Drama

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Adua and Her Friends

Adua and Her Friends

Comedy · World Cinema · Drama

A rare masterpiece and a wonderful example of Italian Cinema starring two European film icons, Simone Signoret and Marcello Mastroianni, Adua and her Friends tells the story of four prostitutes forced to fend for themselves when a new law closes the bordellos of Rome.

Ali & Ava

Ali & Ava

Romance · Drama

Sparks fly as two people develop a deep connection despite the lingering legacy of past relationships.

The Beasts

The Beasts

Drama · Thriller

An expatriate French couple operate an organic farm in the Spanish countryside but tensions between locals and foreigners boil over in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.

Bonjour Tristesse

Bonjour Tristesse

Romance · Drama

At the height of summer, 18-year-old Cécile is relaxing by the French seaside with her father and falling in love with her new boyfriend. The arrival of her late mother’s enigmatic friend turns her world upside down.

Close to You

Close to You

LGBTQ · Drama

Academy Award® Nominee Elliot Page (Juno, The Umbrella Academy, Inception) stars as a trans manwho returns to his hometown for the first time in years.

Come Closer

Come Closer

Comedy · Romance · Drama

Following her brother’s unexpected death, Eden discovers he had a secret girlfriend. Drawn to the mysterious Maya, Eden plunges into a world of parties, obsession, and forbidden desire.

Concerned Citizen

Concerned Citizen

Comedy · Drama

A dark comedy about gentrification in which a socially progressive man’s attempt to improve his Tel Aviv neighborhood goes unexpectedly awry.

The Conformist

The Conformist

Historic Drama · World Cinema · RT Certified Fresh

Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece is a political drama set in Mussolini's Italy starring Jean-Louis Trintignant as a repressed man trying to purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode – and murder – who joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in.

Conversation Piece

Conversation Piece

World Cinema · Drama

This new restoration of Luchino Visconti’s personal and provocative chamber study starring Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, and Helmut Berger explores themes of class, sex, art, and fascism and preserves Visconti’s precise chromatic design, elegant interior compositions, and sonic detail…

Crime of Love

Crime of Love

World Cinema · Drama

A forgotten classic, Crime of Love is a story about two factory workers living in Northern Italy who form a romantic connection. The film gives a good idea of the north-south mentality clash in Italy. The workers from the north and the south may have the same political ideas, but when they go home t…

The Critic

The Critic

Mystery · Crime · Thriller

A powerful London theater critic lures a struggling actress into a blackmail scheme with deadly consequences.

Delegation

Delegation

Comedy · Drama

Three Israeli high schoolers take part in a class trip visiting Holocaust sites in Poland – the last time together before going to the army.

Dreams

Dreams

Drama · Romance · Thriller

A powerful socialite and a promising ballet dancer begin a dangerous affair. When he secretly crosses the US-Mexico border, she takes desperate measures to protect their future together.

Ex-Husbands

Ex-Husbands

Comedy · Drama

Manhattan dentist Peter Pearce is facing a midlife crisis after his wife of 35 years leaves him. On the spur of the moment, he books a trip to Tulum, Mexico, only to crash his son’s bachelor party.

Fantasy Life

Fantasy Life

Comedy · Romance · Drama

An anxious law school dropout stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist’s three granddaughters and falls for the girls’ mother, an actress in a rocky marriage.

Il Generale Della Rovere

Il Generale Della Rovere

Based on True Story · World Cinema · War

Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1959 Venice Film Festival, directed by Roberto Rossellini and featuring world cinema icon Vittoria de Sica (The Bicycle Thief), IL GENERALE DELLA ROVERE is a film based on the true story of Emanuele Bardone, who, during the height of WWII, exploits his fellow Italian…

Hitch Hike

Hitch Hike

World Cinema · Drama

While on a cross-country drive, a bitter writer (international superstar franco Nero of Django) and his beautiful wife (Corinne Clery, the Story of O and Moonraker) pick up a stranded motorist (David Hess of Last House on the Left infamy). But when this hitcher turns out to be a depraved psychopath,…

I Cannibali

I Cannibali

World Cinema · Drama

I Cannibali, third feature film by Liliana Cavani, starring a trio of excellent actors (Pierre Clementi, Britt Ekland and Tomas Milian), is a modern reinterpretation of Sophocles' tragedy, made during the protest years of 1967-69. A film that stands out for its visionary intelligence, in the context…

Incitement

Incitement

History · Drama

In September 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin announces the Oslo Accords, which aim to achieve a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians after decades of violence. Yigal Amir (Yehuda Nahari Halevi), a law student and a devoted Orthodox Jew, cannot believe that his country’s l…

Inshallah a Boy

Inshallah a Boy

Drama

A widow pretends to be pregnant with a son in order to save her daughter and home from a relative exploiting Jordan's patriarchal inheritance laws.

