Steppe Man (Azerbaijani: Çölçü) is a 2012 Azerbaijani drama film directed by Shamil Aliyev. The film was selected as the Azerbaijani entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Synopsis
Dans la steppe d'Azerbaïdjan, une histoire d'amour entre un jeune homme et une fille aux cheveux courts.
Directed byLouise Archambault OriginCanada GenresDrama ActorsAndrée Lachapelle, Gilbert Sicotte, Rémy Girard, Ève Landry, Kenneth Welsh, Marie-Ginette Guay Rating72% Trois ermites aînés, Charlie (Gilbert Sicotte), Tom (Rémy Girard) et Boychuck (Kenneth Welsh), vivent dans la forêt de l'abitibienne, isolés du reste du monde. Après la mort de l'ermite aîné, Boychuck, peintre à ses heures, les deux hommes font une découverte étonnante : des centaines de peintures faisant écho à sa tragique expérience liée à des incendies de forêt qui menacent la région. Aux funérailles de leur compagnon, les deux hommes font la rencontre de Gertrude (Andrée Lachapelle), qui fut internée à l'âge de 16 ans pour des motifs religieux. Gertrude veut fuir la clinique médicale et aboutit chez Charlie et Tom qui se rebutent au début ; nouvelle vie, nouvelle identité, Gertrude devient Marie-Desneige. S'en suit un idylle amoureuse touchante et lumineuse.
, 2h35 Directed byTom Laughlin OriginUSA GenresDrama ThemesPolitical films ActorsTom Laughlin, E. G. Marshall, Lucie Arnaz, Delores Taylor, Suzanne Somers, Sam Wanamaker Rating45% Billy Jack (Tom Laughlin) is appointed a United States Senator to fill out the remaining term of another Senator. It is hoped that he will quietly vote the party line, but his term in the Senate runs into trouble when he proposes a bill to fund a national youth camp which happens to be on the property where a nuclear power plant is also being proposed. His fellow Senator Joseph Paine (E. G. Marshall) claims to oppose nuclear power but is secretly taking graft to influence his votes in favor, and moves to try to keep Billy Jack out of the way when the bill is being debated.
, 2h22 Directed byShyam Benegal GenresDrama, Biography, Musical ThemesFilms about films, Films about music and musicians, Films about television, Musical films, Bollywood ActorsSmita Patil, Amol Palekar, Anant Nag, Amrish Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Dina Pathak Rating73% Bhumika tells the life story of an actress, Usha (Smita Patil), who is the granddaughter of a famous female singer of the old tradition from Devadasi community of Goa. Usha's mother is married to an abusive and alcoholic Brahmin. Following his early death, and over her mother's objections, Usha is taken to Bombay by family hanger-on Keshav Dalvi (Amol Palekar) to audition successfully as a singer in a Bombay studio: the first step in a process, watched approvingly by Usha's doting grandmother and with horror by her mother, that will eventually carry her to on-camera adolescent stardom, and to an ill-starred love marriage with Keshav. Usha’s motives for stubbornly pursuing this relationship (culminating in a pre-marital pregnancy) with the unattractive and much older Keshav — who appears to have lusted after her since childhood — are not spelled out. Presumably she feels indebted to him for his loyalty to her family (of which he frequently reminds her) and for her own worldly success; she is also a headstrong girl who clearly enjoys her acting career and is bent on challenging her uptight mother (who opposes the match because Keshav does not belong to their caste, just as she opposes cinema itself because of its presumed un-respectability).
, 1h23 Directed byNoboru Tanaka OriginJapon GenresDrama, Erotic ThemesSeafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, BDSM in films ActorsJunko Miyashita Rating63% The life of the S&M-theme artist and author Seiu Itō is depicted in the film. His artistic life and Sadian philosophy, inspired by his torturing of his two wives and Tae, his favorite prostitute, are portrayed as shown in his journalistic writings. Tae is eventually driven insane due to Itō's attentions.