The best American melodramas of the 20th century

Sometimes you want to make something happening and bright in life, only the mood for this is absolutely inappropriate. Improve it will help melodramas.

American films are different. Someone praises them, someone considers them empty and stupid. However, it is impossible to generalize, because in the XX century a lot of worthy pictures were filmed. It is about them that will be discussed below.

The best American melodramas of the 20th century

• "The lights of a big city ." Filmed in 1931, the film still does not lose its relevance and makes people laugh and empathize with the characters. A tramp (performed by the genius Charlie Chaplin) meets a blind girl on the street. Her beauty amazes him, and he, despite the fact that he himself does not have a livelihood, is looking for any ways to get money for an expensive operation that can restore the girl's sight.
• The film " Apartment " with Jack Lemmon in the title role was filmed in 1960. This happened immediately after the success of the comedy "In Jazz Only Girls." American melodramas are almost always stories about ordinary people who do not need anything but simple human happiness. This film was no exception. Baxter is an ordinary clerk who, due to the circumstances, helps his co-workers, giving them their apartment for an evening for certain purposes. He tries not to think about the moral side of the issue until he meets one day with his boss's mistress. In love, 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 still watch with great pleasure, were shot in the 80s-90s. One of the most popular films was and remains " Dirty Dancing ". The film was released on big screens in 1987. This is a story about a young girl, the daughter of wealthy parents. Family comes to the chic resort hotel for rest. Great talk, classical music, adult serious people ... Baby here is frankly bored until he meets a young man named Johnny. He is a professional dancer, he already knows everything about life and women. It would seem that there can be a common between them? However, fate has already decided everything for them.
• " Ghost " - a 1990 film, loved by many girls. Molly and Sam, coming back through the dark streets home, are attacked. A young man in an unequal battle with criminals dies. However, his soul is still here on earth. He learns that an 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 about the danger. But he found a way out, asking for help from the mountain-medium Ode Brown. What will come of this?
• " English patient ", filmed in 1996, received as many as 9 Oscar awards in different categories. The end of the war is near. The plane is knocked down over the desert. In it, a man with burns all over his body. His health is worse every day, and one of the nurses decides to stay in a deserted Italian monastery to look after him. There the English patient begins to remember his life: about how he fell in love with a married woman, about the obstacles that stood in their way, and about how their story ended.

Now you know which American melodramas you can watch in your spare time.