Tag: movie plot

Films about fraudsters have probably been made since Hollywood, and classics such as “Producers”, “Sting”, “Paper Moon” and somewhat newer ones such as “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”, “Ocean’s 11” or “Catch Me If You Can” many …

Marija Škaričić is Ana Mlikota, a doctor of science and anthropologist who is particularly fascinated by traces on stećci. She plans to write a book about stećci, which are called mirila, and they can be …

At the end of the nineties, Hong Kong changed from a British protectorate to an integral part of China, and it was in the period 1996 to 1997 that the action of this neo-noir crime …

Among the ten films nominated for an Oscar in the category of the best film of the year, this drama, which seems as if its action takes place some 100 or 150 years in the …

  An almost classic Nordic-noir crime series was transferred from Scandinavia to Eastern Europe, and apart from one tormented detective who has to solve an extremely painful case, here we have as many as three …

After the excellent thriller “La isla minima” (Marshland) from 2014, Spanish filmmaker Alberto Rodriguez made another quality film, the action of which takes place in the transition period after the death of dictator Francisco Franco …

“Sciuscia” or “Shoeshine” is considered one of the first examples of Italian neorealism, and along with Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica is the author whose films we can best see what life was like in …

Olivia Wilde’s recent “Don’t Worry Darling” reminded me of the iconic dystopia based on Ira Levin’s novel, and Bryan Forbes’ “Stepford Wives” caused considerable controversy in the mid-seventies. From today’s perspective, it’s a fairly benign …

The Frenchman Cedric Jimenez presented himself as a master of crime in the previous two films. “The Connection” (La French) and “Stronghold” (Bac Nord) were exceptional and high-quality stories about the fight against crime in …

M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Mysterious Signs, The Hamlet) clearly has a fetish for the apocalypse, but just like his predecessors on the subject such as “The Happening” and “After Earth”, “The Knock at …