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At a convent, fragile, unearthly Sister Agnes gives birth, but the child dies and Agnes retains no memory of the event. The police soon are involved because of the death of the baby. However, the main conflict is between Mother Superior Miriam Ruth, who wants Agnes left alone, and Dr. Martha Livings …ton, a psychiatrist determined to help Agnes gain a stronger grasp on reality and uncover any wrongdoers. (Read More)
| Themes: | amnesiamental illnessreligion |
| Locations: | catholic churchcanadacourtroomchurch |
| Characters: | amateur detectivereligious iconpsychiatristalcoholicpriestphotographerdetectivefemale protagonistdoctormother daughter relationship |
| Period: | winter |
| Story: | montreal quebecpregnant nunfemale doctorsneaking a cigarettepsychiatric examinationreference to st. peterreference to douglas macarthurinsanity pleareligious orderreference to mary magdalenebed sheetreference to queen elizabeth iiconfessorrefusing to eatreference to joan of arc …bloodstainnun's habitimplied rapestigmatanovicebell towermilking a cowsecret passagewayreference to sigmund freudmother superiornieceinfanticidecryptpet catdoveeating disorderritepressnewspaper articlepsychiatryretirement homeconventchild molestationconfessionalquebecmenstruationowlpigeonsirenice skatinghypnosiswatching televisionhaircutsexual abuseanswering machinepianistcourtscreamritualnuntrialjudgechild abuseambulancecandlereporterprayertearscamerabased on playthree word titlephotographcigarette smokingcharacter name in titleinterviewbloodflashback (See All) |
Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest.
| Themes: | amnesiamental illness |
| Locations: | courtroomchurch |
| Characters: | psychiatristpriestphotographerdetective |
| Story: | presssirentrialjudgechild abusereportercameraphotographcigarette smokinginterviewblood |
After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet stu …dent. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny. (Read More)
| Locations: | catholic churchchurch |
| Characters: | psychiatristpriestphotographerdoctor |
| Story: | ritenewspaper articlemenstruationwatching televisionhaircutsexual abusescreamritualambulancereportertearscameraphotographbloodflashback |
When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trail begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants t …o believe what Father Moore says is true. (Read More)
| Themes: | mental illnessreligion |
| Locations: | courtroomchurch |
| Characters: | priestfemale protagonistdoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | stigmataritepsychiatrypianistcourtritualtrialjudgeprayerphotographcharacter name in titleflashback |
Following the murder of a physicist, Father Silvano Bentivoglio, a symbolist, Robert Langdon, and a scientist, Vittoria Vetra, are on an adventure involving a secret brotherhood, the Illuminati. Clues lead them all around the Vatican, including the four altars of science, Earth, Air, Fire and Water. … An assassin, working for the Illuminati, has captured four cardinals, and murders each, painfully. Robert and Vittoria also are searching for a new very destructive weapon that could kill millions. (Read More)
| Themes: | religion |
| Locations: | catholic churchchurch |
| Characters: | priestphotographer |
| Story: | reference to st. peterritepresssirenscreamritualnuncandlereporterprayertearscamerablood |
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shippi …ng news column in the newspaper "The Gammy Bird" finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey... (Read More)
| Locations: | canada |
| Characters: | photographerdetectivemother daughter relationship |
| Period: | winter |
| Story: | ritenewspaper articleice skatingwatching televisionscreamritualambulancecandlereportertearscamerathree word titlephotographflashback |
Poland, 1962. Anna, an orphan brought up by nuns in the convent, is a novice. She has to see Wanda, the only living relative, before she takes her vows. Wanda tells Anna about her Jewish roots. Both women start a journey not only to find their family's tragic story, but to see who they really are an …d where they belong. They question what they used to believe in. (Read More)
| Themes: | religion |
| Locations: | catholic churchchurch |
| Characters: | priestfemale protagonistmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | reference to mary magdalenenovicemother superiorconventnunjudgecandlephotographcigarette smokingcharacter name in title |
Angela Bennett's a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years, she becomes embroiled in a web of computer espionage.
| Characters: | psychiatristphotographerfemale protagonistdoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | pressretirement homesirenpianistcandlereportertearscameraphotograph |
Harry Angel has a new case, to find a man called Johnny Favourite. Except things aren't quite that simple and Johnny doesn't want to be found. Let's just say that amongst the period detail and beautiful scenery, it all gets really really nasty.
