Enoch Arden, a humble fisherman, marries Annie Lee. He signs on as a sailor to make more money to support their growing family. A storm wrecks his ship, but Enoch swims to a deserted island. Annie waits vainly for his return.Read More »
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D.W. Griffith – Enoch Arden: Part I (1911)
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D.W. Griffith – The Usurer (1910)
1901-1910D.W. GriffithDramaSilentThe Birth of CinemaUSAA wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money’s limitations.Read More »
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Raúl de la Torre – Pobre mariposa (1986)
Raúl de la Torre1981-1990ArgentinaDramaHolocaust HistoryQuote:
In May of 1945, the news of the fall of Berlin spread to Buenos Aires. Clara is the daughter of a socialist leader named Boris who has died unexpectedly. As Clara learns more about a father she hardly knew, she finds out slowly about his political involvement during the war. There is some unrest in Argentina, and soon, not even Clara’s life is free from danger.Read More » -
Pan Nalin – Last Film Show AKA Chhello Show (2021)
Pan Nalin2021-2030DramaIndiaA mischievous nine-year-old boy is the unlikely hero of this masterful movie from Pan Nalin who transports the viewer back to the awe and innocence of childhood. Samay and his cohort of rascals hitch a ride on the train that passes their remote village and find their way to a rundown movie theater that offers all the entertainment their little hearts desire. When his friends get escorted out after sneaking in without paying, Samay proves to be the more resourceful one, bribing the hungry projectionist with the home-cooked lunch his mother packed for him. And so begins a daily routine; his lunch in exchange for access to the projection booth—the best seat in the house—where wide-eyed Samay watches the world unfold before him on the big screen. But when the theater transitions from 35mm to digital, this safe haven is disrupted and Samay enlists his buddies to construct their own DIY film projection apparatus.Read More »
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Frank Borzage – Green Light (1937)
Frank Borzage1931-1940DramaRomanceUSA

A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient’s death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility.Read More »
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D.W. Griffith – One Is Business, the Other Crime (1912)
1911-1920D.W. GriffithDramaSilentThe Birth of CinemaUSA

Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other is poor. Time passes, and in desperation over joblessness, the poor husband attempts to burgle a home, only to be captured a gunpoint by the mistress of the house. It is the home of the rich couple. While holding the poor intruder at gunpoint, the rich wife accidentally discovers evidence implicating her own husband in a bribery scheme…Read More »
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D.W. Griffith – The Mothering Heart (1913)
USA1911-1920D.W. GriffithDramaSilentThe Birth of Cinema

A young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he abandons the homely values and takes up with another woman. His wife leaves him, returning to her mother’s home where she bears a child. When the husband is abandoned by his concubine, remorse drives him to find his wife…Read More »
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D.W. Griffith – The New York Hat (1912)
1911-1920D.W. GriffithDramaSilentUSA

The young village minister was not quite as discreet as he might have been in fulfilling the strange trust left by the dying mother, but it certainly worked for the common good. By the bequest the mother desired that her daughter possess some of the finery previously denied her. As a result the minister and Mary were linked in a scandal, with the church board in judgment. Gossip received the laugh, however, as it generally does, while the minister assumed a trust quite unexpected.Read More »
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Aditya Vikram Sengupta – Once Upon a Time in Calcutta (2021)
Drama2021-2030Aditya Vikram SenguptaIndia

Follows the life of a bereaved mother trying to desperately find a new identity, love and independence.Read More »

