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Directed by D. W. GriffithOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Films about children,
Medical-themed films,
Théâtre,
Films about disabilities,
Political films,
Films about capital punishment,
Films based on plays,
La cécité,
Histoire de France,
French Revolution filmsActors Lillian Gish,
Dorothy Gish,
Joseph Schildkraut,
Lucille La Verne,
Frank Losee,
Frank PugliaRating72%
Just before the French Revolution, Henriette takes her close adopted sister Louise to Paris in the hope of finding a cure for her blindness. She promises Louise that she will not marry until Louise can look upon her husband to approve him. Lustful aristocrat de Praille (whose carriage kills a child, enraging peasant father, Forget-not) meets the two outside Paris. Taken by the virginal Henriette's beauty, he has her abducted and brought to his estate where a lavish party is being held, leaving Louise helpless in the big city. An honorable aristocrat, the Chevalier de Vaudrey helps Henriette to escape de Praille and his guests by successfully fighting a duel with him. The scoundrel Mother Frochard, seeing an opportunity to make money, tricks Louise into her underground house to be kept prisoner. Unable to find Louise with the help of the Chevalier, Henriette rents a room, but before leaving her de Vaudrey comforts and kisses the distressed woman. Later, Henriette gives shelter to admirable politician Danton, who after an attack by Royalist spies following a public speech falls for her. As a result, she runs foul of the radical revolutionary Robespierre, a friend of Danton., 1h58
Directed by Albert et Allen HughesOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction,
WesternThemes Medical-themed films,
Post-apocalyptic films,
Films about religion,
Transport films,
Films about automobiles,
Films set in the future,
Films about disabilities,
Political films,
Road movies,
Dystopian films,
La cécité,
Disaster filmsActors Denzel Washington,
Gary Oldman,
Mila Kunis,
Ray Stevenson,
Jennifer Beals,
Frances de la TourRating67%
Thirty years after a nuclear apocalypse, Eli (Denzel Washington) travels on foot toward the west coast of the former United States. Along the way he demonstrates uncanny survival and fighting skills, hunting wildlife and swiftly defeating a group of desert bandits who try to ambush him. Searching for water, he arrives in a ramshackle town rebuilt and overseen by Carnegie (Gary Oldman). Carnegie dreams of building more towns and of controlling the people by using the power of a certain book. His henchmen scour the desolate landscape daily in search of it, but to no avail., 1h11
Directed by Jean RenoirOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Noir,
RomanceThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about disabilities,
La cécitéActors Joan Bennett,
Robert Ryan,
Charles Bickford,
Walter Sande,
Irene Ryan,
Nanette June "Nan" LeslieRating63%
Scott (Robert Ryan), a mounted Coast Guard officer, suffers from recurring nightmares involving a maritime tragedy. He sees himself immersed in an eerie landscape surrounded by a shipwreck and walking over skeletons at the bottom of the sea while a ghostly blond woman beckons him from afar. He thinks he is going mad. But at the same time, he decides to propose to Eve (Nan Leslie), a young woman working at Geddes, a local shipyard catering to the Coast Guard. She accepts. Eve has a strong resemblance to the ghostly blond of his nightmares., 2h
Directed by Fumihiko SoriOrigin JaponGenres Drama,
Action,
Adventure,
HistoricalThemes Medical-themed films,
Seafaring films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Samurai films,
Yakuza films,
Films about disabilities,
La cécité,
Gangster filmsActors Takao Ōsawa,
Haruka Ayase,
Nakamura Shidō II,
Yōsuke Kubozuka,
Riki Takeuchi,
Tetta SugimotoRating65%
Ichi (市) is a goze (blind woman) who is travelling Japan in search of her mentor, who was the actual Zatoichi. , 2h50
Directed by Chen KaigeOrigin ChineGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes L'adolescence,
Films about children,
Films about music and musicians,
Politique,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
La sexualité des mineurs,
Transgender in film,
Musiques du monde,
Musical films,
Political films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Leslie Cheung,
Gong Li,
Zhang Fengyi,
Jiang WenliRating80%
Farewell My Concubine spans 53 years, presenting the lives of two men against the historical backdrop of a country in upheaval. It is about the story of Dieyi and Xiaolou and how their lives are affected by the Japanese invasion of China in the 1930s and the victory of the Communists in 1949., 2h42
Directed by Chen KaigeOrigin ChineGenres Drama,
HistoricalActors Gong Li,
周迅 (Zhou Xun),
Zhang Fengyi,
Chen Kaige,
Sun Zhou,
Wang ZhiwenRating71%
The film covers much of Ying Zheng's career, recalling his early experiences as a hostage and foreshadowing his dominance over China. It depicts him essentially as an idealist seeking to impose a peace or unity on the world despite various betrayals and losses. Its story consists in the main of three incidents: the attempt by Jing Ke to assassinate Ying Zheng in 227 BCE; the rumour of a Chief Minister's having sired the latter before transferring his concubine to become the Queen Dowager; and the (possibly fictitious) story of an official having sired children by the Queen Dowager herself. The first incident plays out only at the end of the film, but earlier scenes foreshadow it; the other two incidents occur between the fictional genesis and historical manifestation of the first., 2h2
Directed by Sanjay Leela BhansaliOrigin IndeGenres Drama,
BiographyThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about music and musicians,
Musical films,
Films about psychiatry,
Films about disabilities,
Bollywood,
La cécité,
Personne sourde ou muetteActors Amitabh Bachchan,
Rani Mukherjee,
Shernaz Patel,
Ayesha Kapur Singh,
Nandana Sen,
Dhritiman ChatterjeeRating80%
The film begins with Michelle McNally (Rani Mukerji), a blind and deaf woman, visiting her former teacher Debraj Sahai (Amitabh Bachchan), who now has Alzheimer's disease, in a hospital. The film then flashbacks to the past to her childhood., 1h31
Directed by Chen KaigeOrigin ChineGenres Drama,
Historical,
MusicalThemes Political filmsActors Wang XueqiRating70%
Gu Qing, a soldier from the propaganda department of the CCP Eighth Route Army in CCP-controlled Shaanxi, travels alone from Yan'an to the northern KMT-controlled area of Shaanxi, Shanbei, with the task of collecting the peasants' folk songs in order to re-write them with communist lyrics in order to boost the morale of the Eighth Route Army soldiers., 1h27
Directed by Stuart HeislerOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about religion,
Films about disabilities,
La cécitéActors Sterling Hayden,
Viveca Lindfors,
Thomas Mitchell,
Ludwig Donath,
H. B. Warner,
Jane DarwellRating62%
John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunkenly interrupts a sermon, then despondent after her suicide.