The Rules of the Game (1939), Charulata (1964), Fanny and Alexander (1982), The Chalk Garden (1964), The Decline of the American Empire (1986), The Quiet Room (1996), The Duke of Burgundy (2014), Five Finger Exercise (1962) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Chamber Drama movies.
Storyline: French aristocrats and their servants play hard during a hunting party at a landowner's estate (Marcel Dalio).
Plot Keywords: french film, classic film, satirical comedy, high society, social critique, ensemble cast, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Charu lives a lonely and idle life in 1870s India. Although her husband Bhupati devotes more time to his newspaper than to their marriage, he sees her loneliness and asks his brother-in-law,Umapada to keep her company. At the same time Bhupati's own cousin, Amal, a would-be writer comes home finishing his college education. However, after several months, Charu and Amal's feelings for each other move beyond literary friendship.—Erik Gregersen <erik@astro.asutexas.edu>
Plot Keywords: romance, marriage, loneliness, intellectual, 19th century, india, literature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's the early twentieth century Sweden. Adolescent siblings Alexander and Fanny Ekdahl lead a relatively joyous and exuberant life with their well-off extended paternal family, led by the family matriarch, their grandmother, Helena Ekdahl. The openness of the family culture is exemplified by Helena's now deceased husband ending up becoming best friends with one of her lovers, a Jewish puppet maker named Isak Jacobi, and their Uncle Gustav Adolf's open liaison with one of the family maids, Maj, who everyone in the family adores, even Gustav Adolf's wife, Alma. Between the siblings, Alexander in particular has inherited the family's love of storytelling, his parents and his grandmother who are actors and who manage their own theater. Things change for Alexander and Fanny when their father, Oscar, dies shortly after Christmas 1907. Although she truly does believe she loves him, the children's mother, Emilie, decides to marry Bishop Edvard Vergérus, who she first met as the officiate at ...
Plot Keywords: family, drama, historical, swedish, childhood, fantasy, religion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A grandmother (Dame Edith Evans) seeks a governess for her sixteen-year-old granddaughter, Laurel (Hayley Mills), who manages to drive away everyone so far by exposing her past, with a record of three in one week. When an applicant with a mysterious past manages to get the job, Laurel vows to expose her. Meanwhile, Laurel's mother Olivia (Elizabeth Sellars) tries to get her back.—Nasser <NasKU@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, family, psychological, british, black and white, classic, adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of academics at the University of Montreal - most long time friends - are planning on gathering at the lakeside recreational home of Rémy and Louise, who have been together for twenty years, married for fifteen of them, for dinner. Louise knows Rémy cheats on her, but believes he only does so when she is not around, about which she accepts. Their recreational home is adjacent to many of the recreational homes of the others, who are: divorced Pierre, his much younger current girlfriend Danielle who is a student at the university, the two who are still in the stage of newfound love, divorced mother Diane, independent minded Dominique, single homosexual Claude, and graduate student Alain. While the four men prepare the dinner, the four women are working out together in the gym. The common factor between the two groups is the topic of conversation: sex, especially as it relates to themselves. But underlying each of the conversations is their own academic and thus intellectual backgrounds, which shapes the nature of the discussions. When the two groups finally converge for dinner, a ninth person is added peripherally, brusque working class Mario, Diane's current sexual partner. This relationship is a first for Diane in that not only their sexual encounters but the way they interact with each other in general is predicated on S and M, dictated largely by Diane who nonetheless is the submissive. What happens with the group as dinner goes into evening and evening goes into morning is further shaped by them listening to a prerecorded interview Dominique did for CBC Radio earlier in the day to promote her new book, which discusses how the quest for individual happiness in modern western society is leading to the decline of the society in general.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, intellectual, dialogue-driven, midlife crisis, sexual relationships, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A seven-year-old girl adopts a vow of silence in protest when her quarrelsome parents grow increasingly hostile to one another.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, australian film, domestic violence, psychological manipulation, suspense, drama, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A woman who studies butterflies and moths tests the limits of her relationship with her lesbian lover.
Plot Keywords: erotic, lesbian, british film, art film, indie film, female director, psychological drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A long-married couple are at war with each other and with their teenage son and daughter. The presence of a handsome young tutor complicates and sensitizes the savage domestic tensions which arise as the secret emotions of members of the family are shockingly revealed.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: drama, family, psychological, play adaptation, british film, 1960s, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Midsummer night, 1894, in northern Sweden. The complex strictures of class bind a man and a woman. Miss Julie, the inexperienced but imperious daughter of the manor, deigns to dance at the servant's party. She's also drawn to Jean, a footman who has traveled, speaks well, and doesn't kowtow. He is engaged to Christine, a servant, and while she sleeps, Jean and Miss Julie talk through the night in the kitchen. For part of the night it's a power struggle, for part it's the bearing of souls, and by dawn, they want to break the chains of class and leave Sweden together. When Christine wakes and goes off to church, Jean and Miss Julie have their own decisions to make.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, psychological, class conflict, power struggle, 19th century, aristocracy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Katherine Coleridge (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) is a basically miserable and mentally unstable woman who is married to even-aged Isobel's father, Robert (Peter Whitaker), who is the only one willing to give Katherine the unconditional love that she craves lest her inner chaos should wholly consume her. For any kind of peace of mind, she is consequently entirely dependent on him. As, however, her husband dies (of natural causes), Katherine quite instinctively transfers her primal need for all-encompassing care to his daughter, Isobel (Juliet Stevenson). As this is a serious intrusion upon her and her boyfriend's private life, Isobel rejects Katherine, at first. She soon realizes that Katherine needs her attention more than her boyfriend, whom she then opts to leave, to go and live with Katherine in her father's countryside cottage. The last scenes of the movie, not to be revealed here, raises the question of who, after all, were the more needful of Isobel's love.—Tue Sorensen <jensb@mi.aau.dk>
Plot Keywords: drama, british film, 1990s, female director, adapted screenplay, family conflict, inheritance dispute ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Shelley Winters is the madame of a house where customers play out their erotic fantasies, oblivious to a revolution which is sweeping the country. When her old friend, the chief of police (Peter Falk), asks her to impersonate the missing queen in order to reassure the people and halt the revolution, she offers instead three of her customers to play the general, bishop and chief justice, all of whom have died in the revolution.—bajac
Plot Keywords: drama, psychological, erotic, experimental, adaptation, stage play, black comedy ...
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