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In an anonymous Dutch village, a sturdy, strong-willed matriarch looks back upon her life, the generations of family and friends gathered around her table, and ponders the cyclical nature of time.
Themes: | death in childbirthdeath of babyinheritancephilosophywritingcrueltyeducationfaithgriefblackmailmemoryincestfuneralweddingpregnancy …moneyreligionrapemarriagesuiciderevengedeathlovemurder (See All) |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | catholic churchart schoolfarmrural settingvillagebicyclebuscemeterymotorcyclesnowhotelchurchbar |
Characters: | suicide by hangingsex with a priestex priestteacher student relationshipreligious processionreligious statuelesbian mothergrandmother granddaughter relationshiprussiancatholicprofessorreference to godpriestbabystudent …soldierbrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships (See All) |
Story: | hay balestabbed with a pitchforktractor accidentcutting down a treemurder by drowningdeath by drowningchurch bellchild rapemarriage proposalgreat grandmother great granddaughter relationshipvenus emerging from a sea shellhome for unwed mothershowling at the moonreference to schopenhauerfence mending …venus the roman goddesslast breathmoving statueangel statuestuffed toy animallast daylineageartichokeliberatorbroken glassessculptingcondemnationplantingchroniclecarpentryseasonswashing clothesunwed mothermealancestormidwifehaywheelbarrowlarge familyfeastchild prodigyprotestantvillagerliberationintellectualmiserydutchlunatichymnblacksmithpitchforktormentbroken heartatheismsense of smellsawgeneration gapcottagecattleundertakerintelligencemathematicssculptorforename as titletriple f ratedtractorcremationfarmingpost world war twosermonrevolutionaryatheistgeniussocial workerabsent fathermiraclekickinghypocrisyfull moonstrong female leadmilktold in flashbackbirthgay parentcomposercrucifixragenude modelstrong female characterhatesleepingclassneck breakingchildbirthcountrysidehangingfarmerstorytellingwidowercursetreegraveold womandrowninggraveyarddrawingcoffinpainternunwidowmontagecandleclassroomhallucinationtearsbeerriflebookpaintinghorsefoodunderweartitle directed by femalebeatingcryingvoice over narrationsingingcharacter name in titlefemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nudityf ratedflashbacksex (See All) |
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: | religionmarriagedeath |
Locations: | catholic churchrural settingvillagebicyclecemeterysnowchurchbar |
Characters: | grandmother granddaughter relationshipcatholicpriestmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | church bellfeastcremationsermonatheistabsent fathercrucifixclasscountrysidestorytellingold womangraveyarddrawingwidowmontage …classroomtearsfoodcryingvoice over narrationf ratedflashbacksex (See All) |
Ivan is a priest in a rural church known for the apples that grow on a large tree in front. He's odd: seeing the world through rose-colored glasses, in denial about personal facts, and convinced he's at war with Satan. The rectory is a half-way house for recently paroled convicts. Adam arrives for 1 …2 weeks, a large, tough neo-Nazi, first baffled by Ivan's thick-headed optimism, then angry. He vows to break Ivan's faith. Meanwhile, in exasperation at Ivan's insistence, Adam sets a personal goal: to bake an apple pie. All goes awry for the tree: crows, worms, lightening. The Book of Job gives Adam perverse insight, and his hooligan mates provide the resolution's spring. (Read More)
Themes: | death in childbirthfaithmemoryfuneralpregnancymoneyreligionsuicidemurderlovedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | rural settingbicyclebuschurch |
Characters: | reference to godpriestbrother sister relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | church bellchild rapehymnsense of smellsermonmiraclekickingcrucifixwidowertreetearsriflebookunderwearbeating …cryingsingingcharacter name in title (See All) |
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father ('Brad Pitt' (qv)). Jack (played as an adult by … 'Sean Penn (I)' (qv)) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. (Read More)
Themes: | inheritancecrueltyeducationfaithgriefmemorypregnancyreligionmarriagedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicyclecemeterychurch |
Characters: | catholicreference to godpriestbabybrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | death by drowningsermonkickingbirthhatesleepingclasschildbirthstorytellingtreedrowninggraveyardcoffincandleclassroom …tearsbookpaintingfoodcryingvoice over narrationflashback (See All) |
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)
Themes: | griefmemoryfuneralweddingpregnancymarriagedeath |
