Just found "Down to Earth" in YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq15RmpW2jY

Good to know it's on YouTube, hopefully the quality is ok, if not you can search for a dl or buy a dvd. There were two versions of this, the other version was called The Wild Heart. Huge fights between the directors Powell, Pressburger and the producer David O Selznick. Jenny Jones was Selznick's protégé, He gave the project to Rouben Mamolain. Trying to find second version to see if there is more foot content.

Some silents worth looking at are Tod Browning's West of Zanzibar and it's remake Kongo, both have the fallen daughter of a missionary who becomes a prostitute in Africa , and is barefoot and in rags.

Kitty with Paulette Goddard is another one where she is a barefoot gutter wench in 18th century London. Only first 15 minutes but good.

Hammer's Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter features a barefoot girl,

Have to go through the films of Jean Rollin as there are many and he seems to like feet.

Will think of others.

Contemporary Hollywood just doesn't seem to like dirty feet, everything is manipedi ugh!

Gone to Earth is the longer version of the film.
I've seen Kongo, and the actress is NOT barefooted, in it! Sad, because she walks in the mud, in one scene.
Another great film: Daisies, from 1966. It's a rarely-seen Czech film about the (mis)adventures on two sisters. They're barefooted a lot. The opening scene shows then sitting with their soles in front of the camera!
(I have screen shots; PM me, if you're interested.)

I fully agree with DBF : contemporary,I mean of the last 2/3 years, do not have interesting barefooting scenes,even less girls barefeet for all the film.

The only I know is

- Barefoot (2014)

the other I remember :

- Trespass (2011) : Nicole Kidman is barefeet for most part of the film but only inside her house (where is imprisoned...)

Then I have to go back in memory of at least 10 years :

- Practical Magic (also with Kidman 1998)

- Beyond Rangoon (1995) : Patricia Arquette barefeet for most of the film,in rural environement (and is also a good film)

Although dirty feet are still rare in Hollywood these days I think barefoot is becoming much more common in mainstream. Films in the eighties and the nineties and most of the first decade of the 21th century always showed people wearing sneakers in the house. Now in a lot of movies you can find barefoot women and a considerable amount of shots.

It seems the horror movie It Follows - that has been praised by many critics as one of the best horror movies in decades - has a lot of bare feet from the lead actress Maika Monroe. I didn't see the movie and I will probably only see it after the Blu Ray release because the film is not scheduled for any cinema in Brazil, it seems.

Another film I heard had bare feet was Butterfly Effect with the gorgeous Carice Van Houten. I am looking for it right now.

Likewise "The Hitchhikers", from Ferd & Beverly Sebastian "Gator Bait" (1974). Claudia Jenings, a former playmate, lives in a swamp and is barefoot throughout the whole movie.

Yeah, Gator Bait is great...loved it.

Two more: Black Butterfly - gorgeous Carice Van Houten's character has a penchant for taking off her shows and walking barefoot in the streets. She spends most of the movie barefoot but sometimes you can't quite tell. Good movie about Apatheid.[I]

Ruby and Rata - still didn't see but Barefoot Spring says the lead woman is sometimes (not often?) barefoot even when talking to a state official.

One somewhat recent movie barefoot girl movie is "Burning Bright" from 2010. There isn't really any outdoor barefooting, but the lead actress, Briana Evigan, is barefoot for most of it, and you get several closeups of her feet.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1244658/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Also, the same actress is in 2009's "S.Darko," where she and another actress (Daveigh Chase) have a few good outdoor barefoot scenes.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1231277/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_22

Now, I wouldn't claim either of these to be good movies, but the barefoot scenes are great.

Oh, and one more oldie, but goodie: "Octavia," from 1985. It's a pretty obscure movie, but it's about a blind woman who goes barefoot all of the time. She does wear shoes for part of the movie, but she's not happy about it. She even says the line "Yuck! Shoes! I don't want them!"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087828/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_2

I am crazy to watch this Octavia but there is no streaming service in Amazon for this movie outside the USA and I don't have a VHS.

Roose,

I know what you mean. "Octavia" is a hard movie to find. I first heard of it years ago, but wasn't able to see it until it was on Netflix streaming for a while (in the US). I think it's gone from there now, too.

I'm not sure it ever even got a DVD release, but I wish you good luck to you in finding it.

I'm sure it didn't have a DVD release. There is VHS. I can buy it and watch in a friend's house but it's not the kind of movie I'd want to watch with another person.

Anyway, thanks a lot, Southerncrossfire44! [B]

Don't forget Sheena with Tanya Roberts....she was barefoot throughout the movie as the jungle girl. She insisted on being barefoot on location in Kenya, where the movie was filmed.

Also there's Audrey Hepburn as the orphan living in the wilderness barefoot in Green Mansions in 1959.

Anyone here like zombie movies?

How about "Dawn of the Dead" 2004 version. Not the best zombie movie out there but it came out mostly before the zombie craze. One of the main character's husband becomes a zombie early on at home and chases his wife barefoot out of their house. She goes barefoot in the city and then into a shopping mall.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyP2mX4K_Uo

There is a 1978 version but I have not watched it yet and do not know if there is a barefoot woman in that movie also.