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When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany a β¦ffect her marriage plans? (Read More)
Subgenre: | comedy of mannersgay interestindependent film |
Themes: | travelmurder |
Mood: | moving |
Locations: | museumbicyclelondon englandhotelchurchtrain |
Characters: | self discoverycousin cousin relationshiplove trianglesister sister relationshipfemale protagonistbrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Period: | 1900s |
Story: | broken engagementscene at a windowreference to danteguide bookreference to lord byronplaying with foodchaperonenglish literaturerheumatismsurreyanglicaningenuereference to leonardo da vincifirenzekicked in the butt β¦country estatereference to ludwig van beethovenreading a lettervicarspinsternude bathingbritish renaissanceman wearing glasseschapter headingsclimbing a treetour guidecathedralbased on novelreading aloudhoneymoonnovelmale objectificationgardeninghorse and carriageengagementthunderstormstrong female leadpicnicrailway stationtennisfaintingstrong female characterflowervacationauthorstabbingmale pubic hairpianosecretbased on booksingingtitle spoken by characterdancingmale nuditykissflashback (See All) |
When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and their three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) in straitened circumstances. They are taken in by a kindly cousin, but their lack of fortune affects the marriageabil β¦ity of both practical Elinor and romantic Marianne. When Elinor forms an attachment for the wealthy Edward Ferrars, his family disapproves and separates them. And though Mrs. Jennings tries to match the worthy (and rich) Colonel Brandon to her, Marianne finds the dashing and fiery John Willoughby more to her taste. Both relationships are sorely tried. (Read More)
Subgenre: | comedy of manners |
Locations: | london englandchurch |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshiplove trianglesister sister relationshipfemale protagonistbrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | based on novelhorse and carriagepicnicpianosingingdancing |
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: | murder |
Locations: | london englandhotelchurchtrain |
Characters: | female protagonistmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | based on novelmale objectificationstrong female leadstrong female characterflowerstabbingsecretsingingdancingkissflashback |
Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cous β¦in, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | london englandtrain |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshiplove trianglesister sister relationshipfemale protagonistbrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | based on novelreading aloudhoneymoonhorse and carriagestrong female leadrailway stationfaintingstrong female charactersecretsingingdancingkiss |
The protagonist Elizabeth Bennett is a witty, sarcastic, somewhat stubborn young lady who really has an opinion about quite a lot including why she would not marry simply because of it is expected of her. Mr. Guy Darcy is a shy, rich, man who defiantly believes there is such a thing as superior birt β¦h. (Read More)
Subgenre: | comedy of manners |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipsister sister relationshipbrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | based on novelengagementstrong female leadstrong female characterpianodancing |
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in β¦ love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever? (Read More)
Locations: | church |
Characters: | female protagonistbrother sister relationship |
Story: | country estatebased on novelhorse and carriagepianosecretsingingtitle spoken by characterdancingkissflashback |
Living in India, Mary Lennox, a young, privileged girl, is left orphaned when her parents are killed in an earthquake. She is sent back to England where she goes to live on her uncle's estate. It is a fairly isolated existence and she has to find things to keep herself occupied. She finds a sickly y β¦oung boy...and a secret garden. (Read More)
Characters: | self discoverycousin cousin relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | based on novelhorse and carriagestrong female leadstrong female charactersecrettitle spoken by character |
The year is 1795 and young Jane Austen is a feisty 20-year-old and emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable - marrying for love. Naturally, her parents are searching for a wealthy, well-appoin β¦ted husband to assure their daughter's future social standing. They are eyeing Mr. Wisley, nephew to the very formidable, not to mention very rich, local aristocrat Lady Gresham, as a prospective match. But when Jane meets the roguish and decidedly non-aristocratic Tom Lefroy, sparks soon fly along with the sharp repartee. His intellect and arrogance raise her ire - then knock her head over heels. Now, the couple, whose flirtation flies in the face of the sense and sensibility of the age, is faced with a terrible dilemma. If they attempt to marry, they will risk everything that matters - family, friends and fortune. (Read More)
