Blood from a Stoner (2013)

Actors: Gary Meister (composer), Kathryn Erbe (actress), Larry Bryggman (actor), Darpan Joshi (miscellaneous crew), Melissa Yap-Stewart (miscellaneous crew), Lou Liberatore (actor), Lou Liberatore (actor), Rama Kolesnikow (composer), Jeanne Dorsey (director), Jeanne Dorsey (writer), Jeanne Dorsey (producer), Timothy Naylor (editor),

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Short,

A golpe de tacón (2007)

Actors: Lola Herrera (actress), Cristina Marcos (actress), María José Iglesias (costume designer), Nino Martínez Sosa (editor), Mariano Marín (composer), Belén Ponce de León (actress), Fernando Andina (actor), Fran Sariego (actor), Amanda Castro (director), Sergio Guardado (writer), Julian Fernandez (actor), Lucía Palicio (miscellaneous crew), Pedro Alberto Marcos (writer), Lara Corujo (actress), Alba Cueto (actress),

Genres: Drama, Short,

Stestí (2005)

Actors: Simona Stasová (actress), Iva Janzurová (actress), Bolek Polívka (actor), Anna Geislerová (actress), Karl Baumgartner (producer), Tatiana Vilhelmová (actress), Pavel Liska (actor), Martin Huba (actor), Thanassis Karathanos (producer), Zuzana Krónerová (actress), Jan Otcenásek (miscellaneous crew), Pavel Strnad (producer), Jan Danhel (editor), Jirí Maria Sieber (actor), Hanus Bor (actor),

Plot: Three young adults in Most sort out feelings and responsibilities: Monika's boyfriend has left for the States, her mother wants her to join him there, and if the invitation does come, what should she do? Toník is a nice guy, his love for Moni is unrequited. He's trying to rebuild his family's crumbling house; a nearby factory has made an offer to buy the land. With Moni, he watches out for the two young sons of Dasha, their friend who's in a hopeless long-term affair with a married man: Dasha is at once unstable, unrealistic, neglectful of her boys, and cruel to those who help. For whom is this something like happiness?

Keywords: happiness, mental-illness
Genres: Drama,

Julietta (2001)

Actors: Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey (actor), Nico Hofmann (producer), Wotan Wilke Möhring (actor), Uwe Kockisch (actor), Bettina Reitz (producer), Gernot Zeglien (miscellaneous crew), Matthias Koeberlin (actor), Lavinia Wilson (actress), Manfred Richter (actor), Mathias Schwerbrock (producer), Barnaby Metschurat (actor), Christoph Silber (writer), Sibylle Canonica (actress), Ulrike Mai (actress), Jürgen Mai (actor),

Genres: Drama, Romance,

Border (1998)

Actors: Edita Brychta (actress), Nicola Wright (actress), Daniel Hill (actor), Shaun Scott (actor), Terry Coles (producer), Tim Rose Price (writer), Misha Williams (director),

Genres: Drama,

C'est la tangente que je préfère (1997)

Actors: Ludo Troch (editor), Louis Navarre (actor), Marie Laforêt (actress), Jacqueline Pierreux (producer), Françoise Michaud (actress), Élodie Van Beuren (miscellaneous crew), Marie-Christine Barrault (actress), Agnès Soral (actress), Maurice Chevit (actor), Rufus (actor), Christophe Malavoy (actor), Georges Corraface (actor), Jean-Luc Van Damme (producer), Anna Prucnal (actress), Faouzi Brahimi (actor),

Plot: Sabine, an adolescent girl with a gift for mathematics becomes involved with Jiri, a 40-something man-of-the-theatre from Prague. The story of their relationship and the gradual transformation of Sabine's life as a result of it.

Keywords: coming-of-age, encounter, female-nudity, high-school, lack-of-money, lille-flanders, male-nudity, math-whiz, older-man-younger-woman-relationship
Genres: ,

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

Actors: Stellan Skarsgård (actor), Jean-Claude Dauphin (actor), Jan Nemec (actor), Daniel Olbrychski (actor), Jean-Claude Bouillon (actor), Clovis Cornillac (actor), Donald Moffat (actor), Daniel Day-Lewis (actor), Erland Josephson (actor), Charles Millot (actor), Pavel Landovský (actor), Jacques Ciron (actor), Derek de Lint (actor), Leon Lissek (actor), László Szabó (actor),

Plot: Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form an electric friendship. The three are caught up in the events of the Prague Spring (1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent rebels; their illusions are shattered and their lives change forever.

Keywords: 1960s, 360-degree-pan, adultery, affair, anthem, arm-injury, arm-sling, atrocity, band, bar
Genres: Drama, Romance,
Taglines: A Lovers Story.

Quotes:

Sabina: I've met another man. He's the best man I've ever met. He's bright, handsome and he's crazy about me. And, he's married. There's only one thing; he doesn't like my hat.

Tereza: I don't understand how someone can MAKE love without BEING in love.

[first lines]::First Title Card: In Prague, in 1968, there lived a young doctor named Tomas...::Tomas: Take off your clothes. [line recurs several times during film]

Tomas: I must go.::Sabina: Don't you ever spend the night at the woman's place?::Tomas: Never!::Sabina: What about when the woman's at your place?::Tomas: I tell her I have insomnia... anything. Besides, I have a very narrow bed.::Sabina: Are you afraid of women, Doctor?::Tomas: Of course.

