Showing posts with label Drama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drama. Show all posts

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Blow up (1966)




Blow-Up, is a 1966 film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni about a photographer, played by David Hemmings, who believes he may have witnessed a murder and unwittingly taken photographs of the killing.


Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 








Sunday, June 19, 2011

Super Fly (1972)


Super Fly is a 1972 film about a black cocaine dealer called Priest who is trying to quit the underworld drug business.


Directed by: Gordon Parks, Jr.
Starring: Ron O'Neal, Sheila Frazier, Julius Harris, Charles McGregor
Distributed by: Warner Bros.



Saturday, June 18, 2011

The Trip (1967)


The Trip is a drama released by American International Pictures shot on location in and around Los Angeles, including on top of Kirkwood in Laurel Canyon, Hollywood Hills, and near Big Sur, California in 1966. 
Paul Groves takes his first dose of LSD while experiencing the heartbreak and ambivalence of divorce from his beautiful but adulterous wife. He starts his trip with a "guide," John but runs away and abandons out of fear.


Directed by: Roger Corman
Starring: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern
Distributed by: American International Pictures




Tuesday, May 24, 2011

More (1969)


More is a 1969 drama film which deals with heroin addiction on the island of Ibiza.  It features a soundtrack written and performed by Pink Floyd, released as the album Soundtrack from the Film More.


Directed by:  Barbet Schroeder
Starring: Mimsy Farmer, Klaus Grünberg
Distributed by: Jet Films


Sunday, May 22, 2011

My Tutor (1983)

My Tutor is a 1983 comedy. The film details high school graduates' attempts to lose their virginity during the summer vacation before leaving to college, and one's eventual relationship with his female French tutor hired by his rich father.


Directed by: George Bowers
Starring: Caren Kaye, Matt Lattanzi
Distributed by: Crown International Pictures


Angel Face (1952)


Angel Face is a 1952 black-and-white film noir. Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.

Directed by: Otto Preminger
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
Distributed by: RKO pictures




Saturday, May 14, 2011

The Wild One (1953)

The Wild One is a 1953 outlaw biker film. Two rival motorcycle gangs terrorize a small town after one of their leaders is thrown in jail.



Directed by: László Benedek
Starring: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Lee Marvin
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures








Saturday, April 30, 2011

Pandora and The Flying Dutchman (1951)



Pandora and the Flying Dutchman is a 1951 British drama film. In 1930, singer Pandora Reynolds, gorgeous, enigmatic, and fascinated by danger and destruction, has the men of a small Spanish town in despair. Just when race driver Stephen Cameron thinks he's won her, a mysterious yacht appears in the bay whose eerie captain may be the legendary Flying Dutchman. Stephen has an apparently more dangerous rival in the form of an arrogant bullfighter; but Pandora's friendship with the Dutchman may lead them both to a rendezvous with Fate.


Directed by: Albert Lewin
Starring: Ava Gardner, James Mason
Distributed by: Romulus Films (UK), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer(US)




Thursday, April 28, 2011

To Sir With Love (1967)


To Sir, with Love is a 1967 British drama film starring Sidney Poitier that deals with social and racial issues in an inner city school.

Directed by: James Clavell
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Lulu
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures



Monday, April 25, 2011

The Wild Angels (1966)


The Wild Angels is a 1966 Roger Corman film. 'Heavenly Blues' is the name of the leader of Hell's Angels chapter from Venice, California and 'Loser' is his best pal. When 'Heavenly Blues' and 'Loser' both botch their attempt to retrieve Loser's stolen bike, Loser ends up in the hospital. When the Angels bust him out, he dies, and they bury him. The plot is basically a buildup to the last half-hour of the film in which Loser's funeral becomes another wild party.

Directed by: Roger Corman
Starring: Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd
Distributed by: American International Pictures




Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Zabriskie Point (1970)



Zabriskie Point is a 1970 film which gives the portrayal of two young Americans: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert) and dropout Mark (who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot).


Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer








Sunday, April 10, 2011

The Way We Were (1973)


The Way We Were is a 1973 American romantic dramatic film about two desperate people that have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.


Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures






Monday, March 28, 2011

Capone (1975)


Capone is a 1975 movie about the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years. Unusually, briefly covering the years after Capone was imprisoned.

Directed by: Steve Carver
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Harry Guardino, Susan Blakely, Sylvester Stallone, John Cassavetes
Distributed by: Twentieh Century-Fox Film Corporation





Thursday, March 24, 2011

Blackboard Jungle (1955)





Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 social commentary film about teachers in an inner-city school. The film marked the rock and roll revolution by featuring Bill Haley & His Comets' "Rock Around the Clock". 
The music also led to a huge teenage audience for the film, and their exuberant response to it sometimes overflowed into violence and vandalism at screenings. In this sense, the film has been seen as marking the start of a period of visible teenage rebellion in the late 20th century.


Directed by: Richard Brooks
Starring: Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Sydney Poitier
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer