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Lora May Hollingsway, who grew up next to the wrong side of the tracks, married her boss who thinks she is just a gold digger. Rita Phipps makes as much money writing radio scripts at night as her school teacher husband does. Deborah Bishop looked great in a Navy uniform in WWII but fears she'll nev β¦er be dressed just right for the Country Club set. These three wives are boarding a boat filled with children going on a picnic when a messenger on a bicycle hands them a letter addressed to all three from Addie who has just left town with one of their husbands. They won't know which one until that night. (Read More)
Themes: | humiliationunfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessadulteryjealousybetrayalinfidelitymarriagefriendship |
Locations: | school teacherlakeboattrain |
Characters: | employer employee relationshipolder man younger woman relationshipmaidsister sister relationshipwriterchildrenmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | radio showlistening to a radioferry boatreference to johannes brahmshidden charactermanservantrecord albumnylonsgazebosoftballphonograph recordmartinireference to albert einsteindinner partyplaying cards β¦music bandcigarette lighteradvertisingcynicismpicnicgossipcookfaintingwaiterrecord playerreference to william shakespearestagegiftradiolettervoice over narrationsurprise endingsingingphotographdancingnumber in titlebased on novelflashback (See All) |
This love story has Kitty meeting young, intelligent, shy and somewhat dull Dr. Walter Fane, whose forte is the study of infectious diseases, and the convenient marriage that she finds herself committed to. It is in this web of intrigue that they head for China, only after Walter discovers Kitty's i β¦nfidelity with one dashing and witty diplomat Charlie Townsend. So much as to hide her from herself and to help thwart a cholera outbreak, this is a marriage more than on the rocks. This is a cold, indifferent and loveless partnership in a vast unknown and deadly environment that will test both these flightless lovebirds and with the hardships and tolerances more than any had ever anticipated. A visual delight amid the pain and suffering of a dying people and failing marriage. Will a cure be found for both, before it's too late? (Read More)
Themes: | humiliationextramarital affairdrunkennessadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | boat |
Characters: | maidchildrenmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | martinigossipcookfaintingrecord playerlettersingingdancingbased on novelflashback |
In 1939, Robbie Turner is a private in the British Army, he and his battalion who are heading to France to fight in the war. A stint in the army is not where his life was headed, which took a radical turn four years earlier at the Tallis estate where he grew up as his mother worked as the Tallis' li β¦ve-in housekeeper. As such, he grew up with the three Tallis children: son Leon, and daughters Cecilia and Briony. Robbie and Cecilia were just getting to the stage of their lives of being able to confess their true love for each other. But then thirteen year old aspiring writer Briony also had a crush on the older Robbie. Based on two incidents she saw between Cecilia and Robbie (one only from afar), on reading a private letter Robbie wrote to Cecilia and on her own feelings for Robbie, Briony told some truths and half-truths about Robbie which resulted in this turn in his life. Robbie is able to reconnect with Cecilia before he is shipped off to France, and lives only to be able to head back to London to be with Cecilia and make up for the missing four years they could not spend together due to Briony's actions. A year later, Briony, now eighteen, also arrives in London to start working as a nurse to support the war effort. By this time, she is aware of the damage her thirteen year old self caused, and wants to atone for that error to both Cecilia from who she has been estranged, and Robbie who she has not seen since. She will make this atonement even if neither Robbie or Ceciliaβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | drunkennessjealousybetrayal |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | employer employee relationshipolder man younger woman relationshipsister sister relationshipwriterchildrenmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | cigarette lighterrecord playerreference to william shakespearestagelettervoice over narrationsurprise endingsingingphotographbased on novelflashback |
Based on the true story of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker, two close friends who share a love of fantasy and literature, who conspire to kill Pauline's mother when she tries to end the girls' intense and obsessive relationship.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | writermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | record albumnylonsphonograph recordrecord playerlettervoice over narrationsingingdancingflashback |
Based on Rosalie Ham's best selling novel, The Dressmaker is the story of femme fatale Tilly Dunnage who returns to her small home town in the country to right the wrongs of the past. A stylish drama with comic undertones about love, revenge and haute couture.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulterybetrayalinfidelityfriendship |
