Drama

  • Emmanuel Hamon – Exfiltrés AKA Escape from Raqqa (2019)

    2011-2020DramaEmmanuel HamonFranceThriller

    Synopsis:
    Raqqa, Syria, Spring 2015. Faustine discovers the hell in which she has embarked with her 5 year-old son. In Paris, Gabriel and Adnan, two young activists, are moved by the distress of Sylvain, Faustine’s husband. They agree to set up a high-risk exfiltration operation. The true story of two worlds and that of a generation.Read More »

  • Martin Lund – Psychobitch (2019)

    2011-2020DramaMartin LundNorway

    Synopsis
    Frida is different. Marius, on the other hand is the most perfect boy in class. When they have to work together at school, it’s the start of a turbulent and challenging relationship. Generation Achievement meets impossible love.Read More »

  • Darielle Tillon – Une nouvelle ère glaciaire AKA A New Ice Age (2008)

    2001-2010ArthouseDarielle TillonDramaFrance

    Quote:
    Near a windy, misty beach, Eric and David, two brothers in their twenties run a camping site. It covers several hectares on an eroded dune facing the sea. It is the end of the season, the site is empty, the days follow and all seem the same. Then one day Eric disappears. David goes looking for him…Read More »

  • Eran Riklis – Ha-Kala Ha-Surit AKA The Syrian Bride (2004)

    2001-2010ComedyDramaEran RiklisIsrael

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    In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met each other because of the occupation of the area by Israel since 1967; when Mona moves to Syria, she will lose her undefined nationality and will never be allowed to return home. Mona’s father Hammed is a political activist pro-Syria that is on probation by the Israeli government. His older son Hatten married a Russian woman eight years ago and was banished from Majdal Shams by the religious leaders and his father. His brother Marwan is a wolf trader that lives in Italy. His sister Amal has two teenager daughters and has the intention to join the university, but her marriage with Amin is in crisis. When the family gathers for Mona’s wedding, an insane bureaucracy jeopardizes the ceremony.Read More »

  • Nikos Nikolaidis – Evridiki BA 2O37 AKA Euridice BA 2O37 (1975)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaGreeceNikos Nikolaidis

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    Synopsis:
    Euridice lives imprisoned inside a metaphorical hell-house, in a country ruled by a dictatorship regime.
    Having already served her time, she is waiting to be transferred “somewhere else”. However, the State Processor in charge of the prisoners transfers has been mocking her for days… maybe even years.
    A long lost lover (Orpheus), contacts her asking to see her again. Euridice accepts, hoping that something will change yet she is also afraid of any changes.Read More »

  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder – In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden AKA In a Year of 13 Moons (1978)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaGermanyRainer Werner Fassbinder

    Quote:
    Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher named Erwin, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity. The emotionally fractured Elvira visits influential acquaintances and old haunts in hopes of putting the pieces of her life back together — and of confronting her lost love.Read More »

  • Patrice Leconte – Tandem (1987)

    Drama1981-1990ComedyFrancePatrice Leconte

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    Michel Mortez is going to and fro France to compere a radio game he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. But he is also a poker. Rivetot, his assistant and technician, always goes with him. He is the only one to know what really lies under Mortez’s appearance of playful don Juan. When the programme is condemned by the managers, Rivetot delays as long as possible the moment he will have to announce it to Mortez… Both malicious and tender, this bitter comedy also shows nostalgia.Read More »

  • Grigoris Grigoriou – I limni ton stenagmon AKA The Lake of Sighs AKA The Groaning Lake (1959)

    Drama1951-1960ClassicsGreeceGrigoris Grigoriou

    Ioannina, in the beginning of the 19th century. The whole Greece is under Turks. Ioannina is governed by the fierce and vulgar Ali Pasas. Ali’s eldest son, Muchtar, falls in love with a young Greek widow, Frosyni. The problem is, he’s married to the vindictive and cruel Chanife. And the muslim penalty for having an affair with a married man is death…Read More »

  • Yasuzô Masumura – Danryu AKA Warm Current [+Extra] (1957)

    1951-1960DramaJapanRomanceYasuzô Masumura

    Remake of Yoshimura Kozaburo’s 1939 film of the same title, originally adapted from a novel by Kishida Kunio. Together with scenarist Shirasaka Yoshio, Masumura re-imagines a traditional melodrama as a fast-paced comedy of manners. Includes a cameo appearance by the singer Miwa Akihiro.

    The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital, and who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich girl.Read More »

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