Sand Storm (2016), Rana's Wedding (2002), Aquarius (2016), Wajma: An Afghan Love Story (2013), Sons and Lovers (1960), Birthright: A War Story (2017), Look Back in Anger (1958), Rendition (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Personal Freedom movies.
Storyline: At an exclusive psychiatric clinic, the doctors and staff are about as crazy as the patients. The clinic head, Dr. Stewart McIver, thinks that it would be good therapy for his patients to design and make new drapes for the library. Mrs. Karen McIver, who is neglected by her hardworking husband (and a bit unbalanced herself), wants to make her mark on the clinic, so she orders new drapes. Miss Inch, the business manager, who has been with the clinic longer than anyone, sees this as an intrusion into her territory, and she too orders drapes. All this puts everyone in a dither, as they fight over drapes and clinic politics.—John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, drama, film noir, 1950s, family conflict, power struggle, interpersonal relationships ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Spanning the 1910 decade, six years in the life of a girl named Chris, one of the numerous children of a tyrannical Scottish farmer. Years of high hopes and of disillusionment, of mirth and sorrow, of dreaming and toiling, of sweetness and violence, of love and hate, of peace and war. And in the end, the dignified loneliness of a new Chris, a woman who seems to have gone through several lives, now and forever as one with the land, the earth eternal...—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: scotland, rural life, coming of age, female protagonist, literary adaptation, class conflict, tradition vs modernity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Red Doors tells the story of the Wongs, a bizarrely dysfunctional Chinese-American family living in the New York suburbs. Ed Wong has just retired and plots to escape his mundane life. However, the tumultuous, madcap lives of his three rebellious daughters change his plans. The eldest daughter, Samantha, is an ambitious businesswoman in Manhattan who suddenly gets cold feet about her upcoming marriage when she runs into an old high school flame. Julie, the shy middle sister, finds her life as a studious medical student turned upside down when she falls for a movie starlet visiting the hospital. Katie, the youngest sister, is a disaffected high school senior who engages in a continually escalating and dangerous prank war with her longtime neighbor and nemesis, Simon. Ultimately, Ed's disappearance compels each daughter to examine her own understanding of the role and connection she has to the family. At the same time, the Wongs learn to live their own lives outside the invisible fences of their home.—Blanc de Chine
Plot Keywords: family, comedy, drama, cultural conflict, generation gap, sisters, new york ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A travelling troupe of jousters and performers are slowly cracking under the pressure of hick cops, financial troubles and their failure to live up to their own ideals. The group's leader, King Billy, is increasingly unable to maintain his warrior's rule while the Black Knight is being tempted away to LA and stardom, as they all have to ask why they were here in the first place.—David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au>
Plot Keywords: independent film, medieval, american film, dramatic, action, adventure, brotherhood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A New Jersey housewife is dissatisfied with her everyday life because she is smarter than she or anyone else knows. While taking a computer class, Julie discovers her abilities and finds the courage to make dramatic life changes. This is a story of realizing one's potential and being willing to turn one's life upside down to take a chance on finding happiness. Claire, Julie's best friend, goes along with Julie's secret quest and eventually moves in with her. Both women are on a search to realize their dreams and come to terms with their love for each other.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: independent film, female lead, self-discovery, lesbian, romance, family conflict, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron.
Plot Keywords: historical, biographical, drama, romance, british, aristocracy, 19th century ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Anna Thompson gets mixed up in a convenience store robbery, she makes a split-second decision to walk out of her life and into the unknown. On her travels, she meets Travis, a teenage drifter on his own journey of self-discovery.
Plot Keywords: drama, independent film, coming of age, self-discovery, road movie, female protagonist, midlife crisis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman wants to get her boyfriend to commit to her, but the most she can get him to do is exchange apartment keys.
Plot Keywords: youth, romance, new york, relationships, sex, independent film, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Arden Stuart (Greta Garbo) is a feminist ahead of her time, believing that a "single standard" should be applied to both sexes. Instead of marrying and settling down, she juggles numerous suitors. She moves from the lovelorn Tommy (Johnny Mack Brown) to a playboy prizefighter with artistic intentions, Packy (Nils Asther). Arden and Packy sail the South Seas together, but after a falling-out she returns home, marries Tommy and has a child. But are Arden's old ways really behind her?
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, silent film, feminism, social class, moral dilemma, love triangle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Hedi's mother arranges his marriage, his boss sends him on a work trip, and his older brother lectures him on how to behave. But when Hedi meets a woman while away on business, he falls in love as the wedding preparations continue apace back home.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, coming of age, marriage, family conflict, self-discovery, cultural clash ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In China, women are under immense pressure to marry young or face the stigma that comes with being single.
Plot Keywords: documentary, women, social issues, marriage, china, family pressure, gender discrimination ...
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