Drama

  • Saeed Akhtar Mirza – Naseem AKA The Morning Breeze (1995)

    1991-2000DramaIndiaSaeed Akhtar Mirza

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    The delicate relationship between a 15-year-old girl and her grandfather is used to describe how the growing political tensions between Muslems and Hindus in 1992 led to the destruction of a medieval Muslim mosque and subsequently, violent rioting in the streets of Bombay. Naseem (urdu: sahar) means Morning breeze, and charts the story of a young school going girl Naseem in the months leading up to the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992. She shares deep and loving bond with his ill grandfather who represents the era of communal harmony between Hindus and Muslims in India, as he fondly recalls the times he spent in pre-Independent Agra. As communal tension erupts in the city of Bombay, Naseem get increasingly bewildered by changing dynamics at her school and in the neighborhood, while her grandfather watches helplessly at a city getting deeply divided over the Babri Masjid issue.Read More »

  • Romuald Karmakar – Manila (2000)

    Drama1991-2000GermanyRomuald Karmakar

    Due to a delayed flight a group of German flight passengers have to wait in the hall of the airport of Manila. The crowd is quite mixed, ranging from an cultivated east German teacher couple up to sleazy sex tourists. As the waiting prolongs, more and more aggressions and long repressed behaviors shed their way to the surface.Read More »

  • Agnieszka Holland – Franz (2025)

    2021-2030Agnieszka HollandDramaPoland

    It narrates the life of Czech writer Franz Kafka, from his birth to his death.Read More »

  • George A. Romero – There’s Always Vanilla (1971)

    1971-1980ComedyDramaGeorge A. RomeroUSA

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    Chris Bradley is a young man who returns to his home city of Pittsburgh after several years of drifting and working odd jobs around the country since his discharge from the U.S. Army. Rejecting moving back in with his father and not wanting to return to the family business of manufacturing baby food, Chris meets and shacks up with Lynn, an older woman who works as a model in local TV commercials, and whom becomes his ‘sugar mama’ of supporting him financially and emotionally, which begins to put a strain on the affair especially when Lynn finds out that she’s pregnant and does not feel that Chris would make a responsible father or husband.Read More »

  • René Clément – Le jour et l’heure AKA The Day and the Hour (1963)

    1961-1970DramaFranceRené ClémentWar

    In Nazi-occupied France during WWII, a French woman helps two downed Allied airmen to evade capture by the Germans and make their way into neutral Spain.Read More »

  • William Castle – The Fat Man (1951)

    1951-1960DramaMysteryUSAWilliam Castle

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    The popular radio detective series The Fat Man was brought to the screen in 1951, with the series’ original star J. Scott Smart retained in the title role. Smart plays porcine sleuth Brad Runyon, who tackles the mystery surrounding the murder of a Los Angeles dentist. With the assistance of general factotum Bill Norton (Clinton Sundberg), Runyon follows the trail of clues all the way to a three-ring circus. Famed Barnum & Bailey clown Emmett Kelly makes his screen debut as one of the suspects; others essential to the action are such up-and-comers as Rock Hudson, Julie London and Jayne Meadows. The film’s flashback-within-flashback structure helps to enliven its more verbose passages. For the most part, The Fat Man plays more like a radio show than a movie–at least until the exciting climax, inventively staged by director William Castle.Read More »

  • Lone Scherfig – Kaj’s fødselsdag AKA The Birthday Trip (1990)

    1981-1990DramaLone ScherfigPoland

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    A group of Danish men take a boat-trip to Poland to celebrate the 40th birthday of Kaj with lots of drinking and women. They wind up in a group from a contact agency for Danish men and Polish women. Kaj is mistaken by Polish Magdalena for her date, who didn’t show up at the ferry, and is quickly involved more than he expected.Read More »

  • Paul Verhoeven – De vierde man AKA The Fourth Man (1983)

    1981-1990DramaNetherlandsPaul VerhoevenQueer Cinema(s)Thriller

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    An alcoholic writer begins having visions apparently warning him of impending danger. After he delivers a lecture, he begins an affair with a woman from the audience. The visions intensify, however, and begin to threaten his relationship with the woman, since it may be her the visions are warning against.Read More »

  • Sebastian Schipper – Absolute Giganten AKA Gigantic (1999)

    1991-2000ComedyDramaGermanySebastian Schipper

    In the port town of Hamburg, Germany, Floyd decides that he’s shipping out to South Africa and Singapore now that his two-year probation for an unspecified juvenile offense has been completed. When he shares the news with his devoted friends Chubby, a mechanic, and Ricco, a fast-food cook and would-be b-boy, they can’t comprehend their thoughtful friend’s willingness to trade camaraderie for a wider view of the world. Overcoming their anger and bewilderment, the guys decide to spend one last night with Floyd, but the problem, as always, is how to find some fun. A succession of fast-food restaurants, parking garages, and local watering holes chronicles the inherent boredom of life in the provinces. But a run-in with a convention of dragster-racing Elvis impersonators sends the boys and their friend Telsa Julia Hummer on a series of adventures that veers from the farcical to the almost-tragic.Read More »

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