Posts Tagged ‘melodrama’

Misérables, Les (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Liam Neeson | Geoffrey Rush | Uma Thurman | Claire Danes | Hans Matheson | Reine Brynolfsson | Peter Vaughan | Christopher Adamson | Tim Barlow | Timothy Bateson | David Birkin | Václav Chalupa | Ian Cregg | Ben Crompton | Zdenek David
Directors: Bille August
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Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men’s lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

Feel the Noise (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Omarion Grandberry | Rosa Arredondo | Luis Cruz | Giancarlo Esposito | Victor Rasuk | Melonie Diaz | Charles Duckworth | Carlos Flores | Alexis Isaac Garcia | John Garcia | Zulay Henao | Norman Howell | Shydel James | Jerome Jones | Luis Lozada
Directors: Alejandro Chomski
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After a run-in with local thugs, aspiring Harlem rapper Rob (Omarion Grandberry) flees to a place and father (Giancarlo Esposito) he never knew, and finds his salvation in Reggaeton, a spicy blend of hip-hop, reggae and Latin beats. Puerto Rico, the spiritual home of Reggaeton, inspires Rob and his half-brother Javi (Victor Rasuk) to pursue their dream of becoming Reggaeton stars. Together with a dancer named C.C., they learn what it means to stay true to themselves and each other, while overcoming obstacles in love, greed and pride, all culminating in an explosive performance at New York?s Puerto Rican Day Parade.

Alfie (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jude Law | Renée Taylor | Jane Krakowski | Jeff Harding | Marisa Tomei | Kevin Rahm | Max Morris | Omar Epps | Nia Long | Gedde Watanabe | Jo Yang | Tara Summers | Sam Vincenti | Katherine LaNasa | Claudette Mink
Directors: Charles Shyer
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Alfie is a remake of the 1966 film. In the contemporary film, Alfie is quite the ladies man and rarely gets rejected when it comes to the opposite sex. He successfully has relations with multiple women without a hint of emotional attachment. A major (lifelong) problem arises when he sleeps with the wrong woman, namely his best friend’s (and future business partner) ex-girlfriend. As a result, his life slowly comes into focus and he begins to appreciate the little things he always missed in the opposite sex. A must see for all guys who call themselves “players”.

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Judi Dench | Cate Blanchett | Tom Georgeson | Michael Maloney | Joanna Scanlan | Shaun Parkes | Emma Kennedy | Syreeta Kumar | Andrew Simpson | Philip Davis | Wendy Nottingham | Tameka Empson | Leon Skinner | Bill Nighy | Juno Temple
Directors: Richard Eyre
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Barbara Covett is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care of Portia, her aging cat, and spending countless hours alone. The only means she has found to take the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. When Sheba Hart, a younger, attractive woman, joins the faculty as an art teacher, Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary about her clothing and her care-free manner. Despite her disdain for this woman, Barbara finds herself reaching out to her. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba’s lecturer husband, who is twenty years her senior, and their two children, a sexy and rebellious 16-year-old daughter and a younger boy with Downs Syndrome. Instead of opening herself to these people, Barbara immediately sees them as competition to be beaten in the battle for Sheba’s attention. Later, when Barbara discovers her new friend in a classroom having sex with Steven, a 15-year-old from the school who has artistic talent; she realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Barbara promises to not tell anyone but insists that the affair must end immediately. Sheba says she will but finds herself drawn back to the boy again and again. Sheba seems uneasy with Barbara’s friendship and is appalled when she discovers the older woman might have a sexual interest in her. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara’s cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. She chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined.

Reign Over Me (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Adam Sandler | Don Cheadle | Jada Pinkett Smith | Liv Tyler | Saffron Burrows | Donald Sutherland | Robert Klein | Melinda Dillon | Jonathan Banks | Rae Allen | Paula Newsome | John de Lancie | Paul Butler | Camille LaChe Smith
Directors: Mike Binder
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Alan Johnson has everything he needs to get through life: a good job, a beautiful and loving wife, and their wonderful children. Yet he feels isolated because he finds having a hard-working job and managing a family too much to handle and has no one to talk to about it. Charlie Fineman, on the other hand, doesn’t have a job or a family. He used to have both until he lost his family on the fateful day of 9/11, and the grief he felt caused him to quit his job and isolate himself from everyone around him. As it turns out, Alan and Charlie were roommates in college, and a chance encounter one night rekindles the friendship they shared. They soon feel that their friendship is the one thing that allows them to forget about their problems.

