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Melodrama
see all genres ›Everyday life is, let's face it, not all that dramatic. But in melodrama, fickle fate twists, turns and plunges as precipitously as a rollercoaster, changing lives in an instant—often for the worse.
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Genres / Drama / Melodrama
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Death's Marathon
"Partners in business and rivals in love." Not with each other, of course (not in 1913, anyway). Two gentlemen have an interest in the same woman. One wins, one doesn't. The winner has a few bad habits that create unexpected problems in the relationship. DEATH'S MARATHON is a race against time to prevent a...Start your free trial to watch
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Debauchery
The sexy Ryôko Watanabe stars as Ami, a jaded housewife who pitches herself, body and soul, into the Tokyo decadence of the decade in an attempt to pep up her marriage. She secretly joins the elite “Madame Machiko Society Club” to experiment with discrete sex games and the thrill of making love to anonymous men. The sexual...Start your free trial to watch
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The Defect
THE DEFECT is considerably longer than Feuillade's shorter works and significantly shorter that his better-known achievements, but quite enjoyable nonetheless. The director's efforts at realism extend to retaining moments that other filmmakers of the era would otherwise discard. Scenes begin and end without cutting on...Start your free trial to watch
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Demon Pond
From the director of GOZU and ICHI THE KILLER, DEMON POND is the modern-day story of a man searching for a friend who has mysteriously disappeared intersecting with a magical tale involving strange creatures, a heartbroken princess and a pact that cannot be broken. Conflicts between faith and skepticism (and between social...Start your free trial to watch
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Dinah East
In 1950s Hollywood, a transvestite fools the world into believing he is a glamorous movie diva. When he dies, the secret is out and the film proceeds to tell the story of his relationships with friends and intimates, including a lesbian wardrobe designer, a gay matinee idol (with whom he had an affair), a protective lawyer...Start your free trial to watch
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Diva Dolorosa
In this mesmerizing collage of silent Italian melodrama, found-footage filmmaker Peter Delpeut affectionately captures the spirit of the World War I-era cinema diva. In all-but-lost gems such as LA DONNA NUDA (1914) and TIGRE REALE (1916), superstars such as Lyda Borelli and Pina Menichelli portrayed heroines teetering...Start your free trial to watch
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Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
After garnering widespread acclaim with his mini-masterpiece THE HEART OF THE WORLD, Canadian cult auteur Guy Maddin concocted his most ravishingly stylized cinematic creation to date. Beautifully transposing the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s interpretation of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire yarn from stage to...Start your free trial to watch
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Dreaming Lips
Peter is about to perform a Ludwig Von Beethoven concert for the first time and he needs his wife Elisabeth "Liss" (Maria Schell) there for emotional support. He claims he always plays his best when she is there. To his surprise, his old friend Michael Sekretar is the solo violinist. Elisabeth is late for the performance, as...Start your free trial to watch
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Earth
Alexander Dovzhenko was among the greatest of Soviet directors and his EARTH is one of the undisputed masterpieces of the cinema (though his earlier ZVENIGORA is arguably a more revolutionary work). No single viewing of EARTH will ever reveal all of its poetic brilliance. In its compelling story, an old farmer dies and his...Start your free trial to watch
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Em
Josh Weathers is an aimless young man in his twenties who is looking for more out of life. Enter Amanda “EM” Helms, a vivacious and spirited young woman who lives life to the fullest. Instinctive mutual attraction brings them together and soon blossoms into a rich romance. But when the two decide to start a new life and a...Start your free trial to watch
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Endings
Emmy Ferguson is a 10-year old who learns that, after a long bout with leukemia, today is probably her last day on earth. Chris Ryan is a 35 year old drug addict who is determined to make this his last day. Adonna Frost, suffering from advanced breast cancer, has made a similar decision about the end of her life. They are all...Start your free trial to watch
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The Ex-Convict
An uncredited but quite obvious adaptation of a well-known vaudeville piece, Number 973, by Robert Hilliard and Edwin Holland. Starting from the Hilliard-Holland one-act playlet, Porter visualized the storyline into a total of eight scenes. Unlike UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, THE EX-CONVICT was not filmed theater but an adaptation that...Start your free trial to watch
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Exposed
Lena (Christina Lindberg) is a young teen in need of excitement and sexual satisfaction. Torn between her meek and innocent boyfriend Jan and the sadistic party-goer Helge, Lena’s life turns upside-down when Helge takes some nude photographs of her. These photos can destroy her life and Lena must do anything to get them. Even...Start your free trial to watch
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The Fatherless
They never expected Kyra to turn up again. Upon the death of their father, two brothers and their sister unite at the family estate, only to be stunned by the arrival of their sister Kyra, who as a toddler vanished over twenty years earlier, during the breakup of their parents' hippie commune where they were all born. When...Start your free trial to watch
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Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
This all-time Japanese cult favorite inspired a series of sequels and remakes still extending today. It's a crazed mixture of “women in prison” and revenge-flick tropes that was a key inspiration for KILL BILL (which used some of its music as an homage). Gorgeous Meiko Kaji plays the girlfriend of an...Start your free trial to watch
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Il ferroviere
Later famed internationally for such exportable comedies as DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE and THE BIRDS, THE BEES AND THE ITALIANS, Pietro Germi was still strongly identified with postwar Italy's neo-realist vogue when he wrote, directed and starred in this potent seriocomedy. He plays a railroad engineer perpetually raging over the...Start your free trial to watch
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Fertile Memory
Grandmother Romia fights an unending legal battle with the Zionist authorities who confiscated her ancestral land soon after the Israeli occupation in 1947. With her family scattered all over the globe while she works in an Israeli factory, Romia doggedly maintains a dignity and passion that for her are the difference between...Start your free trial to watch