Drama

Drama

Independent, arthouse and cult drama films selected by the staff

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  • Beyond Our Lives

    Movie

    Drama, noir, by Fabio Martorana, Italy, 2021.
    Alex and Claire have something in common, between recurring nightmares and restless memories; only time will allow them to understand what is happening. Where is the truth hidden? Perhaps in a time that the two protagonists don't even imagine. A sweet...

  • The Girl from the Back Desk

    Movie

    Drama, by Matteo Piacenti, Corrado Bonicelli, Italy, 2020.
    Viola is a lonely teenager who feels out of place in the world around her, inadequate and imperfect. The comfort and support of her parents and friends are of no use. Art is the only way she has to express herself: like a colorful mosaic,...

  • The War in Cuba

    Movie

    Drama, by Renato Giugliano, Italy, 2019.
    The story is set in a small community in Valsamoggia, in the province of Bologna, Italy. The daily routine is disrupted by a strike by the workers of one of the main factories in the area. Parallel to this, five stories unfold, intertwining with each other...

  • The Smartphone Woman

    Movie

    Drama, thriller, dark comedy, by Fabio Del Greco, Italy 2020.
    On a bridge over the Tiber River, an elderly and severely ill man has decided to end his life, but an unusual discovery changes his mind: he comes across a lost smartphone. Intrigued, he decides to return home and watch the videos cont...

  • Arianna

    Movie

    Drama, by Alessandro Scippa, Italy, 2012.
    On a small island where she lives and works, Arianna prepares to welcome the new year with joy, leaving the past behind. However, that night could mark not only the end of the year but also the end of her story with Nanni, a beekeeper from the city. The i...

  • Walk Cheerfully

    Movie

    Drama, crime, by Yasujirō Ozu, Japan, 1930.
    The plot of the film follows the story of Kenji, a low-ranking gangster, who decides to give up his life of crime and settle down. He falls in love with Yasue, a young car mechanic, and the two plan to get married. However, Kenji's past catches up with ...

  • The Man with the Golden Arm

    Movie

    Drama film, noir, by Otto Preminger, United States, 1955.
    Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra), a former drug addict trying to pull himself together after being released from prison. However, Frankie is a very good drummer and is constantly tempted to kick the drug habit in order to play even better. ...

  • Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo

    Movie

    Comedy, drama, historical, by Sadao Yamanaka, Japan, 1935.
    A man gives an old cooking pot to his brother, not realizing that there is a treasure map inside. His sister-in-law sells the pot to a junk dealer, who in turn sells it to a boy named Yasu. A colorful cast of characters are looking for th...

  • Sebastiane

    Movie

    Drama, history, by Derek Jarman, United Kingdom, 1976.
    In the third century A.D. Sebastiano is a member of the personal guard of the Emperor Diocletian. When he tries to intervene to prevent one of the Emperor's catamites from being strangled by one of his bodyguards, Sebastian is exiled to a rem...

  • The Ardor of the Timid

    Movie

    Comedy, drama, by Antonio Vladimir Marino, Italy, 2021.
    The Ardor of the Timid is an ensemble film, which intersects different stories in the Neapolitan hinterland, represented in a curious suspension between tragedy and boutade. Five stories, five small universes: Mario, the girl, the homeless m...

  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    Movie

    Drama, romance, noir, by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, United States, 1927
    A big-city woman on vacation (Margaret Livingston) stays in a small lakeside town. After dark she goes to a farm where the man (George O'Brien) and his wife (Janet Gaynor) are looking after their child. She calls to the man fr...

  • Bare Hands

    Movie

    Drama, adventure, by Andrea Malandra, Italy, 2021.
    Daphne is a young woman fleeing the grayness of the city and her ghosts to find herself in contact with nature. She arrives in Abruzzo, a region that meets her expectations from a naturalistic point of view, but during an excursion she ends up ge...