Locations: | london englandchurch |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipsister sister relationshipbrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | country estatevicarhorse and carriageauthorpianosingingdancingmale nuditykiss |
Three students and a school teacher disappear on an excursion to Hanging Rock, in Victoria, on Valentine's Day, 1900. Widely (and incorrectly) regarded as being based on a true story, the movie follows those that disappeared, and those that stayed behind, but it delights in the asking of questions, β¦not the answering of them. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Period: | 1900s |
Story: | spinsterbased on novelreading aloudhorse and carriagepicnicflowerpianosingingflashbackkiss |
In 1930's Austria, a young woman named Maria is failing miserably in her attempts to become a nun. When the Navy captain Georg Von Trapp writes to the convent asking for a governess that can handle his seven mischievous children, Maria is given the job. The Captain's wife is dead, and he is often aw β¦ay, and runs the household as strictly as he does the ships he sails on. The children are unhappy and resentful of the governesses that their father keeps hiring, and have managed to run each of them off one by one. When Maria arrives, she is initially met with the same hostility, but her kindness, understanding, and sense of fun soon draws them to her and brings some much-needed joy into all their lives -- including the Captain's. Eventually he and Maria find themselves falling in love, even though Georg is already engaged to a Baroness and Maria is still a postulant. The romance makes them both start questioning the decisions they have made. Their personal conflicts soon become overshadowed, however, by world events. Austria is about to come under the control of Germany, and the Captain may soon find himself drafted into the German navy and forced to fight against his own country. (Read More)
Locations: | church |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipfemale protagonistbrother sister relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | broken engagementcountry estatecathedralbased on novelthunderstormpicnicsingingtitle spoken by character |
In a nursing home, resident Duke reads a romance story for an old woman who has senile dementia with memory loss. In the late 1930s, wealthy seventeen year-old Allie Hamilton is spending summer vacation in Seabrook. Local worker Noah Calhoun meets Allie at a carnival and they soon fall in love with β¦each other. One day, Noah brings Allie to an ancient house that he dreams of buying and restoring and they attempt to make love but get interrupted by their friend. Allie's parents do not approve of their romance since Noah belongs to another social class, and they move to New York with her. Noah writes 365 letters (A Year) to Allie, but her mother Anne Hamilton does not deliver them to her daughter. Three years later, the United States joins the World War II and Noah and his best friend Fin enlist in the army, and Allie works as an army nurse. She meets injured soldier Lon Hammond in the hospital. After the war, they meet each other again going on dates and then, Lon, who is wealthy and handsome, proposes. Meanwhile Noah buys and restores the old house and many people want to buy it. When Allie accidentally sees the photo of Noah and his house in a newspaper, she feels divided between her first love and her commitment with Lon. Meanwhile Duke stops reading to the old lady since his children are visiting him in the nursing home. (Read More)
Locations: | bicyclehotel |
Characters: | self discoverylove trianglemother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | broken engagementbased on novelengagementfaintingvacationpianosingingdancingmale nudityflashbackkiss |
The five highly trained Bennett sisters in Georgian England must try to protect themselves from the growing zombie threat, find suitable husbands for themselves, battle marriage proposals and unlikely suitors, and save the country before it's too late.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | travelmurder |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshiplove trianglesister sister relationshipfemale protagonistbrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | country estatebased on novelstrong female leadstrong female characterdancingflashbackkiss |
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.
