Movies Like Maan Gaye Ustaad
If you liked Maan Gaye Ustaad (1981), a movie directed by Shibu Mitra, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Tumbbad (2018)
★ 7.6/10India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious old woman who keeps the secret of an ancestral treasure that…
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
★ 7.8/10A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
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God's Own Country (2017)
★ 7.7/10A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.
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In Cold Blood (1967)
★ 7.5/10After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
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Days of Heaven (1978)
★ 7.5/10In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.
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Masaan (2015)
★ 7.1/10Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy in hopeless love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for…
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Duel in the Sun (1946)
★ 6.4/10Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
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Lady Macbeth (2016)
★ 6.6/10Rural England, 1865. Katherine, suffocated by her loveless marriage to a bitter man and restrained by his father's tyranny, unleashes an irresistible force within her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get…
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Signs (2002)
★ 6.7/10A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
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City Girl (1930)
★ 7.5/10A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.
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Straw Dogs (1971)
★ 7.1/10David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy…
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The House of the Spirits (1993)
★ 6.9/10A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
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Of Mice and Men (1992)
★ 7.2/10Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.
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All That Money Can Buy (1941)
★ 7/10Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his…
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The Egg and I (1947)
★ 7/10World War II veteran Bob MacDonald surprises his new wife, Betty, by quitting his city job and moving them to a dilapidated farm in the country. While Betty gamely struggles with managing the crumbling house and…
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A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
★ 6/10As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious gun-slinger, announces his arrival.
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Safe Haven (2013)
★ 7.2/10A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.
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The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)
★ 6.6/10In the 1930s, British officer John Truscott journeys to a remote village in colonial Malaysia to educate and Westernize the local Iban population. There, he's introduced to the lovely Selima. In keeping with tradition…
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The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
★ 7.3/10The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
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Dogville (2003)
★ 7.7/10A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.