Locations: | school teachertrain |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | gossiprecord playerreference to william shakespearelettervoice over narrationsingingphotographdancingbased on novelflashback |
In Paris, before WWI, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French) fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. After the war, when they meet again in Germany, Catherine starts to love Jim... This is the story of three people in love, a love which does not af β¦fect their friendship, and about how their relationship evolves with the years. (Read More)
Themes: | adulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagefriendship |
Locations: | laketrain |
Characters: | writermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | waiterreference to william shakespearelettervoice over narrationsingingbased on novel |
British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson are sailing to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, and that night Nigel meets her while dancing alone in the ship's bar. Later he meets her crippled American husband Oscar, who tells him their story. While living in Paris for sev β¦eral years trying to be a writer, he becomes obsessed with a woman he met by chance on a bus. He tracks her down and they start a steamy love affair. Soon Oscar finds himself enslaved body and soul by her love, and continues to tell Nigel the details of this relationship in various stages over a number of visits to Oscar's cabin. (Read More)
Themes: | humiliationunfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriage |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipwriterhusband wife relationship |
Story: | cynicismpicnicphotographdancingbased on novelflashback |
Soon after moving in, Beth, a brainy, beautiful writer damaged from a past relationship encounters Adam, the handsome, but odd, fellow in the downstairs apartment whose awkwardness is perplexing. Beth and Adam's ultimate connection leads to a tricky relationship that exemplifies something universal: β¦ truly reaching another person means bravely stretching into uncomfortable territory and the resulting shake-up can be liberating. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryjealousyinfidelity |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | employer employee relationshipsister sister relationshipwriterchildrenmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | reference to albert einsteinwaitervoice over narrationphotograph |
Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling acces β¦sory. Brilliant in her own right, she works at the U.N. and is involved with a struggling artist who fulfills her emotional needs. When her husband discovers her indiscretion, he sets out to commit the perfect murder and inherit her considerable trust fund in the bargain. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryjealousybetrayalinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipmaidhusband wife relationship |
Story: | ferry boatcynicismsurprise endingphotograph |
In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Enduring that awkward period of life between boyhood and manhood, the two pass their time the best way they know how -- with the movie house, football, and girls. Jacey is Duane's ste β¦ady, wanted by every boy in school, and she knows it. Her daddy is rich and her mom is good looking and loose. It's the general consensus that whoever wins Jacey's heart will be set for life. But Anarene is dying a quiet death as folks head for the big cities to make their livings and raise their kids. The boys are torn between a future somewhere out there beyond the borders of town or making do with their inheritance of a run-down pool hall and a decrepit movie house -- the legacy of their friend and mentor, Sam the Lion. As high school graduation approaches, they learn some difficult lessons about love, loneliness, and jealousy. Then folks stop attending the second-run features at the movie house and the time comes for the last picture show. With the closure of the movie house, the boys feel that a stage of their lives is closing. They stand uneasily on the threshold of the rest of their lives. (The movie was adapted from the novel by Larry McMurtry). (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagefriendship |
Locations: | lake |
Characters: | employer employee relationshipolder man younger woman relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | listening to a radiocookrecord playerstagesingingdancingbased on novel |
Valentine is a young model living in Geneva. Because of a dog she ran over, she meets a retired judge who spies his neighbours' phone calls, not for money but to feed his cynicism. The film is the story of relationships between some human beings, Valentine and the judge, but also other people who ma β¦y not be aware of the relationship they have with Valentine or/and the old judge. Redemption, forgiveness and compassion... (Read More)
Themes: | humiliationextramarital affairadulteryjealousybetrayalfriendship |
Locations: | boat |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | ferry boatcynicismlettersurprise endingphotographnumber in title |
Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he's met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | boat |
