Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998), Mike Wallace Is Here (2019), Together (2000), Sunflower (1970), The Best of Youth (2002), Been Rich All My Life (2006), To Live (1994), Limelight (1952) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Era 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: For over half a century, "60 Minutes" fearsome newsman Mike Wallace went head-to-head with the world's most influential figures. Relying exclusively on archival footage, the film interrogates the interrogator, tracking Mike's storied career and troubled personal life while unpacking how broadcast journalism evolved to today's precarious tipping point.
Plot Keywords: documentary, journalism, interview, media, television, investigation, biography ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Goran runs a Stockholm commune in the 1970s. The easygoing Goran does his best to keep the peace between the politically contentious people around him, many of whom are drunk or stoned on a regular basis. When Goran's sister Elisabeth (Lisa Lindgren) flees from her abusive husband, her arrival at the commune significantly changes its dynamics. Elisabeth's two children bring change, agitating for TV and meat and driving away the commune's purists as tensions spread.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, romance, life, society, emotion, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An Italian bride (Sophia Loren) finds her long-lost soldier husband (Marcello Mastroianni) living in Moscow with amnesia and a wife (Lyudmila Saveleva) and daughter.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, romance, family, rural, cultural revolution, chinese cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nicola and Matteo Carati are two brothers of Rome, who live the years from 1966 to 2000 and all the events which have signed this period. They begin their adventure, helping Giorgia, a young girl confined in an asylum. Then, after the flood of Florence, Nicola meets Giulia a talented piano player with a dangerous sympathy for the BR. Matteo, a rebel spirit entered in the police, will find the optimistic photographer Mirella. These four characters and many others will cross the years of terrorism and Tangentopoli.—ltj36
Plot Keywords: drama, family, history, italy, coming of age, brothers, life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: They are the "Silver Belles," five women aged 84 to 96. They first met in the 1930's as chorus dancers at the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater where they worked 15 hour days, rehearsing a new show every week. In their heyday they performed with legendary band leaders like Cab Calloway, Jimmie Lunceford and Duke Ellington. When the big band era ended, and with it the need for show dancers, they all went into other work. In 1985 they put their tap shoes back on, and are still performing regularly. But in one week, Cleo tumbles down the subway stairs and breaks her knee and arm, Marion gets a pacemaker, and Bertye is taken to the hospital. Is this the end of the Silver Belles?—Signy
Plot Keywords: documentary, dance, elderly, new york, african american, women, history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. Addicted to gambling, Fugui loses everything. In the years that follow he is pressed into both the nationalist and communist armies, while Jiazhen is forced into menial work. They raise a family and survive, managing "to live" from the 40's to the 70's in this epic, but personal, story of life through an amazing period.
Plot Keywords: drama, history, family, society, politics, china, cultural revolution ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Chaplin's final American film tells the story of a fading music hall comedian's effort to help a despondent ballet dancer learn both to walk and feel confident about life again. The highlight of the film is the classic duet with Chaplin's only real artistic film comedy rival, Buster Keaton.—Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, romance, music, dance, theater, silent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: "Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between them. At the same time, it attempts to do no less than squeeze the entire political history of China in the twentieth century into a three-hour time-frame.
Plot Keywords: history, romance, tragedy, homosexuality, friendship, betrayal, art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Chronicles a man who is obsessively interested in only one thing,the pictures he takes that document the way people dress. The 80-year-old New York Times photographer has two columns in the paper's Style section, yet nobody knows who he is.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, fashion, photography, new york, biography, culture, art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror" that was wrought on the Taiwanese people by the Kuomintang government after their arrival from mainland China in the late 1940s.
Plot Keywords: history, family, tragedy, war, politics, society, culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the 1960s, the Beatles exploded on to the public scene, seemingly out of nowhere as the band's formative years of constant performing at home and in Hamburg, and Brian Epstein's grooming, finally paid off beyond their wildest dreams. Accompanying new interviews of the remaining Beatles, their associates and fans as well as archival interviews of the late ones, this film features footage of the heady concert years of 1963 to 66 when the band became a worldwide cultural phenomena topping them all. Furthermore, it also follows how the Fab Four began to change and grow while the excitement of Beatlemania began to sour their lives into an intolerable slog they needed to escape from to become more than what their fans wanted.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: documentary, music, biography, the beatles, band, 1960s, rock ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible. The story is told from the children's point of view.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: youth, first love, school, romance, coming of age, music, childhood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to live with his pension. The crisis in Argentina does not allow Fernando to get a new job, and his wife decides to sell her family's apartment and move to a small farm near Villa Dolores to reduce their expenses. Fernando comes up with the idea to grow lavender and sell the oil to the perfume industry.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: drama, family, romance, coming of age, social, life, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The pinup model and cult icon recounts how her free expression overcame government witch-hunts to help launch America's sexual revolution.
Plot Keywords: biography, documentary, 1950s, erotic, celebrity, interview, history ...
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