Classic Drama Movies
# A Perfect World
Jahr: 1993 | Land: United States of America
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A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
# Malena
Jahr: 2000 | Land: IT
Regisseur: Giuseppe Tornatore
Besetzung: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico, Matilde Piana, Pietro Notarianni
Synopsis
During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.
# Scent of a Woman
Jahr: 1992 | Land: US
Regisseur: Martin Brest
Besetzung: Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn, Gabrielle Anwar, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Synopsis
Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.
# Detachment
Jahr: 2011 | Land: US
Regisseur: Tony Kaye
Besetzung: Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden, James Caan, Christina Hendricks, Lucy Liu
Synopsis
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.
# One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Jahr: 1975 | Land: US
Regisseur: Miloš Forman
Besetzung: Jack Nicholson, Brad Dourif, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, William Redfield
Synopsis
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
# Dead Poets Society
Jahr: 1989 | Land: US
Regisseur: Peter Weir
Besetzung: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen
Synopsis
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
# Fight Club
Jahr: 1999 | Land: United States of America
Regisseur: David Fincher
Besetzung: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto, Helena Bonham Carter
Synopsis
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every
# The Intouchables
Jahr: 2011 | Land: FR
Regisseur: Éric Toledano
Besetzung: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot, Joséphine de Meaux
Synopsis
A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
# The Shawshank Redemption
Jahr: 1994 | Land: United States of America
Regisseur: Frank Darabont
Besetzung: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, Clancy Brown, Mark Rolston
Synopsis
Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amora
# Cinema Paradiso
Jahr: 1988 | Land: France, Italy
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A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
# The Legend of 1900
Jahr: 1998 | Land: USA
Regisseur: Giuseppe Tornatore
Besetzung: Tim Roth , Pruitt Taylor Vince , Mélanie Thierry , Bill Nunn , Gabriele Lavia
Synopsis
The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner.
# Forrest Gump
Jahr: 1994 | Land: United States of America
Regisseur: Robert Zemeckis
Besetzung: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field
Synopsis
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has