Movie List for "drama 2"

The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society. Year 1980.

The title refers to the common time for bullfights, and the story involves an ambitious young torero on his way up the ladder of success, and an older one on his way down, a bitter view of the popular Spanish spectacle. Year 1960.

A martial artist/doctor steals from the corrupt authorities as a masked thief to give to the poor while another martial artist/doctor is forced to hunt him down. But a major threat unites them as a powerful and traitorous shaolin mon Year 1993.

When three estranged sisters, Gloria, Ana and Lidia, meet up again on the death of their mother, Adela, they find themselves obeying her somewhat eccentric last wishes. Though their mother has spent the last 30 years without uttering Year 1999.

A woman falls in love with a visiting calvary captain, but chooses to suppress it for the sake of her daughter. Year 1968.

“Yahia”, a young man living in the cosmopolitan Alexandria during World War II. Between his dreams, which up to Hollywood, and constraints of his life in the middle class, trying to be a new Hamlet with his uprising dreams wondering Year 1979.

In the Mossi culture, one of the rites attending the birth of a child and its induction as a new member of the community involves the burial of the placenta. The space in which the placenta is buried is called ‘Zan Boko’ – a phrase w Year 1988.

The movie tells the story of a family of comedians that work in the towns of Spain during the 40’s and 50’s. Life gets very tough for them since they cannot compete any longer with cinema. We assist to the end of an era. Year 1986.

In the Italy of WWII, a widow and her lonely daughter seek for distance between them and the horrors of war. Year 1960.

The reign of the tormented Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from 1864 to 1886. Year 1973.

A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime. Year 1970.

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run. Year 1965.

Varlam, the despotic mayor of a small town, dies. After his funeral, his body is repeatedly unearthed and buried again. Through flashbacks and dreamlike scenes, we witness his rise, power and ambiguities. Year 1984.

Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz’s novel follows the escapist, drug-fuelled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life. Year 1971.

Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy’s girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax. Year 1991.

Sergeant Hassan counteraction against the Japanese colonial rule over the Malaya Year 1958.