Subgenre: | gay interestindependent film |
Themes: | murder |
Mood: | moving |
Characters: | love trianglefemale protagonistbrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | cathedraltennisstabbingsecretsingingtitle spoken by characterdancingkissflashback |
In 1951, Laura Brown, a pregnant housewife, is planning a party for her husband, but she can't stop reading the novel 'Mrs. Dalloway'. Clarissa Vaughn, a modern woman living in present times is throwing a party for her friend Richard, a famous author dying of AIDS. These two stories are simultaneous β¦ly linked to the work and life of Virginia Woolf, who's writing the novel mentioned before. (Read More)
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | female protagonistmother son relationship |
Story: | based on novelnovelrailway stationflowerauthorbased on booktitle spoken by characterkiss |
GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enor β¦mous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | museumbicyclehotelchurchtrain |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipbrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | reading a letterauthorstabbingsecretsingingtitle spoken by charactermale nuditykissflashback |
Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920's Alabama. Through Idgie's inspiring life, Evely β¦n learns to be more assertive and builds a lasting friendship of her own with Ninny. (Read More)
Subgenre: | gay interest |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | churchtrain |
Characters: | self discoveryfemale protagonistbrother sister relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | based on novelstrong female leadstrong female charactertitle spoken by characterflashback |
ANTHROPOID is based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the World War II mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich. The Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler, Heydrich was the main architect behind the Final Solution and the leader of occupying Nazi forces β¦in Czechoslovakia whose reign of terror prompted self-exiled Czech and Slovak soldiers (played by Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan) to hatch a top-secret mission that would change the face of Europe forever.i (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | bicyclechurchtrain |
Characters: | female protagonistmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | cathedralreading aloudengagementstrong female leadrailway stationstrong female charactersecretsingingtitle spoken by characterdancingkissflashback |
Muriel finds life in Porpoise Spit, Australia dull and spends her days alone in her room listening to Abba music and dreaming of her wedding day. Slight problem, Muriel has never had a date. Then she steals some money to go on a tropical vacation, meets a wacky friend, changes her name to Mariel, an β¦d turns her world upside down. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Locations: | hotelchurch |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipsister sister relationshipfemale protagonistbrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | honeymoonvacationsingingdancingkiss |
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.
Locations: | church |
Characters: | love trianglesister sister relationshipbrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | based on novelhorse and carriagesingingtitle spoken by characterdancingkiss |
Nazi-Fascist Northern Italy, 1943-44. Four senior members of government, aided by henchmen and Nazi soldiers, kidnap a group of young men and women. They hold them for 120 days, subjecting them to all manner of torture, perversion and degradation.
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | bicyclechurch |
Story: | reference to dantechapter headingsbased on novelmale objectificationstabbingmale pubic hairpianosingingdancingmale nuditykiss |
In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother Aron for the love of their father Adam. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, to how to get ahead in business and in life, to how to relate to estrang β¦ed mother. (Read More)
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | love trianglemother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | based on novelreading aloudhorse and carriagerailway stationflowerpianosingingtitle spoken by characterkiss |
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.
Mood: | moving |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | love trianglefemale protagonist |
Story: | thunderstormpicnicrailway stationbased on booksingingdancing |
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)
Locations: | hoteltrain |
Characters: | love trianglesister sister relationshipbrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | based on novelhoneymoonthunderstormrailway stationtennisfaintingsingingkiss |
American tourist Jesse and French student Celine meet by chance on the train from Budapest to Vienna. Sensing that they are developing a connection, Jesse asks Celine to spend the day with him in Vienna, and she agrees. So they pass the time before his scheduled flight the next morning together. How β¦ do two perfect strangers connect so intimately over the course of a single day? What is that special thing that bonds two people so strongly? As their bond turns to love, what will happen to them the next morning when Jesse flies away? (Read More)
Locations: | london englandhotelchurchtrain |
Characters: | brother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | honeymoonhorse and carriagerailway stationsingingdancingkiss |
