Sand Storm (2016), Rana's Wedding (2002), Beyond the Hills (2012), Xala (1975), Late Marriage (2001), Dangal Yuddham (2016), Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Raise the Red Lantern (1991) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Patriarchy movies.
Storyline: In Southern Israel, a teen's (Lamis Ammar) forbidden love affair challenges the traditions of her Bedouin mother and father.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, mother-daughter relationship, tradition vs modernity, gender roles, oppression, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: One morning, spirited Rana (Clara Khoury), a Palestinian teenager living in Jerusalem, receives a startling note from her father, Abu Siad (Zuher Fahoum) : She can either get married or emigrate with him to Egypt later that afternoon. Rana dashes off to find her boyfriend, Khalil (Khalifa Natour), but must negotiate menacing Israeli checkpoints and strict Islamic law as she races across the West Bank. She begins to wonder if she really wants to stay after all.
Plot Keywords: female director, independent film, marriage, social pressure, family, realism, love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two young women grow up together in an orphanage. One finds refuge in a Romanian convent and the other moves to Germany to start a new life.
Plot Keywords: religion, exorcism, crisis of faith, homosexuality, social exclusion, psychological torment, patriarchy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Senegalese businessman (Thierno Leye) needs a cure for impotence after grandly acquiring a third wife.
Plot Keywords: political satire, social critique, corruption, class conflict, tradition vs modernity, patriarchy, black comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A pair from the republic of Georgia force their son (Lior Louie Ashkenazi) to meet Jewish women even though he is in love with a Moroccan divorcee (Ronit Elkabetz).
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, family, marriage, cultural conflict, tradition, modernity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Biopic of Mahavir Singh Phogat, who taught wrestling to his daughters Babita Kumari and Geeta Phogat. Geeta Phogat was India's first female wrestler to win at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, where she won the gold medal (55 kg) while her sister Babita Kumari won the silver (51 kg).—Dibyayan_Chakravorty
Plot Keywords: action, drama, sports, biography, indian cinema, wrestling, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Raj (Shah Rukh Khan) and Simran (Kajol) first met on an inter-rail holiday in Europe, it wasn't exactly Love at first sight but when Simran is taken back to India for an arranged marriage, things change. Encouraged by his father Dharamvir (Anupam Kher), Raj decides to fly down from London to not just win his Bride but her whole family and the blessings of her father Baldev Singh (Amrish Puri).
Plot Keywords: romance, bollywood, drama, musical, love story, family, tradition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: China in the 1920's. After her father's death, nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerful family. Fifty year old Chen has already three wives, each of them living in separate houses within the great castle. The competition between the wives is tough, as their master's attention carries power, status and privilege. Each night Chen must decide with which wife to spend the night and a red lantern is lit in front of the house of his choice. And each wife schemes and plots to make sure it's hers. However, things get out of hand...
Plot Keywords: drama, historical, family, china, zhang yimou, power struggle, tragedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The events of the film unfold over six days and tell about the mysterious journey of a strange man and his two teenage sons who had never seen him before. Vanya and Andrey, for how long they remember, lived with their mother, who once told them that their father was a pilot. But one ordinary Monday, dad appears in their house and takes the brothers on a hike to a small island in the middle of a forest lake.
Plot Keywords: mystery, drama, psychological, family, disappearance, father and son, russian ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Innocent Kate Brady (Rita Tushingham) leaves her family farm and heads for Dublin, where she lives with her former convent friend Baba Brennan (Lynn Redgrave). She soon meets older man Eugene (Peter Finch), who is a writer and intellectual. Kate and Eugene fall in love. However, when Kate's father finds out about their romance, he is determined to break it up. Kate remains devoted to Eugene, but their love disintegrates when Eugene realizes that he really has nothing in common with Kate.
Plot Keywords: romance, coming of age, ireland, literary adaptation, female protagonist, rural life, forbidden love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sheriff John T. Chance has his hands full after arresting Joe Burdette for murder. He knows that Burdette's brother Nathan, a powerful rancher, will go to any lengths to get him out of jail. Chance's good friend Pat Wheeler offers to help but within 20 minutes of making the offer is gunned down in the street, shot in the back. That leaves his elderly deputy Stumpy, the town drunk Dude - once a deputy and a pretty good shot when he was sober - and a young hand, Colorado, who used to work for Wheeler. Nathan Burdette meanwhile has a couple of dozen men at his disposal. Chance does his best to prepare all the while romancing a pretty gambler who goes by the name of Feathers.
Plot Keywords: western, classic, sheriff, gunfight, small town, texas, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Agnese, a 15-year-old Sicilian girl is seduced and impregnated by Peppino, her sister Matilde's fiancé. Soon Vincenzo, Agnese's father, discovers everything. He wants to force Peppino to marry the dishonored Agnese, but Peppino runs away and Vincenzo sends his son Antonio to kill him. At this point, Agnese goes to the police to try to stop events. They're all taken to court. But events can't be stopped, there's still time for a fake kidnapping. A happy end is still possible.—1felco
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, italian cinema, social satire, family conflict, moral dilemma, gender roles ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Insia is very passionate about singing but she belongs to a very conservative family. Her father doesn't let her develop her talent but her mother secretly lets her follow her passion for singing. She begins anonymously posting her songs over the internet and gains nation wide fame including people from the music industry. The movie shows her journey to break free and follow her dream of being a singer.—keith26293
Plot Keywords: music, dream, motherhood, family, coming of age, inspirational, indian cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In an African village this is the day when six 4-9-year-old girls are to be 'cut' (the act of female genital mutilation) All children know that the operation is horrible torture and sometimes lethal, and all adults know that some cut women can only give birth by Caesarean section. Two of the girls have drowned themselves in the well to escape the operation. The four other girls seek "magical protection" (moolaadé) by a woman (Colle) who seven years before refused to have her daughter circumcised. Moolaadé is indicated by a coloured rope. But no one would dare step over and fetch the children. Moolaadé can only be revoked by Colle herself. Her husband's relatives persuade him to whip her in public into revoking. Opposite groups of women shout to her to revoke or to be steadfast, but no woman interferes. When Colle is at the wedge of fainting, the merchant takes action and stops the maltreatment. Therefore he is hunted out of the village and, when out of sight, murdered.—Max Scharnberg, Stockholm, Sweden
Plot Keywords: women's rights, cultural conflict, village life, female solidarity, social change, patriarchy, social justice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. This tale of romantic and familial love in the face of unbreakable tradition is more universal than its setting.—Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, ethics, family, tragedy, oppression, women ...
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