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This is a chronological list of melodrama films.Although melodrama can be found in film since its beginnings, it was not identified as a particular genre by film scholars—with its own formal and thematic features—until the 1970s and 1980s, at a time when new methodological approaches within film studies were being adopted, which placed greater emphasis on ideology, gender, and ...
Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce (1945), one of the few films called a "melodrama" in its pre-1970s and post-1970s conception. [5]Although melodrama can be found in cinema since its beginnings, it was not identified as a particular genre by film scholars—with its own formal and thematic features—until the 1970s and 1980s. [3]
Like the Ones I Used to Know (French: Les grandes claques) is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Annie St-Pierre and released in 2021. [1] The film stars Steve Laplante as Denis, a recently divorced father who is struggling with his emotions as he prepares to pick up his kids, including daughter Julie (Lilou Roy-Lanouette), at the home of his former in-laws on Christmas Eve.
Pages in category "English-language comedy-drama short films" The following 90 pages are in this category, out of 90 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Nina is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Halima Elkhatabi and released in 2015. The film stars Elizabeth Tremblay-Gagnon as Nina, a teenage single mother in Montreal who is exhausted by the constant demands of caring for her baby, and goes out with her friends to briefly escape.
Village Cricket Boy is a 2022 Malayalam-language Indian children's short film directed by Rahul R. Sarma, [1] [2] starring Davinchi Santhosh and Divya Gopinath.The film won the 2022 Kerala State Television Awards for Best Children's Film and Best Child Actor.
Boogaloo and Graham is a 2014 British short drama film directed by Michael Lennox and starring Martin McCann, Charlene McKenna, and Jonathan Harden. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 87th Academy Awards. [1] It won the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film at the 68th British Academy Film Awards. [2]
A Newsboy Hero is an American silent short drama film produced by the Thanhouser Company. A standard melodrama, it has the alcoholic John Bailey return home in a drunken state. He strikes his wife and by this act drives his wife and child from the house. They go out into the snow and fall asleep, but are saved by a newspaper boy and taken home.