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Subgenre: | fairy tale cult film |
Themes: | justice poetry loneliness memory pregnancy jealousy suicide revenge surrealism love |
Mood: | breaking the fourth wall |
Locations: | sex in a bathroom paris france ghost train france apartment bicycle school train |
Characters: | neighbor neighbor relationship waitress girl female protagonist doctor father daughter relationship |
Period: | year 1974 year 1997 20th century 1970s 1990s |
Story: | apartment building woman moaning from pleasure house key moaning woman woman moaning canvas painting childhood memory character repeats narrator's words elizabethan collar haunted house ride longing for father brittle bones adult video store bad past stuffed dog …collision course adult bookstore house fly montmartre paris sexual orgasm living statue reference to princess diana divine intervention following a dream good deed neglected child ringing phone pregnant woman nude skeleton costume photo booth peep show phone ringing video cassette sex shop television set soccer match famous score loud sex telephone booth local blockbuster happy ending practical joke photo album lingerie slip building time lapse photography daydream amusement park charity grocery store imagination janitor buddhist following someone clock railway station fate compassion birth phone booth happiness heroine destiny europe magical realism twin cinema moaning character repeating someone else's dialogue key voice over search subway widow neighbor bathroom cafe painting letter camera cat watching tv topless female nudity voice over narration photograph character name in title bare breasts sex scene kiss nudity (See All) |
Wong Kar-Wai's movie about two love-struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color. The first half deals with Cop 223, who has broken up with his girlfriend of five years. He purchases a tin of pineapples with an expiration date of May 1 each day for a month. By the end of tha…t time, he feels that he will either be rejoined with his love or that it too will have expired forever. The second half shows Cop 663 dealing with his breakup with his flight attendant girlfriend. He talks to his apartment furnishings until he meets a new girl at a local lunch counter. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | loneliness memory love surrealism |
Locations: | apartment train |
Characters: | girl father daughter relationship |
Story: | collision course time lapse photography daydream grocery store railway station fate destiny search subway bathroom cafe letter camera cat watching tv …voice over narration sex scene kiss (See All) |
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…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: | poetry pregnancy |
Locations: | train |
Story: | woman moaning from pleasure moaning woman woman moaning photo booth loud sex telephone booth moaning voice over search letter cat topless female nudity voice over narration photograph bare breasts …sex scene kiss nudity (See All) |
While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their relationship …deeply affects their lives, as Paul struggles with his wife's death and Jeanne prepares to marry her fiance, Tom, a film director making a cinema-verite documentary about her. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | suicide love |
Locations: | paris france apartment |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | apartment building famous score telephone booth phone booth cinema subway widow topless female nudity bare breasts sex scene nudity |
It is Christmas time and the McCallister family is preparing for a vacation in Paris, France. But the youngest in the family named Kevin got into a scuffle with his older brother Buzz and was sent to his room which is on the third floor of his house. Then, the next morning, while the rest of the fam…ily was in a rush to make it to the airport on time, they completely forgot about Kevin who now has the house all to himself. Being home alone was fun for Kevin, having a pizza all to himself, jumping on his parents' bed, and making a mess. Then, Kevin discovers about two burglars, Harry and Marv, about to rob his house on Christmas Eve. Kevin acts quickly by wiring his own house with makeshift booby traps to stop the burglars and to bring them to justice. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | justice loneliness |
Mood: | breaking the fourth wall |
Locations: | paris france france apartment train |
Characters: | neighbor neighbor relationship |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | famous score imagination clock neighbor watching tv photograph |
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)
Themes: | memory pregnancy love surrealism |
Locations: | paris france france apartment |
Characters: | female protagonist doctor father daughter relationship |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | peep show following someone fate widow neighbor cafe cat watching tv photograph kiss |
