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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.

  1. 1Tumbbad

    Tumbbad (2018)

    ★ 7.6/10

    India, 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…

  2. 2Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

    ★ 7.8/10

    A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

  3. 3God's Own Country

    God's Own Country (2017)

    ★ 7.7/10

    A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.

  4. 4In Cold Blood

    In Cold Blood (1967)

    ★ 7.5/10

    After 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.

  5. 5Days of Heaven

    Days of Heaven (1978)

    ★ 7.5/10

    In 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.

  6. 6Masaan

    Masaan (2015)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Four 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…

  7. 7Duel in the Sun

    Duel in the Sun (1946)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Beautiful 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.

  8. 8Lady Macbeth

    Lady Macbeth (2016)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Rural 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…

  9. 9Signs

    Signs (2002)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.

  10. 10City Girl

    City Girl (1930)

    ★ 7.5/10

    A 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.

  11. 11Straw Dogs

    Straw Dogs (1971)

    ★ 7.1/10

    David 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…

  12. 12The House of the Spirits

    The House of the Spirits (1993)

    ★ 6.9/10

    A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.

  13. 13Of Mice and Men

    Of Mice and Men (1992)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.

  14. 14All That Money Can Buy

    All That Money Can Buy (1941)

    ★ 7/10

    Farmer 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…

  15. 15The Egg and I

    The Egg and I (1947)

    ★ 7/10

    World 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…

  16. 16A Million Ways to Die in the West

    A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)

    ★ 6/10

    As 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.

  17. 17Safe Haven

    Safe Haven (2013)

    ★ 7.2/10

    A 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.

  18. 18The Sleeping Dictionary

    The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)

    ★ 6.6/10

    In 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…

  19. 19The Magnificent Ambersons

    The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

    ★ 7.3/10

    The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

  20. 20Dogville

    Dogville (2003)

    ★ 7.7/10

    A 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.

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