  • Nasumice

    Movie

    Drama, by Caleb Burdeau, United States/Italy/Bosnia, 2018.
    Italy, 1994. The war in the Balkans drags on without end. Elvis, a young man from Sarajevo, is photographing tourists with his Polaroid to get by. After his camera is stolen, Elvis decides to visit Rodolfo, a stranger he met by chance in ...

  • Many Pieces Of Something

    Movie

    Comedy, drama, by David Yáñez, Spain, 2015.
    Hangover after hangover, a group of unemployed friends with no great prospects for the future try to survive the frenzy of their desires and feelings, their existential anguish and rock 'n' roll at a summer music festival, trying to put some order in th...

  • Paradise East

    Movie

    Drama, black comedy, by Nick Taylor, United States, 2010.
    Paradise East is a black comedy about a dysfunctional lower-middle-class family. Lucky, not your typical dad, runs a coffee shop and has a hard time dealing with his two children's idiosyncrasies. Ernie is an aspiring pimp and street cheat...

  • The M Word

    Movie

    Comedy, drama by Henry Jaglom, United States, 2014.
    Tanna Frederick plays the lead role of Moxie, an actress in a children's show on Los Angeles television struggling with declining audience. Moxie's life changes with the arrival of Charlie Moon (Michael Imperioli), a network executive from New Y...

  • Deliver Us From Evil

    Movie

    Drama, thriller, by Nicola Santi Amantini, Italy, 2013.
    A former seminarian in crisis hopes that his tormented soul will be able to obtain peace in his native home. Or at least he believes he can deal with the darkest part of himself without barriers. The protagonist is orphaned of his mother, to...

  • The Rest With My Eyes

    Movie

    Drama, by Massimiliano Amato, Italy, 2017.
    Claudia Cattelan, an Italian video artist, is preparing a film for the cinema, a rather unusual project between reality and fiction. In the preparation stage of the film she meets and auditions many to find the right actors for her characters, but she ca...

  • The Incredible Story of the Lady From the Third Floor

    Movie

    Drama, by Isabel Russinova, Italy, 2017.
    Mara, the Prince, Lyuba, the Chechen, Mezzanota, Gianni, Alexia, Viperetta, Cicci belong to very different realities but live in the same city. They do not know each other, but their paths are destined to cross each other and to experience common events in...

  • Hollywood Dreams

    Movie

    Comedy, drama, by Henry Jaglom, United States, 2007.
    Aspiring actress Margie Chizek seeks stardom in Hollywood. She is rejected by the cinema scene, falls in love, discovers the deceptions behind the world of film advertising and understands her identity better than her. Saved from ruin by a kind...

  • Battleship Potemkin

    Movie

    Drama, war, by Sergej Eisenstein, Russia, 1925.
    The revolt of the sailors of the battleship Potemkin and the citizens of Odessa against the ruthless police of the tsar, who reacts with reprisals and carries out a massacre. Sergej Eisenstein makes a film commissioned by Goskino, the office for cin...

  • Lonleyville

    Movie

    Short film, mystery, by Federico Mattioni, Italy, 2016.
    The nightmare of an unrecognizable town. A young man enters a dimension that belongs to him but of which he does not want to know anything and tries to get out of it, hindered by the presence of some spirits. Through a series of hallucinatio...

  • A Page Of Madness

    Movie

    Drama, horror, by Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japan, 1926.
    A page of madness is an independent film shot on a nearly non-existent budget and then lost for forty-five years. Fortunately the director rediscovered it in his archive in 1971. It is a film made by a group of Japanese avant-garde artists, the S...

  • The Cow

    Movie

    Drama, by Dariush Mehrjui, Iran, 1969.
    Based on the play by Gholam-Hossein Saedi, probably inspired by an Iranian legend that Prince Buyid Majd ad-Dawla considered himself a cow. Hassan loves his only cow more than anything else, a source of sustenance. When he leaves the village for a short time...