Drama

  • Feng Yueh – Hua Mu Lan AKA Lady General Mulan Hua (1964)

    1961-1970ActionChinaDramaFeng Yueh
    Hua Mu Lan (1964)
    Hua Mu Lan (1964)

    Synopsis:
    A young woman joins the army in place of her sick father, and she becomes a true heroine of the Chinese people.Read More »

  • Carl Froelich – Das Herz der Königin AKA The Queen’s Heart (1940)

    Carl Froelich1931-1940DramaGermanyThird Reich Cinema
    Das Herz der Königin (1940)
    Das Herz der Königin (1940)

    Synopsis:
    As the title “The Queen’s Heart” suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen of Scott’s eventful reign and death focuses on her emotional perception rather lyrically, with some songs, mainly by her. Starting in the Tower, awaiting and receiving her sentence to the ax from the English court, where Elisabeth I chose to remain absent in person, we flash back to Mary’s arrival after a long exile at the sophisticated, splendidly hedonistic French royal court, where she was raised as a Catholic, in her people’s eyes effeminate or even depraved, elegant pleasure-accustomed lady, at utter odds with the stern Scottish protestantism of John Knox as well as England’s Anglicanism.Read More »

  • Harald Reinl – Bergkristall (1949)

    Harald Reinl1941-1950AustriaDramaRomance
    Bergkristall (1949)
    Bergkristall (1949)

    The Tyrolean mountain farmer’s son Franz loves the beautiful Sanna. A hunter who is also interested in her catches Franz poaching, shoots him and leaves him alone. On the run, he falls fatally into a crevasse. When Franz returns home badly injured, he is believed to be the murderer of the missing hunter. Although he is acquitted in court for lack of evidence, the village community turns their backs on him. Only Sanna sticks by him. Years later, their children get lost in the mountains at Christmas time and come across the hunter’s body, unharmed from gunshot wounds. So Franz is finally rehabilitated.Read More »

  • Maria Ignatenko – Gorod usnul AKA In Deep Sleep (2020)

    2011-2020DramaMaria IgnatenkoRussia
    Gorod usnul (2020)
    Gorod usnul (2020)

    When Victor’s wife dies and his world falls into a deep slumber, he sets out to wander the empty streets on his own. Struggling to cope with his loss, Victor endures an overwhelming experience that leads him to insanity and murder but through which he ultimately makes peace with himself.Read More »

  • Seok-hoon Lee – Himalaya AKA The Himalayas (2015)

    2011-2020AdventureDramaSeok-hoon LeeSouth Korea
    Himalaya (2015)
    Himalaya (2015)

    Based on true events, renowned mountaineer UM Hong-gil sets out on a mission to Everest to retrieve his late junior climber’s body and faces the greatest challenge of his life.Read More »

  • Tudor Giurgiu – Libertate AKA Freedom (2023)

    2021-2030DramaRomaniaThrillerTudor Giurgiu
    Libertate (2023)
    Libertate (2023)

    IMDb wrote:
    In the chaotic days of the December 1989 revolution that overthrew the Communist regime, the Transylvanian city of Sibiu becomes the scene of a violent assault on a Police unit that quickly escalates into a bloody confrontation between soldiers, policemen, civilian protesters and representatives of the secret police. In a desperate attempt to escape the siege, Police captain Viorel is captured by the army and thrown into an empty swimming pool along with hundreds of prisoners accused of being terrorists.Read More »

  • Léandre-Alain Baker – Ramata (2009)

    2001-2010DramaLéandre-Alain BakerRomanceSenegal
    Ramata (2009)
    Ramata (2009)

    Quote:
    Ramata is a spellbindingly beautiful woman in her fifties. She has been married for thirty years now to Matar Samb, a very rich man, a former prosecutor who is now Minister of Justice. They live in Les Almadies, an elegant neighborhood of Dakar. Ngor Ndong is twenty-five. He is young, strong, mysterious and homeless. He is an occasional petty crook, known to the police. One evening, in a taxi that Ngor Ndong just happens to be driving, Ramata, reticent at first, finally agrees to follow this young man half her age to the Copacabana, a dive in the seediest part of Dakar.Read More »

  • Nitzan Giladi – Hatuna MeNiyar AKA Wedding Doll (2015)

    2011-2020DramaIsraelNitzan Giladi
    Hatuna MeNiyar (2015)
    Hatuna MeNiyar (2015)

    Quote:
    Hagit, a young woman with mild mental deficiency, works in a toilet-paper factory. She lives with her mother Sarah, a divorcée who gave up her life for her daughter. Hagit strives for independence and Sarah is torn between her desire to protect her, and her own will to live. When a relationship develops between her and the son of the factory owner, Hagit hides it from her mother. The announcement of the closing of the factory shakes Hagit and Sarah’s life and jeopardizes Hagit’s love story.Read More »

  • Marcel L’Herbier – L’argent (1928)

    Silent1921-1930DramaFranceMarcel L'Herbier
    L'argent (1928)
    L’argent (1928)

    Quote:
    Adapted from Émile Zola’s novel of the same name, Marcel L’Herbier’s L’Argent [Money] is an opulent classic of late-silent era cinema. Filmed in part on location at the Paris stock exchange, it reveals a world of intrigue, greed, decadence, and ultimately corruption and scandal when business dealings and amorous deceit combine. Business tycoons Saccard and Gunderman lock horns when the former attempts to raise capital for his faltering bank. To inflate the price of his stock, Saccard concocts a duplicitous publicity stunt involving the unwitting aviator Hamelin and a flight across the Atlantic to drill for oil, much to the dismay of his wife Line.Read More »

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