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Melodrama is a genre in cinema that reveals the spiritual and sensitive world of the main characters in especially vivid emotional circumstances based on contrasts.
Top 10 included movies 2016 – list of the best films, melodramas.
10 Carol
Feature film “Carol” opens the top ten best melodrama films of 2016. The main character of the picture, the girl Teresa, accidentally meets a mature woman, Carol. Between individuals there is more than sympathy. They begin to have real feelings for each other. But the circumstances are such that there are reasons why Therese and Carol cannot be together. It has to do with daughter Teresa. The further course of events depends on the decision that the girl will make: to stay with her beloved or her daughter.
9. Cote d’Azur
“Cote d’Azur” ranked ninth in the top ten melodramas of 2016. The main roles in the film were played by the unique Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. A married couple is sent to France to sort out their own feelings for each other. Both of them are creative personalities: the wife is a former dancer, and the husband is a current popular writer. A quiet corner and acquaintance with a young couple help to revive the already elderly heroes of their former feelings.
8. Cold front
“Cold Front” joint work of Russia and France in 2016. The melodrama tells about the incredible twists of fate that occur in people’s lives at the most unexpected moment. Young people Masha and Ilya go on vacation to France to sort out their own feelings. They rent a house in a quiet, peaceful place. Soon their solitude is disturbed by the visit of a certain person who introduces herself as Masha. The girl asks to spend the night, as she missed her train, and she has nowhere to stay. A young couple decides to let the guest in, not yet suspecting what intricacies of fate this can lead to.
7. Danish girl
On the seventh line in the top of the best melodramas of 2016 is the film “The Danish Girl”based on real events. A girl-photographer asks her husband to pose in women’s clothing for the next order, as her model cannot take part in the shooting for some reason. At first, the man was somewhat embarrassed, but then he decides to help his wife. The main character does not yet suspect what irreversible consequences her request will lead to. Soon the spouse begins to understand that he is very comfortable in a new image, in which he begins to realistically get used to. The hero seriously thinks about changing sex and decides to bring it to life.
6. Two in the Universe
Feature Film “Two in the Universe” ranks sixth in the ranking of the best melodramas of 2016. Charming graduate student Amy Ryan is studying the universe. She attends various conferences on this subject. On one of them, she meets Professor Edi Ferum. She falls in love with an already elderly teacher who is engaged in astrophysics. An unbridled passion flares up between a girl and a man. But the thing is that the characters live in different parts of the world and cannot see each other often. They constantly call up and communicate on social networks. Their next meeting will be held soon. But on the appointed day, Amy learns that Edie has passed away. All this seems strange to the heroine, and she decides to visit his house, where perhaps lies the key to the sudden death of her lover.
5. Equal
Melodrama “Equals” ranked fifth in the list of the best films of 2016 in this genre. A motion picture with notes of science fiction tells about the future, where the so-called Collective exists. These are people who are not characterized by any emotions and human feelings. All of them are equal to each other and similar. But one day a certain virus penetrates into the Collective, violating the world of stability. Suicides appear, jumping out of windows. Some people begin to experience unusual sensations. One of these is the young man Silas, who begins to realize that he is “infected.” He falls in love with a girl who experiences the same changes in terms of feelings. The hero is well aware that he is in mortal danger if his “illness” is revealed. He will have a difficult choice: to continue to live on in a world without feelings and emotions, or to try to change something, risking his own head.
4. Actively looking
“Actively looking” included in the list of the best melodramas of 2016. At the center of events is a young girl, Ellis, who leaves her boyfriend because of his constant antics. She decides to radically change her life and moves to her sister in another city. In a new place, new acquaintances, work await her … Here the heroine acquires a girlfriend, Robin, with whom they are completely different. Robin is in a hurry to introduce Ellis to a nocturnal, party lifestyle, but she, in turn, does not want this at all. The girl wants to meet her soul mate, but not in a nightclub. A friend of a different opinion and does whatever it takes to get Ellis addicted to fun.
3. Choice
“Choice” opens the top three melodrama films that hit the Russian screen in 2016. The main character is a rich and successful young man named Travis, who was able to achieve a lot in this life. He prefers to spend his free time in entertainment and is not going to start a serious relationship with anyone. Travis wants his whole life to flow in this way. But fate has its own plans for the hero, and soon she presents a gift to the young man in the face of a modest, reserved girl Gaby, who settles next door to him.
2. Man is a swiss knife
“Man is a Swiss Army knife” – one of the best films of the melodrama genre of 2016, with an admixture of science fiction and notes of black humor. The film by Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the award for Best Director in a Drama Film. The American filmmakers’ work received mixed reviews, but was generally acclaimed by film critics. In the center of the plot is the guy Hank, who, by the will of the circumstances, finds himself on a desert island. Having lost hope that he will be found, the main character wants to commit suicide. But then he discovers the corpse of a man who will help him return to civilization.
1. Savor
“Savor” – Woody Allen’s best melodrama of 2016, filmed from the director’s own script. The artistic picture describes the events of the 30s of the last century. The main character of the film leaves his native New York to find himself in the Hollywood film industry. There he meets a girl, Vonnie, with whom he falls madly in love. She introduces the young man to the brightest representatives of secular society. Thus, the hero finds himself in the midst of secular life, which determined the spirit of those times.