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Directed by Shōhei ImamuraOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
Fantasy,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic filmsActors Kōji Yakusho,
Misa Shimizu,
Mitsuko Baishō,
Toshie Negishi,
Isao Natsuyagi,
Takahito IguchiRating66%
Warm Water Under A Red Bridge focuses on the troubles of a Japanese "everyman" who finds a new life with an unusual woman in a small fishing village. Imamura's last film contains considerable commentary on the search for happiness., 2h9
Directed by Shōhei ImamuraOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
War,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
HistoricalActors Akira Emoto,
Kumiko Asō,
Jacques Gamblin,
Jūrō Kara,
Keiko Matsuzaka,
Misa ShimizuRating71%
The film concerns Dr. Akagi, a doctor on an island in the Seto Inland Sea area during World War II. He runs into conflict with the military while trying to combat a hepatitis epidemic. Akagi earns the nickname "Dr. Liver" (カンゾー先生 Kanzō-sensei) because of his work., 2h15
Directed by Sean Penn,
Claude Lelouch,
Amos Gitaï,
Youssef Chahine,
Alejandro González Iñárritu,
Danis Tanović,
Ken Loach,
Idrissa Ouédraogo,
Shōhei Imamura,
Mira Nair,
Samira MakhmalbafOrigin IranGenres DramaThemes Films based on the September 11 attacks,
Medical-themed films,
Films about terrorism,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Films about disabilities,
Dans un avion,
Disaster films,
Sign-language films,
French Sign Language films,
Films about language and translation,
Films about hijackingsActors Ernest Borgnine,
Emmanuelle Laborit,
Akira Emoto,
Mitsuko Baishō,
Ken Ogata,
Keren MorRating68%
Dans un village au Moyen-Orient, la population se prépare à des représailles américaines en préparant des abris de terre cuite. Personne n'appréhende vraiment ce qui s'est passé à New York, mais ils savent que, même s'ils n'ont rien à voir avec cela, ils vont en subir les conséquences. Le film dénonce la manière dont des villages innocents dont la réalité n'a rien à voir avec les attentats du 11 septembre subissent finalement le même sort que les tours, sans vraiment comprendre., 2h20
Directed by Shōhei Imamura,
Taku ShinjōOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
CrimeThemes Serial killer filmsActors Ken Ogata,
Mayumi Ogawa,
Rentarō Mikuni,
Mitsuko Baishō,
Taiji Tonoyama,
Kazuko ShirakawaRating76%
The film's story is told in a series of flashbacks. In the opening scenes, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata), is a prisoner of the police. A huge crowd of journalists and an angry mob greets him as he enters a cell. The police quiz him but he refuses to answer. The story goes back to the initial murders. Enokizu tricks and then kills two men and steals a large sum of money. He puts on a suit and disappears. Enokizu travels to another city. At the train station, he asks a taxi driver to take him to an inn where he can get a prostitute. Enokizu is sexually insatiable. He tells the innkeeper, a woman called Haru (Mayumi Ogawa), that he is a professor at Kyoto University. The police, searching for Enokizu, put out bulletins with his face on television. The prostitute thinks the professor is Enokizu, but she is told not to go to the police because of her job., 2h31
Directed by Shōhei ImamuraOrigin JaponGenres DramaThemes Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts filmsActors Kaori Momoi,
Ken Ogata,
Shigeru Izumiya,
Yūko Tanaka,
Mitsuko Baishō,
Shigeru TsuyuguchiRating67%
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ee ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society., 2h10
Directed by Shōhei ImamuraOrigin JaponGenres DramaThemes Films about families,
Seafaring films,
Transport films,
VieillesseActors Ken Ogata,
Mitsuko Baishō,
Taiji Tonoyama,
Nenji KobayashiRating77%
The film is set in a small rural village in Japan in the 19th century. According to tradition, once a person reaches the age of 70 he or she must travel to a remote mountain to die of starvation, a practice known as ubasute. The story concerns Orin, who is 69 and of sound health, but notes that a neighbor had to drag his father to the mountain, so she resolves to avoid clinging to life beyond her term. She spends a year arranging all the affairs of her family and village: she severely punishes a family who are hoarding food, and helps her younger son lose his virginity., 1h37
