Movie List for "drama 2"

An engineer from Tokyo arrives on a drought-ridden tropical island to drill a well to power a nearby sugar mill. He meets the inbred Futori family, hated by the locals for breaking religious customs. Year 1968.

An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio’s “Decameron”. Year 1971.

In Egypt, a group of university students were arrested without comitting a crime because of their meetings at the cafe “Karnak”, which was known for hosting some thinkers who sometimes criticize the 1952 revolution. Year 1975.

A young mute woman is raped and becomes pregnant, with disastrous consequences within her family. The film also sketches the social/economic situation in urban Mali in the 1970s, particularly in relation to the treatment of women. Year 1975.

During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress. Year 1937.

A beautiful, ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises. Year 1950.

Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup. Year 1980.

A television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her. Year 1988.

A blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model. Year 1969.

A group of woman in an African village finds a mystical mask. Using the mask, they reverse gender roles, women act like men, and men act like women. Year 1997.

After his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true and which one is bastard. Year 1998.

In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar. Year 1980.

Albert is smitten for Pola but ends up wrongly committed in jail, in the meantime her affections are sought after by his friend, and on his release both love and friendship must be tested. Year 1930.

A bunch of scoundrels and members of the Spanish youth, who until now have not paid attention more than in the police stations. They are a group of friends who survive as they can in the suburbs of Madrid. Year 1960.

A silent homage to the origins of cinema, recreating the apparent disappearance of a French photographer in the 1920s. Experimental. Year 1997.

A sympathetic portrayal of the suffering of a deaf couple at the hands of a shell shocked postwar society that treats them like wayward children to be at turns pitied or exploited. Year 1961.