| Themes: | amnesiareligion |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | priestdetectivedoctor |
| Story: | bloodstainritewatching televisionpianistscreamritualnuncandletearsphotographcigarette smokingcharacter name in titleflashbackblood |
Michael, the son of a funeral director grows indifferent to his father and joins a Seminary. On his way to the course completion, he is overwhelmed by a strong lack of faith. His religious beliefs are further jolted when he sees a young girl haplessly dying in a road accident for whom he reluctantly … performs the ritual to absolve her sins. His mentor still believes in him and urges him to go to Italy to take an exorcism course hoping that he it would strengthen his faith in Christianity. In Italy he attends a session from Father Xavier who soon becomes aware of his skepticism. As a result he sends him to an eminent Jesuit exorcist, Father Lucas, whose ways though questionable are quite effective. He witnesses the exorcism of a sixteen year old girl but still seems unconvinced. Father Lucas explains to him that it takes multiple sessions over a long stretch of time to completely free a victim from the demon. Despite witnessing some supernatural occurrences during the aforesaid exorcism, Michael is as skeptical as ever. After the second exorcism, the girls condition becomes quite critical as she is moved to a hospital. She soon dies and the demon finds a new victim. As the moment of reckoning draws near, Micheal may be the only hope left but first he must overcome his own doubts and apprehensions in order to fight and destroy the ominous forces. (Read More)
| Themes: | religion |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | religious iconpriestdetectivedoctor |
| Story: | riteritualnunambulancecandleprayertearsphotographflashbackblood |
When former journalist Martin Sixsmith is dismissed from the Labour Party in disgrace, he is at a loss as to what do. That changes when a young Irish woman approaches him about a story of her mother, Philomena, who had her son taken away when she was a teenage inmate of a Catholic convent. Martin ar …ranges a magazine assignment about her search for him that eventually leads to America. Along the way, Martin and Philomena discover as much about each other as about her son's fate. Furthermore, both find their basic beliefs challenged. (Read More)
| Themes: | religion |
| Locations: | catholic churchchurch |
| Characters: | priestphotographerdoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | conventconfessionalnuncandlereporterprayertearscameraphotographcharacter name in titleflashback |
Kevin Lomax, a ruthless young Florida attorney that never lost a case, is recruited by the most powerful law firm in the world. In spite of his mother's disagreement, which compares New York City to Babylon, he accepts the offer and the money that comes along. But soon, his wife starts feeling homes …ick as she witnesses devilish apparitions. However, Kevin is sinking in his new cases and pays less and less attention to his wife. His boss and mentor, John Milton, seems to always know how to overcome every problem and that just freaks Kevin right off. (Read More)
| Themes: | mental illnessreligion |
| Locations: | courtroomchurch |
| Characters: | priestphotographer |
| Period: | winter |
| Story: | ritepressritualtrialjudgecandlereportertearsthree word titlephotographcigarette smokingblood |
Kanji Lalji Mehta, though an atheist, owns a small shop selling religious goods, concocting cock-and-bull stories to extract higher fees from his customers for his wares. When, in openly defying God, an earthquake destroys his (and only his) only source of income, with the insurance company refusing … to pay up on the basis of it being an 'act of God', Kanjibhai takes God to the court. With many similarly unfortunate people pinning their hopes to him, Kanji's lack of courtroom experience may leave him unable to prove his point - that is, until approached by a man introducing himself as Krishna Vasudeva Yadav. Krishna helps Kanji win his case, his family and helps him find his faith in God, along the way showing how priests can turn religion into a business and that God can be found everywhere, particularly in a house of worship. (Read More)
| Themes: | religion |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | priest |
| Story: | courtritualjudgeambulancereporterprayerbased on playthree word title |
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 …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)
| Characters: | alcoholicdetectivefemale protagonistmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | child molestationwatching televisionsexual abusejudgechild abusereportercharacter name in titleflashback |
When a judge is charged with rape, Arthur Kirkland is forced to defend him. Kirkland has had problems with the judge in the past, including one incident when the judge wrongly sentenced his client Jeff McCullaugh because of a technicality. Kirkland faces a moral and legal dilemma.