Characters: | employer employee relationshipolder man younger woman relationship |
Story: | cynicismvoice over narrationphotographdancingbased on novel |
"All eyes will be on you," says the Austrian Empress, Maria Theresa to her youngest daughter Marie Antoinette. The film, marketed for a teen audience, is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinette's life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Mar β¦ie Antoinette, as she matures from a teenage bride to a young woman and eventual queen of France. (Read More)
Themes: | humiliationunfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Characters: | maidsister sister relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | gossiplettervoice over narrationsingingdancingbased on novel |
John Clasky is a devoted dad whose skills as a chef have offered his family a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu and a breathtaking new Mexican housekeeper, named Flor. She and her daughter Cristina have recently emigrated to L.A. from Mexico and are trying to find a better life. W β¦hen they move in with the Claskys for the summer, Flor has to fight for her daughter's soul as she discovers that life in a new country is perilous! (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Characters: | maidmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | cooklettervoice over narrationsinging |
A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is paralyzed by its ang β¦er and cannot let go. All but one young girl, left in a wheelchair after the accident, who finds the courage to lead the way toward healing. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessadulterybetrayalinfidelityfriendship |
Locations: | laketrain |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipchildrenmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | music bandsingingphotographbased on novelflashback |
Aviator Andre Jurieux has just completed a record-setting flight, but when he is greeted by an admiring crowd, all he can say to them is how miserable he is that the woman he loves did not come to meet him. He is in love with Christine, the wife of aristocrat Robert de la Cheyniest. Robert himself i β¦s involved in an affair with Genevieve de Marras, but he is trying to break it off. Meanwhile, Andre seeks help from his old friend Octave, who gets Andre an invitation to the country home where Robert and Christine are hosting a large hunting party. As the guests arrive for the party, their cordial greetings hide their real feelings, along with their secrets - and even some of the servants are involved in tangled relationships. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairdrunkennessadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagefriendship |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | maidhusband wife relationship |
Story: | manservantcigarette lightercynicismcookfaintingradiosingingdancing |
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryjealousybetrayalinfidelitymarriage |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipchildrenmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | singingdancingbased on novel |
Max and Page are a mother and daughter con team. Max seduces wealthy men into marrying her, then Page seduces them into infidelity so Max can rake them over the divorce court coals. And then it's on to the next victim.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | boat |
Characters: | maidmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | cynicismsurprise endingsinging |
One morning at an isolated mansion in the snowy countryside of 1950s France, a family is gathered for the holiday season. But there will be no celebration at all because their beloved patriarch has been murdered! The killer can only be one of the eight women closest to the man of the house. Was it h β¦is powerful wife? His spinster sister-in-law? His miserly mother-in-law? Maybe the insolent chambermaid or the loyal housekeeper? Could it possibly have been one of his two young daughters? A surprise visit from the victim's chic sister sends the household into a tizzy, encouraging hysterics, exacerbating rivalries, and encompassing musical interludes. Comedic situations arise with the revelations of dark family secrets. Seduction dances with betrayal. The mystery of the female psyche is revealed. There are eight women and each is a suspect. Each has a motive. Each has a secret. Beautiful, tempestuous, intelligent, sensual, and dangerous...one of them is guilty. Which one is it? (Read More)
Themes: | humiliationunfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessadulterybetrayalinfidelity |
Characters: | maidsister sister relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | cooksurprise endingsingingdancingnumber in titleflashback |