Islands

Islands

Crime · Drama · Thriller

In this twisty thriller, a tennis coach at a tropical resort finds himself at the center of amissing persons mystery.

Jinsei

Jinsei

Animated · Drama

A man's journey through life, marked by various names and labels, leads him to unexpected success while confronting modern social issues and personal struggles along the way.

Juniper

Juniper

World Cinema · Drama

A worldly former war correspondent now bored in retirement with a drinking problem and her unruly grandson form an unexpected bond.

Karaoke

Karaoke

Comedy · Romance · Drama

A long-married couple becomes obsessed with their new, charismatic neighbor and his karaoke parties.

Let There Be Drums!

Let There Be Drums!

Drama

The world’s greatest drummers reflect on the art of drumming and how it has shaped their lives.

Madeleine Collins

Madeleine Collins

Drama

In this tense psychological drama, Judith (Virginie Efira) leads a secret double life split between two households in two countries.

Madness (Vacanze per un Massacro)

Madness (Vacanze per un Massacro)

Drama · Crime · World Cinema

After brutally killing two farmers with a pitchfork, an escaped murderer Joe Brezy makes a bee-line for the holiday cottage where five years earlier he stashed a substantial amount of ill-gotten loot.

Maladonna and Malombra

Maladonna and Malombra

Cult · Drama

In 1984 Bruno Gaburro directed two provocatively erotic dramas both starring Eurosleaze favorite Paola Senatore (Emmanuelle in America, Salon Kitty).

The Man in the Basement

The Man in the Basement

Drama

After a Jewish couple sells their basement to a former history teacher, they discover his secret life as an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist.

Many Wars Ago

Many Wars Ago

Period Drama · World Cinema · War

In Northern Italy, WWI has turned into a bloody stalemate. Bogged down in their trenches on a barren highland, the men of an Italian infantry division have been given one objective: retake a commanding height from the enemy.

The Milky Way

The Milky Way

Comedy · Drama

In this dark comedy, single mother Tala takes a job at The Milky Way, a factory that produces gourmet breast milk.

Napoli Napoli Napoli

Napoli Napoli Napoli

World Cinema · Documentary · Drama

With his crooked face and rough demeanor Abel Ferrara looks and acts like he could have been born in Naples, Italy, the subject and location of his raw and “hyperreality” film Naples Naples Naples. Inspired by real events, this docudrama, narrated by the director, depicts a young woman m…

One Hundred Steps

One Hundred Steps

Crime · World Cinema · Drama

The shocking story of Peppino Impastato, a young left-wing activist who vocally opposed the mafia in the 1970s and paid a brutal price.

The Other Widow

The Other Widow

Comedy · Drama

A dark comedic drama about Ella, a 34 year old theater costume designer and mistress of a playwright who dies unexpectedly.

Paolo Gioli: The Complete Filmworks

Paolo Gioli: The Complete Filmworks

World Cinema · Drama

This box-set presents 38 remarkable films made by Paolo Gioli between 1969 and 2013, expressing his playfully deconstructive attitude towards motion picture technology, as seen in his early hand-painted films, his unusual manipulations of camera mechanisms and optics, and his unique interest in home…

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

Mystery · Thriller · Horror

Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.

Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time

Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time

Romance · Drama

Márta, a forty-year-old neurosurgeon, falls in love. She leaves her shining American career behind and returns to Budapest to start a new life with the man. But the love of her life claims they have never met before.

The Road to Eilat

The Road to Eilat

Comedy · Romantic Comedy · Drama

The hanged body of an old man in the middle of a small kibbutz in the north of Israel leads Albert, a war veteran, to make a drunken bet. Along with Ben, his grumpy unemployed son, the feisty odd couple will cross the entire country on an old tractor, in one week.

