Drama

  • Gerson Tavares – Antes, o Verão (1968)

    1961-1970ArthouseBrazilDramaGerson Tavares

    A middle-aged man builds a summer house in Cabo Frio, Rio de Janeiro. Married to a beautiful woman, father of two and successful career, the house is a symbol of his personal achievements. But as the wind, the salt and the sand threaten to invade the breaches of the house, their marriage begins to crumble. And like a bad omen, a mysterious murder takes place in the vicinity.Read More »

  • Frans Zwartjes – In Extremo (1981)

    1981-1990DramaExperimentalFrans ZwartjesNetherlands

    A parachute jump is performed by an artist and his girlfriend at the opening of an exhibition in the artist’s studio. An art dealer and a number of friends are invited to the event.Read More »

  • Lisandro Alonso – Eureka (2023)

    2021-2030DramaFranceLisandro Alonso

    Synopsis wrote:
    A cowboy arrives in a village in search of his daughter, a native policewoman arrests various offenders in a snowy landscape, while her niece, a basketball coach, reunites with her grandfather for a decisive journey that will shape her future, a bird flies through time and space and begins to enter the minds and dreams of a native tribe in a the Amazon forest.Read More »

  • Ivan Calbérac – Irène (2002)

    2001-2010ComedyDramaFranceIvan Calbérac

    Irène is a beautiful girl working in Paris, she soon meets a manager and hopes a love story with him. But he tells a lie, so she falls in love with a house painter.Read More »

  • Carlos Saura – Io, Don Giovanni AKA I, Don Giovanni (2009)

    2001-2010Carlos SauraDramaItaly

    Synopsis:
    Venice, 1763. Writer Lorenzo da Ponte (Lorenzo Balducci) is leading a cavalier life. Originally a priest, his numerous affairs result in him being sent into exile in Vienna, where he arrives in 1781. Supported by his friend and mentor, the well connected Giacomo Casanova (Tobias Moretti), da Ponte is introduced in Vienna to the King’s favourite composer, Salieri (Ennio Fantastichine), and a newcomer named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Lino Guanciale). Seeing an opportunity to undermine his rival’s ascension, Salieri tricks Mozart into hiring this unknown libertine as his librettist. But da Ponte’s own nature and sentimental wanderings in Vienna only inspire the composer, and lead to one of Mozart’s most bold and powerful compositions: Don Giovanni.Read More »

  • Don Boyd – Goldeneye (1989)

    1981-1990Don BoydDramaUnited Kingdom

    Fact-based biography of James Bond author Ian Fleming. The film focuses on his wartime exploits and romantic adventures, which ultimately led to his creation of the super-spy.Read More »

  • Gô Rijû – Elephant Song (1994)

    1991-2000DramaGô RijûJapan

    A man dies, and leaves a message to contact only one person, a young women who works as a waitress in the city. This women is by no means a friend, but rather an acquaintance. But, over the many times that they crossed paths, a promise was made. The promise was to bury this man when he dies.Read More »

  • Shiori Kazama – Chokorietta (2014)

    2011-2020DramaJapanJapanese Female DirectorsRomanceShiori Kazama

    High-school student Chiyoko is overcome with despair after losing both her mother and her pet dog. Her mother liked Fellini’s film, “La Strada”, and her efforts to watch it bring her in contact with a former fellow film studies student named Masamune. Chiyoko and Masamune go on a journey, bound for the ocean.Read More »

  • Humberto Mauro – Braza Dormida AKA Sleeping Ember (1928)

    Drama1921-1930BrazilHumberto MauroSilent

    Synopsis
    Despite its semi-amateur production in a relatively rural area, the small city of Cataguases in the state of Minas Gerais, the film is one of the most visually sophisticated works of silent film to be produced in Brazil. Its melodramatic plot spanning city and countryside – a dissipated youth living in Rio de Janeiro is regenerated through his work at a sugar factory in the interior and the love of the owner’s daughter – posits the reconciliation of a rapidly expanding metropolis with the less developed interior by means of an individual romance.Read More »

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