Locations: | cemeterysnowbar |
Characters: | grandmother granddaughter relationshipbabystudentmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | birthclasschildbirthgravegraveyardcoffinwidowclassroomtearsunderwearcryingsingingfemale nuditymale nuditysex …flashback (See All) |
Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs Brown, recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually, Christy matures into a cantankerous writer who uses his only functional limb, his left foot, to wri …te with. (Read More)
Themes: | writingpregnancymoneymarriagedeathlove |
Locations: | catholic church |
Characters: | catholicpriestbabybrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | marriage proposalwheelbarrowlarge familybroken heartintelligencegeniusdrawingpaintercandlebookpaintingfoodsingingcharacter name in titleflashback …sex (See All) |
The story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene ('Carey Mulligan' (qv)), who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak ('Matthias Schoenaerts' (qv)), a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy ('Tom Sturridge' (qv)), a handsome and reckless Serg …eant; and William Boldwood ('Michael Sheen (I)' (qv)), a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love - as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance. (Read More)
Themes: | inheritancegriefweddingpregnancymoneymarriagesuicidedeathmurderlove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | farmrural settingsnowchurch |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | marriage proposalhayhymnpitchforksleepingfarmergravegraveyardcoffinwidowcandletearsriflehorsefood …cryingvoice over narrationsingingf ratedsex (See All) |
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.
Themes: | faithgrieffuneralpregnancydeathlove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | villagebuschurchbar |
Characters: | catholicpriestbabysoldierbrother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | atheistcrucifixwidowergravedrowninggraveyarddrawingnuncandlehallucinationbeerriflesexflashback |
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: | griefmemoryfuneralweddingpregnancymoneylovedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicyclebuscemeterysnowhotelchurch |
Characters: | suicide by hangingteacher student relationshipreference to godbabymother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | marriage proposalsleepinghangingwidowergraveold womancoffincandleriflebookfoodcryingvoice over narrationcharacter name in titleflashback |
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 …ss two generations. (Read More)
Themes: | funeralweddingpregnancymoneymarriagedeathlove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | catholic churchfarmcemeteryhotelbar |
Characters: | catholicpriestbabysoldierbrother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | marriage proposalcattlebirthcrucifixgraveyardcoffinmontagecandletearsriflebookhorsefoodbeatingcrying …singing (See All) |
From July, 1913 to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents take place in a German village. A horse trips on a wire and throws the rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron's son is hung upside down in a mill; parents slap and bully their children; a man is c …ruel to his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter. People disappear. A callow teacher, who courts a nanny in the baron's household, narrates the story and tries to investigate the connections among these accidents and crimes. What is foreshadowed? Are the children holy innocents? God may be in His heaven, but all is not right with the world; the center cannot hold. (Read More)
Themes: | death in childbirthcrueltyincestreligionsuiciderevengedeath |
Locations: | farmrural settingvillagebicyclesnowchurch |
Characters: | suicide by hangingteacher student relationshippriestbabybrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | marriage proposalmidwifeprotestantfarmingkickingfarmerwidowercoffinclassroomtearshorsefoodunderwearbeatingcrying …voice over narrationsingingfemale nuditysex (See All) |
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 …mous family fortune -- all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent. (Read More)
Themes: | inheritanceweddingmoneymarriagedeathmurder |
Locations: | bicyclebuscemeterymotorcyclesnowhotelchurch |
Characters: | soldierbrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | marriage proposalhaysense of smellhategraveold womandrawingcoffinpainternunwidowmontagecandletearsrifle …bookpaintingfoodcryingsingingfemale nuditymale nudityflashbacksex (See All) |
