Drama

  • Shin’ya Tsukamoto – Rokugatsu no hebi AKA A Snake of June (2002)

    2001-2010ArthouseDramaJapanShinya Tsukamoto

    Quote:
    When suicide hotline counselor Rinko (Asuka Kurosawa) receives explicit photos of herself from a mysterious caller, she is thrown into a depraved game of hidden fantasies and unrestrained sexual desire. As the voyeuristic stalker becomes determined to alter her passionless life, Rinko’s compulsively clean husband Shigehiko (Yuji Koutari) attempts to hunt him down and the three disillusioned soul’s paths will inevitably intertwine.Read More »

  • János Xantus – Eszkimó asszony fázik AKA Eskimo Woman Feel Cold (1984)

    1981-1990DramaHungaryJános Xantus

    Eskimo Woman Feel Cold is the debut feature film of director János Xantus. It won best newcomer director and best male actor awards on the Magyar Filmszemle, Hungary’s national film awards and many other international awards.

    The film is about a piano player who falls in love with Mari, a beautiful blond woman, who happens to be the wife of a deaf-mute animal caretaker. Both men adore Mari, as she loves both of them. Albeit all of them know this way won’t stand.Read More »

  • Xiaogang Feng – Ji jie hao AKA Assembly (2007)

    2001-2010ChinaDramaWarXiaogang Feng

    Plot summary: (from anutshellreview.blogspot.com)
    Feng Xiaogang’s Assembly was the opening film at last year’s Pusan International Film Festival, and tickets were sold out in record time once they were made available online. Such is the faith (or curiosity) of the new film from the director who brought us movies like World Without Thieves, and martial arts Hamlet The Banquet. When you think of Chinese directors making a movie based out of Chinese history, you can’t help but imagine the massive amount of propaganda that get so blatantly infused into the story and especially the dialogue. But here, Feng managed to bring about a movie which goes beyond the usual ra-ra, and shows us that a movie with universal themes can also come out from what is essentially a war movie based upon China’s tumultuous era after WWII.Read More »

  • Nikos Grammatikos – Apontes (1996)

    1991-2000DramaGreeceNikos Grammatikos

    Synopsis:
    The Summer of 1987. Six friends from Salamina meet in one of the island’s cafes. Then, and over the following seven years, they experience maturation as a gradual drawing-away from the paradise of their adolescent unconcern, and the emotional bonds between them slowly wither. They realize that they are no longer the center of the world and that they have been absorbed by a social system that is deadly serious. Year-in-year-out, their meetings take place less and less frequently. Every time they return to the island, they carry with them traces of different personal experiences that all the more bear the marks of modern social reality. They experience this change as a kind of decay and corruption. At the same time, their once-solid friendship inevitably fades away.Read More »

  • Nariman Aliev – Evge (2019)

    2011-2020DramaNariman AlievUkraine

    A father and a son from Crimean Tatar family transport the body of deceased older son and brother from Kyiv to bury him in Crimea.

    10 wins & 23 nominations.Read More »

  • John Farrow – West of Shanghai (1937)

    1931-1940DramaJohn FarrowUSAWar

    Plot:
    A cinematic icon, Boris Karloff was one of Hollywood’s greatest actors. Although synonymous with horror, Karloff excelled in other genres as well, providing a lasting legacy of memorable performances. And in this collection of three rarely seen gems drawn from his work at Warner Bros., Karloff shines in a wide range of roles, encompassing mystery, adventure and drama.Read More »

  • Masao Adachi – Jogakusei gerira AKA Student Guerilla (1969)

    1961-1970DramaJapanMasao AdachiPolitics

    Quote:
    Three high school girls about to take their final exam, secretly plan to ruin the diploma ceremony in order to avenge themselves of that school which treated them as delinquents. Two classmates who discovered their plan decide to join the rebellion. They steal all the graduation certificates, use their charms to get weapons from Jieitai soldiers and establish their base in the mountain.Read More »

  • Aleksandr Sokurov – Molokh AKA Moloch (1999)

    1991-2000Aleksandr SokurovArthouseDramaRussia

    Synopsis
    In 1942, in Bavaria, Eva Braun (Yelena Rufanova) is alone, when Adolf Hitler (Leonid
    Mozgovoy) arrives with Dr. Josef Goebbels (Leonid Sokol) and his wife Magda Goebbels
    (Yelena Spiridonova) and Martin Bormann (Vladimir Bogdanov) to spend a couple of
    days without talking politics.Read More »

  • Gregory La Cava – Gallant Lady (1933)

    1931-1940DramaGregory La CavaUSA

    Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.Read More »

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