Melodramas

You only find characters as unrelievedly bad as Hilly in melodramas and soap operas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Its waxed ends twirled upwards as is mandatory for cuckolds in French farces and was identical to the one worn by villains in English melodramas. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Not state documents such as melodramas use to keep the villains sweating -- they did not come in reams, so far as Johnny knew. ❋ B. M. Bower (1905)

Minnelli remained in Hollywood, making musicals and melodramas for the next quarter century. ❋ Bruce Bennett (2011)

Whether the background is the local village or the Cretan landscape, Cacoyiannis' cinema is decisively ethnographic, depicting the culture of the peasants as an insular, contained ethnoscape, often playing to Western expectations by promoting the image of an exotic Modern Greece, as seen in the perpetuation of primitivist stereotypes in Zorba, and the exploration of the rural in melodramas dealing with family issues, such as A Girl in Black. ❋ Katerina Zacharia (2011)

Because, after all, these are high-concept melodramas although Homeland feels more real and raw, and maybe you're unsettled by the female lead being the aggressor. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Here, the most important thing there was to work on was the intensity, because like all good melodramas the story is completely unbelievable. ❋ Brad Balfour (2011)

Then many of the children were enlisted for weeks in a daily workshop, not to teach them "acting" (for that they already knew from hundreds of overacted Indian film melodramas), but to teach them how to behave naturally in front of the camera. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As with the story of the unhappily bleached black people, these little racial melodramas smack of willful contrivance. ❋ Jack Cashill (2011)

There have been tart knife-edged satires like Dr. Strangelove and weepy but powerful melodramas like On the Beach. ❋ Ron Rosenbaum (2011)

We get to know the “owners” and become quite acquainted with the running melodramas of the place. ❋ Daniel Hernandez (2011)

"It definitely doesn't have Minnelli's kind of lavish touch that was in his musicals and melodramas." ❋ Bruce Bennett (2011)

La Movida first showed the world that Spain — which now conjures up images of Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum, Pedro Almod ó var's melodramas and Ferran Adri à 's foams — could mean more than castanets, bull fights and suntan lotion. ❋ J. S. Marcus (2010)

The 22 films in Film Forum's new retrospective "Fritz Lang in Hollywood" — which includes iconic noirs, darkly etched wartime thrillers, chiaroscuro westerns and inventive melodramas — have often been underappreciated. ❋ Kristin M. Jones (2011)

I gravitated to the grindhouses in downtown Cincinnati to watch genre movies by Roger Corman, Mario Bava, the AIP beach party movies, Douglas Sirk melodramas, and so on. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Melodrama] is [my life], I would [die] without it! ❋ PeaTearGriffin (2006)

"Did you know that [Lorde's] album Melodrama [is lit] [as fuck]?" ❋ Rihanna’s Gay Son (2017)

Right now the democratic party, both as a party and as an entity, as well as the city of Washington DC are [drowning in melodrama]. To win the next election the [dems] need to focus [on 4] substantive topics: crime, covid, inflation, the border and education. ❋ Sexydimma (2022)