Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998), The Firemen's Ball (1967), Viridiana (1961), The Devils (1971), The Legend of Paul and Paula (1973), Little Vera (1988), Lost in Beijing (2007), The Interview (2014) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Banned Film movies.
Storyline: During the Cultural Revolution in China, Mao Zadong's regime sends countless adolescents, including a bright young girl named Xiu Xiu (Lu Lu), to rural lands in order to participate in various kinds of physical labor. Xiu Xiu is torn away from her caring relatives and close friends to live and work with Lao Jin (Lopsang), a rancher. Though he treats Xiu Xiu kindly, she yearns for her old life and eventually turns to a degrading life of prostitution in hopes of earning the means to return home.
Plot Keywords: drama, historical, cultural revolution, youth, coming of age, tragedy, female ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Milos Forman's satire on Communism set in a small Czechoslovakian town in the 1960s, the local firemen decide to organize a ball, however the proceedings are dogged by difficulty at every step. They plan to organize a beauty pageant at the ball, yet struggle tremendously to find enough pretty contestants. A lottery is planned for later in the evening, but the guests begin stealing the prizes. Then, inevitably, there is a fire in the town... It seems that whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
Plot Keywords: comedy, satire, bureaucracy, collectivism, absurdity, political allegory, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Viridiana, a young novice about to take her final vows as a nun, accedes, moved purely by a sense of obligation, to a request from her widowed uncle to visit him. Stirred by her resemblance to his late wife, he attempts to seduce her and tragedy ensues. In the aftermath, Viridiana tries to assuage her guilt by creating a haven for the destitute folk who live around her uncle's estate. But little good comes from these good intentions.
Plot Keywords: religion, morality, poverty, charity, hypocrisy, desire, sin ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cardinal Richelieu and his power-hungry entourage seek to take control of seventeenth-century France, but need to destroy Father Grandier - the priest who runs the fortified town that prevents them from exerting total control. So they seek to destroy him by setting him up as a warlock in control of a devil-possessed nunnery, the mother superior of which is sexually obsessed by him. A mad witch-hunter is brought in to gather evidence against the priest, ready for the big trial.
Plot Keywords: religion, history, drama, thriller, horror, controversial, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A married bureaucrat (Winfried Glatzeder) and a single mother (Angelica Domröse) of two meet and fall in love.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, working class, life struggles, social critique, classic film, marital issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A story about a young woman, Vera, who is somebody, living the life of a troubled teenager in the time right before the end of the Soviet Union. She lives in a very small Russian apartment with her mother and father, however being this close to each other makes the living get rough. Their daily life is plagued with massive amounts of alcohol (mainly vodka) and when she tries to escape her home life, she meets up with a boyfriend, Sergei who then moves into her already small apartment after sleeping with her. Every day little Vera has to go through hell just to get by, which even involves her going against her own morals after her father has done something extremely wrong.—Rosa Thompson
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, family, social issues, youth, rebellion, sexuality ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lin and Wang are a wealthy couple, approaching middle age in Beijing. They are childless, because she is infertile. He owns a foot-massage parlor. One afternoon he rapes one of his workers, Liu, who has nearly passed out from drinking alcohol with a friend. Part of the assault is witnessed by Liu's husband, An-Kun, a window washer. He's angry with the boss and with his wife, and attacks Lin's car furiously. He seeks compensation and tries to blackmail him. Lin's wife counsels him and joins in revenge. Then, Liu realizes she's pregnant and a set of emotional calculations ensues: Lin wants to buy the child, Wang agrees but she has conditions, An-Kun goes back and forth and barely contains his anger; Liu withdraws. The baby comes. Can anything be sorted out?—Wiki
Plot Keywords: drama, china, urban, social issues, family, ethics, women ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the action-comedy The Interview, Dave Skylark (James Franco) and his producer Aaron Rapoport (Seth Rogen) run the popular celebrity tabloid TV show "Skylark Tonight." When they discover that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is a fan of the show, they land an interview with him in an attempt to legitimize themselves as journalists. As Dave and Aaron prepare to travel to Pyongyang, their plans change when the CIA recruits them, perhaps the two least-qualified men imaginable, to assassinate Kim Jong-un.
Plot Keywords: comedy, action, political satire, american film, assassination, journalist, talk show ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Roman official (Fredric March) tries to save Christians from the lions and the madness of Emperor Nero (Charles Laughton).
Plot Keywords: religion, ancient rome, persecution, christianity, faith, romance, sacrifice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A student (Hertha Thiele) falls in love with her teacher (Dorothea Wieck) at a strict Prussian girls school.
Plot Keywords: german film, classic film, black and white film, female director, repressed emotions, teacher-student relationship, female friendship ...
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