Drama

  • 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 »

  • Noel Keserwany & Michelle Keserwany – Les chenilles (2023)

    Noel Keserwany2021-2030DramaFranceMichelle KeserwanyShort Film
    Les chenilles (2023)
    Les chenilles (2023)

    Golden Bear for Best Short Film / Berlinale, Berlin International Film Festival 2023

    Asma and Sarah, two women originally from the Levant, find themselves working in the same restaurant in the city of Lyon in France. Both bear the weight of a home they were forced to leave behind. Initially wary of each other, they gradually discover a common thread that binds them – one that dates back to when the Silk Road connected Lyon to their home countries.
    In the midst of forced migrations, can we move past our animosity to find solace in each other?Read More »

  • Joann Sfar – Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) (2010)

    Joann Sfar2001-2010DramaFranceMusical
    Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) (2010)
    Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) (2010)

    Synopsis
    A glimpse at the life of French singer Serge Gainsbourg, from growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris through his successful song-writing years in the 1960s to his death in 1991 at the age of 62.Read More »

  • Masao Adachi – Revolution+1 (2022)

    Masao Adachi2021-2030DramaJapan
    Revolution+1 (2022)
    Revolution+1 (2022)

    Quote:
    Masao Adachi’s first new film in six years that secretly started filming at the end of August. About the life of Tetsuya Yamagami, suspected assassin of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.Read More »

  • Daniel Schmid – La Paloma (1974)

    Arthouse1971-1980Daniel SchmidDramaSwitzerland
    La Paloma (1974)
    La Paloma (1974)

    This heady exercise in excess mixes the operatic passion of La Traviata, stylish decadence of Stroheim and Sternberg, and the macabre glee of Grand Guignol. Ingrid Caven plays Dietrich-like chanteuse stricken with CamilIe-like wasting disease. The disease seems to be arrested when a plump, wealthy young man (Peter Kern) develops a grand passion for her, but mortality raises its grinning skull again when she falls helplessly in love with another man. Jay Cocks in Time wrote, “La Paloma is a wonderful mad shotgun wedding of high camp movie mythology, bad taste, obsessive, romanticism, and impudent satire… Whatever it is, it certainly is some kind of fantastic movie.”Read More »

  • Phillip J. Roth – Interceptors AKA Interceptor Force (1999)

    1991-2000ActionDramaPhillip J. RothUSA
    Interceptors (1999)
    Interceptors (1999)

    In the near future, the government has created an elite team of soldiers specially trained in the event of a hostile alien encounter. A multi-national force of the world’s best, they are known as the Interceptor Force. A covert early warning satellite network tracks an object crash landing in a town in the Pacific Northwest. Within minutes of the impact, all communication with the town is mysteriously severed. The news sources are given a false story of contamination and the area is sealed off. AWAC’s and fighters patrol the perimeter. As the silence from the town continues, the Interceptor team lead by Lieutenant Sean Lambert (Gruner) is sent in to investigate. Read More »

  • Ken’ichirô Nishiumi – Dô shiyô mo nai koi no uta AKA A Helpless Love Song (2018)

    2011-2020DramaJapanKen'ichirô NishiumiRomance
    Dô shiyô mo nai koi no uta (2018)
    Dô shiyô mo nai koi no uta (2018)

    After experiencing failure in business and his marriage, Mitsutoshi Yashiro walks around looking for a place to die. He decides to stop at a red light district shop to have sex for one last time. He meets Hina who changes his life.Read More »

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