A master chef, Kate, lives her life like she runs the kitchen at upscale 22 Bleecker Restaurant in Manhattan--with a no-nonsense intensity that both captivates and intimidates everyone around her. With breathtaking precision, she powers through each hectic shift, coordinating hundreds of meals, prep…aring delicate sauces, seasoning and simmering each dish to absolute perfection. (Read More)
Themes: | pregnancy |
Locations: | school |
Characters: | waitress girl doctor |
Story: | photo album grocery store birth search neighbor cafe letter watching tv voice over narration photograph kiss |
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: | pregnancy suicide love |
Locations: | paris france apartment bicycle train |
Characters: | girl father daughter relationship |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | apartment building time lapse photography phone booth search subway neighbor cafe camera photograph sex scene kiss |
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… 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)
Themes: | poetry memory pregnancy suicide love |
Locations: | paris france train |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | amusement park railway station happiness destiny europe cafe camera cat photograph kiss |
Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. He learned to fix clocks and other gadgets from his father and uncle which he puts to use keeping the train station clocks running. The only thing that he has left that connects him to his dead father is an automaton (mecha…nical man) that doesn't work without a special key. Hugo needs to find the key to unlock the secret he believes it contains. On his adventures, he meets George Melies, a shopkeeper, who works in the train station, and his adventure-seeking god-daughter. Hugo finds that they have a surprising connection to his father and the automaton, and he discovers it unlocks some memories the old man has buried inside regarding his past. (Read More)
Themes: | poetry loneliness memory love |
Locations: | paris france france school train |
Characters: | girl |
Story: | following someone clock railway station happiness cinema key search cafe camera cat voice over narration photograph character name in title |
Disney's animated classic takes on a new form, with a widened mythology and an all-star cast. A young prince, imprisoned in the form of a beast, can be freed only by true love. What may be his only opportunity arrives when he meets Belle, the only human girl to ever visit the castle since it was enc…hanted. (Read More)
Subgenre: | fairy tale |
Themes: | poetry jealousy love revenge surrealism |
Locations: | paris france france |
Characters: | girl female protagonist father daughter relationship |
Story: | famous score happy ending clock compassion heroine painting voice over narration photograph character name in title kiss |
Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken… behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well. (Read More)
Themes: | poetry loneliness suicide |
Locations: | sex in a bathroom apartment train |
Characters: | waitress doctor father daughter relationship |
Story: | photo album grocery store phone booth search widow cafe letter watching tv voice over narration photograph kiss |
Adele is a high school student who is beginning to explore herself as a woman. She dates men but finds no satisfaction with them sexually, and is rejected by a female friend who she does desire. She dreams of something more. She meets Emma who is a free spirited girl whom Adele's friends reject due …to her sexuality, and by association most begin to reject Adele. Her relationship with Emma grows into more than just friends as she is the only person with whom she can express herself openly. Together, Adele and Emma explore social acceptance, sexuality, and the emotional spectrum of their maturing relationship. (Read More)
Themes: | love |
Locations: | france school |
Characters: | girl female protagonist father daughter relationship |
Story: | woman moaning from pleasure moaning woman woman moaning sexual orgasm loud sex moaning painting topless female nudity character name in title bare breasts sex scene kiss nudity |
59 year old Ove is the block's grumpy man who several years earlier was deposed as president of the condominium association, but he could not give a damn about being deposed and therefore keeps looking over the neighborhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family moves into the terr…aced house opposite and accidentally backs into Ove's mailbox it turns out to be an unexpected friendship. A drama comedy about unexpected friendship, love and the importance of surrounding yourself with the proper tools. (Read More)
Themes: | poetry memory pregnancy love |
Locations: | bicycle train |
Characters: | neighbor neighbor relationship girl doctor father daughter relationship |
