Drama

  • Roberto Andò – Sotto falso nome AKA Under False Name (2004)

    2001-2010DramaItalyRoberto AndòThriller

    A writer at the height of his fame: Daniel Boltanski, known to the world as bestselling author Serge Novak, lives in Switzerland with his wife Nicoletta. Her son Fabrizio is getting married on the isle of Capri. On the way there, on the hydrofoil, Daniel meets an extraordinarily beautiful woman, Mila, and they spend the night together. Daniel wakes up in the morning after a wild night of sex to discover there’s no trace of her. He’s late for church; everyone’s waiting for him. As the radiant bride enters, Daniel realizes she’s the woman he’s just spent the night with. But they secretly keep up their affair, abandoning themselves to their passion. It’s the start of a relentless mechanism where Daniel is the target of a devious blackmailer…Read More »

  • Dan Sallitt – Fourteen (2019)

    2011-2020Dan SallittDramaUSA

    Over the course of a decade, a young woman becomes increasingly dysfunctional due to undiagnosed mental illness, or perhaps to drugs, while her more stable friend sometimes tries to help, sometimes backs away to preserve herself.Read More »

  • Francesco Rosi – Salvatore Giuliano [+Extras] (1962)

    1961-1970DramaFrancesco RosiItaly

    Synopsis
    In 1950, 28-year-old outlaw Salvatore Giuliano is found gunned down in a Sicilian courtyard. Little is as it seems. The film moves back and forth between the late 1940s, when Giuliano and other reprobates were recruited by separatist politicians to do their fighting, and the days leading up to and following Giuliano’s death. After Sicily’s self-rule is declared, will the outlaws be pardoned as promised? And why does Giuliano order his gang to fire on a peaceful May Day rally? Police, Carabinieri, and Mafia have their uses for him. There’s a trial after his death: will the truth come out or does the code of silence help protect those in power? (IMDB)Read More »

  • Joseph Cates – Girl of the Night (1960)

    1951-1960DramaJoseph CatesUSA

    Quote:
    Based on a book by Dr.Harold Greenwald: The Call Girl a Social and Psychoanalytic Study. This film tells the story of a girl (Anne Francis) who becomes a high priced call girl. She is exploited by her madam (Kay Medford) until she finds a tough yet caring therapist (Lloyd Nolan) and straightens herself outRead More »

  • Pierre Granier-Deferre – Le toubib AKA The Medic (1979)

    1971-1980DramaFrancePierre Granier-DeferreWar

    Synopsis:
    An unknown future. WWIII extends. Jean-Marie Despres, a prestigious surgeon, broken by life and his divorce supervises a field hospital, a few kilometers from the front. He meets the young and beautiful nurse Harmony. She is an idealist, she gives him hope.Read More »

  • Charles Frend – The Cruel Sea (1953)

    1951-1960Charles FrendDramaUnited KingdomWar

    At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officerRead More »

  • Branko Marjanovic – Zastava AKA The Flag (1949)

    1941-1950Branko MarjanovicDramaWarYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under Tito

    Early Yugoslavian cinema and very rare WW II partisan movie, produced by Jadran film, Zagreb.
    Interesting and good movie describing the destiny of many artists, writers and intellectuals in Croatia who joined partisans in WW II.

    Plot:
    Story about famous ballet dancer Maria who was horrified by the terror of ustasha regime, and joined the partisans…Read More »

  • Aleksandr Proshkin – Mikhaylo Lomonosov (1986)

    Drama1981-1990Aleksandr ProshkinEpicUSSR
    kinopoisk.ru

    The strength of mind of Mikhailo Lomonosov was comparable only to that of the Russian Spirit itself. An amazing mixture of natural (rather than ancestral) nobility, overwhelming intellect, sense of the beauty, humour, kind heart, and a total dedication, self sacrifice to the most deserving ideals, would make any true Russian, including Peter the Great, the most proud for the land that gave birth to this unimaginably capable human being. And the film brings out this point to you, not only using great talent of the inspired actors and director, but also by quoting historical facts and documents, and precisely reproducing events, scenes and even emotions. Read More »

  • Jim O’Brien & Christopher Morahan – The Jewel in the Crown (1984)

    1981-1990Christopher MorahanDramaJim O'BrienTVUnited Kingdom

    The Jewel in the Crown (1984) is a British television serial about the final days of the British Raj in India during World War II, based upon the Raj Quartet novels by Paul Scott.
    Granada Television produced it for the ITV network.Read More »

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