In the early 1960's, sixteen year old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in the London suburb of Twickenham. On her father's wishes, everything that Jenny does is in the sole pursuit of being accepted into Oxford, as he wants her to have a better life than he. Jenny is bright, pretty, hard working β¦but also naturally gifted. The only problems her father may perceive in her life is her issue with learning Latin, and her dating a boy named Graham, who is nice but socially awkward. Jenny's life changes after she meets David Goldman, a man over twice her age. David goes out of his way to show Jenny and her family that his interest in her is not improper and that he wants solely to expose her to cultural activities which she enjoys. Jenny quickly gets accustomed to the life to which David and his constant companions, Danny and Helen, have shown her, and Jenny and David's relationship does move into becoming a romantic one. However, Jenny slowly learns more about David, and by association Danny and Helen, and specifically how they make their money. Jenny has to decide if what she learns about them and leading such a life is worth forgoing her plans of higher eduction at Oxford. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulterybetrayalinfidelityfriendship |
Locations: | school teacher |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipchildrenmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | cigarette lightergossiprecord playerreference to william shakespearegiftlettersingingdancing |
In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme β¦to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on a train track, the police accept the determination of accidental death. However, the insurance analyst and Walter's best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessadulterybetrayalinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | employer employee relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | softballcynicismvoice over narrationphotographbased on novelflashback |
Eve (Anne Baxter) is waiting backstage to meet her idol, aging Broadway star Margo Channing (Bette Davis). It seems innocent enough as Eve explains that she has seen Margo in EVERY performance of her current play. Only playwright/critic DeWitt (George Sanders) sees through Eve's evil plan, which is β¦to take her parts and her fiance, Bill Simpson (Gary Merrill). When the fiance shows no interest, she tries for playwright Lloyd Richards (Hugh Marlowe), but DeWitt stops her. After she accepts her award, she decides to skip the after-party and goes to her room, where a young woman named Phoebe has sneaked into her room and fallen asleep. This is where the "Circle of Life" now comes to fruition as Eve will get played like she played Margo. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessdrunkennessjealousybetrayalinfidelityfriendship |
Characters: | maidhusband wife relationship |
Story: | martinicigarette lightercynicismwaiterreference to william shakespearevoice over narrationflashback |
Follows the life of 'Karen Blixen' (qv), who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is Complicated by a husband of convenience (Bror Blixen), a true love (Denys), troubles on the plantation, schooling of the natives, war, and catching VD from her husband.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymarriagefriendship |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | picnicgiftvoice over narrationsingingdancing |
Teenager Andie is one of the not-so-popular girls in high school. She usually hangs out with her friends Iona or Duckie. Duckie has always had a crush on her, but now she has met a new guy at school, Blane. He's one of the rich and popular guys but can the two worlds meet?
Themes: | drunkennessfriendship |
Locations: | school teachertrain |
Story: | nylonsphonograph recordplaying cardsrecord playersingingphotographdancing |
Malena is about the peril of a beauty through the eyes of a 12 year old kid named Renato. He experiences three things on the same day, beginning of war, getting a bike and sees the arrival of Malena in town. Through his eyes, we see the curse of beauty and loneliness of Malena, whose husband is pres β¦umed to be dead, and through his soul we see his love for her. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | gossipfaintinglettervoice over narrationsingingphotographdancing |
Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother Erica. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.
Themes: | drunkennessjealousymarriagefriendship |
Locations: | boat |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipsister sister relationshipwritermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | picniccookvoice over narrationphotographflashback |
Echoes of "Madame Bovary" in the American suburbs. Sarah's in a loveless marriage to an advertising executive, long days with her young daughter at the park and the pool, wanting more. Brad is an immature househusband, married to a flinty documentary filmmaker. Ronnie is just out of prison - two yea β¦rs for indecent exposure to a minor - living with his elderly mother, May; Larry is a retired cop, fixated on driving Ronnie away. Sarah and Brad connect, a respite of adult companionship at the pool. Ronnie and Larry have their demons. Brad should be studying for the bar; Larry misses his job; Ronnie's mom thinks he needs a girlfriend. Sarah longs to refuse to be trapped in an unhappy life. Where can these tangled paths lead? (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymarriagefriendship |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | childrenmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | advertisingcookwaiterlettervoice over narrationphotographbased on novelflashback |
