Drama

  • Maroun Bagdadi – La fille de l’air AKA The Girl in the Air (1992)

    1991-2000DramaFranceMaroun BagdadiThriller

    Synopsis:
    Brigitte lives with her boyfriend, Daniel, who is on the run having escaped from prison for a series of armed robbery offences. Brigitte is a few months’ from giving birth when the couple’s home is raided by the police. At the time, Daniel is involved in a violent robbery which goes wrong – a policeman is killed and he is arrested. Both Daniel and Brigitte end up in prison, although Brigitte’s sentence is reduced to a few months. Daniel however must remain in prison for 18 years. Realising that this will destroy her husband, Brigitte resolves to rescue him in a daring prison escape involving a helicopter…Read More »

  • Victor Saville – The Green Years (1946)

    1941-1950ClassicsDramaUSAVictor Saville

    Plot:
    From the author of The Citadel and in the grand epic tradition of MGM’s adaptations, The Green Years is the moving story of a boy’s difficult growth to manhood. When young Robert Shannon is orphaned, he leaves his home in Ireland and travels to Scotland, home of his maternal grandparents. Growing up in the home of his stern grandfather (Charles Coburn, in an Academy Award®-nominated performance*) is made bearable by his great-grandfather, loving grandmother and kind aunt and uncle. After a rocky adjustment to his new school, Robbie is befriended by Gavin and Allison, whom he grows to love.Read More »

  • Walter Grauman – I Deal in Danger (1966)

    1961-1970DramaUSAWalter GraumanWar

    Storyline
    During World War II, an American who sympathizes with the Nazi cause defects to Germany, where he is greeted as a hero and given a job broadcasting propaganda to the West. What the Nazis don’t know is that he is actually a double agent.Read More »

  • Basilio Martín Patino – Nueve cartas a Berta AKA Nine Letters to Berta (1966)

    1961-1970Basilio Martín PatinoClassicsDramaSpainSpanish cinema under Franco

    Quote:
    Lorenzo, a student at Salamanca in the late 1950s, has just spent a summer in England where he has discovered new ways of life and other horizons as well as meeting and falling in love Berta, the daughter of an exile who has never seen Spain. Upon his return, the traditional atmosphere of his family, routine relations with his friends and his girlfriend, and the tedium of life in the city become more and more overwhelming. He writes to his idealized Berta, still living in England, in a series of letters to try to convey to her what life is like in Spain and his desire to leave his provincial family behind and discover life on his own. Although the lure to break free is foremost on his mind, he decides to marry a young woman from a similar background to live the life of a country squire. However, a trip to Madrid opens up other possibilities.Read More »

  • Céline Sciamma – Portrait de la jeune fille en feu AKA Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

    2011-2020Céline SciammaDramaFranceQueer Cinema(s)Romance

    Quote:
    France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse’s first moments of freedom. Héloïse’s portrait soon becomes a collaborative act of and testament to their love.Read More »

  • John Boorman – The General (1998)

    1991-2000DramaJohn BoormanThrillerUnited Kingdom

    The General begins with the death of Martin Cahill–celebrated Dublin gangster who stole millions during the 1980s–then literally reverses the approach and assault of his IRA assassin, flashing back in time,back through Cahill’s colorful, criminal quest for his kind of ideal community. Boorman says his Cahill is a throwback to those Celtic chieftains of old who ruled by thievery and violence; as an anachronism, this charming, brutal bear of a man (perfectly incarnated by Brendan Gleeson) is undeniably reprehensible, but he stands in deliberate contrast to the institutionalized hypocrisy and corruption of church, state, and IRA alike.Read More »

  • Ralph Nelson – Once a Thief (1965)

    1961-1970CrimeDramaFranceRalph Nelson

    Quote:
    Eddie Pedak, a convicted criminal, has a steady job, a wife and daughter and he puts a down payment on a boat. He also has a police detective and brother after him, the first believes Eddie shot him, the second wants him for one last heist.Read More »

  • Attila Janisch – Árnyék a havon AKA Shadow on the Snow (1992)

    1991-2000Attila JanischDramaHungary

    Quote:
    Story of a sin that looks like an accident in the beginning but in reality it’s an irrevocable and deadly act. Story of a relationship in which lies and love chains daughter to father, sinner to innocent. Story of a man whose fate suddenly starts to turn another way – and buries everything it finds beneath itself.

    “You never think about sin, but then you are standing in front of it and it touches you.” (Attila Janisch)Read More »

  • Martín Rejtman – Dos disparos AKA Two Shots Fired (2014)

    2011-2020ArgentinaComedyDramaMartín Rejtman

    SYNOPSIS
    One early morning, at the beginning of a very hot summer, Mariano, a 17-year-old teenager, returns home, jumps into the pool and does some laps with a stopwatch. Then he gets out and mows the lawn, where he accidentally cuts the mower’s power cord when he runs over it. Set on fixing it, he goes to find tools but stumbles across a gun that he brings back to his room to shoot himself twice. Read More »

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