Posts Tagged ‘Drama’

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Apr09

The Story of Temple Drake (1933) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on April 9th, 2020 at 12:03
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

The Story of Temple Drake 1933
The most notorious pre-Code shocker comes to Criterion — and proves to be a superior drama with an entirely mature, sound outlook on the political issues around women’s sexuality and personal freedom.

The film is based on a William Faulkner story, and you can definitely see his Southern Gothic style and themes coming through. Temple Drake (Miriam Hopkins) is the flirtatious granddaughter of a well-respected judge. She flits from boy to boy, teasing and going further than a respectable woman of the time should, but not as far as the boys would like. She’s loved by the upstanding Stephen, a young lawyer who she refuses to marry. One night as she’s out with another boy, their car crashes and they’re intercepted by a rough family of bootleggers – a family with men who take what they want and won’t put up with Temple’s “no” the way the boys she’s used to do. This is a world where she’s not in control, and sex is a weapon wielded by men, not a game played by women...

Director: Stephen Roberts
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, William Gargan, Jack La Rue
Country: USA
Genre: Drama

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Apr09

Q / Desire (2011) DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on April 9th, 2020 at 10:44
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Romance

Q.2011
The lives of several people will be turned upside down by their encounter with Cecile, a child-woman, object of desire who exercises her freedom to choose. Provocative and extroverted, Cecile assumes a liberated sexual life, transgressing social norms and breaking taboos. Her behavior forces others to reveal themselves.

Through the language of feelings and the body, the film presents a tableau of young French people who question their intimate relationships. It is also a call to freedom that refuses the conformism and superficiality of today.

Director: Laurent Bouhnik
Actors: Deborah Revy, Helene Zimmer, Gowan Didi, Johnny Amaro, Johan Libereau, Jean-Francois Gallotte, Brice Fournier
Country: France, Spain
Genre: Drama, Romance, Erotica
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Apr09

Il cavaliere misterioso / The Mysterious Rider / The Mysterious Cavalier (1948) DVD5

by movieworld on April 9th, 2020 at 09:28
Posted In: .Other movies, Action, Adventure, Drama

Il cavaliere misterioso 1948
If you can imagine a James Bond movie dolled up in sumptuous 18th-century garb - with moody black-and-white camerawork, Baroque direction and a witty script - you may get some idea of what a rich and rare treat awaits anyone who can track down this long-neglected Riccardo Freda gem.

The film is in no way based on Casanova's memoirs, but only takes his character and uses him in a pure action-adventure realm of 18th century Italy and Russia.
The story is simple: Casanova's brother is imprisoned in 18th century Venice under false accusations and our hero is the only one who can or want to help him to get out. In order to do that he has to find and bring back a compromising letter that was recently stolen from an important government official and is on its way to Russia in order to be delivered to Catherine II the Great personally who is supposed to make its content public. Casanova embarks on a perilous journey to Russia following the letter's trail and striving for adventures that are undoubtedly awaiting him ahead.

Director: Riccardo Freda
Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Maria Mercader, Yvonne Sanson
Country: Italy
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama

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Apr07

L’argent / Money (1928) Blu-Ray Flicker Alley, 2 x DVD9 Eureka – Masters of Cinema

by movieworld on April 7th, 2020 at 13:18
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Romance

L'argent 1928
Marcel L'Herbier is a key figure of 1920s French cinema and his modernization of Emile Zola's novel, L'Argent, released in 1929 on the eve of the sound revolution, is his most ambitious work. The scope of the film is inspired by Abel Gance's Napoleon , but rather than talk of heroes, L'Herbier has chosen to attack what he hated most, the power of money. Though he took Zola's novel as his starting point, he retained little beyond the title and the outline of the plot. The film's action is transferred to the 1920s and unfolds within opulent, over-sized sets built by Lazare Meerson and Andre Barsacq.

The plot of L'argent (Money) follows a pair of rival bankers/tycoons as they wrangle, one to save his bank from impending collapse by creating a new business in the colonies out of a publicity stunt; the other in his attempts to ruin his rival by secretly buying shares in his bank to use, later, as a weapon. Both men are devious, but each has a weak point when it comes to sexual relations with women.

This is a masterpiece, one of the best French films in the period before Jean Renoir would come along and rewrite all the rules.

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Apr07

Jean Harlow 100th Anniversary Collection: Bombshell (1933), The Girl from Missouri (1934), Reckless (1935), Riffraff (1936), Suzy (1936), Personal Property (1937), Saratoga (1937) 7 x DVD5

by movieworld on April 7th, 2020 at 11:15
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Jean Harlow 100th Anniversary Collection
Jean Harlow, platinum blonde goddess of the silver screen, must have been exactly the kind of movie star that the early '30s needed.

A true trend-setter, the first “Platinum Blonde” provided the template for an archetype that stretches from one century into the next - to Marilyn to Madonna to Gwen Stefani and beyond. She was earthy and sexy, just a little bit naughty but also possessing a sense of humor and a need for acceptance that most everyone can identify with - then and now. True film buffs owe it to themselves to celebrate, discover, or rediscover her achievements as an actor.

This set shows off Harlow's warmth, humor, and versatility in a variety of roles that reflect MGM's often ill-advised attempts to update or modify the lady's image. The movies in this set pair off Harlow with some of the biggest leading men of that time - Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Cary Grant, William Powell, Robert Taylor and Franchot Tone (four times!). Still, these are leading lady vehicles through and through. For Harlow fans, it's a treat.