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: | griefmemoryfuneralrapemarriagedeathlove |
Locations: | catholic churchvillagebicyclemotorcycle |
Characters: | priestsoldierbrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | liberationforename as titleclasscursewidowclassroomunderwearbeatingcryingvoice over narrationsingingcharacter name in titlefemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nudity …sex (See All) |
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 …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)
Themes: | memoryweddingdeathlove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | rural settingbicyclebuscemeteryhotel |
Characters: | studentsoldierfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | marriage proposalcarpentrybroken heartpost world war twotold in flashbackclassold womanpainterwidowcandleclassroomtearsbeerriflebook …paintingfoodunderwearcryingvoice over narrationsingingfemale nuditymale nudityflashback (See All) |
Mike Waters lives on the street and befriends the somewhat older and streetwise Scott Favor who shows him what is necessary to survive. Waters suffers from narcolepsy and can fall asleep at any moment and in almost any circumstance. Favor comes from a rich family and is rebelling against his own bac …kground. They travel together extensively - Waters is driven by the need to find his biological mother - and spend time in Italy. Later in life however, Favor has joined mainstream society and has little time for his old friend. (Read More)
Themes: | inheritancecrueltygriefmemoryincestfuneralmoneydeathmurder |
Locations: | farmrural settingcemeterymotorcyclehotelchurchbar |
Characters: | reference to godpriestbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | broken heartsleepingcountrysidestorytellingdrowningold womangraveyardcoffinpainterhallucinationtearsbeerpaintinghorseunderwear …cryingsingingfemale nuditymale nudityflashbacksex (See All) |
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamental …ists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study for a better life. However, this change proves an equally difficult trial with the young woman finding herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when she returns home, Marji finds that both she and homeland have changed too much and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs. (Read More)
Themes: | philosophyblackmailmemoryfuneralweddingreligionmarriagedeathlovemurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicyclecemeterymotorcyclesnow |
Characters: | grandmother granddaughter relationshipreference to godstudentsoldierfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | liberatortriple f ratedrevolutionaryhypocrisyclasshangingstorytellinggravedrowningold womannunclassroomhallucinationtearsbeer …riflebookfoodtitle directed by femalecryingvoice over narrationf ratedflashback (See All) |
Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history, a period marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and by Tatar invasions.
Themes: | crueltyfaithmoneyreligionrapedeathlovemurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | snowchurch |
Characters: | religious processionrussianreference to godpriestsoldierbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | blacksmithgeniuscrucifixpaintercandlehallucinationtearsbeerbookpaintinghorsefoodbeatingcryingvoice over narration …singingcharacter name in titlefemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nudityflashbacksex (See All) |
The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (recently deceased) tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settl …e his affairs. (Read More)
Themes: | inheritancewritingeducationgrieffuneraldeathlove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicyclesnow |
Characters: | teacher student relationshipstudentfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | mathematicsgeniusstrong female leadstrong female characterclassclassroomhallucinationtearsbookcryingf ratedflashbacksex |
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: | memoryfuneralreligionsuicidemurderdeath |
Locations: | catholic churchfarmrural settingcemeterysnowhotelchurchbar |
Characters: | catholicreference to godpriestbabymother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | marriage proposalpost world war twogravenuncandlefoodsingingcharacter name in titlefemale nuditymale nudityf ratedsex |
The painter Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition when his muse, Ines, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her father, Thomas, comes to him hoping that his connection with Brother Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure the release of his daughter.
