Drama

  • Eliseo Subiela – Pequeños milagros AKA Little Miracles (1997)

    1991-2000ArgentinaArthouseDramaEliseo Subiela

    Rosalía is a cashier at a supermarket. She lives alone, loves reading fairy tales and hides in a magic fantasy world in order to survive living in the real one. She thinks she is a fairy who came on a mission and got caught in this world. She travels by bus every day. At the bus-stop, there is a “web camera” which records images and puts them into the Internet. Santiago is a scientist who works in an international research project to detect signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. He is a lonely man who lives with his dog and his computer. Rosalía finds she has some extra-sensory powers and thinks three young women she knows are fairies. They will remarkably influence her life. She also feels the need to meet her father, whom she has not seen since she was 8.Read More »

  • Joseph H. Lewis – Terror in a Texas Town (1958) (HD)

    Drama1951-1960Joseph H. LewisUSAWestern

    A Swedish whaler is out for revenge when he finds out that a greedy oil man murdered his father for their land.Read More »

  • Júlia Murat – Pendular (2017)

    2011-2020BrazilDramaJúlia Murat

    A young couple settles down in a large abandoned industrial warehouse. An orange strip, glued to the floor, partitions the area in two equal portions: to the right, his sculpture atelier; to the left, her dance studio. Pendular takes place in this setting, where art, performances and intimacy mingle together; and where the characters slowly lose their capacity of distinguishing between their artistic projects, their past and their romantic relationship.Read More »

  • Irving Rapper – Deception (1946)

    1941-1950DramaFilm NoirIrving RapperUSA

    Brief Synopsis:
    A woman tries to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover.

    Quote:
    Deception is an operatic rehash of the 1929 film Jealousy. Music teacher Bette Davis–who evidently has a large student pool, judging by the size of her penthouse apartment–is reunited with her cellist lover Paul Henreid, whom she believed to have been killed in the war. Henreid wants to marry Davis, but he is unaware that she has, for the past several years, been the “protege” of composer Claude Rains. Read More »

  • Ka-Fai Wai – Joi sun ho AKA Written By (2009)

    Drama2001-2010AsianHong KongKa-Fai Wai

    Synopsis
    A lawyer who is killed in a car accident finds himself resurrected as a character in his daughter’s novel.Read More »

  • Rachel Lang – Baden Baden (2016) (HD)

    2011-2020BelgiumComedyDramaRachel Lang

    Quote:
    After a failed attempt at working on a foreign film set, 26 year-old Ana returns to her hometown of Strasbourg. Over the scorching summer that follows, she decides to replace her grandmother’s bathtub with a walk-in shower, eat peas and carrots with ketchup, drive a Porsche, harvest plums, lose her driver’s license, sleep with her best friend and get back together with her ex. In short, over this particular summer, Ana tries to get her life together.Read More »

  • Zenzô Matsuyama – Namonaku mazushiku utsukushiku AKA Happiness of Us Alone (1961)

    1961-1970ArthouseDramaJapanZenzo Matsuyama

    Synopsis
    The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and dumb. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations … and joys.

    Quote:
    The directorial debut of longtime screenwriter and frequent Masaki Kobayashi collaborator Zenzo Matsuyama.Read More »

  • William Wyler – The Letter (1940)

    1931-1940DramaFilm NoirUSAWilliam Wyler

    Synopsis:
    William Wyler’s dark and poisonous melodrama, based on the W. Somerset Maugham novel, features Bette Davis in one of her nastiest roles. The story begins in the shimmering moonlight on a tropical Malayan rubber plantation. Shots ring out and a wounded man, Geoffrey Hammond (David Newell) staggers from a bungalow as Leslie Crosbie (Bette Davis) coldly follows him, pumping the remaining bullets into his body. She later tells her husband Robert (Herbert Marshall) that she shot Geoffrey, a mutual friend, because he was drunk and tried to take advantage of her. Robert, who owns the plantation, believes her story and hires high-powered lawyer Howard Joyce (James Stephenson) to defend her. Read More »

  • Konrad Wolf – Sonnensucher AKA Sun Seekers (1958)

    1951-1960ClassicsDramaGermanyKonrad Wolf

    Director Konrad Wolf’s gritty and controversial tale follows two young women who go to work at a uranium mine in Wismut, East Germany. With anarchists, former S.S. soldiers, and ex-Russian officers working in close proximity, the mine becomes a microcosm of world politics and social unrest.Read More »

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