| Themes: | mental illness |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Story: | sirencourttrialjudgeambulancereportertearsphotographblood |
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A charismatic priest, Father Flynn, is trying to upend the school's strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear-based discipline. The winds of political change are … sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James, a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequences. (Read More)
| Themes: | religion |
| Locations: | catholic churchchurch |
| Characters: | priest |
| Story: | nun's habitnovicemother superiorpigeonritualnunprayertearsbased on playphotographcigarette smokingflashback |
Los Angeles, 1928. A single mother returns from work to find her nine-year-old son gone. She calls the LAPD to initiate a search. Five months later, a boy is found in Illinois who fits the description; he says he's her son. To fanfare and photos, the LAPD reunite mother and son, but she insists he's … not her boy. The cops dismiss her as either a liar or hysterical. When she joins a minister in his public criticism of the police, they in turn use government power to silence and intimidate her. Meanwhile, a cop goes to a dilapidated ranch to find a Canadian lad who's without legal status; the youth tells a grisly tale. There's redress for murder; is there redress for abuse of power? (Read More)
| Themes: | mental illness |
| Locations: | canadacourtroomchurch |
| Characters: | photographerdetectivefemale protagonist |
| Story: | courttrialjudgecandlereporterprayertearscameraphotographcigarette smokingflashbackblood |
When the Boston Globe's tenacious "Spotlight" team of reporters delves into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations … around the world. (Read More)
| Locations: | catholic churchcourtroomchurch |
| Characters: | priest |
| Story: | child molestationsexual abusecourtjudgechild abusereporterinterview |
As children, Lorenzo Carcaterra - Shakes to his friends - Michael Sullivan, Tommy Marcano, and John Reilly were inseparable. They grew up in Hell's Kitchen, a far from perfect neighborhood, one filled as Shakes says with scams and shake downs, but one where the rules were known by its residents. The … one adult who they admired was Father Bobby Carelli, who understood them as kids more than most adults and more than he himself would like to admit. In 1967, their lives would change forever when a typical teenage prank went wrong which led to the four of them being sentenced to various terms at Wilkinson Home for Boys, a reformatory. There, they were physically, emotionally and sexually abused primarily by Sean Nokes, the head guard of their cell block, and fellow guards Ralph Ferguson, Henry Addison, and Adam Styler, although there were other caring figures of authority at the home including other guards. Their time at the home affected the four, not all who were able to emerge from the experience to regroup their lives. In their want to forget about the experience, they made a vow not to talk about it either between themselves or with others. Fast forward thirteen years, with Tommy and Johnny being career criminals, Michael an assistant district attorney and Shakes a newspaper writer, their friendship on the surface more loose than it was when they were children. When Tommy and John spot Nokes, it leads to Shakes and Michael banding together to exact revenge not only on Nokes b… (Read More)
| Locations: | catholic churchcourtroomchurch |
| Characters: | alcoholicpriest |
| Period: | winter |
| Story: | confessionalsexual abusecourttrialnunjudgechild abusecandlereportertearsphotographcigarette smokingflashback |
Returning from Navy service in World War II, Freddie Quell drifts through a series of breakdowns. Finally he stumbles upon a cult which engages in exercises to clear emotions and he becomes deeply involved with them.
| Themes: | mental illnessreligion |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | psychiatristalcoholicphotographerdoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | reference to douglas macarthurhypnosiscourttearscameraphotographcigarette smokingflashback |
Fate deals young orphan Matt Murdock a strange hand when he is doused with hazardous waste. The accident leaves Matt blind but also gives him a heightened "radar sense" that allows him to "see" far better than any man. Years later Murdock has grown into a man and becomes a respected criminal attorne …y. But after he's done his "day job" Matt takes on a secret identity as "The Man Without Fear," Daredevil, the masked avenger that patrols the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen and New York City to combat the injustice that he cannot tackle in the courtroom. (Read More)
| Locations: | catholic churchcourtroomchurch |
| Characters: | alcoholicpriest |
| Story: | confessionalanswering machinecourtnuntrialjudgereportercameracharacter name in titleflashbackblood |
Wendell Rohr is a torts lawyer taking on the gun lobby. Rankin Fitch is the jury consultant for the Defendants and between them the battle is for the hearts and minds of the jury. But there is someone on the inside. Nicholas Easter is a juror with a girlfriend, Marlee, on the outside. they have a pa …st ..... and their own agenda. (Read More)
| Locations: | courtroomchurch |
| Characters: | alcoholicphotographer |
| Story: | watching televisioncourttrialjudgeambulancecandleprayercameraphotographcigarette smokingblood |
The Final Days is the true story of Germany's most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to life. Sophie Scholl is the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group, The White Rose. Using historical records of her incarceration, the film re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholl's lif …e: a journey from arrest to interrogation, trial and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to her comrades, her cross-examination by the Gestapo quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility that is both haunting and timeless. (Read More)
| Themes: | mental illness |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | priestphotographerfemale protagonistmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | courttrialjudgeprayertearscameracigarette smokingcharacter name in titleblood |
Based on the novel written by Stephen Chbosky, this is about 15-year-old Charlie (Logan Lerman), an endearing and naive outsider, coping with first love (Emma Watson), the suicide of his best friend, and his own mental illness while struggling to find a group of people with whom he belongs. The intr …overt freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors, Sam and Patrick, who welcome him to the real world. (Read More)
| Themes: | mental illness |
| Locations: | catholic churchchurch |
| Characters: | psychiatristpriestphotographerdoctor |
| Story: | child molestationsexual abusechild abusecandleprayertearscameraphotographflashback |
A love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history. The original screenplay uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for a story of family, obsession, love and loss.
