Drama

2000

R

Plot: Long-established director Emir Kusturica makes his acting debut in Patrice Lecontes 19th century tale of a loyal, strong-willed woman who follows her soldier husband to a desolate French territory off ...

Drama

1986

PG

Plot: Co-adapted by director Claude Berri from a novel by Marcel Pagnol, this hugely successful French historical drama concerns a bizarre battle royale over a valuable natural spring in a remote French farm ...

Drama

1996

R

Plot: Originally made for cable television, this imaginative biopic chronicles the life of Marilyn Monroe (Mira Sorvino), including the years before she changed her name from Norma Jean Baker (Ashley Judd) a ...

Drama

1957

Plot: Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa transferred the setting of Maxim Gorkys play The Lower Depths from Imperial Russia to his own countrys Edo Period--which, like Gorkys 19th-century settin ...

History [nf]

1995

NR

Plot: The meteoric rise and tragic fall of actress Jean Seberg is dissected in this fascinatingly complex psuedo-documentary that features actress Mary Beth Hurt playing Seberg as she examines her life. Alon ...