Category Drama

The Lodge

About 10 years old, Mia (Lia McHugh) and teenager Aiden (Jaeden Martell) suffer from the separation of their parents. Children aside, Laura (Alicia Silverstone) is informed by Richard (Richard Armitage) that he not only wants their divorce finalized, but plans to marry his much younger girlfriend...

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The Best of Enemies

The film is based on a true story told in Osha Gray Davidson’s book ‘The Best Of Enemies: Race And Redemption In The New South’. Ann Atwater is a fierce civil rights activist in Durham, North Carolina. For a decade it fought with its sworn enemy C.P. Ellis, the Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan of Durham. Their fiefdom stopped abruptly in 1971. After a decree ordered by the school segregation judge that threw the city into chaos, Atwater and Ellis reluctantly agreed to co-chair an intense two-week meeting with the community to search to reach a compromise...

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The Hate U Give

Starr (with two rs) is a sixteen year old with two distinct identities: at school she is the model student who blends happily with wealthy and Caucasian companions; at home, in the all black neighborhood of Garden Heights, she returns to being the little girl raised between barbeques and survival lessons – in her case given by her father, Maverick, who draws on her Decalogue from the Black Panther Code. In particular, Dad teaches his three children how to behave if a policeman stops them while they are in the car, as often happens – and often without good reason – for African-Americans in the “evolved” United States...

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On the Basis of Sex

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was one of the very few women admitted to the faculty of law at Harvard in the late fifties. She also graduated from Columbia, when she was already the mother and wife of Martin D. Ginsburg, destined to become an important tax lawyer...

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Downton Abbey

The film is based on the famous TV series of the same name, set in the imaginary Downton Abbey, the noble residence of the Count and Countess of Grantham, and follows the life of the aristocratic Crawley family and their employees, at the beginning of the reign of George V. The series extends in the two years preceding the Great War, which begins with the news of the sinking of the Titanic, an event that activates most of the plot...

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Juanita

This drama has no high ambitions, beyond telling a well-founded, funny story about a woman who wants a change later in her life...

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Tolkien

The formative years of the orphan author when he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of outcasts in school. This leads him to the outbreak of the First World War, which threatens to tear the “Fellowship” to pieces...

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The Highwaymen

While the raids of Bonnie and Clyde rage for the United States, the Texas governor who dissolved the Rangers is persuaded to recall one of them on duty, to hunt down the two bandits who are now also two celebrities. Frank Hamer, who retired to private life in a beautiful villa, with a beautiful wife and a sort of domestic boar, agreed to return to action and sought help from another former ranger, Maney Gault...

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Serenity

The mysterious past of the captain of a fishing boat comes back to haunt him...

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Tales of the City

Mary Ann returns to San Francisco and rejoins her daughter Shawna and her ex-husband Brian, twenty years after leaving them to pursue their careers...

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