Drama

Synopsis
A day in the life of the 21 years old Deniz, who aims to become an actress and makes her living by dubbing movies. After she has split with her old boyfriend she gets to know Diego and spends the evening with him.Read More »

Agnes (Ingrid Thulin), daughter of the goddess Indra, has come to Earth to learn about what it means to be human. She meets many people in her journey. The figures that guide her most are Alfred (Uno Henning), an officer who becomes a doctor; Axel (Allan Edwall), the lawyer that she weds, and the poet (Olof Widgren) who may be the author of her dreams. What she observes and experiences makes her pity mankind.Read More »

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A 14-year-old girl in 1948 Palestine watches from a locked pantry as catastrophe consumes her home, in this bold debut from Darin J. Sallam.Read More »

Plot: A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss’s daughter, although she doesn’t know what daddy does for a living. Written by Ed LorussoRead More »

A watchman is murdered at a building site. The film narrates several versions of the people involved. Based on the Vicente Lenero novel.Read More »

The head of the nunnery is dying, and the members are divided in two groups as the election of the new head approaches. Led by Virginia, the younger nuns stand up for changing the strict religious dogmas and would like a modern school with genuine science, a bathroom to be built, and a freer spirit. Their candidate is sister Magdolna, who went to secular universities, too. The seminarists, led by Király Erzsi, also rebel against the older nuns’ strict discipline and the depressed atmosphere of the institution. However, Magdolna does not want to stay involved in the fight because she is deterred by Virginia’s sinful attraction towards her and the tools Virginia is using to gain victory at any price.Read More »

mk2 (a bit revised) wrote:
Jeanne and Jean, a sensitive young man, have one last rendez-vous at the “Pan Coupé”, the little café where they always meet. A few weeks later Jean flees, disappears… Jeanne confides in her friend Pierre and his father. They all begin an investigation of their own into the young man’s disappearance. Disillusionment, poetry and dark romanticism combine to create a compelling film in urgent need of rediscovery.Read More »

The setting is the countryside, where an independent, landowning farmer busies himself in his free time by bedding down the women on his farm and then tossing them aside. One such ill-treated lass ends up marrying a young man who is in charge of a communal farm, a farm the womanizing “beast” of the title is later forced to join. The arrogant, formerly independent farmer does not reform his ways and is soon chasing after the young manager’s wife, the woman he dropped not that long ago.Read More »

A classic BBC “Play For Today,” written and directed by the great David Hare (“Plenty”) and starring Bill Nighy and Kate Nelligan. It is NOT AVAILABLE ON DVD. Here’s a synopsis from AMG:

Dreams of Leaving is centered around the Candide-like experiences of novice journalist Bill Nighy. He is determined to experience first-hand the social and mating habits of London’s elite. Nighy gets more than he bargained for at the hands of bed-hopping socialite Kate Nelligan.Read More »