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Directed by Stephen DaldryOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
MusicalThemes Dance films,
Films about children,
Films about families,
Films about music and musicians,
Films about the labor movement,
La précarité,
Musical films,
Political filmsActors Jamie Bell,
Julie Walters,
Gary Lewis,
Jamie Draven,
Jean Heywood,
Stuart WellsRating76%
The film is set in the fictional County Durham mining town of Everington Village during the 1984-85 UK miners' strike, and centres on the character of 11-year-old Billy Elliot, his love of dance, and his hopes of becoming a professional ballet dancer. Billy lives with his widowed father, Jackie, and older brother, Tony, both coal miners out on strike (the latter being the union leader), and also his maternal grandmother, who probably has Alzheimer's disease and once aspired to be a professional dancer. Billy's mother, Jenny, died on 2 December 1983, aged 38.
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Directed by Stephen DaldryOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes Films about writers,
Films about families,
Feminist films,
Medical-themed films,
Films about sexuality,
Films about suicide,
LGBT-related films,
Films about psychiatry,
Political films,
LGBT-related films,
Sida et LGBT,
HIV/AIDS in film,
LGBT-related film,
Lesbian-related filmsActors Meryl Streep,
Julianne Moore,
Nicole Kidman,
Ed Harris,
John C. Reilly,
Lyndsey MarshalRating74%
With the exception of the opening and final scenes, which depict the 1941 suicide by drowning of Virginia Woolf in the River Ouse, the action takes place within the span of a single day in three different years and alternates between them throughout the film. In 1923, Virginia has begun writing the book Mrs Dalloway in her home in the town of Richmond outside London. In 1951, troubled Los Angeles housewife Laura Brown escapes from her conventional life by reading Mrs Dalloway. In 2001, New Yorker Clarissa Vaughan is the embodiment of the novel's title character, as she spends the day preparing for a party she is hosting in honor of her former lover and friend Richard, a poet and author living with AIDS who is to receive a major literary award. Richard tells Clarissa he has stayed alive for her sake, and the award is meaningless because he didn't get it sooner, until he was on the brink of death. She tells him she believes he would have won the award regardless of his illness. Richard often refers to Clarissa as "Mrs. Dalloway" - her namesake - because she distracts herself from her own life the way the Woolf character does.
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Directed by Francis Ford CoppolaOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Thriller,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
RomanceThemes Films about writers,
Seafaring films,
Films about religion,
Transport films,
Political films,
Films about Buddhism,
Films about language and translationActors Tim Roth,
Bruno Ganz,
Alexandra Maria Lara Claudia Paolina,
André Hennicke,
Marcel Iureș,
Matt DamonRating60%
The film opens in 1938. Dominic Matei (Tim Roth), is a 70-year-old professor of linguistics. On the eve of World War II, Dominic attempts to visit the Café Select but is denied access due to wearing his pyjamas. Dominic realises that he is getting no younger, and has essentially failed his aim in life – to fully discover the origin of human language. His tireless labours have condemned him to a solitary existence, often spent pining after Laura (Alexandra Maria Lara), the love of his youth. Intent on committing suicide, Dominic travels to Bucharest, the city where he and Laura met at university. He is struck by lightning. In hospital, he is initially diagnosed by Professor Stanciulescu (Bruno Ganz) to be dying of his burns. However, Stanciulescu is startled when his patient regenerates into a much younger man. The Professor helps Dominic out of the hospital so as to continue studying him. Shortly afterwards, Romania is occupied by the Nazis, whose interests are aroused by Stanciulescu’s miracle patient.
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Directed by István SzabóOrigin HongrieGenres Drama,
War,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Films about religion,
Political films,
Films about Jews and JudaismActors Ralph Fiennes,
Rosemary Harris,
Rachel Weisz,
Jennifer Ehle,
Hanns Zischler,
Deborah Kara UngerRating74%
The 19th-century patriarch of the Hungarian-Jewish Sonnenschein family is a tavern owner, who distills and makes his own popular liquor in Austria-Hungary. From the recipe, the liquor, called "Taste of Sunshine," is commercially made by the next generation of the family who gain great wealth and prestige from the business. That generation of the family lives many happy and privileged years and the children are highly educated. The oldest son, Ignatz (the first of 3 generational roles played by Ralph Fiennes), a fast rising judge, falls in love and has an affair with his first cousin, Valerie (Jennifer Ehle), against his father's wishes. The second son, Gustave (James Frain), becomes a medical doctor. Ignatz is asked by a chief judge to change his Jewish surname if he wishes to be promoted within the judiciary. Ignatz, his brother, and his cousin Valerie all happily change their last name to Sors - a "more Hungarian" name.