[last lines]::Tereza: Tomas, what are you thinking?::Tomas: I'm thinking how happy I am.

Tereza: [referring to her dog] Karenin prefers Mephisto to dogs. She thinks other dogs are silly.::Tomas: [Mephisto snorts and Tomas inhales the aroma of the food] Ha-ha.::Pavel: Do you know why I love Mephisto? Because he's very bright, but, at the same time,::[gesturing for emphasis]::Pavel: he doesn't know anything! After all, he doesn't know that life is impossible here now. Nothing left here. The church is gone.::[shrugging]::Pavel: No place to drink beer now.::[he drinks his bottle of beer very quickly]::Pavel: It's good... very good.::[slurping]::Pavel: If you ever change your mind, it won't be easy to leave.

Tereza: I was forced to love my mother, but not this dog. You know, Tomas... maybe... maybe, I love her more than I love you. Not more. I mean in a better way. I'm not jealous of her. I don't want her to be different. I don't ask her for anything.

Sabina: Take off your clothes.::Tereza: [taken aback] What?::Sabina: [taking the camera] Now it's my turn.::Tereza: [backing up] I don't like to be naked. I...::Sabina: [insistent] Take off your clothes!::Tereza: Wait! [she ducks behind the bed]

Sabina: I really like you, Tomas. You are the complete opposite of kitsch. In the kingdom of kitsch you would be a monster.

Tomas: You can sleep. Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like a little song. A song sung by a forest... within a forest... a thousand years ago.

Mio min Mio (1987)

Actors: Göran Lindström (producer), Ingemar Ejve (producer), Igor Yasulovich (actor), Susannah York (actress), Hans Strååt (actor), Igor Yasulovich (actor), Christopher Lee (actor), Hans Strååt (actor), Christian Bale (actor), Sverre Anker Ousdal (actor), Timothy Bottoms (actor), Christian Bale (actor), Tor Isedal (actor), Benny Andersson (composer), Astrid Lindgren (writer),

Plot: A fantasy about the lonely boy who is transferred from his dull life with his adoptive parents to the land where his real father is the king. In that country he sets out on a quest, together with his new friend, to destroy the evil Knight Kato.

Keywords: anvil, apple, aunt-nephew-relationship, based-on-novel, bird, bravery, bread, bread-to-satisfy-all-hunger, bridge, brother-brother-relationship
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery,
Taglines: They're two best friends, a million miles from home. On an incredible adventure, beyond the boundaries of space and time. In a place called...The Land of Faraway.

Quotes:

[repeated line]::The King: Mio... My Mio...

Mio: It felt like we were flying! I didn't know that Miramis could do that!::Jum-Jum: You don't know all that much, Mio.

The King: Mio... My Mio...::Bosse: Mio? But my name is Bosse!::The King: Mio. I have been searching for you for nine long years. Missing my son. I've been lying awake at night, crying "Mio... My Mio..." So you see, I do know what your true name is.

The Swordmaker: This sword cannot be used to murder the young and innocent. This sword was made especially to kill Kato!

Kato: This is the most dangerous sword I've had in my castle... It cannot kill the young and innocent!

Kato: Even if you kill me there will be another Kato. And another. And another. So take your loyal friend and your horse and ride back home, to your father. He's waiting for you.::Mio: No. I came to kill you, and kill you I shall. And even if you kill me, another prince will come. And another. And another.::Kato: Then you must die.

Kato: At last I am freed of my heart of stone.

Jum-Jum: Use the cape! It will make you invisible to the guards, you can sneak by seven times seven guards and gates and get out of here!::Mio: But what about you?::Jum-Jum: I'm staying here. There is only one cape.::Mio: And only one friend. If we are to die, we shall die together.

Bosse: Who is that man? Wait, don't tell me. I already know. He's my father, right?::The Spirit: Yes. The king of the Land of Faraway.

Mio: I am going alone.::Jum-Jum: No, you're not. The son of a king riding into the woods on a white horse with an only friend. That's already been decided for thousands of years. That cannot be changed.

Ana Lusa (1976)

Actors: Jean-Pierre De Decker (director), Els Magerman (actress), Nicole Delvaux (actress), Marcel De Stoop (actor), David Mowat (writer), Achiel Van Malderen (writer), Laurette Muylaert (actress), Leen Persyn (actress), Piet Hermans (actor),

Genres: Drama,

The Lost People (1949)

Actors: Charles Hawtrey (actor), William Hartnell (actor), Arthur Alcott (miscellaneous crew), Richard Attenborough (actor), Dennis Price (actor), Mai Zetterling (actress), Julie Harris (costume designer), Peter Bull (actor), Tutte Lemkow (actor), Herbert Lom (actor), George Benson (actor), Olaf Pooley (actor), John Greenwood (composer), Muriel Box (director), Gerard Heinz (actor),

Plot: Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees (displaced persons) in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.

Keywords: based-on-play, title-directed-by-female
Genres: Drama, War,