Themes: | moneyreligionrapedeath |
Locations: | catholic churchchurch |
Characters: | catholicbabybrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | crucifixhangingpainternuncandleriflepaintinghorsefoodcharacter name in titlefemale nudity |
In prison awaiting execution the next morning Louis, the 10th Duke of Chalfont, sets down on paper the events that led him to his current situation. His mother has been banished from her family, the D'Ascoynes, after she married Louis' father who was considered far beneath her. After her death, the …D'Ascoynes refused permission for her to be buried in the family crypt. Louis then plots his revenge - and kills all those ahead of him in the succession until he becomes the Duke. Along the way, he becomes involved with the married Sibelia who, when spurned, makes sure he ends up in prison. The day before his execution Sibelia recants her testimony saving him not only from the gallows but also sets him free. Once outside the prison however, he realizes he's forgotten one little thing........ (Read More)
Themes: | inheritancefuneralweddingmarriagesuicidedeathrevengemurder |
Locations: | villagebicyclecemeteryhotelchurch |
Characters: | reference to godbabyhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | murder by drowningmarriage proposalclasshangingstorytellinggravedrowningcoffinwidowclassroomtearshorsefoodbeatingcrying …singingflashback (See All) |
In 1944, upper class boy Julien Quentin and his brother Francois travel to Catholic boarding school in the countryside after vacations. Julien is a leader and good student and when the new student Jean Bonnet arrives in the school, they have friction in their relationship. However, Julien learns to …respect Jean and discovers that he is Jewish and the priests are hiding him from the Nazis. They become best friends and Julien keeps the secret. When the priest Jean discovers that the servant Joseph is stealing supplies from the school to sell in the black market, he fires the youth. Sooner the Gestapo arrives at school to investigate the students and the priests that run and work in the boarding school. (Read More)
Themes: | religionlovedeath |
Locations: | bicyclemotorcyclesnowchurch |
Characters: | russiancatholicreference to godprieststudentbrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | protestantmathematicssermonhatesleepingclasscountrysidedrawingnunwidowcandleclassroomtearsbookfood …underwearcryingsinging (See All) |
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: | memoryfuneralweddingsuiciderevengelovemurder |
Locations: | rural settingbuscemeteryhotelchurch |
Characters: | brother brother relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | marriage proposaltriple f ratedstrong female leadstrong female characterhatesleepingfarmercursedrowningcoffinriflebooktitle directed by femalevoice over narrationsinging …f ratedflashback (See All) |
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their busy, impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality.
Themes: | memoryfuneralmoneymarriagedeath |
Locations: | rural settingvillagebicyclebuscemeteryhotel |
Characters: | babystudentbrother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | generation gappost world war twosleepingclasswidowerold womangraveyardwidowclassroomfoodunderwearcryingsinging |
New England, 1630: William and Katherine try to lead a devout Christian life, homesteading on the edge of an impassible wilderness, with five children. When their newborn son mysteriously vanishes and their crops fail, the family begins to turn on one another. 'The Witch' is a chilling portrait of a … family unraveling within their own sins, leaving them prey for an inescapable evil. (Read More)
Themes: | religionmurderdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | farmrural settingvillagechurch |
Characters: | reference to godbabybrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | washing clothesmiseryhymnfarminghypocrisysleepinggravecandlehallucinationriflehorsefoodcryingsingingfemale frontal nudity …female nuditymale nudity (See All) |
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 …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: | grieffuneralweddingmoneymarriagesuicidedeathlove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | cemeteryhotelchurch |
Characters: | reference to godbrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | washing clothesundertakercremationstorytellinggraveyardcoffinwidowtearspaintingfoodunderwearcryingvoice over narrationsingingflashback |
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: | philosophymemorymoneyreligiondeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicyclechurch |
Characters: | reference to godpriestbabybrother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | miraclekickingstrong female leadmilkcrucifixstrong female charactercoffinmontagecandleclassroombeerriflepaintingunderwearbeating …cryingvoice over narrationsingingfemale frontal nuditysex (See All) |
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: | religionlove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | catholic churchbicyclesnowchurch |
Characters: | teacher student relationshipreligious statuecatholicprieststudentbrother sister relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | wheelbarrowhymnsermonhypocrisyclassstorytellingold womannunclassroomtearsfoodbeatingcryingsingingf rated …flashback (See All) |
A 14-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.