7 x DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 629 min | 29.1 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

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Apr06

Clarissa (1991) 2 x DVD9

by movieworld on April 6th, 2020 at 14:52
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, History, Romance

Clarissa 1991
The pure and virtuous Clarissa Harlowe (Saskia Wickham) is heir to a sizeable fortune due to her good and generous nature, but this is something she does not want. She is content to live a modest life as long as she has her letters, books and independance. Despite this, her devious siblings feel that Clarissa should be put in her place and they coerce their father to entrap Clarissa in an engagement with an odious man she does not want and take away what few pleasures she has. Finding solace in Robert Lovelace (Sean Bean), the man who helps her escape her fate, Clarissa sees her world about to cave in once again when the nefarious Lovelace makes it clear that he has designs on her himself.

2xDVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 201 min | 11.8 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none

Director: Robert Bierman
Cast: Sean Bean, Saskia Wickham, Jonny Phillips
Country: UK
Genre: Drama, History
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Apr06

Absolute Giganten / Absolute Giants / Gigantic (1999) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on April 6th, 2020 at 13:52
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama

Gigantic 1999
A view of Hamburg’s port area shrouded in a grey morning mist. Container ships drift by, we see an old Ford Granada and Floyd, Ricco and Walter. Above them, the following headline is visible: "Friendships are like desires: crazy, big, absolutely gigantic. And once they’ve got you, they don’t let go. Some of them never do." These elements from the film Absolute Giants have helped build the modern image of the city of Hamburg. This is the story of three friends who spend their last night together before one of them has to leave the city and his youth behind. For these three friends, the rituals, trust and carefree happiness of teenage years are fading away. But instead of getting lost in a navel-gazing melancholy, the three go out into the night to make it last as long as possible before morning comes.
"Absolute Giants doesn’t rely on the trope of the tragic loser we see in recent depressing German films about doomed figures or wanderers of the night. The die is not yet cast on whether Floyd, Ricco and Walter are losers and if they win the lottery of life." (Der Spiegel)

Director: Sebastian Schipper
Cast: Frank Giering, Florian Lukas, Antoine Monot Jr.
Country: Germany
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Apr05

Tunes of Glory (1960) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on April 5th, 2020 at 17:27
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Tunes of Glory 1960
One of the all-time great British films, Tunes of Glory (1960) is also the best directed by Ronald Neame, whose remarkable career spans nearly the entire history of British cinema.

The film is set at an unnamed Highland regiment, where its gregarious, popular acting commander, Major Jock Sinclair (Alec Guinness) is replaced with a martinet, a humorless teetotaler, Lt. Colonel Barrow (John Mills). The Oxford-educated Barrow, who places discipline ahead of tradition, clashes with his officers almost at once. Sinclair, lacking a formal education, earned his commission the hard way, and the men of the battalion see him as one of their own.

Based on the novel by James Kennaway and featuring flawless performances by Guinness and Mills, Tunes of Glory uses the rigid stratification of military life to comment on the institutional contradictions and class hierarchies of English society, making for an unexpectedly moving drama.

Director: Ronald Neame
Cast: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Susannah York
Country: UK
Genre: Drama

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Apr05

Wege im Zwielicht / Paths in Twilight / Way in the twilight (1948) DVD9

by movieworld on April 5th, 2020 at 14:30
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Wege im Zwielicht / Paths in Twilight / Way in the twilight (1948) DVD9
Three young war veterans get involved in a murder on the black market in Hanover and fled to the countryside. Only in the village of Mayor Luke they find refuge. Luke takes care of the young men and offers them the opportunity to prove themselves useful by letting them build the much needed bridge for the village.

Way in the twilight is a German drama from 1948. It's about the controversial topic of homelessness and rootlessness in the hard times of postwar Germany. Not only the economic hardship is identified, and the personal stories - the mental deficits of the people, the question of guilt - can be accommodated. This begs the question: How far is how far it can be ordered by the morality in a country shortly after the defeat at the end of a long war?

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 01:21:54 | 6.84 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch
Subtitles: English, Deutsch
Genre: Drama

Director: Gustav Frohlich
Actors: Gustav Frohlich, Johanna Lepski, Sonja Ziemann, Benno Sterzenbach, Gerd E. Schafer, Alfred Laufhutte
Country: Germany
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Apr04

Salvatore Giuliano (1962) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Arrow Academy

by movieworld on April 4th, 2020 at 17:11
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama, History, Mystery

Salvatore Giuliano 1962
5 July 1950. Salvatore Giuliano, Italy's most wanted criminal, is found shot dead in a dusty courtyard. Who killed him, and why? And who was he?

Filming in the exact locations and enlisting a cast of native Sicilians once impacted by the real Giuliano, director Francesco Rosi harnessed the facts and myths surrounding the true story of the bandit's death to create a startling expose of Sicily and the tangled relations between its citizens, the Mafia, and government officials.

The film that made Francesco Rosi's international reputation, this Citizen Kane-style investigative portrait was originally called Sicily 1943-60, as Rosi sought not so much to depict Giuliano himself as the society from which he sprang, in which the police, the carabinieri and the Mafia all have strong vested interests.

BD50, DVD9 | 1080p AVC, PAL | 02:03:56 | 43.5 Gb + 7.85 Gb
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English

Director: Francesco Rosi
Cast: Frank Wolff, Salvo Randone, Frederico Zardi
Country: Italy
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery

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