Manderlay (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: Denmark | France | Germany | Netherlands | Sweden | UK
Actors: Bryce Dallas Howard | Isaach De Bankolé | Danny Glover | Willem Dafoe | Michaël Abiteboul | Lauren Bacall | Jean-Marc Barr | Geoffrey Bateman | Virgile Bramly | Ruben Brinkmann | Doña Croll | Jeremy Davies | Llewella Gideon | Mona Hammond | Ginny Holder
Directors: Lars von Trier
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In 1933, after leaving Dogville, while traveling with her father (Willem Dafoe) and his gangsters to the south of USA, Grace Margaret Mulligan (Bryce Dallas Howard) sees a slave ready to be punished in a property called Manderlay. The slavery had been abolished seventy years ago, and Grace becomes revolted with the attitude of the owners of Manderlay, keeping slaves in their cotton fields and following predetermined despicable rules called “Mam’s Law”. Grace decides to stay with some gangsters in Manderlay and give notions of democracy to the slaves and to the white family. When harvest time comes, Grace sees the social and economical reality of Manderlay.

The Hunchback (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Canada | Czech Republic | Hungary | USA
Actors: Mandy Patinkin | Richard Harris | Salma Hayek | Edward Atterton | Benedick Blythe | Nigel Terry | Jim Dale | Trevor Baxter | Vernon Dobtcheff | Nickolas Grace | Matthew Sim | Cassie Stuart | Gabi Fon | Michael Mehlmann | Olga Antal
Directors: Peter Medak
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Based on the novel, a young gypsy becomes a Minister’s obsession in 1483. Only the bell ringer and her husband and the court of miracles can save her.

Love Song for Bobby Long, A (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Scarlett Johansson | Gabriel Macht | Deborah Kara Unger | Dane Rhodes | David Jensen | Clayne Crawford | Sonny Shroyer | Walter Breaux | Carol Sutton | Warren Kole | Bernard Johnson | Gina 'Ginger' Bernal | Douglas M. Griffin | Earl Maddox
Directors: Shainee Gabel
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Upon hearing of her mother’s death, jaded teenage loner Purslane Hominy Will returns to New Orleans for the first time in years, ready to reclaim her childhood home. Expecting to find her late mother’s house abandoned, Pursy is shocked to discover that it is inhabited by two of her mother’s friends: Bobby Long, a former literature professor, and his young protégé, Lawson Pines. These broken men, whose lives took a wrong turn years before, have been firmly rooted in the dilapidated house for years, encouraged only by Lawson’s faltering ambitions to write a novel about Bobby Long’s life. Having no intention of leaving, Pursy, Bobby Long and Lawson are all forced to live together. Yet as time passes, their tenuous, makeshift arrangement unearths a series of buried personal secrets that challenges their bonds, and reveals just how inextricably their lives are intertwined.

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Keira Knightley | Talulah Riley | Rosamund Pike | Jena Malone | Carey Mulligan | Donald Sutherland | Brenda Blethyn | Claudie Blakley | Sylvester Morand | Simon Woods | Kelly Reilly | Matthew MacFadyen | Pip Torrens | Janet Whiteside | Sinead Matthews
Directors: Joe Wright
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The story is based on Jane Austen’s novel about five sisters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet - in Georgian England. Their lives are turned upside down when a wealthy young man (Mr. Bingley) and his best friend (Mr. Darcy) arrive in their neighborhood.

Curly Sue (1991)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: James Belushi | Kelly Lynch | Alisan Porter | John Getz | Fred Dalton Thompson | Cameron Thor | Branscombe Richmond | Steve Carell | Gail Boggs | Burke Byrnes | Viveka Davis | Barbara Tarbuck | Edie McClurg | Charles Adams | James W. Bolinski
Directors: John Hughes
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Bill Dancer and his young companion Curly Sue are the classic homeless folks with hearts of gold. Their scams are aimed not at turning a profit, but at getting enough to eat. When they scam the rich and beautiful Grey Ellison into believing she backed her Mercedes into Bill, they’re only hoping for a free meal. But Grey is touched, and over the objections of her snotty fiance, insist on putting the two up for the night. As they get to know each other, Bill becomes convinced that this is where Curly Sue belongs - in a home, cared for by someone that can give her the advantages that his homeless, nomadic existence lacks. He plans to leave the young girl in the care of Grey and take off…. but Curly Sue has other ideas!