Themes: | memoryfuneralrapedeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | farmbicyclecemeterysnow |
Characters: | grandmother granddaughter relationshipbrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | child rapestrong female characterhatetreepaintermontagecandletearsbookpaintingfoodbeatingcryingvoice over narrationf rated …flashback (See All) |
Uxbal, single father of two children, finds his life in chaos as he is forced to deal with his life in order to escape the heat of crime in underground Barcelona, to break with the love for the divorced, manic depressive, abusive mother of his children and to regain spiritual insight in his life as …he is diagnosed with terminal cancer. (Read More)
Themes: | griefmemorymoneyreligionmarriagedeathlovemurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | cemeterysnowchurchbar |
Characters: | babybrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | marriage proposalwashing clothessense of smellcremationgay parentcrucifixgravecoffinmontagecandlehallucinationtearsfoodunderwearcrying …singingfemale nudity (See All) |
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)
Themes: | crueltyfuneralpregnancyrapemarriagemurderrevengedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | catholic churchbussnowchurchbar |
Characters: | catholicpriestbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | child rapesocial workerkickingcrucifixclassstorytellingdrawingcoffinnuncandleclassroomtearsbookfoodbeating …cryingvoice over narrationsingingfemale nudityflashback (See All) |
John and Laura Baxter are in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters' daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seei …ng their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola. (Read More)
Themes: | death in childbirthwritinggrieffuneralmarriagedeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | rural settingbicyclehotelchurch |
Characters: | priestmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | death by drowningdrowningold womannunwidowcandlehallucinationhorsefoodunderwearfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nudityflashback |
The story follows an underground weapons manufacturer in Belgrade during WWII and evolves into fairly surreal situations. A black marketeer who smuggles the weapons to partisans doesn't mention to the workers that the war is over, and they keep producing. Years later, they break out of their undergr …ound "shelter" --- only to convince themselves that the war is still going on. (Read More)
Themes: | death in childbirthmemoryweddingpregnancymarriagedeathrevengelovemurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicycle |
Characters: | babysoldierbrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | post world war twocrucifixhatechildbirthhangingcoffinriflehorseunderwearfemale nuditysex |
This Civil War saga addresses romance, friendship, and the ravages of war--both in the field and on the home front. Captures the horrors of war for both those fighting it, and for those left behind. This is a tale of hope, longing, redemption, second chances, and faith.
Themes: | faithpregnancyraperevengedeathlovemurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | farmrural settingsnowchurch |
Characters: | babysoldiermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | hymnsawfarmingsermonkickingcountrysidehangingriflebookhorsefoodunderwearsingingfemale frontal nudityfemale nudity …flashback (See All) |
Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single, working mother and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evan's friends and mother hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble. As Evan grows up he has …fewer of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick! (Read More)
Themes: | inheritancememoryfuneralreligionrapesuicidemurderdeathrevengelove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicyclecemeteryhotelbar |
Characters: | professorreference to godbabystudentbrother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | marriage proposalhatecursegraveyarddrawingcoffintearsbeerunderwearbeatingcryingfemale frontal nudityfemale nudityflashback |
Two friends, John (played by Owen Wilson) and Jeremy (Vince Vaughn), crash weddings to pick up women. One day they crash the wedding of the daughter of the Treasury Secretary, Secretary Cleary (Christopher Walken). Instead of short-term flings they end up being invited to the Clearys' island estate, … and potentially meet the loves of their lives... (Read More)
Themes: | funeralweddingrapemarriagedeath |
Locations: | bicyclecemeteryhotelchurch |
Characters: | grandmother granddaughter relationshipreference to godfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | marriage proposalhypocrisystorytellingold womangraveyardcoffinpaintermontagebeerriflebookpaintingfoodunderwearbeating …cryingfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nudity (See All) |
'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: | writingpregnancymarriagelovedeath |
Locations: | rural settingsnow |
Characters: | professorbabysoldierfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | marriage proposalbroken hearttriple f ratedbirthchildbirthpaintercandletearspaintingtitle directed by femalesingingf rated |
After the Battle of Gallipoli, in 1915, an Australian farmer, Connor (Russell Crowe), travels to Turkey to find his 3 missing sons. While staying at a hotel in Istanbul, he meets Ayshe (Olga Kurylenko), the hotel manager. And tries to find a way to Gallipoli.
