Drama

  • Ted Fendt – Outside Noise (2021) (HD)

    2021-2030DramaGermanyTed Fendt

    Daniela is unsure about what to do next and where to live. Mia is finishing a master’s degree that she spontaneously started. Along with Natascha, another friend thinking of moving to Vienna, they wander around and talk.Read More »

  • Hitoshi Yazaki – Taiyô no Suwaru Basho AKA The Place Where the Sun Sits (2014)

    Drama2011-2020Hitoshi YazakiJapan

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    A 10-year high school class reunion becomes a hotbed of speculation, jealousy, revenge, and ulterior motives when the former classmates come face-to-face.

    Kyoko is the former class queen who is now a local news reporter, while another woman named Kyoko was very plain in high school, but has gone on to become a successful actress. When these two people with the same name meet again at their 10-year high school reunion, a long-held secret will finally be revealed.Read More »

  • Mohamed Khan – Awdat mowatin AKA Return of a Citizen (1986)

    1981-1990DramaEgyptMohamed Khan

    Return of a Citizen (Arabic: عودة مواطن‎, translit. Awdat mowatin) is a 1986 Egyptian drama film directed by Mohamed Khan. It was screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.(wikipedia)

    Chaker returns to Cairo from the Gulf a comfortably wealthy man, but there is no-one to meet him at the airport. at home he finds that all his family still live under one roof. His family start to fall apart around him, and he must decide whether to stay or leave.(BFI)Read More »

  • Jie Liu – Bao Bei Er AKA Baby (2018)

    2011-2020ChinaDramaJie Liu

    When a woman who was abandoned at birth because of a genetic disorder sees a child facing the same fate, she finds herself trying to persuade their parents to reconsider and goes to extreme lengths to save the child.Read More »

  • Binka Zhelyazkova – Golyamoto noshtno kapane AKA The Big Night Bathe (1980)

    1971-1980Binka ZhelyazkovaBulgariaCrimeDrama

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    Friends of different generations, practicing different professions, spend together their summer holidays at the seaside every year. It is sunny; they look carefree and happy. They know each other very well, they are used to each other. To such an extent, that bore becomes inevitable. It is boredom that incites them to play a dangerous game. The end is dramatic: a young boy gets killed. It is the moment to draw the bottom line. The question is: Isn’t the death of the spirit worse than of the body?Read More »

  • Binka Zhelyazkova – Baseynat AKA The Swimming Pool (1977)

    Drama1971-1980ArthouseBinka ZhelyazkovaBulgaria

    The story begins with a serious disillusionment experienced by a young girl at her school-leaving farewell ball.
    Apostol, an architect on this side of forty, meets by chance Bella at a swimming pool on the night of her graduation party.

    Winner: Silver Prize – Moscow International Film Festival’1977Read More »

  • Radwan El-Kashef – Arak el-balah AKA Date Wine (1998)

    1991-2000DramaEgyptRadwan El-Kashef

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    This Egyptian feature film has strong elements of both folktale and comedy, although its subject matter and final scenes are anything but funny. Set in southern Egypt, the film tells the story of a group of people who are led into the desert by a strong-minded man who wants them to live far from the greed and corruption of civilized society. Years later, when the leader has become old and weak, a mysterious visitor coaxes the men of the village away to work in the north where they can make a lot of money. Only the leader and his adolescent grandson Ahmed – who has no desire for wealth – are left in the village with the women and children.Read More »

  • Harold Huth – Night Beat (1947)

    1941-1950DramaHarold HuthUSA

    Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson
    The oft-used title Night Beat was applied to the 1948 British melodrama. After serving as commandoes in WW2, Felix (Maxwell Reed) and Andy (Ronald Howard) follow widely divergent paths in peacetime. Andy joins the London police, while Felix falls in with the Black Market. As a result, their friendship and fidelity is sorely tested. The women in the case include Andy’s fretting wife Julie (Anne Crawford) and sultry nightclub chanteuse Jackie (Christine Norden). Though its starts out strong, Night Beat metamorphoses into standard melodramatics towards the end.Read More »

  • Vichit Kounavudhi – Khon phuu kaow AKA The Mountain People (1979)

    1971-1980AsianDramaThailandVichit Kounavudhi

    Customs of the mountain people has always been strict and respectful to themselves. Doing something wrong will be considered as being disrespect to the spirits. Marrying someone from a different tribe is also wrong. Giving birth to twins, she and her husband together with the kids will have to leave the tribe.

    “We are all human being, not animal” but the mountain people are treated like animals. But no one could take it for long…Read More »

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