Mamma Roma (1962)
Synopsis: An aging prostitute, nick-named ‘Mama Roma’ (Anna Magnani, The Rose Tattoo), decides to call it quits. She buys a fruit stand and moves to a respectable neighborhood with her […]
Tag Archives: Drama
Stories of people dealing with human emotions in realistic situations
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Synopsis: Two couples, played by Elizabeth Taylor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Richard Burton (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold), George Segal (The Owl and the Pussycat), […]
The V.I.P.s (1963)
Synopsis: Bad weather at London’s Heathrow Airport prevents various elite passengers from leaving the country. This unexpected flight delay produces all sorts of unintended complications for the anxious passengers. Reaction & Thoughts: […]
Always (1989)
Synopsis: An aerial firefighter, Pete Sandich (Richard Dreyfuss, Jaws), dies during a massive forest wildfire only to return to Earth as a guardian angel to fellow firefighter, Ted Baker (Brad […]
The Bette Davis Project: All About Eve (1950)
Synopsis: Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter, The Razord’s Edge), the self-proclaimed #1 fan of theater legend Margo Channing (Bette Davis), ingratiates herself into the famous and temperamental thespian’s inner circle of friends and colleagues. […]
Life at the Top (1965)
Synopsis: It’s been ten years since unscrupulously ambitious Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey, The Manchurian Candidate and Darling) entered into a marriage of convenience. Now Joe has everything he wanted in life: a […]
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (1987, TV-Mini-Series)
Synopsis: In the 1940s, an actress with a dubious past, Ann Arden (Ann-Margret, Pocketful of Miracles), marries a Navy Officer, Billy Grenville (Stephen Collins, Star Trek: The Motion Picture), who belongs […]
Good Sam (1948)
Synopsis: Gary Cooper (The Pride of the Yankees and High Noon) plays a good-hearted man whose efforts to help others annoy most people, his wife (Ann Sheridan, They Drive by Night […]
Room at the Top (1959)
Synopsis: An ambitious young man, Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey, The Alamo and The Manchurian Candidate), has finally landed a good job far away from his rickety hometown. Joe realizes pretty […]
Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)
Synopsis: Tom Hanks (Big and Forrest Gump ) plays a Protestant American in the R.A.F. stationed in Jerusalem during World War II, who falls in love with a local Jewish woman (Cristina […]
Rebel without a Cause (1955)
Synopsis: The new kid in town, Jim Stark (James Dean, East of Eden), has a knack for getting into trouble. Jim’s odd behavior quickly attacks the attention of the school’s […]
Director’s Spotlight: Alfred Hitchcock’s The Skin Game (1931)
Synopsis: The plot revolves around two feuding families — the aristocratic Hillcrists and the nouveau riche Hornblowers — and the consequences of their ongoing fight over land ownership. It’s no surprise that […]
East of Eden (1955)
Synopsis: In the 1910s, California, a troubled young man, Cal (James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause), discovers that his presumed-dead mother (Jo Van Fleet, Wild River) is alive and runs a […]
Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
Synopsis: A Macy’s sales associate, Angie Rossini (Natalie Wood, Splendor in the Grass), has a one-night stand with a narcissist musician, Rocky Papasano (Steve McQueen, Bullit). Angie becomes pregnant and she asks […]
The Bette Davis Project: Payment on Demand (1951)
Synopsis: After being married for twenty-one years, a wealthy lawyer, David Ramsey (Barry Sullivan, The Bad and the Beautiful), asks his wife, Joyce (Bette Davis), for a divorce. Shocked and […]
Sense and Sensibility (1996)
Synopsis: During England’s Georgian era, two very different and newly impoverished sisters (Emma Thompson, The Remains of The Day, and Kate Winslet, Titanic), face the capricious whims of fate and destiny […]
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
Synopsis: The family of wealthy Mississippian, Harvey “Big Daddy” Pollitt (Burl Ives, The Big Country), gathers together to celebrate the old patriarch’s 65th birthday. They’re strange bunch. Ex-football star, Brick […]
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951, Director’s Cut)
Synopsis: Vivien Leigh (Gone with the Wind) is Blanche DuBois, a faded Southern belle who moves in with her kid sister, Stella (Kim Hunter, The Planet of the Apes) and […]
Marie Antoinette (2006)
Synopsis: In the 18th century, Austrian princess Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst, Spider-man) marries the French dauphin Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman, The Grand Budapest Hotel). Although they don’t get along at first, […]
