Category: Drama
Posted on February 16, 2014 |
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Blue Is the Warmest Color / La vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 et 2 (2013)
Drama | Romance
At 15, Adele doesn't question it: a girl goes out with boys. Her life is turned upside down the night she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself…
Starring: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Salim Kechiouche, Jérémie Laheurte
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
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Posted on February 16, 2014 |
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Colette (2013)
Drama | History | Romance | War
Arnost Lustig was one of the world's most renowned literary authors of our times. Lustig's novel 'A girl from Antwerp' upon which our film Colette is based, draws on the author's personal Nazi Concentration Camp experience and his own recollection of several escape attempts from the hell of Auschwitz. The story of The Pulitzer Prize nominee Lustig is about the power of love under an extreme life circumstances. It is a story of young lovers and their vigorous determination to escape from a hopeless life condition and theirs courage to face death.
Starring: Jirí Mádl, Clémence Thioly, Eric Bouwer, Andrej Hryc, Zuzana Mauréry, Ondrej Vetchý
Director: Milan Cieslar
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Posted on February 15, 2014 |
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Cold Comes the Night (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A struggling motel owner and her daughter are taken hostage by a nearly blind career criminal to be his eyes as he attempts to retrieve his cash package from a crooked cop.
Starring: Bryan Cranston, Alice Eve, Logan Marshall-Green
Director: Tze Chun
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Posted on February 15, 2014 |
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Pinky (1949)
Drama
Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, Pinky has fallen in love with a young white doctor, Dr. Thomas Adams, who knows nothing about her black heritage. Pinky says that she will return to the North, but Granny Johnson convinces her to stay and treat an ailing white woman, Miss Em. Meanwhile, Dr. Canady, a black physician from another part of the state, visits Pinky and asks her to train some African American students, but she declines. Pinky nurses Miss Em but is resentful because she seems to feel that she is doing the same thing her grandmother did. Pinky and Miss Em slowly develop a mutual respect for one another. Mrs. Em leaves Pinky her property when she dies, but relatives of the deceased woman contest the new will in court. To raise money for the court fees, Pinky washes clothes by hand with her grandmother. The court rules in Pinky's favor and she keeps the land. Tom wants her to resume her life as a white woman and to marry him, but she refuses. Pinky decides to use the house and land for Miss Em's Clinic and Nursery School.
Starring: Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore, William Lundigan, Ethel Waters, Griff Barnett, Evelyn Varden
Director: Elia Kazan
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Tags: Elia Kazan, Ethel Barrymore, Ethel Waters, Evelyn Varden, Griff Barnett, Jeanne Crain, William Lundigan
Posted on February 14, 2014 |
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Shameless (2011- )
Comedy | Drama
An alcoholic man lives in a perpetual stupor while his six children with whom he lives cope as best they can.
Starring: William H. Macy, Emmy Rossum, Justin Chatwin, Ethan Cutkosky, Shanola Hampton, Steve Howey, Emma Kenney, Cameron Monaghan, Jeremy Allen White, Joan Cusack, Laura Wiggins, Zach McGowan, Emma Greenwell, Michael Patrick McGill, Noel Fisher
Creator: Paul Abbott
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Tags: Cameron Monaghan, Emma Greenwell, Emma Kenney, Emmy Rossum, Ethan Cutkosky, Jeremy Allen White, Joan Cusack, Justin Chatwin, Laura Wiggins, Michael Patrick McGill, Noel Fisher, Paul Abbott, Shanola Hampton, Steve Howey, William H. Macy, Zach McGowan
Posted on February 14, 2014 |
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Personal Tailor / Si ren ding zhi (2013)
Comedy | Drama
A story centered on a company that grants wishes to people looking for a day away from their ordinary lives.