Story: | fate voice over neighbor cafe letter camera cat voice over narration photograph character name in title kiss |
The fantastic tale of an 18th century aristocrat, his talented henchmen and a little girl in their efforts to save a town from defeat by the Turks. Being swallowed by a giant sea-monster, a trip to the moon, a dance with Venus and an escape from the Grim Reaper are only some of the improbable advent…ures. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | justice memory jealousy suicide love revenge surrealism |
Characters: | girl doctor father daughter relationship |
Story: | living statue imagination compassion destiny europe key letter character name in title kiss |
Following the death of his father in Mexico, Stephane Miroux, a shy insecure young man, agrees to come to Paris to draw closer to his widowed mother Christine. He lands a boring job at a calendar-making firm and falls in love with his charming neighbor Stephanie. But conquering her is no bed of rose…s for the young man and the only solution he finds to put up with the difficulties he is going through is escape into a dream world... (Read More)
Themes: | memory jealousy suicide love surrealism |
Locations: | paris france france apartment |
Characters: | neighbor neighbor relationship |
Story: | television set imagination widow neighbor painting letter watching tv voice over narration photograph kiss |
David Wagner is a kid whose mind is stuck in the 1950s. He's addicted to a classic 50's sitcom television show called "Pleasantville". Pleasntville is a simple place, a place where all of its citizens are swell and simple-minded folks, a place where the word "violence", and life outside of Pleasantv…ille, is unbeknown to its inhabitants; things are perfect down in Pleasantville. One evening, the life of David and his obnoxious sister Jennifer take a bizarre turn when an eccentric repairman hand them a supposed magical remote. After a quarrel between the siblings, they inexplicably zap themselves into the world of "Pleasantville". Now, David and Jennifer must adjust to a 50s lifestyle of repressed desires and considerably different societal values while trying to find their way home. (Read More)
Locations: | paris france france |
Characters: | doctor |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | woman moaning from pleasure moaning woman woman moaning television set happiness moaning painting cat watching tv kiss |
A meek word processor impulsively travels to Manhattan's Soho District to date an attractive but apparently disturbed young woman and finds himself trapped there in a nightmarishly surreal vortex of improbable coincidences and farcical circumstances.
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | suicide surrealism |
Locations: | apartment |
Characters: | waitress |
Story: | ringing phone janitor clock key search subway cafe watching tv bare breasts nudity |
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)
Themes: | loneliness memory jealousy love |
Locations: | bicycle school train |
Characters: | doctor father daughter relationship |
Story: | lingerie slip railway station key widow letter voice over narration photograph character name in title kiss |
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…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)
Locations: | bicycle train |
Story: | woman moaning from pleasure moaning woman woman moaning loud sex clock twin moaning cafe letter watching tv topless female nudity voice over narration photograph bare breasts sex scene …nudity kiss (See All) |
Elizabeth Masterson, a dedicated doctor in San Francisco, had almost no time for anything. When her sister with two kids set her up on a date, she gets into a tragic car crash and goes into a coma. Meanwhile, a landscape architect named David Abbott moves to San Francisco and, coincidentally, into E…lizabeth's apartment for rent. While at the apartment, Elizabeth's spirit haunts him. She doesn't remember who she is, who her family is or what she did - All that she remembered was her apartment and where everything was. To settle the arguments, David agrees to figure out who Elizabeth really is. When they get close to figuring out who she is, they eventually find love with one another and as they finally know who she really is, they learn that fate really has put them both together. (Read More)
Themes: | loneliness love |
Locations: | apartment |
Characters: | girl doctor |
Story: | daydream fate destiny key neighbor watching tv photograph kiss nudity |
'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)
Themes: | pregnancy love |
Locations: | paris france |
Characters: | girl female protagonist doctor father daughter relationship |
Story: | birth twin voice over neighbor painting letter cat |