| Themes: | mental illness |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | psychiatristphotographermother daughter relationship |
| Story: | answering machinecourttrialjudgetearscamerathree word titlephotographcigarette smokingbloodflashback |
Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.
| Locations: | courtroomchurch |
| Characters: | photographerfemale protagonistmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | courttrialjudgeprayertearscameraphotographcigarette smokingcharacter name in titlebloodflashback |
When Nick Parsons appears to be murdered his wife Libby is tried and convicted. Six years later Libby is paroled and with the help of Travis Lehman (her parole officer) she sets out to find her son and the truth behind the "murder".
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | female protagonistdoctor |
| Story: | crypttrialjudgeambulancetearscameraphotographcigarette smokingblood |
Five desperate French soldiers during The Battle of the Somme shoot themselves, either by accident or with purpose, in order to be invalided back home. Having been "caught" a court-martial convenes and determines punishment to be banishment to No Man's Land with the objective of having the Germans f …inish them off. In the process of telling this tale each man's life is briefly explored along with their next of kin as Methilde, fiancee to one of the men, tries to determine the circumstances of her lover's death. This task is not made any easier for her due to a bout with polio as a child. Along the way she discovers the heights and depths of the human soul. (Read More)
| Themes: | amnesia |
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | psychiatristpriestphotographerdetectivefemale protagonist |
| Story: | reference to joan of arcbell towercrypthaircutcourtnuntearscameraphotographcigarette smokingflashback |
John Form has found the perfect gift for his expectant wife, Mia - a beautiful, rare vintage doll in a pure white wedding dress. But Mia's delight with Annabelle doesn't last long. On one horrific night, their home is invaded by members of a satanic cult, who violently attack the couple. Spilled blo …od and terror are not all they leave behind. The cultists have conjured an entity so malevolent that nothing they did will compare to the sinister conduit to the damned that is now... Annabelle. (Read More)
| Themes: | religion |
| Locations: | catholic churchchurch |
| Characters: | priestdetectivefemale protagonistdoctor |
| Story: | reference to sigmund freudscreamritualnuncameraphotographcharacter name in titlebloodflashback |
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 …y not be aware of the relationship they have with Valentine or/and the old judge. Redemption, forgiveness and compassion... (Read More)
| Locations: | catholic churchcourtroomchurch |
| Characters: | photographermother daughter relationship |
| Story: | answering machinetrialjudgetearscameraphotographcigarette smokingblood |
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 …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: | catholic churchchurch |
| Characters: | priestfemale protagonist |
| Story: | novicebell towermother superiorcryptconventnun |
A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick, and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth. Patrick immediate …ly kidnaps Nathan's daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him. (Read More)
| Characters: | psychiatristphotographerdetectivemother daughter relationship |
| Story: | reference to sigmund freudcryptsirenscreamambulancetearscameraphotographcigarette smokingbloodflashback |
Sarah Tobias goes to her local bar and is gang-raped by three men. The district attorney on the case is Katheryn Murphy who wants to prove that although Sarah had taken drugs that night and was acting provocatively while in the bar, this is no reason for her to be so brutally attacked and the men re …sponsible should be brought to justice. (Read More)
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | detectivedoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | menstruationsexual abusecourttrialjudgereportercameraphotographcigarette smokinginterviewflashback |
John Quincy Archibald's son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of heart failure. John rushes Michael to a hospital emergency room where he is informed that Michael's only hope is a transplant. Unfortunately, John's insurance won't cover his son's transplant. Out of options, John Q. … takes the emergency room staff and patients hostage until hospital doctors agree to do the transplant. (Read More)
| Locations: | courtroomchurch |
| Characters: | doctor |
| Story: | courttrialjudgeambulancereporterprayertearscigarette smokingcharacter name in titleblood |
