97m; U.S.
Director: Julie Dash
Cast: Angela Bassett, Peter Francis James and Tonea Stewart
Synopsis: Film biography of civil rights heroine Rosa Parks.
Category Archives: Drama
Rosetta (1999)
92m; Belguim
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
Cast: Émilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione and Anne Yernaux
Synopsis: Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job. Set in Belgium. Both film and actress won major prizes in Cannes.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
89m; U.K.
Director: Karel Reisz
Cast: Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field and Rachel Roberts
Synopsis (IMDB): Arthur, one of Britain’s angry young men of the 1960s, is a hardworking factory worker who slaves all week at his mindless job for his modest wages. Come Saturday night, he’s off to the pub for a loud and rowdy beer session. With him is Brenda, his girlfriend of the moment. Married to a fellow worker, she is nonetheless captivated by his rugged good looks and his devil-may-care attitude. Soon a new love interest Doreen enters and a week later, Brenda announces she’s pregnant. She tells Arthur she needs money for an abortion, and Arthur promises to pay for it. By this time, his relationship with Doreen has ripened and Brenda, hearing of it, confronts him. He denies everything, but it’s obvious that their affair is all but over.
Saturday’s Children (1940)
102m; U.S.
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: John Garfield, Anne Shirley and Claude Rains
Synopsis (IMDB): Pretty Bobby Halevy loves Rims Rosson, a dreamer and inventor without much going for him. Rims has a scheme of going to Manila to turn hemp into silk and become rich. But when one of her family talks Bobby into tricking Rims into marriage, the real world comes crashing down on the couple
The Scar (1976)
112m; Poland
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cast: Franciszek Pieczka, Mariusz Dmochowski and Jerzy Stuhr
Synopsis (IMDB): 1970. After discussions and dishonest negotiations, a decision is taken as to where a large new chemical factory is to be built and Bednarz, an honest Party man, is put in charge of the construction. He used to live in the small town where the factory is to be built, his wife used to be a Party activist there, and he has unpleasant memories of it. But he sets to the task in the belief that he will build a place where people will live and work well. His intentions and convictions, however, conflict with those of the townspeople who are primarily concerned with their short-term needs. Disillusioned, Bednarz gives up his post.
The Scavengers (2007)
69m; Turkey
Director: Karahber
Synopsis: Kurdish migrants collect paper to sell for recycling to survive.
Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989)
102m; U.S.
Director: Uli Edel
Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang and Burt Young
Synopsis (IMDB): Taken from Hubert Selby, Jr.’s controversial novel. A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.
The Last Laugh (Der Letzte Mann) [1924]
77m; Germany
Director: F.W. Murnau
Cast: Emil Jannings
Synopsis: An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbors and society.
The Last Supper (La última cena) [1976]
120m; Cuba
Director: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Cast: Nelson Villagra, Silvano Rey and Luis Alberto García
Synopsis (IMDB): A pious plantation owner attempts to teach Christianity to 12 of his slaves by inviting them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper.
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