In London, the public relation Helen is fired from her position in a PR company. While returning home, she does not catch the train in the subway. But in another possibility of her life, she catches the train in the subway. The story shows two parallel lives of Helen: in one life, she stays with her β¦ boyfriend Gerry, and in the other life, she finds that Gerry cheats her with Lydia and falls in love with James Hammerton. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessadulterybetrayalinfidelityfriendship |
Locations: | boattrain |
Characters: | writerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | advertisingfainting |
Texan rancher Bick Benedict visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie, they are married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their family and its rivalry with cowboy and (later oil tycoon) Jett Rink unfolds acro β¦ss two generations. (Read More)
Themes: | drunkennessjealousymarriagefriendship |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipsister sister relationshipchildrenmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | listening to a radiocookfaintingwaiterlettersingingbased on novel |
Against the backdrop of aged has-been rock star Billy Mack's Christmas themed comeback cover of "Love Is All Around" which he knows is crap and makes no bones about it much to his manager Joe's chagrin as he promotes the record, several interrelated stories about romantic love and the obstacles to h β¦appiness through love for Londoners are presented in the five weeks preceding Christmas. Daniel's wife has just passed away, leaving him to take care of his adolescent stepson Sam by himself. Daniel is uncertain how to deal with Sam and his problems without his wife present, especially in light of a potential budding romance within their household. Juliet and Peter have just gotten married. They believe that Peter's best friend and best man Mark hates Juliet but won't say so to his or her face. Others looking at the situation from the outside believe Mark is jealous of Juliet as he is in love with Peter himself. Jamie, a writer, is taking a writing retreat by himself in rural France following catching his latest girlfriend in an indiscretion. Jamie ends up spending much time in France with Aurelia, the Portuguese woman hired as the housekeeper. The question becomes not only if they can communicate their day-to-day needs with each other as she speaks no English, he speaks no Portuguese, and neither speaks French well, but communicate what seems to be their increasing mutual attraction to each other. Sarah has been in love with her co-worker Karl for the two years they have worked toβ¦ (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulterybetrayalinfidelitymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | employer employee relationshipwritermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | radio showcookwaiterreference to william shakespearevoice over narrationphotographdancing |
Shaken by the death of his father and discouraged by his stalled career, writer Sal Paradise goes on a road trip hoping for inspiration. While traveling, he is befriended by charismatic and fearless Dean Moriarty and Moriarty's free-spirited and seductive young wife, Marylou. Traveling across the Am β¦erican southwest together, they strive to break from conformity and and search the unknown, and their decisions change the very course of their lives. (Read More)
Themes: | friendship |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | writerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | listening to a radiorecord playerradiolettervoice over narrationsingingphotographdancingbased on novelflashback |
After a little white lie about losing her virginity gets out, a clean cut high school girl sees her life paralleling Hester Prynne's in "The Scarlet Letter," which she is currently studying in school - until she decides to use the rumor mill to advance her social and financial standing.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | gazebocynicismgossipfaintingwaitersingingphotograph |
Michael and Jenna, having been a couple for three years, want to get married and start a family. These plans seem to be well on their way when Jenna announces that she's pregnant. But Michael is worried that his life and his youth will be over for good. At a wedding of a friend, he meets a free-spir β¦ited college co-ed, Kim, who opens his eyes and leads him on a dangerous path away from Jenna. Meanwhile, none of the relationships of the people surrounding Michael and Jenna are happy and stable. Michael's friend Izzy is unwilling to let go of his childhood sweetheart Arianna; Kenny is a handsome stud who fears commitment to his latest conquest Danielle; and Chris is a co-worker who is dominated by his neurotic and overbearing wife over raising their newborn son. Even Jenna's parents, Stephen and Anna, are experiencing problems in their long-suffering marriage. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessadulteryjealousyinfidelitymarriagefriendship |
Locations: | boat |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | martiniadvertisingphotographdancing |