On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a cafe with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn't return, Mariane initia …tes a search. Pakistani police, American embassy personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? There's also the why: because of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo, because of a history of Journal cooperation with the CIA, because Pearl is a Jew? Through it all, Mariane is clearheaded, direct, and determined. (Read More)
| Themes: | religion |
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationship |
| Story: | haircutcourttrialcandlereporterprayerphotographcigarette smokinginterviewflashback |
In February, 2001, Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, is arrested for spying. Jump back two months: Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Hanssen and to write down everything Hanssen does. O'Neill's told it's an investigation … of Hanssen's sexual habits. Within weeks, the crusty Hanssen, a devout Catholic, has warmed to O'Neill, who grows to respect Hanssen. O'Neill's wife resents Hanssen's intrusiveness; the personal and professional stakes get higher. How they catch Hanssen and why he spies become the film's story. Can O'Neill help catch red-handed "the worst spy in history" and hold onto his personal life? (Read More)
| Themes: | religion |
| Locations: | catholic churchchurch |
| Characters: | religious iconphotographer |
| Story: | confessionalanswering machinecandleprayercameraphotographflashbackblood |
A convicted murderer on Death Row and the nun who befriends him. Through the portrayal of finely drawn characters and their interactions as the days, hours, and minutes tick down to the condemned man's execution, powerful emotions are unleashed. While Matthew Poncelet and Sister Prejean desperately …try to gain a stay of execution from the governor or the courts, scenes are intercut from the brutal crime, gradually revealing the truth about the events that transpired. In addition to her temporal help, the nun also tries to reach out spiritually and assist as a guide to salvation. (Read More)
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | priestmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | sirencourtnuncandlereporterprayertearsphotographflashback |
Anna is a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean. Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten-year-old boy who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can't get the boy out of her mind. And much to the …concern of her fiance, her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life. (Read More)
| Characters: | photographerfemale protagonistdoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | child molestationice skatingpianistchild abusetearscameracigarette smokingflashback |
When a single mother and her six-year-old daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some skepticism. But as soon as they coax the townspeople into enjoying their delicious products, they are warmly welcome …d. (Read More)
| Themes: | religion |
| Locations: | catholic churchchurch |
| Characters: | priestfemale protagonistmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | confessionalritualprayertearsphotographflashback |
Rowena Price is a muckraking reporter for a New York paper. When her story about a closeted gay Senator who preaches family values is spiked, she quits and soon finds herself investigating the grisly murder of a childhood friend. Her friend had been dumped by ad exec Harrison Hill, so he's Rowena's …prime suspect. Rowena gets a job at the ad agency as a temp, and she's soon the object of Hill's attentions. She's helped in her subterfuge by Miles Haley, a friend at the paper who has a secret thing for her. Everyone, it seems, has secrets, including Hill, who must keep his affairs from his wife - her money fuels his lifestyle. Murder will out? (Read More)
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | amateur detectivefemale protagonistmother daughter relationship |
| Story: | child molestationcourttrialchild abusereporterphotographinterviewbloodflashback |
In 1937 China, during the second Sino-Japanese war, a mortician, John ('Christian Bale' (qv)) arrives at a Catholic church in Nanjing to prepare a priest for burial. Upon arrival he finds himself the lone adult among a group of convent girl students and prostitutes from a nearby brothel. When he fin …ds himself in the unwanted position of protector of both groups from the horrors of the invading Japanese army, he discovers the meaning of sacrifice and honor. (Read More)
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | priest |
| Story: | conventhaircutsexual abusecandleprayertearsphotographcigarette smokingbloodflashback |
Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor. He is grieving due to the death of his pregnant wife in a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Although being atheist, he began to believe that his dead wife wants to communicate with him, through her young patients in the Pediatrics of a Chicago hospital.
