Drama

  • Hal Ashby – Second-Hand Hearts (1981)

    1981-1990ComedyDramaHal AshbyUSA

    Barbara Harris (Nashville) cons Robert Blake (Baretta) into a marriage of inconvenience in this offbeat romantic comedy from Oscar®-winning* director Hal Ashby (Coming Home). A honkytonk waitress in Texas, Dinette Dusty (Harris) desperately misses her children. Forced to board them with her late husband’s parents, she finds the means to get them back when Loyal Muke (Blake) stumbles into the bar. Plying the boozy drifter with drinks, Dinette suggests they get hitched and become the children’s new guardians. Sobering up to a wife and three kids, Loyal drives them west in search of an exit, while Dinette keeps her eyes on the road ahead to make sure they don’t get ditched. *Film Editing, In the Heat of the Night, 1967Read More »

  • Júlio Bressane – O Anjo Nasceu (1969)

    1961-1970BrazilCrimeDramaJúlio Bressane

    Julio Bressane wrote:
    “When I made O Anjo Nasceu I thought I had made my most difficult film, a completely irresponsible film, that space, that vacuum, that nothing. It was a devastating experience for me, a shock. Much, much more than Matou a Família e Foi ao Cinema, which was a well-received film. I think O Anjo Nasceu is still unknown territory, even for me”Read More »

  • Bartosz Konopka – Lek wysokosci (2011)

    2011-2020Bartosz KonopkaDramaPoland

    Father-to-be Marcin reaches out to his estranged schizophrenic father in search for love and understanding.Read More »

  • Michel Boisrond – Le chemin des écoliers AKA Way of Youth (1959)

    1951-1960DramaFranceMichel BoisrondWar

    Synopsis:
    Paris, 1943. With the country still under Nazi occupation and commodities severely rationed, ordinary French people muddle through as best they can. Charles Michaud is a law-abiding man of impeccable morals who becomes duly anxious when he finds that his 17-year-old son Antoine has been regularly absconding from school. Little does he know that his wayward offspring has been busy engaging in black market activities with his friend Paul Tiercelin, so that he can earn enough money to keep his mistress Yvette in the manner to which she has grown accustomed.Read More »

  • Abel Gance – Les gaz mortels (1916)

    1911-1920Abel GanceDramaFranceSilent

    Synopsis:
    Hopson, a prestigious scientist, studies the effect of snake venom to cure many diseases of mankind. His son enlists in the army when the Great War breaks out. A series of circumstances will lead the scientist to change his way of thinking about values ​​and principles that until then he had as immovable.Read More »

  • Denys de La Patellière – Les grandes familles AKA The Possessors (1958)

    1951-1960ClassicsDenys de La PatellièreDramaFrance

    Synopsis:
    With interests ranging from banking to commodities and publishing, the Schoudlers are one of France’s wealthiest and most powerful business families. The present head of this formidable dynasty is Noël Schoudler, a driven, plain-speaking magnate who runs his affairs with an unwavering ruthlessness, and this applies as much to his private life as it does to matters of business. Short of breaking the law, Schoudler is ready to resort to any means to protect his family’s wealth and good name, and anyone who dares to oppose him can expect nothing but the roughest of treatment. Noël Schoudler is a patriarch and a tyrant, a capitalist in every atom of his being. and he seems not to have an ounce of compassion in his soul. The pursuit of wealth and power is all that matters to him.Read More »

  • Hinde Boujemaa – Noura Rêve AKA Noura dreams (2019)

    2011-2020DramaHinde BoujemaaTunisia

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    With her abusive husband in jail and a coveted divorce pending, hardworking Noura can almost grasp a happy, new life with lover Lassaad – but when the best-laid plans are upended, Noura must tap her unshakable will to fulfill her dream.Read More »

  • Pedro Almodóvar – The Human Voice (2020)

    2011-2020ArthouseDramaPedro AlmodóvarSpain

    Synopsis: A woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up. but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn’t understand that his master has abandoned him.Read More »

  • Andrzej Wajda – Danton (1983)

    1981-1990Andrzej WajdaDramaEpicFrance

    Quote:
    Gérard Depardieu and Wojciech Pszoniak star in Andrzej Wajda’s powerful, intimate depiction of the ideological clash between the earthy, man-of-the-people Georges Danton and icy Jacobin extremist Maximilien Robespierre, both key figures of the French Revolution. By drawing parallels to Polish “solidarity,” a movement that was being quashed by the government as the film went into production, Wajda drags history into the present. Meticulous and fiery, Danton has been hailed as one of the greatest films ever made about the Terror.Read More »

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