Posts Tagged ‘Drama’

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Sep19

Condemned! / Condemned to Devil’s Island (1929) DVD5

by movieworld on September 19th, 2018 at 17:43
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Condemned 1929
This is quite simply a love story, set on Devil’s Island, the notorious prison camp that was part of the French penal colony in French Guiana from 1852-1938.

One of prisoners is Michel (Ronald Colman in just his second talkie), a suave, debonair professional thief and attempted bank robber. The Warden, Jean Vidal (a blustering Dudley Digges), arranges for Michel to work as a servant in his home to lighten the load on his much younger wife (Ann Harding). Bad move. Michel is everything that Vidal is not, and soon all the townswomen are gossiping about Madame Vidal and the inmate...

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:25:36 | 4.07 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Drama

Director: Wesley Ruggles
Cast: Ronald Colman, Ann Harding, Dudley Digges
Country: USA
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Sep19

Das Madchen Johanna / Joan of Arc / Joan the Maid (1935) DVD5

by movieworld on September 19th, 2018 at 16:41
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama, History

Das Madchen Johanna 1935
The story of Joan of Arc has been filmed so often that it need not be repeated here. This 1935 version a very effective film which focuses much more on the intrigues of the men around Joan than on the girl herself, who gets surprisingly little screentime. Heinrich George's Duke of Burgundy is almost a buffo character in his arrogance and lecherousness. And Jeanne in her naivity admires the king and doesn't see through his Machiavellian schemes which in the end lead to her death.

"Das Madchen Johanna" was intended at least partly as a Third Reich propaganda film which shows both the French and the English as morally corrupt and conversely at least implicitly turns the Maid into a national 'leader' figure, German style.

DVD5 | PAL 4:3 | 01:17:39 | 3.99 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch
Subtitles: English
Genre: Biography, Drama, History

Director: Gustav Ucicky
Cast: Angela Salloker, Gustaf Grundgens, Heinrich George
Country: Germany
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Sep19

Cromwell (1970) DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on September 19th, 2018 at 16:31
Posted In: .Other movies, Biography, Drama, History, War

Cromwell 1970
England has long been known for its epic films especially those involving well, English things.

"Cromwell" is an excellent historical spectacle movie, the kind of lavishly mounted picture that film observers keep saying are gone forever because of the high costs of making them.

Having grown tired of seeing the country he loves destroyed by the whims and policies of King Charles I (Alec Guinness), Oliver Cromwell (Richard Harris) is planning on leaving the country with his family for the New World. But Cromwell's mind is changed and decides to stay behind to mount a campaign against the monarchy and those who care more for their own pocket and glory than for the commoner. As Cromwell's campaign gains speed it leads to King Charles I to rise up from his security to tackle the challenge to his position...

Director: Ken Hughes
Cast: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin, Frank Finlay, Timothy Dalton, Patrick Wymark, Patrick Magee, Nigel Stock, Charles Gray, Michael Jayston
Country: UK, USA
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
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Sep19

Come and See / Viens et vois / Idi i smotri / Иди и смотри (1985) 2 x DVD9 RUSCICO, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on September 19th, 2018 at 16:18
Posted In: .Russian movies, Drama, History, War

Come and See / Viens et vois / Idi i smotri / Иди и смотри (1985) 2 x DVD9 RUSCICO
A feature by Elem Klimov made from the script by Ales Adamovich. It was released in 1985 and ranks among the most horrifying war films. It's not only about the war of 1941-1945 exactly, but about any war, its devastating force sweeping away the natural course of things. The film is based upon documental facts and "The Khatyn Story" by Ales Adamovich. The authors describe the place and events which became a symbol of national tragedy.

The hero of the film is Flyora, a sixteen-year-old boy that turned to the woods to help the partisans. At the beginning he is just a kid. Then he lives through the horror of the Nazi executions and becomes amazingly grown-up, and even old. The war had distorted the once tender childish facial features - it's all wrinkles now. The altered face of Flyora is the face of War. The authors were so true-to-life, uncompromising and austere as to portray in the centre of the film not some grown-up man, but an unexperienced kid with his childhood still here.

Director: Elem Klimov
Cast: Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Lauciavicius, Vladas Bagdonas
Country: Soviet Union
Genre: Drama, History, War
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Sep19

Daniel Boone: A True American Legend: Daniel Boone (1936), Battles of Chief Pontiac (1952), Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory (1952), Sitting Bull (1954), Cry Blood, Apache (1970) DVD9

by movieworld on September 19th, 2018 at 15:59
Posted In: .Other movies, Adventure, Drama, History, War, Western

Daniel Boone A True American Legend
Daniel Boone:
In 1775, thirty settlers with their wives and children join an expedition under the courageous leadership of Daniel Boone (George O'Brien) to leave North Carolina and cross the mountains into Kain-tu-kee. The hardships of travel, accidents, and weather are expected. But since a Peace Treaty with the tribes has been signed, they are unaware of the danger they face from a ferocious white renegade named Simon Girty (John Carradine) who opposes settlement, or that one member of their own party is a cowardly land swindler.

DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 06:38:52 | 7.60 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Western, War

Director: David Howard
Cast: George O'Brien, Heather Angel, John Carradine
Country: USA
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Sep18

Conquest of Space (1955) DVD5 and Blu-Ray

by movieworld on September 18th, 2018 at 15:49
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Conquest of Space 1955
In the not-too-distant future, the combined forces of Earth’s best and brightest (most of whom speak English, and with a couple exceptions, are hella white) have built the Wheel, an orbiting space station with internal gravity, and a dedicated, slightly nutty crew. Walter Brooke rules over his men with an iron fist, driving them toward one goal: the construction of a spacecraft that will take mankind to the Moon. To this aim, he and the Supreme International Space Authority have selected a group of brilliant technicians and scientists to put together and presumably pilot a ship to the stars.
When a crew member dies en route, the commander becomes a religious fanatic and tries to sabotage the expedition...

