. Try our personal film finder.
01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Gilbert "Gil" Ivy (Sam Shepard) and his wife Jewell (Jessica Lange) have worked Jewell's family farm for years, and her father Otis (Wilford Brimley) does not want to see his family farm lost to foreclosure. However, low crop prices, interest on FHA loans, pressure by the FHA to reduce both the loan and operating expenditure, and a tornado all put pressure on the struggling family as they face hardship and the prospect of losing their home and livelihood.
Showing saved details. Some information may be out of date.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jessica Lange
Jewell Ivy
Sam Shepard
Gil Ivy
Wilford Brimley
Otis
Matt Clark
Tom McMullen