Drama

  • Peter Patzak – Situation AKA Slaughter Day (1972)

    1971-1980CrimeDramaItalyPeter Patzak

    A young woman begins having an affair with a mysterious man. He takes her to his cabin for a weekend and they fall in love. What she doesn’t know is that this man is orchestrating a huge bank heist with a twist.Read More »

  • Buddhadev Dasgupta – Tahader Katha AKA Their Story (1992)

    1991-2000ArthouseBuddhadev DasguptaDramaIndia

    Three years after the partition of India, Shibnath returns from 11 years of imprisonment. He tries to pick up his life again but his past experiences make it impossible.Read More »

  • Simon Hesera – A Day at the Beach [4:3] (1970)

    1961-1970DramaSimon HeseraUnited Kingdom

    Quote:
    Bernie is a silver tongued wanderer with a fondness for drink and no clear goal in life. What was supposed to be a day of fun at the seaside turns to dust as he drinks his way through a seaside resort community, trailing his little niece Winnie.Read More »

  • André Téchiné – Ma saison préférée AKA My Favorite Season (1993)

    1991-2000André TéchinéDramaFranceRomance

    Berthe, an elderly widow, is forced by her declining health to close the French farmhouse where she has spent much of her life. She moves in with her daughter Émilie and son-in-law Bruno, who share a legal practice and have two grown children: Anne, a law student, and Lucien, who was adopted. In spite of Émilie’s efforts, Berthe is not happy in her daughter’s bourgeois home in Blagnac. She sits by the swimming pool in the middle of the night talking to herself and finds the house pretentious. Worried about her mother’s physical and mental health, Émilie pays a visit to her unmarried younger brother, Antoine, a neurosurgeon. They have not seen each other for three years, since they quarreled at their father’s funeral. Émilie informs Antoine of their mother’s condition and invites him to Christmas dinner with the family.Read More »

  • Frank Beyer – Bockshorn (1984)

    1981-1990DramaFrank BeyerGermany

    Synopsis
    Two adolescents, Sauly and Mick, get to know each other while hitchhiking and stick together for the long haul. They both want to reach the ocean, which is some thousand kilometers away. An old car picks them up, but the trip ends shortly thereafter in a sleazy motel. At the bar, a man named Landolfi approaches them. He explains to Sauly that he must have sold his guardian angel to a man by the name of Miller in the city of Prince. Though the boys do not believe in guardian angels, Sauly slowly succumbs to his own fears. He would like to have his guardian angel back again. On their trip, Sauly becomes sick. Mick works on a farm to pay the doctor’s bills. Once Sauly is well, they travel farther – until they reach Prince. In this mysterious city, all of the people are named Miller, and once Sauly and Mick finally are at the ocean, they meet Landolfi once more.Read More »

  • Rolf de Heer – Incident at Raven’s Gate (1988)

    Drama1981-1990AustraliaRolf de HeerSci-Fi

    Quote:
    Ex-con Eddie Cleary gets a job working on his older brother’s isolated farm. It’s not long before bizarre things start happening–dead birds falling out of the sky, family pets attacking their owners, strange apparitions beginning to appear, and people who had been “normal” suddenly going insane.Read More »

  • Takeshi Kitano – Ano natsu, ichiban shizukana umi AKA A Scene at the Sea (1991)

    1991-2000DramaJapanRomanceTakeshi Kitano

    Quote:
    Third Window Films continues their collection of Takeshi Kitano Blu-rays with a revisit of his 1991 film, A Scene at the Sea. At the time Kitano was still seen largely as a comeic performer and his first two films started to change that perception and give him a small taste of international recognition. However, it is with A Scene at the Sea, his third feature as a director, that Kitano really showed the film world his skill set. Not only was it his first film as a director that didn’t feature him in an acting role, it also distanced itself from the previous two yakuza driven features and proved that Kitano is a force ot be reckoned with and a truew artist, rather than a hired gun.Read More »

  • George Cukor & Joseph Strick – Justine (1969)

    1961-1970AdventureDramaGeorge CukorJoseph StrickUSA

    IMDB wrote:
    In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine.Read More »

  • Douglas Sirk – Schlußakkord AKA The Final Chord (1936)

    1931-1940ClassicsDouglas SirkDramaGermanyThird Reich Cinema

    Plot:
    A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. When her husband commits suicide, Hanna returns to Germany and works her way into becoming the live-in maid and nurse to her child being raised by an orchestra conductor and his wife.Read More »

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