84m; Uruguay
Director: Adrián Biniez
Cast: Horacio Camandule, Leonor Svarcas and Ignacio Alcuri
Synopsis: A chronicle of a supermarket security guard’s obsession with a late-shift janitor.
Category Archives: Drama
The Given Word (O Pagador de Promessas) [1962]
98m; Brazil
Director: Anselmo Duarte
Synopsis: Brazilian farmer in Northern Brazil carries a huge cross to the church to save his sick donkey. The priest refuses him entry and the working class in the town rally to his support.
Giving Care (2007)
11m;
Director: Clarissa De Los Reyes
Synopsis: When a phone call brings news of her father’s death in the Philippines, a Filipino caregiver working illegally in New York City must make a choice between her duties as the family breadwinner and her desire to go home to grieve her father’s death. “Giving Care” is a story about one of the worst fears of an immigrant far away from home: not being there when a loved one goes.
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
100m; U.S.
Director: James Foley
Cast: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon and Alec Baldwin
Synopsis (IMDB): An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office.
Business as Usual (1987)
89m; Australia
Director: Lezli-An Barrett
Synopsis (IMDB): After seeing her husband fail in fighting a battle to keep his factory open, a manageress loses her job in a disagreement with the manager over sexual harassment of her staff. She accepts the advice of her father and joins his son, a left-wing organizer, and takes her plight to the union.
Counterparts (Gegenuber) [2007]
96m
Director: Jan Bonny
Synopsis (Variety): … a grim, occasionally black comic drama of a middle-age couple locked in a cycle of love and abuse.
Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
78m; U.S.
Director: Michael Curitz
Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Bette Davis and Dorothy Jordan
Synopsis (IMDB): A tenant farmer’s son is caught in the middle of owner-tenant disputes when he falls for the plantation owner’s seductive daughter.
Calixto, The Landlord (No Hay Tierra Sin Dueño) [2003]
107m; Honduras
Director: Sami Kafati
Cast: José Luis López, Saul Toro and Daniel Vasquez
Synopsis (IMDB): The film tells the story of a ruthless landowner who commandeers property (both land and other men’s wives) and leaves a path of human suffering and death in his wake. The film describes an intersecting universe of entrenched power–in which the landowning class, colluding priests, corrupt government officials, violent police, and U.S. businessmen–conspiring to rape the land for their own profit and to suppress the local farmers. In contrast, the working peasants cherish the land as their own and struggle to break free from oppression to build homes and better lives for their families
Cama Adrento (2004)
83m; Argentina
Director: Jorge Gaggero
Synopsis: A wealthy woman and her live-in housekeeper must adjust their entrenched routines and relationship when Buenos Aires is plunged into an economic crisis.
Camera Buff (1979) (aka Amator)
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
117M
Writers: Krzysztof Kieslowski (dialogue), Jerzy Stuhr(dialogue)
Stars: Jerzy Stuhr, Malgorzata Zabkowska and Ewa Pokas
Camera Buff (Polish: Amator, meaning “amateur”) is a 1979 Polish film written and directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski and starring Jerzy Stuhr. The film is about a humble factory worker whose newfound hobby, amateur film, becomes an obsession, and transforms his modest and formerly contented life.[1] Camera Buff won the Polish Film Festival Golden Lion Award and the Moscow International Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize and Golden Prize in 1979, and the Berlin International Film Festival Otto Dibelius Film Award in 1980. (Wikipedia)
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