The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993), Stray Dog (1949), Saint Maud (2019), James Dean (2001), Grass (2018), The Man on the Train (2002), Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown (1997), Gia (1998) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Character Study movies.
Storyline: Amelia (Catherine Keener) is jealous when her closest friend and roommate, Laura (Anne Heche), moves out to live with her fiancé. Suddenly alone, Amelia takes a pessimistic look at her own life. Her pet name for Bill (Kevin Corrigan), the last guy she dated, is the "Ugly Guy"; her conversations with her ex-boyfriend, Andrew (Liev Schreiber), usually devolve into name-calling; and her beloved cat has come down with cancer. She then tries to put aside her envy and rely on Laura for support.
Plot Keywords: independent film, comedy, drama, romance, female director, new york, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A crafty and obnoxious manservant uses his mistress and his wits to gain supremacy over his wealthy employer.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, drama, classic film, british cinema, black and white, power struggle, class conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Haunted by his childhood, a psychotic loner (Ralph Fiennes) has difficulty after his release from a mental institution.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, mental illness, trauma, mystery, crime, murder, family secrets ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: One year before her death, famous actress Romy Schneider retreats to a spa hotel and gives her last interview to two journalists.
Plot Keywords: drama, biography, history, female lead, interview, based on true events, journalist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Composer Gustav Mahler (Robert Powell) flashes back on his tortured life during his final train trip to Vienna.
Plot Keywords: biography, musician, composer, 1970s, british film, art film, classical music ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: "A Face in the Crowd" charts the rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.
Plot Keywords: drama, film noir, social critique, media satire, celebrity culture, american dream, manipulation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A drifting cowboy (Peter Fonda) brings along a friend (Warren Oates) when he returns to his wife (Verna Bloom) and ranch after seven years.
Plot Keywords: western, drama, revenge, redemption, outlaw, loneliness, betrayal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A jewelry salesman (Robert Forster) trains his replacement (Donnie Wahlberg) by taking him on the road in Philadelphia.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, independent film, road movie, dark comedy, mystery, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.
Plot Keywords: italian cinema, 1950s, prostitute, social outcast, humanity, hope, redemption ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman, Karin, has recently returned to the family island after spending some time in a mental hospital. On the island with her is her lonely brother and kind, but increasingly desperate husband ('Max von Sydow'). They are joined by Karin's father ('Gunnar Björnstrand'), who is a world-traveling author that is estranged to his children. The film depicts how Karin's grip on reality slowly slips away and how the bonds between the family members are changing in light of this fact.
Plot Keywords: psychological drama, family relationships, mental illness, crisis of faith, isolation, father-daughter relationship, existentialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood. This film which is filmed in Macedonia is an exploration of an observational Indigenous visual narrative that deeply impacts our behavior towards natural resources and the human condition.
Plot Keywords: documentary, rural life, nature, sustainability, tradition, modernization, conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother, two brothers, wife, and ex-girlfriends, as well as selections from his vast quantity of graphic art, we are treated to a darkly comic ride through one man's subconscious mind. As stream-of-consciousness images incessantly flow forth from the tip of his pen, biting social satire is revealed, often along with a disturbing and haunting vision of Crumb's own betes noires and inadequacies. As his acid-trip induced images flicker across our own retinas, we gain a little insight into this complex and highly creative individual.—Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, art, american culture, counterculture, 20th century, controversy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman gets killed in an accident trying to meet her favorite actress Myrtle Gordon after a play. Then Myrtle Gordon felt responsible for the killing leading her down to an emotional crisis that interferes with her professional work as an actress.—Chemi González <chemi01@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, psychological drama, female protagonist, show business, theater, midlife crisis, mental breakdown ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An aging boxer (Robert Ryan) leaves his crying wife (Audrey Totter), then crosses the street for a fixed fight.
Plot Keywords: film noir, boxing, crime, drama, sports, underdog, greed ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Early thirty-something American Jesse Wallace is in a Paris bookstore, the last stop on a tour to promote his best selling book, This Time. Although he is vague to reporters about the source material for the book, it is about his chance encounter nine years earlier on June 15-16, 1994 with a Parisienne named Celine, and the memorable and romantic day and evening they spent together in Vienna. At the end of their encounter at the Vienna train station, which is also how the book ends, they, not providing contact information to the other, vowed to meet each other again in exactly six months at that very spot. As the media scrum at the bookstore nears its conclusion, Jesse spots Celine in the crowd, she who only found out about the book when she earlier saw his photograph promoting this public appearance. Much like their previous encounter, Jesse and Celine, who is now an environmental activist, decide to spend time together until he is supposed to catch his flight back to New York, this ...
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, dialogue-driven, sequel, reunion, paris, intellectual ...
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