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Directed by Wim WendersOrigin GermanGenres Drama,
Fantastic,
Fantasy,
RomanceThemes Circus films,
Films about religion,
Films about angels,
Political films,
Films about Jews and JudaismActors Bruno Ganz,
Solveig Dommartin,
Otto Sander,
Curt Bois,
Peter Falk,
Nick CaveRating78%
Set in contemporary West Berlin (at the time still enclosed by the Berlin Wall), Wings of Desire follows two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, as they roam the city, unseen and unheard by its human inhabitants, observing and listening to the diverse thoughts of Berliners: a pregnant woman in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, a painter struggling to find inspiration, a broken man who thinks his girlfriend no longer loves him. Their raison d'être is, as Cassiel says, to "assemble, testify, preserve" reality. In addition to the story of two angels, the film is also a meditation on Berlin's past, present, and future. Damiel and Cassiel have always existed as angels; they existed in Berlin before it was a city, and before there were even any humans.
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Directed by Uli EdelOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Historical,
CrimeThemes Films about terrorism,
Political filmsActors Moritz Bleibtreu,
Martina Gedeck,
Johanna Wokalek,
Bruno Ganz,
Alexandra Maria Lara Claudia Paolina,
Nadja UhlRating72%
In 1967, the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, visits West Berlin to attend a performance at the Deutsche Oper. Angered at the Shah's repressive policies in governing Iran, a number of young Germans show up to protest his appearance. The German police and the Shah's forces attack the German protesters and one of them, Benno Ohnesorg, is shot and killed without provocation by Karl-Heinz Kurras., 2h28
Directed by Oliver HirschbiegelOrigin GermanGenres Drama,
War,
Biography,
HistoricalThemes Films about suicide,
Hitler,
Political filmsActors Bruno Ganz,
Alexandra Maria Lara Claudia Paolina,
Corinna Harfouch,
Ulrich Matthes,
Juliane Köhler,
Thomas KretschmannRating81%
Downfall begins with footage of the real Traudl Junge expressing guilt and shame for admiring Hitler in her youth. The film continues showing Hitler (Bruno Ganz) hiring Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara) as his secretary at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia in November 1942., 1h59
Directed by Paul MazurskyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
RomanceThemes Films about religion,
Films about Jews and Judaism,
Children's filmsActors Ron Silver,
Anjelica Huston,
Lena Olin,
Małgorzata Zajączkowska,
Alan King,
Judith MalinaRating64%
Set in New York City in 1949, the story follows Holocaust survivor Herman Broder. Throughout the war he survived hidden in a hayloft, taken care of by his gentile Polish servant, Yadwiga, whom he later takes as his wife in America. Meanwhile, he has a passionate affair with another Holocaust survivor, Masha. To Yadwiga, he poses as a traveling book-salesman despite the fact he is a ghost writer for a corrupt rabbi. He wanders about New York with a constant paranoia and perpetual desperation, made more complicated when his first wife from Poland, Tamara, who was thought to have been killed in the Holocaust comes to New York., 3h17
Directed by Steven SpielbergOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Biography,
HistoricalThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about religion,
Films about psychiatry,
Political films,
Films about Jews and JudaismActors Liam Neeson,
Ben Kingsley,
Ralph Fiennes,
Caroline Goodall,
Jonathan Sagall,
Embeth DavidtzRating86%
In Kraków during World War II, the Germans had forced local Polish Jews into the overcrowded Kraków Ghetto. Oskar Schindler, an ethnic German, arrives in the city hoping to make his fortune. A member of the Nazi Party, Schindler lavishes bribes on Wehrmacht (German armed forces) and SS officials and acquires a factory to produce enamelware. To help him run the business, Schindler enlists the aid of Itzhak Stern, a local Jewish official who has contacts with black marketeers and the Jewish business community. Stern helps Schindler arrange loans to finance the factory. Schindler maintains friendly relations with the Nazis and enjoys wealth and status as "Herr Direktor", and Stern handles administration. Schindler hires Jewish workers because they cost less, while Stern ensures that as many people as possible are deemed essential to the German war effort, which saves them from being transported to concentration camps or killed.
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