Movies

HomeMoviesSearchTV SeriesBookmarksView Source
Chronicle of a Disappearance
Chronicle of a Disappearance

Chronicle of a Disappearance

Genres

Drama

OverView

Chronicle of a Disappearance unfolds in a series of seemingly unconnected cinematic tableaux, each of them focused on incidents or characters which seldom reappear later in the film. Among the many unrelated scenes, there is a Palestinian actress struggling to find an apartment in West Jerusalem, the owner of the Holy Land souvenir shop preparing merchandise for incoming Japanese tourists, a group of old women gossiping about their relatives, and an Israeli police van which screeches to a halt so several heavily armed soldiers can get off the car and urinate.

Others

Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

Arabic

Runtime

88 mins

Rating

6.5/10

Release Date

01 September 1996

Country

Belgium

Cast

Elia Suleiman

Elia Suleiman

E.S.

Nazira Suleiman

Nazira Suleiman

Mother

Fuad Suleiman

Fuad Suleiman

Father

Ali Suliman

Ali Suliman

The Man

Juliet Mazzawi

Juliet Mazzawi

The aunt

Fawaz Eilemi

Fawaz Eilemi

Abu Adnan

Leonid Alexeenko

Leonid Alexeenko

Priest

Ula Tabari

Ula Tabari

Adan

Taha Mouhamad Ali

Taha Mouhamad Ali

The writer

Samer Azar

Samer Azar

Turban man

Imile Qamou

Imile Qamou

Cafe owner

Irena Mistrakov

Irena Mistrakov

Russian waitress

Jamel Daher

Jamel Daher

Holy Land owner

Similar Movies

6.9

Lemon Tree

February 2008 •Hebrew

Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defence minister and his wife move next door, forcing the Secret Service to order the trees' removal for security. The stoic Salma seeks assistance from the Palestinian Authority, Israeli army, and a young attorney, Ziad Daud, who takes the case. In this allegory, does David stand a chance against Goliath?

6.3

Entre deux mères

March 2017 •French

Four-year-old Alice Leroy disappeared on a beach, assumed to have drowned. Eleven years later, Alice reappears.

6.7

Lantana

October 2001 •English

Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges -- drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and suspicious about each other's involvement.

6.2

Luna Papa

September 1999 •Russian

The unborn child of Mamlakat is telling her story. She is 17, beautiful and vivacious, and dreaming secretly of becoming an actress. She lives with her father and brother in a small village in Central Asia. One night she is seduced by an actor from a travelling troupe, who poses as a friend of Tom Cruise, and gets her pregnant. She tries to abort, but her father and brother become determined to find the seducer, setting in motion a cascade of comic adventures.

5.8

Weep the Headless Madness of these Fields

April 2019 •Spanish

A girl dies in a provincial summer house and is buried by her family. By night a wild dog unearths the corpse and takes it to the woods. Under the shade of the trees, the girl wakes up and decides to return home accompanied by the dog.

6.8

In the Valley of Elah

September 2007 •English

A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.

0.0

Sin querer

July 1997 •Spanish

The romance of an engineer who plans the construction of a highway that will cross a town in Patagonia and the conflict with the powerful

5.8

Possible Lives

February 2008 •Spanish

The beautiful wife of a geologist frantically searches for her missing husband and is haunted by a man who bears a striking resemblance to him.

6.6

The Quiet Earth

September 1985 •English

After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.

7.2

Tell No One

November 2006 •French

A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.

6.3

Hoffa

December 1992 •English

A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt.

0.0

Hasan Everywhere

February 2010 •English

Hasan Everywhere is an animation which broaches the subtlety of a relationship between a man and a woman who bear the passports of enemies, to sympathetically deal with the subjects of death, grief, lost opportunity; but mostly it seeks to demonstrate the possibility of friendship triumphing over the deepest of rifts between two people. In that regard it is most unusual among the standard fare of animated shorts.

6.1

The Lighthorsemen

September 1987 •English

In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment to break the deadlock.

4.8

Beautiful

August 2009 •English

After another teenager disappears from the idyllic suburb of Sunshine Hills, Suzy, the girl-next-door of every boy's dreams, persuades Daniel, a fourteen-year-old with an obsessive crush, to help her uncover the truth.

0.0

Une petite fille dans les tournesols

December 1984 •French

The young teacher Marelle goes in search of her husband who mysteriously disappeared while attending the funeral of a childhood friend.

7.7

Waltz with Bashir

June 2008 •Hebrew

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

5.7

Amelia

October 2009 •English

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.

6.8

Brick

March 2006 •English

A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

6.0

Salt of This Sea

September 2008 •Arabic

Born in Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee parents, Soraya decides to journey to the country of her ancestry when she discovers that her grandfather's savings have been frozen in a Jaffa bank account since his 1948 exile. However, she soon finds that her simple plan is a complicated undertaking — one that takes her further from her comfort zone than she'd imagined.

7.3

A Very Long Engagement

October 2004 •French

Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.