Drama

  • Mehmet Kilic – Gunes ne zaman dogacak AKA When the Sun Rises (1978)

    1971-1980DramaMehmet KilicTurkey

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    Yavuz Mehmedov Crimean Turks (cüneyt arkin) against the religious activities that are prohibited by the regime for years because of the village mosque minaret had been shot out of the door lock reads the morning prayer call to prayer.

    Because of this movement were arrested and tortured by soldiers and a secret headquarters in order to brain wash yavuz imprisoned, for years, hoping to escape to Turkey one day self-identity by hiding in the elevated Alpgiray Nuriyev kgb (baki tamer) in the support cells are removed. asylum in Angola, the two friends are moving to Turkey on a ship.Read More »

  • Haile Gerima – Sankofa (1993)

    1991-2000ArthouseBurkina FasoDramaHaile Gerima

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    From the New York Times review:
    “In “Sankofa,” a contemporary African-American woman travels back in time and experiences slavery. Haile Gerima’s poetic and precisely detailed film takes its audience into its heroine’s life and mind as her moral sense is challenged and changed. No viewer can avoid the discomforting questions the film so eloquently raises.

    The opening sequences, set and filmed in Ghana, are alternately seductive and off-putting. Among drums and chants, a voice invokes ancestral ghosts. “Spirit of the dead, rise up,” the voice says, “and claim your story.” The film’s title is a West African term meaning to reclaim the past in order to go forward, and “Sankofa” stumbles only in its depiction of the present.Read More »

  • D.W. Griffith – Lady of the Pavements (1929)

    Drama1921-1930D.W. GriffithUSA

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    Art Cinema Corporation production; distributed by United Artists Corporation. / Produced by Joseph M. Schenck. Screenplay by Sam Taylor, with dialogue by George Scarborough, from the short story “La Paiva” by Karl Gustav Vollmoeller. Set design by William Cameron Menzies. Costume design by Alice O’Neill. Theme song “Where Is the Song of Songs for Me?” by Irving Berlin. Cinematography by Karl Struss. Assistant cameraman, G.W. Bitzer. Intertitles by Gerrit Lloyd. Edited by James Smith. Music arrangement by Hugo Riesenfeld. Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. / © 4 February 1929 [LP79]. Premiered 22 January 1929 at the United Artists Theatre in Los Angeles, California. General release, 16 February 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. Movietone sound-on-film sound system. / A silent version of the film was also released in eight reels at 7495 feet. / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.Read More »

  • Jacques de Baroncelli – La Duchesse de Langeais AKA Wicked Duchess (1942)

    1941-1950DramaFranceJacques de BaroncelliRomance

    The Duchess of Langeais, as beautiful as she is brilliant, is a woman who likes to seduce but who does not give in. Until the day when she falls in love with General de Montriveau, a cabal goes up against her.Read More »

  • Eriprando Visconti – La Orca (1976)

    Drama1971-1980Eriprando ViscontiExploitationItaly

    A teenage girl is kidnapped by 3 guys and taken to an abandoned house in the country, and make her write her own ransom letter. She soon discovers that one of her captors is infatuated with her and she will use those feelings to stay alive.Read More »

  • Dharmasiri Bandaranayake – Suddilage Kathawa (1984)

    Drama1981-1990AsianDharmasiri BandaranayakeSri Lanka

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    A masterpiece of Sri Lankan cinema, “Suddilage Kathawa” or “A Woman in a Whirlpool” is the third film by Dharmasiri Bandaranayake. Swarna Mallawarachi plays the role of Suddi who is married to Romiel, a hired assassin played by Cyril Wickramage. Suddi’s life becomes complex when her husband ends up in prison and she is forced to have multiple affairs in order to support herself. Joe Abeywickrama plays the role of the village head whose brother-in-law is a shop owner played by Sommie Rathnayake. Observe how the lives of these characters are intricately nested around love, hate, deception, crime and murder. Witness the facets that greed takes in this exceptional feauture film, beautifully shot and portrayed by accomplished cinematographer Udaya Perera.Read More »

  • Gustaf Edgren – Valborgsmassoafton AKA Walpurgis Night (1935)

    1931-1940DramaGustaf EdgrenSweden

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    Synopsis:

    ‘Lena Bergstrom works in an office and is unhappily in love with her boss, Johan Borg. She decides to quit. Borg’s wife won’t have any children, and when she becomes pregnant she has an illegal abortion. For some reason, Lena’s father believes that it is Lena who has had an abortion.’
    – Mattias Thuresson (IMDb)Read More »

  • Yôji Yamada – Otôto AKA About Her Brother (2010)

    2001-2010AsianDramaJapanYôji Yamada

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    Quote:
    Ginko (Yoshinaga Sayuri) seems to be living the good life: She’s the respectable owner of a neighborhood drug store in Tokyo, and her daughter Kaharu (Aoi Yu) is about to get married to a doctor. However, Koharu’s wedding day also brings homes Ginko’s younger brother Tetsuro (Tsurube Shofukutei), a failed actor and a hard drinker who shows up causing trouble. Having covered for him all her life, Ginko is ready to disown her burdensome younger brother, but some things are easier said than done…Read More »

  • Melvin Frank & Norman Panama – Above and Beyond (1952)

    1951-1960ActionDramaHiroshima at 75Melvin Frank and Norman PanamaUSA

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    Plot:
    The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay, the bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it is capable of doing tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before, and that the death toll resulting from it will be enormous. He is reluctant to be the person who will end so many lives, but if using it may bring an end to the war, then not doing so may result in even more lives being lost in continued ground assaults as the fighting goes on. At the same time, the intense secrecy surrounding this mission leaves him with no one he can express his thoughts and doubts to, not even his wife. As time goes on, the pressure upon him only increase. Written by Jean-Marc RocherRead More »

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