Starring: You Ge, Baihe Bai, Xiaolu Li, Kai Zheng, Wei Fan, Dandan Song, Chengru Li
Director: Xiaogang Feng
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Tags: Baihe Bai, Chengru Li, Dandan Song, Kai Zheng, Wei Fan, Xiaogang Feng, Xiaolu Li, You Ge
Posted on February 14, 2014 |
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Bawarchi / The Cook (1972)
Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical
Squabbling Sharma family has a dubious reputation of not having any cook last there for more than a few months. Word spreads out about this family to such an extent that no person wants to be employed as a cook in this household, ironically named Shanti Nivas. Then one day a young man named Raghu offers to work as a cook, and he is hired. Raghu quickly gets a grip on his job and on each of the family members, and soon the squabbles and arguments come to an end. And then the Sharmas find the family jewels and Raghu missing.
Starring: Rajesh Khanna, Jaya Bhaduri, Usha Kiran, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, A.K. Hangal, Durga Khote, Asrani, Kali Bannerjee
Director: Hrishikesh Mukherjee
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Tags: A.K. Hangal, Asrani, Durga Khote, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Jaya Bhaduri, Kali Bannerjee, Rajesh Khanna, Usha Kiran
Posted on February 13, 2014 |
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Born This Way / Upon a Midnight Clear (2009)
Animation | Drama | Family | Music
Frost, teen girl on the outside of the "cool" high school clique, struggles to find a way to fit in. When a miracle happens and she is granted three wishes, everything is flipped on its head.
Starring: Leah Gaston, Charles Duran, Silver Renee, Dimitrius Pulido, Devon Sinclair, Richard Dodwell, Russell Minton, Jourdan Gibson, Beth Burroughs
Director: Arik Renee Avila
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Posted on February 13, 2014 |
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Nebraska (2013)
Adventure | Drama
A father and son road trip, from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska that gets waylaid at a small town in central Nebraska, where the father grew up and has scores to settle. Told with deadpan humor and a unique visual style, it's ultimately the story of a son trying to penetrate his impenetrable father.
Starring: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Stacy Keach, Bob Odenkirk, Missy Doty
Director: Alexander Payne
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Posted on February 13, 2014 |
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Juha (1999)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
Starring: Sakari Kuosmanen, Kati Outinen, André Wilms, Markku Peltola, Elina Salo
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
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Posted on February 12, 2014 |
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Afternoon Delight (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Rachel, a lost LA housewife, tries to rescue a stripper named McKenna by taking her in as a live-in nanny.
Starring: Kathryn Hahn, Juno Temple, Josh Radnor, Jane Lynch
Director: Jill Soloway
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Posted on February 12, 2014 |
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This Thing with Sarah (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A free-spirited surf instructor volunteers herself as a strictly sexual – or so she thinks – rebound for a heartbroken, down and out writer.
Starring: Michael Doneger, Amanda Brooks, Wes Chatham, Ryan Honey, Jess Adams, Shannon Lucio
Director: Michael Doneger
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Posted on February 12, 2014 |
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And Then There Was You / Someone to Love (2013)
Drama
Joshua (Leon) and Natalie (Garcelle Beauvais) appear to be the picture-perfect couple, but looks can be deceiving. When Natalie discovers her husband has led a secret life, she is forced to deal with losing everything she loves. While picking up the pieces of her shattered world, the process of healing introduces some new-found obstacles in the form of a new love interest (Brian White). Now, Natalie must test the boundaries of her trust and the capacity of her heart before she can love again. Lynn Whitfield, Greg Vaughn and Trilby Glover costar in this fresh start romance from award-winning director Leila Djansi.
Starring: Leon, Garcelle Beauvais, Brian White, Greg Vaughan, Lynn Whitfield
Director: Leila Djansi
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Posted on February 12, 2014 |
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Pollywogs (2013)
Comedy | Drama
On the heels of a bitter breakup, 30 year old Dylan travels home to Minnesota for a family reunion where he runs into his childhood sweetheart. Having not seen each other for 18 years, since Sarah was taken by her parents to a religious compound, the unexpected encounter brings them back to an intimacy they forgot existed, and reveals what they will become.