Seduction

Seduction

World Cinema · Drama

Maurice Ronet (Purple Noon) stars as Giuseppe Lagana, a European playboy who returns to his home in the Sicilian town of Catania to settle his deceased father’s affairs. He reunites with an old friend, Caterina (Lisa Gastoni), and a mid-life romance is kindled from the sparks of their youthful…

Shoshana

Shoshana

Thriller · Romance · Action

In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, a British police officer and a Jewish woman fall in love amidst the political turmoil of 1930s Tel Aviv.

Le Soldatesse (aka The Camp Followers)

Le Soldatesse (aka The Camp Followers)

World Cinema · Drama

In WWII, Lieut. Martino is tasked with delivering twelve prostitutes to various military outposts across the Axis territory, to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.

Steam - The Turkish Bath

Steam - The Turkish Bath

LGBTQ · World Cinema · Romance

Tired of his troubled marriage, an Italian businessman's life changes dramatically after he learns that an aunt has left him property in Istanbul. Francesco (Alessandro Gassman) arrives to the Turkish city hoping that he can take care of the matter swiftly and return to Italy. He is surprised to dis…

Sublet

Sublet

Comedy · World Cinema · Drama

SUBLET focuses on Michael (Hickey), a travel columnist for The New York Times, who goes to Tel Aviv to write an article after suffering a tragedy.

Summer Solstice

Summer Solstice

Comedy · Drama

Leo, a trans man, and his cisgender and straight friend Eleanor embark on the weekend getaway. Reunited with new gender dynamics between them, Leo and Eleanor navigate how their old feelings towards one another exist within this new context, forcing them both to confront buried secrets and emotions.

Swept Away

Swept Away

Cult · Comedy · World Cinema

Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Mediterranean, Swept Away is the most famous and controversial film about sex, love, and politics from influential Italian director Lina Wertmüller, the first woman ever nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Director.

The Invisibles

The Invisibles

World Cinema · Drama

While Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels infamously declared Berlin “free of Jews” in 1943, 1,700 Jewish Berliners managed to survive in the Nazi capital. Claus Räfle’s gripping docudrama traces the stories of four real-life survivors who learned to hide in plain sight.

There's Still Tomorrow

There's Still Tomorrow

Comedy · History · Drama

In this moving comedic drama set in postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband.

Three Peaks

Three Peaks

Drama

Fatherhood, suspicion and resentment are a combustible formula in Jan Zabeil’s elegant, unnerving domestic thriller Three Peaks, in which a family vacation becomes a harrowing fight for survival.

To Be Twenty

To Be Twenty

World Cinema · Erotic · Drama

Twenty, beautiful, sexy and liberated, and fed up with their provincial lives, Lia and Tina decide to hitchhike their way to Rome to find a commune where they can stay and live the life of free love... or so they think.

A Violent Life (Una Vita Violenta)

A Violent Life (Una Vita Violenta)

Drama

A Violent Life (Una Vita Violenta) tells the story of a group of kids who live in one of the poorest and most disreputable neighborhoods in Rome.

Waves of Lust

Waves of Lust

Drama · Thriller

Two carefree youngsters are invited for a weekend cruise on a yacht owned by a ruthless and cynical industrialist.

Went Up the Hill

Went Up the Hill

Fantasy · Horror · Thriller

A recently deceased woman haunts her estranged son Jack her grieving widow. When the woman's spirit inhabits each of them, the pair must grapple with the destruction she left behind while fighting for their own survival.

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

World Cinema · Drama

The story of a Jewish family's escape from 1933 Berlin to Europe tackles prejudice, exile, displacement and adaptation, as told from the perspective of the author’s alter ego, nine year-old Anna Kemper.

Young, Violent, Dangerous

Young, Violent, Dangerous

Drama · Crime · World Cinema

Paul, Joe and Louie are three young men from good families who decide to go on a bloodthirsty and pointless crime spree, much to the dismay of Paul's girlfriend (Eleonora Giorgi) and the local police commissioner (Tomas Milian). The group starts by robbing a gas station where Paul guns down three in…

iMordecai

iMordecai

Family · Comedy · Drama

When Mordecai, a Holocaust survivor, portrayed by Academy Award Nominee Judd Hirsch (The Fabelmans, Ordinary People) is given a new iPhone, an unexpected series of events upends his world.