El Raval

Godmother (1999)

Actors: Vishal Bhardwaj (composer), Govind Namdeo (actor), Milind Gunaji (actor), Rahul Nanda (miscellaneous crew), Himanshu Nanda (miscellaneous crew), Shabana Azmi (actress), Ashok (miscellaneous crew), Raima Sen (actress), Suresh (miscellaneous crew), Raj Yagnik (actor), Vinay Shukla (writer), Vinay Shukla (writer), Vinay Shukla (director), Renu Saluja (editor), Vinay Shukla (writer),

Plot: When an imminent drought threatens to ruin their crop, Rambhi and her husband Veeru move from their village to the city. Through threat, violence and blackmail, Veeru makes a career as a kind of mafia don in the corrupt political system, but it turns out he is no more than a puppet of an influential lawyer who has him killed when Veeru decides not to kill any more. The lawyer thinks he can turn Rambhi into yet another puppet of his plans, but she strikes back, taking revenge for her husband's murder and fighting the corrupt political system until she becomes a veritable mafia Godmother herself.

Keywords: assassination, death-of-husband, female-empowerment, gender-equality, murder, political-corruption, politician, politics, surrender, widow
Genres: Crime, Drama, Musical, Thriller,
Taglines: A woman who dared to rule a man's world.

Det sjunde inseglet (1957)

Actors: Erik Strandmark (actor), Max von Sydow (actor), Gösta Prüzelius (actor), Nils Poppe (actor), Georg Skarstedt (actor), Nils Poppe (actor), Gunnar Olsson (actor), Åke Fridell (actor), Gunnar Björnstrand (actor), Lars Lind (actor), Tor Isedal (actor), Ulf Johansson (actor), Sten Ardenstam (actor), Bibi Andersson (actress), Uno Larsson (actor),

Plot: A Knight and his squire are home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. The knight challenges Death to a chess game for his life. The Knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.

Keywords: 1300s, actor, adultery, allegory, apocalypse, based-on-play, beach, belief, black-comedy, black-death
Genres: Drama, Fantasy,

Quotes:

Antonius Block: I shall remember this moment: the silence, the twilight, the bowl of strawberries, the bowl of milk. Your faces in the evening light. Mikael asleep, Jof with his lyre. I shall try to remember our talk. I shall carry this memory carefully in my hands as if it were a bowl brimful of fresh milk. It will be a sign to me, and a great sufficiency.

Antonius Block: Nothing escapes you!::Death: Nothing escapes me. No one escapes me.

[In response to Death coming for him]::Jonas Skat: Is there no exemption for actors?

Antonius Block: I met Death today. We are playing chess.

Jöns: Love is the blackest of all plagues... if one could die of it, there would be some pleasure in love, but you don't die of it.

Antonius Block: I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to men has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.

Antonius Block: Who are you?::Death: I am Death.::Antonius Block: Have you come for me?::Death: I have long walked by your side.::Antonius Block: So I have noticed.::Death: Are you ready?::Antonius Block: My body is ready, but I am not.

Antonius Block: Have you met the devil? I want to meet him too.::Witch: Why do you want to do that?::Antonius Block: I want to ask him about God. He must know. He, if anyone.

Jöns: Who will take care of that child. God, the devil, the nothingness? The nothingness, perhaps?::Antonius Block: It can't be so!

Death: Don't you ever stop asking?::Antonius Block: No. I never stop.::Death: But you're not getting an answer.