Directed by Jerry JamesonOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Films about families,
Medical-themed films,
Prison films,
Films about drugs,
Films about religion,
Films about sexuality,
Rape in fiction,
Films about domestic violenceActors Kate Mara,
Michael K.Williams,
David Oyelowo,
Leonor Varela,
Jessica Oyelowo,
Mimi RogersRating54%
On March 11, 2005, Brian Nichols (David Oyelowo) escapes from the Fulton County courthouse in Atlanta, during his trial involving a rape case. In the process of the escape he murders the judge presiding over his trial, Rowland Barnes, as well as court reporter Julie Brandau. He also shoots Sergeant Hoyt Teasley while escaping from the prison, and then Special Agent David G. Wilhelm at his home. Nichols becomes the subject of a citywide manhunt. His frantic escape brings him to the apartment of Ashley Smith (Kate Mara), a single mother and recovering methamphetamine addict, whom he holds hostage. Smith gets through this time inspired by Rick Warren's best-selling book The Purpose Driven Life, while Nichols searches for redemption. As she reads aloud, Ashley and her would-be killer come to a crossroads., 2h12
Directed by Taylor HackfordOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes L'adolescence,
Films about education,
Films about children,
Films about families,
Films about sexuality,
Films about the labor movement,
Films about domestic violence,
Films about school violence,
Harcèlement au travailActors Kathy Bates,
Jennifer Jason Leigh,
David Strathairn,
John C. Reilly,
Judy Parfitt,
Eric BogosianRating73%
Dolores Claiborne (Bates) works as a domestic servant on a Maine island. The film opens with Dolores having a struggle with her elderly, paralyzed employer Vera Donovan (Judy Parfitt) in her mansion, after which Vera falls down the staircase. Dolores ransacks the kitchen and is then caught by a mailman as she stands over Vera with a rolling pin, apparently intending to kill her. Vera dies and the police begin a murder investigation., 2h34
Directed by Steven SpielbergOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Historical,
CrimeThemes Films about children,
Feminist films,
Films about racism,
Films about sexuality,
Bisexuality-related films,
LGBT-related films,
Films about domestic violence,
Political films,
Films about child abuse,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Danny Glover,
Whoopi Goldberg,
Margaret Avery,
Oprah Winfrey,
Adolph Caesar,
Rae Dawn ChongRating77%
Taking place in the Southern United States between Winter 1909 and Autumn 1937, the movie tells the life of a poor African American woman named Celie Harris (Whoopi Goldberg) whose abuse begins when she is young. By the time she is 14, she has already had two children by her father Alphonso "James" Harris (Leonard Jackson). He takes them away from her at childbirth and forces the young Celie (Desreta Jackson) to marry a wealthy young local widower Albert Johnson, known to her only as "Mister" (Danny Glover), who treats her like a slave. Albert makes her clean up his disorderly household and take care of his unruly children. Albert beats and rapes her often, intimidating Celie into submission and near silence. Celie's sister Nettie (Akosua Busia) comes to live with them, and there is a brief period of happiness as the sisters spend time together and Nettie begins to teach Celie how to read. This is short-lived; after Nettie refuses Albert's predatory affections once too often, he kicks her out. Before being run off by Albert, Nettie promises to write to Celie saying, "Nothing but death can keep me from it!"., 1h33
Directed by Andrew StevensOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Documentary,
Action,
Crime,
Erotic thrillerThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Films about domestic violence,
Erotic thriller filmsActors Shannon Tweed,
Michelle Johnson,
Andrew Stevens,
Joseph Cortese,
Stella Stevens,
Rochelle SwansonRating38%
Une femme, mariée à un homme violent, fait toujours le même rêve : elle fait l'amour avec un autre. Un jour, elle rencontre l'inconnu de ses songes.