Lucy's life consists of constant loneliness that is until she saves Peter's life. Now she is a part of his family, and with a strong heart and fate on her side, others begin to realize what a terrific person she is, especially Jack, Peter's brother. An extraordinarily true-to-life sequence of events… begin to take place as Lucy and Jack become closer and learn more about each other and themselves than one would ever expect from such coincidental, yet believable events. (Read More)
Themes: | loneliness pregnancy |
Locations: | apartment bicycle train |
Characters: | neighbor neighbor relationship female protagonist doctor father daughter relationship |
Story: | childhood memory photo album fate subway neighbor cat kiss |
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: | poetry loneliness memory jealousy suicide love |
Characters: | girl doctor |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | childhood memory buddhist clock happiness bathroom cafe letter camera watching tv voice over narration photograph kiss |
God lives in human form as a cynical writer with his young opinionated daughter in present-day Brussels, Belgium. She concludes that her dad is doing a terrible job and decides to rewrite the world, descending to earth in search of her own 6 messengers to write a brand new testament and change the s…tatus quo. (Read More)
Themes: | memory |
Locations: | apartment bicycle |
Characters: | doctor father daughter relationship |
Story: | ringing phone peep show grocery store fate happiness key search neighbor painting watching tv topless female nudity voice over narration bare breasts nudity |
Bruce Nolan, a television reporter in Buffalo, N.Y., is discontented with almost everything in life despite his popularity and the love of his girlfriend Grace . At the end of the worst day of his life, Bruce angrily ridicules and rages against God and God responds. God appears in human form and, en…dowing Bruce with divine powers, challenges Bruce to take on the big job to see if he can do it any better. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousy revenge love |
Story: | woman moaning from pleasure moaning woman woman moaning divine intervention photo album janitor moaning character name in title |
Berlin student Jule is hoplessly indebted due to an accident she caused, uninsuredly hitting a rich businessman's limousine. Evicted from her flat she moves in with her boyfrend Peter and soon learns that Peter and his flatmate, Jan, are breaking into luxurious mansions at night. Instead of stealing… or vandalizing, though, they carefully and ornately rearrange furniture and valulables and leave obscure messages. Jule convinces Jan, who has a crush on her, to pay a visit to the villa of her creditor. (Read More)
Themes: | justice memory jealousy love |
Characters: | waitress girl |
Story: | time lapse photography phone booth europe key search bathroom cafe letter camera photograph bare breasts kiss nudity |
A girl named Ella (Cinderella) has the purest heart living in a cruel world filled with evil stepsisters and an evil stepmother out to ruin Ella's life. Ella comes one with her pure heart when she meets the prince and dances her way to a better life with glass shoes, and a little help from her fairy… godmother, of course. (Read More)
Subgenre: | fairy tale |
Themes: | love |
Locations: | france |
Characters: | girl female protagonist father daughter relationship |
Story: | happy ending europe character repeating someone else's dialogue widow painting cat voice over narration character name in title |
Andrew Largeman is a semi-successful television actor who plays a intellectually disabled quarterback. His somewhat controlling and psychiatrist father has led Andrew ("Large") to believe that his mother's wheelchair bound life was his fault. Andrew decides to lay off the drugs that his father and h…is doctor made him believe that he needed, and began to see life for what it is. He began to feel the pain he had longed for, and began to have a genuine relationship with a girl who had some problems of her own. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | loneliness suicide |
Characters: | girl doctor |
Story: | collision course peep show video cassette photo album fate phone booth destiny character repeating someone else's dialogue bathroom cafe watching tv sex scene kiss |
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… 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)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | loneliness memory pregnancy love |
Locations: | paris france france |
Story: | montmartre paris time lapse photography cinema subway cafe camera cat watching tv voice over narration photograph sex scene |