Hunky NY lawyer Jeff Daly finally got engaged to fickle Sarah Huttinger, who presents him to her Pasadena family, who all soon take to him, for her sister's wedding to Scott. But Jeff's clever counting makes Sarah realize her dad Earl isn't her biological father. Once movie clues from family indicat β¦e as suspect successful author Beau Burroughs, she insists on meeting him. Only like her mother and grandmother, she has a one night-stand with Beau, which may well cost her Jeff. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipsister sister relationshipwritermother daughter relationship |
Story: | gossipphotographdancing |
Dan is a 51 year old executive who learns that his company is being restructured and he is being demoted. Carter, who is 26, replaces him. Dan who has two teenage daughters with another on the way, decides to suck it up and work for Carter. Dan and Carter's working relationship is tested when Carter β¦ begins a relationship with Alex, who is Dan's daughter. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | employer employee relationshipsister sister relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | advertisingwaitersurprise endingphotograph |
A Walk in the Clouds depicted a story about a young-married US military soldier, named Paul, who returned home after the World War II. In the middle of the way back home, he accidentally met a girl named Victoria who finished her master's degree. She has not married yet but got pregnant by accident. β¦ During the journey they talked a lot. Due to her pregnancy, Victoria was afraid of her father who respected old Mexican tradition. Thus, Paul proposed to pose as her husband to help her face her dad. Paul was not intended to cheat on his wife by pretending to be Victoria's husband. However, when Paul decided to come back to his home and left Victoria, he found his wife cheating on him. Paul then headed back to Victoria's house "Las Nubes" and confessed his true love to Victoria. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | record playerreference to william shakespearelettersingingdancingflashback |
1972. Vada Sultenfuss (played by Anna Chlumsky) is an intelligent, bubbly, hypochondriacal 11-year old girl. Her father, Harry (Dan Aykroyd), is a mortician and a widower. Her best friend is Thomas J Sennett (Macaulay Culkin). Then her father hires a new receptionist, Shelly (Jamie Lee Curtis), and β¦life will never be the same again. (Read More)
Themes: | marriagefriendship |
Locations: | school teacherlake |
Characters: | writerchildren |
Story: | phonograph recordplaying cardspicnicrecord playersingingphotographdancing |
Katherine Ann Watson has accepted a position teaching art history at the prestigious Wellesley College. Watson is a very modern woman, particularly for the 1950s, and has a passion not only for art but for her students. For the most part, the students all seem to be biding their time, waiting to fin β¦d the right man to marry. The students are all very bright and Watson feels they are not reaching their potential. Altough a strong bond is formed between teacher and student, Watson's views are incompatible with the dominant culture of the college. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessadulteryjealousybetrayalinfidelitymarriagefriendship |
Locations: | laketrain |
Characters: | writermother daughter relationship |
Story: | lettervoice over narrationsingingphotographdancing |
1962. A glamorous American couple, the charismatic Chester MacFarland (Mortensen) and his alluring younger wife Colette (Dunst), arrive in Athens by boat via the Corinth Canal. While sightseeing at the Acropolis they encounter Rydal (Isaac), a young, Greek-speaking American who is working as a tour β¦guide, scamming tourists on the side. Drawn to Colette's beauty and impressed by Chester's wealth and sophistication, Rydal gladly accepts their invitation to dinner. However, all is not as it seems with the MacFarlands and Chester's affable exterior hides darker secrets. When Rydal visits the couple at their exclusive hotel, Chester presses him to help move the body of a seemingly unconscious man who he claims attacked him. In the moment, Rydal agrees but as events take a more sinister turn he finds himself compromised and unable to pull himself free. His increasing infatuation with the vulnerable and responsive Colette gives rise to Chester's jealousy and paranoia, leading to a tense and dangerous battle of wits between the two men. (Read More)
Themes: | drunkennessjealousy |
Locations: | boat |
Characters: | writerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | listening to a radiocigarette lighterradiolettersingingphotographdancingnumber in titlebased on novel |
In 1945, the Marines attack twelve thousand Japaneses protecting the twenty square kilometers of the sacred Iwo Jima island in a very violent battle. When they reach the Mount Suribachi and six Marines raise their flag on the top, the picture becomes a symbol in a post Great Depression America. The β¦government brings the three survivors to America to raise funds for war, bringing hope to desolate people, and making the three men heroes of the war. However, the traumatized trio has difficulty dealing with the image built by their superiors, sharing the heroism with their mates. (Read More)
Themes: | drunkennessmarriagefriendship |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | listening to a radioplaying cardscigarette lighterradiolettervoice over narrationsingingphotographdancingflashback |
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their busy, impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality.