Frances Mayes is a San Francisco-based literature professor, literary reviewer and author, who is struggling in writing her latest book. Her outwardly perfect and stable life takes an unexpected turn when her husband files for divorce. He wants to marry the woman with whom he is having an affair. Fr β¦ances supported her husband financially as he was writing his own book, and he sues her for alimony despite her financial difficulties. And he wants to keep the house. Frances eventually accepts her best friend Patti's offer of a vacation, a gay tour of Tuscany which Patti and her lesbian partner Grace originally purchased for themselves before Patti found out that she is pregnant. The gift is a means to escape dealing with the divorce, from which Patti feels Frances may never recover emotionally without some intervention. Feeling that Patti's assessment may be correct in that she has too much emotional baggage ever to return to San Francisco, Frances, while in Tuscany, impulsively ditches the tour to purchase an aged villa, which ends up being a fixer-upper. Frances has many obstacles in eking out a productive and happy life in her new surroundings, that happy life which she hopes will eventually include rediscovering romantic love. In a discussion with sympathetic real estate agent Signor Martini, Frances outlines what emotionally she wants to accomplish with the villa, despite none of those items in a substantive material sense currently being in her life. In response, Martini tβ¦ (Read More)
Mood: | moving |
Locations: | churchtrain |
Characters: | female protagonist |
Story: | based on novelthunderstormflowervacationauthorbased on bookdancingkiss |
Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) is a psychiatrist at Green Manors mental asylum. The head of Green Manors has just been replaced, with his replacement being the renowned Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck). Romance blossoms between Dr. Petersen and Dr. Edwards but Dr. Edwards starts to show β¦odd aversions and personality traits. It is discovered that he is an impostor, and amnesiac, and may have killed the real Dr. Edwardes. Dr. Petersen is determined to discover the truth through unlocking the secrets held in the impostor's mind, a process which potentially puts her and others' lives at risk. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | hoteltrain |
Story: | based on novelhoneymoonstrong female leadpicnicrailway stationfaintingstrong female characterauthorflashback |
It is the mid-nineteenth century. Ada is a mute who has a young daughter, Flora. In an arranged marriage she leaves her native Scotland accompanied by her daughter and her beloved piano. Life in the rugged forests of New Zealand's North Island is not all she may have imagined and nor is her relation β¦ship with her new husband Stewart. She suffers torment and loss when Stewart sells her piano to a neighbour, George. Ada learns from George that she may earn back her piano by giving him piano lessons, but only with certain other conditions attached. At first Ada despises George but slowly their relationship is transformed and this propels them into a dire situation. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | travel |
Mood: | moving |
Characters: | love trianglefemale protagonistmother daughter relationship |
Story: | male pubic hairpianotitle spoken by character |
After causing a loss of almost one billion dollars in his company, the shoe designer Drew Baylor decides to commit suicide. However, in the exact moment of his act of despair, he receives a phone call from his sister telling him that his beloved father had just died in Elizabethtown, and he should b β¦ring him back since his mother had problem with the relatives of his father. He travels in an empty red eye flight and meets the attendant Claire Colburn, who changes his view and perspective of life. (Read More)
Themes: | travel |
Locations: | museumhotelchurch |
Characters: | self discoverycousin cousin relationshipbrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | singingtitle spoken by characterdancingflashbackkiss |
Young newlyweds Paul and Bea travel to remote lake country for their honeymoon. Shortly after arriving, Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of the night. As she becomes more distant and her behavior increasingly peculiar, Paul begins to suspect something more sinister than sleepwa β¦lking took place in the woods. (Read More)
Themes: | travel |
Story: | reading aloudhoneymoonstrong female charactermale pubic hairmale nudityflashback |
In a dreary Florida beach resort village, luscious-limbed lifeguard Raymond is the main attraction for girls. Teenager buddies Claire and Hailey became experts on him by observation, but never dared actually approach him, and after this closing summer season will be separated as one's parents move t β¦o Australia. Then they find a storm washed up in a pool a sassy mermaid, who promises them a wish if they help her prove to Neptune love exists, and Raymond is the only creature resembling a love-god. (Read More)
Mood: | moving |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | female protagonistmother daughter relationship |
Story: | based on novelthunderstormstrong female leadstrong female characterdancingkiss |
Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, is presented as the real author of Shakespeare's works. Edward's life is followed through flashbacks from a young child, through to the end of his life. He is portrayed as a child prodigy who writes and performs A Midsummer Night's Dream for a young Elizabeth I. A ser β¦ies of events sees his plays being performed by a frontman, Shakespeare. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | london england |