Themes: | griefmarriagesuicidemurderdeath |
Locations: | hotelchurch |
Characters: | priestbrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | kickingfarmerwidowercursegravegraveyardcoffinpainterwidowcandletearsriflebookhorsefood …underwearbeatingcryingsingingmale nudityflashback (See All) |
In the 70's in Afghanistan, the Pushtun boy Amir and the Hazara boy Hassan, who is his loyal friend and son of their Hazara servant Ali, are raised together in Amir's father house, playing and kiting on the streets of a peaceful Kabul. Amir feels that his wise and good father Baba blames him for the … death of his mother in the delivery, and also that his father loves and prefers Hassan to him. In return, Amir feels a great respect for his father's best friend Rahim Khan, who supports his intention to become a writer. After Amir winning a competition of kiting, Hassan runs to bring a kite to Amir, but he is beaten and raped by the brutal Assef in an empty street to protect Amir's kite; the coward Amir witness the assault but does not help the loyal Hassam. On the day after his birthday party, Amir hides his new watch in Hassam's bed to frame the boy as a thief and force his father to fire Ali, releasing his conscience from recalling his cowardice and betrayal. In 1979, the Russians invade Afghanistan and Baba and Amir escape to Pakistan. In 1988, they have a simple life in Fremont, California, when Amir graduates in a public college for the pride and joy of Baba. Later Amir meets his countrywoman Soraya and they get married. In 2000, after the death of Baba, Amir is a famous novelist and receives a phone call from the terminal Rahim Khan, who discloses secrets about his family, forcing Amir to return to Peshawar, in Pakistan, in a journey of redemption. (Read More)
Themes: | death in childbirthmemoryfuneralweddingmoneyreligionrapemarriagemurderdeathlove |
Locations: | cemeterysnowbar |
Characters: | russianreference to godbabybrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | child rapekickingchildbirthstorytellingtreeold womangraveyardcoffintearsbeerriflebookfoodbeatingcrying …singingflashbacksex (See All) |
In Bedridge, Professor Parker Wilson finds an abandoned dog at the train station and takes it home with the intention of returning the animal to its owner. He finds that the dog is an Akita and names it Hachiko. However, nobody claims the dog so his family decides to keep Hachi.
Themes: | memoryfuneralweddingpregnancydeathlove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | cemeterysnow |
Characters: | babystudentfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | milktold in flashbacksleepingclasscoffinwidowmontageclassroomtearsbeercryingcharacter name in titleflashback |
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: | faithmemorymoneyreligiondeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | catholic churchcemeterysnowhotelchurch |
Characters: | catholicreference to godpriestbabymother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | forename as titleatheisthypocrisychildbirthgravegraveyardnuncandletearsfoodcryingcharacter name in titlesexflashback |
The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth o …f The Beatles. (Read More)
Themes: | funeralmoneydeathlove |
Locations: | bicyclebuscemetery |
Characters: | reference to godbabystudenthusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | absent fatherbirthragesleepinggraveyarddrawingwidowmontagetearsbeerbookfoodunderweartitle directed by femalecrying …singingf ratedflashbacksex (See All) |
Neil Jordan's depiction of the controversial life and death of 'Michael Collins (XIV)' (qv), the "Lion of Ireland", who led the IRA against the UK and helped found the Irish Free State in 1922.
