Category Drama

All of Us Strangers

Adam is a gay 40-year-old screenwriter who lives in a London apartment complex. One day Harry, an exuberant young man, knocks on his door and proposes to him with great sentimental and sexual ease, but initially Adam is too reserved and solitary to allow himself the pleasure of this new discovery. Going to visit his childhood home, the man encounters the ghosts of his parents, who disappeared when he was just twelve years old, and at the time unable to accept his emerging homosexuality. His parents appear to him as his peers and as very real presences, with whom he can deal in order to reconnect the threads of a past abruptly interrupted by the accident of which mum and dad were victims...

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Bob Marley – One Love

Between 1976 and 1978 Robert Nesta Marley, known as “Bob”, lived intense years, in an alternation of great joys and painful moments. The choice to hold a concert in Kingston to reconcile Jamaica’s two main political parties turns out to be even more dangerous than expected: Bob and his wife Rita suffer an attack, but, although injured, manage to survive. Bob then temporarily leaves Jamaica to find refuge in London, where the punk people welcome him with curiosity mixed with admiration...

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Fallout

Amazon adds to the current and winning trend of video game adaptations and does so by putting Lisa Joy (Pushing Daisies, Westworld) and Jonathan Nolan at the helm of the adaptation of Fallout – a role-playing video game created by Black Isle Studios and now produced by Bethesda Softwork. The intent of Todd Howard, director of Bethesda and executive producer of the series, is not to adapt the story of the last chapters of the successful post-apocalyptic video game saga, but to add a new piece to the puzzle, thus expanding the narrative universe ...

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Perfect Days

Tokyo, today. Hirayama is a sixty-year-old Japanese man who cleans the city’s public toilets with meticulous attention to detail and painstaking dedication to his work. Every day he follows the same routine: careful personal cleaning before and after cleaning other people’s bathrooms, watering the plants that he saved from the city’s carelessness, a sandwich in the park at lunchtime. Along his route he sometimes stops to observe the plants above him, taking photos of the foliage, or has a snack at some diner. And every now and then he has some encounters: with Takashi, the boy who takes over the afternoon shift of cleaning the bathrooms, with a girl in the park, with a homeless man disconnected from reality, with the owner of a restaurant who gives him small preferential treatments...

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White Bird

1942. Sara is fifteen years old and lives in Alsace, that is, in unoccupied France. However, the German presence gradually becomes stronger and the raids begin. She will be saved by the family of Julien, a boy suffering from polio, whom she previously kept at a distance...

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Ferrari

Modena, 1957. Twelve years after the end of the war, Enzo Ferrari, a former racing driver mourning the recent death of his son Dino, manages his car company with his wife Laura and lives in secret with his lover Lina, mother of illegitimate son Piero. Obsessed with the competitiveness of his cars in speed races, Enzo pushes his drivers to put their lives at risk in order to prevail, while the need to financially support the company forces him to renegotiate his collaboration with his wife...

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The Iron Claw

The Von Erech family of wrestlers had enormous success in the Wrestling circuit of the 80s, making famous the move called Iron Claw (which in fact gives the original title to the film), i.e. a headlock with pressure on different points of the skull. But the family is also marked by bad luck and, above all, by highly competitive and toxic relationships, which several of patriarch Frizt’s children end up not surviving. Canadian Sean Durkin’s film made a lot of headlines for the physical transformation he subjected his actors to, who were naturally forced to achieve the power of a wrestler...

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The Boys in the Boat

Based on an incredible true story...

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Sitting in Bars With Cake

Inspired by a true story, Sitting in Bars with Cake follows best friends Jane (Yara Shahidi) and Corinne (Odessa A’zion) as they navigate life in their twenties in Los Angeles. Corinne, an extrovert par excellence, convinces her shy but extremely talented best friend and home baker Jane to commit to baking cakes for a year and taking them to coffee shops, also known as “cakebarring”, with the aim of meeting people and developing self-confidence...

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One Life

1938. On the eve of the Second World War, Nicholas Winton, Londoner, 29 years old, stockbroker, sensing the threat of the invasion of Hitler’s Germany, organized a rescue plan, known as “Operation Kindertransport” for hundreds of children, many of religious origin Jewish, before the start of the conflict. Thanks to Martin Blake, who had asked him to go to Prague to help him coordinate the operations of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia and other central figures such as Doreen Warriner and his mother Babette who in the meantime collaborated from London, Winton managed to get the eight trains carrying hundreds of children reach Great Britain where they are hosted by foster families. A ninth was planned, but on the day he was supposed to leave, September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland and the borders in Europe were closed. In the second half of the 1980s, Winton’s commitment was finally publicly recognized when he had the opportunity to meet those now adult children during the BBC program That’s Life!...

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