Characters: | mother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | horse and carriagepicnicflowerauthorstabbingsingingdancingmale nuditykissflashback |
In 1880 pioneering doctor Mortimer Granville,sacked from various hospitals for challenging his superiors' out-moded methods,gets a job with Dr Dalrymple,who relieves female patients' frustrations - or hysteria - with pelvic massages which allow orgasm. The handsome young doctor attracts a large fema β¦le clientele and gets engaged to Dalrymple's studious younger daughter Emily but after the constant massaging brings on a carpal injury he is sacked. Fortunately an enterprising inventor friend has come up with a power operated feather duster which will soon be transformed into a vibrator and make Mortimer a fortune. Along the way he also realises that his heart really lies with Emily's older sister Charlotte,an outspoken suffragette who runs a home for disadvantaged women in London's East End. (Read More)
Locations: | bicyclelondon england |
Story: | broken engagementhorse and carriageengagementstrong female leadstrong female characterpianokiss |
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)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Mood: | moving |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | tour guidereading aloudflowerauthortitle spoken by characterkiss |
A comedy about bending the rules to reach your goal, Bend It Like Beckham explores the world of women's football, from kick-abouts in the park to freekicks in the Final. Set in Hounslow, West London and Hamburg, the film follows two 18 year olds with their hearts set on a future in professional socc β¦er. Heart-stopping talent doesn't seem to be enough when your parents want you to hang up your football boots, find a nice boyfriend and learn to cook the perfect chapatti. (Read More)
Themes: | travel |
Locations: | london englandhoteltrain |
Characters: | love trianglesister sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | strong female leadstrong female charactertitle spoken by characterdancingkiss |
Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire savings account to charity, and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.
Subgenre: | independent film |
Locations: | churchtrain |
Characters: | self discoverybrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | reference to lord byronchapter headingsflowermale pubic hairpianobased on booksingingtitle spoken by characterdancingmale nudityflashback |
When a man selects a mail order bride, he is surprised to see the beauty who appears before him. She alleges that she sent false photos to him to assure that he would love her for what she is and not for her beauty. However, what she is is a con artist, prostitute, and actress, who teams with a fell β¦ow actor to steal money from men. What she does not expect is that she falls in love with her new husband and ultimately must decide between him and her sadistic former lover. Contains explicit sex including sadistic acts as Thomas Jane cuts Jolie's back with a knife as part of their lovemaking. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | sister sister relationship |
Period: | 1900s |
Story: | based on novelhorse and carriagefaintingmale pubic hairpianodancingmale nuditykissflashback |
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: | murder |
Locations: | churchtrain |
Characters: | love trianglebrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | based on noveltennisauthorsecrettitle spoken by characterdancingflashbackkiss |
Georgiana Spencer became Duchess of Devonshire on her marriage to the Duke in 1774, at the height of the Georgian period, a period of fashion, decadence, and political change. Spirited and adored by the public at large she quickly found her marriage to be a disappointment, defined by her duty to pro β¦duce a male heir and the Duke's philandering and callous indifference to her. She befriends Lady Bess but finds she is once again betrayed by her husband who wields his power with the three eventually living uncomfortably together. Against this background, and with the pressures of an unfaithful husband, strict social pressures and constant public scrutiny, Georgiana falls passionately in love with Charles Grey, a rising young Whig politician. However, despite his ongoing liaison with Lady Bess, the Duke refuses to allow her to continue the affair and threatens to take her children from her. (Read More)
Locations: | london englandchurch |
Characters: | love trianglesister sister relationshipfemale protagonistmother daughter relationship |
Story: | horse and carriagestrong female leadstrong female characterbased on bookdancingmale nudity |
A regular family - Maria ('Naomi Watts' (qv)), Henry ('Ewan McGregor' (qv)) and their three kids - travel to Thailand to spend Christmas. They get an upgrade to a villa on the coastline. After settling in and exchanging gifts, they go to the pool, like so many other tourists. A perfect paradise vaca β¦tion until a distant noise becomes a roar. There is no time to escape from the tsunami; Maria and her eldest are swept one way, Henry and the youngest another. Who will survive, and what will become of them? (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | travel |
Locations: | hotel |
Characters: | female protagonistfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | climbing a treestrong female leadstrong female characterflowervacationmale nuditykissflashback |
