Movies: Tragedy

Vienna in the late 90s. VHS footage reveals the video-diary of Markus and Ana, a young unemployed couple. Boredom and the need for an adrenaline fix pushes them into a spiral of theft, alcohol and drugs....

Leila Majnun is a well-known Arabian Persian tragedy of love in the vein of Romeo and Juliet with elements of the Arabian One Thousand and One Nights. The plot centres on two lovers – Leila and Majnun – who are denied this love because of social conv...

A young woman recalls the events of the previous night, putting together the pieces of a drunken encounter with a strange man....

Drama student Bethany McKabe is starring in a student short film helmed by her friends that’s being shot over Halloween. The premise being what would happen if a costumed killer came after their friend Bethany....

Puccini's Tosca at the San Francisco Opera (October 2014)...

An adaptation of the 1869 novel ‘The Idiot’ by Fyodor Dostoevsky....

The return of Beyonce....

A story about the CEO of a company in the 90s that specializes in improving business morale for other companies. While filming one of his morale-boosting training videos, you will also see just how terrible his own life is....

Bellini's radiant retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a beacon in the bel canto tradition. San Francisco Opera's co-production features two of the greatest voices in bel canto together for the first time: mezzo Joyce DiDonato and soprano N...

In November of 2016, Atlético Nacional were thrust into the limelight through tragedy, as the plane of Brazilian champions Chapecoense crashed on the way to Medellín, Colombia to play the first leg of the 2016 Copa Sudamericana Final. The football wo...

On the small planet of Hub B a Gaian scientist named Bon awaits a data transfer officer, but is met by his former partner, Lex, who unbeknownst to him is there to steal his life's work for the scientific cult organization, REM. While their love once ...

A short film by Chiara Del Bove. Starring Caterina Cesari, Elisa Brunelli, Denise Del Bove and Camilla Calabrò....

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The year 1943. The Second World War is on. A group of partisans, which includes, among others, the young poet Gonczar, his friend Włodek and Zosia, are ordered to blow up a railway bridge during a military transport crossing. The task is completed, b...

The Documentary presents the tragedy in Brumadinho, as a result of the collapse of the bean dam at Mineradora Vale, which resulted in one of the biggest catastrophes with mining tailings in Brazil....

Tension's between two mob bosses are at an all time high, but when one of them kidnaps the other's son it sets of a bloody chain of events....

Early morning. The young Liya is standing on the edge of the roof, ready to commit suicide. At the last minute she is pushed away from edge by a neighbour, Sergei, who for some inexplicable reason appears on the roof at exactly the same time. During ...

Filmed version of stage director Takis Mouzenidis' production of the Sophocles tragedy....

An experimental and critical view on the decadence of Honduran society. It practically has no narrative structure, as it plays out as a day-in-the-life-of the eponymous Ángel, a kid who's a shoe-shiner....

Devastated and powerless as she watched the 2020 Beirut explosion and its aftermath from afar, Lebanese American choreographer Dolly Sfeir set about creating a work to express her delicate state of mind. IT CRIES TOO LOUDLY, is a dance film exploring...