Drama

  • Bernard McEveety – The Hostage Heart (1977)

    1971-1980Bernard McEveetyDramaTVUSA

    Terrorists break into an operating room and take the surgical team hostage in this gripping suspense thriller based on the best-selling novel by Gerald Green (The Last Angry Man) and starring Bradford Dillman, Loretta Swit, Cameron Mitchell, Vic Morrow and Carl Weathers. As Dr. Eric Lake (Dillman) and his staff perform open-heart surgery on billionaire Walker Bench, terrorist John Trask (Stephen Davies) and his men enter the room and hold the physicians at gunpoint. Demanding $10 million in cash, Trask will kill Bench and Lake unless the ransom is paid in two hours. As the billionaire’s company scrambles to raise the money and a rescue attempt goes fatally awry, the authorities and doctors realize there are terrorists planted among the hospital staff and no one knows whom they can trust.Read More »

  • Rolf de Heer – Alexandra’s Project (2003)

    2001-2010AustraliaDramaMysteryRolf de Heer

    A regular suburban family man comes home from work on his birthday to find a deserted house and a videotape waiting to be played…Read More »

  • Jean-Claude Brisseau – Médiumnité (1978)

    1971-1980DramaFranceJean-Claude Brisseau

    Second feature film in Jean-Claude Brisseau’s career, shot in Super 8 and starring himself and the actress María Luisa García.Read More »

  • David Paulsen – Schizoid (1980)

    1971-1980David PaulsenDramaHorrorUSA

    Synopsis
    An advice columnist in the midst of getting a divorce begins receiving threatening notes from an anonymous stalker. Meanwhile, members of her group therapy session are being murdered by an unknown assailant.Read More »

  • Mariano Barroso – Éxtasis (1996)

    1991-2000DramaMariano BarrosoSpain

    Plot Summary: Three friends, two young men and a young woman, are bored by the normal world of their parents and want to flee in order to start living somewhere else. Thus they make a pervert plan: rob their own families. After that they flee without any destination and without having really planned where to go to.Read More »

  • Parth Saurabh – Pokhar Ke Dunu Paar AKA On Either Sides of the Pond (2022)

    2021-2030DramaIndiaParth Saurabh

    Quote:
    Amidst the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic, Sumit and Priyanka, an eloped couple, return to the security of their hometown. While Priyanka feels uneasy in the suffocating familiarity of her town, Sumit immerses himself in his tribe of friends.Read More »

  • Yûzô Kawashima – Onna de aru koto aka Woman Unveiled (1958)

    1951-1960DramaJapanYûzô Kawashima

    Married for a decade, a couple have no child. He is a lawyer, however, and as a result of one of his cases has the daughter of an imprisoned man living with them. The girl, who is understated, has a boyfriend, but otherwise only ventures out to meet her jailed father. The family is visited by the daughter of a friend from Osaka who has made the journey without informing her parents. That her personality is the opposite of the girl who lives in the house is obvious. At the same time, the wife runs into her own ex and the husband faints at work due to exhaustion. The live-in girl tends to the husband in a way that leaves the latter’s wife concerned.Read More »

  • Mikio Naruse – Uta-andon AKA The Song Lantern (1943)

    1941-1950DramaJapanMikio Naruse

    Quote:
    A self-absorbed young actor humiliates an elderly Noh performer, who then commits suicide. His act of cruelty compels his father to disown him, leading the once promising actor to a life on the streets. But his desire to win back the respect of his father and the affection of the dead actor’s daughter pushes him toward a more noble existence. Naruse employed a delicately structured mise-en-scene in this family melodrama, which evokes the work of Josef von SternbergRead More »

  • Flora Lau – Bends (2013)

    2011-2020DramaFlora LauHong Kong

    Quote:
    Fai (Chen) is a mainland Chinese immigrant who has obtained Hong Kong citizenship. Due to the intricacies of Hong Kong law, however, his pregnant wife, Tingting (Tian Yuan), has no right of abode; she cannot live with him and is ineligible for healthcare. She and their young daughter, Haihai, shuttle secretly between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. As Tingting’s delivery draws near, she and Fai find themselves between a rock and a hard place, threatened by a hefty penalty for forfeiting the one-child policy in their homeland, yet unable to afford hospital fees in Hong Kong.Read More »

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