Drama

  • Grupo Chaski – Juliana (1989)

    1981-1990DramaGrupo ChaskiPeru

    Quote:
    Juliana is a thirteen-year-old girl who runs away from home to get away from her stepfather’s abuse. On the streets, she must face the struggle to survive. She soon discovers the marginalization girls face when trying to get street work and decides to cut her hair and disguise herself as a boy. She joins a group of boys who sing in Lima’s microbuses, protected and exploited at the same time by a crook. Juliana’s rebellious nature and her feminine strength lead her to head a child revolution.Read More »

  • Nobuhiko Ôbayashi – Ano natsu no hi AKA One Summer’s Day AKA That Guy (1999)

    1991-2000ComedyDramaJapanNobuhiko Obayashi

    Yuta, an absent-minded 5th-grader, is sent to spend the summer with his grandfather, whom Yuta’s parents think is becoming senile and could benefit from Yuta’s companionship. At first, Yuta thinks Gramps is a bit addled, too, but as he gets to know the old man better, he finds that his grandfather sees things quite differently from other people. The special bond that often develops between grandfather and grandson grows stronger and stronger until the magical and heartwarming finale.Read More »

  • Alberto Morais – La madre AKA The mother (2016)

    Drama2011-2020Alberto MoraisSpain

    Synopsis
    Miguel is a 14-year-old kid about to go back to a centre for minors. His mother, out of work and with an unstable personal life, is incapable of taking care of him. This is why Miguel lives in a state of constant urgency, doing the housework, selling Kleenex or stealing from supermarkets. All this ends when Social Services come for him again, and his mother makes him seek refuge in the house of Bogdan, a Rumanian ex-lover of hers who lives in a nearby town. At the same time, María, the owner of a bar, sympathizes with the boy and gives him the virtually maternal treatment that he does not get in his own home. However, everything is thrust forward when the mother suddenly disappears.(imdb)Read More »

  • Mikel Gurrea – Suro (2022)

    2021-2030DramaMikel GurreaSpainThriller

    Elena and Iván. About to have their first child, they decide to leave the city and move to the countryside to reset the cork plantation.Read More »

  • John Korty – Farewell to Manzanar (1976)

    1971-1980DramaJohn KortyUSAWar

    After the attack on Pearl Harbor, seven-year-old Jeanne Wakatsuki, her family and 11,000 other Americans of Japanese descent and their immigrant parents are imprisoned in the internment camp Manzanar in California.Read More »

  • Sôkichi Tomimoto – Kemono no tawamure AKA The Frolic of the Beasts (1964)

    Drama1961-1970JapanRomanceSôkichi Tomimoto

    Quote:
    The wife Yuko Kusumon operating a pottery store was a chastal wife without complaints even though her husband is cheated with her heart.
    Kouji Umeya, who was working part-time at a shop, was able to see the unparallel rag, and brought her to the cheerful site.
    Furthermore, Kenji will cause serious injury to the spot.
    Kouji who came to the end of her uniform and started her bizarre living in Izu villa home.Read More »

  • Quentin Dupieux – Daaaaaali! (2023)

    Drama2021-2030ComedyFranceQuentin Dupieux

    Judith, a French journalist meets Salvador Dali on several occasions, one of the main representatives of surrealism and one of the most famous painters of the twentieth century for a documentary film project which never gets to start shooting…Read More »

  • Miranda July – Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)

    2001-2010ComedyDramaMiranda JulyUSA

    IMDb wrote:
    ‘Me and You and Everyone We Know’ is a poetic and penetrating observation of how people struggle to connect with one another in an isolating and contemporary world. Christine Jesperson is a lonely artist and “Eldercab” driver who uses her fantastical artistic visions to draw her aspirations and objects of desire closer to her. Richard Swersey, a newly single shoe salesman and father of two boys, is prepared for amazing things to happen. But when he meets the captivating Christine, he panics. Life is not so oblique for Richard’s six-year-old Robby, who is having a risqué Internet romance with a stranger, and his fourteen-year-old brother Peter who becomes the guinea pig for neighborhood girls — practicing for their future of romance and marriage.Read More »

  • Terence Fisher – Blood Orange AKA Three Stops to Murder (1953)

    1951-1960CrimeDramaHammer FilmsTerence FisherUnited Kingdom

    SYNOPSIS:
    Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.Read More »

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