Themes: | weddingreligionlovemurderdeathrevenge |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | catholic churchbicyclemotorcyclechurch |
Characters: | religious statuecatholicpriestfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | protestantneck breakinghangingcandleriflehorsebeatingsingingcharacter name in title |
Set in beautiful 14th century Sweden, it is the sombre, powerful fable of wealthy land-owning parents whose daughter, a young virgin, is brutally raped and murdered by goat herders after her half sister has invoked a pagan curse. By a bizarre twist of fate, the murderers ask for food and shelter fro …m the dead girl's parents, who, discovering the truth about their erstwhile lodgers, exact a chilling revenge. (Read More)
Themes: | pregnancyreligionrapemurderrevenge |
Locations: | farmrural settingchurch |
Characters: | catholicmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | miraclemilkcrucifixragefarmercursetreecandlehorsefoodcryingmale nudity |
The story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, but are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York …and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth. (Read More)
Themes: | pregnancylove |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | farmsnowchurch |
Characters: | babybrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | child prodigygeniusabsent fatherfull moonbirthcomposerclasstearsbeerfoodtitle directed by femalecryingvoice over narrationsingingcharacter name in title …flashback (See All) |
A Walk in the Clouds depicted a story about a young-married US military soldier, named Paul, who returned home after the World War II. In the middle of the way back home, he accidentally met a girl named Victoria who finished her master's degree. She has not married yet but got pregnant by accident. … During the journey they talked a lot. Due to her pregnancy, Victoria was afraid of her father who respected old Mexican tradition. Thus, Paul proposed to pose as her husband to help her face her dad. Paul was not intended to cheat on his wife by pretending to be Victoria's husband. However, when Paul decided to come back to his home and left Victoria, he found his wife cheating on him. Paul then headed back to Victoria's house "Las Nubes" and confessed his true love to Victoria. (Read More)
Themes: | weddingpregnancymarriagelovedeathmurder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bus |
Characters: | teacher student relationshipgrandmother granddaughter relationshipcatholicprofessorprieststudentsoldierbrother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | ancestorpost world war twotearshorsefoodunderwearcryingsingingflashbacksex |
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.
Themes: | incestweddingpregnancyreligionrapemarriagelovedeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | catholicbabybrother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | protestantbirthcrucifixchildbirthtearsfoodcryingsingingcharacter name in titlesex |
This is the story of three well-meaning but flawed people: Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigre; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married homemaker with two young daughters, with hiding a secret past; and Jack Jordan, an ex-con …vict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to live a law-abiding life and raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will have learnt harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever. (Read More)
Themes: | faithgriefpregnancyreligionmarriagesuicidelovedeathmurderrevenge |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bicyclesnowchurchbar |
Characters: | professorreference to godmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | mathematicsclasshangingdrawingwidowtearsfoodunderwearbeatingcryingvoice over narrationsingingfemale frontal nudityfemale nuditymale nudity …flashback (See All) |
This film details the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, as played by Cate Blanchett. The main focus is the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.
Themes: | pregnancyreligionrapemarriagedeathlovemurder |
Locations: | catholic church |
Characters: | catholicreference to godpriestfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | church bellprotestantforename as titledrowningmontagetearshorsebeatingcryingcharacter name in titlefemale nudityflashbacksex |
Jewish-American writer 'Jonathan Safran Foer' (qv) is a collector of his family's memorabilia, although most of the items, some which he takes without asking, would not be considered keepsakes by the average person. He places most of those items in individual Ziploc bags, and hangs them on his keeps …ake wall under the photograph of the person to who it is most associated. He has this compulsion in an effort to remember. He is able to tie a photograph that he receives from his grandmother, Sabine Foer, on her deathbed - it of his grandfather, Safran Foer, during the war in the Ukraine, and a young woman he will learn is named Augustine - back to a pendant he stole from his grandfather on his deathbed in 1989, the pendant of a glass encased grasshopper. Learning that Augustine somehow saved his grandfather's life leads to Jonathan going on a quest to find out the story at its source where the photograph was taken, in a now non-existent and probably largely forgotten town called Trachimbrod that was razed by the Nazis during the war, he armed only with his limited knowledge, the pendant, his grandfather's Star of David necklace, the photograph, tip "money", and an old and largely outdated map. Prior to arriving in the Ukraine, Jonathan prearranges the guide services of Odessa-based Heritage Tours, which specializes in helping Jewish expats discover their past. The company is owned and operated by three generations of the Alexander Perchov family, who generally think Jewish people… (Read More)
Themes: | writingfaithmemoryfuneralweddingpregnancymoneyreligionsuicidedeathmurder |
Locations: | villagebicyclecemeteryhotel |
Characters: | russianbabybrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships |
Story: | farmingcountrysidegraveold womangraveyardhallucinationtearsriflebookfoodunderwearcryingvoice over narrationflashbacksex |