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 entered films 2016 - a list of the best films, melodramas.
10. Carol
Art film "Carol" opens the top ten best films of the melodrama genre of 2016. The main character of the picture, the girl Theresa, accidentally meets a mature woman Carol. Between persons there is more than sympathy. They begin to feel real feelings for each other. But the circumstances are such that there are reasons why Theres and Carol cannot be together. This is due to the daughter of Theresa. The further course of events depends on the decision that the girl will make: to stay with her beloved or daughter.
9. Cote d'Azur
"Cote d'Azur" located on the ninth line in the top ten best melodramas of 2016. The main roles in the film were played by the unique Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. The couple is sent to France to understand their own feelings for each other. Both of them are creative personalities: the spouse is a former dancer, and the spouse is the current popular writer. A quiet corner and getting to know a young couple help to revive old feelings for older heroes.
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 violates the visit of a certain person who appears to be Masha. The girl asks to spend the night, as she was late for her train, and she has nowhere to stop. The young couple decides to let the guest in, not yet suspecting what intricacies of fate this may lead to.
7. Girl from Denmark
On the seventh line in the top of the best melodramas of 2016 is the film “Girl from Denmark”based on real events. The girl-photographer asks her husband to pose in women's clothing for the next order, since her model can not participate 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. Soon, the spouse begins to realize that he is very comfortable in the 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. At one of them, she meets Professor Edie Ferum. She falls in love with an already elderly teacher who is engaged in astrophysics. Unrestrained passion flashes between a girl and a man. But the thing is that heroes live in different corners of the planet and cannot often see each other. They constantly call up and communicate on social networks. Soon their next meeting should take place. But on the appointed day, Amy finds out that Edie has passed away. All this seems strange to the heroine, and she decides to visit his house, where the secret of the sudden death of her lover is perhaps hidden.
5. Equal
Melodrama "Equal" ranked fifth in the list of the best films of 2016 of this genre. A motion picture with notes of fiction tells about the future, where there is the so-called Collective. These are people who are unusual for any emotions and human feelings. They are all equal in front of each other and similar. But once a virus enters the Collective that violates the world of stability. Suicides appear, jumping out of the 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 with whom the same changes occur in terms of feelings. The hero understands perfectly well that he is in mortal danger if his “illness” is revealed. He has 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. In active search
"Actively looking" included in the list of the best melodramas of 2016. In the center of events is a young girl Ellis, who abandons 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, she will meet new friends, work ... Here the heroine acquires a girlfriend Robin, with whom they are completely different. Robin hurries to introduce Ellis to a nightly, party-like lifestyle, but she, in turn, does not want this at all. The girl wants to meet her soulmate, but not in a nightclub. A friend of a different opinion and does everything necessary to add Ellis to entertainment.
3. Choice
"Choice" Opens the top three films for melodramas that came out on the Russian screen in 2016. The main character is a rich and successful young man named Travis, who was able to achieve much 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 go that way. But fate has its own plans for a hero, and soon she presents a gift to a young man in the person of a modest, reserved girl Gaby, who settles with him in the neighborhood.
2. Man is a Swiss knife
“Man is a Swiss knife” - One of the best films of the melodrama genre of 2016, having an admixture of fiction and notes of black humor. The film by Daniel Shinert and Daniel Kwan was first shown at the Sandes Film Festival and won the prize for best director of a drama film. The work of American filmmakers received mixed reviews, but was generally approved by film critics. In the center of the plot is the guy Hank, who by the will of the circumstances turns out to be on a desert island. Having lost hope that he will be found, the main character wants to commit suicide. But here he discovers the corpse of a man who will help him return to civilization.
1. Social life
"Savor" - The best melodrama of 2016 by Woody Allen, shot according to the director’s own script. The art 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, whom he falls madly in love with. She introduces the young man to the most prominent representatives of secular society. Thus, the hero finds himself in the thick of social life, which determined the spirit of those times.