106m; Turkey
Director: Muharrem Gulmez & Sirri Sureyya Onder
Cast: Cezmi Baskin, Özgü Namal and Umut Kurt
Synopsis: One of the most popular films in Turkey about military rule and resistance.
Category Archives: Drama
Intolerance (1916)
163m; U.S.
Director: D.W. Griffith
Synopsis (IMDB): The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Iron Maze (1991)
104m; U.S.
Director: Hiroaki Yoshida
Cast: Jeff Fahey, Bridget Fonda and Hiroaki Murakami
Synopsis (IMDB): In Corinth, a dying town 15 miles from Pittsburg: One evening, a Japanese businessman, who wanted to tear down the closed iron mills to build an amusement park, is found half dead in his mill. Bellboy Barry admits to have done it – in self defense. Chief Ruhle interrogates him and Sugito’s young wife and business partners, but it takes a while, until he gets through the maze of apparently contradictory statements.
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
118m; U.S.
Director: John Ford
Cast: Maureen O”Hara, Roddy McDowall, Walter Pidgeon
Synopsis: Huw Morgan, an old man who has decided to leave his Welch valley forever, tells his story. Huw is the youngest in a family of 6 brothers and 1 sister and the film centers on his struggle toward manhood amid conflicting demands of faith, economics, education and family loyalty. Set in a Welsh mining community at the beginning of the 20th century, based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn. Welsh choral music and quaint patterns of speech are nice period details.
Huacho (2009)
89m; Chile/France/Germany
Director: Alejandro Fernández Almendras
Cast: Alejandra Yañez, Manuel Hernández and Cornelio Villagrán
Synopsis: Chronicles the life of a hard-working peasant family – grandparents Clemira (Clemira Aguayo) and Cornelio (Cornelio Villagrán), their daughter Alejandra (Alejandra Yáñez) and her pre-teen son, Manuel (Manuel Hernández) – Almendras paints an evocative picture of the many hardships experienced by millions of rural Chileans
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Hungry Hill (1947)
92m; U.S.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price and Cecil Parker
Synopsis (IMDB): Story of a feud that has gone on between two Irish families for more than 50 years.
Hyenas (1992)
110m; Senegal
Director: Djibril Diop Mambéty
Cast: Ami Diakhate, Djibril Diop Mambéty and Mansour Diouf
Synopsis: A once-prosperous Senegalese village has been falling further into poverty year by year until the village’s elders are reduced to selling town possessions to pay debts. Linguère, a former resident and local beauty, now very rich, returns to this, the village of her birth. The elders hope that she will be a benefactor to the village. To encourage her generosity, they appoint a local grocer, Dramaan, as mayor–who once courted her and will now try to persuade her to help. In fact, Linguère has returned with the intention of sharing her millions with the village but only in return for an unexpected action. This plot twist brings human folly and cynicism into sharp focus.
Goodbye Solo (2008)
91m; Belguim
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Cast: Souleymane Sy Savane, Red West and Diana Franco Galindo
Synopsis: Story of Solo, a kindhearted and friendly 34-year-old Senegalese taxi driver in North Carolina, who is hired by William, a tough 70-year-old white southerner, to drive him to a mountaintop from which William plans to jump to his death.
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
96m; U.S.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Warren William, Joan Blondell and Aline MacMahon
Synopsis (IMDB): Millionaire turned composer Dick Powell rescues unemployed Broadway people with a new play.
Going Private (Nachbeben) [2006]
98m
Director: Stina Werenfels
Cast: Michael Neuenschwander, Susanne-Marie Wrage, Bettina Stucky, Georg Scharegg
Synopsis (IMDB): Investment banker HP has allegedly ridden out the crash of the stock exchange. One evening, on a barbecue event with his banker friends and their wives, HP’s Danish au pair girl threatens to blow the whistle on her love affair with HP’s married boss. HP wants to please everybody but what was set out to be a gathering amongst friends spins out of control into a night of blackmail and intrigue.
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