Why do people like to watch melodramas? And not only representatives of the beautiful half of humanity, but also men. Why is this happening? Usually melodramas are loved to watch by people who in life lack real emotions. Cinema gives us another reality, with vivid events, with emotions that sweep over the edge. Since women are more emotional than men, they often watch melodramas.
Many pictures of this genre are published annually. However, there are not so many really interesting films. The key to the success of the film about love is an interesting scenario, good camera work, and, of course, the game of actors. We have prepared for you a list that includes the best melodramas of 2014-2015. The list of films about love is based on reviews from critics, as well as audience ratings, and is as objective as possible.
10. The Age of Adalin
This melodrama tells the story of a girl who has reached the age of thirty and has stopped growing up. She had a car accident that affected her in such an unusual way. Adalin was born at the beginning of the last century, but now she looks the same as fifty years ago. Because of her unusual nature, Adalin is forced to hide and live on fake documents. She has a daughter who is more like her grandmother.
Her whole life is a series of losses. People with whom she becomes close gradually grow old and die. Adalin tries not to start a serious relationship and is limited to short-lived novels. But one day she meets an extraordinary man who begins to look after her and declares his love. But the biggest surprise for the girl is the father of this man, with whom she had an affair in the mid-sixties. He became a famous astronomer and even named a comet after Adalin.
However, the end of this film is happy. The girl talks about her unusualness to her lover, and he accepts it.
9. Cinderella
This is a classic theme for any melodrama. The story of a poor girl who meets a handsome prince and then lives happily ever after with him cannot but worry impressionable female hearts.
History, in general, is standard and differs little from the previous ones. Father, after the death of his beloved wife, having not long burnt, marry again. The stepmother turns Cinderella's life into hell. Once a girl accidentally meets a beautiful young man, not even suspecting that he is a prince. Soon the ball is announced, the good fairy helps Cinderella get there and meet with the prince. Well, then - a technical question.
The ending of this story is happy.
8. The Battle of Sevastopol
This picture cannot be called a melodrama in its classical sense. This is a movie about the war. In the center of the story is the story of the woman sniper Lyudmila Pavlyuchenko. This is a woman of unusual fate. She has accounted for more than three hundred Nazis destroyed. The director tried to reveal the identity of Lyudmila and he succeeded.
A very important part of the film is the personal life of a woman. In the war, she could not be happy. Three men loved her and all three died. Lyudmila was a real symbol for the Soviet soldiers who defended Sevastopol, with her name the soldiers went on the attack, the Nazis wanted to destroy the girl at all costs.
7. Blame the stars
Another romantic story that came out on a wide screen in 2014. This film will give you a reason to think about eternal questions: the meaning of our being, that our life is just one moment that we need to cherish.
A girl who is terminally ill with cancer falls in love with a guy, he was able to overcome this disease, and they embark on a desperate journey full of love and romance. They will enjoy every minute spent together. The girl knows that her days are numbered, but love illuminates her life.
6. Focus
This is a romantic comedy that tells about a very unusual couple. He is an experienced and experienced fraudster. A very attractive young lady who takes only the first steps in the criminal field falls into his “internship”.
True passion flares up between the main characters, but over time, their relationship becomes a problem for their business. The film was released at the end of 2014, two directors worked on it at once: Glen Ficarra and John Recua. The picture turned out to be very funny, we can note the wonderful play of the actors.
5. The battalion
This Russian film is hard to call a melodrama in the full sense of the word. The events described in the film take place in 1917. There is a First World War. Emperor Nicholas has already abdicated. A special female battalion is being formed in the country, in which women volunteers who want to fight at the front are recorded.
A young girl Nina Krylova, a student of the St. Petersburg gymnasium, falls in love with a young officer Alexander. After that, the girl enrolled in the battalion of Maria Bochkareva, in which girls of different ages, classes and destinies serve. Within a month, the girls are cooked, and then sent to the front.
Men no longer want to fight at the front, fraternities with the enemy constantly occur, fighters drop their weapons. And against this background, Bochkareva’s battalion shows miracles of courage, stamina and discipline. Despite this, men do not take the women's battalion seriously. It is Bochkareva’s fighters who will defend the Winter Palace from the Bolsheviks.
4. Pompeii
This film was released at the end of 2014. It can be called historical melodrama. This is the love story of the gladiator Milo and the Roman Cassia, which takes place in the city of Pompeii, on the eve of the eruption of Vesuvius.
Milo has a very difficult fate: his native tribe was slaughtered by the Romans, and he himself was sold into slavery. He accidentally meets Cassia and a deep feeling flares up between the young people. A Roman senator arrives in the city, who commanded the troops that destroyed the Milo tribe. He wants to marry Cassia. At this time, the mighty Vesuvius wakes up, who seems to be deciding to destroy the city, rich and mired in sins.
Milo saves his beloved, but they still could not escape from their fate.
The film perfectly shows the disaster of the city, excellent special effects, actors play well. Although there are enough historical inaccuracies in the film, the footage of the death of a huge city is fascinating.
3. Vasilisa
This is a Russian film, which should be attributed to the genre of historical melodrama. It describes the events of the Patriotic War of 1812. Against the background of these historical events crucial for the country, the love of a simple serf woman and a landowner unfolds. Under ordinary circumstances, they would have no chance of happiness, but war intervened.
War changes the whole habitual way of life, class prejudices are thrown aside. Fate moves lovers towards each other.
This film was directed by Anton Sivers, and the budget for the film was $ 7 million.
2. Beauty and the Beast
This is another adaptation of the old tale. The film was shot jointly by filmmakers from Germany and France. The director of the film is Christopher Hans. The budget of the picture is quite high (as for the European Union) and amounts to 33 million euros.
The plot of the film is also a classic. The father of the family, whose beautiful daughter is growing up, is in an enchanted castle near a terrible monster. His daughter goes to save him and finds daddy in good health, safe and sound. She remains in the castle of the monster, which turns out to be quite kind and even pretty.
The girl’s sincere love for the unfortunate creature helps to destroy the spell and restore his human appearance. But before that, lovers must overcome many obstacles.
The film is well shot, the cast is well-chosen, special effects are pleasing.
1. 50 shades of gray
This film was released in early 2015 and has already managed to make a lot of noise. It is based on the cult book of the British writer E. L. James.
The film tells about the connection of a young girl student Anastacia Steele and billionaire Christian Gray. The girl studies to be a journalist and, at the request of her friend, goes to interview the billionaire. The interview is not very successful and the girl thinks that she will never see Gray again in her life, but he himself finds it.
Almost immediately, a passionate romance erupts between the young people, but the farther, the more Anastacia learns about the sexual tastes of her lover, and they are very exotic.
This novel immediately became extremely popular in the UK and the USA. There are many frank erotic scenes in it, including violent scenes. Children under the age of eighteen are not recommended to watch this film.
This is only the first part of the trilogy; a sequel awaits us ahead.