Drama

Drama

Independent, arthouse and cult drama films selected by the staff

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  • Ninnao

    Movie

    Short film, drama, by Ernesto M. Censori, Italy, 2020.
    Ninnaò tackles the theme of milk mothers in a direct and raw way, highlighting in an original way the relationships that are established between two women who will end up competing for the baby. You will win that you will be able to take adva...

  • Crazed Fruit

    Movie

    Drama, by Ko Nakahira, Japan, 1959.
    The sweet life of the rich young Japanese of the Sun Tribe subculture which was inspired by the western lifestyle in the late 1950s, between lust and violence, water skiing and speedboats. A story of love, passion and betrayal. Two brothers fall in love with th...

  • Miss Oyu

    Movie

    Drama, by Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1951.
    Bachelor Shinnosuke falls in love with Miss Oyu, the companion of his younger sister Shizu who visits him as a future bride. The family taboo prevents Shinnosuke from marrying Oyu. He marries Shizu without consummating their marriage so that Shinnosuke can ...

  • Osaka Elegy

    Movie

    Drama, by Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1936.
    Ayako Murai is a telephone operator for the pharmaceutical company Asai, in the city of Osaka in 1930. To pay the debts of her father, unemployed and threatened with arrest for not repaying a loan, she agrees to become her employer's mistress. work. After p...

  • Early Summer

    Movie

    Drama, by Yasujirō Ozu, Japan, 1951.
    Noriko, a secretary from Tokyo, resides in Kamakura with her family along with her parents Shūkichi and Shige, her elder brother Kōichi, a doctor, her wife Fumiko and their 2 boys Minoru and Isamu. Noriko's friends are divided into 2 groups, married and single...

  • Tokyo Story

    Movie

    Drama, by Yasujirô Ozu, Japan, 1953.
    Shukichi and Tomi, now close to seventy, take a trip to Tokyo to visit their children before it's too late. When they arrive in the city, however, the welcome is not what they expected: the eldest son Koichi and his sister Shige have too many work commitments ...

  • Ugetsu

    Movie

    Drama, fantasy, by Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1953.
    Japan, late 16th century: the potter Genjurō and his brother Tobei live with their wives Miyagi and Ohama in a village in the Omi region; Genjurō, convinced that he can earn a lot of money by selling his goods in the nearby city, goes to the county...

  • A Geisha

    Movie

    Drama, by by Kenji Mizoguchi, Japan, 1953.
    The story takes place in Kyoto and follows Eiko, a young woman who wants to become a geisha and asks the older Miyoharu to teach her the trade. One of her first clients tries to rape her but Eiko violently defends herself and sends him to the hospital. A...

  • The Naked Kiss

    Movie

    Drama, Noir, by Samuel Fuller, 1964, United States.
    Kelly is a prostitute who arrives by bus in the small town of Grantville, after moving away from the big city to escape her former protector. She meets her local police captain Griff who hosts her in her apartment, but then invites her to leave ...

  • The Holy Mountain

    Movie

    Sci-fi, drama, by Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973, Mexico.
    A man, nicknamed The thief, who represents the Fool's card in the Tarot, lies unconscious in a desert, among swarms of flies. When he wakes up he encounters a footless and handless dwarf representing the Five of Swords. The two become friends ...

  • Fear and Desire

    Movie

    War, drama, by Stanley Kubrick, United States, 1953.
    Fear and Desire is the first feature by Stanley Kubrick, a totally independent film financed by the director himself and by a fundraiser between friends and relatives. Made with a small crew, Kubrick also took care of the editing and photograph...

  • Slow Life

    Movie

    Drama, comedy, thriller, by Fabio Del Greco, Italy, 2021.
    Lino Stella takes a period of vacation from his alienating job to devote himself to relaxation and his passion: drawing comics. But he did not foresee certain disturbing elements: the intrusive administrator of the building where he lives,...

