Drama

  • Shirô Toyoda – Kôkotsu no hito AKA The Twilight Years (1973)

    Drama1971-1980ClassicsJapanShirô Toyoda

    Story about a woman who looks after her father in law.Read More »

  • Buddhadev Dasgupta – Kalpurush AKA Memories in the Mist (2005)

    2001-2010Buddhadev DasguptaDramaIndia

    Synopsis:
    The film tells the story in a non-linear fashion, with two timelines being depicted simultaneously. Rahul Bose has a dysfunctional marriage with Sameera Reddy who has an extra-marital affair. Rahul tries to reconnect with his long-lost father (played by Mithun Chakraborty), while Sameera dreams of breaking free of her stifling domestic life. Rahul is considered as a failure both in professional and personal lives. However, an honest and simple man, he clings to simple joys of life and memories of his childhood. The back-and-forth movement of the story between two timelines (the present day and Rahul’s childhood) and the arrangement of the sequences make Mithun a mystery man—he could be dead, alive, or, just a figment of Rahul’s imagination.Read More »

  • István Szabó – Tüzoltó utca 25. AKA 25 Fireman’s Street (1973)

    1971-1980DramaHungaryIstván SzabóRomance

    Quote:
    Memories and desires of the residents of a Pest apartment block condemned to be demolished swirl through this film by István Szabó. For the director in his thirties, the 1970s was the age of discovery; this work is an experiment at adapting the Modernist stream of conscious film genre for a Hungarian audience. The struggle of the individual against history is a recurring Szabó theme, which in this movie he takes closest to the limits of the narrative form.Read More »

  • Giuseppe Bonito – L’Arminuta AKA A Girl Returned (2021)

    2021-2030DramaGiuseppe BonitoItaly

    Summer 1975, a 13-year-old girl, suitcase in one hand and a bag of shoes in the other, knocks at an unknown door. Her sister Adriana opens it, her eyes wrinkled, her braids unraveled: they’ve never seen each other before. So begins the story of a teenager who lost everything overnight: a comfortable home, her closest friends, the unconditional love of her parents – or rather the people she believed were her parents. For “l’Arminuta” (the returned girl) as her peers called her, a new and very different life begins, from the adoptive family to her real one, going from wealth to poverty, both material and moral. Her new home is small, dark, there are brothers everywhere and little food on the table to share. But there’s Adriana, who shares a bed with her. And there’s Vincenzo, who looks at her as if she were already a woman.Read More »

  • Michael Klier – Idioten der Familie AKA Family Idiots (2018)

    2011-2020DramaGermanyMichael Klier

    Wanting to start a new life, 40-year-old Heli has found an institution in which she can put her younger, mentally disabled sister. Her three egocentric brothers have agreed to the plan and come to share their sister’s final weekend at the house where they all grew up on the outskirts of Berlin.Read More »

  • Nicole Garcia – Le fils préféré (1994)

    1991-2000DramaFranceNicole Garcia

    Nicole Garcia’s film shows a family through an adult man’s figure, and his weekdays. The main character is one of the sons of an old and ill man who is in hospital nowadays. The father has 2 other sons too. Jean Paul visits his father all day. After he divorced his life is unexciting and troubled. He has a lot of dark suits, a good car, a big house but he has some debts, and his private life touch bottom. He has to call his brothers and ask them to help …Read More »

  • Daniela Féjerman & Inés París – A mi madre le gustan las mujeres AKA My Mother Likes Women (2002)

    2001-2010ComedyDaniela FéjermanDramaInés ParísQueer Cinema(s)Spain

    Synopsis:
    Sofia, (Rosa Maria Sarda from All About My Mother), a renowned pianist, is long separated from the daughters’ father. It is on the occasion of her birthday that she delivers a stunning announcement: she has fallen in love again.

    Clearly smitten, she begins to describe her new lover: somewhat younger…also a pianist. The daughters, thrilled and eager to hear more, are interrupted by the doorbell. A woman walks in.Read More »

  • George McCowan – Murder on Flight 502 (1975)

    1971-1980DramaGeorge McCowanMysteryUSA

    A jumbo jet leaves New York. After the plane has departed, a note is found in the first class lounge with an ominous message left by a passenger threatening to kill some of the passengers. At first it is thought to be a sick joke, but soon a man posing as a priest and a stewardess are killed. It is up to the captain to find the killer before the body count increases.Read More »

  • Marguerite Duras – India Song (1975) (HD)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaFranceMarguerite Duras

    Marguerite Duras’s most celebrated work is a mesmerizing, almost incantatory experience with few stylistic precedents in the history of cinema. Within the insular walls of a lavish, decaying embassy in 1930s India, the French ambassador’s wife (Delphine Seyrig) staves off ennui through affairs with multiple men—with the overpowering torpor broken only by a startling eruption of madness. Setting her evocatively decadent visuals to a desynchronized chorus of disembodied voices that comment on and counterpoint the action, Duras creates a haunted-house movie unlike any other. (-criterion.com)Read More »

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