BD25 + DVD5 | 1080p AVC, PAL | 01:20:32 | 22.5 Gb + 4.28 Gb
Language: English, Deutsch
Subtitles: none
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Director: Byron Haskin
Cast: Walter Brooke, Eric Fleming, Mickey Shaughnessy
Country: USA
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Sep18

The Curtis Harrington Short Film Collection: Fragment of Seeking (1946), Picnic (1948), On the Edge (1949), The Assignation (1953), The Wormwood Star (1956), Usher (2002), The Four Elements (1966), The Fall of the House of Usher (1942) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Flicker Alley

by movieworld on September 18th, 2018 at 15:35
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary, Drama, Horror

The Curtis Harrington Short Film Collection
Curtis Harrington had one of the oddest careers in Hollywood history, beginning as an avant-garde filmmaker in the 1940s and 1950s, then migrating to low-budget thrillers in the 1960s and 1970s, then becoming a go-to director for trashy TV series like Charlie’s Angels and Dynasty.

But a little treasure trove of Curtis Harrington's dreamlike, lush, sexually ambiguous, and death-obsessed short films remains, the newly restored versions of which have now been carefully compiled for this new Blu-ray release, and they are a revelation. In the five shorts that he made between 1946 and 1955, Harrington, using more imagination and inspiration than material resources, used the magical medium of cinema to inscribe his wordless visions of the ineffable exaltations and horrors of sex and death, longing, and perpetually mutable identity onto celluloid in a way more famously associated with Luis Bunuel or David Lynch; in some ways, in the chronological aesthetic lineage of cinema, he's the long-missing link between the two.

BD25 + DVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 124 minutes | 21.8 Gb + 7.49 Gb
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Experimental, Drama, Short, Horror, Documentary

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Sep18

Christopher Strong (1933) DVD5

by movieworld on September 18th, 2018 at 15:33
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Romance

Christopher Strong 1933
Hepburn is Lady Cynthia Darrington, a high-spirited Amelia Earhart aviatrix-type who is so busy piloting that she has no time for men and is still a virgin. In a 1930s "cute-meet" she is introduced to Colin Clive, a happily married man who has never cheated on his wife. His life has been deeply colored by his political career and he has had no time for dallying, not that he'd want to. Then he meets Hepburn and the die is cast. Passion flames across the screen, and they are inextricably drawn to each other. They both know it's wrong and that many lives will be affected, but they can't stop their magnetism...

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:17:32 | 4.24 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Dorothy Arzner
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Colin Clive, Billie Burke, Helen Chandler, Ralph Forbes, Irene Browne, Jack La Rue
Country: USA
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Sep18

I poli ton paidion / The City of Children (2011) DVD5

by movieworld on September 18th, 2018 at 15:04
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

I poli ton paidion 2011
A day-in-the-life of four pregnant couples in modern Athens, but with stories that differ drastically to the usual ones of hope and joy. One couple deals with a marital crisis, while another reconsiders a premature pregnancy while looking down the barrel of a mad man's gun. The draining realities of IVF unite and then tear apart two women who have shared the same man. An Iraqi immigrant, alone in her apartment, gives birth with the assistance of her stalker/next door neighbour. The stories unfold within a day and collide in a violent and fatal incident.

DVD5 | PAL 16:9 | 01:36:51 | 4.36 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Greek
Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama

Director: Yorgos Gkikapeppas
Cast: Kika Georgiou, Giorgos Ziovas, Vassilis Bisbikis, Anna Kalaitzidou
Country: Greece
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Sep18

Cosmos (2015) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Arrow Academy

by movieworld on September 18th, 2018 at 13:06
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Cosmos 2015
Watching an Andrzej Zulawski film can be quite an adventure. Before his sudden death earlier last year on the eve of the New York Film Festival premier of Cosmos, Zulawski’s career spanned five decades…. a career that resulted in 13 highly idiosyncratic and propulsive features that not only quite often enraged the censors of his native Poland and got him banned from working there, but endeared him to the hearts of cult film purists around the world.

Cosmos, the final film by Polish filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski, is a dizzying, head-scratching journey into some sort of comic, existential nightmare. Adapted by Zulawski from the 1965 novel by author Witold Gombrowicz, the film takes the basic story and characters from the source material and transports them to the present day, along with an injection of cinematic playfulness that could not have existed in print. The finished product is a heady blast of strange behavior, witty dialogue, and heavy examination of sexual, violent, and angry expression that flies at the viewer without pausing to let them collect their thoughts.

The film follows two young men, Witold (Jonathan Genet) and Fuchs (Johan Libereau), who are looking for a place to stay while Witold studies for a law exam he previously flunked. They settle on a tiny inn run by Madame Woytis (Sabine Azema) and her husband Leon (Jean-Francois Balmer). Although both Madame Woytis and Leon are wild eccentrics, Witold and Fuchs' stay would likely have been uneventful were it not for Madame's daughter, Lena (Victoria Guerra), whose beauty and attitude set off something in Witold's brain the moment he lays eyes on her. Between Lena and the disturbing sight of a sparrow, hanging from the neck like a lynched human, on a wire outside the building, Witold starts straying from his exam and into a state of perpetual emotional torture.
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