Themes: | drunkennessmarriagefriendship |
Locations: | boattrain |
Characters: | maidsister sister relationshipchildrenmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | playing cardsgiftlettersingingphotograph |
In the end of the Nineteenth Century, in London, Robert Angier, his beloved wife Julia McCullough and Alfred Borden are friends and assistants of a magician. When Julia accidentally dies during a performance, Robert blames Alfred for her death and they become enemies. Both become famous and rival ma β¦gicians, sabotaging the performance of the other on the stage. When Alfred performs a successful trick, Robert becomes obsessed trying to disclose the secret of his competitor with tragic consequences. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessadulterybetrayalinfidelityfriendship |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | playing cardsstagelettervoice over narrationsurprise endingphotographbased on novelflashback |
Class struggle becomes all too real as a young doctor moves into a modern apartment block in suburban 1975 London. Drugs, drink & debauchery dissolve into murder, mayhem and misogyny in this pseudo-post-apocalyptic breakdown of societal norms.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessadulteryinfidelity |
Characters: | maidmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | cigarette lighterwaiterrecord playervoice over narrationphotographdancingbased on novelflashback |
'Louisa May Alcott' (qv)'s autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of ho β¦w the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world. (Read More)
Themes: | marriage |
Characters: | maidsister sister relationshipwritermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | reference to william shakespearestagelettersingingdancingbased on novel |
Paris, je t'aime is about the plurality of cinema in one mythic location: Paris, the City of Love. Twenty filmmakers have five minutes each; the audience must weave a single narrative out of twenty moments. The 20 moments are fused by transitional interstitial sequences and also via the introduction β¦ and epilogue. Each transition begins with the last shot of the previous film and ends with the first shot of the following film, extending the enchantment and the emotion of the previous segment, preparing the audience for a surprise, and providing a cohesive atmosphere. There's a reappearing mysterious character who is a witness to the Parisian life. A common theme of Paris and love fuses all. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymarriage |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | phonograph recordmusic bandfaintingrecord playervoice over narrationsingingphotographflashback |
Cathy is the perfect 50s housewife, living the perfect 50s life: healthy kids, successful husband, social prominence. Then one night she stumbles in on her husband Frank, kissing another man, and her tidy world starts spinning out of control. In her confusion and grief, she finds consolation in the β¦friendship of their African-American gardener, Raymond - a socially taboo relationship that leads to the further disintegration of life as she knew it. Despite Cathy and Frank's struggle to keep their marriage afloat, the reality of his homosexuality and her feelings for Raymond open a painful, if more honest, chapter in their lives. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessadulteryinfidelitymarriagefriendship |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | maidhusband wife relationship |
Story: | gossipdancing |
Cal (Steve Carell) and Emily (Julianne Moore) have the perfect life together living the American dream... until Emily asks for a divorce. Now Cal, Mr Husband, has to navigate the single scene with a little help from his professional bachelor friend Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling). Make that a lot of hel β¦p... (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessadulteryinfidelitymarriagefriendship |
Characters: | employer employee relationshipsister sister relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | record playerphotographdancing |
The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his β¦ children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairfriendship |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipwriterchildrenmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | waiterreference to william shakespeareradiovoice over narrationdancingbased on novelflashback |
Mia, an aggressive fifteen-year-old girl, lives on an Essex estate with her tarty mother, Joanne, and precocious little sister Tyler. She has been thrown out of school and is awaiting admission to a referrals unit and spends her days aimlessly. She begins an uneasy friendship with Joanne's slick boy β¦friend, Connor, who encourages her one interest, dancing. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairdrunkennessadulteryinfidelityfriendship |
Locations: | laketrain |
Characters: | older man younger woman relationshipsister sister relationshipchildrenmother daughter relationship |
Story: | singingphotographdancing |
Dolores Claiborne works as a maid for a wealthy woman in remote Maine. When she is indicted for the elderly woman's murder, Dolores' daughter Selena returns from New York, where she has become a big-shot reporter. In the course of working out the details of what has happened, as well as some shady q β¦uestions from the past and Selena's troubled childhood, many difficult truths are revealed about their family's domestic strife. This is cleverly portrayed with present reality shot in cool blue tones blending seamlessly into flashbacks shot in vivid color. As small town justice relentlessly grinds forward, surprises lie in store for the viewers.... (Read More)
Themes: | marriage |
Characters: | employer employee relationshipmaidwritermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | ferry boatmusic bandbased on novelflashback |