Drama > P Drama > up to 5 GBP

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: incredibly bleak & too long

...in droves. not just for the length of the film, for the amount of attention it requires to stick with it. Based on a true story Will Smith plays a salesman who decides to train to become a stockbroker. We follows the lows and even lowers of his life. the plot isn't very interesting because it's pretty obvious there's got to be a happy ending at the end of all this morose bleakness. Avoid it. It's dire and miserable and far too long for it's own ... Read review

Advantages: Its based on a true story - makes you think!
Disadvantages: graphics a little iffy in some places

...Force One ************************************************** What’s the film about? This film is based on a true story set in a small fishing town in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The film is based around a fishing vessel ‘the Andrea Gail’, which is skipped by George. The crew were local men (one being played by Mark), who have returned from a disappointing fishing trip. This is their livelihood and only being able to fish for a limited period throughout ...
...The skipper decided that he was going to do another trip – before the season ended. This was a big love (fishing) to the whole crew, however, most had ‘loves’ (partners / children) on land too. On return to land the whole town is waiting – so to go back to sea 2 days later was a hard decision for them all. When considering that they may be out at sea for a month or longer. They have one day on land – which is focused around the ‘crows nest’ a local ... Read review

Advantages: Original story, dark and mysterious
Disadvantages: I haven't found any, enjoyed it as it is

...discovers the professional world of perfume industry and realizes it might be a way to obtain what he so yearns for - the perfect perfume. For the first time he actively works on his career as he takes the advantage of delivering lamb skins to a once famous perfume maker Baldini and unlike himself he's bold enough to show his skills in perfume cognition and also production. He proves to be successful even if Baldini's shocked by Grenouille's clumsiness ...
...a major comeback into the perfume industry and to destroy his competitors. Baldini also considers himself to be outsmarting this youth who can be used easily, but in fact it's Grenouille who takes advantage of Baldini to learn the theory of perfume making from him. Important for the story is that Baldini told Grenouille a legend of an ultimate essence, which, if ever found, would crown the 12 contents of a perfume and this has set Grenouille out ... Read review

Advantages: This brings history starkly into focus
Disadvantages: It's mostly very depressing

...Polish Jews during WWII at the hands of the Nazis is awful to behold. It's very sobering and although violence in films is probably more commonplace and more widely accepted these days, this is most definitely not a movie for children to see. This isn't the stylish violence of 'The Terminator' or the sharp-shooting Clint Eastwood type. It's brutal; it comes quickly; it happens routinely and frequently, and most of all it's largely deadly and delivered ...
...reveal very much plot as the events of World War II are part of history even though there are crackpot extremists who deny the Holocaust to this day because it doesn't sit well with their hatred for Israel. That isn't necessary. Suffice it to say that we follow Wladyslaw Szpilman's life during these awful War years and see how slowly but inevitably the Nazis set about the total destruction of an entire people. We are taken on a nightmare journey ... Read review

Advantages: Jaw-dropping Brody performance, moving
Disadvantages: That history dictated this film had to be made

...comes to war and cinema, the lines have often been blurred with the supposed romance of it and the glossed over true suffering and degradation of those who truly suffer in war - innocent civilians. The Pianist at a stroke smashes those blurry lines with such clarity, that if if this were a horror or slasher film you'd be grimacing at some of scenes. As this film proves, reality is far more cruel than any fiction. The Pianist is a film that goes ...
...to show the uncompromising, intolerable cruelty of the Nazis against the Jews in all its gruesome widescreen reality. The film opens with Wladyslaw Szpilman (played by Adrien Brody), a brilliant Polish pianist, playing piano in a bar with news of Germany's invasion of Poland already known. What isn't known is that the Germans are very soon to be in the heart of Warsaw, where Szpilman and his family live. Returning home one day, Szpilman and his ... Read review