Ohio high school student Scott Thomas is a good student and nice guy - albeit a little predictable - who is about to graduate and go into pre-med. He is unceremoniously dumped by his whorish girlfriend Fiona on graduation day. Among the people he turns to in his hour of despair is his German pen pal…, Mike. Scott and Mike seem to have a special connection. After Mike makes advances to Scott now that he and Fiona are not seeing each other, Scott abruptly sends Mike a message saying he never wants to hear from him again. However, Scott learns shorty thereafter that Mike is actually a beautiful girl named Mieke. By this time, Mieke has blocked his messages. Thinking that Mieke is actually who he was meant to be with, Scott, impulsively for a change, decides to go to Berlin to be with her. Along for the ride is Scott's best friend, the girl crazy Cooper Harris. They manage only to get a flight into London, and thus have to make their way from London to Berlin. Along the way in Paris, they run into their high school friends, twins Jenny and Jamie, who are backpacking through Europe. Scott and Cooper consider them the most mismatched twins ever, Jamie who is a walking encyclopedia, and Jenny a girl who they treat as just one of the guys. As the four try to make their way to Berlin, they run into a few obstacles and few adventures. Scott hopes that all these problems are worth it when he has his much hyped in his mind meeting with Mieke. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousy love |
Locations: | paris france france apartment school train |
Characters: | girl father daughter relationship |
Story: | apartment building railway station europe twin bathroom cafe camera watching tv sex scene kiss nudity |
Julieta (Emma Suarez) is a middle-aged woman living in Madrid with her boyfriend Lorenzo. Both are going to move to Portugal when she casually runs into Bea, former best friend of her daughter Antia, who reveals that this one is living in Switzerland married and with three children. With the heart b…roken after 12 years of total absence of her daughter, Julieta cancels the journey to Portugal and she moves to her former building, in the hope that Antia someday communicates with her sending a letter. Alone with her thoughts, Julieta starts to write her memories to confront the pain of the events happened when she was a teenager (Adriana Ugarte) and met Xoan, a Galician fisherman. Falling in love with him, Julieta divides her time between the family, the job and the education of Antia until a fatal accident changes their lives. Slowly decaying in a depression, Julieta is helped by Antia and Bea, but one day Antia goes missing suddenly after a vacation with no clues about where to find her, leaving Julieta desperate to understand the reasons of her missing... (Read More)
Themes: | loneliness memory pregnancy suicide love |
Locations: | apartment train |
Characters: | girl father daughter relationship |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | building following someone clock happiness search letter watching tv photograph character name in title bare breasts nudity kiss |
East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set u…p the GDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot. (Read More)
Themes: | pregnancy love |
Locations: | apartment train |
Characters: | girl doctor father daughter relationship |
Period: | 1970s 1990s |
Story: | video cassette local blockbuster time lapse photography neighbor letter watching tv voice over narration |
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: | memory pregnancy jealousy revenge |
Locations: | paris france france bicycle train |
Characters: | girl female protagonist |
Story: | local blockbuster railway station fate widow cafe letter camera cat voice over narration photograph sex scene kiss nudity |
At John Hughes High School, the students are the same as just about every other teenager in a teen movie. The popular jock, Jake, takes a bet from Austin, the cocky blonde guy, that he can transform Janey, the pretty ugly girl, into the prom queen before the prom. But two people are trying to stop J…ake from succeeding: his evil sister, Catherine, the cruelest girl in school, and Priscilla, the bitchy cheerleader. And all of their friends are the same as any other teen movie: Areola, the naked foreign exchange student, Les, the beautiful weirdo, Malik, the token black guy, the desperate virgins, Amanda Becker, the perfect girl, Ricky, Janey's obsessed best friend, and Sadie, the VERY old undercover reporter. (Read More)
Mood: | breaking the fourth wall |
Locations: | school |
Characters: | girl father daughter relationship |
Story: | woman moaning from pleasure moaning woman woman moaning lingerie slip destiny moaning topless female nudity bare breasts nudity |
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)
Locations: | france bicycle school |
Characters: | girl female protagonist father daughter relationship |
Story: | destiny magical realism widow cafe letter voice over narration photograph kiss nudity |
In a castle high on top of a hill lives an inventor's greatest creation - Edward, a near-complete person. The creator died before he could finish Edward's hands; instead, he is left with metal scissors for hands. Since then, he has lived alone, until a kind lady called Peg discovers him and welcomes… him into her home. At first, everyone welcomes him into the community, but soon things begin to take a change for the worse. (Read More)