After Black September's assassination of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir okays a black-box operation to hunt down and kill all involved. A team of five gathers in Switzerland led by Avner, a low-level Mossad techie whose father was a war hero and whose wife β¦ is pregnant. It's an expendable team, but relying on paid informants, they track and kill several in Europe and Lebanon. They must constantly look over their shoulders for the CIA, KGB, PLO, and their own sources. As the body count mounts -- with retribution following retribution -- so do questions, doubts, and sleepless nights. Loyalties blur. What does it mean to be a Jew? (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | bicyclelondon englandhoteltrain |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | gardeningrailway stationstabbingpianosecretbased on booksingingtitle spoken by characterdancingflashback |
1900. Danny Boodmann, a stoker on an American passenger liner, Virginian, finds a baby abandoned on the ship. He names the child Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900' and raises the child as his own until his death in an accident on the ship. The child never leaves the ship and turns out β¦ to be a musical genius, especially when it comes to playing the piano. As an adult he befriends a trumpet player in the ship's band, Max Tooney. After several years on the ship Max leaves, and tells the story of 1900 to the owner of a music store. (Read More)
Themes: | travel |
Characters: | father son relationship |
Period: | 1900s |
Story: | based on novelpianosecretdancingkissflashback |
The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Ita β¦ly, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie's cultured fiancee, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom's talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf's privileges his own. (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Characters: | love trianglefather son relationship |
Story: | based on novelmale objectificationmale pubic hairpianobased on booksingingmale nudityflashbackkiss |
Charlie, a poet, hasn't had much luck with women, but then he meets Harriet, the girl of his dreams.. or is it his nightmares. Charlie begins to suspect that Harriet is Ms X, a woman who marries then kills her husbands.
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | hotelchurch |
Characters: | mother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | man wearing glassestour guidehoneymoonsecretdancingkiss |
This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900's. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life...
Locations: | churchtrain |
Characters: | self discoverysister sister relationshipfemale protagonistfather son relationship |
Period: | 1900s |
Story: | based on novelpianotitle spoken by character |
'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)
Characters: | sister sister relationshipfemale protagonistmother daughter relationship |
Story: | based on novelreading aloudhorse and carriagepianosingingdancing |
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle suspects murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial β¦journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, ruthless computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from almost forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history; but, the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | train |
Characters: | cousin cousin relationshipsister sister relationshipfemale protagonistbrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | based on novelhoneymoonstrong female leadstrong female characterflowersecretmale nuditykissflashback |
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)
Locations: | church |
Characters: | love trianglesister sister relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | tennisauthorsecretdancingkiss |
Set in contemporary New York City, a seemingly ordinary teenager, Clary Fray, discovers she is the descendant of a line of Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of young half-angel warriors locked in an ancient battle to protect our world from demons. After the disappearance of her mother, Clary must join f β¦orces with a group of Shadow Hunters, who introduce her to a dangerous alternate New York called the Shadow World, filled with demons, warlocks, vampires, werewolves and other deadly creatures. (Read More)
Subgenre: | independent film |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | bicyclehotelchurch |
Characters: | love trianglemother daughter relationship |
Story: | based on novelflowerpianosecretflashbackkiss |
Garland's novel centers on a young nicotine-addicted traveler named Richard, an avid pop-culture buff with a particular love for video games and Vietnam War movies. While at a hotel in Bangkok, he finds a map left by his strange, whacked-out neighbor, who just committed suicide. The map supposedly l β¦eads to a legendary island paradise where some other wayward souls have settled. (Read More)
Themes: | travelmurder |
Locations: | hoteltrain |
Characters: | love triangle |
Story: | based on novelsecrettitle spoken by characterdancingmale nuditykissflashback |
Sean Thornton has returned from America to reclaim his homestead and escape his past. Sean's eye is caught by Mary Kate Danaher, a beautiful but poor maiden, and younger sister of ill-tempered "Red" Will Danaher. The riotous relationship that forms between Sean and Mary Kate, punctuated by Will's pu β¦gnacious attempts to keep them apart, form the main plot, with Sean's past as the dark undercurrent. (Read More)
Locations: | churchtrain |
Characters: | brother sister relationship |
Story: | vicarthunderstormrailway stationsecretsingingflashback |