| Locations: | church |
| Characters: | priestdoctor |
| Story: | female doctoranswering machinenunambulancecandlecameraphotographcigarette smokingflashback |
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 …umed to be dead, and through his soul we see his love for her. (Read More)
| Locations: | catholic churchcourtroom |
| Characters: | priestdoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | haircutcourtjudgeprayerphotographcigarette smokingcharacter name in titleblood |
'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 …w the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world. (Read More)
| Characters: | female protagonistdoctormother daughter relationship |
| Period: | winter |
| Story: | pet catice skatingpianistchild abusecandletears |
A young man is released from prison after many years and given a new identity in a new town. Aided by a supervisor who becomes like a father to him he finds a job and friends and hesitantly starts a relationship with a compassionate girl. But the secret of the heinous crime he committed as a boy wei …ghs down on him, and he learns that it is not so easy to escape your past. (Read More)
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | photographer |
| Story: | sexual abusecourtscreamtrialchild abuseambulancereportertearscameraphotographflashbackblood |
In 1920, rural Ireland is the vicious battlefield of republican rebels against the British security forces and Irish Unionist population who oppose them, a recipe for mutual cruelty. Medical graduate Damien O'Donovan always gave priority to his socialist ideals and simply helping people in need. Jus …t when he's leaving Ireland to work in a highly reputed London hospital, witnessing gross abuse of commoners changes his mind. he returns and joins the local IRA brigade, commanded by his brother Teddy, and adopts the merciless logic of civil war, while Teddy mellows by experiencing first-hand endless suffering. When IRA leaders negotiate an autonomous Free State under the British crown, Teddy defends the pragmatic best possible deal at this stage. Damien however joins the large seceding faction which holds nothing less than a socialist republic will do. The result is another civil war, bloodily opposing former Irish comrades in arms, even the brothers. (Read More)
| Locations: | catholic churchcourtroomchurch |
| Characters: | priestdoctor |
| Story: | milking a cowhaircutpianistcourtcandleprayerphotographcigarette smokingblood |
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league in this magical sports fantasy. With the aid of a bat cut from a lightning struck tree, Hobbs lives the fame he should have had earlier when, as a … rising pitcher, he is inexplicably shot by a young woman. (Read More)
| Characters: | photographerdoctor |
| Story: | niecepressnewspaper articlepianistreportercameraphotographflashback |
The first part of Kieslowski's trilogy on France's national motto: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. 'Blue' is the story of Julie who loses her husband, an acclaimed composer and her young daughter in a car accident. The film's theme of liberty is manifested in Julie's attempt to start life anew, f …ree of personal commitments, belongings, grief or love. She intends to numb herself by withdrawing from the world and living completely independently, anonymously and in solitude in the Parisian metropolis. Despite her intentions, people from her former and present life intrude with their own needs. However, the reality created by the people who need and care about her, a surprising discovery and the music around which the film revolves heal Julie and draws her back to the land of the living. (Read More)
| Locations: | courtroom |
| Characters: | female protagonistdoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | retirement homepianistcourttrialjudgereportertearsphotographcigarette smoking |
In the summer of 1975 in a neighborhood in Boston, 3 kids, Dave Boyle and two of his friends, Jimmy and Sean, are playing on the sidewalk when Dave gets abducted by two men and endures several days of sexual abuse. Eventually, Dave escapes traumatized throughout adulthood. Jimmy is an ex-con and a f …ather of three, whose daughter Katie, is found dead and Dave becomes the number one suspect. Sean is a homicide detective, investigating Katie's murder, ends up finding himself faced with past and present demons as more is uncovered about Katie's murder. Learning Katie had a boyfriend, ballistics later turn up a gun belonging to the father, which then puts her boyfriend as the suspect. Will Sean find out who killed Katie? Will Jimmy make it through the investigation? And will Dave ever find out what really happened when he was abducted? (Read More)
| Locations: | catholic churchchurch |
| Characters: | priestdetective |
| Story: | child molestationsexual abusechild abusephotographcigarette smokingflashbackblood |
Manuela is a hard-working single mom who has raised her son Esteban by herself since the time he was born. On his 17th birthday they go to the theater and after the show, Esteban tries to get the main actress' autograph but is run down on the street and dies. Manuela is beside herself with grief and … decides to return to Barcelona to tell the boy's transgender father Lola, about the death of the son he never knew he had. He is nowhere to be found but Manuela does find an old friend, Agrado and meets up with a pregnant nun, Rosa. Together they form a life and become fast friends - until tragedy strikes again. (Read More)
| Characters: | psychiatristfemale protagonistdoctormother daughter relationship |
| Story: | pregnant nunwatching televisionnunphotographflashback |
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