Subgenre: | fairy tale cult film |
Themes: | loneliness jealousy revenge surrealism |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | famous score compassion happiness magical realism neighbor watching tv photograph character name in title |
Early thirty-something American Jesse Wallace is in a Paris bookstore, the last stop on a tour to promote his best selling book, This Time. Although he is vague to reporters about the source material for the book, it is about his chance encounter nine years earlier on June 15-16, 1994 with a Parisie…nne named Celine, and the memorable and romantic day and evening they spent together in Vienna. At the end of their encounter at the Vienna train station, which is also how the book ends, they, not providing contact information to the other, vowed to meet each other again in exactly six months at that very spot. As the media scrum at the bookstore nears its conclusion, Jesse spots Celine in the crowd, she who only found out about the book when she earlier saw his photograph promoting this public appearance. Much like their previous encounter, Jesse and Celine, who is now an environmental activist, decide to spend time together until he is supposed to catch his flight back to New York, this time only being about an hour. Beyond the issue of the six month meeting, what has happened in their lives in the intervening nine years, and their current lives, they once again talk about their philosophies of life and love, this time with the knowledge of their day together and how it shaped what has happened to them. (Read More)
Themes: | loneliness memory pregnancy suicide love |
Locations: | paris france france school train |
Characters: | waitress |
Story: | following a dream buddhist fate happiness cafe cat photograph sex scene |
Two years have passed since Carrie Bradshaw finally bagged John "Mr. Big" Preston, the man she was always meant to be with. Just as her friend Charlotte must deal with her young daughter's "terrible two's", Carrie must deal with her relationship taking a turn for the worse - Big likes to watch old b…lack-and-white movies on TV and eat take-out food, which prevents Carrie from feeling like the free-wheeling party girl she used to be. Meanwhile, Miranda copes with a new boss that can't handle an intelligent, powerful woman, and Samantha works a public relations angle that gets the fashionable foursome an all-expense-paid trip to Abu Dhabi. (Read More)
Characters: | girl female protagonist |
Period: | 20th century |
Story: | woman moaning from pleasure moaning woman woman moaning loud sex moaning sex scene nudity kiss |
As children, Ruth, Kathy and Tommy spend their childhood at a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. As they grow into young adults, they find that they have to come to terms with the strength of the love they feel for each other, while preparing themselves for the haunting reality that awaits t…hem. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousy love |
Locations: | school |
Characters: | waitress girl doctor |
Period: | 1970s 1990s |
Story: | childhood memory painting watching tv sex scene kiss |
Scheming Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy), a bigoted and corrupt policeman, is in line for a promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Enlisted to solve a brutal murder and threatened by the aspirations of his colleagues, including Ray Lennox (Jamie Bell), Bruce sets about ensuring thei…r ruin, right under the nose of unwitting Chief Inspector Toal. As he turns his colleagues against one another by stealing their wives and exposing their secrets, Bruce starts to lose himself in a web of deceit that he can no longer control. His past is slowly catching up with him, and a missing wife, a crippling drug habit and suspicious colleagues start to take their toll on his sanity. The question is: can he keep his grip on reality long enough to disentangle himself from the filth? (Read More)
Themes: | suicide |
Mood: | breaking the fourth wall |
Story: | woman moaning from pleasure moaning woman woman moaning loud sex moaning character repeating someone else's dialogue topless female nudity voice over narration bare breasts nudity |
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…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: | memory pregnancy |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Period: | year 1997 |
Story: | video cassette lingerie slip voice over search bathroom cafe watching tv photograph kiss |
John makes a Christmas miracle happen by bringing his one and only friend to life, his teddy bear. The two grow up together and John must then choose to stay with his girlfriend or keep his friendship with his crude and extremely inappropriate teddy bear, Ted.