  • The Last Laugh

    Movie

    Drama, by F.W. Murnau, Germany, 1924.
    Jannings is the doorman of the Atlantic hotel in Berlin, happy with his role and his uniform. But his boss thinks he is too old to receive customers at the entrance and sets him up to clean the bathrooms. Jannings, deeply troubled by what happened, gets drunk...

  • Lockdown trilogy of mine - Stage I: Apathy or as the muse was locked down

    Movie

    Short film, by Rachele Studer, Italy, 2021.
    Apathy: Lockdown 2020. A quarantined writer is facing a creative block. And so the Muse is stuck in his mental fears. The fears come from the economic and social instability that lockdown had ran over his face. A tribute to all the artists in the world ...

  • Lockdown trilogy of mine - Stage II: Claustrophobia or Everbody is herodoc

    Movie

    Short film, by Rachele Studer, Italy, 2021.
    A quarantined writer (who can no longer write) seems to accept the government measures, even if they deprive him of his freedom, privacy, strenght, joy and, most of all, his job. So it happens that at some point he can't breathe anymore. Strange sensati...

  • Occidente

    Movie

    Drama film, by Jorge Acebo Canedo, 2019, Spain.
    Torino Underground Cinefest 2020, Ponferrada International Film Festival 2019. A fugitive director in exile named H returns to the industrial city he fled from long ago, in an unknown time and place. Gloria, the worker he left behind and whom she lo...

  • Into the mirror

    Movie

    Drama, LGBTQ, by Lois Stevenson, United States, 2019.
    New Renaissance Film Festival London, Best Music, Best LGBT Film, Best Actor - New Renaissance Film Festival Amsterdam, Best Debut Film.
    The story follows Daniel, a young man beginning a new life in London. Daniel struggles with his gender id...

  • Testament of Orpheus

    Movie

    Drama film, by Jean Cocteu, France, 1960.
    In his latest film, the legendary Jean Cocteau is a poet who travels through time in search of enlightenment. In a mysterious wasteland, he meets lost souls that result in his death and resurrection. With an exceptional cast including Pablo Picasso, Jean-...

  • Love on the Run

    Movie

    Comedy, romance, by Francois Truffaut, France, 1978.
    After seven years Antoine and Christine divorce, while remaining good friends. Antoine is in a relationship with Liliane, friend of Christine, has published an autobiography about his loves and finds work as a proofreader and also begins a chee...

  • The Kempinsky method

    Movie

    Drama, by Federico Salsano, Italy 2020.
    The introspective imaginary road movie of a man in the maze of his own mind, his memories of his youth, his never dormant passions and contradictory truths. The road is made of water, the destination is falsely unknown. His traveling companions are three my...

  • Lightning part 1

    Movie

    Documentary, by Manuela Morgaine, France, 2013.
    A film divided into two parts, a legend intertwining with a documentary across four seasons. This portrait unfolds like a cinematic kaleidoscope, zigzagging like the branching of lightning bolts. The narrative is set in different countries around th...

  • Lightning part 2

    Movie

    Documentary, directed by Manuela Morgaine, France, 2013.
    This fresco is a cinema of zig-zags, akin to the branching of lightning bolts. It unfolds its subject across different countries of the world and over the span of several centuries, concurrently presented in both documentary and legendary f...

  • A Better Life

    Movie

    Drama, thriller, by Fabio Del Greco, Italy, 2007.
    Rome: Andrea Casadei is a young investigator specializing in audio wiretapping who conducts investigations commissioned by husbands betrayed by their wives, or by parents worried about what their children are doing outside the home. But what inter...

  • Mystery of an Employee

    Movie

    Drama, thriller, by Fabio Del Greco, Italy, 2019.
    Someone wants to control the life of the employee Giuseppe Russo: the products he buys, his political and religious faith, his private life, even his dreams. But he will do anything to escape control and find his true self. Giuseppe is a man of ar...