Starring: Karl Jacob, Larry Mitchell, Jennifer Prediger, Kate Lyn Sheil, Sophia Takal
Director: T. Arthur Cottam, Karl Jacob
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Posted on February 12, 2014 |
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Out of Love / Par amour (2012)
Drama
In a beginners' acting class Romeo and Juliet is rehearsed. The students and their teacher are, each in their own way, to live love stories as strong as the legendary opus by William Shakespeare. What is one ready to do for love? To bestow roses or to engage in a duel to the death? To go away on vacation for a weekend or to spend three weeks in a jail? To swear fidelity to your loved one or to sleep with the first stranger? Out of love, one is capable of anything. From the best to the worst…
Starring: Valérie Mairesse, Valérie Vogt, Fred Bouraly, Sophie Mounicot
Director: Laurent Firode
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Posted on February 12, 2014 |
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Wolf (2012)
Drama | Family
A family is shaken to the core when they discover that their son has been molested. As they struggle to deal with the betrayal, their son heads towards a total mental collapse because of his love for his abuser.
Starring: Jordan Cooper, Mikala Gibson, Irma P. Hall, Shelton Jolivette, Eugene Lee
Director: Ya'Ke Smith
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Posted on February 12, 2014 |
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Broken (2012)
Drama
An eleven-year-old girl finds herself exposed to the inequities of life in this rite-of-passage drama directed by Rufus Norris. With her mother having left the family home, Skunk (Eloise Lawrence) now lives in suburbia with her kind-hearted father Archie (Tim Roth), her brother Jed (Bill Milner) and Polish au pair Kasia (Zana Marjanovic). In spite of being a diabetic, Skunk refuses to be hamstrung by the disease and always approaches life with a smile on her face. But that all changes when she witnesses a violent attack on her neighbours' simple-minded son Rick (Robert Emms) by fellow neighbour Mr. Oswald (Rory Kinnear), who believes, wrongly, that he has raped one of his daughters.
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Tim Roth, Rory Kinnear, Zana Marjanovic, Robert Emms, Eloise Laurence
Director: Rufus Norris
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Posted on February 11, 2014 |
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Reaching for the Moon / Flores Raras (2013)
Biography | Drama | Romance
Set in 1950s Brazil, this sumptuous drama recounts Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (Miranda Otto, "Lord of the Rings") and her love affair with architect Lota de Macedo Soares, the designer of Rio's famed Flamengo Park. Initial hostilities between the pair make way for a complicated yet long-lasting love affair that dramatically alters Bishop's relationship to the world around her. From Oscar-nominated Brazilian director Bruno Barreto ("Four Days in September"), "Reaching for the Moon" is an intimate snapshot of the search for inspiration, wherever and however you find it.
Starring: Glória Pires, Miranda Otto, Tracy Middendorf, Treat Williams
Director: Bruno Barreto
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Posted on February 11, 2014 |
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Stay (2013)
Drama
A woman finds out she's pregnant and returns home when the expected father wants nothing to do with her.
Starring: Taylor Schilling, Aidan Quinn, Michael Ironside, Brian Gleeson, Carrie Crowley, Barry Keoghan
Director: Wiebke von Carolsfeld
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Posted on February 11, 2014 |
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Anna Nicole (2013)
Drama
In the tradition of Star 80, the true saga of Anna Nicole Smith whose youthful optimistic dreams of fame and fortune turn darkly tragic.
Starring: Agnes Bruckner, Martin Landau, Adam Goldberg, Graham Patrick Martin, Cary Elwes, Virginia Madsen
Director: Mary Harron
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Tags: Adam Goldberg, Agnes Bruckner, Cary Elwes, Graham Patrick Martin, Martin Landau, Mary Harron, Virginia Madsen