Locations: | apartment |
Story: | woman moaning from pleasure moaning woman woman moaning grocery store moaning painting watching tv voice over narration photograph character name in title sex scene kiss |
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…fect their friendship, and about how their relationship evolves with the years. (Read More)
Themes: | pregnancy jealousy suicide love |
Locations: | paris france france train |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | cinema cafe painting letter voice over narration character name in title kiss |
A boy who grew up in a native Sicilian Village returns home as a famous director after receiving news about the death of an old friend. Told in a flashback, Salvatore reminiscences about his childhood and his relationship with Alfredo, a projectionist at Cinema Paradiso. Under the fatherly influence… of Alfredo, Salvatore fell in love with film making, with the duo spending many hours discussing about films and Alfredo painstakingly teaching Salvatore the skills that became a stepping stone for the young boy into the world of film making. The film brings the audience through the changes in cinema and the dying trade of traditional film making, editing and screening. It also explores a young boy's dream of leaving his little town to foray into the world outside. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | love |
Locations: | bicycle school train |
Period: | 20th century |
Story: | famous score cinema widow neighbor cat sex scene kiss |
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)
Themes: | justice pregnancy jealousy surrealism |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Period: | 1990s |
Story: | fate compassion destiny neighbor cafe letter camera photograph sex scene nudity |
Smart-but-ineffectual journalist Dan "We use euphemisms!" cannot decide between his girlfriend, loving-but-clingy waitress Alice, or his lover cold-but-intellectual photographer Anna; herself indecisive between Dan and honest-but-thuggish "You're bloody gorgeous!" doctor Larry. The film puts the fou…r leading characters in a box and strips them apart. (Read More)
Themes: | jealousy revenge |
Characters: | waitress doctor |
Story: | practical joke following someone happiness bathroom cafe camera photograph sex scene kiss |
Peter is a composer and a likable sad sack who's devastated when his girlfriend of five years, Sarah Marshall, the star of a cheesy CSI-style crime show, dumps him. He weeps, he rails, he mopes. Finally, his step-brother Brian suggests Hawaii, so Peter heads for a resort on Oahu where, as he's check…ing in, he sees Sarah and her new beau, Aldous, a polymorphously perverse English rocker. The weeping and moping start again, until Peter is rescued by Rachel, a thoughtful hotel clerk who invites him to a luau and to hang out. Although he constantly runs into Sarah and Aldous, Peter starts to come alive again. Will Sarah realize what she's lost, and what about Rachel? (Read More)
Themes: | jealousy |
Characters: | doctor |
Story: | woman moaning from pleasure moaning woman woman moaning loud sex moaning cafe camera watching tv photograph character name in title sex scene kiss |
Nick, a somewhat chauvinistic advertising exec hot shot, has his life turned haywire when a fluke accident enables him to hear what women think. At first all he wants to do is rid himself of this curse, until a wacky psychologist shows him that this could be used to his advantage! His first target i…s Darcy McGuire, the very woman that got the promotion he wanted. But just as his plan is beginning to work, love gets in the way... (Read More)
Themes: | love |
Characters: | father daughter relationship |
Story: | woman moaning from pleasure moaning woman woman moaning loud sex moaning cat sex scene kiss |
Three young men Akash, Sameer, and Siddharth are close friends, but their tastes and characters are completely incompatible. So when Siddharth falls in love with a much older woman, Tara, a woman who has been unsuccessful in keeping her marriage intact as well as alcohol-dependent, widens the rift b…etween the trio, forcing them to part company. Years later, the trio will be re-united, they will be much mature and understanding, but will they still accept Siddharth love for Tara, especially when they themselves have fallen in love with women around their respective ages? (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | loneliness love |
Story: | canvas painting famous score time lapse photography fate subway painting voice over narration |