Sometimes you want something joyful and bright in life, only the mood for this is completely inappropriate. Melodramas will help to improve it.
American films are different. Someone praises them, someone considers empty and stupid. However, it is impossible to generalize, since in the XX century many worthy paintings were shot. It is about them that we will discuss below.
The best American melodramas of the 20th century
- "The lights of the big city ." Filmed in 1931, the film still does not lose its relevance and makes laugh and empathize with the heroes. A tramp (performed by the ingenious Charlie Chaplin) meets a blind girl on the street. Her beauty amazes him, and despite the fact that he himself has no means of subsistence, he is looking for any ways to get money for an expensive operation that can restore the girl’s eyesight.
- The film " Apartment " with Jack Lemmon in the title role was shot in 1960. This happened immediately after the success of the comedy "Only Jazz in Jazz." American melodramas are almost always stories about ordinary people who need nothing but simple human happiness.This film was no exception. Baxter is an ordinary clerk who, due to the circumstances, helps his colleagues by providing them with his apartment for the evening for well-known purposes. He tries not to think about the moral side of the issue until he meets his boss’s mistress once. Loving Baxter will have to face a difficult choice and decide what is more important for him: career or personal happiness.
- Many American melodramas, which we watch today with great pleasure, were shot in the 80s – 90s. One of the most popular films was and remains " Dirty Dancing ." The film was released in large screens in 1987. This is a story about a young girl, the daughter of wealthy parents. The family comes to a chic resort hotel on vacation. Great conversations, classical music, serious adults ... Baby is frankly bored here until she meets a young man named Johnny. He is a professional dancer, already knows everything about life and women. It would seem that there can be something in common between them? However, fate has already decided everything for them.
- Ghost is a 1990 film, loved by many girls. Molly and Sam, returning home through the dark streets, are attacked. A young man dies in an unequal battle with criminals. However, his soul is still here on earth. He learns that the attack is not just an accident, and Molly is in danger. Unfortunately, the girl does not have the ability to communicate with spirits, and Sam urgently needs to warn her of the danger. But he found a way out, asking for help from the grief-medium Oda Brown. What will come of it?
- The " English Patient ", filmed in 1996, received as many as 9 Oscars in various categories. The end of the war is nearing. A plane is being shot down over the desert. He has a man with burns all over his body. His health is getting worse every day, and one of the nurses decides to stay in an empty Italian monastery to look after him. There, an English patient begins to remember his life: how he fell in love with a married woman, the obstacles that stood in their way, and how their story ended.
Now you know what American melodramas you can watch in your free time.