Drama

  • Alan Mak – Yuen mong shu AKA Final Romance (2001)

    2001-2010Alan MakDramaRomance

    Ah Dik and Jean meet up in Japan to bury the ashes of Ah Dik’s brother and Jean’s sister, who were once lovers. Love soon blossoms between Jean and Ah Dik but their romance is shortlived when Jean’s father appears and abruptly takes her back to Hong Kong to be engaged to a doctor.Read More »

  • Barbara Loden – Wanda (1970) (HD)

    1961-1970ArthouseBarbara LodenDramaThe Female GazeUSA

    Wanda is a 1970 American independent drama film written and directed by Barbara Loden, who also stars in the title role. Set in the anthracite coal region of eastern Pennsylvania, the film focuses on a lone female protagonist with limited options for a better life. Wanda was chosen for the 31st Venice International Film Festival where it won the Pasinetti Award for Best Foreign Film. A restored version of the film was screened out of competition at the 67th Venice International Film Festival in 2010.

    In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.Read More »

  • Stephen Frears – My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

    1981-1990DramaQueer Cinema(s)Stephen FrearsUnited Kingdom

    Quote:
    ‘LAUNDRETTE,’ SOCIAL COMEDY SLEEPER
    DON’T be put off by the title, which makes it sound like a failed French farce. ”My Beautiful Laundrette,” written by Hanif Kureishi and directed by Stephen Frears, is the first real sleeper of the year.

    The film, which opens today at the Embassy 72d Street Theater, is a rude, wise, vivid social comedy about Pakistani immigrants in London, , particularly about the initially naive, university-age Omar (Gordon Warnecke) and Omar’s extended family of wheeler-dealers and unassimilated layabouts.Read More »

  • Aleksandra Strelyanaya – Sukhodol AKA The Dry Valley (2011)

    2011-2020Aleksandra StrelyanayaArthouseDramaRussia

    Quote:
    The Dry Valley (Суходол) is the first full feature film by Alexandra Strelyanaya. The film is based on the famous novel written by Nobel Prize laureate Ivan Bunin.
    This story unites the destinies of the landowners and their servants, and is considered to be one of the most complete portraits of the Russian life in the late XIX century. It takes place in Dry Valley, a village owned by the noble family of Khrushevs. The story tells about Natalia, a young and naive girl who serves in their country house. We see and experience her love, dedication to her masters, mysticism, exile, betrayal and faith, while the Dry Valley is falling to pieces, slowly but inevitably, as well as the lives of its inhabitants.Read More »

  • Nicolae Margineanu – Flacari pe comori aka Flames Over Treasures [+Extras] (1988)

    Drama1981-1990Nicolae MargineanuRomania

    Description
    Deep in the Transylvanian Alps, the Archangels gold mine is the stage for an epic battle of characters. The arrogant owner is struggling with perceptions of ghosts in the mind of the miners. A maverick free-lance miner is helping him to find the source of terrifying noises that frightened his workers. A story of love, greed and betrayal having the rugged landscape of central Transylvania as a background. With few notable exceptions, everyone seems to have forgotten the biblical “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also (Matthew 6:21)”Read More »

  • Nancy Savoca – True Love (1989)

    1981-1990DramaNancy SavocaRomanceUSA

    Synopsis:
    Donna and Michael are getting married. But first, they have to plan the reception, get the tux, buy the rings, and cope with their own uncertainty about the decision. Michael fears commitment. Donna has her doubts about Michael’s immaturity. Both are getting cold feet.Read More »

  • Jamil Dehlavi – Immaculate Conception (1992)

    Drama1991-2000ArthouseJamil DehlaviUnited Kingdom

    Immaculate Conception is the story of a young western couple, Jewish-American Hannah and British Alistair who are living in Karachi and desperate for a child. They visit the eunuch shrine of Gulab Shah which has a reputation for curing infertility and, sure enough, Hannah conceives. Hannah decides to convert to Islam and coaxes Alistair to do the same.Read More »

  • Alexandre Volkoff – Kean (141-minute version) (1924)

    Drama1921-1930Alexandre VolkoffFranceSilent

    Quote:
    This is a biopic of the 19th Century actor, Edmund Kean.

    You may remember him for his famous last words: “Dying is easy, comedy is hard.”

    Made some 90 years after his death, the film tells of the greatest actor of his time, a man toasted as the greatest actor of all time.

    Great though he may have been on the stage, his personal life was a wreck.

    He was hounded by creditors, had a problem with alcohol, and to make matters worse, had fallen in love with the wife of an ambassador.Read More »

  • Yorgos Tsemberopoulos – Xafnikos erotas AKA Sudden Love (1984)

    1981-1990DramaGreeceRomanceYorgos Tsemberopoulos

    Synopsis
    Eleni (Betty Livanou) is married and has a child. In an attempt to escape the boredom of her daily routine, she meets a good man (Antonis Theodorakopoulos). They have a passionate relationship that lasts only as long as the trip they take to Lisbon.Read More »

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