1975; 1h 31m
This drama explores the grim lives of Turkish “guest workers” living in Germany.
Director: Sohrab Shahid Saless
Writers: Helga Houzer; Sohrab Shahid Saless
Stars: Parviz Sayyad; Cihan Anasai; Muhammet Temizkan
Category Archives: Drama
FAR FROM HOME (Dar Ghorbat)
CLIKA
2026; R; 1h 22m
A small town musician pushes to carve out a place for himself in the new wave of Mexican-American music after a clip of him performing one of his songs goes viral.
Director: Michael Greene
Writers: Michael Greene, Sean McBride, Ski-ter Jones
Stars: Jay Dee, Daniel ‘Doknow’ Lopez, Uziel Pantoja Delgado
AMERICAN SWEATSHOP
2025; Not Rated; 1h 34m
A look at the toll of social media through the eyes of Daisy Moriarty, who while dealing with a chaotic personal life, finds herself sucked into the underbelly of the internet.
Director: Uta Briesewitz
Writer: Matthew Nemeth
Stars: Lili Reinhart, Daniela Melchior, Jeremy Ang Jones
MAX BISHOP
2021; 16+
An out of work hitman finds employment as a janitor at another local elementary school.
Director: Jack Beranek
Writer: Jack Beranek
Stars : Chris Charais, Iris Seifert, Katie Troske
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TRAIN DREAMS
2025; PG-13; 1h 42m
Based on Denis Johnson’s beloved novella, Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly-changing America of the early 20th Century.
Director: Clint Bentley
Writers: Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar, Denis Johnson
Stars: Joel Edgerton, Clifton Collins Jr., Felicity Jones
NYTimes: ‘Train Dreams’ Review: Life, Understood in Reverse
Rolling Papers (Pikad Paberid)
2024; 1h 38m
Director: Meel Paliale
Writers: Meel PalialeUrmet Piiling Stars: Mihkel Kuusk; Karl Birnbaum; Edgar Vunsh
A portrait of European youth as they navigate life in their twenties, grappling with uncertainty and searching for purpose.
The Souffler
2025; 1h 18m
DIR Gaston Solnicki
Writers: Julia Niemann, Guido Segal, Gastón Solnicki Stars: Stéphanie Argerich, Camille Clair, Willem Dafoe
Lucius Glantz, a veteran hotel manager in Vienna, fights to save his beloved establishment from a scheming realtor’s plan to demolish it, leading to a clash of wills that even affects the hotel’s renowned soufflé recipe.
NO OTHER CHOICE
2025 * R * 2h 19m
Director: Park Chan-wook
Writers: Donald E. Westlake; Park Chan-wook; Lee Kyoung-mi
Stars: Lee Byung-hun; Son Ye-jin; Woo Seung Kim
After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.
The Spook Who Sat By the Door (1973)
1973 action crime–drama film based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Sam Greenlee (which was first published in the United Kingdom by Allison and Busby after being rejected by American publishers). It is both a satire of the civil rights struggle in the United States of the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of Black militancy. Dan Freeman, the titular protagonist, is enlisted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in its elitist espionage program, becoming its token Black person. After mastering agency tactics, however, he becomes disillusioned and drops out to train young Black people in Chicago to become “Freedom Fighters”. As a story of one man’s reaction to white ruling-class hypocrisy, the film is loosely autobiographical and personal.
The novel and the film also dramatize the CIA’s history of giving training to persons and/or groups who later utilize their specialized intelligence training against the agency – an example of “blowback.”
Directed by Ivan Dixon, co-produced by Dixon and Greenlee, from a screenplay written by Greenlee with Mel Clay, the film starred Lawrence Cook, Paula Kelly, Janet League, J. A. Preston, and David Lemieux. It was mostly shot in Gary, Indiana, because the themes of racial strife did not please Chicago’s then-mayor Richard J. Daley. The soundtrack was an original score composed by Herbie Hancock, who grew up in the same neighborhood as Greenlee.
In 2012, the film was added to the National Film Registry, which annually chooses 25 films that are “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”.
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